Yeh there is which is strange, I thought Greg Lake was in the top 40 too for some reason. Bony M do well too lol

Greg Lake wasn't in that top 40, but in the following week's chart he was #37 (there were 22 Christmas songs in that chart)

You forgot Last Christmas at #35.

No, Last Christmas is #52 (you're confusing the sales chart with the official chart)

Greg Lake wasn't in that top 40, but in the following week's chart he was #37 (there were 22 Christmas songs in that chart)

 

I knew I'd seen it somewhere!

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Ariana Grande's presence in the top 100 singles has been (almost) steadily increasing since the release of 'Problem' - she had just that one song in the top 100 for 8 weeks, then 'Break Free' joined it for the next 4 weeks, then 'Bang Bang' joined both for the next 6 weeks, then 'Love Me Harder' joined all three for the next 3 weeks, then 'Santa Tell Me' joined all 4 for a week. The pattern was ruined by 'Santa Tell Me' dropping straight back out and then 'Problem' dropping out as well a week later... but then this week both have re-entered and she also has another new entry with 'Get On Your Knees' bringing her total number of concurrent 'hits' to 6 :magic: At this rate she'll lock out the entire top 100 in a few years.

 

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On a slightly less irrelevant but still impressive note Nicki Minaj has had 7 new top 100 hits in the last 13 weeks (2 of which were shared with Ariana of course).

Surely not as much as 'The Days' does?

 

'Classic' did really well for its peak as well, it's sold a lot.

I actually didn't notice The Days in his original post. :unsure:

 

The fact it never got an official release in the end makes it harder to compare with the other tracks though (in my mind anyway).

 

Classic still did very good considering and is a hit, just a massive gap between Classic with its #24 peak and the three #1's (probably four #1's when Lips Are Movin comes out).

Largest Climbers:

Imagine Dragons - Demons - 73 (#124 to #51)

Ed Sheeran - Photograph - 47 (#90 to #43)

Olly Murs feat. Demi Lovato - Up - 39 (#43 to #4)

Nicki Minaj feat. Drake, Lil Wayne & Chris Brown - 39 (#121 to #82)

Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me - 22 (#102 to #80)

Vance Joy - Riptide - 22 - (#109 to #87)

 

Largest Fallers:

Bring Me The Horizon - Drown - 60 (#77 from #17)

CHVRCHES - Get Away - >48 (#100+ from #52)

Fifth Harmony - Bo$$ - 47 (#68 from #21)

Union J - You Got It All - 37 (#71 from #34)

Years & Years - Desire - 35 (#99 from #64)

better late than never ~

 

Singles:

 

New entries ([#] = number of chart singles for artist(s) in order listed):

#1 Ben Haenow - Something I Need [1]

#5 Wealdstone Raider - Got No Fans [1]

#14 Gorgon City feat. Jennifer Hudson - Go All Night [5^[A]; 10^[B]]

#70 The Peace Collective - All Together Now [1]

#78 OneRepublic - Something I Need [10] ^[C]

#86 Nicki Minaj feat. Ariana Grande - Get On Your Knees [36^[D]; 9] ^[E]

#89 Meghan Trainor - Lips Are Movin [2] ^[F]

#95 Coldplay - Miracles [25]

 

Re-entries:

#44 Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast [Facebook campaign for Christmas #1]

#51 Imagine Dragons - Demons [performed on The X Factor]

#65 One Direction - Where Do Broken Hearts Go [performed on The X Factor]

#80 Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me

#82 Nicki Minaj feat. Drake, Lil Wayne and Chris Brown - Only [release of album 'The Pinkprint']

#87 Vance Joy - Riptide [59p on iTunes]

#98 Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea - Problem [59p on iTunes]

 

New peaks within the top 100:

#4 Olly Murs feat. Demi Lovato - Up [from #43; performed on The X Factor]

#20 Hozier - Take Me To Church [from #22]

#43 Ed Sheeran - Photograph [from #44; performed on The X Factor]

#61 Michael Bublé - It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas [from #63]

 

Dropping out (* = for the first time since entering):

#52 CHVRCHES - Get Away *

#76 McBusted - Air Guitar *

#79 Idina Menzel and Michael Bublé - Baby It's Cold Outside *

#82 Kiesza - Hideaway *

#84 Parra For Cuva feat. Anna Naklab - Wicked Games *

#85 alt-J - Left Hand Free

#86 Maroon 5 - Maps *

#87 Ed Sheeran - Make It Rain *

#88 Fuse ODG feat. Angel - T.I.N.A *

#94 John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Plastic Ono Band and The Harlem Community Choir - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

#95 Michael Bublé - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

#97 Oliver Heldens and Becky Hill - Gecko (Overdrive)

#98 A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera - Say Something

#99 Kristen Bell, Agatha Lee Monn and Katie Lopez - Do You Want To Build A Snowman?

