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[Popchartfreak]

27th Dec 2015

For the 3rd time in 5 weeks it's Hurts back on top, with the epic Wings - in fact the whole top 3 is an Epic lock-out as Coldplay and Florence refuse to drop even against challenges from their other new top 10 tracks. Queen Of Peace is now firmly inside my all-time Top 100 chart points hits and it's still at 2! SIA gets yet another top 10 track, with the very latino-rhythm Cheap Thrills, as yet another kiddie chorus joins in the upper chart singing (see POWERS). Meanwhile, a record I didn't know at all in the 60's, or 70's, or 80's is up to 7 with it's fab harmonies, for actual singing mother and kids, The Cowsills.

Oldies featured in Minions go up a bit more (just watched the DVD), and it's christmas, as the best of the regular xmas chart entries in the UK hits my top 10 yet again for the umpteenth time, the gorgeous Driving Home For Christmas, which is sentimentally spot-on with the fab husky voice of Chris Rea. The best christmas song of the 21st century is also back at 20, it's Leona Lewis, give it a few years and it'll be charting every christmas along with Mariah & Co. Charli XCX is back in my 20, The Prodigy & David Bowie have huge leaps, giving 20-odd years for the former, 44 years the latter, both are pretty fab and non-pop. Kim Wilde too does the same with a lovely christmassy ballad, for almost 35 years of chart action.

Star Wars is out, and the theme and extended incidental music is into the 40 for the first time since Meco's version topped in 1977, Tame Impala have a single edit out of Let It Happen, getting some radio play at last, and shoots back up, while highest new entry is Hurts. No holding them down this year! I Wish it chart luck!

1 2 1 7 WINGS Hurts 970000
2 4 1 17 QUEEN OF PEACE Florence + The Machine 2025000
3 1 1 8 ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME Coldplay 1165000
4 3 3 6 WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE Adele 303200
5 6 5 4 HYMN FOR THE WEEKEND Coldplay featuring Beyonce 139000
6 17 6 2 CHEAP THRILLS SIA 78000
7 9 7 16 THE RAIN THE PARK AND OTHER THINGS The Cowsills 362800
8 8 3 10 HEAVEN Shaun Frank & KSHMR featuring Delaney 612000
9 37 9 2 DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Chris Rea 62300
10 13 10 4 DELILAH Florence + The Machine 103600

11 7 5 6 HOT POWERS 273000
12 14 12 24 HAPPY TOGETHER The Turtles 346500
13 12 9 6 THE GIRL IS MINE 99 Souls featuring Destiny’s Child and Brandy 157400
14 27 14 2 NEED UR LOVE Charli XCX 47400
15 10 10 6 FAST LANE Rationale 177200
16 11 6 5 WHAT A DIFF’RENCE A DAY MADE Dinah Washington & Belford Hendrick’s Orchestra 204000
17 16 6 7 ONE STEP AT A TIME Jeff Lynne’s ELO 275000
18 23 18 6 SUGAR Loud Places featuring Francesco Yates 84950
19 21 19 5 SEND MY LOVE (TO YOUR NEW LOVER) Adele 90400
20 84 20 2 ONE MORE SLEEP Leona Lewis 23200

21 5 3 6 LITTLE MAN Sonny And Cher 339750
22 29 22 4 BANG MY HEAD David Guetta featuring SIA and Fetty Wap 45700
23 15 15 5 GIVE IT ALL Foals 73850
24 87 24 2 SHUT ‘EM UP The Prodigy featuring Public Enemy and Manfred Mann 21600
25 20 6 8 COMING HOME Sigma & Rita Ora 274750
26 22 15 5 1/M/T Mirror Talk 105750
27 85 27 2 ISOBEL’S DREAM Kim Wilde 21400
28 24 4 11 HEY BOY Take That 335800
29 38 29 2 WHO KNOWS Protoje featuring Chronixx 35400
30 35 30 5 DOWN LOW Alex Winston 73800

31 33 31 20 MELLOW YELLOW Donovan 234000
32 18 18 7 WHITE DECEMBER Kylie Minogue 133400
33 73 33 2 MAIN TITLE AND THE ATTACK ON THE JAKKU VILLAGE (Star Wars: The Force Awakens Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) John Williams 23100
34 63 34 2 ALL MY FRIENDS Snakehips featuring Tinashe and Chance The Rapper 24800
35 90 13 9 LET IT HAPPEN Tame Impala 147700
36 19 19 6 WHAT ARE THE CHANCES? Duran Duran 83200
37 100 37 2 LAZARUS David Bowie 18300
38 56 38 6 CONFIDENT Demi Lovato 47600
39 47 39 7 DON’T GIVE UP (ON LOVE) Blinkie 58050
40 40 40 2 SWEET LOVIN’ Sigala featuring Bryn Christopher 34000



