Here’s a quick stat for you: of all 62 of the UK’s Christmas number one singles, only 12 are explicitly about Christmas.

Now we don’t know about you, but that both shocked and appalled us. Furthermore we are personally holding Simon Cowell and (to a lesser extent) Mr Blobby responsible.

Simon Cowell lookalike
A lookalike portraying Simon Cowell ruining Christmas (Rui Vieira/PA)

In search of some solace, we decided to lower our expectations. What about the word Christmas? That has to crop up lots in those 12 festive tracks. Surely after all the silly little words are removed it becomes the most popular?  Unfortunately, we were mistaken…

Graphic showing most common words in Christmas number ones