December 26, 200618 yr Author Did we find out where this peaked? :unsure: #2 on Download chart; #2 on iTunes chart.
December 28, 200618 yr Start of 2007 it will plummet :lol: Would anyone be nice enough to send me it? :wub: PM if you will ;)
December 31, 200618 yr Author From 3-41 on the iTunes chart. The chance of it charting this week now the rules have changes is rather 10000000-1. (Oh and poor old Jamelia is 39. There goes the climb I thought she'd have in the New Year :( The album's £4 in Tesco :lol:) Edited December 31, 200618 yr by Tim
January 1, 200718 yr Lmao! I liked Beware Of The Dog, but she's very bitchy, I don't like what she said about Leona :(
November 27, 200717 yr Its that time again :o Last year it peaked at "2"! I got the Christmas album out today B) :lol:
December 1, 200717 yr "All I Want For Christmas Is You" has moved up 60 spots on the Hot Digital Songs Chart from #84 to #24 and sales have increased 183% from the previous week. Although airplay is down for the song (in comparison to last year), the song is at the same position on the Digital Sales Chart as it was last year, but with 38% higher sales. Update 28th November. ^ It isn't December until Mariah Carey puts on her bright red knit hat, zips up her white boots and kicks around in the fakest-looking snow ever with Santa Claus. Is the scene familiar? It's from Mariah's music video for her 1994 holiday hit, "All I Want for Christmas Is You," the best Christmas song ever. Lots of people apparently share my love of this song: It was the 21st most-downloaded song on iTunes last weekend. Pretty impressive for a 13-year-old pop tune. I first heard it while sitting in the basement of my Portland, Ore., home, watching MTV with my younger sister Heather. I was 12. It starts with dramatic piano music, tinged with the sound of festive bells. Mariah drags out each syllable for maximum theatrics. "I don't want a lot for Christmas/There is just one thing I need." About 50 seconds in, the chorus peps up. The piano goes nuts; a gospel choir claps and harmonizes with Mariah. My little preteen heart couldn't soak in all the joy emanating from the television screen, so Heather and I danced. We jumped around the basement, twisting our hips and squealing with delight. We tried and failed to hit Mariah's glass-shattering last note. "All I want for Christmas is YOU!" But that's not what happened the very first time I heard the song. I didn't like it. Rather, I didn't let myself like it. I'm a Jewish girl, and Jewish girls aren't supposed to listen to or enjoy Christmas music. I probably even changed the channel. There aren't a whole lot of Jews in Portland. Enough so that I didn't feel like a total freak, but not enough so that kids wouldn't come up to me on the playground and ask why my people killed Jesus. I don't know what I resented more: being forced to sing Christmas carols for the school choir or singing the token Hanukkah songs. Even in elementary school, I could tell they were just putting those in the recital to be politically correct. During the winter of '94, I was even more protective -- defensive, really -- of my faith. I was clocking serious hours at the synagogue in preparation for my bat mitzvah. Learning to read Hebrew and chant my Torah portion intensified my commitment to Judaism. That same year, my mom suggested we put a string of blue and white lights on the roof. I threw a fit, saying we were not Christian and shouldn't do that. Nobody else in my family thought it was a big deal. We compromised and strung up white lights (I guess having colored bulbs upset me, among other things). Even though I originally turned off the forbidden Mariah Carey song, it was winter break, and Heather and I were spending an extraordinary amount of time in front of MTV. We wound up watching the video for "All I Want for Christmas Is You" at least twice a day. Yes, Virginia, MTV used to play music videos. Heather, then 10, didn't share my religious zealotry. She did, however, think it unspeakably nerdy to be a Mariah Carey fan (she and her friends called her "Mariah Scary"), so "All I Want for Christmas Is You" was taboo for her, too. Still, after a few days of Mariah immersion, the song sucked us into its irresistible fairy tale world, where love trumps material possessions. A place where we plead, "Santa won't you bring me the one I really need?/Won't you please bring my baby to me?" We started getting excited to hear those slow, opening bars of piano and Mariah's elastic vocals, humming and tapping our hands on our laps with the beat. (The dancing started shortly thereafter.) In the video, Mariah goes sledding, flirts with Santa and plays with a puppy under a Christmas tree in front of a roaring fire. "All I Want for Christmas Is You" is pure, distilled holiday music joy, like a shot of eggnog sipped under the mistletoe (or what I imagined that it was like -- I'd never tasted the stuff). Without knowing it, Ms. Scary had struck a blow for ecumenical harmony, helped heal a millennia-old rift in Judeo-Christian history. They should have blasted the song over the loudspeakers at the Middle East peace conference in Annapolis. It is also one of the only new, original holiday songs to become a perennial hit (though in the Christmas music catalogue, 13 years is nothing: "Jingle Bells" was written in the 1850s). Most everything else is either an old song or a remake of one. "All I Want for Christmas" holds up all year. I'll listen to it in March or August or whenever I need a little mood boost. Next May, I plan to play it at my wedding reception. Today, Heather and I live 3,000 miles apart, but we exchange ecstatic text messages: "OMG, M.C. all i want 4 xmas is on!" Then I proceed to dance around my apartment, twist my hips and squeal with delight. Happy Hanukkah. One person's experience with the song. ^ Both from the same source. Source: - Mariah Daily Journal.
