Sentence examples for festive chart from inspiring English sources

Jamie Oliver is celebrating a third successive year with the best-selling Christmas book after his 15-Minute Meals title again topped the festive chart.

Though Cowell will be feeling smug as he suns himself in Barbados, the real winners of this year's festive chart race are arguably a middle-ranking Scottish indie band who found themselves taking up two positions in the top 10.

Other contenders for this year's festive chart include X Factor winners Rak-Su, whose debut single Dimelo entered the top 40 at number two in this week's countdown.

Twelve months ago, the chances of another Need For Speed festive chart-topper seemed incredibly remote.

Croydon Grime MC Stormzy is now a contender to score an unlikely festive chart-topper with "Shut Up".

Bookies had all but written off the chances of an X Factor festive chart-topper, and instead installed the Hillsborough charity single as the favourite.

alexdaymusic.com Finest hour: Festive chart-busting Many of Twitter's most-followed musicians don't actually tweet themselves, leaving their record labels to post news and buy links.

It's exactly the kind of novelty song the festive charts were once famed for.

Doctor Who, which topped the festive iPlayer charts for the last two years, slipped to ninth spot with 1m requests during a nine-day period over Christmas, according to figures published by the BBC on Wednesday.

At number three, the UK chart gets a festive makeover with Christmas with the Kranks, a comedy starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Tim Allen as an American suburban couple who decide to celebrate Christmas at home despite booking a holiday in the sun.

Where once Phil Spector and the Beatles made respectable festive bonbons, these days the charts are clucking with musical turkeys.