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Christmas Number 1 2022 contenders revealed: LadBaby, Sidemen, Stormzy, Mariah Carey and more
See the huge names set to enter the battle for this year's coveted Christmas chart-topper
By Carl Smith
As Andy Williams once so famously proclaimed, it's the most wonderful time of the year.
It might not feel like five minutes since we were frantically scouring the shops for an industrial grade portable fan, but the race for the Official Christmas Number 1 will soon be upon us, the big climax to the 70th anniversary year of the Official Singles Chart.
Kicking off on Friday 16 December 2022, the 2022 Christmas Number 1 single will be announced Friday, December 23 live on BBC Radio 1's The Official Chart Show with Jack Saunders. So, it's about time we told you who's in the running to claim this year's Christmas Number 1.
The most coveted chart-topper in the calendar, the Official Christmas Number 1 single has previously been secured by everyone from the Spice Girls (three times on the trot) to Shakin’ Stevens, The Beatles to Band Aid, and Girls Aloud, Bob The Builder and Mr Blobby. See all the previous Christmas Number 1 winners.
Last year, LadBaby (aka YouTube star Mark Hoyle and his wife Roxanne) became the first act in UK chart history to clinch a fourth consecutive Christmas Number 1 in 2021 with the help of Ed Sheeran and Elton John. Sausage Rolls For Everyone beat a host of Christmas classics from the likes of Mariah Carey and Wham! to the top spot, raising funds for food bank charity The Trussell Trust.
This year, LadBaby will be hoping for a fifth, which would see them surpass The Beatles' current joint record of four non-consecutive festive chart-toppers and set another chart record as the act with the most Christmas Number 1 singles in Official Chart history.
They've recruited Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis - and an all-star cast of musical 'special guests' soon to be announced - for a cover of Band Aid's 1984 Christmas chart-topper Do They Know It's Christmas?
The track - titled Food Aid - will be released Friday December 16, with 100% of all profits from every download of the recording being shared equally between The Trussell Trust and the Band Aid foundation. LadBaby also confirmed Band Aid Trust founders Bob Geldof and Midge Ure have given their consent for the classic song to be reworked.
MORE: See every Christmas Number 1 single ever
Now, let's take a look at the 2022 contenders so far.
Official Christmas Number 1 2022 contenders
New releases and possible climbers
Sidemen featuring JME - Christmas Drillings
Sidemen - This Or That
YouTube group Sidemen - comprising KSI, Simon, Harry, Tobi, Ethan, Vik, and Josh - split into two teams for their Christmas Number 1 bids.
One team (KSI, Vik and Tobi) were given a budget of £100,000 budget for festive track Christmas Drillings featuring JME, while group two (Simon, Harry, Ethan, Josh and Randolph) had just £100 to create their song This or That.
The former's been described by fans as the 'heaviest Christmas song ever', while This or That has been branded 'legendary.'
Lewis Capaldi - Pointless
Lewis Capaldi released the latest track from his upcoming Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent album - Pointless - on December 2. The second single lifted from the release, could this Ed Sheeran co-write claim the Christmas Number 1? Don't forget, Ed's managed it twice before himself; with 2017 Beyoncé collab Perfect and 2021's Sausage Rolls For Everyone, alongside LadBaby and Elton John.
RAYE featuring 070 Shake - Escapism.
A viral hit, could RAYE and 070 Shake's Escapism. make it all the way to the top on Friday December 23?
Stormzy - Firebabe
Stormzy's confident that his This Is What I Mean album cut Firebabe - featuring vocalist Debbie Ehirim - has the makings of a future festive classic.
Speaking to Magic FM recently, he said: "Well, lo and behold I’ve got something really special for you guys and do you know why I’m so proud? Because I made this song with love.
"I just made this song, and it came from the most pure place, I wrote it with an amazing artist. A really extremely gifted artist called Debbie and we made this beautiful, beautiful song, and I genuinely think that."
Sam Smith - Night Before Christmas
As smooth as that last Baileys coffee on Christmas Eve, Sam Smith hopes their new original yuletide tune Night Before Christmas can become a modern Christmas classic. Having recently spent four weeks at Number 1 with Unholy, the odds are certainly in their favour.
