I’m 22 and use TikTok regularly and I’ve never heard of a single one of them…

 

I’m 17 who has an average 22 hours a week on tiktok screen time and I know maybe 3 of them? Lmao

 

Now I feel a bit better. Glad it isn't just me who hasn't heard of them then. Perhaps their obscurity, as far as the general public is concerned, helps explain their low position.

20 | 41 | 2nd week

 

Cher

DJ Play A Christmas Song

 

 

1st single from Christmas

Released: 6th October 2023

Label: Warner Records

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (21/12/2023) | 41-20

 

Sales: 10k+

Certification: -

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

 

06 Sales

71 Audio Streaming

00 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

Cher is a master of reinvention whose only constant is her fiercely independent spirit. Born Cherilyn Sarkisian in 1946, she dropped out of school and relocated to Los Angeles when she was 16, meeting songwriter/producer Sonny Bono shortly after her arrival. As Sonny & Cher, they released smash singles including the lightly baroque “I Got You Babe” and the driving “The Beat Goes On,” and she also hit big with solo singles like “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)” and “Alfie.” The pair became TV hosts in the early ’70s, and Cher continued to put out solo records that were pop dynamite: “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves,” “Half-Breed,” “Dark Lady.” She later plunged headfirst into disco with Take Me Home and tried rock on for size with the band Black Rose. Cher then took a break from music, returning in 1987 for the rock-tinged Cher and continuing down that path with 1989’s Heart of Stone, which included the anthemic “If I Could Turn Back Time.” A year later, her kitschy cover of “The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s In His Kiss)” accompanied her lead role in the ’60s throwback Mermaids. Cher continued releasing albums and headlining Vegas residencies, with the worldwide No. 1 title track from her 1998 album Believe helping define that decade’s electro-pop, her 2003 jam “Song for the Lonely” building on that legacy, and her role in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again showing that she could take on pop confections as heralded as ABBA’s. Her forceful alto and no-nonsense personality helped make her one of the 20th century’s biggest pop icons—and she’s holding on to that title as the 21st century’s beat goes on. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

1965 01 I Got You Babe (Sonny & Cher) -1-

1965 05 All I Really Want To Do -1-

1965 11 Baby Don't Go (Sonny & Cher) -1-

1965 17 But You're Mine (Sonny & Cher) -2-

1966 13 What Now My Love (Sonny & Cher) -3-

1966 03 Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) -1-

1966 42 Have I Stayed Too Long (Sonny & Cher) -4-

1966 43 I Feel Something In The Air -1-

1966 04 Little Man (Sonny & Cher) -1-

1966 32 Sunny -2-

1966 44 Living For You (Sonny & Cher) -2-

1967 29 The Beat Goes On (Sonny & Cher) -3-

1971 04 Gypsys, Tramps And Thieves -1-

1972 08 All I Ever Need Is You (Sonny & Cher) -1-

1974 36 Dark Lady -1-

1987 05 I Found Someone -1-

1988 47 We All Sleep Alone -2-

1989 84 After All -OST-

1989 06 If I Could Turn Back Time -1-

1990 11 Just Like Jesse James -2-

1990 43 Heart Of Stone -3-

1990 55 You Wouldn't Know Love -4-

1990 89 Baby I'm Yours -OST-

1991 01 The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) -OST-

1991 10 Love And Understanding -1-

1991 37 Save Up All Your Tears -2-

1991 43 Love Hurts -3-

1992 31 Could've Been You -4-

1992 33 Oh No Not My Baby -1-

1993 37 Many Rivers To Cross -2-

1993 72 Whenever You're Near -3-

1994 35 I Got You Babe (with Beavis & Butt-Head) -OST-

1995 01 Love Can Build A Bridge (Cher, Chrissie Hynde & Neneh Cherry with Eric Clapton) -NAS-

1995 11 Walking In Memphis -1-

1996 07 One By One -2-

1996 31 Not Enough Love In The World -3-

1996 26 The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore -4-

1998 01 Believe -1- MILLION SELLER

1999 05 Strong Enough -2-

1999 12 All Or Nothing -3-

1999 21 Dov'e L'Amore -4-

2001 08 The Music's No Good Without You -1-

2013 25 I Hope You Find It -1-

2018 92 Fernando (Cher & Andy Garcia) -OST-

2023 20 DJ Play A Christmas Song -1-

 

4 x #1 | 10 x Top 5 | 15 x Top 10 | 22 x Top 20 | 34 x Top 40 | 45 x Top 100

 

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Well done to the Stones, never would have called that!

Aww, amazing to see Cher get a top 20 hit. Once a decade, she returns with one <3

 

I hope this becomes a future part of the Christmas canon, it ticks every box for me.

20 | 41 | 2nd week

 

Cher

DJ Play A Christmas Song

 

:cheeseblock:

Edited December 22, 20232 yr by DanielSwift

You could say the same thing about Shakin' Stevens, one of the biggest selling artists of the 80s.

 

Indeed quite the feat!

Get f*cked Buble

CHER TOP 20!!!

 

I still can't get enough of DJ Play A Christmas Song and I know it's going to be a staple of mine for years to come. So effortlessly feel good and nostalgic feeling, in spite of it literally being released this year.

 

And that's the only thing I want this year! :wub:

Well done Cher, Top 40 hits in all 7 decades the Top 40 has existed! Congrats also to The Rollings on the coveted Christmas #1 album :D

Chris Rea's other music is generally really good. Including the far superior driving song 'The Road to Hell'. This is easy listening syrup

It's why when the track first appeared on a Chris Rea single (back in 1986) it was buried on the B side! https://www.45cat.com/record/mag298

 

You've had it every other week this year, allow me one week of respite :lol:

Well, you won't hear it next week either.

