Stay Another Day band Maps covered the song and gave it away as a free mp3 download online. In 2003 at Keele University Students' Union, Chesney Hawkes and his band performed an (intentionally farcical) punk rock version of "Stay Another Day" in response to East 17 cancelling their appearance later in the night. The song was not performed in full as the band could not stop laughing when they tried to perform it. In 2012 metal band THE HELL covered the song as a Christmas single and is offered as a free download on their bandcamp account. In 2013, Bastille included it in
Christmas, with Love of 100,000 copies within four weeks of its release, and has since become the thirteenth best selling Christmas album in the United Kingdom as of December 2016. The album was preceded by one single "One More Sleep", which was released on 5 November 2013 and debuted at number 34 on the UK Charts. Lewis promoted the album through a large amount of live performances, including the Regent Street Christmas lights switch-on event in London, England and on the tenth series of "The X Factor"; this led to the song rising to number 3, which in turn made it Lewis' highest-charting