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Now THIS is the kind of Christmas present we’re talking about 🎁 As the race for Christmas Number 1 enters the final hours, Tom Grennan has doubled down on his promise to get a very festive tattoo to mark his heroic attempt to top the charts. For more info, click the link in our bio now!

Gracie re-entering the race for Christmas Number 1? That’s sooooo true! 🧑‍🎄❄️ Breaking #XmasNo1 news - Gracie Abrams’s former UK Number 1 single That’s So True is now WHAM!’s closest competition for the biggest chart-topper of the year! For today’s update on the most important chart race of 2024, click the link in our bio now!

AD | Did you know that It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas pre-dates The Official Chart? Released by Perry Como in 1951, the UK chart wasn’t actually created until the following year. Como instead had to wait 56 years for a taste of chart action with this song. Charting for the first time in the UK in 2007, it remains one of the most popular versions of the tune today. Link in bio for more unsung heroes of festive pop. #perrycomo #christmas

A magical reunion ✨ Did you know the children’s choir from Wizzard’s I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday isn’t the one featured in the music video??   As a result, for *51 years* the choir never got to fully embrace their bragging rights about their contribution to British culture - but thanks to @bbctheoneshow, @bbcwm and @bbcbirmingham they’re finally getting the recognition they deserve ❤️ We were honoured to present the original children’s choir from Wizzard’s I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday with an Official Top 10 award, as they reunited for the first time in five decades with Wizzard’s Bill Hunt 🏆   Catch up through the link in our bio! You can also catch the choir’s full story as part of Christmas Hits Unwrapped on @bbcsounds, available to listen to now or on your local BBC radio station on Christmas Eve at 9am 🎄✨ #wizzard #christmassongs #christmasmusic

❄️ BREAKING CHRISTMAS NUMBER 1 NEWS ❄️ The Queen of Christmas is not giving up without a fight! Mariah has just pulled ahead of Tom Grennan in the race for Christmas Number 1… For today’s all-important update, click the link in our bio now!

It’s a pop princess vs the Christmas crooner ⚔️ Sabrina Carpenter’s success this year has been anything but Short N’ Sweet - but can she hold off Michael Bublé for the Official Christmas Number 1 album? Click the link in our bio for more!

Christmas Number 1 2024: The early numbers are in! 🎄 Check out today's Official Chart: First Look via the link in our bio to see how the #XmasNo1 race is shaping up after the first 48 hours, including Christmas classics, modern hits, charity singles and political statement songs 👀 Whoever you’re backing in this year’s race, you’ve got until 23.59pm Thursday 19 December to make your sales and streams count. 🗓️ The Top 40 will be counted down on Friday 20 December on @bbcradio1’s The Official Chart with @jackxsaunders from 4pm, with the full Top 100 singles and albums published on OfficialCharts.com ✨ #wham #tomgrennan #mariahcarey #christmas

Funds by @davido ft. @odumodublvck & @officialchike is a massive new entry on the UK's Official Afrobeats Chart at Number 2! 🔥 Listen from 3pm every Sunday on @bbc1xtra. See the Top 10 here, and check out the full Top 20 at OfficialCharts.com – link in bio. #afrobeatschart

🎄🌶 Getting spicy already… Tom Grennan raises the stakes, going all in on a Christmas Number 1 tattoo as he vies for festive chart glory this week with It Can’t Be Christmas. Bold battle move, Tom. Bold. “You lot, do not let this flop”, he says. Only the British public can decide how that tattoo ends though. Link in bio for full story. Tune into the Official Chart First Look from 6pm on @bbcradio1 as we take a first glimpse of how the biggest chart race of the year is shaping up. The Top 20 will be published on OfficialCharts.com from 7pm. #xmasno1 #tomgrennan #christmas

FLASHBACK 💥 On this week in 1985, festive faves went up against 80s classics (@madonna! @whitneyhouston! @petshopboys!) 🎄 what’s your top pick from this classic chart? #ukcharts #officialcharts #madonna #whitneyhouston #wham

Your brand new Top 10 in 60 Seconds is HERE 🌟 This week... 🎁 @whamofficial knock @gracieabrams off the top spot, as Last Christmas returns to Number 1 for an EIGHTH week, and for the third year in a row. Can it hold on and claim next week’s coveted Christmas Number 1? 👀 🎄 After just missing in previous years, @kellyclarkson’s modern Christmas classic Underneath The Tree (10) makes the Top 10 for the first time EVER. Congrats, Kelly! 🎅 Festive faves from @arianagrande (9) and @thepoguesofficial (8) also join the party, while a big Christmas Number 1 contender from @tom.grennan –the wistful It Can’t Be Christmas (6)–vaults into the Top 10 for the first time. Check out the Top 100 in full through the link in our bio, and be sure to listen to The Official Chart with @jackxsaunders every Friday from 4pm on @bbcradio1 and @bbcsounds 🎧 #ROSE #APT #GracieAbrams #ThatsSoTrue #SailorSong #ArianaGrande #Christmas #MariahCarey #Wham #Top10

What’s this underneath our tree?! 👀🎄 Congratulations to Kelly Clarkson - Underneath The Tree has just entered the Top 10 for the first time EVER! It’s a sure sign that the sparkly festive pop tune - first released in 2013 (!) - is well on its way to becoming a modern Christmas classic ❤️ #kellyclarkson