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1984 – in December, Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas ... In turn, labels try to encourage sales of cassette singles by changing chart rules to allow them into the singles chart.

When it was released on December 7, 1984 it shot straight to No. 1 in the UK charts ... sales, resulting in the agreement for the government to donate the equivalent of the VAT on Band Aid sales ...