LadBaby ascend to Number 1 on the Official Trending Chart with Food Aid

But can it go all the way to Christmas Number 1?

LadBaby's Food Aid ascends to Number 1 on the Official Trending Chart as they battle for a record-breaking fifth Christmas Number 1 single.

This year, Mark and Roxanne Hoyle have teamed up with Money Saving Expert and daytime TV staple Martin Lewis for Food Aid, a cover of Band Aid's beloved 1984 smash Do They Know It's Christmas? (which was, of course, that year's Christmas Number 1 - beating Wham!'s Last Christmas to the top spot).

Food Aid is currently leading the pack to debut at Number 1 this Friday - but it will be an uphill battle for LadBaby to overcome the streaming might of Christmas classics Last Christmas and All I Want For Christmas Is You in the coming days, with both tracks gaining daily and now in with a shot of claiming Christmas Number 1 for the first time ever.

Profits from the single will be split equally between UK foodbank charity The Trussell Trust, of whom LadBaby are patrons, and Band Aid.

Last year, LadBaby smashed a UK chart record when they became the first act in Official Charts history to score four consecutive Christmas Number 1 singles. As it stands they share the record for the most Christmas Number 1s of all time with The Beatles (who scored four non-consecutively in the 1960s).

MORE: The contenders for the Official Christmas 2022 Number 1

Elsewhere on the Official Trending chart this week, we have big movers from Lizzo's Amazon Music Original cover of Stevie Wonder's Someday At Christmas (which could enter the Top 10 for the first time), Youtube supergroup Sidemen and rapper JME with Christmas Drillings, Eurovision hero Sam Ryder's cover of Jingle Bells (another Amazon Music Original), as is Tamil-Swiss singer-songwriter Priya Ragu's take on Brenda Lee's Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree.

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Further down, we have new entries from Central Cee (Let Go), The K**ts (F**k The Tories), Zoe Wees (All I Want For Christmas), the late Juice Wrld (Face 2 Face), Lauren Spencer-Smith (Last Christmas), Kawali (Let It Rip), Thxsomch (Spit In My Face) and iShowSpeed (World Cup).

There are also a few notable re-entries; Pink's new Max Martin produced single Never Gonna Not Dance Again, Cian Ducrot's I'll Be Waiting and producer Fred again.. with Delilah (I'll Be Waiting).

Official Trending Chart Top 20 - December 20 2022

POS	CLIMB	TITLE	ARTIST	LABEL	LW	CURRENT	DIFF	PREV PEAK
1		FOOD AID	LADBABY	BMG	NE	1	0
2	⬆️	SOMEDAY AT CHRISTMAS	LIZZO	ATLANTIC	22	8	14	22
3		LET GO	CENTRAL CEE	CENTRAL CEE	NE	11	0
4		F**K THE TORIES	K**TS	TACTICAL VOTING	NE	19	0
5	⬆️	CHRISTMAS DRILLINGS	SIDEMEN	SIDEMEN	41	28	13
6	⬆️ ⬆️	JINGLE BELLS	SAM RYDER	EAST WEST/RHINO	66	39	27
7		SANTA CAN'T YOU HEAR ME	KELLY CLARKSON & ARIANA GRANDE	ATLANTIC	47	42	5	37
8		POINTLESS	LEWIS CAPALDI	VERTIGO	43	43	0	20
9	⬆️ ⬆️	ROCKIN' AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE	PRIYA RAGU	EAST WEST/RHINO	91	54	37
10		LET IT SNOW	MICHAEL BUBLE	REPRISE	68	63	5
11		TOGETHER THIS CHRISTMAS	MAISIE PETERS	EAST WEST/RHINO	74	65	9
12		ALL I WANT (FOR CHRISTMAS)	ZOE WEES	CAPITOL	NE	67	0
13		FACE 2 FACE	JUICE WRLD	INTERSCOPE	NE	77	0
14		LAST CHRISTMAS	LAUREN SPENCER SMITH	ISLAND	NE	80	0
15		NEVER GONNA NOT DANCE AGAIN	PINK	RCA	RE	102	0
16		I'LL BE WAITING	CIAN DUCROT	POLYDOR	RE	118	0
17		DELILAH (PULL ME OUT OF THIS)	FRED AGAIN	ATLANTIC	RE	129	0	35
18		LET IT RIP	KAWALI	JUST JAM	NE	133	0
19		SPIT IN MY FACE	THXSOMCH	THXSOMCH	NE	135	0
20		WORLD CUP	ISHOWSPEED	WARNER RECORDS	RE	136	0

⬆️ - Indicates a climb of 10 places
LW - Last week's Official Singles Chart position
CURRENT - Current position on today's Official Singles Chart sales flash
DIFF - Number of places climbed since the previous week on the Official Singles Chart