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LadBaby's Sausage Rolls Song Officially Named The UK's Christmas Number One

LadBaby's Sausage Rolls Song Officially Named The UK's Christmas Number One

The viral family has beaten Ariana Grande to the title. Congratulations

Rachael Grealish

Rachael Grealish

Christmas number one has been claimed for 2018 and this year's winner had one thing at the heart that always makes an everlasting song - charity.

Ladbaby took the title with a parody of the 1985 Starship song 'We Built This City' - but the YouTube star's is based around a love of sausage rolls.

The 31-year-old YouTube sensation - real name Mark Hoyle - and his wife Roxanne and two sons recreated the hit in order to go for Christmas number one and raise money for foodbank charity Trussell Trust and even created a music video featuring all four of them in the studio.

In order to nab the top spot, Ladbaby's 'We Built This City... On Sausage Rolls' by shifting a whopping 75,000 copies in combined sales - beating second place by 18,500 sales in their last-minute push.

93 percent of sales came from downloads and the other seven percent were made up from the audio and video streams, with proceeds went to the foodbank charity.

This is the first time since the millennium that a novelty song has stolen Christmas number one after Bob The Builder's 'Can We Fix It?' took the festive top spot in 2000 - wow, remember that? It was 18-years-ago, feel old yet?

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Celebrating with OfficialCharts.com, Ladbaby said: "Thank you everybody in the UK who has got a sausage roll to the top. I can't thank you enough not only for downloading the song but for raising money for such an incredible charity. I'm honestly speechless and lost for words. Thank you so much. YES MAAATE!"

To get the prestigious title, Mark and his family had to beat the likes of Ava Max and Ariana Grande - who respectively came second and third in the charts.

Both US stars were tipped to win after battling in the music charts in the last week.

As 'tis the season, it wouldn't be right unless one of the Christmas classics had a place in the top ten and Mariah Carey led a charge of festive classics in this year's Official Christmas Chart with 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' at Number four.

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Another famous Christmas hit and charity song Band Aid's 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' slipped nicely into the top 20 at number 13 and Ariana Grande didn't have to worry about not making the top spot as 'Imagine' made it in at number eight.

This definitely beats the years gone by of numerous X Factor stars taking Christmas number one.

Featured Image Credit: Ladbaby

Topics: Christmas, LadBaby