December 6, 20241 yr Author 10 | 30 | 37th week Bobby Helms Jingle Bell Rock Non-album single Released: October 1957 Label: Decca Chart Statistics NE (05/01/2017) | 71-x RE (04/01/2018) | 63-x RE (13/12/2018) | 96-76-65-41-x RE (12/12/2019) | 73-61-61-30-x RE (03/12/2020) | 86-38-34-35-27-27-x RE (09/12/2021) | 42-32-26-22-16-x RE (01/12/2022) | 69-36-19-11-14-7-x RE (23/11/2023) | 84-44-20-9-13-14-11-x RE (28/11/2024) | 51-30-10 Sales: 1,400,000+ Certification: 2x Platinum Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio 49 Sales 05 Audio Streaming 53 Video Streaming Video ZnDmmiiFSUU Biography Though his name is unfamiliar to most, Bobby Helms rules the airwaves every year around December 25th. His single "Jingle Bell Rock" first became a hit in 1957, and it reappeared on the charts four of the following five years to become an all-time Christmas classic. Before he was pigeonholed, though, Helms had a successful country career with two number one hits to his credit. Born on August 15, 1933, in Bloomington, IN, Helms first performed on his father Fred's Monroe County Jamboree, singing while brother Freddie played guitar. The Helms Brothers, as they were billed, became a regional attraction. Bobby later cut a single called "Tennessee Rock and Roll," but then returned to Bloomington to appear on the Hayloft Frolic television show. While on the program, he was encouraged to go to Nashville to sing background vocals on an Ernest Tubb session. Tubb recommended him to Decca Records, and the label signed him in 1956. His debut single, "Fraulein," initially flopped in January 1957 but then hit number one on the country chart in April. (The song also hit the pop Top 40 in July of 1957.) In October, Helms released another number one, "My Special Angel," which stayed four weeks at the top and crossed over to number seven pop. Helms' next recording was "Jingle Bell Rock"; though Decca released it only two days before Christmas 1957, the single still peaked at number six on the pop chart. Two 1958 singles -- "Just a Little Lonesome" and "Jacqueline" -- hit the country Top Ten but flopped elsewhere, though a reissue of "Jingle Bell Rock" made the pop Top 40. The country single "Lonely River Rhine" hit the Top 20 in 1960, but subsequent new material from Helms had little success. (Decca reissued his Christmas hit each year from 1960 to 1962 with diminishing returns.) Helms toured throughout the '60s and recorded two albums for Kapp in 1966, I'm the Man and Sorry My Name Isn't Fred -- a nod either to brother Freddie or father Fred. Two years later, he released All New Just for You on the Little Darlin' label. Several singles placed modestly on the country charts during 1967-1968, including "He Thought He'd Die Laughing" and "So Long." The 1970 Certron single "Mary Goes 'Round" was his last hit, but Helms recorded Pop-a-Billy for MCA as late as 1983. - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 1957 22 My Special Angel -1- 1958 30 No Other Baby -NAS- 1958 20 Jacqueline -NAS- 2017 07 Jingle Bell Rock -NAS- MILLIONAIRE 0 x #1 | 0 x Top 5 | 1 x Top 10 | 2 x Top 20 | 4 x Top 40 | 4 x Top 100 Social Media Bobby Helms
December 6, 20241 yr Author Have edited Andy Williams in at #15 - there's no way he's leapt up this high so it has to be him there.
December 6, 20241 yr Bobby Helms the definite main benefactor of Christmas Hits. Absolutely mad how big this is now due to that playlist. I only heard it here and there when I was younger, mostly on naff American Christmas movies.
December 6, 20241 yr This is so American. I'd have no time for it whatsoever if it wasn't for that iconic scene in Mean Girls.
