Looks like Rod Stewart will sell a similar amount to last year during the Christmas week but sales are shockingly low in comparison to like 5-10 years ago. However, I think the competition this year hasn’t been great with a lack of strong album releases.

They're complaining about the low sales but if it's not for the two relatively big new releases this week it'd be even worse!

Didn’t Rihanna sell like 300,000 + the week of Christmas and wasn’t even number one?

I think this year is All I Want For Christmas Is You's last ever chance to be number 1 with the maximum six days of properly counted streams. It will increasingly no longer resonate with the younger music consuming public.

What will they be listening to then? I don't see a big Christmas classic on its way up to rival it. It's 25 years old now, which is old. Why would it not continue?

It will continue to be successful, but, i do feel the same, i sense this is its last chance of making it to Number 1.

What will they be listening to then? I don't see a big Christmas classic on its way up to rival it. It's 25 years old now, which is old. Why would it not continue?

 

They may also change the rules!

What will they be listening to then? I don't see a big Christmas classic on its way up to rival it. It's 25 years old now, which is old. Why would it not continue?

 

 

The nearest we've had to a genuine Christmas classic in recent years has been Leona's One More Sleep, which even I like and am an older member of Buzzjack. IMO will still be listened to in 30 years time.

I think this year is All I Want For Christmas Is You's last ever chance to be number 1 with the maximum six days of properly counted streams. It will increasingly no longer resonate with the younger music consuming public.

 

I can't see it "not resonating" any year soon somehow.

It resonates exactly as much now as it did in 2007, there's absolutely no reason to expect it's going to become any less popular any time soon :lol:

I can't see it "not resonating" any year soon somehow.

 

It's not like it's aged at all as opposed to something like White Christmas!

The nearest we've had to a genuine Christmas classic in recent years has been Leona's One More Sleep, which even I like and am an older member of Buzzjack. IMO will still be listened to in 30 years time.

 

Would love to see 100 years from now to see what things will be like.

If anything I think 'All I Want for Christmas is You' has continued to cement itself as the Christmas song.

Didn’t Rihanna sell like 300,000 + the week of Christmas and wasn’t even number one?

She did - and didn't! For the sales week ending 25/12/10 (chart publication date 26/12/10) her album 'Loud' was at number 2 on sales of 306,108, behind 'Progress' by Take That which had sold 434,362. However a couple of days later the OCC reran the charts (Singles and Albums) after discovering a glitch in the chart compilation process. The computer had registered very little sales data for one day in the chart week and so upweighted sales to compensate for what the computer thought was incomplete data. Except there was no missing data - the date for which very little sales data (especially for albums) was received was Saturday 25 December... when the shops were shut! The rerun chart removed the estimated sales for that day and the sales figure for 'Loud' was revised to 248,934 with 'Progress' selling 350,328.

It's not like it's aged at all as opposed to something like White Christmas!

 

 

I wouldn't say White Christmas has really aged. Everyone know it.

I think this year is All I Want For Christmas Is You's last ever chance to be number 1 with the maximum six days of properly counted streams. It will increasingly no longer resonate with the younger music consuming public.

Agreed that this is probably its last chance for #1 but it's ridiculous to suggest that it will no longer resonate with younger music listeners. If anything it just seems to be getting more and more popular as the years go by and it has firmly cemented itself as THE Christmas song. Also my daughter's 9 and it's by far her favourite Christmas song. She likes it a bit too much if anything, we've already had it on about 5 times today :mellow: that is, until she discovered 'I Love Sausage Rolls' :lol:

Poor innocent 9 year olds should not be subjected to such abominations. x

Poor innocent 9 year olds should not be subjected to such abominations. x

I think you'll find she's the one subjecting me to it :(

I wouldn't say White Christmas has really aged. Everyone know it.

 

I still love it but it 'sounds' like it was created in the 1940s compared to others.

Poor innocent 9 year olds should not be subjected to such abominations. x

 

Indeed Mariahs terrible they should listen to the Pogues!

Indeed Mariahs terrible they should listen to the Pogues!

Funnily enough The Pogues is the one she always skips...