Tyson Fury - Sweet Caroline
Continuing the football theme, boxer Tyson Fury has odds of 3/1 on becoming 2022's festive Number 1 with some bookies. Could Sweet Caroline, his cover of the 1969 Top 10 Neil Diamond classic, scale the chart to reach the summit come December 23?
Becky Hill - Only You
Nothing says Christmas quite like a twinkly acoustic cover. Enter: Becky Hill, with her take on Yazoo's 1982 track Only You for the McDonald's 2022 Christmas ad. The Flying Pickets' acapella version of the track was actually Christmas Number 1 in 1983 - but can Becky achieve similar success 19 years later?
Lauren Spencer Smith - Single On The 25th
Opting against a buoyant festive bop, Lauren Spencer Smith gets in her feels with Single On The 25th; a reflective track detailing a loneliness many feel at this time of year. Catch us crying into the cranberry jam over this one.
The Vamps - Seat At The Table
A Driving Home For Christmas of sorts, Seat At The Table sees The Vamps return to their hometown for the holidays; wanting to 'raise a glass for future and past.' This sparkly little tune couldn't be cuter.
Cliff Richard - Heart Of Christmas
Cliff is back with his brand-new yuletide album, Christmas With Cliff. Could the lead track - Heart Of Christmas - become his fourth festive chart-topper? Previously, Cliff managed the feat with I Love You (1960), Mistletoe and Wine (1988) and Saviour's Day (1990).
George Ezra - Come On Home For Christmas
Released as an Amazon Original exclusive last year, and peaking at Number 10, George Ezra's take on Charles Brown's all-too-forgotten 1960 single is now available on all streaming platforms for the first time. Could its inclusion on the Christmas edition of his Gold Rush Kid album secure it a brand-new peak this year?
QUIZ: Was It A Christmas Number 1? Test your knowledge!
JVKE featuring Cat Burns - golden hour
Viral TikTok star JVKE is making huge gains on the Official Singles Chart with his breakout single golden hour; and it's showing no sign of stopping. A tender piano-led ballad, this ethereal track could easily be adopted as a festive classic by association, akin to Michael Andrews and Gary Jules' 2003 Christmas Number 1 Mad World. Oh, and the lovely Cat Burns is on the latest mix of the song. DELIGHTFUL.
Meghan Trainor - Made You Look
As Meghan Trainor's viral doo-wop hit continues to climb the chart, we're wondering if it could go all the way just in time for Christmas. There is something sort of festive about it, no?
Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero
It's her! Hi! Currently tracking for a fifth consecutive week atop the Official Singles Chart, could Taylor Swift's endearingly self-critical Anti-Hero retain its reign and prove a Christmas Number 1 contender? Stranger things have happened...
Tia Kofi & Priyanka - My Only Wish
Released on November 30, queens Tia and Priyanka make their bid for the top spot with their cover of Britney Spears' festive classic My Only Wish. Shantay, you sleigh!
Frock Destroyers
RuPaul's Drag Race favourites Baga Chipz, Divina De Campo and Blu Hydrangea - aka Frock Destroyers - release their Christmas tune Naughty List on November 25 via World of Wonder Records.
Charity singles
LadBaby - Food Aid
LadBaby's Mark and Roxanne Hoyle will this year join forces with finance expert Martin Lewis and a whole host of 'special guests' for a cover of 1984 Band Aid Number 1 Do They Know It's Christmas?
Announcing the track, titled Food Aid, they said: "We never intended to release a fifth Christmas single but as ambassadors of the Trussell Trust we were not prepared to sit back and do nothing in a year when people are struggling more than ever," Mark and Roxanne said in a statement.
"So, a few months ago we approached Bob Geldof and Midge Ure and the Band Aid Trust to ask permission to rework the most iconic Christmas track of all time, Do They Know it's Christmas. And we were truly honoured when they said yes!"
David McGovern & Batten Community Children's Choir
David McGovern teams up with Batten Community Children's Choir release their cover of New Kids On The Block's This One's On The Children, in aid of the Batten Disease Family Association.
