"One I've Been Missing" is a song by British girl group Little Mix. It was released on November 22, 2019 by

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, as the group's first official Christmas single and later became a contender for the UK Christmas number-one single. It was co written by Little Mix member Leigh-Anne Pinnock alongside Jez Ashurst,

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, Sinéad Harnett, and Tre Jean-Marie. One I've been missing has been described as a

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inspired

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with a beautiful ode to festive love, with luscious harmonies. The song reached number four on the Belgium ( Ultratip Flanders) charts and at number fourteen in Sweden. It charted within the top twenty on the Euro Digital Song and New Zealand Hot Singles charts. It reached number fifty nine on the

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, and charted in Ireland, Scotland, and on the US Holiday Digital Songs Charts. It was later added onto the expanded edition of their sixth

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, '' Confetti'' as a bonus track.

Background

Although the song is the first Christmas-themed song by the group, they did release a "Christmas mix" of their 2015 single "

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" and have performed covers of Christmas songs, like "

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Promotion

Little Mix announced the song in a video posted to social media on 19 November 2019.

Track listing

Digital download and streaming # "One I've Been Missing" – 3:12 Digital download and streaming – acoustic # "One I've Been Missing" – 3:02 Streaming – ''One I've Been Missing – EP'' # "One I've Been Missing" – 3:12 # "One I've Been Missing" – 3:02

Charts

Release history

References

2019 singles 2019 songs Little Mix songs Songs written by Jez Ashurst Songs written by Tich (singer) Songs written by Tre Jean-Marie {{2019-single-stub