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, Christmas number ones are singles that are top of the

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in the week in which

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falls. The Irish Singles Chart was first published in 1962, and the first artist to top the chart at Christmas was

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with " Return to Sender". The following year,

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became the first Irish artist to claim top spot at Christmas with "No More". 2020 winner

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") is the first Irish national to achieve the feat since

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in 2005. The supergroup Band Aid, created by Irishman

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, is the only act to have been number one at Christmas three times, each time with " Do They Know It's Christmas?". Four more acts have held top spot twice:

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(both times with "

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"), the

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and

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. Many acts that have topped the Irish Singles Chart at Christmas have also topped the

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at the same time. From 2006 to 2013, every winner of the Irish Christmas number one came from the winning contestant of that year's series of the British reality contest ''

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''. Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars broke this streak in 2014 with their single "

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". Irish bands such as The Rubberbandits ("

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" in 2011) have contested for the honor during this time frame, but both fell well short.

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