Love this Kelly track!

This and One More Sleep have really grown on me in recent years. I'm all for songs establishing themselves over time!

16 | 30 | 48th week

 

Elton John

Step Into Christmas

 

 

Non-album single

Released: 1973

Label: DJM, MCA

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (08/12/1973) | 42-25-26-26-24-26-44-x

RE (15/12/2007) | 82-65-53-x

RE (17/12/2011) | 64-78-89-x

RE (15/12/2012) | 75-79-x

RE (13/12/2014) | 97-91-96-84-x

RE (17/12/2015) | 91-80-58-x

RE (15/12/2016) | 68-62-47-37-x

RE (14/12/2017) | 63-19-18-11-x

RE (13/12/2018) | 44-22-18-10-x

RE (12/12/2019) | 39-24-19-8-x

RE (26/11/2020) | 91-49-18-10-11-10-8-x

RE (02/12/2021) | 72-30-16

 

Sales: 1,200k+

Certification: Platinum

Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio

 

24 Sales

06 Audio Streaming

24 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

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

 

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-

 

8 x #1 | 21 x Top 5 | 32 x Top 10 | 47 x Top 20 | 67 x Top 40 | 90 x Top 100

 

Social Media

 

Elton John

 

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This Kelly Clarkson track really is quite decent. All for it getting a new peak amongst the Christmas madness.

Not sure if that Gavin And Stacey Christmas special has done much to improve this song for me, but at least I now know most of the words in the chorus!

:cheeseblock: at that chart history for Elton.

15 | 08 | 21st week

 

Sam Fender

Seventeen Going Under

 

 

1st single from Seventeen Going Under

Released: 7th July 2021

Label: Polydor Records

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (22/07/2021) | 44-62-70-60-61-57-57-60-54-60-65-68-x

RE (21/10/2021) | 26-38-37-43-22-9-9-8-15

 

Sales: 200k+

Certification: Silver

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

 

06 Sales

13 Audio Streaming

37 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

Melding urgent, melodic indie rock with the heart of a singer/songwriter and socially conscious lyrics, Newcastle native Sam Fender rose to British acclaim in late 2017 when he appeared on the coveted BBC Sound of 2018 list and was subsequently signed to Polydor Records. His first album, Hypersonic Missiles, arrived in 2019.

 

Born and raised in North Shields, just outside of Newcastle, Fender came from a musical family. After gigging locally, he was discovered by Ben Howard's manager, who helped pave the road for Fender's debut single, "Play God." Moody in tone and socially conscious, it was followed by two more singles, "Greasy Spoon" and "Millennial," before the BBC named Fender along with acts like Sigrid and Lewis Capaldi for their Sound of 2018 list. Tours with Hozier and Catfish and the Bottlemen followed, as did 2018 singles like "Leave Fast" and "That Sound," both of which later appeared on his EP Dead Boys, released by Polydor in November of that year.

 

At the beginning of 2019, Fender entered his own studio in his hometown of North Shields to record his debut album with friend and producer Bramwell Bronte. He won the Brit Awards' Critics' Choice honor and made his U.S. television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live! before Interscope/Polydor issued the resulting Hypersonic Missiles in September of 2019. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

2019 89 Play God -1-

2019 48 Hypersonic Missiles -2-

2019 43 Will We Talk? -3-

2019 59 The Borders -IG-

2021 08 Seventeen Going Under -1-

2021 48 Get You Down -2-

2021 41 Spit Of You -3-

 

0 x #1 | 0 x Top 5 | 1 x Top 10 | 1 x Top 20 | 1 x Top 40 | 7 x Top 100

 

Social Media

 

Sam Fender

 

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14 | 23 | 90th week

 

Band Aid

Do They Know It's Christmas?

