Christmas number one single
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Each year, record companies compete for the Christmas number one single spot on the British charts. Having the UK Christmas number one is very prestigious and leads to a lot of media coverage. Since people are buying gifts for the Christmas period, single sales are extremely high in the week before Christmas, and since the Christmas number one is the single with the highest sales, record companies can make sizable profit from trying to get their single to Number One. Some people place bets on who will be the Christmas number one at a bookmaker's.
The Christmas number one goes most often to sentimental, Christmas-related or novelty songs. This is featured heavily in the plot of the movie Love Actually.
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