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Christmas Number 1 Contenders 2025: Kylie Minogue - XMAS
Everybody goin' X-M-A-S...Number 1?
By Carl Smith
It's a role Mariah Carey's assumed for the best part of three decades, but could she soon be joined by another, newly-appointed Queen of Christmas™?
This festive season, Kylie Minogue delivers her Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped) record. Already on course to become her 11th chart-topping album, the reissue of 2015's Kylie Christmas boasts four brand-new bops: Hot in December, This Time of Year, Office Party and the biggie, XMAS.
Complete with its TikTok-ready routine, XMAS takes the brilliantly bonkers blueprint of Village People's YMCA, grabs it by the baubles and cranks up the camp.
It's Kylie! It's Christmas! Of course it's even more camp!
So, with the 2025 Christmas Number 1 race inching ever closer, we're here to explain why Kylie's such a strong contender, with a little input from the pop queen herself.
MORE: Meet your Official Christmas Number 1 2025 contenders
Chatting about the origins of the track, Kylie exclusively tells Official Charts: "The song comes from 2015. I was at Soho House in Berlin. It was summer on the terrace and we’d just done the first Christmas album. We’d had a couple of glasses of wine - it wasn’t Kylie Wines back then - and it came to us. YMCA, but XMAS! I’ve been sitting on the chorus for 10 years."
So, could the 10-year wait culminate in that coveted Christmas Number 1 title?
"[That's what] they're saying," Kylie jokes to BBC Breakfast's Jon Kay. "That'd be amazing, absolutely!"
What stands Kylie in such good stead for this year's title, then?
Well, for a start, Kylie's a chart veteran with seven UK Number 1 singles to her name already: 1988's I Should Be So Lucky and Especially For You, 1989 hit Hand On Your Heart, 1990's Tears On My Pillow, 2000 smash Spinning Around, 2001's Can't Get You Out Of My Head and 2003's Slow.
Kylie's also one of only four female solo artists to secure Top 10 singles in five consecutive decades, the 1980s, ‘90s, ‘00s, 2010s and ‘20s, most recently with 2023's Padam Padam. Cher, Diana Ross and Lulu are the other three enduring chart queens, in case you're wondering.
XMAS is well on the way to earning Kylie her 36th Top 10 single, too, at Number 5 midweek and giving Christmas classics from WHAM!, Mariah and Brenda Lee a real run for their money.
MORE: When will the 2025 Christmas Number 1 be announced?
On that note, what's Kylie got in her arsenal to give this a real shot at Number 1?
An Amazon Music UK exclusive release, XMAS follows a string of seasonal success stories from the streaming service, including Tom Grennan’s 2024 Top 5 offering It Can’t Be Christmas and Sam Ryder’s Number 2 smash You’re Christmas To Me, which had Last Christmas shaking in its snow boots in 2003. It was a close one.
The track's also available on vinyl and CD formats from December 12, the very day the race kicks off. Never underestimate the power of a physical drop in Christmas Number 1 release week: every copy counts!
Can Kylie go all the way and bag her first-ever Official Christmas Number 1 single? Keep it locked to OfficialCharts.com for all the latest as we ready ourselves for the biggest race of the year.
Kylie Minogue's XMAS is out now exclusively via Amazon Music UK.
When will 2025's Official Christmas Number 1 single be announced?
The Official Christmas Number 1 race 2025 kicks off Friday December 12 with sales and streams counting up until midnight (11.59pm) on Thursday, December 18.
Tune in to The Official Chart on BBC Radio 1 on Friday December 19 from 3pm to hear the Christmas Top 40 countdown and the exclusive reveal of the Official Christmas Number 1 2025.
The full Top 100 Official Christmas Singles Chart and Albums Chart will be published on OfficialCharts.com from 5.45pm.
Join the conversation now using the hashtag #XmasNo1. For all the latest race updates join the Official Charts mailing list for Breaking News on this year’s race and beyond. Follow @OfficialCharts on Instagram, X and Facebook, TikTok, Threads and Bluesky.
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Betty Boop
Except she isn't THE pop Queen (Queen of Pop). That's Madonna and you KNOW it. Typical Gaga fan using his platform in a desperate bid to rewrite history.