Legacy
"Merry Xmas Everybody" is a perennial feature, and is played regularly at UK nightclubs around Christmas. It is included on numerous Christmas-themed compilation albums, and has been featured in several of Slade's subsequent compilation albums. Despite the song's popularity it became the band's last number-one hit. The song charted in every year in the early half of the 1980s, and again in 1998 and 2006-2011, and is a regular feature of television and radio playlists in the Christmas season. However, some venues have removed it from their Christmas playlist because it was overplayed, and became "irritating" to some people. Despite this negative response, Peter Buckley describes the song in The Rough Guide To Rock as "arguably the best Christmas single ever"; this opinion was reflected in a 2007 poll carried out by MSN Music, where it was voted the UK's most popular Christmas song.
It can be heard playing in the background during four episodes of the British television programme Doctor Who: "The Christmas Invasion" (2005) (where it is the song being played in Mickey Smith's garage), "The Runaway Bride" (2006) (in which it is the song that is being played at Donna Noble's first wedding reception; Donna and the Doctor end up arriving and cutting off the song after the first verse), "Turn Left" (2008) (where it is heard on a car radio), "The End of Time" (2009) and "The Power of Three" (2012).
Noddy Holder has referred to the song as his pension scheme, reflecting its continuing popularity. The song has been credited with popularizing the annual race for the UK Christmas Number One Single.
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