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Ed Sheeran’s Perfect claims the UK’s Official Christmas Number 1 2017: "It's an actual dream"
The singer-songwriter caps off a 'Perfect' 2017 by claiming the most coveted chart accolade of the year.
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Congratulations to Ed Sheeran, who completes his ‘Perfect’ year by claiming the most coveted chart accolade of the year - the UK’s Official Christmas Number 1.
The Official Charts Company can confirm that Perfect wins this year’s festive crown with 85,000 combined sales acquired this week, split across 45,000 downloads and 6 million streams. Earlier this month, Ed released new versions of the track featuring Beyoncé and Andrea Bocelli.
In a video message to his fans, Ed tells OfficialCharts.com: “Thank you very much for making Perfect Christmas Number 1. This is an actual dream come true and I’m very proud and happy. Thank you so much and have a very Merry Christmas, happy holidays and a Happy New Year.”
The track has today (Dec 22) been certified double platinum by the BPI, achieving 1.23m combined UK sales and streams to date. Perfect has held off several competitors from the snowy summit this week; its nearest rival, Eminem’s River (which also features Ed), finishes at Number 2, while a campaign to get Wham’s Last Christmas to the top to mark one year since George Michael’s death finishes at Number 3.
Elsewhere, Mariah Carey’s 1994 festive classic All I Want For Christmas Is You is at 4, and rapper Big Shaq climbs two places to Number 6 with Man’s Not Hot following a special Christmas Edition release of the track.
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Also earning a place in 2017’s Official Christmas Singles Chart Top 10 is The Pogues’ Fairytale Of New York ft. Kirsty MacColl at 7. It’s the first time the song has been in the Top 10 in ten years – it peaked at Number 2 upon its original release in 1987.
A further 13 Christmas classics make up this year’s Christmas Top 40, including the original 1984 version of Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas? at 12, Brenda Lee’s Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree (14) and Shakin’ Stevens’ Merry Christmas Everyone (15).
Elton John’s 1973 hit Step Into Christmas achieves a new personal best at Number 18, Chris Rea’s Driving Home For Christmas finishes at 20, Michael Buble’s rendition of It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas is at 22, and Wizzard’s I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday lands at 23.
Further down, Slade’s Merry Xmas Everybody (29), Ariana Grande’s Santa Tell Me (32), John & Yoko’s Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (35), Leona Lewis’ One More Sleep (36), Andy Williams’ It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year (37) and Paul McCartney’s Wonderful Christmastime (38) and all earn a spot in the Christmas Top 40. Check out the UK's best-selling Christmas songs of all time here.
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Sunshine Gal
congrats ed and esp. your history making success on the u.s. bb charts!
etin
James morrison has better voice than him, but this guy is more popular
I Am A Stegosaurus
The one time I didn't support Ed, Wham deserved it more but still a good result, remember what was #1 last year? Fricking ROCKABYE. Best thing is thinking about Alan Lee crying on his mother's lap while listening to his Will Young album
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Helen Hudson
Rubbish song I hate it. Schmaltzy wet . Much prefer Wham! and George!
TheInkAndThePaper
So sad that an actual xmas song didn't make it to #1. Very bad result.
Piran
I'm very happy for Ed, but I was really hoping a festive classic like 'Last Christmas' or 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' could've finally hit #1!
It's strange to see less Christmas songs on this week's chart than last week, but I'm pleased that we've had more chart in 2017 than in other years this decade.
I'm also pleased that NF got his first Top 10 hit with 'Let You Down' & congratulations to Eminem on an eighth #1 album with 'Revival'! :)
Howie Roscoe
All these christmas tracks should be downgraded to 300 streams equals 1 sale for next years chart, so this year is truly a one off..........
Piran
They were under that 300:1 streaming ratio anyway as it was introduced a few months back. I think any song can go back to 150:1 if it gains significantly in performance, which is what those Christmas classics did this year.
Howie Roscoe
The new rules started after last xmas and cannot be applied retrospectively so automatically retained a 1:150 ratio this year. It will obviously drop to 1:300 after christmas. However I have just read the rules on streaming & yes it can be reset to 1:150 on a sales increase of +50% occurs, which will undoubtedly happen next christmas :(
Piran
Oh yeah, I completely forgot about the 50% increase part of the rule. To be honest, I don't think the OCC should've made this rule to begin with.