1993 in British music BBC One show "Noel's House Party", with "Mr. Blobby" (the first ever eponymously titled number 1 single). In the final week before Christmas, he was knocked off by Take That's "Babe", making Mr. Blobby the first one-week #1 since U2's "The Fly" in November 1991, and making Take That the first act to have three singles in a row all enter at #1. However, the following week (Christmas week) saw Mr. Blobby climb back up to the top, the first time this had happened since January 1969, and officially become this year's Christmas number 1. Take That's "Babe" became the
Mr Blobby single, and indeed, song, of all time. His 1995 track "Christmas in Blobbyland" (a number 36 UK entry) was voted the worst festive song ever by British Christmas shoppers in 2011 and 2015 polls, and was named in the "Metro" as the second-worst Christmas song of all time in 2013. "Mr Blobby: The Album" (1994) was voted the worst LP ever made in a 2016 listener survey. "The Sun" featured Blobby in a 2012 recounting of "The top 15 worst attempts at a pop career". Around Christmas 1993, retailers came out with many types of Mr Blobby merchandise. In addition