Listening to Christmas songs NOW is a very Anglo-American thing, hence they are not a threat to DWAS at #1 on GLOBAL Spotify until the Christmas week I suppose (unless DWAS loses a lots of steam for some reason).

 

And of course something else non-Christmas related might explode.

 

I don’t know why as you’d think Thanksgiving would hold it off in America!

 

Spotify and Apple shouldn’t be allowed to promote it so much at this time, it should be held off until 1st dec.

Linkin Park Day 1 (spotify)

 

10. "The Emptiness Machine" 298,907

14. "Two Faced" 248,400

15. "Heavy Is the Crown" 243,993

27. "Cut the Bridge" 203,923

33. "Over Each Other" 188,380

35. "Casualty" 179,439

41. "Overflow" 171,545

44. "Stained" 166,469

50. "IGYEIH" 154,375

55. "Good Things Go" 148,742

 

Total: 2,004,173.

 

Really great first day - album almost entirely top 50. Did the day 1 update as a number of tracks were missed from the spotify update.

 

Day 2

 

22. "The Emptiness Machine" 204,900

40. "Heavy Is the Crown" 155,335

51. "Two Faced" 138,611

80. "Over Each Other" 110,969

94. "Cut the Bridge" 105,166

151. "Casualty" 88,998

154. "Stained" 88,140

162. "Overflow" 86,854

199. "IGYEIH" 79,810

 

Total: 1,058,783 (~-47%)

 

Honestly not too big of a drop. Likely a little smaller of a drop when taking into account "Good Things Go" is not top 200 now. The places dropped look fairly big due to Christmas taking over as well. Will likely see another notable fall in tomorrow's update for Sunday but hopefully we'll see some of the tracks rebounding come Monday!

 

The album is still top 100 on Apple Music despite the Christmas takeover:

 

19. "The Emptiness Machine"

32. "Heavy Is the Crown"

36. "Two Faced"

38. "Cut the Bridge"

39. "Over Each Other"

54. "Casualty"

56. "Overflow"

63. "Stained"

64. "From Zero (Intro)"

72. "IGYEIH"

73. "Good Things Go"

 

Unfortunately Kworb's youtube chart hasn't been working for over a week now so can't tell what UK-boost the songs may have gotten there ("The Emptiness Machine" & "Heavy Is the Crown" both saw big boosts Friday/Saturday on youtube globally although dropping away a bit now).

Edited November 17, 2024Nov 17 by Envoirment

Can’t wait to see LPs opening sales on Monday!

In intrigued what their sales will be, no idea what to expect, wouldn't be surprised with anything between 30k and 70k

Apple:

 

#7 Wham! - Last Christmas

#14 Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas is You

#16 Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone

#25 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York

#27 Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree

#28 Elton John - Step into Christmas

#33 Leona Lewis - One More Sleep

#36 Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? (1984 Version)

#37 Andy Williams - It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

#41 Michael Buble - It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas

#44 Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me

#54 Ed Sheeran & Elton John - Merry Christmas

#57 Jose Feliciano - Feliz Navidad

#60 Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock

#61 Wizzard - I Wish it Could Be Christmas Everyday

#63 Chris Rea - Driving Home for Christmas

#67 Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody

#74 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

#92 The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride

#143 Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime

#163 Justin Bieber - Mistletoe

#181 Dean Martin - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

#198 Sia - Snowman

Is Ed/Elton on SCR?

Is Ed/Elton on SCR?

Won't be this year as it's 3 years old

It's a tricky one - if it gets a 25% increase on the same week it did last year that would technically be before its three years old, so it would get reset for that week. Whether the OCC would then keep it on SCR over Christmas or shunt it straight back to ACR the week after, who knows.

Was it released like on the 6th Dec?

Was it released like on the 6th Dec?

 

3rd December - but last year it got reset on the chart released 01/12, which would be 29/11 this year. We'll see what they do.

Yeh will be interesting, I can def imagine Ed asking for a reset albeit he has another song this year though hard to know whether it’ll take off or not.

 

Knew it was the first week of Dec as Taylor released CTF late the year it was released too!

Mariah can f*** off overtaking Wham!

Amazon Music Unlimited:

1 Mariah

2 Benson Boone, BT

3 KSI

4 Wham!

5 Gigi Perez

 

Mariah only managing #14 this weekend on Apple is a bit of a flop tbh :D

Spotify Christmas Songs Streams Comparison

 

Sunday 19th November 2023:

#2 Wham! – Last Christmas: 331,818

#3 Mariah Carey – All I Want for Christmas is You: 328,115

#8 Brenda Lee – Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree: 248,903

#13 Bobby Helms – Jingle Bell Rock: 204,154

#16 Ariana Grande – Santa Tell Me: 198,643

#17 Michael Bublé – It’s Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas: 194,977

#20 Andy Williams – It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year: 171,098

#23 Kelly Clarkson – Underneath the Tree: 158,609

#24 Dean Martin – Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!: 148,392

#30 Michael Bublé – Holly Jolly Christmas: 134,377

#33 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl – Fairytale of New York: 127,331

