Tom sounds very deluded. This ain’t a classic

 

I mean, it's good that he believes in it... but yeah it certainly isn't.

 

As for him saying he hopes it'll grow and stick around in future years, I think nobody's briefed him about Amazon exclusives :lol:

This needs to be a few BPM faster.

03 | 03 | 138th week

 

Mariah Carey

All I Want For Christmas Is You

 

 

1st single from Merry Christmas

Released: 28th November 1994

Label: Sony Music Entertainment

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (10/12/1994) | 5-2-2-2-8-28-50-x

RE (11/02/1995) | 87-83-93-100-59-79-76-x

RE (24/11/2007) | 78-46-23-8-4-6-20-x

RE (22/11/2008) | 59-45-37-17-12-17-25-x

RE (28/11/2009) | 77-51-29-19-21-18-x

RE (27/11/2010) | 96-48-22-23-25-31-x

RE (26/11/2011) | 100-64-27-12-11-17-x

RE (24/11/2012) | 88-56-30-20-21-20-55-x

RE (23/11/2013) | 98-68-47-14-12-13-30-x

RE (29/11/2014) | 68-52-17-16-18-20-x

RE (03/12/2015) | 94-35-13-12-11-37-x

RE (01/12/2016) | 72-29-6-8-5-5-x

RE (16/11/2017) | 89-88-34-22-5-2-4-4-x

RE (29/11/2018) | 65-34-6-5-4-2-x

RE (21/11/2019) | 77-59-34-8-6-8-2-x

RE (19/11/2020) | 60-31-14-2-1-1-2-2-x

RE (18/11/2021) | 69-44-24-3-4-4-4-3-x

RE (17/11/2022) | 56-36-18-8-1-2-4-2-x

RE (16/11/2023) | 40-28-16-6-2-3-3-3-x

RE (14/11/2024) | 58-38-17-10-5-3-3

 

Sales: 5,200,000+

Certification: 8x Platinum

Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio

 

02 Sales

01 Audio Streaming

01 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

Thirty-plus years in the business, more No. 1 singles than any solo artist in history (and second overall only to The Beatles), more writing and production credits on those singles than any other female composer—Mariah Carey is one of the few artists whose songs legitimately bridge the confessional intimacy of singer-songwriters with the mass appeal of pop. Carey grew up on the classics: Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight. She moved to New York City after high school, cobbling together jobs while working on demos with then-collaborator Ben Margulies at the back of Margulies’ father’s cabinet factory. Her biggest tracks—from the early, dance- and gospel-influenced “Someday” and “Dreamlover” to the club leanings of “Fantasy” and “Honey” to ballads such as “Forever” and “Always Be My Baby” to the ultimate holiday pop song “All I Want for Christmas Is You"—stand like mile markers in the culture. And her guest turn on 2022’s remix of Latto’s “Big Energy” (which interpolates Mariah's “Fantasy”) is further testament to her continued relevance. She captures a feeling of sweetness and euphoria that straddles pop, hip-hop, and R&B without slotting neatly into any of them. Meanwhile, her melismatic style—a technique that entails singing a single syllable with a long run of notes—redefined our sense of what pop vocals sound like. Mimi, The Elusive Chanteuse, The Imperfect Angel...or maybe just Mariah. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

1990 09 Vision Of Love -1-

1990 37 Love Takes Time -2-

1991 38 Someday -3-

1991 54 There's Got To Be A Way -4-

1991 17 Emotions -1-

1992 20 Can't Let Go -2-

1992 17 Make It Happen -3-

1992 02 I'll Be There (feat. Trey Lorenz) -1-

1993 09 Dreamlover -1-

1993 07 Hero -2-

1994 01 Without You -3-

1994 08 Anytime You Need A Friend -4-

1994 03 Endless Love (Luther Vandross & Mariah Carey)

1994 01 All I Want For Christmas Is You -1- MILLION SELLER

1995 04 Fantasy -1- MILLIONAIRE

1995 06 One Sweet Day (Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men) -2-

1996 04 Open Arms -3-

1996 03 Always Be My Baby -4-

1997 03 Honey -1-

1997 22 Butterfly -2-

1998 98 My All / Breakdown -IMPORT-

1998 87 The Roof (Back In Time) -IMPORT-

1998 04 My All -3-

1998 04 When You Believe (Mariah Carey & Whitney Houston) -1-

1999 16 I Still Believe -2-

1999 05 Heartbreaker (feat. JAY-Z) -1-

2000 10 Thank God I Found You (feat. Joe & 98 Degrees) -2-

2000 01 Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now) (feat. Westlife) -3-

