https://twitter.com/UKAsh/status/413368243626475520

 

Getting closer. 1 million by Saturday then?

It could even be there now, or at least it should pass a million sales sometime today. The 994.5k sale posted in the tweet will be sales to Tuesday night.

All I Want For Christmas Is You is now at 997k:

 

Source: https://twitter.com/UKAsh/status/413709045812310016

 

Tomorrow for sure then.

It's passed now! http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/m...ion-sales-2686/

 

Some information from the article that will be of some interest:

 

The Official Biggest Selling Christmas-themed Singles Of All Time

 

1 DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS? BAND AID 3.7M

2 MARY'S BOY CHILD/OH MY LORD BONEY M 1.9M

3 LAST CHRISTMAS/EVERYTHING SHE WANTS WHAM! 1.7M

4 MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY SLADE 1.2M

5 MARY’S BOY CHILD HARRY BELAFONTE 1.2M

6 DO THEY KNOW IT’S CHRISTMAS? BAND AID 20 1.2M

7 FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK THE POGUES FT KIRSTY MACCOLL 1.0M

8 WHITE CHRISTMAS BING CROSBY WITH THE KEN DARBY

SINGERS AND JOHN SCOTT TROTTER ORCHESTRA 1.0M

9 ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU MARIAH CAREY 1.0M

 

The Official Top 10 Most Downloaded Christmas Classics

 

1 FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK THE POGUES FT KIRSTY MACCOLL 740,000

2 ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU MARIAH CAREY 660,000

3 LAST CHRISTMAS/EVERYTHING SHE WANTS WHAM! 300,000

4 I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY WIZZARD 250,000

5 MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY SLADE 250,000

6 DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS BAND AID 220,000

7 MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE SHAKIN' STEVENS 200,000

8 DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS CHRIS REA 180,000

9 STAY ANOTHER DAY EAST 17 130,000

10 ROCKIN' AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE BRENDA LEE 120,000

About time :D I will add it to the million sellers thread :D

Nice wee list and hooray! List should probably go In Its only wee thread in the sales vault? Hopefully we get annual updates ;-)

It's quite fitting how Mariah and The Pogues' Christmas tracks both passed 1m sales on Christmas week! :P

It's quite fitting how Mariah and The Pogues' Christmas tracks both passed 1m sales on Christmas week! :P

And both of them 'only just' as well really!

YESS MARIAH :cheer: My favourite Xmas song without a doubt, so glad to see it over the million.

Well done Mariah!

Giving sales info above the million mark to only 2 significant figures is so annoyingly useless. (The Pogues must be closer to 1.1m by now anyway surely?)

 

Insert mild annoyance here

 

(but it is obviously a classic and a well deserved million seller rly, as bad a song as it is)

About time it did. :wub: Yay that Mariah has now joined the million sellers club.

About time it did. :wub: Yay that Mariah has now joined the million sellers club.

 

I agree. I just wish Madonna could do the same too. She's sold the most singles, yet without a million seller. Rerelease "Into The Groove" I say! :P

Madonna not having achieved a million seller in the UK certainly stands out as being a chart oddity! 'Hung Up' feels like it should have been one, if only 2005 sales hadn't been so poor in general. :(

Madonna not having achieved a million seller in the UK certainly stands out as being a chart oddity! 'Hung Up' feels like it should have been one, if only 2005 sales hadn't been so poor in general. :(

It's the same with 'Into The Groove' back in 1985 though. Had the record been released a couple of years earlier it would have easily passed a million sales. 1985, like 2005, was a poor year for sales.

 

It's passed now! http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/m...ion-sales-2686/

 

Some information from the article that will be of some interest:

 

The Official Biggest Selling Christmas-themed Singles Of All Time

 

3 LAST CHRISTMAS/EVERYTHING SHE WANTS WHAM! 1.7M

 

Should make 2m in the next decade then.

It's the same with 'Into The Groove' back in 1985 though. Had the record been released a couple of years earlier it would have easily passed a million sales. 1985, like 2005, was a poor year for sales.

 

Why was 1985 poor for single sales Robbie?

1985 to 1992 in general saw steadily slipping sales. 1985 probably stood out a bit more as 1984 had seen a huge amount of million-selling releases, while '85 only had the one (Jennifer Rush) and then none for six years, until downloads pushed some over the mark at least.

 

From what I can see there's no one reason for it, more a combination - the decline of vinyl, the very slow rise of CD singles that didn't truly peak until the end of the 90s, the rise of music videos and videotapes, home-taping the top 40 on cassette tape, and by the early 1990s home computers/games consoles being more popular amongst the kids and the charts being filled with hardcore rave music and not much else.