. "Merry Xmas Everybody" . . "Jim Lea (musician)" . . . "303017"^^ . "1973 singles" . . "Gramophone record" . . . "Chas Chandler" . "%22Merry Xmas Everybody%22 is a 1973 song by the English rock band Slade. Written by lead vocalist and guitarist Noddy Holder and bassist Jim Lea, and produced by Chas Chandler, it was the band's sixth number-one single in the UK. It earned the UK Christmas Number One slot in December 1973, beating another Christmas-themed song, Wizzard's %22I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday%22, which reached fourth place. By mid-January it was still at number one; it stayed in the UK Singles Chart well into February 1974.Based on melodies from discarded songs written six years before, %22Merry Xmas Everybody%22 was Slade's best-selling single, released at the peak of their popularity, and sold over a million copies upon its first release. It is Slade's last number-one single, and by far their most successful. It has been released during every decade since 1973, and has been covered by numerous artists. In a 2007 poll, %22Merry Xmas Everybody%22 was voted the UK's most popular Christmas song.According to the Fan Club Newsletter for January and February 1974, the song was rewarded a Silver Disc for pre-order sales, even before the single's release. Within the first week of release, the single had sold 500,000 copies. Also, according to the same newsletter, %22Merry Xmas Everybody%22 was in such big demand that Polydor records had to make special arrangements to have 250,000 discs sent from Los Angeles, as well as 30,000 copies a day they were receiving from Germany.The single was certified UK Platinum by BPI in December 1980. Since 2007 and the advent of downloads counting toward the UK Singles Chart, it has re-entered the charts each December. Therefore, it has sold 1.21 million copies in the UK as of December 2012.On 8 December 2013 it re-entered the UK Singles Charts, at number 57." . "Songs written by Jim Lea" . . "false"^^ . "Polydor Records" . "true"^^ . "Song recordings produced by Chas Chandler" . "UK Singles Chart number-one singles" . "907513" . "204000.0"^^ . "15"^^ . . "Merry Xmas Everybody" . "2"^^ . "false"^^ . . "TRNSUBY128F423C091" . . "July 1973" . "2007-11-12"^^ . . "english" . "-0.00475206"^^ . "Noddy Holder" . "Slade songs" . "2006 singles" . "Irish Singles Chart number-one singles" . "1973-12-07"^^ . . "Song recordings produced by Xenomania" . "-0.00537425"^^ . . "1973 songs" . "1523" . "Songs written by Noddy Holder" . "5714dee425ac0d8aee5170b9" . "1998 singles" . "Christmas songs" . "-8.9"^^ . "1d395258-ddc8-4ee5-9c8a-cb86c4fe386b" . "129.0"^^ . "GBAKW7301006" .