UK’s Christmas No. 1 goes to charity song, not Justin Bieber

Bieber’s Love Yourself has already occupied number one for quite a while, but the NHS Choir has gained quite a following and the race for the top spot promises to be a close one.

Following a week-long head-to-head, the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS choir’s charity single, A Bridge Over You, finished the chart race with almost 31,000 sales ahead of the multimillion selling popstar. Prodeeds from the song go to health charities including Carers UK and Mind, according to the Guardian.

The NHS, founded in 1948, is a source of national pride for many Britons. Let s do the right thing & help them win.

“I can’t believe we’re actually in the charts competing for number one”.

The Canadian pop star’s “Love Yourself'” was inching ahead in sales but then Bieber offered his own Christmas gift to the NHS Choir.

And the National Health Service is a widely accepted institution, depended upon by tens of millions in both the United Kingdom and in Canada, where Bieber was born.

Harriet Nerva, a junior doctor at Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridge, started the campaign with two others as a celebration of the NHS’ work despite not knowing any of the staff involved in the single Bridge Over You.

In a statement to the official Charts Company, the Choir said: ‘We are absolutely overwhelmed and couldn’t be any happier!

His request was retweeted almost sixty thousand times and it seems like Beliebers agreed to help out because just hours later, the choir overtook Bieber’s single. A massive cheer for the NHS, thank you!’ “There couldn’t be a more deserving group of winners”.

Even though Bieber lost out on the No 1 spot in the singles chart, he still has three songs in the top five: Love Yourself in the second spot, Sorry at the third and What Do You Mean at the fifth.

Meanwhile, Adele’s album 25 remains top of the album chart for the fifth week running. Bieber’s objective rose 4-3, trading places with Coldplay’s A Head Full Of Dreams (Parlophone/Warner Music), as Jess Glynne’s I Cry When I Laugh (Atlantic/Warner) held at No. 5 again.