LadBaby could miss out on the Christmas number one this year after a record-breaking run.
Social media star Mark Hoyle and his wife Roxanne (LadBaby Mum) are trying to continue their streak after making chart history by securing the Christmas number one for a fourth consecutive year in 2021.
The charity single titled Food Aid is raising money for the Trussell Trust - a food bank - and the Band Aid Trust.
Alongside MoneySavingExpert’s Martin Lewis, the LadBaby couple became the first act to be allowed to rework the Band Aid song, getting permission from Bob Geldof, Midge Ure and the Band Aid Trust.
But there could be trouble ahead as Wham and Mariah Carey’s festive classics have narrowed the gap on LadBaby’s charity track in the race to secure the UK’s Christmas number one.
George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley’s hit Last Christmas is 13,000 chart units behind LadBaby, the Official Charts Company said.
While Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You, is just 600 units behind Wham.
Meanwhile, Ridgeley said that his former bandmate Michael would have loved it if their 1984 hit reached the top spot again, being famously kept at number two by Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas?
It first reached the top spot on New Year’s Day in 2021, at the time breaking a chart record for the longest time a track has taken to top the singles chart, which is now held by Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill.
Frontman turned solo singer Michael died on Christmas Day in 2016 at the age of 53.
Meanwhile, five chart titans are battling it out in the race for the Official Christmas number one album with just 1400 chart units separating Taylor Swift, Sir Cliff Richard, Michael Buble, George Ezra and Sam Ryder.
