Wham! rightfully the most popular Christmas song officially :wub:

Wham! rightfully the most popular Christmas song officially :wub:

Not quite, still one more to come! :kink: (but I get what you mean)

 

R1 are loving their edits of Christmas songs today, this one cut short too

This is literally the ONLY Mariah Carey song I can sit through...

 

I find her more tolerable when she isn't doing all her warbling and high pitched whistle act.

Wham 77 week in chart say 76 last week

Do you guys think that Last Christmas deserves to overtake AIWFCIY?

I find her more tolerable when she isn't doing all her warbling and high pitched whistle act.

 

Exactly this!!

02 | 01 | 8th week

 

Adele

Easy On Me

 

 

1st single from 30

Released: 15th October 2021

Label: Melted Stone

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (28/10/2021) | 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2

 

Sales: 700k+

Certification: Platinum

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

 

01 Sales

01 Audio Streaming

01 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

Dozens of British artists share Adele’s origins—BRIT School, MySpace, pop stardom—but it takes rare talent to have your voice declared timeless in your career’s first flush. Adele honed hers as a kid in her North London bedroom, imitating Etta James every night for an hour. But as soon as she made her televised debut in 2007 (on Later...With Jools Holland), all potential comparisons evaporated: This girl with the whopping hoop earrings and a pub landlady’s brashness had something unique. Heartbreak, indignation, and regret all found a natural home in her regal mezzo-soprano, the instrument that powered her 2008 debut album, 19, and took influence from the American South on 2011’s 21. Both of these albums broke records for breaking records, and made a subsequent operation on Adele’s vocal cords a matter of global import. She recovered immaculately—for proof, watch her comeback performance of “Rolling in the Deep” at the 2012 Grammys—and it took just one word to reintroduce her in 2015. “Hello,” she sang during an X Factor ad break, unveiling her world-conquering single and third album, 25, in the process. Like its predecessors, 25 upended 21st-century metrics and made Adele the first artist to earn the top-selling album of a calendar year three times. She’s now a mother, and her twenties are behind her. But if any voice were ever capable of carrying its owner into maturity, it’s hers. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

2008 02 Chasing Pavements -1- MILLIONAIRE

2008 19 Hometown Glory -3-

2008 18 Cold Shoulder -2-

2008 04 Make You Feel My Love -4- MILLION SELLER

2011 02 Rolling In The Deep -1- MILLION SELLER

2011 01 Someone Like You -2- MILLION SELLER

2011 11 Set Fire To The Rain -3- MILLIONAIRE

2011 62 Turning Tables -AT-

2011 85 Rumour Has It -4-

2012 99 One And Only -AT-

2012 37 I Can't Make You Love Me -AT-

2012 02 Skyfall -OST- MILLIONAIRE

2015 01 Hello -1- MILLIONAIRE

2015 09 When We Were Young -2- MILLIONAIRE

2015 64 Million Years Ago -AT-

2016 41 All I Ask -AT-

2016 05 Send My Love (To Your New Lover) -3- MILLIONAIRE

2016 39 Water Under The Bridge -4-

2021 76 Love In The Dark -AT-

2021 01 Easy On Me -1-

2021 02 Oh My God -2-

2021 04 I Drink Wine -AT-

 

3 x #1 | 9 x Top 5 | 10 x Top 10 | 13 x Top 20 | 15 x Top 40 | 21 x Top 100

 

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Adele

 

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01 | | 1st week

 

Ed Sheeran and Elton John

Merry Christmas

 

 

4th single from =

and 3rd single from The Lockdown Sessions

Released: 10th September 2021

Label: Asylum Records UK

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (16/12/2021) | 1

 

Sales: -

Certification: -

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

 

TBA Sales

TBA Audio Streaming

TBA Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

Ed Sheeran

There’s a lovely moment a little ways into Apple Music’s Songwriter documentary about Ed Sheeran in which Sheeran, jet-lagged and carrying a cup of tea, straggles out into a yard in Malibu at dawn, sits down at his laptop and begins writing a song about the moment right in front of him: the crisp air, the birdsong, the hot tea, the day ahead. He gets a full verse in, melody and all, then pauses. “Songs are weird things,” he says. “How so?” an interviewer asks. “They just come and go,” Sheeran says, smiling. “And they never give you any warning.” For Sheeran, they seem to come pretty reliably. Born in 1991 in Halifax, England, he started out gigging on the UK pub circuit before releasing his first studio album, +, in 2011, and has since become one of the most unstoppable singer-songwriters in music, forging a light blend of folk, pop, hip-hop and dance that feels slick but lived-in, intimate but universal. Whether on his own (“Sing”, “The A Team”, “Shape of You”, “Perfect”) or in collaboration with artists from Taylor Swift to Eminem to Justin Bieber, Sheeran has a unique ability to strike a chord that feels both bittersweet and redemptive, good-natured and genuine: the hopeless romantic who convinces you he might just be right. In 2017, he was made a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, touching Prince Charles on the arm while shaking his hand—a breach of royal protocol, and an appealingly human one at that. - Apple Music