Choir members Finley, Arthur & Harrison Dodkin, Stevie Taylor, George & Effie Hadman, Abia Kisbee-Brown, Ava Hartigan, Darcy Gilbert, Jessica, Nicole & Louis Rich, Sophie & Elliot Hay & Harry Houghton will be raising funds to fight Batten Disease; a terminal illness that affects young children for which there currently is no cure.
Ravi Adelekan & Friends (Paloma Faith, Bastille, Metronomy, The Big Moon and more) - A Million Dreams
A Million Dreams sees huge names including Paloma Faith and Bastille team-up in support of Ravi Adelekan; a young boy diagnosed with a benign brain tumour in 2021.
Proceeds from the single will be donated to brainstrust and The Brain Tumour Charity.
The Half Timers - Coming Home For Christmas
Yet another World Cup-themed Christmas track, 100 percent of profits from The Half Timers' release will be donated to FareShareUK; a UK-wide network fighting hunger and tackling food waste. This one's already building up some traction on the telly, so definitely one to keep an eye on.
Basil Brush featuring Mr Blobby, Rainbow and more - Boom! Boom! It's Christmas Again
The country's been crying out for a second Blobby-related Christmas Number 1, and our prayers may well have been answered.
Basil Brush's Boom! Boom! It's Christmas Again! will raise funds for the Save The Children charity and Shooting Star Chase Children's Hospice; with the music video proving a, um, star-studded affair.
Expect to see loads of kid's TV favourites, including the Rainbow cast, Mr Blobby and Muffin the Mule (!), as well as Santa himself.
Peter Crouch & Paul Potts - Crouchy Conducts The Classics
Adopting a more political standpoint on the World Cup, legendary England footballer Peter Crouch teams up with Britain's Got Talent winner Paul Potts on an album of orchestral festive chants (somehow, it works!)
100 percent of all profits from its release will be donated to Stonewall in support of their campaign to tackle LGBTQIA+ oppression in Qatar and across the world. Could any of its tracks prove a breakout shot at the Christmas Number 1? Time will tell.
Ruby Whittle - Getting Ready For Christmas
Seven-year-old Ruby from Chorley makes her Christmas Number 1 bid with Getting Ready For Christmas. An original track written with the help of her grandma Gill, proceeds from all sales will be donated to Derian House Children's Hospice.
Christmas classics
Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You
In 2020, self-appointed Queen of Christmas Mariah Carey finally saw All I Want For Christmas Is You reach Number 1 - breaking Official Chart records 26 years after its release. However, the classic has never actually achieved Christmas Number 1 status; having just missed out to East 17's Stay Another Day in 1994.
With the song already making its way back into the Top 20, could 2022 be Mariah's year?
Wham! - Last Christmas
Again, while George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley's festive favourite finally reached the top spot in January 2021, it's never actually been Number 1 on Christmas Day.
With the track settling at Number 3 on 2021's Christmas chart, could Last Christmas go all the way in time for Christmas Day?
Social media campaigns
The Prodigy - Their Law
Taking a political standpoint, one Facebook group aims to 'do a Rage Against The Machine moment.' Backing The Prodigy's 1994 track Their Law for the Christmas top spot, the anti-parliamentary push hopes to build similar traction to the 2009 social campaign that saw Rage Against The Machine's Killing In The Name score the Christmas Number 1.
The K***s - F*ck The Tories
Don't underestimate The K*nts who have gate-crashed the Official Chart Christmas Top 5 for the past two years with the ever-so-sweary Boris Johnson Is A F**king C**t in 2020, and its imaginatively titled sequel Boris Johnson Is Still A F**king C**t in 2021. Could it be third time lucky this festive season?
