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RTE.ie Entertainment - Elvis may claim milestone UK number one (169 words) |
 | Elvis Presley may be in line for the top spot when the UK singles charts celebrates its 1000th number one in the New Year. |
 | Record company Sony BMG are set to re-release all of Elvis's 18 UK number one singles to mark the anniversary of his birth. |
 | The first of the Elvis singles to be re-released, 'All Shook Up', will not be eligible to officially claim the number one spot because it is being released in a special collector's box. |
| Christmas number-one single - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (581 words) |
 | 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 definition of the Christmas number one single is the entry at the top of the official UK singles chart released on the Sunday before Christmas Day, or Christmas Day itself if it falls on a Sunday. |
 | The race for the Christmas number-one of 2002 was 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. |