 

Elton John

At the height of the fever dream that was Elton John’s life in the ’70s, the singer-songwriter had the optician Dennis Roberts design a pair of giant, sculptural glasses studded with 57 battery-powered lights in the shape of the name Elton—to the tune of about $5,000. Adjusted for inflation, you’re talking about something more like $25,000. But John had a show to put on, and wouldn’t that be something to talk about?

 

The excess was always apparent: the rhinestones, the costumery, the old Hollywood glamour retrofitted for a new, gender-bending world. But beneath the feathers, John’s music—written with the lyricist Bernie Taupin—was direct and unpretentious, the kind of rock ’n’ roll storytelling that met you where you were. Even if you didn’t know exactly what it meant—who is the dancer, and why are they so tiny?—the feeling was immediate, universal. By 1973’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, John said they were writing a couple of songs at breakfast and recording them before lunch. This was pop music, John argued: You weren’t supposed to think about it too much, and god help you if you did. And yet here we are, singing the songs five decades later.

 

Born Reginald Dwight in Pinner, England, in 1947, John took to the piano young, studying on a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music while obsessively listening to Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard. They were so physical, John marvelled—they didn’t just play the piano, they beat it. He started playing in pubs at 15 and, around 20, met Taupin through a want ad in a music magazine.

 

There were good years and bad ones, highs and lows—that handful of Valium before jumping into the swimming pool in 1975, for example, or the disco album, which John himself described as jumping on a dying bandwagon—but he has always endured, emerging from the debauchery of the ’70s and redefinitions of the ’80s bruised but never beaten, a gay icon, AIDS activist, philanthropist, Knight Bachelor, and father of two. In 2018, nearly 50 years after his debut album, he embarked on a three-year farewell tour, and published his first autobiography, Me, in 2019. The host of Apple Music 1’s Rocket Hour, Elton has been the recipient of countless awards (Grammys, Oscars, BRITs, Tonys, Ivors), has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and, in 2020, was awarded the Companion of Honour. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

Ed Sheeran

2011 03 The A Team -1- MILLION SELLER

2011 35 Hush Little Baby (Wretch 32 feat. Ed Sheeran)

2011 04 You Need Me, I Don't Need You -2-

2011 09 Drunk -4-

2011 05 Lego House -3- MILLIONAIRE

2011 81 Gold Rush -AT-

2011 84 Autumn Leaves -AT-

2012 25 Small Bump -5-

2012 34 Wish You Were Here (Ed Sheeran, Richard Jones, Nick Mason, Mike Rutherford & David Arnold) -AT-

2012 07 (All Along The) Watchtower (Devlin feat. Ed Sheeran)

2012 18 Give Me Love -6-

2012 07 Everything Has Changed (Taylor Swift feat. Ed Sheeran)

2013 13 I See Fire -OST- MILLIONAIRE

2014 18 One -IG-

2014 01 Sing -1- MILLIONAIRE

2014 08 Don't -2- MILLIONAIRE

2014 01 Thinking Out Loud -3- MILLION SELLER

2014 15 Photograph -5- MILLIONAIRE

2014 59 Afire Love -IG-

2014 49 I'm A Mess -AT-

2014 02 Bloodstream (Ed Sheeran & Rudimental) -4- MILLIONAIRE

2014 82 The Man -IG-

2014 62 Tenerife Sea -AT-

2014 46 All Of The Stars -OST-

2014 57 Nina -AT-

2014 71 Runaway -AT-

2014 85 Take It Back -AT-

2014 38 Make It Rain -OST-

2015 69 I Will Take You Home -B-SIDE-

2015 88 Dreams (Krept & Konan feat. Ed Sheeran)

2015 92 Dark Times (The Weeknd feat. Ed Sheeran)

2015 12 Lay It All On Me (Rudimental feat. Ed Sheeran)