 

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Non-album single

Released: 1984

Label: Phonogram

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (15/12/1984) | 1-1-1-1-1-2-9-17-30-38-37-57-71-x

RE (07/12/1985) | 24-6-3-3-4-13-47-x

RE (08/02/1986) | 91-x

RE (20/12/1986) | 99-88-86-x

RE (15/12/2007) | 38-27-24-57-x

RE (13/12/2008) | 64-54-58-72-x

RE (12/12/2009) | 65-53-61-50-x

RE (11/12/2010) | 62-54-58-58-x

RE (10/12/2011) | 62-34-42-41-x

RE (08/12/2012) | 82-37-42-51-x

RE (14/12/2013) | 62-57-63-x

RE (29/11/2014) | 61-88-59-61-60-56-x

RE (17/12/2015) | 71-59-38-86-x

RE (15/12/2016) | 41-43-35-29-x

RE (07/12/2017) | 85-16-12-12-7-x

RE (06/12/2018) | 88-26-15-13-6-x

RE (05/12/2019) | 77-23-15-17-7-x

RE (26/11/2020) | 86-38-15-8-7-9-7-x

RE (02/12/2021) | 66-23-14

 

Sales: 5,000k+

Certification: 2x Platinum

Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio

 

01 Sales

04 Audio Streaming

46 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

Band Aid were a charity supergroup featuring mainly British and Irish musicians and recording artists. It was founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for anti-famine efforts in Ethiopia by releasing the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" for the Christmas market that year. On 25 November 1984, the song was recorded at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London, and was released in the UK on Monday 3 December. The single surpassed the hopes of the producers to become the Christmas number one on that release. Three subsequent re-recordings of the song to raise further money for charity also topped the charts, first the Band Aid II version in 1989 and the Band Aid 20 version in 2004 and finally the Band Aid 30 version in 2014. The original was produced by Midge Ure. The 12" version was mixed by Trevor Horn. - Wikipedia

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

1984 01 Do They Know It's Christmas? -NAS- MILLION SELLER

1989 01 Do They Know It's Christmas? (Band Aid II) -NAS-

2004 01 Do They Know It's Christmas? (Band Aid 20) -NAS- MILLION SELLER

2014 01 Do They Know It's Christmas? (2014) (Band Aid 30) -NAS-

 

4 x #1 | 4 x Top 5 | 4 x Top 10 | 4 x Top 20 | 4 x Top 40 | 4 x Top 100

 

Social Media

 

Band Aid

 

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LOVE to see Sam holding up in the Top 15 when half of those above him are Christmas songs.

 

Top 5 in the new year is a MUST just saying.

I was only 15 months old when Band Aid were number one on 25/12/1984

Its strange that Step Into Christmas only made #24 at its original release in 1973.

The original and still fantastic Band Aid record. Nevermind the shite SAW remake or the shite 20th anniversary remake or the shite 30th anniversary remake.... this one thank you.

Hope Sam fender goes acr

So back in 1984, was DTKIC? still hanging around in the Top 40 mid-February?

Looking at that chart run, it must have been.

 

Impressive.

I was only 15 months old when Band Aid were number one on 25/12/1984

 

I was 23 months old!

13 | 09 | 6th week

 

Ed Sheeran

Overpass Graffiti

 

 

3rd single from =

Released: 29th October 2021

Label: Asylum Records UK

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (11/11/2021) | 4-6-6-10-9-13

 

Sales: 100k+

Certification: -

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

 

01 Sales

05 Audio Streaming

12 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

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

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

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-

 

11 x #1 | 24 x Top 5 | 32 x Top 10 | 44 x Top 20 | 48 x Top 40 | 63 x Top 100

 

Social Media

 

Ed Sheeran

 

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So back in 1984, was DTKIC? still hanging around in the Top 40 mid-February?

Looking at that chart run, it must have been.

 

Impressive.

 

I'm guessing the fact it was for charity (still a novelty at the time) and such a huge deal at the time coupled with the new year lull in sales allowed for that.

Bizarrely Radio 2 included it on a one-hit wonder show the other day.

 

Now, i'm not sure what the exact definition of a one hit wonder is but surely ELP's Fanfare of the Common Man disqualifies him as one....

 

In some cases Greg Lake would be considered a one hit wonder as a solo artist

I was only 15 months old when Band Aid were number one on 25/12/1984

 

Strange that they were number one into the New Year, singles chart sales must have been low in January 1985.

Hope Sam fender goes acr

 

Why it’s only been top 40 for a few weeks!