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In the United Kingdom, Christmas number ones are singles that top the UK Singles Chart in the week in which Christmas Day falls. The singles have often been novelty songs, charity songs or songs with a Christmas theme. Historically, the volume of record sales in the UK has peaked at Christmas. The Christmas number one is considered especially prestigious, more so than any other time of year. Christmas number one singles have often also been the best selling song of the year, though in recent years they have been released by reality television contestants and charity efforts. Due to the common practice of dating a chart by the date on which the week ends, the Christmas chart is dated the end of the week containing 25 December. The most recent Christmas number one single is "Last Christmas" by Wham!.

The UK Singles Chart began in 1952 – appearing in the New Musical Express. The positions of all songs are based on weekly sales (from Sunday to Saturday until 2015, then from Friday to Thursday). Before 1987, they were released on a Tuesday due to the need for manual calculation. The emergence of a serious contest for the Christmas number one spot began in 1973, when the glam rock bands Slade and Wizzard deliberately released festive songs in an effort to reach the top of the charts at Christmas, with Slade's "Merry Xmas Everybody" beating Wizzard's "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday". The Christmas number one single was not revealed on Christmas Day itself until 1994. From 2002 until 2014, the competition for the Christmas number one was dominated by reality television contests, with the winners often heading straight to number one in the week before Christmas. This trend began when Popstars: The Rivals contestants released the top three singles on the Christmas chart. refn|In addition to the two groups that were the focus of the show (Girls Aloud and One True Voice), who charted at No. 1 and No. 2 respectively, the No. 3 on the chart was "Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)" by The Cheeky Girls, who had also been contestants on Popstars. Rage Against the Machine's 1992 single "Killing in the Name" outsold Joe McElderry in 2009 following a successful Facebook campaign against this trend. This made them the first group to get a Christmas number one with a download only single, and resulted in the most download sales in a single week in UK chart history. In 2011, the Military Wives and Gareth Malone, both involved with the reality television show The Choir, outsold X Factor winners Little Mix and a host of social network campaigns for various novelty acts. In 2012, a supergroup cover of "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother", supporting charities associated with the Hillsborough disaster, reached the number one ahead of The X Factors James Arthur. Following the UK Charts' move to Fridays, the Christmas number one is revealed on Christmas Day whenever it falls on a Friday, such as in 2015 and 2020; the former year's chart was the first in a decade to not feature the X Factor winner's single in the top two. Amazon Music has released a number of exclusive festive tracks since 2018, recorded with acts such as Justin Bieber, Jess Glynne, and Ellie Goulding, none of which have topped the Christmas chart, though Goulding's track later reached number one. More recently, non traditional acts have been successful with novelty songs released for charity; most notably, YouTuber LadBaby achieved number one every year between 2018 and 2022, each time raising money for the Trussell Trust, before voluntarily ending their streak by not releasing a Christmas single in 2023.

LadBaby is the act with the most Christmas number ones with five, surpassing the Beatles' previous record in 2022. "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen, which reached the number one spot at Christmas 1975 and 1991, is the only record to have reached the top twice. "Mary's Boy Child" is the only song to be Christmas number one for two artists — Harry Belafonte in 1957 and Boney M. in 1978 — although "Do They Know It's Christmas?" has been Christmas number one for three generations of Band Aid. The original version of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" is the second bestselling single in UK history (behind "Candle in the Wind 1997" by Elton John), while "Bohemian Rhapsody" is third.

+YearPrimary ArtistSongWeeks atNo. 1 1952 "Here in My Heart"9 1953 "Answer Me"8 1954 "Let's Have Another Party"5 1955 "Christmas Alphabet"3 1956 "Just Walkin' in the Rain"7 1957 "Mary's Boy Child"7 1958 "It's Only Make Believe"5 1959 and the Checkmates"What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For? "6 1960 and the Shadows"I Love You"2 1961 "Moon River"2 1962 "Return to Sender"3 1963"I Want to Hold Your Hand"5 1964"I Feel Fine"5 1965"Day Tripper" / "We Can Work It Out"5 1966 "Green, Green Grass of Home"7 1967 "Hello, Goodbye"7 1968 "Lily the Pink"4 1969 "Two Little Boys"6 1970 "I Hear You Knocking"6 1971 "Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)"4 1972 "Long Haired Lover from Liverpool"5 1973 Slade"Merry Xmas Everybody"5 1974 Mud"Lonely This Christmas"4 1975 Queen"Bohemian Rhapsody"9 1976 "When a Child Is Born (Soleado)"3 1977 Wingsgroup=nb4 1989 Band Aid II"Do They Know It's Christmas? "3 1990 "Saviour's Day"1 1991 Queengroup=nb"He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"12013 "Skyscraper"12014 "Something I Need"12015 Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir "A Bridge over You" "Perfect"62018LadBaby "We Built This City"12019"I Love Sausage Rolls" 12020"Don't Stop Me Eatin' 12021"Sausage Rolls for Everyone" ft. Ed Sheeran and Elton John12022"Food Aid" 12023 Wham! "Last Christmas" 6