07 | 07 | 72nd 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) | 92-42-18-6-5-8-4-x

RE (23/11/2023) | 65-31-14-6-7-7

 

Sales: 2,100k+

Certification: 3x Platinum

Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio

 

06 Sales

03 Audio Streaming

07 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 04 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

 

Social Media

 

Brenda Lee

 

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I'm slightly surprised they play the lyrics about whips and chains knowing how prudish R1 can be! :whip:

 

Memories of S&M-gate

Don't forget Shania Twain too!

Kylie and Cher have done it completely solo though, without featuring on someone else's song, it must be said. ^_^

Buble. Why is he popular??

 

He’s a great guy!

Are we getting Band Aid 40 next year? :kink:

 

I was thinking this too, but I wonder if the Band Aid Foundation might think it was too soon after last year's Food Aid version by that sausage roll bloke who is conspicuous by his absence this time round.

I really thought Brenda could go top 3 this year. Still might next week I guess.

Joseph dance round Christmas tree

Does anyone know off the bat what the closest sales-wise Ariana has been to the top 10?

I'm guessing two weeks ago when she was less than 600 units away

Did pogues make the top 5? I doubt it but we shall see

I was thinking this too, but I wonder if the Band Aid Foundation might think it was too soon after last year's Food Aid version by that sausage roll bloke who is conspicuous by his absence this time round.

I'm glad he didn't release a song this year. Let someone get no. 1 for a change.

Edited December 22, 20232 yr by IdentFan101

I really thought Brenda could go top 3 this year. Still might next week I guess.

 

Yeh usually takes over Mariah in the next few days and will do 2m on Xmas day itself!

Great to see Cher make top 20 :cheer:

 

Also loved hearing Nat King Cole earlier too. Seems Kelly and Ariana will have to wait another year to make top 10. Be a shame if Kelly never does as Ariana will manage it eventually!

 

Also nice for Shaky too!

06 | 05 | 130th week

 

The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl

Fairytale Of New York

 

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1st single from If I Should Fall From Grace With God

Released: 23rd November 1987 (original release) / 5th December 2007 (re-release)

Label: WEA

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (05/12/1987) | 40-19-8-2-2-4-19-39-68-x

RE (13/02/1988) | 82-89-x

RE (14/12/1991) | 64-49-38-36-69-x

RE (31/12/2005) | 3-5-12-41-63-x

RE (02/12/2006) | 84-46-23-10-6-13-94-x

RE (01/12/2007) | 81-33-12-8-4-9-x

RE (29/11/2008) | 62-44-19-13-12-19-91-x

RE (28/11/2009) | 85-58-31-18-18-12-x

RE (20/11/2010) | 91-75-51-27-26-19-17-x

RE (03/12/2011) | 47-23-15-13-13-68-x

RE (24/11/2012) | 91-53-27-15-18-12-32-x

RE (30/11/2013) | 85-53-16-15-14-24-x

RE (29/11/2014) | 80-67-18-11-11-17-x

RE (10/12/2015) | 58-20-15-13-46-x

RE (08/12/2016) | 66-16-18-15-15-x

RE (07/12/2017) | 55-10-7-7-5-x

RE (06/12/2018) | 66-18-10-11-4-x

RE (05/12/2019) | 71-22-14-14-4-x

RE (26/11/2020) | 63-26-8-4-5-6-5-x

RE (25/11/2021) | 87-44-16-7-7-7-4-x

RE (01/12/2022) | 57-30-14-9-13-9-x

RE (23/11/2023) | 86-53-18-4-5-6

 

Sales: 3,600k+

Certification: 5x Platinum

Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio

 

