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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.
In February 2013, a representative from Syco Music, Lewis' record label, announced that she was about to start writing and recording material "imminently" for her fourth studio album, and that it would be released in late 2013. The news came after Lewis announced that she had parted ways from Modest! Management, the management team who had represented her since she won the third series of The X Factor in 2006. Various media outlets speculated that this was due to the weak commercial performance of her third studio album, Glassheart, which was released in November 2012. It became her first album to not debut at number one or earn platinum certification in the United Kingdom. It was also reported that the second single from the album, "Lovebird", had sold fewer than 600 copies, meaning that it failed to attain one of 200 chart positions on the UK Singles Chart, and this was another contributing factor to her departure.
In June 2013, speculation arose that Lewis' fourth album would in fact be a Christmas album, after British production duo MagicIT tweeted that they were in a studio recording Christmas songs with the singer. The following month, Lewis confirmed that she was indeed in the process of recording a Christmas album. She revealed that it was recorded on the recommendation of Syco boss Simon Cowell. Speaking in July 2013 about the decision to record a Christmas album at this point in her career, Lewis further explained how Cowell had come up with the idea: "Simon is still very much involved in my career and helps me out. He came up with the Christmas album idea, and we both kind of felt it was the right time to go ahead with it."
On 24 October 2013, Lewis unveiled "One More Sleep" as the album's lead single, and she released the single cover artwork a week later, on 31 October. The artwork is a head shot of Lewis holding a red bow over her left eye. The song was released as a digital download in the United States on 5 November through RCA Records, Ireland, Italy and Switzerland through Sony Music Entertainment and the United Kingdom through Syco Music on 29 November, and multiple other European countries on 2 December, including France and Spain. Lewis uploaded a Cahill remix of the song to her official SoundCloud account on 21 November 2013.
"One More Sleep" was co-written by Lewis in collaboration with Richard "Biff" Stannard, Iain James, Jez Ashurst and Bradford Ellis. Stannard and Ash Howes produced the song, while they and Lewis carried out the vocal production. It was recorded by Biffco and mixed by Howes at Biffco Studios, Brighton, and Angel Recording Studios, London. The song utilised a multitude of instrumentalists: Keys and programming were performed by Ashurst, Stannard and Howes; Celli by Nick Holland; drums by Freddy Sheed and bass by Knight Time Horns; trombone by Barnaby Dickinson and trumpet by Graeme Flowers; James Knight performed the saxophone; strings were led by Rolf Wilson, arranged and conducted by Cliff Masterson and booked by Roz Colls; Rolf Wilson, Simon Baggs, Steve Morris, Julian Leaper, Tom Piggot Smith, Richard George, Jonathan Hill, Laura Bruce White, Tim Grant, Reiad Chibah performed the violins; and violas by Greg Walmsley, Nerys Richards. Background vocals were sung by Katie Holmes, Kelli-Leigh Henry-Davila and Bianca Claxton, while Choir vocals were performed by Diva singers, who were arranged and conducted by Masterson.
"One More Sleep" is a Motown inspired song which lasts for a duration of 3:59. The hook consists of a Christmas countdown, whereby Lewis sings "Cause I got five more nights of sleeping on my own/ Four more days until you’re coming home/ Three more dreams of you and mistletoe/ Two more reasons why I love you so." Lewis "trills" the lyrics "I've got five more nights of sleeping on my own/ Four more days until you're coming home" over the Motown inspired beat of xylophone phones and jingle bells. Waiting the return of her partner to come home on Christmas Day, Lewis adopts an "angelic tone" as she sings "Three more dreams of you and mistletoe/ Two more reasons why I love you so." Popjustice praised the "5-4-3-2-1 device", calling it "excellent."
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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.
In February 2013, a representative from Syco Music, Lewis' record label, announced that she was about to start writing and recording material "imminently" for her fourth studio album, and that it would be released in late 2013. The news came after Lewis announced that she had parted ways from Modest! Management, the management team who had represented her since she won the third series of The X Factor in 2006. Various media outlets speculated that this was due to the weak commercial performance of her third studio album, Glassheart, which was released in November 2012. It became her first album to not debut at number one or earn platinum certification in the United Kingdom. It was also reported that the second single from the album, "Lovebird", had sold fewer than 600 copies, meaning that it failed to attain one of 200 chart positions on the UK Singles Chart, and this was another contributing factor to her departure.
In June 2013, speculation arose that Lewis' fourth album would in fact be a Christmas album, after British production duo MagicIT tweeted that they were in a studio recording Christmas songs with the singer. The following month, Lewis confirmed that she was indeed in the process of recording a Christmas album. She revealed that it was recorded on the recommendation of Syco boss Simon Cowell. Speaking in July 2013 about the decision to record a Christmas album at this point in her career, Lewis further explained how Cowell had come up with the idea: "Simon is still very much involved in my career and helps me out. He came up with the Christmas album idea, and we both kind of felt it was the right time to go ahead with it."
On 24 October 2013, Lewis unveiled "One More Sleep" as the album's lead single, and she released the single cover artwork a week later, on 31 October. The artwork is a head shot of Lewis holding a red bow over her left eye. The song was released as a digital download in the United States on 5 November through RCA Records, Ireland, Italy and Switzerland through Sony Music Entertainment and the United Kingdom through Syco Music on 29 November, and multiple other European countries on 2 December, including France and Spain. Lewis uploaded a Cahill remix of the song to her official SoundCloud account on 21 November 2013.
"One More Sleep" was co-written by Lewis in collaboration with Richard "Biff" Stannard, Iain James, Jez Ashurst and Bradford Ellis. Stannard and Ash Howes produced the song, while they and Lewis carried out the vocal production. It was recorded by Biffco and mixed by Howes at Biffco Studios, Brighton, and Angel Recording Studios, London. The song utilised a multitude of instrumentalists: Keys and programming were performed by Ashurst, Stannard and Howes; Celli by Nick Holland; drums by Freddy Sheed and bass by Knight Time Horns; trombone by Barnaby Dickinson and trumpet by Graeme Flowers; James Knight performed the saxophone; strings were led by Rolf Wilson, arranged and conducted by Cliff Masterson and booked by Roz Colls; Rolf Wilson, Simon Baggs, Steve Morris, Julian Leaper, Tom Piggot Smith, Richard George, Jonathan Hill, Laura Bruce White, Tim Grant, Reiad Chibah performed the violins; and violas by Greg Walmsley, Nerys Richards. Background vocals were sung by Katie Holmes, Kelli-Leigh Henry-Davila and Bianca Claxton, while Choir vocals were performed by Diva singers, who were arranged and conducted by Masterson.
"One More Sleep" is a Motown inspired song which lasts for a duration of 3:59. The hook consists of a Christmas countdown, whereby Lewis sings "Cause I got five more nights of sleeping on my own/ Four more days until you’re coming home/ Three more dreams of you and mistletoe/ Two more reasons why I love you so." Lewis "trills" the lyrics "I've got five more nights of sleeping on my own/ Four more days until you're coming home" over the Motown inspired beat of xylophone phones and jingle bells. Waiting the return of her partner to come home on Christmas Day, Lewis adopts an "angelic tone" as she sings "Three more dreams of you and mistletoe/ Two more reasons why I love you so." Popjustice praised the "5-4-3-2-1 device", calling it "excellent."