List of Irish Singles Chart Christmas number ones

This is a list of Christmas number one singles in the Republic of Ireland. Christmas number one singles are those that are at the top of the Irish Singles Chart on Christmas Day. The results are announced on Christmas Eve. The Charts began in 1962 when Elvis Presley won with "Return to Sender". The following year Brendan Bowyer became the first Irish-man to claim top spot. The Beatles, Queen, Spice Girls and Eminem have gained top spot twice while Band Aid have had top spot 3 times. In recent years the charts in Ireland and the UK have been dominated by The X Factor (2005–2008 in UK and 2006–present in Ireland), however in 2009 an Internet campaign to get Rage Against the Machine's 1992 single "Killing in the Name" to number one was started. This was successful in the UK. In Ireland it proved unsuccessful and was beaten by X Factor 2009 winner Joe McElderry with "The Climb". Conversely, in 2010, an Irish campaign to get The Rubberbandits to the number-one position led to their song "Horse Outside" reaching just shy of that mark at #2; the song however, failed to break the top 100 of the UK Charts.

The UK and Irish Christmas number ones have often been the same. Twenty-eight of 48 years have seen the same song at number one in the UK and Ireland, and in the years when Ireland has had a different Christmas number 1, this has often been the UK Christmas number 2.

List

Year↓ Artist↓ Song↓
1962 Elvis Presley "Return to Sender"
1963 Brendan Bowyer "No More"
1964 The Beatles "I Feel Fine"
1965 The Beatles "Day Tripper"
1966 Tom Jones "Green, Green Grass of Home"
1967 Pat Lynch "Treat my Daughter Kindly"
1968 The Scaffold "Lily The Pink"
1969 The Archies "Sugar Sugar"
1970 Dave Edmunds "I Hear You Knocking"
1971 Tommy Drennan "O Holy Night"
1972 Thin Lizzy "Whiskey in the Jar"
1973 Slade "Merry Christmas Everybody"
1974 Gary Glitter "Oh Yes You Are beautiful"
1975 Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody"
1976 Chicago "If You Leave Me Now"
1977 Wings "Mull of Kintyre"
1978 Boney M "Mary's Boy Child - Oh My Lord"
1979 Pink Floyd "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)"
1980 St Winifred's School Choir "There's No-one Quite Like Grandma"
1981 ABBA "One of us"
1982 Renee & Renato "Save Your Love"
1983 Flying Pickets "Only You"
1984 Band Aid "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
1985 Dermot Morgan "Thank You Very Much Mr. Eastwood"
1986 The Housemartins ""Caravan of Love""
1987 The Pogues Ft.Kirsty MacColl "Fairytale of New York"
1988 Cliff Richard "Mistletoe and Wine"
1989 Band Aid "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
1990 Zig & Zag "The Christmas No.1"
1991 Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody/These Are the Days of our Lives"
1992 Whitney Houston ""I Will Always Love You"
1993 Take That "Babe"
1994 East 17 "Stay Another Day"
1995 Boyzone "Father and Son"
1996 Spice Girls "2 Become 1"
1997 Various (for Children in Need) "Perfect Day"
1998 Spice Girls "Goodbye"
1999 Westlife "I Have a Dream"
2000 Eminem "Stan"
2001 Kate Winslet "What If"
2002 Eminem "Lose Yourself"
2003 Will Young "Leave Right Now"
2004 Band Aid 20 "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
2005 Mario Rosenstock "Gift Grub/Leave Right Now"
2006 Leona Lewis "A Moment Like This"
2007 Leon Jackson "When You Believe"
2008 Alexandra Burke "Hallelujah"
2009 Joe McElderry "The Climb"
2010 Matt Cardle "When We Collide"
2011 Little Mix "Cannonball"

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