Friday Chart Predictions

December 3, 20205 yr

Thanks for the overview of the sales chart, was that the top 100 from last week?

Yeh I wonder if Slade and Wizzard have decreased in popularity or they are not as prominent on more world wide based playlists on Spotify or the likes?

Yep that's right, will be interesting to see what this week's sales top 100 looks like to compare.

I think Slade definitely have, Wizzard up to a point but not by that much and they are both hampered hugely by Spotify.

'Santa Tell Me' was of course starred out last week so I'll be interested to see where that lands this week, currently has two versions in the iTunes top 100

Gutted about the declining popularity of Wizzard - one of my favourite Christmas songs :(

That's interesting, I couldn't see it in the sales chart last week (does the rule of three apply to that? I have no idea actually!). I guess it's poised to enter this week based on two versions doing well.

I think Wizzard are doing ok compared to Slade, who were more popular in the year they both released (what a festive treat that Christmas must have been!). They are around seventh most popular now compared to their old berth at the bottom of the top five favourites. And they made the official top ten last year too thanks to their sales advantage and Apple Music help, it's just Spotify that seem to have them way down all the playlists every year for some reason that stops them being bigger I think.

I think there's certainly a case to be made that they're still safely inside the UK's top ten favourite Christmas songs. A little lower than they used to be perhaps but even organically Shaky and now Michael Buble have arguably overtaken them in popularity.

December 3, 20205 yr

Christmas songs clogging up the chart doesn't really bother me, particularly because the Christmas market does change over time (albeit slowly). The list of Christmas songs charting now is quite a bit more diverse than that from 2007 when they were first allowed to chart, even if the old favourites are still there.

What I really think did damage was the 10 years or so of reality TV almost monopolising the Christmas Number 1 spot with unassailable sales, which I think killed off the impetus to produce a great modern day Christmas hit for a while. At least now there is scope for someone to write a brilliant song and try for the Number 1 with it - yes instead we've been getting Ladbaby but there's no reason someone couldn't compete with that if they really put their mind to it.

This is a good point and perhaps one of the factors why there’s a lot more Xmas songs released especially over the past 5 years. I know it’s also a US tradition to release Xmas music in albums. It does take time for new songs to establish themselves these days!

December 3, 20205 yr

Yep that's right, will be interesting to see what this week's sales top 100 looks like to compare.

I think Slade definitely have, Wizzard up to a point but not by that much and they are both hampered hugely by Spotify.
That's interesting, I couldn't see it in the sales chart last week (does the rule of three apply to that? I have no idea actually!). I guess it's poised to enter this week based on two versions doing well.

I think Wizzard are doing ok compared to Slade, who were more popular in the year they both released (what a festive treat that Christmas must have been!). They are around seventh most popular now compared to their old berth at the bottom of the top five favourites. And they made the official top ten last year too thanks to their sales advantage and Apple Music help, it's just Spotify that seem to have them way down all the playlists every year for some reason that stops them being bigger I think.

I think there's certainly a case to be made that they're still safely inside the UK's top ten favourite Christmas songs. A little lower than they used to be perhaps but even organically Shaky and now Michael Buble have arguably overtaken them in popularity.

I think Spotify are world wide based playlists so songs like Bobby Helms and others are more prominent there while Slade and to a lesser extent Wizzard are more UK based as is The Pogues tbf. Slade wouldn’t have been big in the US while Wizzard was more popular due to the Spector influences!

December 3, 20205 yr

In two previous years only UK and Ireland didn't have "All I Want For Christmas" at # 1.

Let's look on different national charts.

Australia :

2018 - # 1 - Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You