2001 12 Loverboy (feat. Cameo) -1-

2001 32 Never Too Far / Don't Stop (Funkin' 4 Jamaica) -2-

2002 08 Through The Rain -1-

2003 17 Boy (I Need You) (feat. Cam'ron) -2-

2003 03 I Know What You Want (Busta Rhymes & Mariah Carey feat. The Flipmode Squad)

2005 04 It's Like That -1-

2005 02 We Belong Together -2-

2005 09 Get Your Number / Shake It Off -3-

2005 11 Don't Forget About Us -4-

2006 27 Say Somethin' (feat. Snoop Dogg) -5-

2008 05 Touch My Body -1-

2008 30 Bye Bye -2-

2008 84 I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time (feat. T.I.) -3-

2008 95 I Stay In Love -4-

2009 52 Obsessed -1-

2009 19 I Want To Know What Love Is -2-

2010 81 Angels Cry (feat. Ne-Yo) -3-

2013 22 #Beautiful (feat. Miguel) -1-

2013 90 The Art Of Letting Go -2-

2014 87 You're Mine (Eternal) -3-

2020 50 Oh Santa! (feat. Ariana Grande & Jennifer Hudson) -1-

2021 80 Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) -AT-

2022 21 Big Energy (Latto & Mariah Carey feat. DJ Khaled)

 

3 x #1 | 16 x Top 5 | 24 x Top 10 | 32 x Top 20 | 40 x Top 40 | 51 x Top 100

 

Social Media

 

Mariah Carey

 

"All I Want For Christmas Is You" is now officially the first song in history to spend ONE HUNDRED WEEKS in the UK top 40! :cheeseblock:

Gracie above Mariah we like to see

I wish I could enjoy AIWFC again, but it just gets right on my tits every time I hear it.

02 | 02 | 9th week

 

Gracie Abrams

That's So True

 

 

4th single from The Secret of Us

Released: 18th October 2024

Label: Gracie Abrams

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (31/10/2024) | 19-3-1-1-1-1-1-2-2

 

Sales: 300,000+

Certification: Silver

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

 

12 Sales

01 Audio Streaming

00 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

Los Angeles singer/songwriter Gracie Abrams has a talent for cutting to the quick. A song about a breakup’s messy aftermath, “21” opens bluntly with the line: “I missed your 21st birthday.” Another song about finding it hard to move on revolves around the simple admission, “I miss you, I’m sorry.” Abrams’ swift incisions are particularly notable given that her father is director J.J. Abrams, whose television series Lost boasted such ingeniously convoluted plotlines. Born in 1999, the Los Angeles native grew up listening to Joni Mitchell and Elliott Smith, but it wasn’t until she discovered Phoebe Bridgers, at age 13, that she began writing her own songs. She wrote “minor”—about a crush who lived too far away for her to visit before curfew—at age 17. “It was the first time that I’d written a song where I felt like I wasn’t trying to emulate someone else’s sound,” she tells Apple Music. Even Abrams’ early singles display a wisdom beyond her years. Released when she was 20, “21” revolves around the devastating line, “You’ll be the love of my life when I was young”—an elegant example of her knack for turning an idea as simple as “young love” into a complex meditation on life’s changes. “Looking back is unattractive to me,” she acknowledges, yet while preparing her first long-form statement—2020’s minor—she realized she needed to reflect to move forward. “Thinking about what that meant and how the songs needed to exist together,” she says, the experience of writing “minor” as a teen never went away. “It was always in the back of my head. I didn’t want to run away from it.” - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

2023 72 Everywhere, Everything (Noah Kahan & Gracie Abrams)

2024 81 I miss you, I'm sorry -1-

2024 67 Risk -1-

2024 31 Close To You -2-

2024 37 us. (feat. Taylor Swift) -AT-

2024 04 I Love You, I'm Sorry -3-

2024 01 That's So True -4-

 

1 x #1 | 2 x Top 5 | 2 x Top 10 | 2 x Top 20 | 4 x Top 40 | 7 x Top 100

 

Social Media

 

Gracie Abrams

 

01 | 01 | 128th week

 

Wham!

