I wondered if you might have been thinking about winding up this thread. I'll be sorry to see it go, but understand - thanks for all the work you've put into it for so long! Hope it gets to 225k views by year end :D

 

Will you continue with the YTD estimates in 2023? The first week of the year is an unusual one for this thread with all the songs which don't get reset, but it should be the same as the YTD chart for that one week. After that, I think the monthly YTD updates would continue to go down well if you're planning to carry those on.

 

Back to this week, I see Kelly's and Bobby's Christmas songs have cracked this top 10 for the first time - I reckon only one of them will do that officially in the coming weeks.

Thanks! :) I do wonder if a portion of those views were bots though - there was a period when it was going up by several thousand each week. :D

 

Planning to continue with the YTDs as it stands.

 

Sorry yes I meant to mention about Kelly and Bobby getting Top 10 for the first time - first time Top 20 for Dean Martin too!

22/12

 

#6 is incredible for Bobby Helms. Other peaks for Dean Martin, Jose Feliciano, Sia and Nat King Cole.

 

1 2 Last Christmas (1)

2 1 All I want for Christmas is you (1)

3 3 Rocking around the Christmas tree (3)

4 4 It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas (4)

5 6 Fairytale of New York (2)

6 10 Jingle bell rock (6)

7 5 Merry Christmas everyone (1)

8 7 Santa tell me (7)

9 9 Do they know it’s Christmas (1)

10 8 Underneath the tree (8)

11 13 It’s the most wonderful time of the year (8)

12 12 Escapism (12)

13 11 Driving home for Christmas (8)

14 14 Step into Christmas (6)

15 15 I wish it could be Christmas everyday (4)

16 18 Wonderful Christmastime (6)

17 16 Merry Christmas (3)

18 20 Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow! (Martin) (18)

19 21 One more sleep (3)

20 22 Sleigh ride (19)

21 19 Holly jolly Christmas (17)

22 25 Happy Xmas (2)

23 29 Feliz Navidad (23)

24 30 Snowman (24)

25 23 Merry Xmas everybody (1)

26 17 Anti-hero (1)

27 31 Mistletoe (19)

28 28 Firebabe (22)

29 36 Christmas (17)

30 27 Messy in heaven (5)

31 24 Unholy (1) YTD34

32 26 Made you look (3)

33 - Kill bill (33)

34 38 Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow! (Sinatra) (29)

35 32 Miss you (3)

36 45 Christmas lights (13)

37 40 Stop the cavalry (3)

38 - The Christmas song (Cole) (38)

39 37 I’m good (1)

40 - Someday at Christmas (40)

41 33 Creepin’ (33)

42 44 Out of nowhere (24)

43 - Nobody gets me (43)

44 34 Forget me (1)

45 35 Psycho (6)

46 48 Santa Claus is coming to town (33)

47 49 White Christmas (5)

48 42 Calm down (4)

49 - Shirt (27)

50 50 Under the influence (8)

I presume we’ve had an all Xmas SCR top ten before?

I presume we’ve had an all Xmas SCR top ten before?

Pretty sure we had a full Christmas top 10 on the actual chart last year with all but Ed/Elton being on ACR!

I presume we’ve had an all Xmas SCR top ten before?

In the post Christmas week last year I placed Easy On Me as the highest on Christmas song at #30. Not sure if that will be “beaten” this year as we have a stronger non Christmas seller with Raye.

My bad, I thought Gayle had stayed in the top 10 for some reason

Pretty sure we had a full Christmas top 10 on the actual chart last year with all but Ed/Elton being on ACR!

and George Ezra. 8 songs on ACR is the most there have been at one time (also the last week of 2018 with all except Sweet But Psycho & thank u next).

 

29/12 - doing it earlier than usual

 

1 1 Last Christmas (1)

2 2 All I want for Christmas is you (1)

3 3 Rocking around the Christmas tree (3)

4 - Food aid (4)

5 4 It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas (4)

6 5 Fairytale of New York (2)

7 6 Jingle bell rock (6)

8 7 Merry Christmas everyone (1)

9 9 Do they know it’s Christmas (1)

10 10 Underneath the tree (8)

11 8 Santa tell me (7)

12 11 It’s the most wonderful time of the year (8)

13 13 Driving home for Christmas (8)

14 - Christmas drillings (14)

15 14 Step into Christmas (6)

16 16 Wonderful Christmastime (6)

17 15 I wish it could be Christmas everyday (4)

18 17 Merry Christmas (3)

19 12 Escapism (12)

20 - F*ck the Tories (20)

21 18 Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow! (Martin) (18)

22 23 Feliz Navidad (22)

23 20 Sleigh ride (19) 43.0

24 21 Holly jolly Christmas (17)

25 19 One more sleep (3)

26 22 Happy Xmas (2)

27 24 Snowman (24)

28 25 Merry Xmas everybody (1)

29 - Let go (29)

30 28 Firebabe (22

31 29 Mistletoe (19)

