Thats huge

Oh so the OCC have stuck to their 3 year rule then and shoved Merry Christmas back onto ACR

Good and they shouldn’t reset old songs that went to ACR during the Christmas rush like they did with Cruel Summer this year and Another Love last year

Tom Grennan still to come

Mariah is ahead due to physicals and Tom has the Alexa boost but wham is I guess legitimately ahead

Good and they shouldn’t reset old songs that went to ACR during the Christmas rush like they did with Cruel Summer this year and Another Love last year

 

Up until Tuesday this week it wasn't 3 years old so it was allowed to auto-reset if it increased its streams which it did every Christmas since its release (this one included).

People celebrating Gigi going to ACR are forgetting that she’ll get reset in the new year

3 Wham! - Last Christmas

Last Christmas at #3 has me shook

Oh Mariah's physicals being a big help *.* can't imagine it'll be enough to keep her ahead of Wham! by the end of the week but still x

Surprised Mariah didn’t postpone the release of her physicals by a week to contend for Christmas #1

Tom Grennan at 2 :o hope this doesn't become as big as Sam Ryder's

2 Tom Grennan - It Can't Be Christmas

1 Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You

Did they just call Laufey "loafy" smh

Mariah's TV Exposure on BBC2 last night

I wouldn't mind if Tom is number 1 this Friday. :P

if it's physicals giving Mariah a boost tonight I expect Wham! are still the frontrunners for the week then?

 

Official Chart First Look: Full Update

 

1 Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You

2 Tom Grennan - It Can't Be Christmas

3 Wham! - Last Christmas

4 Gracie Abrams - That's So True

5 ROSÉ & Bruno Mars - APT.

6 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

7 Laufey - Christmas Magic

8 Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock

9 Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me

10 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York

 

11 Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?

12 Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree

13 Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone

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

15 Elton John - Step Into Christmas

16 Cynthia Erivo feat. Ariana Grande - Defying Gravity

17 Michael Bublé - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

18 Teddy Swims - The Door

19 Lola Young - Messy

20 Sia - Snowman

 

Official Charts Report

 

Could it be tiiiime? Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You may reach Number 1 on the UK’s Official Singles Chart this week, but Tom Grennan and WHAM! are hot on her heels.

 

Rising from last week’s Number 5, All I Want For Christmas Is You leads the Official Chart: First Look following the airing of her Mariah Meets Rylan interview on BBC Two over the weekend, plus the release of new CD, 12” and 7” vinyl variants to mark the song’s 30th anniversary.

 

Mariah’s perennial Christmas classic first reached Number 1 in the UK in 2020, spending two weeks in the top spot. We’re a week away from the starting horn of the Christmas Number 1 race – can Mariah claim the ultimate Christmas accolade come December 20th?

 

Mariah has the edge at the halfway point of this week, but less than 300 chart sales separate the Top 3. Fresh from another weekend of putting up the Christmas tree, Tom Grennan’s Amazon exclusive It Can’t Be Christmas surges 23 places to 2, and WHAM!’s Last Christmas drops one place to 3.

 

Last week’s Number 1 Gracie Abrams could see her five-week reign with That’s So True come to an end, with it currently placing at Number 4 midweek.

 

Another new Christmas song rising the ranks is Laufey’s Christmas Magic. The Icelandic-Chinese artist’s 2024 Amazon Original made its Top 40 debut last week (39) and is tracking to rise 32 spots (7).

 

Finally, cutting through Christmas is Lola Young. Her breakthrough track Messy marked her first Top 40 single last week when it entered at Number 35, and it’s risen 16 places midweek to Number 19. Lola soundtracked the John Lewis Christmas ad in 2021, and was nominated for BRITs Rising Star and BBC Sound Of… the same year, losing out to Holly Humberstone and PinkPantheress.

Mariah Carey at number one. Get in there

Less than 300 separating the top 3 so definitely no #1 for Mariah by Friday unfortunately!

Isn't Amazon a bit more "on it" in terms of declaring data to the OCC which is why their exclusives appear higher in the mids before dropping back slightly at the end of the week? (Yes, I know Alexa auto-payola plays a huge part in its position).

 

It would be good if an Amazon Exclusive like some of the previous "big hitters" returned to the charts, especially given their exposure increasing with releases on other platforms (just shows how fake everything is eh).