Posted October 22, 20186 yr Not seen a topic for this yet and couldn’t find one so let’s kick it off! Who / what will be this year’s Christmas number 1? Maybe it’ll be George Ezra with "Hold My Girl" - a sensible first thought? Maybe it’ll be "Feed The Birds (Tuppence A Bag)" from the new Mary Poppins soundtrack? Maybe there’ll be a random campaign to get "No Way No Way" by Vanilla to the top spot? The John Lewis advert? A Christmas classic? A NEW or new-ish Christmas song - such as "Ho Ho Ho" by Sia or "Mr Right" by Leona Lewis? Who knows! But have a guess! Edited October 22, 20186 yr by Hans
October 22, 20186 yr I think it'll be between George Ezra, Westlife, or perhaps something else that is released in the next month. Mary Poppins Returns isn't out until December 19th, so I think that will be too late.
October 22, 20186 yr All I Want for Christmas Is You will easily do it even with the ACR. It'll get at least 900k streams daily for a week.
October 22, 20186 yr Apparently Take That are doing a song for M&S' Christmas ad, so that could be a possibility.
October 22, 20186 yr How would Mariah 'easily' get #1 with ACR this time when she couldn't manage it on SCR last year? She's not going to suddenly do more than twice as well this year.
October 22, 20186 yr George could potentially do it but I think its getting pushed too early Reckon we'll have a random one this year
October 22, 20186 yr How would Mariah 'easily' get #1 with ACR this time when she couldn't manage it on SCR last year? She's not going to suddenly do more than twice as well this year. Indeed- and the biggest streams are ALWAYS on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, which count for the chart AFTER the Christmas chart. A fact that has been covered many times on here!
October 22, 20186 yr Jessie J - This Christmas Day Duh!! It will subsequently re-enter the chart at #1 every Christmas until the OCC introduce rules excluding Christmas songs entirely to finally give someone else a chance. Seriously though, probably to early to call. George Ezra could do an Ed Sheeran, or we could get an out of the blue release by a big artist. Mariah had sales of 35k last Christmas to make #4 (Wham were higher at #3 but moreso due to it being one year since GM's death). If she was on ACR she'd have had about 20k sales, which would have put her at #10. She won't be contending.
October 22, 20186 yr how good would it be to have an actual Christmas song at number 1 though this year? would love it x
October 22, 20186 yr just out of interest, and because I can, here's where last year's Christmas songs would have charted in the Christmas chart with these new rules in place (the position they officially charted at in brackets): #03 Wham - Last Christmas (#3) #10 Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You (#4) #16 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York (#7) #28 Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas (#12) #31 Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone (#15) #33 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree (#14) #34 Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas (#20) #35 Elton John - Step Into Christmas (#18) #37 Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (#23) #40 Michael Bublé - It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas (#22) --- #52 Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody (#29) #53 Sia - Santa's Coming For Us (#65) #55 Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me (#32) #56 Leona Lewis - One More Sleep (#36) #65 Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime (#38) #68 Coldplay - Christmas Lights (#42) #71 Bing Crosby - White Christmas (#41) #73 Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree (#47) #75 Boney M. - Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord (#46) #79 Michael Bublé - Holly Jolly Christmas (#48) #81 Kylie Minogue - Santa Baby (#49) #84 Pretenders - 2000 Miles (#85) #85 Justin Bieber - Mistletoe (#51) #91 Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry (#91) #97 Mud - Lonely This Christmas (#97) #100 Gwen Stefani - You Make It Feel Like Christmas (#100) so it looks like we will get at least 10 Christmas songs in the chart this year, possibly more the week following too. ACR isn't exactly killing Christmas, just stopping a few extra songs scraping in. keep in mind there was a campaign to get Wham! to #1, hence they had a lot of paid-for sales last year. also, the Sia/Gwen songs of course would have remained on SCR (and should be on SCR this year and the next too) - and Pretenders/Jona Lewie/Mud never managed to come off ACR in the first place.
October 22, 20186 yr Thanks for that list^ interesting to see the expected effects this time round. Sam Smith will be Xmas #1.
October 22, 20186 yr Hard to say, from the tracks around just now i could see Jess Glynne - Thursday having a good shot, and 'Shallow' having enough legs to still be a contender (especially if it gets a big performance here eventually), George Ezra may be up there too but i don't see Hold My Girl being a 'Perfect' level hit But yeah it could easily be something we haven't heard yet (and the X Factor winner will probably be in the mix again depending on the song)
October 22, 20186 yr Both of the previous two year's Christmas #1s were #7 on the final chart of the preceding October...
October 22, 20186 yr That George Ezra song was on Neighbours on Friday so I looked the iTunes Charts but couldn't see it anywhere
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