Aside from wondering which of your relatives you'll end up punching over dinner or who actually knocked Mary up instead of God, the biggest annual Christmas mystery is who'll be Christmas number one.
Well, whoever wins X Factor, obviously. The X Factor winner could fart in a metal dustbin and it'd be the Christmas number one these days – but who'll be the 2007 Christmas number one not including the X Factor winner? That's what we're going to spend the first half of this week looking at, and you'd better appreciate it because listening to some of the awful Christmas number one contenders this year has been worse spending a year trapped in a collapsed mine eating our poo for sustenance, and that's a stone-cold fact.
So who'll be Christmas number one this year? Here are the Christmas number one betting odds for Shaun The Sheep, Mariah Carey and Girls Aloud, with help from Paddy Power…
