adBaby made chart history by securing the Christmas number one for the fifth consecutive year – a record surpassed by The Beatles In the 1960s.
Social media star Mark Hoyle and his wife Roxanne, known as LadBaby Mum, claimed the top spot with their single Food Aid, which featured the Band Aid song Do They Know It’s Christmas? featuring lyrics about the cost of living crisis and vocals from MoneySavingExpert founder Martin Lewis.
Leading up to Christmas, the song sold over 65,000 copies and became the fastest selling single of 2022 to date.
Last year, LadBaby tied the total of four Beatles Christmas songs earned by the Fab Four non-consecutively in 1963, 1964, 1965 and 1967.
However, Sir Paul McCartney has appeared on five celebratory charts as an official artist, with his Beatles hits plus 1977’s Mull of Kintyre by his band Wings.
Profits from the new single will be split evenly between the food bank charities Trust Trussell and the Band Aid Trust
LadBaby reached the top of the party chart with food-inspired tracks We Built This City (2018), I Love Sausage Rolls (2019), Don’t Stop Me Eatin’ (2020) and the Ed Sheeran and Sir Elton John with Sausage Rolls For Everyone (2021).
They said, “I can’t quite believe it. We are number one. The charity has made it five years in a row. How did we do this again?
“We would like to thank everyone who has supported us over the past five years. A huge apology to The Beatles, and to all The Beatles fans… I’m sorry.
“The charity wins. The Trussell Trust gets Christmas number one again.
“Thank you to all the people who downloaded, all the people who believed in us and brought a little Christmas magic. We love you all. Sure, mate.”
Were in second place Wham! with Last Christmas while YouTube group Sidemen took third place with Christmas Drillings with JME, benefiting food poverty charity FareShare.
Mariah Carey followed with All I Want For Christmas Is You at four, with Sheeran and Sir Elton’s Merry Christmas rounding out the Christmas top five.
Lizzo’s Amazon Music Original cover of Stevie Wonder’s Someday At Christmas rose seven places to number 15.
Martin Talbot, chief executive of the Official Charts Company, said: “It seems like only yesterday that LadBaby emerged four years ago with their first festive campaign, so it feels somewhat surreal to congratulate them on their fifth consecutive official Christmas number one.
“Securing one Christmas number one is a huge achievement in itself – to do it five times, in consecutive years, is unprecedented and quite frankly incredible.
“The success of Mark, Roxanne and their family is more than just a hit.
“The work they have done to raise awareness and fund for food banks in general and the Trussell Trust in particular has been tremendous over the last five years, especially at a time that remains so difficult for so many people in the UK.”
On the celebratory album chart, Taylor Swift’s Midnights returned to number one after a battle with Sir Cliff Richard, whose Christmas With Cliff gave him his highest charting position since 1993.