December 31, 20214 yr 10 | 12 | 68th week Chris Rea Driving Home For Christmas http://a5.mzstatic.com/eu/r30/Music1/v4/44/38/0c/44380cb2-ffbc-a67d-1638-5f3c9375ccea/cover170x170.jpeg Non-album single Released: 1988 Label: Warner Music UK Chart Run NE (10/12/1988) | 84-72-61-53-93-x RE (08/12/2007) | 98-51-35-33-77-x RE (13/12/2008) | 70-53-59-70-x RE (12/12/2009) | 84-63-63-40-x RE (18/12/2010) | 100-82-67-x RE (10/12/2011) | 91-59-53-36-x RE (15/12/2012) | 54-53-36-95-x RE (14/12/2013) | 72-61-53-91-x RE (13/12/2014) | 67-60-53-43-x RE (17/12/2015) | 67-51-29-78-x RE (15/12/2016) | 46-37-26-x RE (14/12/2017) | 68-23-20-14-x RE (13/12/2018) | 49-36-22-11-x RE (12/12/2019) | 59-46-42-24-x RE (03/12/2020) | 55-22-17-13-11-11-x RE (02/12/2021) | 80-33-27-17-12-10 Sales: 1,200k+ Certification: 2x Platinum Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio 21 Sales 07 Audio Streaming 24 Video Streaming Video uSjq7x67kzM Biography Christopher Anton Rea (/ˈriːə/ REE-ə; born 4 March 1951) is an English rock and blues singer-songwriter and guitarist. Born and raised in Middlesbrough, he is of Italian and Irish descent. He is known for his distinctive, husky-gravel voice and slide guitar playing, and the Guinness Rockopedia described him as a "gravel-voiced guitar stalwart". After learning to play the guitar relatively late in his early twenties, which was followed by a short local band activity, Rea began his solo career in 1978 and has produced twenty-five solo albums, but some of them from his later blues period like Blue Guitars (2005) have multiple discs. The British Hit Singles & Albums stated that Rea was "one of the most popular UK singer-songwriters of the late 1980s" and "already a major European star by the time he finally cracked the UK Top 10 with the release of the single "The Road to Hell (Part 2)", which was his 18th chart entry." Two of his most successful studio albums, The Road to Hell (1989) and Auberge (1991), topped the UK Albums Chart. His other hit songs include "I Can Hear Your Heartbeat", "Stainsby Girls", "Josephine", "On the Beach", "Let's Dance", "Driving Home for Christmas", "Working on It", "Tell Me There's a Heaven", "Auberge", "Looking for the Summer", "Winter Song", "Nothing to Fear", "Julia", and "If You Were Me", a duet with Elton John. Rea was nominated three times for the Brit Award for Best British Male Artist: in 1988, 1989 and 1990. Rea has never toured the United States and is best known there for the 1978 single "Fool (If You Think It's Over)", which reached No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart. This success earned him a Grammy nomination as Best New Artist in 1978. As of 2009, Rea had sold more than 30 million records worldwide. - Wikipedia Top 100 Chart History 1978 30 Fool (If You Think It's Over) -1- 1979 44 Diamonds -1- 1982 65 Loving You -1- 1983 85 Let It Loose -1- 1983 60 I Can Hear Your Heartbeat -2- 1984 65 I Don't Know What It Is But I Love It -1- 1984 86 Touche D'Amour -2- 1984 78 Ace Of Hearts -3- 1985 26 Stainsby Girls -1- 1985 67 Josephine -2- 1986 69 It's All Gone -1- 1986 12 On The Beach -2- 1986 79 Hello Friend -3- 1987 12 Let's Dance -1- 1987 47 Loving You Again -2- 1987 67 Joys Of Christmas -3- 1988 73 Que Sera -4- 1988 10 Driving Home For Christmas -NAS- MILLIONAIRE 1989 53 Working On It -1- 1989 10 The Road To Hell (Part 2) -1- 1989 83 That's What They Always Say -2- 1990 24 Tell Me There's A Heaven -3- 1990 69 Texas -4- 1991 16 Auberge -1- 1991 57 Heaven -2- 1991 49 Looking For The Summer -3- 1991 27 Winter Song -4- 1992 16 Nothing To Fear -1- 1992 31 God's Great Banana Skin -2- 1993 53 Soft Top Hard Shoulder -3- 1993 18 Julia -1- 1994 28 You Can Go Your Own Way -1- 1996 77 Girl In A Sports Car -2- 1996 41 'Disco' La Passione (Chris Rea & Shirley Bassey) -1- 1997 44 Let's Dance (Middlesbrough FC feat. Bob Mortimer & Chris Rea) -NAS- 1998 80 Square Peg, Round Hole -1- 2000 78 All Summer Long -1- 0 x #1 | 0 x Top 5 | 2 x Top 10 | 7 x Top 20 | 13 x Top 40 | 37 x Top 100 Social Media Chris Rea http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png
December 31, 20214 yr Aw, was hoping for Chris to get his Rea into the top 10. :( *edit - oh, it is!! Edited December 31, 20214 yr by Tawdry Hepburn
December 31, 20214 yr Yay for Chris Rea! :yahoo: (I thought it had missed out when they started playing it straight after No 13.)
December 31, 20214 yr Oh wow the tease of them playing 'Driving Home For Christmas' straight after #13 had finished :lol: but indeed a top 10 peak achieved, great to see :cheer:
December 31, 20214 yr really thought Ariana would make top 10 this year looking at the playlists and the huge support she's got
December 31, 20214 yr Really happy chris really has finally got a new top 10 peak. I hope shaky can go top 5 now this year.
