Kylie Minogue achieved the UK Christmas Number 1 for 2025 with her single "XMAS". The track reached the top spot in December 2025, breaking the two-year reign of Wham!'s "Last Christmas" (2023-2024). Kylie's victory made her the first female artist to secure a number one single in four consecutive decades (1980s-2020s).
The UK Christmas Number 1 for 2025 is Kylie Minogue with her song "XMAS," ending Wham!'s two-year reign with "Last Christmas"** and making Kylie the first female artist to top the charts in four different decades. The Official Charts announced the winner on December 19, 2025, after a tight race with Wham! and other festive favourites like Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York".
The UK's top Christmas songs consistently feature classics like "Fairytale of New York" (The Pogues), "All I Want for Christmas Is You" (Mariah Carey), "Last Christmas" (Wham!), "Merry Xmas Everybody" (Slade), and "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" (Wizzard), often alongside enduring hits such as "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (Band Aid) and "Driving Home for Christmas" (Chris Rea), reflecting a mix of nostalgic singalongs and modern streaming favorites.
After a week of asking, "will it be Kylie" or "will it be Wham!?" for Christmas number one this year, we finally have an answer.... Kylie Minogue has scored Christmas number one for the first time ever with her catchy hit, XMAS.
The Spice Girls were the first band since The Beatles to secure three Christmas number ones in a row, with 2 Become 1 in 1996, Too Much in 1997 and Goodbye in 1998.
LadBaby with their record-breaking four consecutive Official Christmas Number 1 single awards (Credit: Official Charts Company). Spice Girls notched up three consecutive Christmas Number 1s: 2 Become 1, Too Much, and Goodbye all reigned the festive rundown from 1996–1998.
What was Kylie Minogue's Christmas number one song?
In a long and hugely successful chart career, Kylie Minogue has now landed her first ever Christmas No. 1 single with XMAS (Rhino), an Amazon exclusive. It follows the chart-topping result last week for the reissued Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped) album.
What is the best selling Christmas song of all time in the UK?
Not only is White Christmas the biggest-selling Christmas song ever, in terms of physical sales, it's the biggest-selling single in history! Radio X looks at the biggest-selling Christmas songs...
On release, "Last Christmas" spent five consecutive weeks at number two on the UK singles chart. It was beaten to Christmas number one by the charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" by Band Aid, on which Michael also performed. Wham! donated their royalties to relief efforts for the Ethiopian famine.
Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You and Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody hold the record for the longest consecutive runs at the top of the charts as Christmas number ones, with 10 and nine weeks at number one respectively.
Kylie Minogue's 'XMAS' is UK Christmas Number 1 🌟🎄 As her first-ever UK Christmas Number 1 and her eighth UK Number 1 single overall, Kylie has become the first female artist to boast UK Number 1 singles across four different decades 💛
Beyond carols, The Pogues' Fairytale of New York is the nation's favourite Christmas song, being number one for 19% of Britons with a top pick. Wham!'s Last Christmas comes in second with the votes of 13%.
What is the most recorded Christmas song of all time?
“Silent Night,” which Mohr wrote the lyrics for (in German) in 1816 and Gruber put to music two years later, is the most recorded Christmas song in the modern era of the holiday's substantial oeuvre.
There's no single "most beautiful" Christmas song, as it's subjective, but classics like "O Holy Night", "Silent Night", and "In the Bleak Midwinter" consistently rank high for their spiritual depth, while modern favorites like "Christmas Time Is Here" (from A Charlie Brown Christmas) and instrumental pieces by artists like Yo-Yo Ma offer ethereal beauty, with many listeners loving carols for their traditional feel and contemporary pop songs for their festive energy.
The longest-running UK Number 1 song ever is Frankie Laine's "I Believe" (1953), with 18 non-consecutive weeks at the top, while Bryan Adams' "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" (1991) holds the record for the longest unbroken run at 16 consecutive weeks. More recently, Drake's "One Dance" (2016) and Wet Wet Wet's "Love Is All Around" (1994) both spent 15 consecutive weeks at Number 1, showing how hard it is to beat these older records in the streaming era, notes BBC News.
Who is the biggest selling Christmas artist of all time?
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby is not only the best-selling Christmas single in the United States, but also the best-selling single of all time since the advent of recorded music, with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide.
While older classics like Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" hold records for physical sales, Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" is widely considered the most played and commercially successful modern Christmas song due to its massive streaming numbers and consistent annual chart dominance, holding multiple Guinness World Records and generating significant royalties. Other perennial favorites frequently topping "most played" lists include The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York," Wham!'s "Last Christmas," and Andy Williams' "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year".
There's no single "number one song of all time" because it depends on the criteria (sales, streams, cultural impact, critical acclaim), but Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" is often cited as the best-selling single ever by sales, while Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You" holds records for streaming/digital certifications, and critics' lists (like Rolling Stone's list) favor songs like Aretha Franklin's "Respect" or Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone".
The oldest Christmas songs are ancient Christian hymns from the 4th century, with "Jesus Refulsit Omnium" by St. Hilary of Poitiers and "Corde natus ex Parentis" ("Of the Father's Love Begotten") by Prudentius being top contenders, though these were sacred texts rather than the sing-along carols we know today, with melodies often evolving or being set much later. "Corde natus ex Parentis" is particularly notable as its text is still used and its tune, "Divinum mysterium," appeared in print in 1582.
