Wikipedia:Today's featured list/December 26, 2011
Records that have been top of the UK Singles Chart at Christmas have included novelty songs, charity songs and songs with a Christmas theme. The Beatles are the only act to have four Christmas number ones in their own name. Paul McCartney has been top seven times with various acts, Cliff Richard four times. "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen is the only record to have reached the top twice, in 1975 and 1991. In recent years, the Christmas charts have been dominated by reality television contests, with the winners often heading straight to number one in the week before Christmas. This trend began in 2002 when Popstars: The Rivals contestants had the top three singles on the Christmas chart. From 2005 to 2010, the winners of The X Factor took the number one spot on five occasions, a run only broken by "Killing in the Name" by Rage Against the Machine (pictured) after a successful Facebook campaign in 2009. The 2011 number one single is "Wherever You Are" by The Military Wives Choir and Gareth Malone. (Full list...)