Last Christmas

 

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1st single from The Final

Released: 3rd December 1984

Label: Epic Records

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (15/12/1984) | 2-2-2-2-2-3-8-11-21-33-38-51-67-x *

RE (14/12/1985) | 32-10-6-6-14-36-68-x

RE (13/12/1986) | 85-63-47-45-71-x

RE (08/12/2007) | 50-23-14-16-40-x

RE (06/12/2008) | 67-36-26-27-45-x

RE (12/12/2009) | 53-39-41-34-x

RE (11/12/2010) | 57-53-56-61-x

RE (10/12/2011) | 55-26-28-34-x

RE (08/12/2012) | 55-34-41-35-87-x

RE (07/12/2013) | 91-44-40-36-68-x

RE (06/12/2014) | 86-39-36-35-28-x

RE (10/12/2015) | 65-27-24-18-54-x

RE (08/12/2016) | 75-19-20-16-7-x

RE (30/11/2017) | 81-29-6-3-3-2-x

RE (06/12/2018) | 52-14-7-7-3-x

RE (28/11/2019) | 80-43-13-7-5-3-x

RE (19/11/2020) | 76-44-20-3-2-2-3-1-x

RE (18/11/2021) | 85-54-28-4-3-3-3-2-x

RE (17/11/2022) | 71-42-23-9-3-1-2-1-x

RE (16/11/2023) | 37-26-14-5-1-1-1-1-83-x

RE (14/11/2024) | 61-43-16-8-2-1-1

 

* double A side with Everything She Wants

 

Sales: 5,800,000+

Certification: 7x Platinum

Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio

 

02 Sales

01 Audio Streaming

01 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

As the energetically punctuated Wham!, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley combined youthful high spirits with a polished union of disco and soul to become one of the defining pop acts of the 1980s. Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (Michael) and Andrew John Ridgeley first met in secondary school as 12-year-olds back in 1975. Their 1981 debut as Wham!, the pop-rap snack “Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?),” preached the joy of life on welfare amid rampant British unemployment. As the group’s principal songwriter and frontman, Michael’s exuberant turn on “Young Guns (Go for It!)” precipitated Wham!’s vibrant, post-disco debut, Fantastic, in 1983, which parlayed the duo’s carefree vigor into the glistening hedonism of “Club Tropicana.” Returning in 1984 with the emphatic “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,” the group folded Detroit soul into an effervescent pop marvel that sent Wham! to the summit of the U.S. pop charts. Michael took over production on their follow-up album, Make It Big, whose modernized Motown sound on the brooding boogie cut “Everything She Wants” and the resplendent pop-soul of “Careless Whisper” cemented his standing as one of pop’s foremost performer/composers. Ending 1984 with the career-defining synth-pop torch song “Last Christmas,” Wham! harked back to their feel-good beginnings with “I’m Your Man” in 1985 before amicably parting to allow Michael to focus on his solo career. Their final album, 1986’s Music from the Edge of Heaven, featuring their last single “The Edge of Heaven,” wrote the postscript on a prodigious four-year passage that flourished into an indelible pop legacy. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

1982 03 Young Guns (Go For It) -1-

1983 08 Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do) -2-

1983 02 Bad Boys -3-

1983 04 Club Tropicana -4- MILLIONAIRE

1983 15 Club Fantastic Megamix -NAS-

1984 01 Wake Me Up Before You Go Go -1- MILLIONAIRE

1984 01 Freedom -2-

1984 01 Last Christmas / Everything She Wants -1- MILLION SELLER

1985 01 I'm Your Man -2-

1986 01 The Edge Of Heaven -3-

 

5 x #1 | 8 x Top 5 | 9 x Top 10 | 10 x Top 20 | 10 x Top 40 | 10 x Top 100

 

Social Media

 

Wham!

 

Interested to see the gap between these

How many SCR weeks at #1 is that now for Last Christmas?

:thinking: Future chart hit? :thinking:

 

SZA

Drive

 

 

