Taylor Swift and Katy Perry are up against Ladbaby’s charity novelty song for top Christmas song
With nearly half a million YouTube views, UK star Ladbaby could smash the pop star competition for top Christmas song with his hilarious ‘I Love Sausage Rolls’ parody.
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Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and Robbie Williams are among dozens of artists this year to snub the music industry grinches who insist no one wants to hear new Christmas songs.
All the pop stars in the world could be trumped in their quest to claim some Christmas chart-topping cheer by a most unlikely contender, a British YouTube hero called Ladbaby.
Williams has already emphatically proven wrong the Bah-humbug prophecies of executive Scrooges with his The Christmas Present collection claiming No. 1 in Australia and the UK.
The video for Swift’s cutesy wintry anthem Christmas Tree Farm has more than seven million vies on YouTube, while Katy Perry’s Cozy Little Christmas clip has been watched more than nine million times since its release earlier this month.
Mariah Carey’s perennial silly season fave All I Want For Christmas remains the song to beat and is currently being streamed more than 120,000 times a day in Australia throughout December with that figure expected to double by the time Santa has harnessed the reindeer.
But within hours of its release on Friday morning, Ladbaby’s novelty song I Love Sausage Rolls, written to the tune of Joan Jett’s monster hit I Love Rock’n’Roll, has debuted straight at the top of the iTunes download charts in Australia.
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That was a huge WTF moment. Ladbaby is shooting for the prized UK Christmas No. 1 chart, not the Australian ARIA chart.
Ladbaby, known as Mark Hoyle to his wife Roxanne and their two sons Phoenix and Kobe, has built a huge online following with his hilarious parenting videos.
He and the family decided last year to record a parody of the Starship’s much-maligned single We Built This City (On Sausage Rolls) to raise money for a pantry charity feeding needy families in the UK. It went to No. 1 in the UK and reached the top 40 of Australia’s digital track chart.
Fans begged him to do it again this year and he came up with I Love Sausage Rolls, a song whose Christmas vibe is mostly limited to the sleigh bells intro.
Yet like all great novelty songs launched with charitable intentions, everyone is rallying behind the Hoyle family’s efforts to raise even more money to feed people.
If you are looking to add some new stuff to your old Michael Buble, Ariana Grande, Wham, Bing Crosby, The Pogues, John Lennon, Andy Williams and Brenda Lee old stuff for the 2019 Christmas playlist, here’s some suggestions.
1. I Love Sausage Rolls, Ladbaby. The earworm you didn’t know you needed. And it will feed people.
2. Christmas Tree Farm, Taylor Swift. Lush orchestral song reminiscent of ye olde Christmas standards.
3. Cozy Little Christmas, Katy Perry. Channelling Mariah Carey, Perry steams up the Christmas market with her cheeky massage scene.
4. Like It’s Christmas, Jonas Brothers. Handclaps swapped in for the sleigh bells in this harmony-laden festive pop rocker.
5. Make It To Christmas, Alessia Cara. A plea to keep a relationship on track at the happiest time of the year.
6. Giving In The Name Of, Furnace and The Fundamentals. “But did you get what I wrote ya?” shout the Sydney rockers. The video is everything.
7. New Axe, Jack Johnson. A cruisy acoustic ditty about chopping up firewood to keep the family warm which may not translate down under but it’s a good one to keep everyone chilled during the afternoon food coma.
8. Christmas Is Annoying, Keb Mo. This isn’t the Grinch soundtrack you’d think. It’s a bluesy swinger of a song about how the silly season was awesome when you were a kid but not so much once you get grown up.
9. Bad Sharon, Robbie Williams. Featuring boxing champion Tyson Fury, this track “celebrates” the old school office party before they became HR hazards.
10. Sugar and Booze, Ana Gasteyer. A brilliant swing tune from the Saturday Night Live comedian which gets to the point of the silly season.
Originally published as Taylor Swift and Katy Perry are up against Ladbaby’s charity novelty song for top Christmas song