This should have been top 15 or maybe top 10 imo. :wub:

I can’t believe this only peaked at #4!

Glad this has made the Top 20 for a 6th year in a row (and an 8th in total)

Well next year swap this song with Mariah on all playlists and maybe it will be #1!

Great to see 'Santa, Can't You Hear Me' achieving a new peak for Kelly and Ariana this year - fingers crossed for top 30 next year.

 

A bit higher up I'm glad that The Ronettes squeaked a new peak, as aforementioned in this thread it feels fitting after the passing of Ronnie Spector earlier this year. I hope that playlists embrace their version of 'Frosty The Snowman' more as well in years to come as I really like that too.

 

'Feliz Navidad' continuing to take off here *.* my Spanish grandma unsurprisingly enjoyed hearing that more than anything else when she came over for Christmas dinner :lol: :wub:

FONY must hold the record for reaching the Top 20 for the most years in a row?

18 | 24 | 57th 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) | 72-30-16-14-13-11-x

RE (01/12/2022) | 84-45-24-21-24-18

 

Sales: 1,600k+

Certification: 2x 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- 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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Other news album

 

6 Harry styles Harry house

7 weeknd the highlights

8 Fleetwood Mac’s rumours

9 artic monkeys am

Thank God this is not as high as previous 5 years.

Other news album

 

6 Harry styles Harry house

7 weeknd the highlights

8 Fleetwood Mac’s rumours

9 artic monkeys am

What an odd top 10, very 2022. Lmao

My two faves, Wizzard and Elton, back-to-back :wub: :wub: So glad they both got played today!

Oh please Ed Sheeran is only Top 5 Albums because it’s £3 on Amazon.

 

Well this makes a change from the usual 'he's only so high because he has 500 songs on playlists' at least x

 

A trio of great Christmas songs with new peaks there from Dean Martin (much better than the Sinatra version imo but neat that both have new peaks), José Feliciano and The Ronettes! Hopefully the latter two can eventually go top 20 too. Wizzard and Elton also fab so on a good run right now, shame the latter has dropped off a bit from the last few years though.

Shame that Elton didn't get as high this year :(

'Feliz Navidad' continuing to take off here *.* my Spanish grandma unsurprisingly enjoyed hearing that more than anything else when she came over for Christmas dinner :lol: :wub:

I heard quite a lot of random versions of it in shops and restaurants in Madrid :)

FONY must hold the record for reaching the Top 20 for the most years in a row?

Yes 18 years and counting!

 

So when they get to the top 10 are they gonna recap the contenders with Ladbaby still a contender then just not play him :lol:

17 | 25 | 49th week

 

Paul McCartney

Wonderful Christmastime

 

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Non-album single

Released: 1979

Label: Parlophone / Columbia

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (01/12/1979) | 61-31-20-7-7-6-18-51-x

RE (15/12/2007) | 77-70-44-x

RE (17/12/2011) | 72-93-x

RE (15/12/2012) | 96-x

RE (24/12/2015) | 98-68-x

RE (15/12/2016) | 78-69-54-40-x

RE (14/12/2017) | 79-39-38-26-x

RE (13/12/2018) | 62-48-35-20-x

RE (12/12/2019) | 81-72-67-37-x

RE (03/12/2020) | 90-39-32-34-26-25-x

RE (09/12/2021) | 54-29-27-23-17-x

RE (01/12/2022) | 96-51-30-24-25-17

 

Sales: 1,400k+

Certification: Platinum

Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio

 

