SemiNoTV: Sausage Roll Boy Not in UK Xmas No. 1 Race

[Mark Jeffries]

Mark Hoyle, better known as LadBaby, has announced that after five consecutive years at the top of the Official UK singles charts on Christmas weekend with a series of parody records praising sausage rolls that were fundraisers for a food bank (beating a record for Christmas No. 1s held previously by the Beatles), he will not be putting out a Christmas record this year, thereby throwing everything up for grabs in a country where bookmakers will take bets on the Christmas No. 1:

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The whole Christmas No. 1 thing has become more noticeable in the last two decades as the spot seemed to be held every year by the coronation record of the winner of a reality comp (usually "The X Factor"), which was thwarted in 2009 when Rage Against the Machine, which has never hit the top in its home country of the U.S., got the Christmas No. 1 with "Killing in the Name" after an Internet campaign for the song to knock out the "X Factor" winner.

For the record the Fab Four's Christmas number 1s were "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (1963), "I Feel Fine" (1964), "Day Tripper"/"We Can Work It Out" (1965) and "Hello Goodbye" (1967).