just a polite notice: the friday chart predictions thread has been locked, please don't move your arguements into other threads as they can be just as easily locked 🫣 lets keep the discussion positive, and about the music

Ideally Kelly for number 1 🙌

In answer to a comment and the other thread, I have Wham! catching up by 611 sales (not 125) today - though my data is secondhand, so I can’t verify it.

However they are still marginally (110 sales) behind where Kylie was yesterday (compared with 116 the previous day) - so in that sense, Wham! are not really catching up by much.

If Wham! stay a day behind, they can only catch up if something odd happens behind the scenes (they’d need to be around half a day behind on Wednesday/Thursday to catch up on Friday).

I’ve also heard that Kylie’s download figure yesterday was quite promising, so fans have really got behind the download strategy.

Want : Kylie

Will be : Wham

2 hours ago, Mangø said:

Want XMAS to be #1 but I've got a nasty feeling Whamageddon will strike at the last minute.

Isn't Whamageddon where people go out of their way to avoid hearing it? 😆

40 minutes ago, Jessie Where said:

Isn't Whamageddon where people go out of their way to avoid hearing it? 😆

Oh is it? I just assumed it was the general term for Wham! being Christmas #1 ever year, but your meaning actually makes more sense now I think about it

Must be Santa - Bob Dylan

Think: Kylie Minogue

Want: Kylie Minogue

They should re release this, an absolute modern classic

5 hours ago, Julian_ said:

Think Kylie.

Want Brenda haha. For now I just want a #3 position for her, which is still proving elusive.

I’m certain Brenda will have her turn at the top - I’m surprised they haven’t gone down the physical route for her and released a remix.

Brenda Lee Amazon Exclusive 2026 🤭

No one wanting poor Mariah to be Christmas #1

Think: Wham

Want: Brenda

1 hour ago, -Jay- said:

No one wanting poor Mariah to be Christmas #1

I wouldn't call her poor Mariah, think she can live comfortably of the royalties from AIWFC alone 🤣

Think/Praying - Kylie

Want - Kylie

7 hours ago, GreyAsh said:

Amazon actually does two charts, and I can’t work out the difference between them - other than one is clearly a summary of all the sales of a track whereas the other one will include a song several times in its chart. They clearly aren’t accurate, because for several weeks they excluded Last Christmas, and their sales chart seems to be excluding XMAS.

It’s also not very transparent because they don’t say what period of time they cover.

I think all of Amazon is premium, because regardless of whether you have a prime account (where you can’t select what you want to play) or an Amazon Music account (where you have full flexibility) your account is not free, and you don’t get ads.

That’s why Exclusives do so well: you can skip them, but you can’t control whether or not they are played.

I kind of assumed this from their charts the have to the public. If an exclusive is played automatically and you skip immediately does that not count as a stream then?

If Kylie will get # 1, Xmas will be the first UK # 1, which I like from last 15 (!!!) years.

1 hour ago, -Jay- said:

No one wanting poor Mariah to be Christmas #1

I think it's more that even if ACR wasn't a thing, All I Want For Christmas Is You is always firmly behind Last Christmas.

12 minutes ago, Steve201 said:

If an exclusive is played automatically and you skip immediately does that not count as a stream then?

Yeah that wouldn't count as a stream if you skip it within 30 seconds!

4 minutes ago, gasman449 said:

Yeah that wouldn't count as a stream if you skip it within 30 seconds!

I know i always remember to skip Kylie after 25 seconds 🤭