Christmas 2021 sees the 70th Christmas Number 1 single in the Official Charts’ history. While we let you decide what that is going to be, let us cast your minds back to some of the previous ones from every five years (well technically four in the case of our first, but you get the idea…) The Christmas Number 1 encapsulates pretty much everything you can imagine from the history of pop music.
There’s your girl groups (Spice Girls, Girls Aloud) and boy bands (Westlife, East 17), your legends (Cliff, The Beatles, Elvis, Whitney, Jacko, Pink Floyd) and pre-teens (Little Jimmy Osmond, St Winifred’s School Choir).
Almost every important genre imaginable is represented too, from glam (Mud, Slade) to synthpop (The Human League, Pet Shop Boys),
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