mixture of homeless charities and Justice for Kirsty, a campaign to find out the truth behind MacColl's death in 2000. Due to the eligibility of downloads to chart even without a physical release, coupled with a more recent further boost from streaming data, the song has re-entered the Top 75 every December since 2005. It has now made the Top 20 on nineteen separate occasions including eighteen times in successive years, and the Top 10 on ten separate occasions including individual runs of three and six successive years, feats that no other single can match. Its twenty visits to the chart to date now total 112 weeks on the official UK Top 75 (as of w/e 5 January 2023), making it the fourth most charted song of all time. In late 2012 it was declared a UK million-seller. The song is considerably less well known in the US. On 22 December 2005, the Pogues performed the song on a Friday Night with Jonathan Ross Christmas special on BBC One in the UK, with the female vocals taken by singer Katie Melua. Legacy "Fairytale of New York" was announced as The Nation's Favourite Christmas Song in a 90-minute special on ITV on 22 December 2012, following a UK-wide survey of ITV viewers. In the UK it is the most-played Christmas song of the 21st century. The song has featured in many UK and Ireland-based surveys and polls: Number 1 in the VH1 greatest Christmas song chart three years running, in 2004, 2005, and 2006. Number 11 in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Christmas Moments. Number 27 on VH1's Greatest Songs Never to Make Number One. Number 23 on VH1's greatest lyrics. Number 96 in Q magazine's 100 Greatest Songs Of All Time. Number 84 on BBC Radio 2's top 100 greatest songs of all time poll. Number 204 in NMEs 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The Music Factory poll in December 2008 which found that the song was the favourite Christmas song. The UK's second-favourite single to have missed the number 1 slot. RTÉ 2fm listeners voted it second on The Ultimate Irish Playlist. Topped a blinkbox poll for the UK's favourite Christmas song, with the 1980s also voted the best decade for Christmas music (the other 1980s songs in the top 10 were Wham!'s "Last Christmas", Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and Chris Rea's "Driving Home for Christmas").