32 29 Christmas (17)

33 36 Christmas lights (13)

34 26 Anti-hero (1)

35 40 Someday at Christmas (35)

36 31 Unholy (1)

37 30 Messy in heaven (5)

38 34 Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow! (Sinatra) (29)

39 33 Kill bill (33)

40 32 Made you look (3)

41 38 The Christmas song (38)

42 35 Miss you (3)

43 42 Out of nowhere (24)

44 46 Santa Claus is coming to town (33)

45 39 I’m good (1)

46 47 White Christmas (5)

47 37 Stop the cavalry (3)

48 45 Psycho (6)

49 48 Calm down (14)

50 44 Forget me (1)

As mentioned previously this may be the last time I work this out and post it, although I will do a one off accurate old rules chart next week when I get the YTD list!

 

New peaks this week for Bobby Helms, Andy Williams, Dean Martin, José Feliciano, Ronettes, Lizzo, Nat “King” Cole, Burl Ives, The Beach Boys and Frank Sinatra. Wow a lot of oldies. Interestingly no peak for Firebabe without the ACR distortion.

 

1 1 Last Christmas (1)

2 2 All I want for Christmas is you (1)

3 3 Rocking around the Christmas tree (3)

4 5 It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas (Bublé) (4)

5 7 Jingle bell rock (5)

6 6 Fairytale of New York (2)

7 12 It’s the most wonderful time of the year (7)

8 9 Do they know it’s Christmas (1)

9 10 Underneath the tree (8)

10 11 Santa tell me (7)

11 8 Merry Christmas everyone (1)

12 13 Driving home for Christmas (8)

13 16 Wonderful Christmastime (6)

14 15 Step into Christmas (6)

15 17 I wish it could be Christmas everyday (4)

16 21 Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow! (Martin) (16)

17 18 Merry Christmas (3)

18 22 Feliz Navidad (18)

19 23 Sleigh ride (19)

20 24 Holly jolly Christmas (17)

21 26 Happy Xmas (2)

22 25 One more sleep (3)

23 28 Merry Xmas everybody (1)

24 27 Snowman (24)

25 32 Christmas (17)

26 30 Firebabe (22)

27 31 Mistletoe (19)

28 38 Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow! (Sinatra) (28)

29 35 Soneday at Christmas (29)

30 41 The Christmas song (30)

31 33 Christmas lights (13)

32 19 Escapism (12)

33 46 White Christmas (5)

34 44 Santa Claus is coming to town (Jacksons) (33)

35 - Holly jolly Christmas (Ives) (35)

36 - Stop the cavalry (3)

37 - Lonely this Christmas (1)

38 14 Christmas drillings (14)

39 - 2000 miles (15)

40 - Mary’s boy child / Oh my Lord (1)

41 - Santa baby (22)

42 34 Anti-hero (1)

43 - Blue Christmas (11)

44 - Little Saint Nick (44)

45 - Santa Claus is coming to town (Springsteen) (9)

46 - Run Rudolph run (36)

47 36 Unholy (1)

48 29 Let go (29)

49 37 Messy in heaven (5)

50 - Have yourself a merry little Christmas (50)

Edited December 31, 20222 yr by JulianT

Sorry to hear you're thinking of retiring this thread - understandable though as it must be a lot of work to put together! Can personally say I've enjoyed checking this out without fail every week, thanks for all the hard work and apologies for not interacting. More of a lurker on the forum these days!

Yeh I’ve enjoyed it too thanks for the hard work Julian!

Awww have always enjoyed this thread - thanks so much for putting this together Julian!

Didn't realise just how long you had been doing these for!

 

Thanks for all the efforts with this, a bit of a shame if you are retiring it but fair if you think it's just not worth the effort or whatever it is.

thanks for everything! they've been an interesting weekly read!

Thanks for the nice comments! May continue after all - I’ll decide in a couple of weeks. :)

I hope you do continue as it is always good to see what the chart really looks like.

As promised providing the fully accurate Old Rules Top 50 for the week ending 12 January. I can only do this because I receive the Year To Date Top 100 from UKChartsPlus each week, and this week the Year Do Date chart and the old rules chart are the same thing. ChartsPlus is well worth a subscription for a couple of pounds per week if you’re a geek like me.

 

Note that while the resets having blocked Calm Down and Out of Nowhere from Top 5 may be frustrating, it’s also worth being thankful that the rules allow them to be Top 10 at all.

