With Christmas around the corner, the bookies have Ben Haenow as favourite for the UK Christmas number one, he'd be the 7th X Factor winner, in the past decade, to take this accolade. But in terms of Christmas power, Sir Paul McCartney is blazing ahead; he has performed on an incredible 8 Christmas number ones (Wings, Band Aid, Band Aid 20, Justice Collective and 4 with the Beatles).

Explore the vis and cringe when you remember that 'we' voted Mr Blobby to number one in 1993. Pat on the back for readers who helped Rage Against the Machine to number 1 in 2009, scuppering another X Factor win.

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