Trickster & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Thank F**k It's Christmas
Written by Robbie Williams collaborator Guy Chambers, Thank F**k It's Christmas is pitched as 'the rudest but most rousing Christmas song of all time.' Taking a poke at the government and multi-billionaires, the track's the work of unknown vocalist 'Trickster', songwriter Chambers, comedian Steve Furst and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Football soundtracks
Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds - Three Lions (It's Coming Home For Christmas)
With England hoping to bring it home in the 2022 World Cup, David Baddiel, Frank Skinner and Lightning Seeds have slapped a load of sleigh bells atop their record-breaking four-time Number 1 anthem Three Lions (Football's Coming Home). Can its festive reworking see it return to the top spot and claim the Christmas Number 1 crown? Some bookies are giving it odds of 7/1...no pressure, lads!
Joel Corry featuring Tom Grennan - Lionheart (Come On England)
Chart stars Joel Corry and Tom Grennan have been on the ascent up the Official Singles Chart for the past four weeks with their Top 40 collab Lionheart. Can it be booted further still with this footy rework?
The Farm – All Together Now
“It wouldn’t be right,” said the band’s Peter Hooton and Keith Mullin in conversation at the launch of the 70th anniversary of the Official Singles Chart exhibition at the British Music Experience.
While The Farm may not be willing to throw their alignment behind the Qatar World Cup, they have reissued a 12” remix colour vinyl single of All Together Now in transparent curacao for Record Store Day’s Black Friday promotion today. Could the track be chart-bound once again this season?
Peter Crouch & Paul Potts - Crouchy Conducts The Classics
Adopting a more political standpoint on the World Cup, legendary England footballer Peter Crouch teams up with Britain's Got Talent winner Paul Potts on an album of orchestral festive chants (somehow, it works!)
100 percent of all profits from its release will be donated to Stonewall in support of their campaign to tackle LGBTQIA+ oppression in Qatar and across the world. Could any of its tracks prove a breakout shot at the Christmas Number 1? Time will tell.
Liam Hodge - World Cup For Christmas
Elsewhere, Isle of Wight singer Liam Hodge has also written a new World Cup song, saying: "It's all a bit of fun and I am not overly ambitious or seeking fame and glory but I wouldn't say no to a Christmas Number 1 or a World Cup for Christmas!"
Amazon Originals
“Alexa, play Christmas music” - expect to hear some of these exclusive Amazon Music releases piped through your bluetooth speakers over the coming weeks, but will any of them catch the nation’s ears enough to challenge for the festive crown?
Stormzy – Firebabe (Orchestration)
Maisie Peters – Together This Christmas
Lizzo – Someday At Christmas
Sam Ryder – Jingle Bells
Ella Henderson - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Birdy x Skinny Living - I’ll Be Home For Christmas
The Staves – Christmas Wish
Laura Mvula – Purple Snowflakes
Spotify Singles: Holiday
Meghan Trainor - White Christmas
Tom Grennan - Driving Home For Christmas
jxdn - Happy Holidays, You Bastard
When will the Christmas Number 1 2022 be announced?
The 2022 Official Christmas Number 1 race kicks off at 00:01 on Friday December 16, until 23:59 on December 22.
The winner will be revealed live on BBC Radio 1's The Official Chart Show with Jack Saunders from 4pm on Friday December 23, and the Top 100 Official Christmas Singles Chart and Albums Chart will be published on OfficialCharts.com from 5.45pm.
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Forget about the rest(Three Lions especially after what happened with england and France)...It's Ladbaby all the way and into history..I heard it's a sausage roll version of Do they Know It's Christmas?
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Roger Worsley
Can we get back to the matter at hand, namely the best song/tune to be Christmas No 1? My choice would be A Thankful Heart from Muppet's Christmas Carol.
BleeUK
Why would the race kicks off at 00:01 on Friday December 16, until 23:59 on December 22. correct me if i'm wrong but where is christmas day 25th data covered here, I will be listening, but my view this year of Christmas Week Charts will be from 30th December as the units and sales include Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day from 23rd to 29th December.
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As before, 'Christmas number 1', isn't what's actually selling on Christmas Day as historically, shops were closed on Christmas Day, so there was no chart and no sales. It's always been the #1 on the last chart announced before Christmas Day. Often (before 1983), it was also the last week of the year as there was no publication in the New Year week, so the Christmas #1 was guaranteed a 2nd week at #1 due to the repeating of the Christmas week chart.
