The closer we get to Christmas, all these classics should be in such respectable positions, can anyone expain why the reverse is yet happening, no way with just a few days left should the Christmas songs be struggling.

Everyone who wants them has them, it happens every year, they tend to peak the week before xmas- I suspect that people have also had their fill seeing as the shops etc start to play them all about a month before the big day.

They boomed too early leading to Christmas?

 

Not everyone is going to be buying the same classics again and again every year you know.

The X-mas tracks this year sold much a little too early I think.

 

Also, the highest position for a Xmas classic (26th December, 2011) was #17 last year. Makes sense to me why they're kinda stalling.

Edited December 20, 201113 yr by FM11

I think the iTunes 59p offer just shifted the peak week earlier by a few weeks. Otherwise I think they would all be peaking this week. (The Pogues could still reach a new peak this week and I think all the Christmas songs will have a bit of a resurgence on iTunes on maybe Thursday/Friday).

And perhaps everyone bought them weeks earlier because they would be able to listen to them more often in the run up to Christmas? Why bother buying them this week if you're not going to play them less than a week later?

The closer we get to Christmas, all these classics should be in such respectable positions, can anyone expain why the reverse is yet happening, no way with just a few days left should the Christmas songs be struggling.

 

ISTM that is something of an illusion. Don't forget we've had a flood of novelty acts/anti-Cowell campaigns, so those have pushed the Xmas songs down below where they'd otherwise be. There's also the 59p offer of course, drawing the peak sales of most Xmas songs forward a couple of weeks. I would expect the Pogues sales to rise again this week, regardless of finishing position, even if none of the others do.

And perhaps everyone bought them weeks earlier because they would be able to listen to them more often in the run up to Christmas? Why bother buying them this week if you're not going to play them less than a week later?

Yeah I thought it would be obvious. Most people who make some form of Christmas playlist will do so when they're getting into the spirit, more towards the beginning of December, especially as this is when Radio and TV start to rape them. I'd have thought it was perfectly natural to have chart runs peaking a couple of weeks before Christmas day.