The top five highest charting:

Gabrielle Aplin: The Power of Love (#1, 2012)

Lily Allen: Somewhere Only We Know (#1, 2013)

Ellie Goulding: Your Song (#2, 2010)

Tom Odell: Real Love (#7, 2014)

Aurora: Half the World Away (#11, 2015)

The last one to make the main chart at all was A Little Love (Celeste) for the 2020 advert, charting at #59.

The last top 40 was the year prior, with "Can't Fight this Feeling" by Bastille making #39.

Ellie Goulding is currently the biggest selling with 1.3 million as of April 2023.

Edited November 8, 2025Nov 8 by Hassaan

Yeah the john lewis advert song is over its the amazon exclusive theses days 😅

45 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

Yeah the john lewis advert song is over its the amazon exclusive theses days 😅

True. Streaming basically cannibalised whatever impact it once had.

8 hours ago, Hassaan said:

The top five highest charting:

Gabrielle Aplin: The Power of Love (#1, 2012)

Lily Allen: Somewhere Only We Know (#1, 2013)

Ellie Goulding: Your Song (#2, 2010)

Tom Odell: Real Love (#7, 2014)

Aurora: Half the World Away (#11, 2015)

The last one to make the main chart at all was A Little Love (Celeste) for the 2020 advert, charting at #59.

The last top 40 was the year prior, with "Can't Fight this Feeling" by Bastille making #39.

Ellie Goulding is currently the biggest selling with 1.3 million as of April 2023.

The Celeste one was lovely, still play it every December now!

I remember that Slow Moving Millie lived up to her name in chart performance, her Smiths cover didn't really get very far!

Edited November 8, 2025Nov 8 by TheSnake

I remember I use to really look forward to this release every year.

Well they don't use big names anymore as well.

On 08/11/2025 at 16:02, 777666jason said:

Yeah the john lewis advert song is over its the amazon exclusive theses days 😅

Is it just me or are Amazon using the same one as they did last year (the 3 grandmas going sledging), pretty lazy if so!

21 minutes ago, Dobbo said:

Is it just me or are Amazon using the same one as they did last year (the 3 grandmas going sledging), pretty lazy if so!

The advert rings a bell but ngl didnt twig it was amazon so I can neither confirm or disagree sorry

23 minutes ago, Dobbo said:

Is it just me or are Amazon using the same one as they did last year (the 3 grandmas going sledging), pretty lazy if so!

I thought the same!

Maybe it went down well?!

3 hours ago, Dobbo said:

Well they don't use big names anymore as well.

Labrinth is kind of a big name, he got a streaming hit a few years ago I remember. His music is all so sensible now though, miss the Labrinth of the early 2010s.

Labrinth as a name himself doesn’t sell, see the complete non performance of the John Lewis cover song on streaming.

his streaming hits from a few years ago were helped by being from a popular tv show and then further TikTok driven

then he had another more recently that was down to a billie eilish feature (even if uncredited it was fairly publicised she was on it)

The Vaults version of One Day I'll Fly Away was incredible

Current Spotify streams of each John Lewis song:

2009 "Sweet Child o' Mine" Taken by Trees 62 million

2010 "Your Song" Ellie Goulding 257 million

2011 "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" Slow Moving Millie 2.9 million

2012 "The Power of Love" Gabrielle Aplin 74 million

2013 "Somewhere Only We Know" Lily Allen 387 million

2014 "Real Love" 6 November 2014 Tom Odell 65 million

2015 "Half the World Away" Aurora 125 million

2016 "One Day I'll Fly Away" Vaults 4.8 million

2017 "Golden Slumbers" Elbow 18 million

2019 "Can't Fight This Feeling" Bastille 16 million

2020 "A Little Love" Celeste 9 million

2021 "Together in Electric Dreams" Lola Young 2.9 million

2022 "All the Small Things" Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox feat. Puddles Pity Party 7 million

2023 "Festa" Andrea Bocelli 471k

2024 "Sonnet" Richard Ashcroft 3.3 million

This list doesn't include Elton's Your Song, because that obviously has tons of plays that aren't related to being used in the advert. It should also be noted that the songs from 2022 and 2024 were released prior to being featured in a John Lewis advert, but they weren't really notable.

Edited November 11, 2025Nov 11 by Tom1991

Thanks for sharing these streaming numbers @Tom1991.

Yeh thanks for this, I had forgotten a lot of the recent ones post 2020 including the nice version Lola did of Together in Electric Dreams

6 hours ago, Steve201 said:

Yeh thanks for this, I had forgotten a lot of the recent ones post 2020 including the nice version Lola did of Together in Electric Dreams

I think that version is dire! I was appalled when I first heard it, a song like that should not be turned into a spirit-crushingly dreary piano ballad.

I didn't know who she was back then though, and thankfully she's done more than enough to redeem herself since

Edited November 11, 2025Nov 11 by Jessie Where

5 hours ago, Jessie Where said:

I think that version is dire! I was appalled when I first heard it, a song like that should not be turned into a spirit-crushingly dreary piano ballad.

I didn't know who she was back then though, and thankfully she's done more than enough to redeem herself since

😂 I love the song so was glad to hear a revival and loved Lola at that point so thought she might have got a hit from it!