LadBaby have claimed the top spot for this years Christmas number one, with the track ‘We Built This City’, beating Ava Max and Ariana Grande to the top spot. LadBaby, have confirmed that they will be giving all the profits from the sales to, food bank charity, The Trussell Trust.
The 31-year-old YouTuber and dad blogger, Mark Hoyle plus his wife Roxanne and their two sons, recorded their own version of Starship’s 1985 hit, ‘We Built This City’, as an ode to sausage rolls (rather than rock and roll). Proceeds from the single will be going to foodbank charity, The Trussell Trust.
Speaking about the news, LadBaby said: “Thank you everybody in the UK who has got a sausage roll to the top. I can’t thank you enough not only for downloading the song but for raising money for such an incredible charity. I’m honestly speechless and lost for words. Thank you so much. YES MAAATE!”
LadBaby’s, ‘We Built This City’ sold 75,000 combined sales this week to take the top spot, and despite an extremely close race all week, finishes 18,500 ahead of his closest competition, US singer Ava Max and her track ‘Sweet But Psycho’, after a last-minute push. Out of the total sales, 93% were downloads, with the remainder made up from audio and video streams.
‘We Built This City’ is also the first novelty song to claim the festive top spot in 18 years, since Bob The Builder’s Can We Fix It? in 2000. After leading the way at the midweek stage, US singer Ava Max’s Sweet But Psycho has to settle for number 2. Meanwhile last week’s chart-topper ‘THANK U, NEXT’ by Ariana Grande is at number 3.
Martin Talbot, Official Charts chief executive, said: “It is a truly fantastic achievement by LadBaby to claim the 2018 Official Christmas Number 1, in what has been an incredibly competitive race against two massive hits of the moment. In doing so, he has also shown once again the enduring power of campaign singles, especially at this time of year. The success is tribute to the huge effort put into the campaign by LadBaby himself, plus all of his supporters – and, in raising money for the Trussell Trust, is very much in the spirit of Christmas.”
