Maybe because of the state of the charts they would be played until September next year, but I really miss these heartwarming winter ballads. Let me know if I've missed any.

Steps - Heartbeat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq7iQPbiq1Y

Spice Girls - 2 Become 1 / Too Much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4VoZ6afztc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA5jsa1lR9c

B*witched - To You I Belong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8fdbAEag5c

East 17 - Stay Another Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mg7ok8dmDU

Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman - Something Stupid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f43nR8Wu_1Y

Martine Mcutcheon - Perfect Moment / I've Got You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG16jv-itYw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFEmCcGwFhk


Even the Vengaboys had a stab at it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3B9H9WRb4k

I think someone should do a good cover of this
https://youtu.be/Jj5vagsGC38?t=39s

Even god awful creations like Mr Blobby injected some fun and warm festiveness into the charts. Didn't he beat Take That?

Heart or Magic I think.

Kate Winslet - What If (I had never let you go)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vId_4r925o

The Vengaboys and their Vengabus, weren't they excellent?

How could I forget about Never had a Dream Come True (S Club 7)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB9_sf6oV1o

look at that, I often tell kids today that even our shit music was much better than your shit music

Where did it all go wrong?

Isn't that from Xanadu? Good sountrack.

No sense of irony any more.

Last Christmas

Its been wrong for a long time.

you could have a Buddhist festive video instead
(6 million views, but not for everyone)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo4hXkdLlV4

I'm reminded that Luke Haines' band the Auteurs deliberately released the gloomy "Unsolved Child Murder" as an antidote to all the cheerful Xmas time songs . "UCM" did not chart:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A4EAjPUZQM

When the price of a CD single went through the roof but the allocated running time to be chart qualifiable was heavily reduced.

1997 = CD single £1.99 for six tracks. Radio edit and 5 remixes.

2002 = CD single £3.99 for three tracks. Radio edit and 2 remixes. FML!!!

This is what happens when record companies get greedy. And people wonder why illegal downloads took over the internet. Hmmm!!!!!

Geri Halliwell - Beautiful Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5O6mxKGZN0

I miss CD singles, though some of them were over 40 minutes long.

Never bothered with downloads.

Wasn't "Another Brick in the Wall" an Xmas #1 ?