The latest X Factor winner has claimed the UK’s traditional Christmas number one.
Ben Haenow has beaten Mark Ronson‘s ‘Uptown Funk‘ to the festive top spot with ‘Something I Need‘, a cover of a One Republic song and re-establishing Simon Cowell’s unfortunate dominance of the Christmas chart after 2013’s X Factor winner Sam Bailey also went to number one last year.
Elsewhere, The Pogues‘ ‘Fairytale Of New York‘ is the highest of the established festive favourites to re-enter the chart this week, with Mariah Carey also back in the Top 20.
UK Record Store Chart, Top 20:
1/ Ben Haenow – ‘Something I Need’
2/ Mark Ronson – ‘Uptown Funk’
3/ Ed Sheeran – ‘Thinking Out Loud’
4/ Olly Murs – ‘Up’
5/ Wealdstone Raider – ‘Got No Fans’
6/ Take That – ‘These Days’
7/ Taylor Swift – ‘Blank Space’
8/ One Direction – ‘Night Changes’
9/ Calvin Harris – ‘Outside’
10/ Meghan Trainor – ‘All About That Bass’
11/ The Pogues – ‘Fairytale Of New York’
12/ Olly Murs – ‘Wrapped Up’
13/ Sam Smith – ‘Like I Can’
14/ Gorgon City – ‘Go All Night’
15/ One Direction – ‘Steal My Girl’
16/ Clean Bandit & Jess Glynne – ‘Real Love’
17/ Band Aid 30 – ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’
18/ Mariah Carey – ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’
19/ Sam Smith – ‘Stay With Me’
20/ Hozier – ‘Take Me To Church’
