Last Friday, the winner of the 2025 Christmas number one title was announced to be WHAM!’s “Last Christmas“, for the second year in a row. While, among the most popular songs of the week, Michael Buble has a few charting from his 2011 album titled “Christmas“. If Mariah Carey is the queen of Christmas, Buble might as well be the King of the December holidays. Despite Sabrina Carpenter’s “Short n Sweet” has claimed the number one position in this week’s albums chart, Buble’s “Christmas” is predicted to reach this Friday’s top spot on charts. Currently, the album is charting at number two.

“Christmas” was first released in 2011, and debuted on charts in its release year in early November. Quickly, the album and Buble himself became synonyms with Christmas: in the year of its debut, “Christmas” climbed charts peaking at number one for three non-consecutive weeks, including Christmas week, and stayed charting at the top spots of the UK charts for the months of December and November. Despite the acclaimed debut and the public’s love for the album, Michael Buble’s “Christmas” struggled to make its way into the top five for the years following its debut and never peaked at number one again until January of 2021.

In 2021, in fact, “Christmas” peaked at number one on the first week of January. But during the month of December of 2021, despite having achieved the top spot earlier in the year, “Christmas“‘s peak was only number three. But Buble would re-claim that number one position the following year, and the year after as well! In 2022 and 2023 Buble peaked again, for two consecutive years, at number one. And according to Official Charts, this year the same might happen!

Overall, Buble’s “Christmas” has spent six non-consecutive weeks at number one on UK charts. It is one of Buble’s five albums which have peaked at number one in the UK, and overall the Canadian-born artist has spent 559 weeks charting in the top albums. The album “Christmas” alone is responsible for 118 of those weeks, and possibly another one coming this Friday!

Despite the success reached with his albums, Buble has still to get a UK top one song. Despite his Christmas albums is always one of the most played of the year, it has never granted Buble a number one hit song. Instead, the artist has three UK top tens, and 18 songs in the wider top 75.

In the past couple years, every time Buble would claim the number one spot it would be the week right after Christmas, is this year going to be the same? Will “Christmas” reclaim that number one spot that it has yet to achieve this year?

Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” came back to the number one spot on charts last week, after the release of its extended version “The Anthology” on physical copies. It is the album’s tenth week at number one in the UK, and it marks Taylor Swift’s twelfth album at number one and thirtieth week at the top position. With “The Tortured Poets Departments: The Anthology” Swift made a career-marking album, which has broken records worldwide and quickly became a fan favourite.

Right after Swift, Sabrina Carpenter is still topping charts with her album “Short n Sweet”, currently on its sixteenth week in the top ten. The album previously peaked at number one on its debut week, and its singles made Carpenter this year’s charts queen. Ever since the album was released, it charted on the UK’s top three. “Short n Sweet” made Carpenter one of the biggest artists of the year, and perhaps of the decade. She will be headlining BST Hyde Park next summer, after her sold-out tour which will take her around the UK.

Michael Buble’s “Christmas” is currently at number three, but it’s likely that it will climb charts in the next couple weeks over Christmas. The album, originally released in 2011, is on its 117^th week on the UK’s top ten. It achieved the number one position various times in the past, spending six weeks at the top spot of charts in total. Buble’s climb is almost a yearly tradition, and the album has managed to make its way to the charts’ top ten every year since its release, achieving the number one in 2011, 2020, 2022 and 2023.

Rose’s album “Rosie”, released earlier this month, has climbed its way to number four on UK charts. One of the previously released singles, “APT”, in collaboration with Bruno Mars, has topped the songs charts for the past couple of weeks, becoming a worldwide hit. This is the album’s debut week on UK charts, but with the popularity of its singles it is likely that “Rosie” is here to stay.

At number five, Sabrina Carpenter debuts on charts with “Fruitcake”, a Christmas album originally released last year which is gaining popularity this year after Carpenter released her Christmas Special “A Nonsense Christmas” on Netflix, earlier this month. The album contains some new Christmas-themed songs, as well as some covers of all time Christmas classics.

Up next on the UK’s albums chart is Chappell Roan with “The Rise and Fall of a Midwestern Princess”, on its 35^th week charting, followed by Charli xcx’s “Brat”, Kendrick Lamar’s “GNX”, Billie Eilish’s “Hit Me Hard and Soft” and at number ten, The Weeknd’s “The Highlights”.

As reported in The Metro, Gary said, “I am so excited to host this music special. During a tumultuous time for the whole country, it feels amazing to be able to put on a proper night of entertainment at one of the most exciting locations in London and featuring some amazing guests and musicians. It’s going to be a very special evening and even though we are staying inside at the moment, let’s get our glad rags on and make believe we’re heading out for the night.”