02 Sales

03 Audio Streaming

03 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

The Pogues were an English or Anglo-Irish Celtic punk band fronted by Shane MacGowan and others, founded in Kings Cross, London in 1982, as "Pogue Mahone" – the anglicisation of the Irish Gaelic póg mo thóin, meaning "kiss my arse". The band reached international prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s, recording several hit albums and singles. MacGowan left the band in 1991 owing to drinking problems, but the band continued – first with Joe Strummer and then with Spider Stacy on vocals – before breaking up in 1996. The Pogues re-formed in late 2001, and played regularly across the UK and Ireland and on the US East Coast, until dissolving again in 2014. The group did not record any new material during this second incarnation. Their politically-tinged music was informed by MacGowan and Stacy's punk backgrounds, yet used traditional Irish instruments such as the tin whistle, banjo, cittern, mandolin and accordion. - Wikipedia

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

The Pogues

1985 72 Pair Of Brown Eyes -1-

1985 51 Sally MacLennane -2-

1985 62 Dirty Old Town -3-

1986 29 Poguetry In Motion -EP-

1986 42 Haunted -OST-

1987 08 The Irish Rover (The Pogues & The Dubliners) -NAS-

1987 02 Fairytale Of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl) -1- MILLION SELLER

1988 58 If I Should Fall From Grace With God -2-

1988 24 Fiesta -3-

1988 43 Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah -1*-

1989 41 Misty Morning Albert Bridge -1-

1989 90 White City -2-

1990 63 Jack's Heroes / Whiskey In The Jar (The Pogues & The Dubliners) -2*-

1990 64 Summer In Siam -1-

1990 85 Miss Otis Regrets / Do I Love You (Kirsty MacColl & The Pogues)

1991 67 A Rainy Night In Soho -1-

1992 56 Honky Tonk Women -3*-

1993 18 Tuesday Morning -1-

1994 66 Once Upon A Time -2-

1995 88 How Come -1-

 

0 x #1 | 1 x Top 5 | 2 x Top 10 | 3 x Top 20 | 5 x Top 40 | 20 x Top 100

 

Kirsty MacColl

1981 14 There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis -1-

1983 82 Terry -NAS-

1985 07 A New England -NAS-

1987 02 Fairytale Of New York (The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl) MILLION SELLER

1989 43 Free World -1-

1989 12 Days -2-

1989 80 Innocence -3-

1990 82 Don't Come The Cowboy With Me Sonny Jim -4-

1990 85 Miss Otis Regrets / Do I Love You? (Kirsty MacColl & The Pogues)

1991 23 Walking Down Madison -1-

1991 56 My Affair -2-

1995 58 Caroline -1-

1995 75 Perfect Day (Kirsty MacColl & Evan Dando) -2-

1999 89 Mambo De La Luna -1-

2000 81 In These Shoes? -2-

 

0 x #1 | 1 x Top 5 | 2 x Top 10 | 4 x Top 20 | 5 x Top 40 | 15 x Top 100

 

Social Media

 

The Pogues

 

Kirsty MacColl

 

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still love that Brenda Lee made a video for Rockin Around The Christmas Tree several decades after its release now that it's been shooting up the charts worldwide *.* ICON

Does anyone know off the bat what the closest sales-wise Ariana has been to the top 10?

I think 170 or so the first week at #11 in 2020. Haven't seen her sales for either of the last 2 weeks this year.

 

Edit: actually she was 173 sales behind her own song at #9, and only 118 behind #10 that week!

9 Ariana Grande [34+35]25,023

10 Elton John 24,968

 

11 Ariana Grande [santa Tell Me] 24,850

Edited December 22, 20232 yr by jimwatts

Oops poor Pogues not top 5 :( (at least they got there the past couple of weeks though).

Stick Season has asserted itself incredibly well to be top five among the Christmas onslaught!

 

I know it mentions the word but it's hardly a festive song.

so fun story: my work nearly played Fairytale Of New York but one of my co-workers was like "we're skipping that, there's a no-no word in there" :lol:

so fun story: my work nearly played Fairytale Of New York but one of my co-workers was like "we're skipping that, there's a no-no word in there" :lol:

 

 

They need to lighten up.

any chance Noah Kahan pulls a RAYE and grabs a week at #1 in the new year?