{"id":340141,"date":"2025-12-29T00:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T00:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/340141\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T00:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T00:48:08","slug":"who-will-take-home-the-first-new-number-1-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/340141\/","title":{"rendered":"Who will take home the first new Number 1 of 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Staying strong during the Christmas period within the Top 40, the record-breaking track is looking to take back its rightful throne.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

However,\u00a0even though\u00a0the holidays may be over, your\u00a02025\u00a0Christmas Number 1\u00a0XMAS<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0Kylie Minogue<\/a>\u00a0isn\u2019t\u00a0letting Taylor win that easily, sitting closely behind at Number 2.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

But can\u00a0RAYE<\/a>\u00a0finally take\u00a0WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!<\/a>\u00a0to the top for the very first time after\u00a0falling agonisingly short of the summit\u00a0on\u00a0multiple occasions? (3).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dave<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Tems<\/a>\u00a0could find\u00a0Raindance<\/a>\u00a0shooting back into the Top 5 and equal its highest charting position so far (5).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Gwen Stefani<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0Shake\u00a0the\u00a0Snow Globe<\/a>\u00a0has seen a huge surge in popularity lately\u00a0with that trend continuing as the song tracks to make its debut inside the Top 10 (8).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

I Run<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0HAVEN. featuring Kaitlin Aragon<\/a>\u00a0could score a new personal best peak (13).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Zara\u00a0Larsson<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Lush Life<\/a>\u00a0has experienced an online resurgence recently\u00a0and\u00a0is on course to\u00a0attain\u00a0its best charting position since June 2016 (22).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

And\u00a0finally,\u00a0Tyla<\/a>\u2019s tune\u00a0CHANEL<\/a>\u00a0which has topped the\u00a0Official Afrobeats Chart<\/a>\u00a0for eight consecutive weeks may make its maiden Top 40 appearance (35).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Staying strong during the Christmas period within the Top 40, the record-breaking track is looking to take back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,74743,50,67474,10568,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-340141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-kylie-minogue","tag-news","tag-raye","tag-taylor-swift","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}