This will be the first time that Gary has starred and hosted his own show on Television. Gary began his primetime TV career on ‘The X Factor’ where he was a head judge for 3 years. He then started his own talent show on BBC1, ‘Let It Shine,’ where Gary and his band members of Take That were on a quest to find a cast for their West End Musical in 2017.

Katie Rawcliffe, ITV’s Head of Entertainment Commissioning commented in an ITV press release, “We are thrilled to be working alongside the super talented Gary Barlow on what will be a wonderfully unique and exciting event giving ITV viewers the chance to sit back and enjoy some brilliant music from some of the biggest stars.”

During Lockdown, Gary previously recorded ‘The Crooner Sessions’ on his social media accounts to keep us entertained. They included duets with other talented artists such as Becky Hill, Paloma Faith, Chris Martin and former bandmate Robbie Williams. Gary always has a project or something new and innovative that he is working on.

The List Magazine noted Gary to of said, “I’m a nightmare husband. I’m just so … driven.  I always need to be doing something, planning something, putting ‘just one more project’ in the diary. I don’t stop. I can laugh about it now, but I’m also a dreadful person to be in a band with.”

He continued by speaking about his relationship to his wife Dawn who he married in the year 2000 and said “In fact, you really don’t want to be near me at all. I’m a dreadful pain…I’m difficult. Dawn is extremely laid back, whereas I’m not at all. She has zero interest in a celebrity lifestyle, going out, having her photo taken. She would absolutely hate to do what I do, and we’ve definitely had our ups and downs, but the simple fact of why we are together is because we love each other.”

Although ITV have yet to confirm the date for his performance, this is going to be a one off music special at a magnificent London venue of dinosaur fossils and relics, with everyone having their own front row seat to the event.

Buble said he and his wife, Luisiana Lopilato, had put their careers on hold in order to devote their time to taking care of their little boy. The ‘Haven’t Met You Yet’ singer has cancelled his forthcoming appearance at the annual event, held in London on December 12, in order to be with his three-year-old boy Noah and his family following the announcement that the toddler is battling the disease. The Canadian singer was due to perform at the awards at the ExCel London on December 12 alongside Kaiser Chiefs, Emeli Sande and Lukas Graham.

Buble and his wife of five years, Luisana, made the announcement about their elder son Noah’s health on the singer’s Facebook page. They said: “We are devastated about the recent cancer diagnosis of our oldest son Noah who is currently undergoing treatment in the US. We have always been very vocal about the importance of family and the love we have for our children. Luisana and I have put our careers on hold in order to devote all our time and attention to helping Noah get well.

“We have a long journey in front of us and hope that with the support of family, friends and fans around the world, we will win this battle, God willing.”

As well as the BBC Music Awards, Buble is set to host the Brit Awards in London on 22 February (17) and the Juno Awards on 2 April (17). Currently, he is still billed to appear at both.

BBC Music Director Bob Shennan said: “We send Michael and his family our very best wishes.”

According to the Daily Mail, during a recent appearance on ITV’s Loose Women, Buble praised his children for giving him ‘perspective’ and said that he was unaware how much he would enjoy being a father. He said: “The only regret that I have in my life is that I took this long to have kids, because I had no idea the perspective it would give me.

“I had no idea how much I would love being a dad. That’s it, that’s all I care about… I love them too much probably, if there was such a thing.

“It’s made everything else so insignificant, moments that I was afraid of and moments that would overwhelm me have now become a joy because I’ve realised how not serious they are compared to what is really important, which is Noah and Eli and that’s it.”

The news comes among a huge change by Brits bosses, and this news is set to see a worldwide audience tuning in.

The Canadian singer told the BBC “I belong to the UK. They made me, so to be honoured by being asked to do something like the Brits, it’s a privilege, it really is.” Buble himself has been nominated for a Brit three times, but is yet to pick up an award, although in the past he has won many Grammy and Juno awards.

The awards, known as the biggest night of the UK music scene, usually take place in February and have been running for an impressive 40 years. British stars usually host the event, although in the past Kylie Minogue and Ru Paul have been among the presenters.

Brits boss and Sony Music chairman Jason Iley said to the BBC: “This is a huge coup for the Brit Awards and we are delighted to announce Michael as our host for 2017. He is an extremely talented and charismatic world-class entertainer, much loved by the British public. Michael will add an exciting element to our show in 2017.”

For the first time, the 2017 nominations for the awards will be revealed on January 14 live on a prime-time ITV Saturday evening slot, with special performances from big names throughout. One of the awards – Brits Icon – has been announced already, with Robbie Williams taking the title.