2017 01 Shape Of You -1/2- MILLIONAIRE

2017 02 Castle On The Hill -1/2- MILLIONAIRE

2017 02 How Would You Feel (Paean) -IG-

2017 02 Galway Girl -3- MILLIONAIRE

2017 01 Perfect -4- MILLIONAIRE

2017 05 New Man -AT-

2017 06 Happier -5- MILLIONAIRE

2017 08 Dive -AT-

2017 08 Supermarket Flowers -AT- MILLIONAIRE

2017 09 What Do I Know? -AT-

2017 12 Barcelona -AT-

2017 13 Nancy Mulligan -AT-

2017 14 Eraser -AT-

2017 15 Hearts Don't Break Around Here -AT-

2017 18 Bibia Be Ye Ye -AT-

2017 19 Save Myself -AT-

2017 52 Boa Me (Fuse ODG feat. Ed Sheeran & Mugeez)

2017 49 End Game (Taylor Swift feat. Ed Sheeran & Future)

2017 01 River (Eminem feat. Ed Sheeran) MILLIONAIRE

2019 01 I Don't Care (Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber) -1- MILLIONAIRE

2019 04 Cross Me (feat. Chance the Rapper & PnB Rock) -2-

2019 01 Beautiful People (feat. Khalid) -3- MILLIONAIRE

2019 01 Take Me Back To London (feat. Stormzy) -4- MILLIONAIRE

2019 04 South Of The Border (feat. Camila Cabello & Cardi B) -5- MILLIONAIRE

2019 01 Own It (Stormzy feat. Ed Sheeran & Burna Boy) MILLIONAIRE

2020 12 Those Kinda Nights (Eminem feat. Ed Sheeran)

2020 02 Afterglow -NAS-

2021 01 Bad Habits -1- MILLIONAIRE

2021 05 Visiting Hours -IG-

2021 01 Shivers -2-

2021 04 Overpass Graffiti -3-

2021 01 Merry Christmas (Ed Sheeran & Elton John) -4-

 

12 x #1 | 25 x Top 5 | 33 x Top 10 | 45 x Top 20 | 49 x Top 40 | 64 x Top 100

 

Elton John

1971 04 Your Song -1- MILLIONAIRE

1972 02 Rocket Man -1- MILLIONAIRE

1972 31 Honky Cat -2-

1972 05 Crocodile Rock -1-

1973 04 Daniel -2-

1973 07 Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting -1*-

1973 06 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road -2*-

1973 08 Step Into Christmas -NAS- MILLIONAIRE

1974 11 Candle In The Wind -3*-

1974 16 Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me -1-

1974 15 The Bitch Is Back -2-

1974 10 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds -NAS-

1975 12 Philadelphia Freedom (The Elton John Band) -NAS-

1975 22 Someone Saved My Life Tonight -1-

1975 14 Island Girl -1-

1976 07 Pinball Wizard -OST-

1976 01 Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Elton John & Kiki Dee) -NAS- MILLION SELLER

1976 37 Benny And The Jets -4*-

1976 11 Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word -1-

1977 27 Crazy Water -2-

1977 28 Bite Your Lip / Chicago (Elton John & Kiki Dee) -3-

1978 34 Ego -NAS-

1978 15 Part Time Love -1-

1978 04 Song For Guy -2-

1979 01 Are You Ready For Love -1-

1980 33 Little Jeannie -1-

1980 44 Sartorial Eloquence (Don't Ya Wanna Play This Game No More?) -2-

1981 40 I Saw Her Standing There (The Elton John Band & John Lennon) -NAS-

1981 42 Nobody Wins -1-

1982 08 Blue Eyes -1-

1982 51 Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny) -2-

1983 05 I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues -1-

1983 04 I'm Still Standing -2- MILLIONAIRE

1983 20 Kiss The Bride -3-

1983 33 Cold As Christmas (In The Middle Of The Year) -4-

1984 07 Sad Songs (Say So Much) -1-

1984 05 Passengers -2-

1984 50 Who Wears These Shoes? -3-

1985 59 Breaking Hearts (Ain't What It Used To Be) -4-

1985 32 Act Of War (Elton John & Millie Jackson) -NAS-

1985 03 Nikita -1-

1985 12 Wrap Her Up -2-

1986 47 Cry To Heaven -3-

1986 45 Heartache All Over The World -1-

1986 44 Slow Rivers (Elton John & Cliff Richard) -2-

1987 59 Flames Of Paradise (Jennifer Rush & Elton John)

