Euro Top 40 - (as broadcast on MTV Europe)

Here is the chart of December 22, 2018:

 

40 Khalid - Better

39 Maroon 5 - Girls Like You

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37 Shawn Mendes - Lost In Japan 3 Down

36 Ariana Grande - Breathin' 3 Down

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28 Olly Murs - Moves 9 Down

27 Post Malone & Swae Lee - Sunflower 1 Up

26 Jonas Blue & Liam Payne - Polaroid 18 Down

25 LSD - Thunderclouds 1 Down

24 Freya Ridings - Lost Without You 1 Down

23 Marshmello & Bastille - Happier

22 Little Mix & Nicki Minaj - Woman Like Me 2 Down

21 James Arthur - Empty Space Stay =>

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19 George Ezra - Shotgun 5 Down

18 DJ Snake, Selena Gomez, Ozuna & Cardi B - Taki Taki 7 Down

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15 Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes 3 Down

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12 Clean Bandit - Baby 5 Up

11 Jess Glynne - Thursday 4 Down

10 Dean Lewis - Be Alright

9 Rita Ora - Let You Love Me 4 Down

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7 Calvin Harris & Sam Smith - Promises 5 Down

6 Halsey - Without Me 7 Up

5 James Arthur & Anne-Marie - Rewrite The Stars

4 Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next

3 Lady GaGa & Bradley Cooper - Shallow Stay =>

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1 Ava Max - Sweet But Psycho Stay =>

 

MTV Europe played a total of 25 songs from this edition of the chart. Extremely rarely have they played so many different songs from one edition of the chart! The lowest number of songs I have seen MTV Europe play is 21; the highest is 26 (which I think only happened once).

Euro Top 40 - (as broadcast on MTV Europe)

Here is the chart of December 29, 2018:

 

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23 Marshmello & Bastille - Happier

22 Shawn Mendes - In My Blood

21 Jax Jones - Breathe

20 Loud Luxury - Body

19 Lady GaGa & Bradley Cooper - Shallow

18 Benny Blanco, Halsey & Khalid - Eastside

17 Jonas Blue - Rise

16 Sigala & Paloma Faith - Lullaby

15 Marshmello & Anne-Marie - FRIENDS

14 Rita Ora - Let You Love Me

13 Jess Glynne - I'll Be There

12 Anne-Marie - 2002

11 Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry

10 David Guetta & Sia - Flames

9 Tom Walker - Leave A Light On

8 Eminem & Ed Sheeran - River

7 Maroon 5 - Girls Like You

6 Justin Timberlake & Chris Stapleton - Say Something

5 Calvin Harris & Sam Smith - Promises

4 Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still

3 Clean Bandit & Demi Lovato - Solo

2 Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa - One Kiss

1 George Ezra - Shotgun

 

Just like last year, during the last week of this year MTV Europe broadcast a special edition of the chart - for the whole year 2018!

Some of the inclusions are questionable as they weren't really among the most successful songs in this chart in 2018... On the other hand, there are some notable omissions - mainly songs that reached number 1. Here are the chart-toppers from this year which weren't included in this edition: "Perfect" by Ed Sheeran; "Havana" by Camila Cabello; "Strangers" by Sigrid (yes, it really reached number 1!); "These Days" by Rudimental and Jess Glynne (which should have been in the Top 3 of this edition); "For You" by Liam Payne and Rita Ora; "Paradise" by George Ezra; "Freaky Friday" by Lil' Dicky and Chris Brown; "Nice For What" by Drake; "God Is A Woman" by Ariana Grande; "In My Feelings" by Drake; and "Sweet But Psycho" by Ava Max.

And then we come to the most interesting part - the song at number 2. For some reason MTV Europe refused to play "One Kiss" by Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa for almost its whole chart run - they only played it during 2 weeks at the end end of its run when it was at number 14 and number 16, respectively. Before that "One Kiss" had spent months in the Top 10, including 2 weeks at the top - yet the sad fact remains that MTV Europe never played it at number 1 (they skipped the number 1 position during those 2 editions)...

Well, perhaps MTV Europe's playing the song as the number 2 in the edition of the chart for the whole 2018 is some kind of an apology!