LadBaby has made chart history by the Christmas Number one for the fifth consecutive year – surpassing a record held by The Beatles in the 1960s – and burst into tears after hearing the happy news.
Social media star Mark Hoyle and his wife Roxanne, known as LadBaby Mum, claimed the top spot with their single Food Aid, an adaptation of the Band Aid song Do they know it’s Christmas?
The pair broke down on a live TV interview when they received the happy news of their success.
Leading up to Christmas, the song sold over 65,000 copies and became the fastest selling single of 2022 to date.
Making history: LadBaby has made chart history by taking in Christmas Number One for the fifth consecutive year – surpassing a record set by The Beatles in the 1960s
With a cameo from TV’s favorite financial pundit, Martin Lewis, the lyrics deal with the crisis in the cost of living.
Last year, LadBaby tied the total of four Beatles Christmas songs earned by the Fab Four non-consecutively in 1963, 1964, 1965 and 1967.
Profits from the new single will be split equally between the Trussell Trust and the Band Aid Trust, a food bank charity.
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Celebrations: 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?’
LadBaby reached the top of the party chart with food-inspired songs We Built This City (2018), I Love Sausage Rolls (2019), Don’t Stop Me Eatin’ (2020) and the Ed Sheeran and Sir Elton John-featuring 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.
Charity wins. The Trussell Trust gets Christmas number one again.
Fantastic: With a cameo from TV’s favorite financial pundit, Martin Lewis, the lyrics are about the cost of living crisis
Competition: LadBaby beat music heavyweights Stormzy (left) and Cliff Richard (right) to first place
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.’
In second place were 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.
Charity: Profits from the new single will be split equally between the Trussell Trust charity and the Band Aid Trust.
Martin Talbot, managing director 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 a little 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 unbelievable.
“The success of Mark, Roxanne and their family is more than just a hit.
“The work they’ve done to raise awareness and fund for food banks in general and the Trussell Trust in particular has been tremendous over the past 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.
The week race started Friday, December 16 at midnight with artists trying to get as many buys and listens as possible.
LadBaby was the bookmakers’ favorite to be crowned number one.
Bookies favourite: LadBaby pushed challenges from the likes of Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds, Lewis Capaldi and Tyson Fury back into the odds
They pushed challenges from the likes of Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds, Lewis Capaldi, and Tyson Fury back into the odds.
The British Youtuber vowed last week to stop making Christmas tracks if everyone works together to support food banks.
He told presenters Martin and Kate Garraway: ‘If you want to stop me, donate to food banks all year round. ‘Those baskets you see behind the checkouts in supermarkets, put food in them and I can go, I can have Christmas off.
“I wanted to be senior last year and then we had a cost of living crisis and I became an ambassador for the Trussell Trust and I hear about the issues.
He added: “I didn’t want to come back, but I have to if it makes a difference.”
The track proved to be a huge success, charting over 136,000 in its first week, according to the Official Charts Company.
Helping hand: British Youtuber, whose real name is Mark Ian Hoyle, vowed last week to stop making Christmas tracks if everyone works together to support food banks