The charity campaigners, originally from Nottingham, now have more Christmas number ones than any other act in chart history
Speaking to the BBC, he added: "If there was anything important enough to take a record from the Beatles, it was to shine a light on 14 million people who are struggling.
Their latest cover featured money saving expert Martin Lewis, and a host of celebrity look-a-likes, including an "Adele", a "Paul McCartney" and a belligerent "Liam Gallagher".The success means that Do They Know It's Christmas, originally written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to combat the Ethiopian famine, is the only song ever to top the charts with five different recordings.
YouTube supergroup Sidemen, who had hoped to become the first drill act to top the festive chart, ended the week in third position. A political protest song about the Conservative government, the title of which is unprintable here, was a new entry at seven. Their stranglehold will continue in next week's chart, which will count streams from Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day, after which streams tend to drop off dramatically.
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