December 6, 20241 yr Author 09 | 31 | 17th 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) | 40-15-4-4-5-3-x RE (07/12/2023) | 17-7-6-5-4-x RE (05/12/2024) | 31-9 Sales: 800,000+ Certification: Platinum Status: Standard Chart Ratio 01 Sales 06 Audio Streaming 01 Video Streaming Video Q_yuO8UNGmY 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- MILLIONAIRE 2011 09 Drunk -4- MILLIONAIRE 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) MILLIONAIRE 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- 2023 50 F64 -NAS- 2023 85 Who We Love (Sam Smith & Ed Sheeran) 2023 01 Eyes Closed -1- 2023 15 Boat -IG- 2023 16 Curtains -AT- 2023 29 Life Goes On -AT- 2023 27 American Town -1- 2023 49 Magical -AT- 2023 84 England -AT- 14 x #1 | 29 x Top 5 | 41 x Top 10 | 56 x Top 20 | 62 x Top 40 | 83 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 Social Media Ed Sheeran Elton John
December 6, 20241 yr ridiculous they haven't mentioned a thing about Band Aid even if it's not close to #1 bad bad bad journalism as per usual, the current producers are really the worst ever to do the chart show so incompetent in all aspects
December 6, 20241 yr Author 08 | 45 | 108th week Band Aid Do They Know It's Christmas? http://i.imgur.com/1Yizjvu.png Non-album single Released: 1984 Label: Phonogram Chart Statistics NE (15/12/1984) | 1-1-1-1-1-2-9-17-30-38-37-57-71-x RE (07/12/1985) | 24-6-3-3-4-13-47-x RE (08/02/1986) | 91-x RE (20/12/1986) | 99-88-86-x RE (15/12/2007) | 38-27-24-57-x RE (13/12/2008) | 64-54-58-72-x RE (12/12/2009) | 65-53-61-50-x RE (11/12/2010) | 62-54-58-58-x RE (10/12/2011) | 62-34-42-41-x RE (08/12/2012) | 82-37-42-51-x RE (14/12/2013) | 62-57-63-x RE (29/11/2014) | 61-88-59-61-60-56-x RE (17/12/2015) | 71-59-38-86-x RE (15/12/2016) | 41-43-35-29-x RE (07/12/2017) | 85-16-12-12-7-x RE (06/12/2018) | 88-26-15-13-6-x RE (05/12/2019) | 77-23-15-17-7-x RE (26/11/2020) | 86-38-15-8-7-9-7-x RE (02/12/2021) | 66-23-14-13-14-12-x RE (01/12/2022) | 63-34-18-16-17-11-x RE (30/11/2023) | 65-35-16-17-15-15-x RE (28/11/2024) | 79-45-8 Sales: 6,000,000+ Certification: 3x Platinum Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio 01 Sales 04 Audio Streaming 25 Video Streaming Video RH-xd5bPKTA Biography Band Aid were a charity supergroup featuring mainly British and Irish musicians and recording artists. It was founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for anti-famine efforts in Ethiopia by releasing the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" for the Christmas market that year. On 25 November 1984, the song was recorded at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London, and was released in the UK on Monday 3 December. The single surpassed the hopes of the producers to become the Christmas number one on that release. Three subsequent re-recordings of the song to raise further money for charity also topped the charts, first the Band Aid II version in 1989 and the Band Aid 20 version in 2004 and finally the Band Aid 30 version in 2014. The original was produced by Midge Ure. The 12" version was mixed by Trevor Horn. - Wikipedia Top 100 Chart History 1984 01 Do They Know It's Christmas? -NAS- MILLION SELLER 1989 01 Do They Know It's Christmas? (Band Aid II) -NAS- 2004 01 Do They Know It's Christmas? (Band Aid 20) -NAS- MILLION SELLER 2014 01 Do They Know It's Christmas? (2014) (Band Aid 30) -NAS- 4 x #1 | 4 x Top 5 | 4 x Top 10 | 4 x Top 20 | 4 x Top 40 | 4 x Top 100 Social Media Band Aid
December 6, 20241 yr 1-1-1-1-8, what a legacy :drama: I guess it's not really fair to compare as it's only a remix. But I suspect the failure of even the almighty Band Aid to go any higher than this (even the 2014 release shifted over 300k in week one), is the final nail in the coffin for charity singles.
December 6, 20241 yr Well this entered with no fanfare or introduction. First time back in the Top 10 in 4 years, but clearly the new version won't see it challenge for #1 this year.
December 6, 20241 yr And then they go and play the (admittedly better) original when there is a perfectly good radio edit of the new version. Waiting to see if Jack even mentions the 2024 version afterwards
December 6, 20241 yr So the 40th anniversary Remix has not done what they thought it would do then? Great to see Ed/Elton back in the top 10 but yeah do wish it was Kelly Clarkson
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