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Taylor Swift is probably set for a sixth week at #1, meanwhile tracks from the "Wicked: For Good" soundtrack and Tate McRae's "SO CLOSE TO WHAT???" deluxe reissue could make an impact. New singles also arrive from Fred Again, Sam Fender, The Kid LAROI, Maisie Peters, Bad Omens, Bastille, Danny L Harle, Overmono, Madeon and Kneecap

On the albums front - Olly Murs' "Knees Up" contends for #1 alongside The Beatles' "Anthology 4", new records arrive from De La Soul with "Cabin in the Sky" and Oneohtrix Point Never with "Tranquilizer", plus EP releases including Stray Kids with "DO IT", Aerosmith & YUNGBLUD's "One More Time" and Tems' "Love is a Kingdom". There's also new albums from Sub Focus, The Hellp, Keaton Henson, Ella Eyre, Simply Red, Tobias Jesso Jr, SoFaygo, S6NNER and The Dualers

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Sunday 6:00pm - 7:00pm Official Chart: First Look on BBC Radio 1

Monday from 5:45pm Official Chart Update on officialcharts.com *

Wednesday from 5:45pm Top 40 update from Music Week, with top 5 sales information

* updates are not compiled on bank holiday Mondays, so on those occasions, the Official Chart Update will arrive Tuesday during the afternoon.

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- As per the Friday chart thread, please do NOT post First Look spoilers before it airs on BBC Radio 1.

- On any other days, information may come from outside sources but this is not regular. Anything we have will be posted, and anything that's posted must come with a source to prove its reliability.

- Please do not demand a midweek update, one will be posted as and when we receive the information, and when a chart mod is available.

- To keep everyone in the loop of all chart action, please refer to the iTunes and streaming threads.

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Official Chart First Look: Full Update

right 1 Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia

up 2 RAYE - WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!

up 3 Olivia Dean - So Easy (To Fall in Love)

up 4 Olivia Dean - Man I Need

down 5 HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Golden

right 6 Taylor Swift - Opalite

right 7 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In

ne 8 Tate McRae - NOBODY'S GIRL

down 9 Dave & Tems - Raindance

up 10 Wham! - Last Christmas

right 11 HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - How It's Done

up 12 Tate McRae - TIT FOR TAT

down 13 SIENNA SPIRO - Die on This Hill

down 14 Alex Warren - Ordinary

up 15 Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You

down 16 HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - What It Sounds Like

ne 17 Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande - For Good

down 18 EsDeeKid - Century

down 19 Taylor Swift - Elizabeth Taylor

ne 20 Tate McRae - ANYTHING BUT LOVE

ne 22 Stray Kids - Do It

ne 23 Cynthia Erivo - No Good Deed

up 24 Sonny Fodera, D.O.D & Poppy Baskcomb - Think About Us

up 25 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

re 29 Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree

re 31 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York

re 32 Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me

ne 33 Kylie Minogue - XMAS

re 35 Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock

re 36 Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone

ne 37 Cynthia Erivo & Jonathan Bailey - As Long As You're Mine

Official Charts Report

Can RAYE finally take top spot? The British star is set to lock horns with Taylor Swift for Number 1 in this week's Official Chart First Look.

Having spent a large amount of time in third, RAYE’s popular tune WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! could possibly see movement, currently up one position into Number 2. Has the time ultimately come for her to claim the throne and a second top single triumph after Escapism. in 2022?

But she will have to KO Taylor’s The Fate of Ophelia, which claimed its fifth week at the summit on Friday (1).

Olivia Dean and So Easy (To Fall In Love) is also on course to move up one this week (3), which would mark the tracks best performing position yet.

With the deluxe version of her album So Close To What dropping, Tate McRae could earn the highest new entry this week with NOBODY’S GIRL (8). The Canadian also finds two other tracks in TIT FOR TAT (12) and ANYTHING BUT LOVE (20) potentially sealing a Top 20 finish.

As the Christmas season draws ever closer, multiple festive hits could step into the Top 40. The list sees Wham! and Last Christmas on course to break the Top 10 (10), while another possible Top 20 inclusion consists of Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You (15).

Moreover, other potential holiday entries include Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree from Brenda Lee (25), Kelly Clarkson’s Underneath The Tree (29), The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl on the classic Fairytale of New York (31), Santa Tell Me from Wicked star Ariana Grande (32), a new entry from Kylie Minogue with her Amazon Music Original track XMAS (33), Jingle Bell Rock courtesy of Bobby Helms (35) and finally, Merry Christmas Everyone by Shakin’ Stevens (36).

As Wicked: For Good hit cinema screens last week, three songs from the film's soundtrack may possibly sneak into the Top 40 standings. Firstly, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande team up on For Good (17), while Erivo’s solo track No Good Deed (23), and her collab with Jonathan Bailey on As Long As You’re Mine (37) could all perform well.

Elsewhere, South Korean sensations Stray Kids may bag their best performing UK Charts single to date with DO IT (22), following the release of their EP last Friday.

