Shakin’ Stevens, Greg Lake, The Beach Boys, Jona Lewie, Chris De Burgh, Mike Oldfield, David Essex, The Pogues ft. It’s hard to understand why Kate wouldn’t want her Christmas song on a Christmas compilation, but there you go. A new version of the compilation, with a new track list and artwork inspired by the original, was released on 26 November 2016 on vinyl only. If it follows the form of previous solo albums, it could become his fourth Number 1 following last year’s Music Played By Humans.

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When Christmas Comes Around has a lot going for it, with a brace of originals such as Christmas Isn’t Canceled (Just You); duets with Ariana Grande on Santa, Can’t You Hear Me and with Chris Stapleton on Glow, Kelly has also reworked Wham! The album has since been superseded by subsequent two-disc and later three-disc releases in the 2000s. He’s unleashed his first solo Christmas album, having been involved with three Glee Christmas releases in 2010, 2011 and 2012, and it comes with the very hohoho title of A Very Darren Crissmas.

Nat King Cole’s Christmas legacy is secure already with his The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on An Open Fire), a song he first recorded in 1946 and which was massively successful in the pre-chart era. The new material sees him team up with jazz turns Lady Blackbird, Kansas Smitty’s and The Vernon Spring for further adventures in a winter wonderland with covers of Amazing Grace, Sleigh Ride and God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen for a very cool yule. Seeing as the Official Singles Chart now becomes flooded with yule-themed bops of all vintages each Christmas, this year’s will be the most contemporary, most streamed and chart-busting album imaginable, as the combined figures of streams and sales for the likes of Wham! Among these newies are previously released duets with Rod Stewart (Winter Wonderland) and The Puppini Sisters (Frosty The Snowman) plus two brand-new tunes: Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow with BBC Big Band Orchestra and original composition The Christmas Sweater. Kirsty MacColl, Pretenders, Aled Jones, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, The Flying Pickets, The Housemartins, Paul Young, East 17 AND MORE!

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million chart sales, and four of its tracks rank among the Top 40 most-streamed Christmas songs, led by It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas, with 126 million plays. While over in the UK, punters haven’t been too fussed about Wrapped In Red as a whole – preferring the single Underneath The Tree, which reached an Official Singles Chart high of Number 15 last year and clocking 84 million streams to date. That album is ten years old this year, and to celebrate, everyone’s favourite crooner is reissuing it with seven new tracks. Claims Gazza: “(last year) was a really hard Christmas for so many because of the scenario we all found ourselves in.No such messing around with Kelly Clarkson, as When Christmas Comes Around marks her second foray into the festive pop market following 2013’s Wrapped In Red. Now, in the last decade, UK acts have been playing catch-up with Robbie Williams, Saint Etienne, Tracey Thorn, honorary Brit Kylie and more entering into the spirit of an album of yuletide bops, and now the schedules from September onwards are increasingly festive. It’s a bit of a surprise after 30 years into a pop career that Gary has only just got around to making a Christmas album.