#35 Shakin’ Stevens – Merry Christmas Everyone: 124,744

#37 Sia – Snowman: 119,991

#44 The Ronettes – Sleigh Ride: 116,094

#47 John Lennon & Yoko Ono – Happy Xmas (War is Over): 111,781

#48 Band Aid – Do They Know It’s Christmas?: 110,253

#60 Chris Rea – Driving Home for Christmas: 101,117

#61 Justin Bieber – Mistletoe: 100,949

#64 Paul McCartney – Wonderful Christmastime: 99,673

#71 José Feliciano – Feliz Navidad: 94,665

#125 Wizzard – I Wish it Could Be Christmas Everyday: 74,686

#138 Frank Sinatra & the B. Swanson Quartet – Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!: 72,589

#139 Elton John – Step into Christmas: 72,164

#142 Darlene Love – Christmas (Baby Please Come Home): 71,759

#154 Nat King Cole – The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You): 69,850

#167 Bing Crosby – White Christmas: 67,226

#171 Ed Sheeran & Elton John – Merry Christmas: 66,644

#189 Kelly Clarkson & Ariana Grande – Santa, Can’t You Hear Me: 64,551

#199 Leona Lewis – One More Sleep: 63,430

Total: 29

 

Sunday 17th November 2024:

#6 Mariah Carey – All I Want for Christmas is You: 290,001 (-11.6%)

#7 Wham! – Last Christmas: 285,767 (-13.9%)

#13 Brenda Lee – Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree: 219,643 (-11.8%)

#22 Ariana Grande – Santa Tell Me: 182,930 (-7.91%)

#24 Bobby Helms – Jingle Bell Rock: 178,532 (-12.6%)

#34 Kelly Clarkson – Underneath the Tree: 152,318 (-3.97%)

#35 Andy Williams – It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year: 148,199 (-13.4%)

#39 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl – Fairytale of New York: 144,546 (+13.5%)

#47 Dean Martin – Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!: 135,843 (-8.46%)

#54 Michael Bublé – Holly Jolly Christmas: 124,641 (-7.25%)

#56 Michael Bublé – It’s Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas: 122,609 (-37.1%)

#60 Sia – Snowman: 120,802 (+0.676%)

#78 The Ronettes – Sleigh Ride: 107,231 (-7.63%)

#79 Shakin’ Stevens – Merry Christmas Everyone: 106,375 (-14.7%)

#92 Elton John – Step into Christmas: 95,828 (+32.8%)

#104 Band Aid – Do They Know It’s Christmas?: 91,706 (-16.8%)

#108 John Williams – Carol of the Bells: 90,999 (+>40%) [Not sure how this has happened)

#124 Perry Como – It’s Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas: 88,331 (+>40%)

#127 José Feliciano – Feliz Navidad: 87,911 (-7.13%)

#157 John Lennon & Yoko Ono – Happy Xmas (War is Over): 80,856 (-27.7%)

#160 Chris Rea – Driving Home for Christmas: 80,685 (-20.2%)

#185 Paul McCartney – Wonderful Christmastime: 78,227 (-21.5%)

#190 Laufey – Winter Wonderland: 76,514 (+>20%)

Total: 23

 

Songs by British artists are losing out significantly compared to last year with the exception of the Pogues (for obvious reasons) and Step into Christmas (for which I'm not sure why). Shame Wizzard didn't show up given I think they have better playlisting this year than last.

Edited November 18, 2024Nov 18 by Maestro

Sam down to #20, Lola Young-Messy finally top 200

The Americanised playlists are annoying because people so many people are so passive with the way they listen that it forces the UK charts to reflect this playlist.

 

Why can't Spotify push a separate playlist on the algorithm as the lead one for the UK? They have Christmas Crackers but it's quite far down the search when I type 'Christmas'.

 

Apart from Wham! there are no British artists in the first 20 songs on the dominant Christmas Hits playlist so we end up with the situation above and the actual classics known in this country being slowly pushed out.

It's also a language thing. You share the language with the US so that's unfortunate. On our playlist here there are plenty of local Christmas hits in local language.

Edited November 18, 2024Nov 18 by Sour Candy

just checked Denmark and it's crazy, there are like 30 Xmas hits in the top 100

including Mariah and Wham both top 5

but the good thing is that half of the xmas hits are local songs in Danish

 

have to say I much prefer the situation in Southern Europe

with Spain still having Zero Xmas hits

and both Italy and France only having Mariah and Wham who re-entered yesterday in the low part of the top 200 :)

The Americanised playlists are annoying because people so many people are so passive with the way they listen that it forces the UK charts to reflect this playlist.

 

Why can't Spotify push a separate playlist on the algorithm as the lead one for the UK? They have Christmas Crackers but it's quite far down the search when I type 'Christmas'.

 

Apart from Wham! there are no British artists in the first 20 songs on the dominant Christmas Hits playlist so we end up with the situation above and the actual classics known in this country being slowly pushed out.

 

The world looks at Britain as the 51st state unfort,