My favourite middle eight lyrics for a long time hahah

05 | 06 | 64th week

 

Brenda Lee

Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree

 

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1st single from Merry Christmas From Brenda Lee

Released: 1962

Label: Decca

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (05/12/1962) | 30-11-11-7-6-12-36-x

RE (29/12/2007) | 94-x

RE (13/12/2008) | 94-76-82-x

RE (12/12/2009) | 98-77-80-70-x

RE (17/12/2011) | 62-64-85-x

RE (15/12/2012) | 57-54-66-x

RE (14/12/2013) | 67-63-72-x

RE (13/12/2014) | 69-67-69-63-x

RE (17/12/2015) | 79-72-60-x

RE (15/12/2016) | 61-51-44-31-x

RE (14/12/2017) | 42-15-14-9-x

RE (13/12/2018) | 39-26-21-16-x

RE (12/12/2019) | 42-32-32-18-x

RE (03/12/2020) | 52-19-15-18-16-15-x

RE (02/12/2021) | 58-22-10-8-9-5-x

RE (24/11/2022) | 92-42-18-6-5

 

Sales: 1,700k+

Certification: 2x Platinum

Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio

 

06 Sales

03 Audio Streaming

26 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

Singer Brenda Lee was one of the first country artists to cross over to pop audiences, and she was the highest-charting female artist of the 1960s. At nine years old, Lee joined the cast of the TV show Ozark Jubilee after impressing host Red Foley with her rendition of “Jambalaya.” Her first hit, “One Step At A Time,” released when she was 12, peaked at No. 15 on the Billboard Country chart and No. 43 on the Hot 100. Lee’s most famous single, 1958’s “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree,” initially only sold 5,000 copies, but by 1978 it had sold 5 million and continues to be one of the most-played holiday songs. From 1958 to 1962, she had 10 consecutive Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100—a record for a female solo artist that she held for more than 20 years. The 1960 hit “I’m Sorry” earned Lee her first of four Grammy nominations, and and she was honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. She was inducted into the Country Music Hall Of Fame in 1997 and the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 2002, making her the first woman to earn both distinctions. John Lennon once referred to Brenda Lee as the greatest rock ’n’ roll voice of all time. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

1960 04 Sweet Nothin's -2'-

1960 12 I'm Sorry -3'-

1960 31 I Want To Be Wanted -1-

1961 12 Let's Jump The Broomstick -1'-

1961 45 Emotions -1-

1961 22 Dum Dum -1*-

1961 38 Fool #1 -1-

1962 46 Break It To Me Gently -1^-

1962 03 Speak To Me Pretty -2*-

1962 05 Here Comes That Feeling -NAS-

1962 15 It Started All Over Again -NAS-

1962 05 Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree -1"- MILLIONAIRE

1963 07 All Alone Am I -1-

1963 10 Losing You -2^-

1963 14 I Wonder -1-

1963 28 Sweet Impossible You -NAS-

1964 05 As Usual -2-

1964 26 Think -1~-

1964 17 Is It True? -NAS-

1964 25 Christmas Will Be Just Another Lonely Day -2"-

1965 41 Thanks A Lot -NAS-

1965 22 Too Many Rivers -2~-

 

0 x #1 | 4 x Top 5 | 7 x Top 10 | 12 x Top 20 | 19 x Top 40 | 22 x Top 100

 

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Brenda Lee

 

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COME ON MARIAH!!!!! STOP WHAM!!!! DO IT FOR FEMINISM EVERYWHERE!!!

Nah, RAYE should stop both of them.

Mariah Carey - Last Christmas?

 

Did they get Jack Saunders from student radio or something?

Not a fan of this one.

hope wham or raye are #1. id rather it be raye but i think it'll be wham

04 | 04 | 8th week

 

Ed Sheeran and Elton John

Merry Christmas

 

 

4th single from =

and 3rd single from The Lockdown Sessions

Released: 3rd December 2021

Label: Asylum Records UK

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (16/12/2021) | 1-1-2-1-x

RE (01/12/2022) | 40-15-4-4

 

Sales: 400k+

Certification: Gold

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

 

01 Sales

06 Audio Streaming

01 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- MILLIONAIRE

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- MILLIONAIRE

2021 04 Overpass Graffiti -3-

2021 02 Peru (Fireboy DML & Ed Sheeran)

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

2021 01 Sausage Rolls For Everyone (LadBaby feat. Ed Sheeran & Elton John)

2022 02 The Joker And The Queen (feat. Taylor Swift) -5-

2022 07 Bam Bam (Camila Cabello feat. Ed Sheeran)

2022 96 Sigue (J Balvin & Ed Sheeran)