Christmas is long gone by the 30th today. Although, if we go back long before recorded music (medieval/Tudor times), Christmas Day was the first day of Christmas, the 30th being the 5th and 5th January was the classic '12th night'. Hence the tradition to this day of taking decorations down by 6th January.
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Even if you were to measure the actual sales on the day itself (no possible due to digital services), the result couldn't be announced until the after day is over, as otherwise the data wouldn't be complete. Therefore, you can never get 'live' results because a chart is always (and despite modern measuring technology), will always be the collation of sales from the past. Now it is much more recent past than previous years (minutes ago rather than days), but still in the past.
BleeUK
Yeah I agree what you said I understand where you coming from but if you have data before 25th December (that radio 1 and the classic top of the pops) it’s not a Christmas time charts . As it hasn’t been reached , so you have really got to do charts around Boxing Day or towards new years for Christmas week, for me and my dad view the Christmas charts is the next week after media broadcast as it true. Also yeah Christmas Day May not be opened for shops but the 27th December onward would have been before 90s and streams and download store is open 24 hours every day from 2006 online . So charts for Christmas on 30th is not late that’s right
BleeUK
Sorry but that just not true u can get live information on streaming and digital in this era 24 hours and live all the time in this 21st century and for Christmas charts radio 1 and top of the pops classic always collect data before 25th . Always will so the next chart unbranded which would be true as that includes Christmas Day. So this year is 30th December not 23rd as that not late 30th as that includes 23rd to 29th December Christmas so radio 1 is a week behind again as their charts is 16th to 22nd only that not Christmas
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But such 'live' updates of the last 24 hours would only give data for exactly Christmas Day only is at the midnight going into Boxing Day (therefore, after Christmas Day). Any earlier and it incorporates the last however many hours of Christmas Eve. Any later, and it includes the first few minutes/hours of Boxing Day. It's not due to the chart or it's data gathering methods, but time itself. Unless you've got some sort of quantum time machine, you can't find the current chart or any of it's positions for the 24hr calendar day on the day itself. The day has to be complete for that! For example it's 7 O'clock on the 15th now. I don't know what will sell in the next 5 hours to have the chart of the 15th to be complete and accurate. I can possibly find the chart of the day so far (the last 19 hours), but not the full 24 hours until midnight when it becomes the 16th.
BleeUK
I don’t understand what you mean . But in my views which is true the chart data collect this year for radio 1 is today till Thursday at 2359 to which the chart is frozen and complete by 22nd December that it no more , where the heck is 25th the data is not reached, so it early again , the 30th December is the true Christmas week data that takes in count your sales and streams from 23rd to 29th December so the unbranded is the official, it nothing to do with time travel for me but radio 1 time travel for sure thank to week ending system
BleeUK
I know kind of what you saying but how can you record information when the data is never reached example this year Christmas race is 16th to 22nd only for 23rd that cut off is early. Where is Christmas Day or 25th data it’s not there never have been for singles charts Christmas it a week early
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You can never have sales data in the same week as chart data. Chart data is the collation of the previous week's sales data. That's simply because of the linear way that time travels. By definition the chart data has to be chronologically after the sales data. They can never be in the same week as each other. Or any other defined period for that matter: from Planck Time to millennia. (Planck Time is the shortest possible measurable period of time).
Since 2007, sales for Christmas Day itself are recorded in the following week. Before that, there are no Christmas Day sales at all due to physical purchases only with the shops being shut. Even in the 90's, most shops were shut on Sundays and holidays as a matter of course, sometimes by law. Independent shops such as record shops, would likely close entirely between Christmas and New Year, so there would literally be no sales for the entire week.
The current culture of 7 day a week shopping, let alone 24hr shopping hasn't been around very long. Much less than my lifetime infact. And I've still got decades until retirement!
Although you can get 'live' data today about streams, those streams have to have happened, therefore they are in the past rather than live. They can be less than the duration of the song in the past, right down to seconds ago. But it's still the past rather than 'live'.
