Was hoping SZA would be Top 40 :( Guess we will have to wait until January, how dull.

The Sun article has too many specific details for it to be made up surely. Then again, it is The Sun. The absolute ruse if it turns out they actually don't release anything.

 

It is weird that they haven't said anything about it themselves yet, but I think the last 2 songs were also announced pretty late.

 

The ‘Lorraine’ interview I mentioned a few weeks ago on the ‘Christmas No1 thread’ they didn’t specifically say but both have a big grin when she asked if they were going to take on the record!

The Sun article has too many specific details for it to be made up surely. Then again, it is The Sun. The absolute ruse if it turns out they actually don't release anything.

 

It is weird that they haven't said anything about it themselves yet, but I think the last 2 songs were also announced pretty late.

Yep, it was December 13th last year. So we should hear about it sometime in the next week or so.

'Christmas Tree Farm' top 40 *.* happy to see 'Santa, Can't You Hear Me' not too far out also at #45!

 

Great to see ‘Christmas Tree Farm’ going to repeak this year, one of my favourite new Xmas songs!!

Wow JLS at #2 is a bit of a surprise.

I expect I Drink Wine and Oh My God to drop,further this week. It’ll be interesting to see if they both recover after Christmas.

These are the non-Christmas songs that are charting in the update:

 

1. Adele - Easy On Me

2. Gayle - abcdefu

3. ArrDee - Flowers (Say My Name)

4. Ed Sheeran - Overpass Graffiti

5. Elton John & Dua Lipa - Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)

6. SwitchOTR ft. A1 x J1 - Coming For You

7. D-Block Europe ft. Central Cee - Overseas

8. Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under

9. Adele - I Drink Wine

10. Acraze ft. Cherish - Do It To It

11. Adele - Oh My God

12. Ed Sheeran - Shivers

13. Ewan McVicar - Tell Me Something Good

14. Taylor Swift - All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)

15. Joel Corry ft. Mabel - I Wish

16. Dermot Kennedy - Better Days

17. SZA - I Hate U

18. Justin Bieber - Ghost

19. ARZ - Alone With You

20. The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber - STAY

21. Glass Animals - Heat Waves

22. Clean Bandit & Topic ft. Wes Nelson - Drive

23. Silk Sonic - Smokin Out The Window

24. Imagine Dragons & JID - Enemy

25. Juice WRLD & Justin Bieber - Wandered To LA

26. CKay - love nwantiti (ah ah ah)

27. Lost Frequencies & Calum Scott - Where Are You Now

28. D-Block Europe - No Competition

29. Craig David & MNEK - Who You Are

30. NEIKED, Mae Muller & Polo G - Better Days

31. Becky Hill ft. Topic - My Heart Goes (La Di Da)

32. D-Block Europe - Make You Smile

33. Post Malone & The Weeknd - One Right Now

34. Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u

35. Coldplay & BTS - My Universe

36. Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow - INDUSTRY BABY

37. Amaarae ft. Moliy - SAD GIRLZ LUV MONEY

38. Doja Cat - Woman

39. Da Beatfreakz ft. RAYE, Russ Millions & WeWantWraiths - Money Calling

40. Swedish House Mafia & The Weeknd - Moth To A Flame

41. THE ANXIETY, WILLOW & Tyler Cole - Meet Me At Our Spot

42. Central Cee - Obsessed With You

43. Joel Corry & Jax Jones ft. Charli XCX & Saweetie - OUT OUT

44. The Weeknd - Save Your Tears

45. Shawn Mendes - It’ll Be Okay

46. Vundabar - Alien Blues

Based on those sales i would think Ed Sheeran will easily overtake JLS by the end of the week but they should be safely Top 4 at the lowest and they have very decent sales so far.

Great sales for Adele again, should be on course for 65-70k?

 

Amazing to see Leona's "Kiss Me It's Christmas" charting! I hope it'll get some more playlist support from spotify. Not sure if it'll be able to hang on in the top 100 come end of the week. Although it has the advantage of being on SCR.

^ hasn't it been out for a few weeks already? (i.e. no reason to expect that it'd be frontloaded enough this week to fall from #78 to out of the top 100, unless I have missed some reason for it to have a short term spike at the start of this week)

Since Cold Heart is the 5th highest non-Christmas song in the update, does that mean it’s back on SCR?

He hasn't a hope of getting to number 1 but great to see Shaky doing so well!

 

^ hasn't it been out for a few weeks already? (i.e. no reason to expect that it'd be frontloaded enough this week to fall from #78 to out of the top 100, unless I have missed some reason for it to have a short term spike at the start of this week)

 

Yes. It's recently been climbing Amazon/Apple Music quite a bit (was 90/142 respectively at peak on Sunday). But I'm not sure that will be enough to keep it top 100 if it falls away the rest of the week. It isn't getting much airplay support at the moment, although BBC Radio 2 have given it a couple spins so I'm hoping they'll playlist it this week.

 

I'm hopeful that if it's doing this well on December 6th, it'll stand a chance of going top 40 the week of Christmas.

Since Cold Heart is the 5th highest non-Christmas song in the update, does that mean it’s back on SCR?

No it’s still on ACR, it’s just doing big numbers still

btw if there were no Christmas songs, Bad Habits would still be charting and somewhere above 15 in that non-Christmas list

Always find it interesting to see what will rebound and if there will be any surprise hits after the Christmas clearout - as the chart is so slow moving it’s actually the most interesting time in the charts in December and January with old Christmas songs getting new peaks followed by overlooked tracks rebounding up the charts in the new year.

No it’s still on ACR, it’s just doing big numbers still

 

It could go back into the top 5 post Christmas.

Yes

 

http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=250931

 

And the Crazy Frog this Friday, wonder if the Crazy Frog is releasing a cover Version of Last Christmas or All I Want for Christmas Is You :lol:

great(?) news(?), already tapped that market 15 years ago

Ed and Elton have probably released to early to block Ladbaby getting the Christmas number 1 unless ed and elton can hold up with some serious streaming numbers.

Ed will be releasing 50,000 signed sausage rolls in Christmas week with a CD attached :D

Great to see Leona Lewis with 2 songs in the top 100! :)