Miley and Mark BBC Live Lounge airs on Tuesday.. not sure how effective that will be on sales !!

Good improvement for Coldplay on yesterdays update.

George Ezra safe for the Number 2 album and sales should close near 35k for him.

 

Are Take That still Number 6?

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Yay at Mark increasing his lead from Mariah. Hope he overtakes Halsey too

When did olly get a boost and have LM dropped back down as not in update

Are Take That still Number 6?

Yes.

 

So happy James-Marie are still top 10 and Dalton is not plummeting THAT much at #17.

Dalton holding up on downloads and starting to add more streams, good to see he's not totally freefalling.

 

Decent album sales though lower than previous Xmas' obviously. TGS set for 65k and george/Buble for 40k or so. Top 5 could get close to 30k. Maybe next week the Christmas no1 album could reach 100k? Or maybe just short!!

good for Coldplay.

Surprised to see Ellie climb despite falling lots on Spotify

 

There's Spotify data missing...

http://i.imgur.com/E6o8dx1.png

 

Thursday Top 40 Update

Missing Data: Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify (all for Wednesday) and YouTube (Tuesday and Wednesday)

 

Singles

 

1 Ariana Grande - thank u, next (42.6k)

2 Ava Max - Sweet But Psycho (36.3k)

3 Halsey - Without Me (26.7k)

4 Mark Ronson feat. Miley Cyrus - Nothing Breaks Like a Heart (25.8k)

5 Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You (23.2k)

 

6-10

7 Wham! - Last Christmas

9 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York

 

11-20

11 Post Malone & Swae Lee - Sunflower

12 Freya Ridings - Lost Without You

14 Kodak Black feat. Travis Scott & Offset - ZEZE

15 Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?

16 Michael Bublé - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

18 Ellie Goulding, Diplo & Swae Lee - Close to Me

 

21-30

21 Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone

22 Clean Bandit feat. Marina & Luis Fonsi - Baby

23 George Ezra - Hold My Girl

24 Elton John - Step Into Christmas ^

26 Leona Lewis - One More Sleep ^

27 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

30 Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me

 

31-40

31 James Arthur - Empty Space

33 Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday ^

35 Chris Rea - Driving Home for Christmas ^

36 XXXTENTACION - whoa (mind in awe) *

39 George Ezra - Shotgun ^

40 XXXTENTACION - Guardian angel *

 

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

 

Albums

 

1 Motion Picture Cast Recording - The Greatest Showman (47.2k)

2 George Ezra - Staying At Tamara's (34.0k)

3 Michael Bublé - love (33.1k)

4 Roy Orbison & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Unchained Melodies (32.5k)

5 Take That - Odyssey (24.6k)

 

6-10

6 Andrea Bocelli - Sí

7 The Carpenters & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - The Carpenters with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (19.5k) *

10 Little Mix - LM5

 

11-20

11 Coldplay - A Head Full of Dreams: Live in Buenos Aires *

12 Cliff Richard - Rise Up!

15 Olly Murs - You Know I Know

19 Queen - The Platinum Collection

20 Paul Heaton - The Last King of Pop

 

21-30

21 Aled Jones & Russell Watson - In Harmony

22 Andre Riue & Johan Strauss Orchestra - Romantic Moments II *

23 Paloma Faith - The Architect

26 Boyzone - Thank You & Goodnight

27 Kidz Bop Kids - Kidz Bop 2019 *

30 XXXTENTACION - SKINS *

 

31-40

36 Barbra Streisand - Walls ^

39 Van Morrison - The Prophet Speaks *

I just realised Driving Home for Christmas only reached its peak of #14 last year, despite being released in 1988 (where it charted at #53).

 

Why did it take so long for it to become a Christmas hit?

I just realised Driving Home for Christmas only reached its peak of #14 last year, despite being released in 1988 (where it charted at #53).

 

Why did it take so long for it to become a Christmas hit?

 

Xmas name for when?!

 

Also with spotify missing how accurate are the midweeks this week?

 

Wouldn't be surprised if that's just an early midweek quirk that'll be fixed later on.

It appears to be not the case, 'Arms Around You' is still appearing in the midweek update alongside XXX's 3 other songs.

dalton's position on this update?

Xmas name for when?!

 

Also with spotify missing how accurate are the midweeks this week?

Streaming from the previous day is always missing, so a Thursday update only ever includes streaming from Friday to Tuesday - therefore the midweeks are as accurate as they possibly can be.

dalton's position on this update?

#17!

I just realised Driving Home for Christmas only reached its peak of #14 last year, despite being released in 1988 (where it charted at #53).

 

Why did it take so long for it to become a Christmas hit?

 

Just from memory it first charted in the top 40 in the download era around the late noughties! Think it peaked at 33 but since streaming it has repeaked consistently!

 

Not sure why it never charted in the late 80s I imagine it was a combination of low airplay as he may not have been cool for radio 1 by the late 80s and then over the years it got used in Xmas ads and got a proper video. Think it may have been used in a big tv show in the beginning of the noughties.

I remember Gavin & Stacey used it in their Christmas special.

 

Uncle Bryn loves a bit of Chris Rea.

Streaming from the previous day is always missing, so a Thursday update only ever includes streaming from Friday to Tuesday - therefore the midweeks are as accurate as they possibly can be.

 

Oh. I thought Ariana at the end of the week would be smashing Poker Face P.II. It is surprising then that they are so close :o

Driving Home For Christmas first managed to reach the top 40 in 2007 and has re-entered the top 100 every year since then.

Haha I love that Xmas Gavin and Stacey!