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  • Smiley Kylie… it’s literally been 6 years of following how Amazon Christmas exclusives do in the chart, and the trajectory is more or less the same every time. It’s abundantly clear by now that the ke

  • Mr. C. Joel
    Mr. C. Joel

    If you don't follow the Christmas charts and how Amazon exclusives work you won't really understand what we're saying. Amazon heavily auto play the Amazon Christmas Exclusive (For instance when someon

  • No Sleeep
    No Sleeep

    You must not be familiar with Alexa’s scammery!

Just now, SmileyKylie said:

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45 (+5) XMAS, Kylie

New Peak

Many new peaks coming fast and soon.

If at Number 33 today, Kylie has had 2 strong days of gaining big interest.

So excited to see Kylie in the Top 40 even if it does feel like a bit of a hollow victory due to Alexa.

As normal with the first mids for Amazon exclusives versus Friday charts expecting it to fall away as the week progresses but an amazing start!

Didn’t Tom chart at 83 this same week? The dates of him charting at 49 are 29th-5th? So Kylie’s technically ahead so far? I’m sure he then charted at 25 (5-12th dec) and then jumped to 6 on Christmas chart week (13-19th?)

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Tom's outdone Kylie so far:

Monday midweek:

18/11/24 - #62 [Tom Grennan]

17/11/24 - #72 [Kylie]

Friday chart:

22/11/24 - #83 [Tom Grennan]

21/11/25 - n/a [Kylie]

Sunday first look:

24/11/24 - #19 [Tom Grennan] (then #24 in Monday 25th Nov midweek, ending up at #49 on Friday 29th Nov]

23/11/25 - #33 [Kylie]

Based on that, Kylie could end up in the 60s area by Friday!

2 hours ago, Paddington James said:

#33 in the first look chart is amazing. Top 75 this week hopefully.

Love it, should stay top 75 this week.

2 minutes ago, Padamic_Tension said:

Love it, should stay top 75 this week.

Hopefully, it’s certainly off to a good start.

Great for Kylie but if she stands a chance at number 1 she needs to be at the very least doing as well as Tom (With the hope of a big download campaign with multi versions) She's a quite a bit lower than Tom if he was 19 at this point.

LOL

What has Tom got to do with Kylie other than its an Amazon Exclusive,

Tom is a different singer, different fan base, different song, different strategy

I woludn't read too much into it

Interested to see the SIA song doing very well this year.

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9 minutes ago, SmileyKylie said:

LOL

What has Tom got to do with Kylie other than its an Amazon Exclusive,

Tom is a different singer, different fan base, different song, different strategy

I woludn't read too much into it

Interested to see the SIA song doing very well this year.

It has everything to do with it? That's the whole point the fact it's an Amazon exclusive. Kylie wouldn't be top 100 if it wasn't for Amazon having it on all the Christmas playlists. You can get an idea of how well the exclusive will do based on how the other exclusives have performed in the early stages. I'm sure Kylie will have better physical and download sales but her streaming needs to be the same as how other exclusives have done to be high in streams on chart week.

At the moment Kylie is falling behind Tom last year week on week so it needs to make gains,

Common sense no? I don't get what's funny about that.

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1 hour ago, Mr. C. Joel said:

It has everything to do with it? That's the whole point the fact it's an Amazon exclusive. Kylie wouldn't be top 100 if it wasn't for Amazon having it on all the Christmas playlists. You can get an idea of how well the exclusive will do based on how the other exclusives have performed in the early stages. I'm sure Kylie will have better physical and download sales but her streaming needs to be the same as how other exclusives have done to be high in streams on chart week.

At the moment Kylie is falling behind Tom last year week on week so it needs to make gains,

Common sense no? I don't get what's funny about that.

Not really...... it could be an indication but not an exact science. I will wait and see the final results. There are a lot more factors than just being an Amazon Exclusive, Alexa or not. Do we actually have the streaming numbers comparison between the 2 songs this week or next or just chart position differences?

Anyway we both want Kylie success :)

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Smiley Kylie… it’s literally been 6 years of following how Amazon Christmas exclusives do in the chart, and the trajectory is more or less the same every time. It’s abundantly clear by now that the key factor in the success of all of them is Amazon’s massive push with streaming alongside Alexa prioritising these songs when Christmas songs are requested.

It’s literally the only reason XMAS is in the midweeks… and yes, it is completely logical to compare it to Tom Grennan’s Amazon Christmas song from last year because… it’s precisely and 100% the same gimmick so far?

So please don’t be so dismissive, that post of yours was quite rude. We’re contributing our knowledge about this to be helpful and provide context. Yet despite you not having had a close interest in Amazon exclusives prior to Kylie’s involvement, you believe you know better about it… 🧐 well, you’ve proved that you don’t fully understand, if you think this boils down to “different fan base, different song, different strategy”.

As others said its the amazon exclusive , the push etc etc, realistically if it was "different fanbases" Kylie wouldnt even be appearing in the mids just yet unfortunately 😬

33 on Sunday should be a good start for a top 75 debut with just over a month to go get that new smash Kylie

Well it’s showing signs of powering up now.

Could it be that people use Alexa devices less now? Or are they more popular than ever? I’ve no idea.

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1 hour ago, aeroco said:

Well it’s showing signs of powering up now.

Could it be that people use Alexa devices less now? Or are they more popular than ever? I’ve no idea.

Honestly not sure re: Alexa! Hopefully it’s still as popular, it would be annoying if after the last few years it ends up being Kylie’s year that an exclusive is not a guaranteed Top 5/10 outcome anymore 😆

The Alexa devices will be slashed for the actual Black Friday this week as Amazon use it as a tactic to get their streaming numbers up etc., so hopefully it’ll be the same this year.

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