UK weather: The highest-charting 'cold', 'frozen', 'ice' and 'snow' songs
With temperatures in the UK plummeting, we've compiled the UK's chilliest hits - the highest-charting songs with 'cold', 'frozen', 'ice' and 'snow' in the title - and it makes for a seriously brisk playlist.
Just four 'cold' songs have gone all the way to Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart: Vanilla's Ice's cool-as-a-cucumber Ice Ice Baby in 1990, Madonna's icy ballad Frozen in 1998, crisp midtempo banger Cold Water by Major Lazer ft. Justin Bieber and MO, and most recently, Elton John & Dua Lipa's Cold Heart (Pnau Remix).
Other notable entries are Girls Aloud's supremely chilly Life Got Cold from 2003, hip-hop classic Cold As Ice by rap duo M.O.P, and two entries for winter warmer classic Baby, It's Cold Outside - Tom Jones's cover with Cerys Matthews was a Top 20 hit in 1999, while Idina Menzel's rendition with Michael Buble snuck into the Top 40 in 2014.
The highest-charting 'cold', 'frozen', 'ice' and 'snow' songs on the Official Singles Chart
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TITLE | ARTIST | PEAK | YEAR |
FROZEN | MADONNA | 1 | 1998 |
COLD WATER | MAJOR LAZER FT JUSTIN BIEBER, MO | 1 | 2016 |
COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) | ELTON JOHN & DUA LIPA | 1 | 2021 |
ICE ICE BABY | VANILLA ICE | 1 | 1990 |
LIFE GOT COLD | GIRLS ALOUD | 3 | 2003 |
HOT N COLD | KATY PERRY | 4 | 2008 |
COLD AS ICE | M.O.P | 4 | 2001 |
SNOW COACH | RUSS CONWAY | 7 | 1959 |
SO COLD THE NIGHT | THE COMMUNARDS | 8 | 1986 |
ICE IN THE SUN | STATUS QUO | 8 | 1968 |
FROZEN ORANGE JUICE | PETER SARSTEDT | 10 | 1969 |
SKIING IN THE SNOW | WIGAN'S OVATION | 12 | 1959 |
ICE BOX | OMARION | 14 | 2007 |
COLD TURKEY | PLASTIC ONO BAND | 14 | 1969 |
COLD ROCK A PARTY | MC LYTE | 15 | 1997 |
SNOW (HEY HO) | RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS | 16 | 2006 |
STONE COLD SOBER | PALOMA FAITH | 17 | 2009 |
COLD, COLD HEART | MIDGE URE | 17 | 1991 |
BABY, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE | TOM JONES FT CERYS | 17 | 1999 |
COLD SHOULDER | ADELE | 18 | 2008 |
COLD COLD HEART | WET WET WET | 20 | 1994 |
FINGERS & THUMBS (COLD SUMMER'S DAY) | ERASURE | 20 | 1995 |
COLD | STORMZY | 21 | 2017 |
SNOW | JJ72 | 21 | 2001 |
COLD | MAROON 5 FT FUTURE | 24 | 2017 |
COLD DAY IN HELL | GARY MOORE | 24 | 1992 |
COLD AS ICE | FOREIGNER | 24 | 1978 |
COLD | ANNIE LENNOX | 26 | 1992 |
DO YOU WANT TO BUILD A SNOWMAN | KRISTEN BELL/AGATHA LEE MONN | 26 | 2014 |
COLD SWEAT | THIN LIZZY | 27 | 1983 |
SHE'S SO COLD | ROLLING STONES | 33 | 1980 |
COLD AS CHRISTMAS | ELTON JOHN | 33 | 1983 |
COLD HARD BITCH | JET | 34 | 2004 |
LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW | DEAN MARTIN | 37 | 1959 |
BABY, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE | IDINA MENZEL FT MICHAEL BUBLE | 39 | 2014 |
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What about Dana and Cold Cold Christmas. Always forgotten even on compilation Xmas albums
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
cold wind blows by eminem deserved better, i know its an album track but oh well
Aaron
What about Shivers?
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
related, but doesn't count im afraid
mildredfarts
you could've included freeze-frame (J Geils Band),the freeze (spandau ballet) and sugar coated iceberg (lightning seeds).oh,and ice hockey hair (super furry animals)
Blank
It's a hit single list, not a track list. As neither of those 'freeze' records hit the top 40, then no, they couldn't.