Surprised this is not in the Oscars 2025 short list.

Those who like the Wizzard song will be pleased to hear that Roy Wood is working on a new album, his first since 2011.

19 | 20 | 4th week

 

Laufey

Christmas Magic

 

 

3rd single from A Very Laufey Holiday

and soundtrack single from Red One

Released: 7th November 2024

Label: Vingolf Recordings

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (05/12/2024) | 67-39-20-19

 

Sales: 40,000+

Certification: -

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

 

00 Sales

46 Audio Streaming

00 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

Singer and multi-instrumentalist Laufey brings a jazz-influenced, traditional pop style into the 21st century with soothing songs inspired by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, and Chet Baker. Like a younger sibling to more contemporary acts like Norah Jones and Fiona Apple, the Icelandic-Chinese musician made her official debut in the early 2020s with her viral hit "Street by Street," which was popular on social media. Laufey's debut EP, Typical of Me, arrived in April 2021. She later expanded upon that with her official first album, 2022's Everything I Know About Love, which reached the Top 20 in her native Iceland. Featuring collaborations with the Philharmonia Orchestra, the sophisticated Bewitched followed in 2023 and brought the singer wider international acclaim, including a Top 30 placement on the Billboard 200 and the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. She also released a holiday EP, A Very Laufey Christmas, in 2024. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

Laufey

2023 92 From The Start -1-

2023 84 A Night To Remember (beabadoobee & Laufey)

2023 24 Winter Wonderland -1-

2024 19 Christmas Magic -3/OST-

2024 82 Santa Baby -2-

 

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

 

Amazon Originals: Christmas

2018 22 Cozy Little Christmas (Katy Perry)

2019 01 River (Ellie Goulding)

2019 09 Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (John Legend)

2020 03 This Christmas (Jess Glynne)

2020 04 Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (Justin Bieber)

2020 61 In The Bleak Midwinter (Jamie Cullum)

2020 63 Favorite Time Of Year (Carrie Underwood)

2021 08 Come On Home For Christmas (George Ezra)

2021 19 The Christmas Song (Olivia Dean)

2021 24 I'll Be Home For Christmas (Camila Cabello)

2021 97 I Want To Come Home For Christmas (Summer Walker)

2021 98 Jingle Bell Rock (Alessia Cara)

2022 05 Firebabe (Stormzy feat. Debbie)

2022 08 Someday At Christmas (Lizzo)

2022 41 Jingle Bells (Sam Ryder)

2022 47 Together This Christmas (Maisie Peters)

2022 49 Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (Priya Ragu)

2022 64 All I Want (For Christmas) (Zoe Wees)

2022 70 Last Christmas (Lauren Spencer Smith)

2023 02 You're Christmas To Me (Sam Ryder)

2023 16 Stay Another Day (Jorja Smith)

2023 48 Jingle Bells (Meghan Trainor)

2024 06 It Can't Be Christmas (Tom Grennan)

2024 19 Christmas Magic (Laufey)

 

1 x #1 | 5 x Top 5 | 9 x Top 10 | 12 x Top 20 | 14 x Top 40 | 24 x Top 100

 

Social Media

 

Laufey

 

Well, the lyrics are “War is over (if you want it)”! It wasn’t celebrating any wars being over at the time.

 

Exactly. The juxtaposition of the 'war is over' lyric with the inevitable reality in our world was meant to make people feel uncomfortable, to make a political statement, and was just masquerading as a cosy christmas song (probably to get it onto the radio), but I think after 50+ years for most it really is genuinely just a cosy old song at this stage.

2 Laufey songs played today that I'd never listen to by myself.

Edited December 20, 20241 yr by Jason

oh oh Laufey played twice <3

Finally a play for this! Great new Christmas song

Is it really pronounced Layvay?

 

Prefer this to the cover of WW.

I thought this would be Top 10

Those who like the Wizzard song will be pleased to hear that Roy Wood is working on a new album, his first since 2011.

 

As long as he isn't rehashing 'I wish it could be a wombling merry christmas every day'.

18 | 28 | 58th week

 

Paul McCartney

Wonderful Christmastime

 

http://i.imgur.com/a8DPQWD.jpg

 

Non-album single

Released: 1979

Label: Parlophone / Columbia

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (01/12/1979) | 61-31-20-7-7-6-18-51-x

RE (15/12/2007) | 77-70-44-x

RE (17/12/2011) | 72-93-x

RE (15/12/2012) | 96-x

RE (24/12/2015) | 98-68-x

RE (15/12/2016) | 78-69-54-40-x

RE (14/12/2017) | 79-39-38-26-x

RE (13/12/2018) | 62-48-35-20-x

RE (12/12/2019) | 81-72-67-37-x

RE (03/12/2020) | 90-39-32-34-26-25-x

RE (09/12/2021) | 54-29-27-23-17-x

RE (01/12/2022) | 96-51-30-24-25-17-x

RE (07/12/2023) | 52-28-25-25-22-x

RE (05/12/2024) | 79-44-28-18

 