 

1 32 Escapism (1)

2 42 Anti-hero (1)

3 47 Unholy (1)

4 49 Messy in heaven (4)

5 - Kill bill (5)

6 - Made you look (3)

7 - I’m good (1)

8 48 Let go (8)

9 - As it was (1)

10 - Miss you (3)

11 - Calm down (11)

12 - Out of nowhere (12)

13 - Forget me (1)

14 - BOTA (1)

15 - I ain’t worried (4)

16 - Another love (10)

17 - Psycho (6)

18 - Afraid to feel (1)

19 - Creepin’ (19)

20 - Cuff it (6)

21 - Under the influence (8)

22 - Shivers (1)

23 - Bad habits (1)

24 - Rich flex (3)

25 - Pointless (25)

26 - Bad habit (9)

27 - Last last (5)

28 - Mr Brightside (10)

29 - Hide & seek (8)

30 - Running up that hill (1)

31 - 10:35 (31)

33 - Green green grass (4)

33 - Heat waves (7)

34 - Kiss me (27)

35 - Lionheart (35)

36 - Celestial (6)

37 - Crazy what love can do (7)

38 - Go (3)

39 - I wanna dance with somebody (1)

40 - Bloody Mary (40)

41 - Doja (3)

42 - How do I say goodbye (42)

43 - Golden hour (43)

44 - About damn time (4)

45 - Seventeen going under (6)

46 - Blinding lights (1)

47 - Shirt (27)

48 - Big city life (10)

49 - Cold heart (1)

50 - Lift me up (4)

I don’t want to copy the full tracks Top 100 from ChartsPlus but as I have it I’ll post some extra info and commentary.

 

Note that we already have quite a big distortion in the tracks Top 50 with the official #82, Big City Life, featuring at #48 and the official #28, Until I Found You, being outside the Top 50. The further you go down the more extreme the distortion becomes. The official #40, 50s by Headie One, is only the “true” #79. And Firebabe, the official #45, is not Top 100 :o . So the cut off for the “true” Top 100 must be around 7.5k, just above Firebabe’s 7,389 sales. I suspect if you went further down the distortion would become yet more extreme. I’d love to know where Sweet Lies by Nathan Dawe and Talia Mar would be and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it would be #300 or lower.

 

The two highest placed songs starred out from this week’s chart are Lavender Haze at old rules #62 and Perfect at old rules #65. The highest placed song to have just missed the official Top 100 is Everybody Wants To Rule The World at old rules #70. The 25 other songs in the old rules but not the official Top 100, in alphabetical order, are:

 

505

Baby shark

Do I wanna know?

Don’t stop believin’

Don’t stop me now

Dreams

For my hand

Hold me closer

I’m still standing

Iris

I wanna be yours

Levitating

No excuses

Peru

Riptide

Romantic homicide

Shallow

Starboy

Starlight

Stay

Super freaky girl

Snap

Where are you now

Wonderwall

Yellow

 

Interestingly this time last year we had Shape Of You, Thinking Out Loud and Castle On The Hill (as well as Merry Christmas) in this week’s old rules Top 100. Ed’s back catalogue isn’t quite streaming like it was 12 months ago, but I guess the hype from the “=“ release has died down. Similarly we had Someone Like You and Rolling In The Deep this time last year.

Week ending 19 Jan (Week 2 of 2023):

 

Congratulations to Rema on finally reaching the Top 10!

 

Highlighting anything that’s reaching a new peak on the YTD Top 100 for 2023. Lewis has leapt all the way to #2 on the YTD chart but will be interesting to see how fast he falls.

 

1 25 Pointless (1) YTD2

2 1 Escapism (1)

3 5 Kill bill (3) YTD4

4 2 Anti-hero (1)

5 4 Messy in heaven (4)

6 3 Unholy (1)

7 8 Let go (7)

8 6 Made you look (3)

9 7 I’m good (1)

10 11 Calm down (10) YTD10

11 10 Miss you (3)

12 12 Out of nowhere (12)

13 9 As it was (1)

14 13 Forget me (1)

15 19 Creepin’ (15) YTD17

16 16 Another love (16)

17 15 I ain’t worried (4)

18 14 BOTA (1)

19 17 Psycho (6)

20 - Sure thing (20) YTD29

21 29 Hide & seek (8) YTD24

22 21 Under the influence (8)

22 29 Hide & seek (8)

23 20 Cuff it (6)

24 18 Afraid to feel (1)

25 - Until I found you (25) YTD31

26 24 Rich flex (3) YTD23

27 31 10:35 (27) YTD28

28 - Rumble (28) YTD89

29 26 Bad habit (9)

30 24 Bad habits (1)

31 22 Shivers (1)

32 - I’ll be waiting (32)

33 43 Golden hour (33) YTD37

34 35 Lionheart (34) YTD32

35 27 Last last (5)

36 34 Kiss me (27)

37 32 Green green grass (4)

38 42 How do I say goodbye (38) YTD41

39 47 Shirt (27) YTD43

40 33 Heat waves (7)

41 36 Celestial (6)

42 38 Go (3)

43 40 Bloody Mary (40)

44 30 Running up that hill (1)

45 28 Mr Brightside (10)

46 - Someone you loved (1) YTD48

47 - Sweater weather (41) YTD49

48 45 Seventeen going under (6)

49 - Mockingbird (4) YTD55

50 41 Doja (3)

Ooh glad that this is continuing!

 

Slightly surprising that Miguel wasn't in the old rules top 50 the week before?