funnily in the US, the highest placed xmas song on Spotify is Brenda Lee and not Mariah :D

 

I think that happened last year, as well.

funnily in the US, the highest placed xmas song on Spotify is Brenda Lee and not Mariah :D

 

Yeah, Brenda has a lot more programmed streams. In Apple Music Mariah is #7 and Brenda is 47 or at youtube #4 Mariah and #92 Brenda. Spotify is important but not crucial.

“One More Sleep” is already TOP10 on UK Apple Music (7 days before it first entered the TOP10 last year). A shame the Spotify playlists are so US based, this song could be way bigger that it is with more Spotify support :/

No Cliff Richard in the Top 200? Or top 500? Top 1000 maybe? ;)

 

Shame to hear of the lack of Stormzy in it’s 2nd day of release.

Wow, wasn’t expecting Christmas songs to blow up that suddenly - at least give us until 1 December please!

 

This weekend I think a lot of people have put their trees up!

 

 

 

Apple Music Chart Update (26-27/11)

Xmas

09 21 Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You

11 26 Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone

17 35 Leona Lewis - One More Sleep

18 36 Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree

19 40 Michael Bublé - It's Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas

20 31 The Pogues - Fairytale of New York

27 44 Wham! - Last Christmas (Single Version)

28 47 Elton John - Step into Christmas

34 74 Andy Williams - It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

36 69 Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?

37 72 Wham! - Last Christmas

43 90 Chris Rea - Driving Home for Christmas

45 81 Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me

46 96 Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody

47 97 Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (2006 Remastered Version)

49 94 Ed Sheeran & Elton John - Merry Christmas

68 RE Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock

73 RE The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride

78 RE Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime (Edited Version)

80 RE Dean Martin - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

81 RE Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree (Single Version)

83 RE José Feliciano - Feliz Navidad

99 RE Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You

 

and the Christmas songs in the 101-200 range on Apple:

 

 

112. East 17 - Stay Another Day

114. Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby (Remastered 2001)

116. John Lennon, Yoko Ono & The Plastic Ono Band - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

123. Pretenders - 2000 Miles

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

138 & 186. Boney M. - Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord

144. Jackson 5 - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

160. Johnny Mathis - When a Child Is Born

161. Mud - Lonely This Christmas

165. Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree (again)

169. Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas

185. Celine Dion - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

188. Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah

190. Bing Crosby - Winter Wonderland

193. Michael Buble - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

This performance for Stormzy is really pretty underwhelming even in context but to be fair I'm not surprised that his numbers have fallen off a bit - respect to him making the kind of music he wants to make but a curious decision for him to make a comeback with a full rap track 'Mel Made Me Do It' (which was pretty well received) and then proceed to make an album that seems to be almost entirely singing stuff which really no one wants from him (at least not for a full album, of course he's had a couple of hit singles appealing to the casuals with that style but they've never been his most popular stuff with his actual fanbase). I'll still give a listen to the album but my hype for it fell off a cliff pretty quickly when it became clear the direction he was going in with it. 'Hide & Seek' is nice though.

 

I think he should still be able to get the #1 album but no chance this album has anything close to the longevity of his last 2.

 

funnily in the US, the highest placed xmas song on Spotify is Brenda Lee and not Mariah :D

 

This has been the case for the last couple of years! (Still waiting for Brenda to have a turn ahead of Mariah on the Hot 100 but Mariah seems to have an unshakeable airplay advantage unfortunately)

If Brenda Lee gets that US #1 spot, it'd be the most iconic chart day there ever imo. We have been waiting for 60 years

Hope Raye climbs back up even though with the influx of Xmas songs it’ll be difficult

This performance for Stormzy is really pretty underwhelming even in context but to be fair I'm not surprised that his numbers have fallen off a bit - respect to him making the kind of music he wants to make but a curious decision for him to make a comeback with a full rap track 'Mel Made Me Do It' (which was pretty well received) and then proceed to make an album that seems to be almost entirely singing stuff which really no one wants from him (at least not for a full album, of course he's had a couple of hit singles appealing to the casuals with that style but they've never been his most popular stuff with his actual fanbase). I'll still give a listen to the album but my hype for it fell off a cliff pretty quickly when it became clear the direction he was going in with it. 'Hide & Seek' is nice though.

 

I think he should still be able to get the #1 album but no chance this album has anything close to the longevity of his last 2.

This has been the case for the last couple of years! (Still waiting for Brenda to have a turn ahead of Mariah on the Hot 100 but Mariah seems to have an unshakeable airplay advantage unfortunately)

 

In the US, Brenda Lee has been gaining on Mariah gradually each year. And also WITHIN each year she gains on Mariah as well as it gets closer to Christmas like how WHAM do in the UK. So, I think it's inevitable she will get #1 one day.

Hope Raye climbs back up even though with the influx of Xmas songs it’ll be difficult

 

I'd say she will tomorrow (for today's streams). Today's update (ie for yesterdays streams) will be even more X-Mas heavy

 

Although must be said as breakthrough's go, she's picked the wrong time of the year, although she'll probably peak in January

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I feel like she's taking off at the right time tbh. Get high up so that when Xmas is done, she's in a strong position to bounce right back. She'll likely peak in January.

The good thing is she's gotten very high with limited Spotify support, HH moved her up on Friday up to ca. #25 but previously she was at the very end of the playlist at like track #67 or something

so when the Spotify support gets better (in Jan I guess) she can definitely peak, while Meghan has already crazy Spotify support, so Meghan's support can get much better

I'll buy RAYE a drink if in January she blocks 'Made You Look' from reaching the summit.

What if she's doing dry January?

The Spotify playlists have started to skew the Christmas charts so much.

 

The top six highest Christmas songs on the dominant 'Christmas Hits' playlist on Spotify exactly match the six highest Christmas songs on today's chart, albeit with Brenda a couple of places higher. I really don't believe that Holly Jolly Christmas is even one of the top 20 most popular Christmas songs in the UK if it was left to active searches.

 

My campaign for them to push Wizzard higher on that playlist goes on...

Coke lol

 

That escalated quickly

Really impressive for Raye to move back up to #25 considering nearly all Christmas songs are climbing!

No Cliff Richard in the Top 200? Or top 500? Top 1000 maybe? ;)

#200 on Spotify today

 

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