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[Ansel]

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Christmas really is here this week: half the chart is made up of Christmas songs, including the one at the very top: girl in red scores her first #1 with two queens in a king sized bed, a cute little song which feels like a perfect build-up to Christmas song. Rina Sawayama finishes the top 3 with two less festive - but still very good - songs, and then the top 10 starts to go a bit weird. Firstly, we've got Bleachers rising back to #4, then our first classic Christmas track at #6 for Christmas Wrapping. And I won't even pretend that Sheesh's chart run makes any sense. Bleachers are also rebounding at #8, even more dramatically, and then there's Blossoms at #9 with their second top 10 hit. Finally, Carly Rae ties up the top 10 with her latest Christmas offering. There's lots of other things happening this week, like Miley Cyrus earning the largest ever fall within the chart: Gimme What I Want's 2-39 run gives it an entirely undeserved 37-place fall, larger than the previous record of 32 held by Perfume Genius, Neon Trees, Katy Perry and beabadoobee. Hopefully it'll recover but who knows! Also slightly embarrassing to see CRJ's cover of Last Christmas entering before the original, but it is a nice version so we'll let it off. Next week should see a pretty tense battle between Christmas dominance and Taylor Swift dominance.

01 two queens in a king sized bed - girl in red [36 - 12 - 1]
02 LUCID - Rina Sawayama [39 - 8 - 2]
03 We Out Here - Rina Sawayama
04 chinatown - Bleachers ft. Bruce Springsteen [14 - 1 - 11 - 4]
05 Angels Like You - Miley Cyrus [1 - 5]
06 Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses
07 Sheesh - BENEE ft. Grimes [13 - 14 - 24 - 7]
08 45 - Bleachers [25 - 5 - 26 - 8]
09 Pure Pop - Blossoms
10 It’s Not Christmas Till Somebody Cries - Carly Rae Jepsen [40 - RE - 27 - 10]

11 Peng Black Girls Remix - Enny ft. Jorja Smith
12 PAIN - King Princess [37 - 5 - 12]
13 Somewhere Only We Know - Lily Allen
14 Night Crawling - Miley Cyrus ft. Billy Idol [3 - 14]
15 Prisoner - Miley Cyrus ft. Dua Lipa [2 - 4 - 15]
16 WTF Do I Know - Miley Cyrus [17 - 16]
17 If We Make It Through December - Phoebe Bridgers [38 - 7 - 17]
18 Abracadabra - Sfera Ebbasta ft. Future [24 - 36 - 18]
19 Santa’s Coming For Us - Sia
20 Donchano - Steve Lacy

21 That Was The Worst Christmas Ever! - Sufjan Stevens
22 Christmas Time (Don’t Let The Bells End) - The Darkness
23 God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Tinashe [37 - 23]
24 Christmas Without You - Ava Max
25 My Head & My Heart - Ava Max [12 - 21 - 25]
26 Therefore I Am - Billie Eilish [1 - 4 - 25 - 26]
27 My Only Wish (This Year) - Britney Spears
28 Last Christmas - Carly Rae Jepsen
29 A Spaceman Came Travelling - Chris de Burgh
30 Christmas Lights - Coldplay

31 8 Days of Christmas - Destiny’s Child
32 You Make It Feel Like Christmas - Gwen Stefani ft. Blake Shelton
33 Man With The Bag - Jessie J
34 Cozy Little Christmas - Katy Perry
35 Underneath the Tree - Kelly Clarkson
36 Eleanor Rigby - Kiesza
37 Wonderful Christmastime - Kylie Minogue ft. MIKA
38 HOLIDAY - Lil Nas X [30 - 31 - 31 - 38]
39 Gimme What I Want - Miley Cyrus [2 - 39]
40 Plastic Hearts - Miley Cyrus [16 - 40]

2020 Number Ones:
03/01/20 whywhywhy - MisterWives
10/01/20 24 Hours - Georgia
17/01/20 Me & You Together Song - The 1975
24/01/20 Simmer - Hayley Williams
31/01/20 Physical - Dua Lipa
07/02/20 Simmer - Hayley Williams [2nd week]
14/02/20 Van Horn (GOLDHOUSE Remix) - Saint Motel
21/02/20 Automatic Driver - La Roux
28/02/20 La vita nuova - Christine and the Queens ft. Caroline Polachek
06/03/20 Nada - Christine and the Queens
13/03/20 Simmer (Remix) - Hayley Williams ft. Caroline Polachek [3rd week]
20/03/20 Roses/Lotus/Violet/Iris - Hayley Williams
27/03/20 Break My Heart - Dua Lipa
03/04/20 Over Yet - Hayley Williams
10/04/20 forever - Charli XCX
17/04/20 XS - Rina Sawayama
24/04/20 If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know) - The 1975
01/05/20 I Know Alone - HAIM
08/05/20 Pure Love - Hayley Williams
15/05/20 On the Floor - Perfume Genius
22/05/20 Comeback - Carly Rae Jepsen ft. Bleachers
29/05/20 Rain On Me - Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande
05/06/20 Summer Love - Carly Rae Jepsen [2 weeks]
19/06/20 Experience - Victoria Monét, Khalid & SG Lewis
26/06/20 3am - HAIM
03/07/20 America - Sufjan Stevens
10/07/20 TKN - Rosalía ft Travis Scott
17/07/20 Easy - Troye Sivan
24/07/20 cardigan - Taylor Swift
31/07/20 Say Something - Kylie Minogue
07/08/20 Impact - SG Lewis ft. Robyn & Channel Tres
14/08/20 Video Game - Sufjan Stevens [2 weeks]
28/08/20 Love Is Religion - Dua Lipa
04/09/20 Bella D'Estate - MIKA & Michele Bravi
11/09/20 Rapture - Declan McKenna
18/09/20 Visitor - Of Monsters and Men [3 weeks]
09/10/20 CALL ME (Freestyle) - Blood Orange ft. Park Hye Jin
16/10/20 Dye It Red - beabadoobee
23/10/20 CALL ME (Freestyle) - Blood Orange ft. Park Hye Jin [2nd week]
30/10/20 Feed The Fire - SG Lewis ft. Lucky Daye
06/11/20 Real Groove - Kylie Minogue
13/11/20 Therefore I Am - Billie Eilish
20/11/20 chinatown - Bleachers ft. Bruce Springsteen
27/11/20 Angels Like You - Miley Cyrus
04/12/20 two queens in a king sized bed - girl in red

This post has been edited by Ansel: 14th December 2020, 06:10 PM