Door 11: Quiz – Christmas Number 2s

Despite ABBA's widespread success, this was the closest they ever got to UK Xmas number 1. 

YMCA has gone on to be sold over 12,000,000 times!

Joe was beaten to the number 1 spot in 2009 by Rage Against the Machine's 'Killing in the Name of' as part of a campaign to stop the X Factor winner from getting the number 1 spot again!

Happy went on to be the highest-selling single of 2014, with 13.9 million sales worldwide! 

Shayne Ward's Xmas number 1 started a run of 4 consecutive years where the Xmas number 1 was also the X Factor winner.

Set to the tune of Auld Lang Syne, this single was released as a charity record ahead of the turn of the Millennium. 

The Millennium Prayer joined this list following 'The Next Time' (1962), 'Wind me up' (1965) and 'Daddy's Home' (1981).

Despite never being a Xmas number 1, 'All I want for Christmas' finally reached the number 1 spot of the UK Singles Chart in December 2020, 26 years after its release and after spending an unprecedented 70 continuous weeks in the UK top 40!

Saviours Day came two years after Cliff scored another Xmas number 1 with, perhaps his most famous Xmas song, Mistletoe and Wine. Ice Ice Baby spent 4 weeks in the number 1 spot in the run up to Christmas 1990, before being bumped off by Cliff.

Despite the popularity of the song, often voted the nations favourite Xmas song, it is not without its controversy. There have been numerous attempts to have some of its lyrics censored.

On its release in 1984, it spent 5 consecutive weeks at number 2! It returned to the number 2 spot numerous times over the years before finally being a UK number 1 on January 1st 2021. 

This was the first-ever UK number 1 by a female singer!

Return to Sender was Elvis's only UK Xmas no1, and also the first-ever Irish Xmas Number 1.

Ronan Keeting was no stranger to this song when it come to releasing it with Yusuf Islam. In fact, Father and Son was the song Ronan sang as part of his audition for Boyzone!