Rounding off this week’s First Look is Sonny Fodera, whose track Think About Us featuring D.O.D and Poppy Baskcomb continues to be shown love, as it’s set to jump six places (24).

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Official Chart Update

Singles (Top 100)

right 01 Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia (16,293)

up 02 RAYE - WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! (14,145)

up 03 Olivia Dean - So Easy (To Fall in Love) (9,407)

up 04 Olivia Dean - Man I Need (9,071)

down 05 HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Golden (8,392)

up 06 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In

up 08 Wham! - Last Christmas

up 09 Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You

ne 14 Tate McRae - NOBODY'S GIRL

up 16 Tate McRae - TIT FOR TAT

ne 19 Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande - For Good

up 20 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree


ne 21 Cynthia Erivo - No Good Deed

ne 23 Tate McRae - ANYTHING BUT LOVE

ne 24 Stray Kids - Do It

re 25 Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree

re 27 Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me

re 28 Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock

re 29 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York

re 34 Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone

ne 35 Kylie Minogue - XMAS

ne 37 Cynthia Erivo & Jonathan Bailey - As Long As You're mine

re 39 Elton John - Step Into Christmas

re 40 Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?

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Albums (Top 100)

ne 01 Aerosmith & YUNGBLUD - One More Time (15,553) [14,759 physicals]

ne 02 James - Nothing But Love: The Definitive Best Of (8,313) [7,952 physicals]

ne 03 Olly Murs - Knees Up (7,296)

ne 04 The Beatles - Anthology 4 (6,515)

ne 05 Madness - Hit Parade (6,196)

up 07 Tate McRae - So Close to What (4,137)

ne 08 Sub Focus - Contact (3,958)

ne 10 The Beatles - Anthology Collection (3,770)

ne 13 Simply Red - Recollections

re 17 The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses


up 21 Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

re 23 Prince - Around the World in a Day

up 24 Ed Sheeran - Play

up 27 sombr - I Barely Know Her

re 29 Michael Bublé - Christmas

re 30 The Stone Roses - The Very Best of the Stone Roses

re 40 Radiohead - OK Computer

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The Official Chart Company defines a boundary between EP and album classification at 25 minutes of length or four tracks.

An AI Google search says,

An Extended Play (EP) can chart on the Official Charts Company (OCC) album chart, provided it meets the OCC's specific eligibility rules for length and content

For a release to qualify as an album for sales-chart purposes, it must meet the following criteria: 

  • Contain more than four tracks.

  • Have a total playing time of over 25 minutes. 

If an EP fails to meet these requirements, it is considered a single and is only eligible for the Official Singles Chart. This is driven by the UK Chart rules, which distinguish between releases for the Singles/EPs chart and the Albums chart.

I make the AeroBLUD EP to be 19mins 39sec with 5 tracks.

So it should not be in the Album chart.

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5 is more than 4 though. So it should be in the album chart. The length requirement is only relevant for releases that have 4 or fewer tracks, see the Skye Newman EP which is even shorter (despite having 6 tracks) but is in the album chart.

I think in the past there have been 5 track releases that ended up in a purgatory and appeared to count for neither chart though so I'd probably say that as usual whenever the answer isn't immediately obvious the real answer is just wait and see.

(aside: we do not need AI to tell us the rules, not least because it slightly mangled it there xx)

I see the Stray Kids release (which seems to be classified as a mixtape rather than an EP) is also 5 tracks although one of them is just a remix which I don't think counts towards the number of tracks so assuming that'll just count as a single? Although no doubt it'll have ineligible physical sales as per regardless x

2 minutes ago, Dj Cheeky magpie said:

How many song from wicked can chart as lot different artist on it

It'll have its own 3 track limit, same as the first film's soundtrack. (Might have more than 3 songs appear in the mids because the OCC can never figure this out before Friday)

1 minute ago, Brer said:

It'll have its own 3 track limit, same as the first film's soundtrack. (Might have more than 3 songs appear in the mids because the OCC can never figure this out before Friday)

Thank you

4 hours ago, Brer said:

It'll have its own 3 track limit, same as the first film's soundtrack. (Might have more than 3 songs appear in the mids because the OCC can never figure this out before Friday)

Defying Gravity is also rising again on streaming, since both films are treated as their separate things with three track limits, would that mean that Erivo could have four songs in the top 100 next week - two with Grande (one from each ost), one with Bailey and one solo.

On the album charts you also have greatest hits albums by James and Madness, hard to say how well they’ll do, they could prove to be popular Christmas presents

12 hours ago, Highway Unicorn said:

Defying Gravity is also rising again on streaming, since both films are treated as their separate things with three track limits, would that mean that Erivo could have four songs in the top 100 next week - two with Grande (one from each ost), one with Bailey and one solo.

Im not sure like when Cruel summer was still huge, only 2 tracks from SNTV were allowed to chart so isnt it technically the same thing

I’m 99 that the three song limit applies to the cast of Wicked in general, Defying Gravity won’t be allowed back in alongside the three from the new film

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