#100 Ellie Goulding - How Long Will I Love You

 

Artists reaching new career peaks this week:

Ben Haenow [**-1]

Hozier [22-20]

The Peace Collective [**-70]

Wealdstone Raider [**-5]

 

Albums:

 

New entries ([#] = number of chart albums for artist(s) in order listed):

#22 Nicki Minaj - The Pinkprint [3]

#31 5 Seconds Of Summer - LIVESOS [2]

#47 D'Angelo And The Vanguard - Black Messiah [1^[G]]

 

Re-entries:

#69 Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott - What Have We Become

#80 ABBA - Gold - Greatest Hits [reduced price on iTunes]

#85 Michael Jackson - Number Ones [reduced price on iTunes]

#91 Oasis - Time Flies... 1994-2009 [reduced price on iTunes]

#94 Guns N' Roses - Greatest Hits [reduced price on iTunes]

#97 Imagine Dragons - Night Visions ['Demons' performed on The X Factor]

#98 Foo Fighters - Greatest Hits [reduced price on iTunes]

#100 Queen - Greatest Hits [reduced price on iTunes]

 

New peaks within the top 100:

#53 John Rutter - The John Rutter Songbook [from #54]

#79 Pentatonix - That's Christmas To Me [from #80]

 

Dropping out (* = for the first time since entering):

#45 Bastille - VS. - Other People's Heartache Pt. III *

#59 The Smashing Pumpkins - Monuments To An Elegy *

#71 Howard Shore - The Hobbit - The Battle Of The Five Armies - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack *

#80 Kiesza - Sound Of A Woman *

#84 Bryan Ferry - Avonmore *

#89 Shirley Bassey - Hello Like Before *

#93 U2 - Songs Of Innocence *

#94 Angels & Airwaves - The Dream Walker *

#96 Damien Rice - My Favourite Faded Fantasy *

#98 Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon

#100 Simply Red - 25 - The Greatest Hits

 

Artists reaching new career peaks this week:

D'Angelo And The Vanguard [**-47] ^[H]

John Rutter [54-53]

Pentatonix [80-79]

 

Longest running entries (with an unbroken top 100 run since entering for the first time):

 

Singles:

1 56wks Pharrell - Happy

2 54wks Idina Menzel - Let It Go

3 48wks Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne - Rather Be

4 46wks John Legend - All Of Me

5 44wks Sam Smith - Money On My Mind

6 35wks Mr Probz - Waves

=7 31wks Coldplay - A Sky Full Of Stars

=7 31wks Sam Smith - Stay With Me

9 29wks Ed Sheeran - Sing

10 28wks Ella Henderson - Ghost

 

Dropping out:

Kiesza - Hideaway [from #6]

 

Albums:

1 115wks Ellie Goulding - Halcyon

=2 67wks Arctic Monkeys - AM

=2 67wks London Grammar - If You Wait

4 42wks Pharrell - G I R L

5 41wks Paloma Faith - A Perfect Contradiction

=6 36wks Paolo Nutini - Caustic Love

=6 36wks The Vamps - Meet The Vamps

8 31wks Coldplay - Ghost Stories

9 30wks Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour

=10 28wks Dolly Parton - Blue Smoke - The Best Of

=10 28wks Kasabian - 48:13

 

Notes:

^[A] +1 as a member of The Peace Collective

^[B] +1 as a member of Artists For Haiti

^[C] Charting for the first time due to being covered by Ben Haenow as the X Factor winner's single

^[D] +1 as a member of Young Money

^[E] Album track from newly released album 'The Pinkprint'

^[F] Charting on streaming alone

^[G] D'Angelo has also had 1 hit as a solo artist

^[H] D'Angelo has charted higher as a solo artist