What song are LadBaby releasing in their sixth bid for Christmas number one this year? That’s the big question, isn’t it? Well, no. But it is a question. And one that now has an answer: There will be no new LadBaby Christmas single in 2023.
Mark and Roxanne Hoyle announced this morning that five consecutive Christmas number ones is enough for them and they’re finally going to let someone else have a go.
In a video posted online, Mark Hoyle says that the run of chart-topping singles in aid of food bank charity The Trussell Trust had been “the most amazing, incredible, loving, life-changing five years”.
“We never expected one, let alone five Christmas number ones”, adds his wife Roxanne Hoyle. “The impact it can have on a charity is incredible … So we want to pass the baton over and say, if there is anyone who is backing a charity this Christmas with a song … go for it”.
Mark then goes on to say that he’d like to see “the whole charts to be charity songs this Christmas - the top 40, top 100”. That might reduce the impact somewhat, but sure.
What will the Hoyles be doing with their lives, now that they’ve hung up their Christmas song boots? Well, right now they’ve got their second children’s book to promote - ‘Greg The Sausage Roll: Twelve Days Of Christmas’. But also, you probably shouldn’t assume they won’t be back with another bid to top the festive chart in the future.
“I’m not retiring”, insists Mark at the end of the video. “This isn’t me done for good. I’m just saying I’m out this year. Mariah Carey, if you ever want a Christmas number one, I’ve started on the lyrics, ‘all I want for Christmas is a… sausage roll’”.
Inspired. Bookies had - until today’s announcement - placed LadBaby as evens favourite to take the Christmas number one spot, with Ed Sheeran, Adele and Taylor Swift each coming in at 7/1.
LadBaby’s sudden announcement now means a cut throat Christmas race between three of the biggest artists in the world. Ed Sheeran, of course, previously collaborated with LadBaby and Elton John on 2021’s ‘Sausage Rolls For Everyone’. Neither Adele nor Taylor Swift have (yet) collaborated with LadBaby.
Of course, if - like LadBaby - you’d like to see a charity single top the Christmas chart, you could back Nala The Station Cat’s debut single ‘Check Meowt’. Speaking exclusively to CMU, the TikTok famous moggy said: “With LadBaby taking a paws, I feel like it could be the purrfect moment for ‘Check Meowt’ to claw its way to the top of the charts. After that, who knows, maybe by 2024 Adele or Ed will be ready to collaborate with me on 'Rolling In The Catnip', or 'Shape Of Mew'”.