41 42 41 15 GEE WHIZ (LOOK AT HIS EYES) Carla Thomas 158950
42 36 36 4 RIVER LEA Adele 55950
43 60 43 2 YOU BELONG TO ME Bryan Adams 23500
44 NEW 44 1 WISH Hurts 13250
45 25 16 7 DREAMS Life Of Dillon 104000
46 26 26 3 WHEN WE WERE YOUNG Adele 49250
47 41 1 10 HELLO Adele 553500
48 28 5 14 CHAMAK CHALLO CHEL CHABELI Kumar Sanu, Shreya Ghoshal & Sajid - Wajid 434100
49 31 8 9 ECHOES IN RAIN Enya 251500
50 44 11 8 SAX Fleur East 174950

51 55 51 6 FOCUS Ariana Grande 40150
52 52 52 2 DON’T LEAVE TKDJS featuring AYER 23000
53 34 20 5 HIGHLAND One More Time 88250
54 54 54 2 I WAS BORN ON CHRISTMAS DAY Saint Etienne 22000
55 30 30 4 EVERY DAY’S LIKE CHRISTMAS (A STOCK AITKEN WATERMAN REMIX) Kylie Minogue 41000
56 32 19 8 SORRY Justin Bieber 126000
57 58 57 6 I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND The Beatles 45200
58 39 39 4 GLITTER & GOLD Barns Courtney 44300
59 53 3 13 BLACK SOAP Ex Cops 428800
60 45 5 10 CIRCLES Truls 346100

61 46 3 18 YOU DON’T OWN ME Grace featuring G-Eazy 540500
62 50 50 4 DIRT SLEDDING The Killers featuring Ryan Pardey & Richard Dreyfuss 27700
63 74 63 2 ALIVE SIA 12400
64 59 3 16 I’M IN LOVE WITH MY LIFE PHASES 492150
65 65 65 7 RIDE-O-ROCKET The Brothers Johnson 38400
66 RE 43 5 HAPPY ALONE Matrix & Futurebound featuring V. Bozeman 43800
67 61 51 6 I’VE BEEN SECRETLY FALLING APART Owsey Jernalism & Resotone 44750
68 79 68 2 HISTORY One Direction 10600
69 69 69 2 THE SOUND OF SILENCE Disturbed 12400
70 NEW 70 1 BAZAAR (Sunburn Goa 2015 Anthem) KSHMR and Marnik 6000

71 43 43 6 TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK Mumford And Sons 42800
72 51 24 9 GO! Postiljonen 137800
73 48 39 7 100 DEGREES Kylie Minogue featuring Dannii Minogue 63000
74 75 74 2 ECHOES OF MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE Shakin’ Stevens 10200
75 80 75 4 A HEAD FULL OF DREAMS Coldplay 12800


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76 49 49 4 STAY Kygo featuring Maty Noyes 33500
77 57 32 5 NOTHING’S GONNA HURT YOU BABY Cigarettes After Sex 67100
78 78 10 13 EX’S AND OH’S Elle King 218650
79 81 79 2 SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN The Crystals 8000
80 66 9 13 HERE FOR YOU Kygo featuring Ella Henderson 256100

81 62 16 10 SAME OLD LOVE Selena Gomez 169500
82 RE 4 16 WILDEST DREAMS Taylor Swift 368500
83 77 2 17 CRASH AND BURN Thomas Rhett 861400
84 92 84 2 CHRISTMAS WITHOUT A PRAYER Sparks 5000
85 70 70 6 LEFT HAND FREE Alt-J 23800
86 86 86 2 FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl 5600
87 89 87 4 SAINT CECILIA Foo Fighters 7100
88 96 88 3 LIVERPOOL LULLABY Cilla Black 4900
89 71 9 10 MUSIC TO MY SOUL CeeLo Green 203050
90 72 3 11 HAPPINESS IAMX 336750

91 91 8 17 OCEAN DRIVE Duke Dumont featuring Robert Owens 290350
92 94 6 15 WHEN I WAS A BOY Jeff Lynne’s ELO 250000
93 93 93 5 TUSK (07/19/79 VERSION) Fleetwood Mac 7100
94 83 27 8 BURNING LOVE Elvis Presley with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 88200
95 RE 57 5 TIRED OF TALKING LEON 23500
96 82 54 5 JESUS MADE ME BAD Lao Ra 26600
97 97 97 3 CAN’T GET USED TO LOSING YOU The Beat 3600
98 RE 56 6 NEVER ENDING CIRCLES CHVRCHES 31100
99 98 5 15 I’M IN LOVE Noonie Bao 326100
100 NEW 100 1 STOP THE CAVALRY Jona Lewie 1000