2022 09 2step (feat. Lil Baby) -6-

2022 18 For My Hand (Burna Boy feat. Ed Sheeran)

2022 47 Are You Entertained (Russ & Ed Sheeran)

2022 06 My G (Aitch & Ed Sheeran)

2022 06 Celestial -OST-

 

13 x #1 | 28 x Top 5 | 40 x Top 10 | 53 x Top 20 | 57 x Top 40 | 74 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- MILLIONAIRE

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

2021 01 Sausage Rolls For Everyone (LadBaby feat. Ed Sheeran & Elton John)

2022 03 Hold Me Closer (Elton John & Britney Spears) -3-

 

10 x #1 | 24 x Top 5 | 35 x Top 10 | 50 x Top 20 | 70 x Top 40 | 93 x Top 100

 

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'Anti-Hero' really is a breath of air in the chart right now.

Come and sing and dance to sausage rolls with me!

the americification of christmas playlists meaning brenda lee is top 5 again. its decent but definitely a very overrated xmas song

 

Amerification and over sentimentalism of these ancient tracks too! They are fine for what they are but no real depth...

Why is some mind-numbingly tedious trailer considered more important than the end of the Wizzard song?

 

To pack more stuff in, the song is five minutes long after all.

Brenda may well get to #4 in a couple of weeks, when there’ll be various Christmas song peaks no doubt.

ed & elton's xmas song is decent! solid 7/10 for it

I know LadBaby ruined it, but I kind of love this

Come and sing and dance to sausage rolls with me!

:frankie:

Come and sing and dance to sausage rolls with me!

Still can't unhear that when the intro of this comes on :arrr:

Come and sing and dance to sausage rolls with me!

 

immediately no

I did love Merry Christmas but I can’t help hearing “It’s Christmas time sausage rolls and wine” now :(

ugh you just reminded me that ladbaby exist and have released another sh*t christmas "song" today

03 | 02 | 4th week

 

RAYE featuring 070 Shake

Escapism.

 

 

3rd single from My 21st Century Blues

Released: 12th October 2022

Label: RAYE

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (01/12/2022) | 31-6-2-3

 

Sales: 80k+

Certification: -

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

 

05 Sales

11 Audio Streaming

35 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

Rachel Agatha Keen, (born 24 October 1997) known professionally as Raye (stylised in all caps), is a British singer and songwriter. In 2016, she rose to prominence by featuring on the singles; "By Your Side" by Jonas Blue and "You Don't Know Me" by Jax Jones, the latter peaking at number three on the UK Singles Chart and both being certified platinum or higher by the BPI. Raye was short-listed for the BBC Music Sound of... award for 2017 and was named in third place. Her debut mini-album, Euphoric Sad Songs was released in November 2020 and spawned in the UK top-10 single "Secrets" with Regard. In 2021, she was co-lead artist on the single "Bed" with musicians Joel Corry and David Guetta. In July 2021, Raye parted ways with her record label Polydor Records. Her debut studio album, My 21st Century Blues, will be released on 3 February 2023. - Wikipedia

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

RAYE

2016 15 By Your Side (Jonas Blue feat. RAYE)

2016 03 You Don't Know Me (Jax Jones feat. RAYE) MILLIONAIRE

2017 65 The Line -NAS-

2017 15 Decline (RAYE & Mr Eazi) -1-

2018 26 Check (Kojo Funds feat. RAYE)

2018 41 Cigarette (RAYE, Mabel & Stefflon Don) -2-

2018 66 Friends -NAS-

2019 41 Stay (Don't Go Away) (David Guetta feat. RAYE)

2019 55 Love Me Again -1-

2020 21 Tequila (Jax Jones & Martin Solveig present Europa with RAYE)

2020 06 Secrets (Regard & RAYE)

2021 37 Regardless (RAYE & Rudimental) -2-

2021 03 BED (Joel Corry, RAYE & David Guetta) MILLIONAIRE

2021 14 Ferrari Horses (D-Block Europe & RAYE)

2021 64 Call On Me -NAS-

2021 50 I Don't Want You (Riton & RAYE)

2021 50 Money Calling (Da Beatfreakz feat. Russ Millions, RAYE & wewantwraiths)

2022 67 Waterfall (Disclosure & RAYE)

2022 02 Escapism. (feat. 070 Shake) -1-

 

0 x #1 | 3 x Top 5 | 4 x Top 10 | 7 x Top 20 | 10 x Top 40 | 19 x Top 100

 

070 Shake

2022 02 Escapism. (RAYE feat. 070 Shake)

 

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

 

Social Media

 

RAYE

 

070 Shake

 

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