1987 85 Your Song (Live) -1-

1988 05 Candle In The Wind (Live) -2-

1988 30 I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That -1-

1988 74 Town Of Plenty -2-

1988 91 A Word In Spanish -3-

1989 41 Through The Storm (Aretha Franklin & Elton John)

1989 45 Healing Hands -1-

1989 55 Sacrifice -2-

1990 01 Sacrifice / Healing Hands -3-

1990 47 Club At The End Of The Street / Whispers -4-

1990 33 You Gotta Love Someone -1-

1990 63 Easier To Walk Away -2-

1991 01 Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me (George Michael & Elton John) -1^-

1992 10 The One -1-

1992 31 Runaway Train (Elton John & Eric Clapton) -OST-

1992 21 The Last Song -2-

1993 44 Simple Life -3-

1993 02 True Love (Elton John & Kiki Dee) -2^-

1994 07 Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Elton John & RuPaul) -3^-

1994 24 Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing (Marcella Detroit & Elton John) -4^-

1994 14 Can You Feel The Love Tonight -OST-

1994 11 Circle Of Life -OST-

1995 15 Believe -1-

1995 18 Made In England -2-

1996 33 Please -3-

1997 01 Something About The Way You Look Tonight / Candle In The Wind '97 -1- MILLION SELLER

1998 16 Recover Your Soul -2-

1998 32 If The River Can Bend -3-

1999 10 Written In The Stars (Elton John & LeAnn Rimes) -1-

2001 09 I Want Love -1-

2002 24 This Train Don't Stop There Anymore -2-

2002 39 Original Sin -3-

2002 01 Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word (Blue feat. Elton John)

2004 20 All That I'm Allowed (I'm Thankful) -1-

2005 32 Turn The Lights Out When You Leave -2-

2005 01 Ghetto Gospel (2Pac feat. Elton John)

2005 04 Electricity -3-

2008 88 Joseph, Better You Than Me (The Killers feat. Elton John & Neil Tennant)

2009 03 Tiny Dancer (Hold Me Closer) (Ironik feat. Chipmunk & Elton John)

2012 48 Sad (Elton John vs. Pnau) -1-

2013 69 Face To Face (Gary Barlow & Elton John)

2015 70 Tiny Dancer -1- MILLIONAIRE

2021 47 It's a sin (Elton John & Years & Years) -PS-

2021 01 Cold Heart (Elton John & Dua Lipa) -1-

2021 01 Merry Christmas (Ed Sheeran & Elton John) -2-

 

9 x #1 | 22 x Top 5 | 33 x Top 10 | 48 x Top 20 | 68 x Top 40 | 91 x Top 100

 

Social Media

 

Ed Sheeran

 

Elton John

 

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As far as positions go, yes, but that doesn't really mean anything when her sales are up alongside the others!

 

True like! Glad Wham is ahead these days tho!

Well, E-e-e-e-e-e-easy on me was getting boring at #1 anyway. Well done Ed and Elton.

The song does nothing for me tbh but on the bright side a NEW Christmas #1 and another #1 hit for Elton.

 

(The fact that Elton might have a more impressive chart record will not be enough to excuse what is coming next though :no: :puke: )

Edited December 10, 20214 yr by Jingle Bell Dot

The British ginger dominance of #1 continues!

:thinking: Future chart hit? :thinking:

 

Sam Feldt and Rita Ora

Follow Me

 

 

Non-album single

Released: 10th December 2021

Label: SF Music

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

Sam Feldt

No matter what the calendar says, it’s always summer in Sam Feldt’s music. The Dutch producer combines tropical-house atmospheres, big-room drums and effortless pop songwriting to create a sound that glows like a sunset. Born in 1993, the Netherlands native launched his career in 2014 with “Bloesem” (Dutch for “blossom”), capturing the easygoing spirit of the nascent melodic-house scene in breezy flutes and a lilting reggae backbeat. Over the next few years, he kept expanding tropical house’s organic parameters, lacing “Show Me Love” with evocative birdsong and sculpting “Been a While” around twinkling acoustic guitar and trumpet. On 2017’s double album Sunrise to Sunset, he levelled up to bigger, bolder pop songwriting and indulged a main-stage sweet tooth on the first disc, then eased into mellower, more sentimental vibes in the album’s back half. His subsequent singles have kept pushing outward, slipping between acoustic accents (“Gold”), UK garage rhythms (“Hide & Seek”) and bold, brassy horn charts (“2 Hearts”). Whatever the style or instrumentation, the mood of Feldt’s music is unfailingly upbeat. As he told Apple Music, his music boils down to a simple but powerful combination: “Emotional, melodic and filled with good summer vibes.” - Apple Music

