JLS probably won’t even be top 5 by Friday

Yay for Kelly and Taylor hope for new peak and staying top 40 for them respectively. Wouldn't be against either Jona or Mud re-entering (although I have gone off the latter a bit in the last decade) for variety sakes on the chart show!

Dunno if this ones been flagged up yet but a quick scan of the list of UK No 1s suggests that if Adele can hold on this week a chart record will be matched that has stood since 1954 - 3 songs getting 8 consecutive weeks or more on the chart in the same year.

 

09 - Drivers License - Olivia Rodrigo

11 - Bad Habits - Ed Sheeran

07 - Easy on Me - Adele (08??)

 

1954 -

9 - Eddie Calvert - Oh Mein Papa - ,

9 -Doris Day Secret Loves (9 total in runs of 1 + 8)

10 -David Whitfield Cara Mia

 

There actually isn’t 52 Christmas, but 54. These are them in order from highest to lowest in the chart update:

 

1. Ed Sheeran & Elton John - Merry Christmas

2. Wham! - Last Christmas

3. Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You

4. The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York

5. Shakin’ Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone

6. Michael Bublé - It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

7. Brenda Lee - Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree

8. George Ezra - Come On Home For Christmas

9. Band Aid - Do They Know It’s Christmas?

10. Elton John - Step Into Christmas

11. Kelly Clarkson - Underneath The Tree

12. Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me

13. Andy Williams - It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year

14. Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

15. Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime

16. Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas

17. Olivia Dean - The Christmas Song

18. Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody

19. Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock

20. Leona Lewis - One More Sleep

21. John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

22. Camila Cabello - I’ll Be Home For Christmas

23. The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride

24. Taylor Swift - Christmas Tree Farm

25. Michael Bublé - Holly Jolly Christmas

26. Justin Bieber - Mistletoe

27. Dean Martin - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

28. Jose Feliciano - Feliz Navidad

29. Kelly Clarkson & Ariana Grande - Santa, Can’t You Hear Me

30. ABBA - Little Things

31. Mud - Lonely This Christmas

32. Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry

33. Summer Walker - I Want To Come Home For Christmas

34. Bing Crosby - White Christmas

35. Michael Bublé - The Christmas Sweater

36. Sia - Snowman

37. Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song

38. Coldplay - Christmas Lights

39. Kylie Minogue - Santa Baby

40. Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

41. The Jackson 5 - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

42. Frank Sinatra - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

43. Jess Glynne - This Christmas

44. Justin Bieber - Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree

45. Perry Como - It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

46. Carrie Underwood - Favorite Time Of Year

47. The Pretenders - 2000 Miles

48. Leona Lewis ft. Ne-Yo - Kiss Me It’s Christmas

49. Becky Hill - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

50. Britney Spears - My Only Wish (This Year)

51. Boney M. - Mary’s Boy Child/Oh My Lord

52. Lola Young - Together In Electric Dreams

53. Cliff Richard - Mistletor And Wine

54. Meghan Trainor - Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree

Edited December 6, 20214 yr by daniellovesmusic

Adele aiming for 80k this week

Do we have westlife position?

Do we have westlife position?

 

#7

JLS probably won’t even be top 5 by Friday

I expect Ed and ABBA will overtake but I'm not sure I see anything else reaching their already-sold 20k?

I've got to be honest, I was expecting JLS to not even go top 20 (I knew number one was out the question the minute Adele announced "30") so #2 I'm really quite happy with. It's a great album 2.0 and they deserve it.

'Christmas Tree Farm' will presumably drop out again since a lot of its streams are coming from the new Amazon exclusive version. It fell from #43 on Monday to #60 on Friday last week (although that was still a new peak).

Do we think Britney will remain in the Top 100? I hope it can slowly creep up.

 

Hopefully one year she records a video for the song, yes I know i'm dreaming :P

Very small gap between Wham and Mariah so far. Mariah could potentially overtake them again.

I had a quick look at the Monday update this time last year and Mariah was 19.3k and Wham! 17.1k. So overall they’re at a similar level to last year. They were much lower than last year until this week though so it seems the Christmas frenzy is as strong as ever, just arriving a bit later.

Glad Ed and Elton are No.1 and hope they stay there - all the way to the New Year if it stops Sausage Roll Blah-Blah-Blah from getting there again.

 

Ed and Elton may have made a paint-by-numbers Christmas song, but it's as catchy as anything, really quite enjoyable and it's a new Christmas song that just might stick around in years to come.

 

Good stuff, says me.

I'm guessing easy on me might still overcome ed john

Very small gap between Wham and Mariah so far. Mariah could potentially overtake them again.

 

Wham! were ~1k behind two weeks ago, 600 behind last week and they're now already nearly 600 ahead this week so far. The trend is pretty clear. Yes Mariah could overtake them again but it doesn't seem very likely.

The gap between E's and A has shrunken a lot if it was "over the double" just yesterday.

Edited December 6, 20214 yr by Sour Candy

Wham! were ~1k behind two weeks ago, 600 behind last week and they're now already nearly 600 ahead this week so far. The trend is pretty clear. Yes Mariah could overtake them again but it doesn't seem very likely.

 

That’s why I used the word potentially.

The gap between E's and A has shrunken a lot if it was "over the double" just yesterday.

We don't know this - Ed & Elton could have sold 10k yesterday and Adele 8k, and that would've put the former with just over double the sales of the latter in First Look (23.1k vs 11.3k). Their sales don't have to remain directly proportional for Ed & Elton to extend their lead.

The gap between E's and A has shrunken a lot if it was "over the double" just yesterday.

 

If Adele added about 6k today (which seems roughly accurate) that just means Ed & Elton were somewhere over 26k yesterday, so the gap today is probably similar if not bigger. But it does depend on how far they were 'over' a 2 to 1 margin yesterday of course, there's not really enough information to determine that.