YouTube star claims this year’s Official Christmas Number 1

LadBaby aka Mark Hoyle, his wife Roxanne and two sons with their Official Christmas Number 1 Award for We Built This City Credit: OfficialCharts.com

A YouTube star from Nottingham has claimed this year’s Official Christmas Number 1.

LadBaby, (Mark Hoyle, 31) his wife Roxanne and their two sons recorded their own comic version of Starship’s 1985 hit, We Built This City.

Combined sales of the single reached 75,000 this week taking it to the top spot.

Despite a fiercely close race, it finishes 18,500 ahead of his closest competition after a last-minute push.

93% of his sales were downloads, with the remainder made up from audio and video streams.

Proceeds from the single will go to foodbank charity The Trussell Trust.

We Built This City is the first novelty song to claim the festive top spot in 18 years, since Bob The Builder’s Can We Fix It? in 2000.

Watch LadBaby's We Built This City ...on Sausage Rolls.

Here's how to chart currently sits...

Official Christmas Singles Chart Top 5

  • 1 - We Built This City - LadBaby

  • 2 - Sweet But Psycho - Ava Max

  • 3 - Thank U Next - Ariana Grande

  • 4 - All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey

  • 5 - Without You - Halsey

Official Christmas Albums Chart Top 5

  • 1 - The Greatest Showman - Motion Picture Cast Recording

  • 2 - Love - Michael Buble

  • 3 - Staying At Tamara's - George Ezra

  • 4 - Unchained Melodies - Roy Orbison/RPO

  • 5 - Odyssey - Take That

Official Charts chief executive Martin Talbot said:“It is a truly fantastic achievement by LadBaby to claim the 2018 Official Christmas Number 1, in what has been an incredibly competitive race against two massive hits of the moment.

"In doing so, he has also shown once again the enduring power of campaign singles, especially at this time of year.

"The success is tribute to the huge effort put into the campaign by Ladbaby himself, plus all of his supporters - and, in raising money for the Trussell Trust, is very much in the spirit of Christmas.”

New Entries and high climbers

Mariah Carey leads the charge of festive classics in this year’s Official Christmas Chart with All I Want For Christmas Is You at Number 4, Last Christmas by Wham! is at 7, and Ariana Grande’s Imagine is new at 8.

More Christmas favourites feature in this week’s Top 40: The Pogues’ Fairytale of New York (11), Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas? (13), Michael Buble’s It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas (16), Elton John’s Step Into Christmas (18) and Leona Lewis’ One More Sleep (19).

Shakin’ Stevens’ 1985 chart-topper Merry Christmas Everyone is at 20, Brenda Lee’s Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree places at 21, Chris Rea’s Driving Home For Christmas climbs to 22, Ariana Grande’s Santa Tell Me lifts seven places to an new peak at 23, and Wizzard’s I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday is at 24.

Finally, John & Yoko Ono’s Happy Xmas (War Is Over) returns to the Top 40 at 29, as does Paul McCartney’s Wonderful Christmastime at 35 and Slade’s Merry Xmas Everybody at 36.

Watch LadBaby celebrating scoring the Official Christmas Number 1.