Classic Christmas Number 1s: Spice Girls' Goodbye completes a hat-trick of festive chart-toppers

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22 years ago, the Spice Girls were on the hottest of hot streaks, netting their third consecutive Christmas Number 1 with Goodbye.

The song may have been written a year prior to its release, but the tender breakup ballad seemed like an obvious reference to Geri Halliwell - who had made a dramatic and sudden exit from the band that year.

The song also completed something of a hat-trick for the girls - they'd previously clinched the coveted Christmas Number 1 for the past two years, with Too Much in 1997 and 2 Become 1 in 1996.

View every Christmas Number 1 ever here. In fact, they were the first act to achieve this milestone in almost 40 years, since The Beatles had done the same from 1963-65 with I Feel Fine, I Want To Hold Your Hand and