One More Sleep
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| Single by Leona Lewis | ||||
| from the album Christmas, with Love | ||||
| Released | 5 November 2013 | |||
| Recorded | 2013 | |||
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| Genre | Christmas | |||
| Length | 3:59 | |||
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"One More Sleep" is a song recorded by British singer Leona Lewis. It was released as the lead single from her first Christmas album and fourth studio album, Christmas, with Love (2013), on 5 November 2013 through RCA Records and Syco Music. The song was written by Lewis in collaboration with Richard "Biff" Stannard, Iain James, Jez Ashurst and Bradford Ellis, and was produced by Richard "Biff" Stannard. "One More Sleep" is a Motown-inspired christmas song, which lyrically consists of Lewis counting down the days until she can be with her lover on Christmas day. The track garnered critical acclaim, with many critics considering it to be one of the best Christmas songs of all time. In 2025, Billboard ranked "One More Sleep" 12th on their "Best New Christmas Songs of the 21st Century" list.
Commercially, "One More Sleep" achieved success, reaching number three on both the UK Singles Chart and Scottish Singles Chart in December 2013. It has appeared on the UK Singles Chart every year since its release. The song has been certified triple platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), denoting sales of 1.8 million copies in the country. Elsewhere, the track has placed on numerous record charts worldwide, reaching the top twenty in Ireland, and the top sixty in the Netherlands and Switzerland; additionally it has been certified Gold in Denmark and New Zealand, respectively. In 2025, the Official Charts Company named "One More Sleep" as the biggest Christmas song released in the 21st Century in the UK, with the track garnering over 190 million streams. Additionally, that same year the song was announced by the Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) as being the most played modern Christmas track on UK radio stations.
Lewis' promoted "One More Sleep" through televised performances on shows including the season finales of both The X Factor UK and The X Factor US, and at the 81st Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony in New York, in December 2013. Most recently, she performed the song as part of her Las Vegas residency, A Starry Night, between 2025 and 2026.