Posted December 23, 2024Dec 23 Full update, copied straight from Official Charts Company article here: https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...hristmas-songs/ Christmas songs are like Brussels sprouts: they only appear in December and you either love or loathe them - but either way they are an essential component of the festive season. Like distant relatives bounding into your family home on Christmas morning, every December sees a flurry of festive favourites flood back into the Official Chart - ever since the age of downloading (2005) and streaming (2014) made the classics (as well as the newer Christmas songs) more accessible. As ever, the 2024 festive season is seeing plenty of Christmas classics back in this Official Singles Chart - but a smattering of newer tracks are emerging, too. Magic Radio revealed the list yesterday (22 December) in a special programme celebrating all things Christmas. Looking at the UK’s most-streamed Christmas songs, based on Official Charts Company data, the Top 3 is the holy trinity of classics: Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You lands at the top of the tree with 475 million streams to date, followed by Wham’s Last Christmas, on 457m, and Fairytale Of New York by The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl with 316m plays. All three are usually the first to return to the Official Chart each December, often competing for spots in the Christmas Chart Top 10. Completing the Top 5 are two more old favourites, Shakin’ Stevens’ Merry Christmas Everyone in fourth 267m), and Brenda Lee's Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (258m). The highest-placed modern Christmas song - that is, festive songs released since 2010 - goes to Michael Bublé's It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas. The 2011 take on the classic track comes in close behind Brenda at Number 6 with 257m plays. Ariana Grande also has a big modern festive hit, with sparkly 2014 single Santa Tell Me landing as the UK’s eighth most-streamed Christmas track with 232m streams. Other modern festive songs holding their own against the classics include Kelly Clarkson’s Underneath The Tree in 11th place (197m), Leona Lewis’ One More Sleep in 15th place (170m), and Justin Bieber’s Mistletoe in 19th (153m). You can listen back to Magic Radio's countdown of the Official Top 40 now on the Rayo app. 1 ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU MARIAH CAREY 2 LAST CHRISTMAS WHAM! 3 FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK POGUES 4 MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE SHAKIN STEVENS 5 ROCKIN AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE BRENDA LEE 6 IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE MICHAEL BUBLE 7 DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS BAND AID 8 SANTA TELL ME ARIANA GRANDE 9 STEP INTO CHRISTMAS ELTON JOHN 10 I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY WIZZARD 11 UNDERNEATH THE TREE KELLY CLARKSON 12 DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS CHRIS REA 13 IT'S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR ANDY WILLIAMS/ROBERT MERSEY ORC 14 JINGLE BELL ROCK BOBBY HELMS 15 ONE MORE SLEEP LEONA LEWIS 16 MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY SLADE 17 HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER) JOHN & YOKO/PLASTIC ONO BAND 18 WONDERFUL CHRISTMASTIME PAUL MCCARTNEY 19 MISTLETOE JUSTIN BIEBER 20 HOLLY JOLLY CHRISTMAS MICHAEL BUBLE 21 LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW DEAN MARTIN 22 SLEIGH RIDE RONETTES 23 SOMEWHERE ONLY WE KNOW LILY ALLEN 24 FELIZ NAVIDAD JOSE FELICIANO 25 CHRISTMAS LIGHTS COLDPLAY 26 SNOWMAN SIA 27 CHRISTMAS (BABY PLEASE COME HOME) DARLENE LOVE 28 DO YOU WANT TO BUILD A SNOWMAN KRISTEN BELL/AGATHA LEE MONN 29 WHITE CHRISTMAS BING CROSBY 30 MERRY CHRISTMAS ED SHEERAN & ELTON JOHN 31 LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW FRANK SINATRA 32 THE CHRISTMAS SONG NAT KING COLE 33 STOP THE CAVALRY JONA LEWIE 34 STAY ANOTHER DAY EAST 17 35 SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN MICHAEL JACKSON & JACKSON FIVE 36 SANTA BABY KYLIE MINOGUE 37 MARY'S BOY CHILD BONEY M 38 LONELY THIS CHRISTMAS MUD 39 2000 MILES PRETENDERS 40 BLUE CHRISTMAS ELVIS PRESLEY Edited December 23, 2024Dec 23 by gasman449
December 23, 2024Dec 23 Author Lol at #9; as if anyone’s streaming the EP in full. Must be a glitch in their system as they've combined the EP's 70 chart run with "Step Into Christmas"'s post-digital release run. :lol: Edited it now
December 23, 2024Dec 23 Also classing “Do You Want To Build A Snowman” as a Christmas song is interesting - presumably its streams have never been concentrated in December and “Let It Go” is as much a Christmas song.
December 23, 2024Dec 23 Also classing “Do You Want To Build A Snowman” as a Christmas song is interesting - presumably its streams have never been concentrated in December and “Let It Go” is as much a Christmas song. Well sia snowman counts and the let it snow various versions count i guess they being consistent
December 23, 2024Dec 23 Well sia snowman counts and the let it snow various versions count i guess they being consistent Not really - 'Snowman' was specifically from a Christmas album and 'Let It Snow' is one of the classics that returns every year, whereas 'Do You Want To Build A Snowman' is neither of those - its inclusion is pretty much just based on the fact that its title contains the word "snowman". I do remember it occasionally being played at Christmas in previous years but it's definitely not what I would consider a Christmas song.
December 23, 2024Dec 23 Also, it's sad that The Darkness aren't in the top 40, that's up there as one of my favourite modern Christmas classics :( Edited December 23, 2024Dec 23 by Mangø hø hø!
December 24, 2024Dec 24 To its credit, here's "...Snowman"'s last.fm stats of late Obviously not breaking the bank but the end of year climb isn't nothing either. I think the limit of how much of the Christmas canon we can witness on the chart (ie top 200 on Spotify) can hide those smaller stories that definitely do still exist. Maybe more credit could even be given as it's probably(?) not driven by corporate playlists. Not everyone's Christmas staple, but it is for a lot of people.
December 24, 2024Dec 24 Not really - 'Snowman' was specifically from a Christmas album and 'Let It Snow' is one of the classics that returns every year, whereas 'Do You Want To Build A Snowman' is neither of those - its inclusion is pretty much just based on the fact that its title contains the word "snowman". I do remember it occasionally being played at Christmas in previous years but it's definitely not what I would consider a Christmas song. The Dean Martin classic was on his Christmas album too was it not? Also, DYWTBAS was on the Now Christmas album for a few years after its release.
December 24, 2024Dec 24 Aside from the Frozen song, 'Somewhere Only We Know' sticks out as one that's barely charted since its original chart run in 2013-14 with just 3 further weeks Top 100 in 2019, albeit it does still appear on some Christmas playlists. The other 38 songs have featured in the Top 100 most years this decade, if not all of them.
December 24, 2024Dec 24 To its credit, here's "...Snowman"'s last.fm stats of late Obviously not breaking the bank but the end of year climb isn't nothing either. I think the limit of how much of the Christmas canon we can witness on the chart (ie top 200 on Spotify) can hide those smaller stories that definitely do still exist. Maybe more credit could even be given as it's probably(?) not driven by corporate playlists. Not everyone's Christmas staple, but it is for a lot of people. Fair enough - always a pleasure to be corrected by a Dirca graph! ;)
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