'Every year, Heart listeners get in touch earlier and earlier to request their favourite festive tunes, so we wanted to get into the Christmas spirit here at Heart Xmas with three full months of non-stop festive feel good!”ĭue to the growing popularity of Heart Xmas every year, the seasonal spin off station will be available on digital radio across the UK in 2022 meaning Christmas fans can tune in from wherever they are in the UK on DAB as well as Global Player, bringing even wider coverage. Listeners can expect nothing but the biggest and best Christmas songs of all time, non-stop, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’, Wham!’s ‘Last Christmas’, Chris Rea’s ‘Driving Home For Christmas’ and Band Aid’s ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’Īndy Everett, Managing Editor of Heart, said: “This year we’ve decided to bring back our much-loved festive station, Heart Xmas, earlier than ever before. This year, the much-loved station is switching on earlier than ever before - a total of 97 days before Christmas - bringing listeners the ultimate seasonal soundtrack for the festive countdown. More babies will be born on September 26 than any other day this year for two reasons.

Money expert shares top budgeting tips for Christmas with less than 100 days to go.Summer is barely over and autumn has only just begun, but this new station will be blasting out all hits from The Pogues, Slade and Wham! so die-hard Christmas fans can get into the spirit. That's right, Heart Xmas will be dedicated to Christmas music 24/7 as it launches across the UK today, Friday September 23, more than three months before the big day. Christmas has come early, as a new radio station is playing non-stop festive hits all day, every day until December 25.

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