With the race for Christmas number one drawing to a close, the cult comedy band, The Kuntz, fronted by comedian Mike Gibbons, have entered the top ten with their track Boris Johnson Is A Fucking Cunt. The song was released in July along with the band’s album Kunts Punk In Your Face. The Kunts are priced at 8/1 by a number of bookmakers to grab the Christmas number one spot on Friday (December 25).
The song has already received praise from Black Mirror creator, Charlie Brooker, who said in October that the song was probably climbing the charts, especially hitting number 2 on the iTunes charts, because the music-buying public were responding to the UK government’s last-minute decision to scrap the proposed relaxation of coronavirus rules over the Christmas period and implement a new ‘Tier 4’ across London and the South East.
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The Official Charts Company have confirmed that as of the 22nd of December, the song is at Number Six and is the UK’s second most downloaded song of the week. The current Number One holder is LadBaby (YouTubers Mark and Roxanne Hoyle) with their song Don’t Stop Me Eatin’. If they keep their spot, this would be their third consecutive Christmas Number One. Mariah Carey‘s All I Want For Christmas is at Number Two in the latest update, while Wham!‘s Last Christmas is at Number Three.
Regardless of where the song places in the end, the song will not be played on BBC Radio 1 on Christmas day. During The Official Chart: First Look show on Sunday the 20th of December, presenter Katie Thistleton said that the song had “so many bad words in it, we can’t play it on daytime Radio 1.”
Boris Johnson Is A Fucking Cunt will certainly be Mike Gibbons’ most successful song to date. In 2010, his band Kunt And The Gang reached number 66 in the national charts at Christmas with another politically-themed single, Use My Arsehole as a Cunt (The Nick Clegg Story), while his 2011 single Fucksticks peaked at number 63.
Boris Johnson Is a Fucking Cunt is available on all streaming platforms, the UK Christmas Number One will be announced on Christmas Day.