December 1, 200717 yr I saw it on tv today. :lol: Yay. :D Let's campaign to bring this track to #1. :D :D Damn East 17. :angry:
December 2, 200717 yr I would love for it to be #1! :( She should rerelease it one year physically like The Pogues. It was a damn injustice it didnt make #1 - best Christmas song there is. I hope it will return to the top 10 this yr though :cheer:
December 8, 200717 yr Look like it is going to be number 11 this sunday, i want it to go to number one -_- Not much competition around this year for xmas, it could chart highly =D
December 9, 200717 yr wow its doing well chart wise lol I love it though its a classic love that album too!
December 9, 200717 yr This year's Christmas pop charts are set to be the most festive ever, thanks to new rules on downloads, experts predict. Ghosts of Christmas past such as Wham, Wizzard and Andy Williams are expected to feature in the Top 40 when the latest chart is announced this weekend. And more Christmas classics may appear because of new rules, said mobile phone firm 3. Downloaded music has counted towards chart sales since 2005 - but until earlier this year, only songs that were also available to buy in the shops were eligible. Now, for the first time ever, the Christmas charts can include any festive track from the archives, even if it is no longer in shops. Insiders expect tomorrow's top 20 to include The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl's Fairytale Of New York and Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You. An estimated 79 per cent of the 65 million singles sold in the UK last year were downloads. John Penberthy-Smith, 3's marketing director, said: "As people get into the festive spirit, there's nothing to stop them downloading Christmas favourites from yesteryear. "There could even be a rush to download a favourite Christmas carol into the charts." Note: "All I Want For Christmas Is You" is currently at #23 on the UK singles chart, up 23 spots from previous week.Devoted Mariah Carey fans have hijacked an Echo poll by encouraging followers across the globe to skew the vote. Two weeks ago the Echo's website launched an online poll asking the people of Lincolnshire what their favourite Christmas song was. All the classics are listed, from Bing Crosby's White Christmas to The Pogues' Fairytale of New York. But one Echo reader decided to make Carey top of the pops. After voting for her hit All I Want for Christmas is You, the fan posted details of the survey on the star's official website. Fans from the US, South America, Australia and across Europe then logged on to the Echo's website to place their vote. Within 24 hours the previous poll leader Fairytale of New York had been knocked into second place. As things stand now Carey has a whopping 54.3 per cent of the vote, with the Pogues in second place with just 15.3 per cent. Die-hard Pogues fan Michael Donaghy (35), of Winn Street, Lincoln, said he was disgusted. "What a joke," he said. "I'm going to get all my mates on the case - we'll soon get Shane back up there." But Carey fan Liz Wood (32), of Nettleham Road, Lincoln, said the singer deserved to streak ahead. "This just shows how huge she is worldwide. She has an amazing voice and it's a great song - vote for her." ^ :rofl: "All I Want For Christmas Is You" re-enters the Swedish Singles chart this week, at #47, based on downloads alone. Last year, the song entered the charts at #39 and peaked the following week at #29. This week marks the song's 3rd appearance on the chart as a download single (for a total of 6 weeks on the chart since its first release in 1994 when it peaked at #17). Meanwhile, a cover of "All I Want For Christmas Is You" by Swedish Idol 2005 winner Agnes Carlsson and the #5 contestant in the same year Måns Zelmerlöw is being used in a TV commercial featuring the two stars for MQ, Sweden's biggest fashion brand retailer. Watch a video of MQ's two 15-sec commercials on right. Source: - Mariah Daily Journal. Edited December 9, 200717 yr by Flatcap
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