December 5Dec 5 18 I Believe18 Ordinary17 Last Christmas 16 (Everything I Do It for You)15 Love Is All Around15 One Dance15 Dance Monkey14 Bohemian Rhapsody14 Shape of You14 Despacito
December 5Dec 5 1 hour ago, chartjack2 said:18 I Believe18 Ordinary17 Last ChristmasSo next week ‘Last Christmas’ Should match the record.
December 5Dec 5 27 minutes ago, GreyAsh said:So next week ‘Last Christmas’ Should match the record.Probably not i reckon its going number 1 anyway, first weekend in December this weekend should give it a boost
December 5Dec 5 1 hour ago, 777666jason said:Probably not i reckon its going number 1 anyway, first weekend in December this weekend should give it a boostYou’ve lost me. Next week (as in: next Friday) we are both agreed it will be Number 1. Therefore, it will match the record of 18 weeks at Number 1. Did you think I meant the following week?
December 5Dec 5 6 minutes ago, GreyAsh said:You’ve lost me. Next week (as in: next Friday) we are both agreed it will be Number 1. Therefore, it will match the record of 18 weeks at Number 1.Did you think I meant the following week?Confused myself there i read it as lost weeks due to acr 🤣
December 12Dec 12 W/E 18/11/25:18 I Believe18 Ordinary18 Last Christmas16 (Everything I Do) I Do It for You15 Love Is All Around15 One Dance15 Dance Monkey14 Bohemian Rhapsody14 Shape of You14 DespacitoSo Last Christmas looks like it will move ahead for the Xmas chart! Edited December 12Dec 12 by chartjack2
Friday at 18:365 days Kylie Minogue has the Christmas number 1 on SCR sales of 55,926Wham! at number 2 on ACR sales of 46,616 but would be number 1 on SCR sales of 91,751.Xmas by Kylie Minogue would be number 7 without ACR
Friday at 19:035 days Wham, Mariah, Brenda, The Pogues, Kelly and Elton would all be ahead of her if they were all on SCR
Saturday at 20:364 days W/E 25/12/2519 Last Christmas18 I Believe18 Ordinary16 (Everything I Do) I Do It for You15 Love Is All Around15 One Dance15 Dance Monkey 14 Bohemian Rhapsody14 Shape of You14 Despacito
Sunday at 06:034 days So Last Christmas now holds the record for longest run at No.1 as the real biggest seller... Of course we should have a pre-streaming and post-streaming record as the methodology is so different now. It's also unclear how ACR kneecapping No.1s affects their ability to remain as the biggest seller each week as the official chart showing a record dropping (drastically in some cases) from No.1 even though it is the biggest seller could mean that people no longer stream/purchase it as much, so it's possible the record would've been broken/set earlier if the charts reflected the real sales. I guess something we'll never know for sure....Of course, this record needs an asterisk as it's a Christmas record that primarily sells for 5-6 weeks each year and then almost nothing vs the"normal" sales pattern of other records...
Sunday at 09:583 days 6 minutes ago, adrianreavill83 said:How many times has ACR affected the Christmas number one?Only in 2022 and 2025 I believe
Sunday at 11:113 days 1 hour ago, Julian_ said:Only in 2022 and 2025 I believeI haven’t checked but I guess that means from 2018-2021 LadBaby ended up with double the sales of Wham! (and Mariah)? I guess their key week was the following week.
Sunday at 11:243 days 9 minutes ago, GreyAsh said:I haven’t checked but I guess that means from 2018-2021 LadBaby ended up with double the sales of Wham! (and Mariah)? I guess their key week was the following week.Tbf you could attribute the Christmas music being so dominate on the chart to covid, that was the first year it went really mad,People were on bored with the joke for the first 3 in 2018, 2019 and 2020, the 4th did really well more because of the features Ed and Elton and the 5th in 2022 a massive comedown even had the most versions of the song to scrape the extra sales
Sunday at 11:493 days Christmas music didn’t really start doing insane streaming numbers until after Covid in 2020, before then the numbers were big but not the crazy domination we see today.
Monday at 10:272 days Still raging that the existence of ACR robbed us of seeing a 72 year old chart record be both equalled and broken in the SAME calendar year, ACR makes everything way less fun.
Tuesday at 06:372 days On 21/12/2025 at 11:49, Maestro said:Christmas music didn’t really start doing insane streaming numbers until after Covid in 2020, before then the numbers were big but not the crazy domination we see today.Was that due to Covid or due to more people using Spotify and streaming services in general?
Tuesday at 09:361 day 2 hours ago, Steve201 said:Was that due to Covid or due to more people using Spotify and streaming services in general?Difficult to say. Streaming numbers at the top of the Spotify chart were very low throughout Covid until Christmas came along, but the depth of the numbers improved so more people were using the platform it was just “popular” music wasn’t getting streamed as much and the diversity increased. Everyone listens to Christmas music however so that increase in users was potentially only shown at the top of the chart at Christmas. However I know for me personally and lots of others I know, we listened to more Christmas music and earlier in 2020 cos of how terrible the year was.So to answer your question I think a bit of both.
Tuesday at 10:451 day 4 hours ago, Steve201 said:Was that due to Covid or due to more people using Spotify and streaming services in general?I'd say so especially with the 3 tier system thing that was going on with some areas in lockdown and some not etc etc ,people had decided after a shit year that they would go as hard as they could for christmas from the start of November
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