06 Sales

15 Audio Streaming

38 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

As Beatlemania was transforming rock ’n’ roll from passing teen fad to permanent pop-cultural movement, Paul McCartney (born in Liverpool in 1942) became the driving force behind the band’s rapid, dramatic maturation. In just two years, he had graduated from the Little Richard worship of 1963’s “I Saw Her Standing There” to the exquisite orchestral balladry of “Yesterday”—a shift that intensified the contrast between McCartney and his increasingly acerbic songwriting partner, John Lennon. But as The Beatles’ entered their late-’60s experimental phase—during which Lennon’s avant-garde impulses came to the fore—McCartney’s traditionalism constituted its own form of radicalism. Within the band’s psychedelic milieu, his embrace of pre-rock forms, like classical (“Eleanor Rigby”) and English music-hall serenades (“When I’m Sixty-Four”), felt no less surreal than The Beatles' use of tape-loop freak-outs and sitar drones. (And this is to say nothing of Paul's sublime bass playing, which elevated the four-string from rhythmic undercurrent to melodic focal point.) His post-Beatles albums have proven equally uncanny and influential: 1971’s art-folk opus Ram provided the lo-fi schematic for future generations of DIY home-recording artists, while the arena-rattling roar of “Jet”, from McCartney's subsequent band Wings’ 1973 LP Band on the Run, shows why he’s become a muse to hard rockers such as Dave Grohl. And by continually collaborating with the hitmakers of the day—from Michael Jackson in the 1980s to Rihanna and Kanye West in the 2010s—he has remained a voracious pop omnivore, as connected to music's past as its future. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

1971 02 Another Day -NAS-

1971 39 Back Seat Of My Car (Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney) -1-

1973 09 My Love (Paul McCartney & Wings) -1-

1973 09 Live And Let Die (Paul McCartney & Wings) -OST-

1973 12 Helen Wheels (Paul McCartney & Wings) -1-

1974 07 Jet (Paul McCartney & Wings) -2-

1974 03 Band On The Run (Paul McCartney & Wings) -3-

1974 16 Junior's Farm (Paul McCartney & Wings) -NAS-

1975 41 Letting Go (Paul McCartney & Wings) -1-

1979 60 Getting Closer / Baby's Request (Paul McCartney & Wings) -1-

1979 06 Wonderful Christmastime -NAS- MILLIONAIRE

1980 02 Coming Up -1-

1980 09 Waterfalls -2-

1982 01 Ebony And Ivory (Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder) -1-

1982 15 Take It Away -2-

1982 53 Tug Of War -3-

1982 08 The Girl Is Mine (Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney)

1983 02 Say Say Say (Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson) -1-

1983 01 Pipes Of Peace -2-

1984 02 No More Lonely Nights -1-

1984 03 We All Stand Together (Paul McCartney & The Frog Chorus) -NAS-

1985 13 Spies Like Us -NAS-

1986 25 Press -1-

1986 76 Pretty Little Head -2-

1986 34 Only Love Remains -3-

1987 10 Once Upon A Long Ago -1-

1989 01 Ferry 'Cross The Mersey (The Christians, Holly Johnson, Paul McCartney, Gerry Marsden & Stock Aitken Waterman)

1989 18 My Brave Face -1-

1989 18 This One -2-

1989 42 Figure Of Eight -3-

1990 32 Put It There -4-

1990 29 Birthday -1-

1990 35 All My Trials -2-

1993 18 Hope Of Deliverance -1-

1993 41 C'Mon People -2-

1997 19 Young Boy -1-

1997 23 The World Tonight -2-

1997 25 Beautiful Night -3-

1999 42 No Other Baby -1-

1999 87 Voice (Heather Mills feat. Paul McCartney)

2001 45 From A Lover To A Friend -1-

2004 21 Tropic Island Hum -NAS-

2005 20 Fine Line -1-

2005 22 Jenny Wren -2-

2007 26 Dance Tonight -1-

2007 85 Ever Present Past -2-

2015 28 Only One (Kanye West feat. Paul McCartney)

2015 03 FourFiveSeconds (Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney) MILLIONAIRE

2015 18 All Day (Kanye West feat. Theophilus London, Allan Kingdom & Paul McCartney)

 

3 x #1 | 10 x Top 5 | 17 x Top 10 | 27 x Top 20 | 39 x Top 40 | 49 x Top 100

 

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I'm Going to be sick

The Elton one is another I can never remember anything about despite having heard it so many times.

Paul was surely on some evil LSD when he made this. Tell me when its over, o've switched off the radio please