43 minutes ago, stebags said:

Is it the most wonderful time of the year?

No... that would be Summer!!!

At least Christmas songs aren’t clogging up the Australian charts. Either they have the right idea on Christmas songs or because it’s their summer

Edited Wednesday at 17:561 day by Hadji

4 hours ago, stebags said:

Is it the most wonderful time of the year?

It is for Mariah Carey's bank balance !!

25 minutes ago, Hadji said:

At least Christmas songs aren’t clogging up the Australian charts. Either they have the right idea on Christmas songs or because it’s their summer

Because they’re all excluded and confined to the legacy chart, where Mariah was #1 last week.

4 minutes ago, Maestro said:

Because they’re all excluded and confined to the legacy chart, where Mariah was #1 last week.

Looks like Australia have the right idea. Shame the UK don’t follow suit

1 minute ago, Hadji said:

Looks like Australia have the right idea. Shame the UK don’t follow suit

It's only a recent change mind, came in 01/09/25. Who knows what the OCC are planning, if anything.

Music Week Top 40 Sales Flash

Singles

01 Wham! - Last Christmas (28,816)

02 Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You (23,345)

03 RAYE - WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! (22,502)

04 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree (21,624)

05 Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree (18,467)

06 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York

07 Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock

08 Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me

11 Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone

13 Kylie Minogue - XMAS

14 Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?

15 Dean Martin - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

16 Laufey - Winter Wonderland

17 Elton John - Step Into Christmas

19 John Lennon, Yoko Ono & the Plastic Ono Band - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

20 Andy Williams - It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

22 Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime

24 The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride

26 Chris Rea - Driving Home for Christmas

27 Michael Bublé - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

28 José Feliciano - Feliz Navidad

29 Gwen Stefani - Shake the Snow Globe

30 Michael Bublé - Holly Jolly Christmas

31 Sia - Snowman

32 Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

34 Justin Bieber - Mistletoe

38 Nat "King" Cole - The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You)

39 Ed Sheeran & Elton John - Merry Christmas

40 Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody

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Albums (Top 100)

01 Kylie Minogue - Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped) (16,589)

02 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving (11,460)

03 Sam Fender - People Watching (11,089)

04 Michael Bublé - Christmas

05 Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl (6,838)

07 Olivia Rodrigo - Live from Glastonbury (A BBC Recording)

08 Depeche Mode - Memento Mori: Mexico City

21 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live God

25 The Reytons - Roll the Dice

28 Ultravox - The Collection

34 Fontaines D.C. - Romance

37 Happy Mondays - The Factory Singles

Kylie already out of the top 10 😲

I was hoping RAYE would close the gap on Wham! but at least she gained a place since Monday. I hope she can at least overtake Mariah and keep number 2

Raye off acr for few weeks from Friday Brenda Lee normal leap above Mariah

I too wonder if there’s going to be a load of think pieces about Wham being Cmas number one a third time running which will push the OCC into doing something similar to what Australia have going on.

there’s already been one BBC article moaning about how Wham seemingly have it every year now.

Kylie got the album number 1 then. Not looking by much though

You need to all help Kylie from Friday everyone!!!

We would love her to get her 36th top 10 hit on Xmas week with XMAS

Edited Wednesday at 19:031 day by SmileyKylie

1 hour ago, mrpopquiz said:

It is for Mariah Carey's bank balance !!

I read Slade make the most with 1m every December!

Kylie dropping just highlights how "on it" Amazon are on a Monday with their figures as opposed to the other platforms so when Wednesday rolls around because it's only available on Amazon the drop seems so much more significant.

Ohh Olivia has a chance on Friday in the albums doesn’t she?

6 minutes ago, Steve201 said:

Ohh Olivia has a chance on Friday in the albums doesn’t she?

She added 5K since Monday. And she needs another 5K to where Kylie is now, so I’d say it’s unlikely as Kylie will still add some more sales. But it will be close.

Leona Lewis struggled this year

2 minutes ago, Dj Cheeky magpie said:

Leona Lewis struggled this year

I thought this too. I often compare the track to Kelly Clarkson's as they both came out the same year and are up there as the "contemporary classics" but Kelly has seemingly flown away this year!

Olivia has maybe 60% of her weekly streams in that figure. She should end up with at least 18k (similar to her sales two weeks ago). It's very close between her and Kylie.

Edited Wednesday at 19:421 day by Sour Candy