Lewis Capaldi may be the bookies favourite to snag that long-coveted Christmas number one, but that hasn't stopped him from feeling a healthy rivalry with one festive music legend.
In recent years, Michael Bublé has been the undisputed king of Christmas songs and Lewis has joked he's "looking for" the Canadian crooner who may stop his new single 'Pointless' from making it to the top of the charts.
'Pointless' is currently number one on the Big Top 40, which takes into account radio airplay, but only number 20 on the Official Singles Chart, behind Bublé at number 10 and Mariah Carey at number one, the Daily Record reports.
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With a jokey pop at Michael Bublé, the Forget Me singer has admitted he thinks Christmas may not be the best time to release new singles.
Lewis, 26, said: "My a*** is being handed to me in the charts at the minute by Christmas music. Which I'm all for but if anyone sees Michael Bublé, tell him I'm looking for him."
He was performing at Capital FM's Jingle Bell Ball, when he made the comments.
Lewis also had a joke at fans' expense, pretending he would be joined on stage by surprise guest Ed Sheeran, who co-wrote 'Pointless'.
Lewis joked: "This next song we are going to sing is one that I only released last week, and I wrote it with a very dear friend of mine.
"Ladies and gentlemen, Ed Sheeran," while the audience erupted into applause believing that the Bad Habits singer was going to appear on stage, Capaldi then quipped: "He's not here. He's not coming.
"He's not here at all. He's too busy. I asked him, I said 'Ed please' and he said 'Who is this? Stop calling me', so that's unfortunate. So no Ed, but I did write it with Ed, Johnny McDaid and Steve Mac.
"It's out now. Go listen to it if you want."
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