December 31, 20214 yr 09 | 15 | 47th week Andy Williams It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year http://is1.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music/v4/eb/dc/46/ebdc4647-1beb-8486-abeb-089f498b3e46/source/170x170bb.jpg Album track from The Andy Williams Christmas Album Released: 1963 Label: Columbia Chart Statistics NE (08/12/2007) | 43-25-21-21-64-x RE (13/12/2008) | 80-63-71-x RE (02/01/2010) | 85-x RE (14/12/2013) | 98-90-x RE (13/12/2014) | 86-74-76-61-x RE (17/12/2015) | 90-87-61-100-x RE (15/12/2016) | 55-50-41-24-x RE (14/12/2017) | 80-37-37-17-x RE (13/12/2018) | 85-62-52-29-x RE (12/12/2019) | 61-50-46-25-x RE (03/12/2020) | 79-36-28-29-23-23-x RE (02/12/2021) | 86-38-20-18-15-9 Sales: 800k+ Certification: Platinum Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio 21 Sales 10 Audio Streaming __ Video Streaming Video cbZTfrhcamA Biography Howard Andrew Williams (December 3, 1927 – September 25, 2012) was an American singer. He recorded 43 albums in his career, of which 15 have been gold-certified and 3 platinum-certified. He was also nominated for six Grammy Awards. He hosted The Andy Williams Show, a television variety show, from 1962 to 1971 along with numerous TV specials. The Andy Williams Show won three Emmy awards. The Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri, is named after the song for which he is best known—Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini's "Moon River". He sold more than 100 million records worldwide, including more than 10 million certified units in the United States. Williams was active in the music industry for over 70 years until his death in 2012. - Wikipedia Top 100 Chart History 1957 01 Butterfly -NAS- 1957 16 I Like Your Kind Of Love -NAS- 1962 30 Stranger On The Shore -1- 1963 02 Can't Get Used To Losing You -1- 1964 40 A Fool Never Learns -1- 1965 02 Almost There -1- 1966 19 May Each Day -1- 1966 33 In The Arms Of Love -1- 1967 09 Music To Watch Girls By -1- 1967 45 More And More -NAS- 1968 05 Can't Take My Eyes Off You -1- 1969 19 Happy Heart -1- 1970 03 Can't Help Falling In Love -NAS- 1970 13 It's So Easy -1- 1970 07 Home Lovin' Man -1- 1971 04 (Where Do I Begin) Love Story -1- 1972 42 Love Theme From The Godfather -1- 1973 04 Solitaire -1- 1974 35 Getting Over You -2- 1975 32 You Lay So Easy On My Mind -1- 1976 42 The Other Side Of Me -1- 2002 23 Can't Take My Eyes Off You (Andy Williams & Denise Van Outen) -1- 2007 09 It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year -AT- 1 x #1 | 7 x Top 5 | 10 x Top 10 | 14 x Top 20 | 20 x Top 40 | 23 x Top 100 Social Media Andy Williams http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png
December 31, 20214 yr Really happy chris really has finally got a new top 10 peak. I hope shaky can go top 5 now this year.
December 31, 20214 yr I can't help but think the lyric "gay happy meetings" has such a different meaning now. Isn't the evolution of language interesting?
December 31, 20214 yr 08 | 10 | 6th week George Ezra Come On Home For Christmas Non-album single Released: 3rd November 2021 Label: Sony Music Entertainment UK Chart Run NE (02/12/2021) | 85-36-26-15-10-8 Sales: 40k+ Certification: - Status: Standard Chart Ratio __ Sales 28 Audio Streaming __ Video Streaming Video 4CkErPWZvbc Biography George Ezra’s spirited folk-pop sing-alongs could have thrived in any era, but their mix of worldly curiosity, unbridled optimism and a few playful loops and synths reflects a truly millennial ideal. Born George Ezra Barnett in Hertfordshire, England in 1993, the singer/songwriter grew up seeking comfort in the wordplay of folk laureates like Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie and the raw, emotional resonance of blues masters like Lead Belly. He trained his voice to sound as bold and booming as the latter, and honed his writing chops while travelling—an activity he’d been fascinated with since falling in love with Paddington Bear as a kid. The fictional teddy would come to inspire Ezra’s 2014 debut album, Wanted on Voyage, a phrase found on Paddington’s suitcase. Singles “Budapest” and “Barcelona” burst with buoyant acoustic hooks while evoking the modest sensibility of Ed Sheeran. They also represent a clear sense of place, and Ezra’s eternal wanderlust, something he slips into each of his effervescent works—whether that’s finding “Paradise” in love or riding “Shotgun” to anywhere. That exuberant joie de vivre feels ever more evocative under the influence of his robust baritone, a soothing sonorousness that goes down like a finely aged wine. - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 2013 03 Budapest -1/3- MILLIONAIRE 2014 95 Leaving It Up To You -IG- 2014 06 Blame It On Me -4- MILLIONAIRE 2014 41 Listen To The Man -5- 2015 70 Cassy O' -2/6- 2017 66 Don't Matter Now -1- 2018 02 Paradise -2- MILLIONAIRE 2018 08 Hold My Girl -4- 2018 01 Shotgun -3- MILLIONAIRE 2018 25 Pretty Shining People -5- 2021 08 Come On Home For Christmas -NAS- 1 x #1 | 3 x Top 5 | 6 x Top 10 | 6 x Top 20 | 7 x Top 40 | 11 x Top 100 Social Media George Ezra http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png
December 31, 20214 yr I can't help but think the lyric "gay happy meetings" has such a different meaning now. Isn't the evolution of language interesting? The evolution is very interesting and can be really seen with songs.
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