2nd single from LANA

Released: 20th December 2024

Label: Top Dawg Entertainment

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

Solána Rowe had a weird time growing up. Jersey suburbs, orthodox Muslim household, parents working their way through corporate America, wanted to fit in, couldn’t. She got bullied for wearing a hijab after 9/11 and became the kind of teenager who, on at least one occasion, drew the police into a chase while joyriding in the family car. “[My parents] were only strict because they were reasonable,” she told Apple Music in 2017. “Like, they’re Black, they come from the South and Midwest, they don’t come from anything…they’re not tryna take a gang of risks.” That Rowe had her own ideas about how to live didn’t help. “I rebelled really hard, and I learned everything the hard way,” she said. “I’m very hard-headed, very curious.” It’s a balance—rebellious but insecure, expressive but self-conscious, dreamy but alert—that has made Rowe resonant, but also an anomaly, the kind of artist who doesn’t ignore her quirks or contradictions, but brings them to the table in all their messy human glory. After self-releasing a couple of EPs in her early twenties (she took her name from the Nation of Islam’s Supreme Alphabet—Savior Zig-Zag Allah), she became the first female artist signed to Top Dawg Entertainment, joining future collaborators Kendrick Lamar and Jay Rock. Released in 2017, her debut album, Ctrl, put her at the vanguard of contemporary R&B, mixing the expressivity of classic soul with a hazy, synth-heavy atmosphere and a playful sense of lyricism that brought Rowe’s inner monologue out. “Even with the heels and tighter clothes and other things, I’m still just me,” she said. “I still have a lot of anxiety about the world, and my thoughts and what people think about my thoughts.” Following a five-year gap, SZA returned in 2022 with SOS, an album that crystallised her status as one of the most dynamic and commercially dominant singer-songwriters of her era. Coated in an eclectic mix of hip-hop, R&B, folk, electronica and more, the second LP finds SZA tackling imperfect love, with tracks like the No. 3 hit "Kill Bill" and the Grammy-winning "Snooze" embodying the type of songwriting that can be as ironic as it is heartfelt—a trademark for artists that turn emotional chaos into idiosyncratic grace. Her Apple Music Live session, performed at Brooklyn's Barclays Center, was broadcast in January 2024. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

2016 88 Consideration (Rihanna feat. SZA)

2017 12 What Lovers Do (Maroon 5 feat. SZA)

2017 82 Homemade Dynamite (Lorde feat. Khalid, SZA & Post Malone)

2018 55 The Weekend (SZA & Calvin Harris) -1-

2018 05 All The Stars (Kendrick Lamar & SZA) -OST- MILLIONAIRE

2019 45 Power Is Power (SZA, The Weeknd & Travis Scott) -OST-

2019 66 Just Us (DJ Khaled feat. SZA)

2020 44 The Other Side (SZA & Justin Timberlake) -OST-

2020 55 Hit Different (feat. Ty Dolla $ign) -NAS-

2021 13 Good Days -1-

2021 03 Kiss Me More (Doja Cat feat. SZA) MILLIONAIRE

2021 24 No Love (Summer Walker & SZA)

2021 38 I Hate U -2-

2022 67 BEAUTIFUL (DJ Khaled feat. Future & SZA)

2022 17 Shirt -3-

2022 03 Kill Bill -4- MILLIONAIRE

2022 27 Nobody Gets Me -AT-

2023 18 Snooze -5-

2023 78 Low -AT-

2023 31 TELEKINESIS (Travis Scott feat. SZA & Future)

2023 10 Slime You Out (Drake feat. SZA)

2023 10 Rich Baby Daddy (Drake feat. Sexyy Red & SZA)

2024 15 Saturn -1-

2024 05 luther (Kendrick Lamar & SZA)

2024 00 Drive -2-

 

0 x #1 | 4 x Top 5 | 6 x Top 10 | 11 x Top 20 | 15 x Top 40 | 24 x Top 100

 

Social Media

 

SZA

 

Interested to see the gap between these

 

I reckon about 7500-8500

:thinking: Future chart hit? :thinking:

 

Artemas

fancy

 

 

2nd single from forthcoming studio album

Released: 19th December 2024

Label: Artemas

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

Born in 1999 in the environs of Oxford, Artemas Diamandis makes eclectic alternative pop that sounds as if he digested all of the music of the ’90s in the womb. It can be hard to say if any one of his songs is specifically indebted to the rock, pop, R&B, hip-hop, or electronic music of the era, but the debt is always there. “Don’t You Start,” for example, is a bouncy Daft Punk-meets-Blur dance party that’s as sad as it is sexy. Then there’s the falsetto bedroom-pop epic “You Were a Dream,” which has bits of Portishead, The Cure, and Nine Inch Nails hovering around the edges. It’s the kind of well-made chaos that would make a ’90s wunderkind like Beck proud, yet it’s made possible by a younger generation’s ability to nonchalantly blend influences as if it were their birthright. With musicians as inventive and joyfully irreverent as Artemas remixing the past this way, the future of music is in good hands. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

2024 39 if u think i'm pretty -1-

2024 03 i like the way you kiss me -1-

2024 00 fancy -1-

 

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

 

Social Media

 

Artemas

 

Fair play to wham but can we have something new next year

 

Predictable :drama:

Edited December 20, 20241 yr by TheSnake

First song to be Christmas number one twice since Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen

Thanks Andrew for just saying that streaming is the answer to everything :D

Edited December 20, 20241 yr by gasman449

Does Gracie go on ACR next week?

Last Christmas is also number one for the 20th birthday of Southampton diver Maya Kutty (born 23/12/2004)

Does Gracie go on ACR next week?

 

Yep but it'll be straight back to SCR in the new year