There are plenty of pretty unpopular Christmas number one songs – and now Brits have decided on the top 15 songs they dislike the most
Kylie Minogue’s ‘XMAS’ has topped the 2025 Christmas charts beating competition from Wham’s ‘Last Christmas ‘ and Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas is You’.
In the wake of the announcement, Brits have voted for the worst Christmas chart toppers over the past half a century. And it’s bad news for Mr Blobby and his self-titled hit ‘Mr Blobby’ which claimed top spot back in 1993.
Noel Edmunds’ pink and yellow sidekick – made famous by hit 90s TV show ‘Noel’s House Party’ – overwhelmingly won the poll of yuletide misfires with over a quarter of the votes (28%).
And novelty tracks dominated the top ten list. Bob the Builder, voiced by Neil Morrissey, took the runners-up spot with ‘Can We Fix It?’ from the year 2000; it was voted for by one in four respondents (25%).
That was before a spate of five tunes by pastry-themed fundraising parodies LadBaby including; ‘I Love Sausage Rolls’ (23%), ‘Don’t Stop Me Eatin’ (22%), ‘Sausage Rolls For Everyone’ (22%) ‘Food Aid’ (21%) and ‘We Built This City (…on Sausage Rolls)’ (19%).
The poll of 2,000 Brits, which was conducted by all-in-one banking app thinkmoney, also listed festive hits by The Spice Girls, Sir Cliff Richard and Rage Against The Machine in the top 15 Christmas number one songs we’re most likely to turn off.
The banking app worked alongside Marc Burrows, music journalist and author of ‘The Story of the Christmas #1’ on the study.
He said: “These results prove something that might surprise people, especially when we’re discussing Christmas hits: the British public generally has pretty good taste in music!
“We tend to associate Christmas Number One with the real musical crimes, like Mr Blobby and St Winnifred’s School Choir, but while those hits might be memorable, it’s for all the wrong reasons… almost no-one actually wants to listen to them. When was the last time you heard Mr Blobby on the radio?
“People were happy to support the LadBaby singles for five years in a row because they raised money for a good cause, but it’s encouraging to see that nobody actually liked them. They’re dad-jokes for charity, and it’s fine to let them go. All of these songs have served their purpose, and it turns out that we’re happy to never hear them ever again.”
According to the results, the Christmas number one we dislike the least is ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ by Queen (6%) which reach the summit in both 1975 and 1991.
That was followed by Shakin’ Stevens 1985 hit ‘Merry Christmas Everyone’ (8%) and Band Aid’s ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’ (8%) from 1984.
Vix Leyton, consumer expert at thinkmoney said: “A lot of Christmas songs are hardwired into us by nostalgia and habit, built on the foundations of the one Christmas album every family had pre-streaming.
“In typically British fashion, whilst we might complain about overplay fatigue, we will not relinquish them, even the ones we love to hate. And with streaming bringing ghosts of Christmas past back into the charts, it really lays bare where the festive favourites are – Ladbaby need not be waiting by the front door for a cheque from Spotify.
“Christmas music has seen something of a revival in contemporary pop over the last decade, with Ariana Grande, Kelly Clarkson and Sabrina Carpenter joining the canon without reaching the top spot; whilst novelty songs, charity efforts and campaigns for Christmas number one will likely continue, it remains to be seen if any new Festive offering will overcome our loyalty to the classics and take top spot.”
CHRISTMAS NUMBER ONES WE DISLIKE THE MOST:
- Mr Blobby – Mr Blobby
- Bob The Builder – Can We Fix it?
- Lad Baby – I Love Sausage Rolls
- Lad Baby – Don’t Stop Me Eatin’
- Lad Baby – Sausage Rolls For Everyone
- Lad Baby – Food Aid
- Lad Baby – We Built This City (…on Sausage Rolls)
- Renee & Renato – Save Your Love
- Cliff Richard – Saviour’s Day
- Cliff Richard – Mistletoe & Wine
- Rage Against The Machine – Killing In The Name Of
- Spice Girls – Goodbye
- Shayne Ward – That’s My Goal
- Spice Girls – 2 become 1
- Sam Bailey – Skyscraper
