Craig David is more than making up for all that time he's been absent from the airwaves.

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Back in December, he was the best thing about The X Factor final, basically stealing the show from finalists Reggie n Bollie and Louisa Johnson. Now the 34-year-old's gone and done it again, performing his own version of the current UK number one and totally owning it.

The song in question is Justin Bieber's Love Yourself – an acoustic track transformed by David into a garage hit with awesome results and a tongue-tripping rap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzgDnoojFW4

Better than Bieber? Twitter certainly thought so.

https://twitter.com/samualwhite/status/685004708130480128
https://twitter.com/7Travisb/status/685047515272601600
https://twitter.com/Words0nAScreen/status/685043564208861184

That Craig David cover of Love yourself is an absolute tune,he smashed that cover without doubt,defiantly better than Bieber's version??

— ⚒ AL ⚒ (@6_AaronLee) January 7, 2016

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It's decided then. 2016 is the year of Craig David.

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