LadBaby beats Stormzy to achieve his second Christmas number one in a row with I Love Sausage Rolls

A little light relief from the serious business of elections, Brexit, rape gang trials and terrorist attacks (foiled or not) 

From the Metro

The Christmas number one for 2019 has been revealed – and for the second year in a row, we’ve all gone crazy for sausage rolls. LadBaby has managed to see off competition from Stormzy to achieve the Christmas number one with his festive track, I Love Sausage Rolls – a savoury take on Joan Jett’s I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll.

The YouTuber, real name Mark Hoyle, his wife Roxanne and their two sons Phoenix and Kobe scored a huge 93,000 chart sales – that 18,000 more than the 2018 Christmas number one from LadBaby, We Built This City (On Sausage Rolls). I missed that last year – I was somewhat distracted with other matters. 

While some may be a bit miffed that a song about sausage rolls has beat Stormzy (not me! – yippee) to the number one crown, it’s all for a fantastic cause. The Trussell Trust, who organise foodbanks but hope to eradicate their need in due course. 

I’m chuckling with joy at the video. A celebration of one of my favourite foods (pork sausage; only a bacon sandwich is above sausage in the heirarchy of English savoury snacks, in my opinion), a caper set in London, by people with my own accent. What’s not to like? But I expect some will have a moan. To which I say, shut yer cakehole (a sausage roll is just the right size)