BleeUK
Yeah no it nothing to do with the same week of 2 weeks running, in the same week , its the week ending systems in place that most people are believing it the same format just like the us billboards, now i know what your thinking, im confused because the next charts like 30th Dec is after christmas yeah your right but no for christmas data as it has never reached yet due to 7 days before, the live time is in place all the time like i tunes store, and you are right past 24 hours charts remain, but there is 24 hours open in technology charts , there are past but there are big past, if uk media wants to run Christmas charts early it up to them, and i respect that, but the 30th december will be accurate Christmas charts than 23rd December, as the sales and data is taking 7 days before, so 30th december will contain christmas day, this week wont at all as that is 16th to 22nd December only,
KF
Karl Frost
1983 is 39 years ago not 19.
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SR
Honestly STOP encouraging and entertaining the notion of Ladbaby releasing another godawful single about effing sausage rolls. They'd make more money for Trussell by telling their followers to just donate £5 each instead of polluting the world with their gormless grinning tory faces and horrible singing voices, whilst capitalising off poverty wraught by a party they support, better yet encourage their followers to stop voting Tory altogether since they caused the rise in poverty and foodbank reliance in the first place.
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SteveL
Wouldn't it be lovely to have a local Woolworths where we can go late evening Christmas shopping in the week leading up to Christmas, and see all the 7" Christmas vinyl singles lined up. Someone needs to invent a time machine so I can witness this!
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Roland
Think Kate Bush should re-release December will be magic again.
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SteveL
100% agree. It's by miles the best Christmas/Winter single and every year I hope it can get in there somewhere.
Adrian Wayne Reavill
Anything but Calm Down by Rema
GagasPancakeT!ts
Anything but Ladbaby. Please God.
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
i am BEGGING for ladbaby to take a year off… or preferably leave music alone lol.
GagasPancakeT!ts
lol Him and his wife certainly won't be doing that if they know they have a chance at surpassing the Beatles record.
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JK
That couple are not interested in charity at all, they're just looking for notoriety, the dumb people that are buying their lies and their so called music are the biggest problem in music
KF
Karl Frost
Agree. Good cause but the joke has worn extremely thin.
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
a bit of proof reading may be needed regarding the mariah part. it hit number 1 in 2020 and lost to east 17 in 1994, not 1992.
BleeUK
I agree also, Radio 1 charts and top of the pops always cut off to early for christmas #1 by a week like this year as its only up to 22nd December sales/units, where is the 25th data its not there? , as it only tracked from 16th to 22nd only so it has to be the week up to 29th December running for 30th december bascally 23rd to 29th december is more accurate for christmas week, so online from 30th december is the at christmas week info.
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
are we really doing this again? every occ article last year i saw this ridiculous comment on repeat. you’re literally the only one who thinks this.
the christmas charts are revealed on the chart for that day. it’s not cut off early - next time you look through older charts, put “december 25 [any year]”. that’s your christmas chart - whatever the top 100 looks like on christmas day! the chart you think is the christmas chart is actually the new year’s eve chart. (excuse my wording, im awful at wording things lol)
you are literally arguing with the official charts company over basic facts and logic. it won’t change just because one person thinks so. get used to it
BleeUK
well it misleading the websites and the media due to week ending and that not great personally for me, I'm not the only one thinks this but yeah i am the only one that posting this, i know you aint going to believe me but me my family, my friend thinks this , okay i dont mean to offend you and sorry if i do , but how can you answer this, tell me im wrong, Christmas Starts on 25th December do you agree? Christmas eve is before it just called Eve, like Halloween Eve, so you have to include data for 25th December at least as that the week for Christmas, or would you choose a date before 25th to lock data down like Radio 1 and OCC does its up to them for the week ending, this year and you can see on official charts that what we doing in real time is download and stream etc from Friday 16th to Today evening 22nd only! for 23rd December Broadcast, now tell me how or where is 25th,26th etc its not there it hasn't been reached, so it cut off early, that like 3 days before christmas day data that too early, so you have to go by 30th December as that data is from Tommorow 23rd through Christmas Day, Boxing Day to 29th December (Christmas Week and Day in real time and accurate for Christmas), but in the week ending systems without data for christmas your right, it would say on the occ sites, that christmas #1