Kylie Minogue Earns 2025’s U.K. Christmas No. 1 Single With ‘XMAS’

Kylie Minogue has received the most coveted gift of the year as her song “XMAS” takes the U.K.’s Official Chart’s Christmas No. 1 Single for 2025 on the list dated Dec. 19.

Awarded on the final Friday before Christmas Day, the prize is highly sought-after among artists; this is the first time that Minogue has achieved the feat as a soloist. (She appeared on 1989’s No. 1 “Do They Know its Christmas?” as a singer for Band Aid II.)

“XMAS” features as an Amazon Music exclusive on the newly reissued edition of Kylie Christmas, first released in 2015, alongside three other new songs. The LP took the top spot on the Official Albums Chart on Dec. 12. 

The No. 1 gives Kylie her first U.K. chart-topping single since 2003’s “Slow” and is her eighth No. 1 overall. She also becomes the first female artist to boast U.K. No. 1 singles across four different decades (’80s, ’90s, ’00s, ’20s), joining Elton John, Elvis and Queen with the total; Cliff Richard boasts chart-toppers across five decades.

She knocks off Wham!’s “Last Christmas” from the top spot (down one spot to No. 2 week-on-week), with the pop duo holding the Christmas No. 1 single title for the past two years. In the overall leader boards, Wham! is tied with Queen on two No. 1s, behind the Spice Girls with three, The Beatles with four and the current record-holders, LadBaby, with a whopping five. The latter, the moniker for YouTube influencer Mark Hoyle, holds the record for number of Christmas chart-toppers with five different songs hitting No. 1 between 2018 and 2022.

Speaking to the Official Charts Company, Minogue said, “It’s hard to put into words how special this feels. Being Christmas No. 1 really is the most wonderful gift! I’m so thankful to everyone who’s been listening and sharing the love and I’m wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!”    

Festive classics populate the remainder of the top five, with Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” at No. 3 and Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” at No. 4. Together for Palestine, a charity group raising funds for urgent humanitarian care in Gaza, sees its song “Lullaby” break into No. 5.