"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 Leigh-Anne Pinnock (born 4 October 1991) is an English singer and actress. She rose to prominence as a member of the girl group Little Mix, which was formed and won the The X Factor (British series 8), eighth series of, ''The X Factor (British ...

alongside Jez Ashurst,

Rachel Furner Rachel Clare Furner (born 1 July 1992), known by her stage name Tich, is an English singer and songwriter signed to Universal Music Publishing. She originally performed as an artist under Tich and as Rachel Furner, signed to Mercury Records. ...

Sinéad Harnett Sinéad Monica Harnett (born 12 October 1989) is an English singer and songwriter of Irish and Thai descent. Early life Born to a Thai mother and an Irish father who separated when she was a toddler, Harnett was raised by her mother in Finchley ...

, and

Tre Jean-Marie Tre Jean-Marie (born 13 April 1993) is a British songwriter and record producer. His writing and production credits include AJ Tracey, Anne-Marie, Burna Boy, Craig David, FLO, Jacob Banks, Joy Crookes, Kaytranada, Labrinth, Little Mix, ...

. 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 (

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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 UK Singles Chart, 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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, ''

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'' 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 " Love Me Like You" 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