Pleased for Cher but I find it quite hard to like the song. I know the auto tune is sort of her thing but it sounds quite naff here to me.

 

Oh and congrats to the Stones - great they held off Bublé!

Edited December 22, 20232 yr by Jingle Jules

I know it's very soon to say this, but I do think in the coming years 'DJ Play a Christmas Song' will be part of the canon in the same way 'Underneath the Tree' is now.

Or just no more charity songs. Giving to good causes doesn’t need to be linked to (usually) terrible music.

that would be even better

Pleased for Cher but I find it quite hard to like the song. I know the auto tune is sort of her thing but it sounds quite naff here to me.

I feel similarly, it feels quite cheap in its production + with the autotune being so prominent. It's very catchy though and it's really cool to see someone like Cher getting a top 20 hit in 2023!

This has probably been mentioned in several other threads already so apologies if people are repeating themselves, but I've seen people say Cher is the first female artist to have a top 40 in 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s and 20s - which male artist has done it?

Cher's first top 20 hit in 22 years!!!

Edited December 22, 20232 yr by DanielSwift

Hope Sleigh Ride can crack the top 20 this year. It's one of my favourite Christmas songs.

 

 

Get voting then mate

 

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19 | 16 | 62nd 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-x

RE (30/11/2023) | 82-47-24-16-19

 

Sales: 1,700k+

Certification: 2x Platinum

Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio

 

04 Sales

06 Audio Streaming

19 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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18 | 20 | 5th week

 

Jorja Smith

Stay Another Day

 

 

Non-album single

Released: 9th November 2023

Label: FAMM

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (30/11/2023) | 75-38-26-20-18

 

Sales: 50k+

Certification: -

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

 

00 Sales

36 Audio Streaming

00 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

Blending classical vocal artistry with beats inspired by modern R&B, reggae and hip-hop, Jorja Smith has risen to become one of Britain’s most exciting soul singers since her debut single, the searching, Dizzee Rascal-sampling “Blue Lights”, came out in 2016. Born in Walsall in 1997, Smith began studying music at an early age while listening to reggae, dub and soul music on her own, and her YouTube covers of hits by Alex Clare and Tinie Tempah garnered her notice from industry bigwigs. Smith’s second single, the glossy “Where Did I Go?”, was praised by Drake that July; a few months later, she released her debut EP, Project 11, and was named to the BBC’s Sound of 2017 long list. Drake invited Smith to tour with her and appear on his project More Life in 2017, and later that year she collaborated with American urbano star Kali Uchis on “Tyrant” and toured the world with Bruno Mars. Smith kicked off her 2018 with the BRIT Critics’ Choice Award, and soon after, she put out her debut full-length, Lost & Found, which showcased her defiantly honest songwriting, effortless genre-mixing and supple voice on tracks like the soulful “Wandering Romance” and the downtempo “On Your Own”. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

2017 24 Get It Together (Drake feat. Black Coffee & Jorja Smith)

2017 51 On My Mind (Jorja Smith & Preditah) -NAS-

2018 34 Let Me Down (feat. Stormzy) -NAS-

2018 62 I Am -OST-

2018 38 Blue Lights -1-

2018 75 February 3rd -3-

2018 77 Teenage Fantasy -2-

2019 73 Don't Watch Me Cry -4-

2019 62 Loose Ends (Loyle Carner & Jorja Smith)

2019 08 Be Honest (feat. Burna Boy) -NAS-

2020 89 By Any Means -OST-

2020 35 Come Over (feat. Popcaan) -NAS-

2021 46 Addicted -1-

2021 79 Gone -2-

2021 56 Bussdown (feat. Shaybo) -3-

2023 60 Try Me -1-

2023 11 Little Things -2-

2023 50 Feelings (feat. J Hus) -AT-

2023 18 Stay Another Day -NAS-

 

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

 

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17 | 09 | 13th week

 

Tate McRae

greedy

 

 

1st single from THINK LATER

Released: 15th September 2023

Label: RCA Records

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (28/09/2023) | 8-5-3-3-3-4-6-4-4-3-4-14-9-17

 

Sales: 300k+

Certification: Silver

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

 

18 Sales

03 Audio Streaming

11 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

A Canadian singer and dancer, Tate McRae makes emotive, intimate alternative pop. Following her viral emergence in 2017, she released her debut EP, 2020's All the Things I Never Said, featuring the Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell co-write "Tear Myself Apart." She had her first Billboard Top 20 hit with "You Broke Me First" from 2021's Too Young to Be Sad EP. McRae delivered her debut album, I Used to Think I Could Fly, the following year. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

2020 03 you broke me first -1- MILLIONAIRE

2021 46 You (Regard, Troye Sivan & Tate McRae)

2021 82 that way -1-

2021 52 feel like shit -1-

2022 14 she's all i wanna be -2-

2022 36 chaotic -PS-

2022 84 what would you do? -3-

2022 76 uh oh -NAS-

2022 08 10:35 (Tiësto & Tate McRae)

2023 03 greedy -1-

2023 12 exes -2-

2023 55 run for the hills -AT-

 

0 x #1 | 2 x Top 5 | 3 x Top 10 | 5 x Top 20 | 6 x Top 40 | 12 x Top 100

 

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