 

Rita Ora

On early singles like “Hot Right Now” with DJ Fresh and her own 2012 smash “How We Do (Party)”, Rita Ora exudes the headstrong confidence and swagger of an artist who knows exactly what she’s about. She also knows what she can do with a voice that fits just as well with lovelorn ballads as it does with full tilt party-starters. That combination of positivity and versatility has helped make Ora—born Rita Sahatçiu in Prishtina in the former Yugoslavia, in 1990—one of the most successful British female solo artists ever. And even though her troubles with her first record label led to a long delay for the follow-up to her 2012 debut Ora, she filled the gap with feature appearances on tracks by Iggy Azalea, Charli XCX and Avicii, along with a stream of UK Top 10 singles such as the dreamy “Anywhere” and “For You”, a duet with Liam Payne for the soundtrack of Fifty Shades Freed. (Her role in the steamy screen franchise as Christian Grey’s sister gave her another chance to show off her glamorous side.) In 2018, Ora released Phoenix, an apt title given her determination to survive any storm and come out sounding as fierce and forthright as ever. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

Sam Feldt

2015 04 Show Me Love (feat. Kimberly Anne) -NAS-

2019 10 Post Malone (feat. RANI) -1-

2021 __ Follow Me (Sam Feldt & Rita Ora) -NAS-

 

0 x #1 | 1 x Top 5 | 2 x Top 10 | 2 x Top 20 | 2 x Top 40 | 2 x Top 100

 

Rita Ora

2012 01 Hot Right Now (DJ Fresh feat. Rita Ora)

2012 01 R.I.P. (feat. Tinie Tempah) -1-

2012 01 How We Do (Party) -2-

2012 54 Young, Single & Sexy -AT-

2012 10 Shine Ya Light -3-

2013 18 Radioactive -4-

2013 18 Lay Down Your Weapons (K Koke feat. Rita Ora)

2014 04 Black Widow (Iggy Azalea feat. Rita Ora)

2014 01 I Will Never Let You Down -NAS-

2015 08 Doing It (Charli XCX feat. Rita Ora)

2015 29 New York Raining (Charles Hamilton feat. Rita Ora)

2015 03 Poison -NAS-

2015 22 Body On Me (feat. Chris Brown) -NAS-

2015 15 Coming Home (Sigma & Rita Ora)

2017 07 Your Song -1- MILLIONAIRE

2017 04 Lonely Together (Avicii feat. Rita Ora) MILLIONAIRE

2017 02 Anywhere -2- MILLIONAIRE

2018 08 For You (Liam Payne & Rita Ora) -OST-

2018 22 Girls (feat. Cardi B, Bebe Rexha & Charli XCX) -3-

2018 04 Let You Love Me -4- MILLIONAIRE

2018 60 Only Want You (feat. 6LACK) -5-

2019 26 Carry On (Kygo & Rita Ora) -OST-

2019 24 Ritual (Tiësto, Jonas Blue & Rita Ora)

2020 57 How To Be Lonely -NAS-

2021 53 Big (Rita Ora, David Guetta & Imanbek feat. Gunna) -1-

2021 23 You For Me (Sigala & Rita Ora)

2021 __ Follow Me (Sam Feldt & Rita Ora)

 

4 x #1 | 9 x Top 5 | 13 x Top 10 | 16 x Top 20 | 22 x Top 40 | 26 x Top 100

 

Social Media

 

Sam Feldt

 

Rita Ora

 

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Did he just say he wrote three songs with Ed?

 

This one, the LadBaby one and?

So this Rita Ora track isn't an Uncle Kracker cover then?

Glad Ed and Elton have made No.1, no matter how long it manages to stay there.

 

Looking at Elton's discography, of his 9 No.1s only 3 of them have been solo (and one of those was Candle In The Wind, which obviously had the circumstances around it). Colour me surprised.

Did he just say he wrote three songs with Ed?

 

This one, the LadBaby one and?

The LadBaby song is the same song, just... with sausage rolls shoehorned in I assume

 

The other two haven't been released (yet)

Did Elton John just say that? :lol:

Funny thing Ed only invited Elton to sing with him just because the latter got a number 1 hit this year.

Why Ed doesn't invite Kylie Minogue? :P

Merry Christmas sounds really good right now!