Ed Sheeran’s hit tune Perfect has been named probably the most streamed UK Christmas quantity certainly one of all time.
The ballad landed the highest spot throughout the 2017 festive interval and fended off competitors from world superstars, together with Whitney Houston and Queen, to say the title.
To draw within the vacation season, the Official Charts Company created a prime 40 listing for BBC Radio 2 and BBC Sounds of probably the most streamed Christmas quantity ones because it started recording in 1952.
In second place was Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, which is the one tune to ever be a Christmas primary twice – as soon as in 1975, and once more in 1991 after Freddie Mercury died.
Clean Bandit’s Rockabye was third – that means the highest three songs within the listing really don’t have anything to do with Christmas.
Shakin’ Stevens hit Merry Christmas Everyone was fourth, Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas was fifth, and Slade’s Merry Xmas Everybody was sixth.
The remainder of the highest 10 is as soon as once more largely dominated by non-festive tracks – together with The Human League’s Don’t You Want Me, Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You and Rage Against The Machine’s Killing In The Name.
But Mary’s Boy Child by Boney M does make an look in tenth place.
The prime 40 songs by The Official Charts have calculated a mixed streaming whole of greater than 2.25 billion audio performs, though solely six of the 40 really point out Christmas within the lyrics.
Source: information.sky.com”