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Encyclopedia > Christmas number one

Each year, record companies compete for the Christmas number one single spot on the British charts. Having the UK Christmas number one is very prestigious and leads to a lot of media coverage. In addition single sales are extremely high in the week before Christmas so a lot of money can be earned as well. Traditionally very many people place a bet on who will be the Christmas number one at a bookmaker's .


The Christmas number one goes most often to sentimental, Christmas-related or novelty songs. See the list of Christmas number one singles.


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Christmas number-one single - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (474 words)
Having the UK Christmas number one is very prestigious and leads to a lot of media coverage.
Since people are buying gifts for the Christmas period, single sales are extremely high in the week before Christmas, and since the Christmas number one is the single with the highest sales, record companies can make sizable profit from trying to get their single to Number One.
The race for the Christmas number-one of 2002 was also focussed on by the British ITV television programme Popstars: the Rivals, a reality TV show that formed an all-male and an all-female pop group - One True Voice and Girls aloud respectively - and made them compete for the Christmas number-one spot.
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