Sales: 1,700,000+

Certification: 2x Platinum

Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio

 

06 Sales

13 Audio Streaming

26 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

As Beatlemania was transforming rock ’n’ roll from passing teen fad to permanent pop-cultural movement, Paul McCartney (born in Liverpool in 1942) became the driving force behind the band’s rapid, dramatic maturation. In just two years, he had graduated from the Little Richard worship of 1963’s “I Saw Her Standing There” to the exquisite orchestral balladry of “Yesterday”—a shift that intensified the contrast between McCartney and his increasingly acerbic songwriting partner, John Lennon. But as The Beatles’ entered their late-’60s experimental phase—during which Lennon’s avant-garde impulses came to the fore—McCartney’s traditionalism constituted its own form of radicalism. Within the band’s psychedelic milieu, his embrace of pre-rock forms, like classical (“Eleanor Rigby”) and English music-hall serenades (“When I’m Sixty-Four”), felt no less surreal than The Beatles' use of tape-loop freak-outs and sitar drones. (And this is to say nothing of Paul's sublime bass playing, which elevated the four-string from rhythmic undercurrent to melodic focal point.) His post-Beatles albums have proven equally uncanny and influential: 1971’s art-folk opus Ram provided the lo-fi schematic for future generations of DIY home-recording artists, while the arena-rattling roar of “Jet”, from McCartney's subsequent band Wings’ 1973 LP Band on the Run, shows why he’s become a muse to hard rockers such as Dave Grohl. And by continually collaborating with the hitmakers of the day—from Michael Jackson in the 1980s to Rihanna and Kanye West in the 2010s—he has remained a voracious pop omnivore, as connected to music's past as its future. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

1971 02 Another Day -NAS-

1971 39 Back Seat Of My Car (Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney) -1-

1973 09 My Love (Paul McCartney & Wings) -1-

1973 09 Live And Let Die (Paul McCartney & Wings) -OST-

1973 12 Helen Wheels (Paul McCartney & Wings) -1-

1974 07 Jet (Paul McCartney & Wings) -2-

1974 03 Band On The Run (Paul McCartney & Wings) -3-

1974 16 Junior's Farm (Paul McCartney & Wings) -NAS-

1975 41 Letting Go (Paul McCartney & Wings) -1-

1979 60 Getting Closer / Baby's Request (Paul McCartney & Wings) -1-

1979 06 Wonderful Christmastime -NAS- MILLIONAIRE

1980 02 Coming Up -1-

1980 09 Waterfalls -2-

1982 01 Ebony And Ivory (Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder) -1-

1982 15 Take It Away -2-

1982 53 Tug Of War -3-

1982 08 The Girl Is Mine (Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney)

1983 02 Say Say Say (Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson) -1-

1983 01 Pipes Of Peace -2-

1984 02 No More Lonely Nights -1-

1984 03 We All Stand Together (Paul McCartney & The Frog Chorus) -NAS-

1985 13 Spies Like Us -NAS-

1986 25 Press -1-

1986 76 Pretty Little Head -2-

1986 34 Only Love Remains -3-

1987 10 Once Upon A Long Ago -1-

1989 01 Ferry 'Cross The Mersey (The Christians, Holly Johnson, Paul McCartney, Gerry Marsden & Stock Aitken Waterman)

1989 18 My Brave Face -1-

1989 18 This One -2-

1989 42 Figure Of Eight -3-

1990 32 Put It There -4-

1990 29 Birthday -1-

1990 35 All My Trials -2-

1993 18 Hope Of Deliverance -1-

1993 41 C'Mon People -2-

1997 19 Young Boy -1-

1997 23 The World Tonight -2-

1997 25 Beautiful Night -3-

1999 42 No Other Baby -1-

1999 87 Voice (Heather Mills feat. Paul McCartney)

2001 45 From A Lover To A Friend -1-

2004 21 Tropic Island Hum -NAS-

2005 20 Fine Line -1-

2005 22 Jenny Wren -2-

2007 26 Dance Tonight -1-

2007 85 Ever Present Past -2-

2015 28 Only One (Kanye West feat. Paul McCartney)

2015 03 FourFiveSeconds (Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney) MILLIONAIRE

2015 18 All Day (Kanye West feat. Theophilus London, Allan Kingdom & Paul McCartney)

 

3 x #1 | 10 x Top 5 | 17 x Top 10 | 27 x Top 20 | 39 x Top 40 | 49 x Top 100

 

Social Media

 

Paul McCartney

 

ew

Alexa has had two Top 20 hits every year so far this decade

URGHHHHHH :puke2:

 

Pure, rotten evil this song is!

:yahoo:

 

Simply wonderful!

Yay!

Surprised this is not in the Oscars 2025 short list.

 

Its not a new song written for the movie - its over 20 years old from the stage musical.

Surprised this is not in the Oscars 2025 short list.

It's not an original song for movie.

Wish Paul hadn't discovered synthesisers in the late 70s, he went a bit mad with them :lol:

Laufey is pronounced looo-vé

in pure Icelandic