Race for Christmas No.1 hots up

Once they heard what Bieber has done, the NHS choir and the charities that will benefit from sales of “A Bridge Over You” tweeted messages of gratitude to the singer.

However, Bieber has shown his charitable side as he pleaded with his followers to back the charity single.

The song was actually first released in 2013 but a campaign to get it to this year’s Christmas number one was started in October.

Speaking on Thursday’s Christmas Eve edition of Good Morning Britain, the 48-year-old host controversially questioned Justin’s motives in kindheartedly supporting the track.

A staff choir based in London recorded a mashup of Coldplay’s Fix You and Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water in response to on-going negotiations south of the border to doctors’ working hours.

However no new figures can be let go until the announcement of the end result itself just before 1pm tomorrow on BBC Radio 1.

A former JFS pupil is spearheading the campaign that could see an NHS choir beat Justin Bieber to the coveted Christmas number one.

He wrote: ‘I’m hearing this UK Christmas race is close…but the @Choir_NHS single is for charity.

The single is available to download from iTunes and other online retailers now, and the Twitter hashtags are #NHS4XmasNo1 and #loveyourNHS. It’s a charity single by an NHS Trust choir.

This year’s X Factor champion Louisa Johnson’s Bob Dylan cover Forever Young entered the charts last week at No 9, selling just 39,000 copies.

This comes after it was revealed the NHS Choir were just 662 sales behind Bieber.

Justin Bieber is leading the top 10 position now.

Biebs is now in the lead, but it could still go either way in what’s being described as the closest battle since Rage Against The Machine went up against the X Factor in 2009.