Timeless Christmas hit is the gift that keeps on giving for Wizzard

Research shows 97% of band’s streaming revenue comes from 1973 single I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

If you listen closely to the start of Wizzard’s yuletide standard I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday, you’ll hear the kerching of a cash register.

The sound might have been “a winning speck of cynicism in the tinselly facade” of 70s consumerism, according to the Guardian’s Alexis Petridis, but five decades on it has proved prophetic – the song accounts for nearly all of the band’s streams on Spotify.