Posted Thursday at 19:085 days Sales Report: W/E 18th December 2025Source: Music WeekCommentary: Alan JonesSingles01 42,470 Wham! - Last Christmas [80 CDs, 297 vinyl, 550 downloads, 41,543 streaming] [SCR: 84,013]02 37,677 RAYE - WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!03 36,135 Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You04 33,278 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree [SCR: 66,305] [digital era total: 3,042,687]05 27,739 Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree06 26,994 Olivia Dean - So Easy (To Fall in Love)07 26,367 Olivia Dean - Man I Need [SCR: 52,104]08 25,883 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York09 25,172 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In10 25,003 Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock11 24,458 Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me14 22,424 HAVEN. & Kaitlin Aragon - I Run16 21,946 Kylie Minogue - XMAS17 21,755 Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia19 21,214 Dean Martin - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! [SCR: 42,327] [digital era total: 1,701,129]40 14,811 Gwen Stefani - Shake the Snow Globe61 10,053 Tyla - CHANEL QuoteUnable to reach No.1 when it was first released more than four decades ago, Last Christmas is unable to stop reaching No.1 in the 2020s, rising inevitably and inexorably to pole position yet again this week for Wham!First released in 1984, as a double A-sided hit alongside Everything She Wants, Last Christmas peaked at No.2 at the time for Wham!, behind Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas?. It finally topped the chart at the end of 2020, returning to the summit for two weeks the following year, adding four more weeks in 2023/4, and a further three in 2024/5. It jumps 3-1 this week on ACR-adjusted consumption of 42,470 units (80 CDs, 297 12-inch vinyl, 550 digital downloads and 41,543 sales-equivalent streams) – the lowest for a No.1 for 20 weeks. It simultaneously achieves unadjusted consumption of 84,013 units – 8.45% lower than its unadjusted tally for the same week last year.No.1 for the 11th time, it has spent longer at the summit than all but two of the other 84 songs that have taken turns at the apex in the 2020s, trailing Alex Warren’s Ordinary (13 weeks) and matching Ed Sheeran’s Bad Habits. Where Is My Husband! is No.2 for the third straight week for Raye – but its consumption of 37,677 units is the lowest of its 12-week chart tenure, the lowest for a No.2 for 16 weeks and a prelude to its relegation to ACR next week. Kelly Clarkson is in the Top 5 for the first time since 2011, with her belated fourth Top 5 hit, 2013 track Underneath The Tree climbing 9-5 (27,739 sales) to reach a new peak. Thirteen years old when she recorded Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree in 1958, Brenda Lee celebrated her 81st birthday yesterday (December 11). The song, which first charted in 1962, when it reached No.6, hit a new peak of No.4 in 2022, and again in 2024. It returns to that slot yet again this week (6-4, 33,278 sales). It also achieves quintuple platinum in the digital age, with unadjusted consumption of 66,305 units raising its overall tally since 2004 to 3,042,687 units.Defying the incessant creep of Christmas, Olivia Dean continues to have three songs in the Top 10, with So Easy (To Fall In Love) (5-6, 26,994 sales), Man I Need (8-7, 26,367 sales) and Sam Fender duet Rein Me In (7-9, 25,172 sales). So Easy (To Fall In Love) looks set to slump next week, however, as it enters ACR. In reality more popular, Man I Need is already on ACR, while Rein Me In is safe from ACR for at least three more weeks. With unadjusted consumption of 52,104 units, Man I Need is, in reality, the fifth most popular track on the chart, and the only one in the Top 10 of the Top 200 Combined Tracks chart that is not Christmas-related.The rest of the Top 10: All I Want For Christmas Is You (4-3, 36,135 sales) by Mariah Carey, Fairytale Of New York (12-8, 25,883 sales) by The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl and Jingle Bell Rock (14-10, 25,003 sales) by Bobby Helms. No.1 for seven weeks in total, including the last four, The Fate Of Ophelia plunges to No.17 (21,755 sales) for Taylor Swift, after hitting ACR. Santa Tell Me (10-11, 24,458 sales) by Ariana Grande also exits the Top 10.There are eight re-entries to the Top 75 this week – seven of them Christmas-related oldies, which raise the yule factor yet again. There are 44 seasonal selections in the Top 75 this week, six more than in the same week in 2024.Amazon exclusive XMAS jumps 24-16 (21,946 sales) for Kylie Minogue to become her 48th Top 20 hit. Previously available only to stream, it is now available to buy, with new physical formats – 7-inch, 12-inch and CD – joining the digital download from today (December 12). There are also new peaks for I Run (21-14, 22,424 sales) by Haven feat. Kaitlin Aragon; Shake The Snow Globe (52-40, 14,811 sales), which becomes the first new Top 40 hit for Gwen Stefani since 2007; and Chanel (66-61, 10,053 sales) by Tyla. The only existing Top 75 track to register a gain of more than 20 places this week is Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! – Dean Martin’s recording of the 1945 Jules Styne & Sammy Cahn song, which has also charted for Michael Bublé and Frank Sinatra. Martin’s is the only one to reach the Top 20 however, with a peak position of No.13 in 2023. Completely uncharted until 2011, it jumps 44-19 (21,214 sales) this week, that ACR tally – adjusted from 42,327 – including both Martin’s original 1959 recording, which is the one generally heard, and a pedestrian, vamped 1966 re-recording with pizzicato embellishments. Both have a playing time of less than two minutes, and contribute to digital era consumption of 1,701,129 units, ahead of the 1950 version by Sinatra – who would be 110 today – which is a re-entry at No.94, and could reach digital age consumption of 1m. units next week, with its current tally being 984,504. Overall singles consumption is up 1.07% week-on-week to 32,365,276 units, their highest level for 30 weeks and 3.59% above same week 2024 consumption of 31,243,045 units. Paid-for sales are down 1.85% week-on-week at 272,561, 2.15% below same week 2024 sales of 278,555.Albums01 23,279 Kylie Minogue - Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped) [10,125 CDs, 9,510 vinyl, 1,441 cassettes, 1,057 downloads, 1,146 streaming]02 20,233 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving03 14,443 Sam Fender - People Watching [total: 263,598]04 11,442 Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl05 11,320 Michael Bublé - Christmas06 9,800 Sabrina Carpenter - Man's Best Friend07 7,703 Tate McRae - So Close to What08 7,373 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop09 7,134 The Weeknd - The Highlights10 6,556 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours12 6,103 Olivia Rodrigo - Live from Glastonbury (A BBC Recording)15 5860 Ed Sheeran - +-=÷× (Tour Collection)16 5,840 EsDeeKid - Rebel20 5,183 Ed Sheeran - Play22 5,087 Depeche Mode - Memento Mori: Mexico City27 4,442 The Reytons - Roll the Dice29 4,122 50 Cent - Best Of33 3,973 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live God41 3,290 Ultravox - The Collection56 2,665 Happy Mondays - The Factory Singles59 2,652 JADE - THAT'S SHOWBIZ BABY!Compilations01 11,821 KPop Demon Hunters [1,975 Yoto cards, 141 downloads, 9,705 streaming] QuoteA decade after Kylie Christmas reached No.12 for Kylie Minogue, its 10th anniversary is marked by the release of Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped), which dashes to a No.1 debut on consumption of 23,279 units (10,125 CDs, 9,510 vinyl albums, 1,441 cassettes, 1,057 digital downloads and 1,146 sales-equivalent streams). It becomes the first album of seasonal material to reach No.1 for a female solo artist since Susan Boyle topped with The Gift in 2010.The original Kylie Christmas has already undergone several incarnations, and the Fully Wrapped edition has both omissions and additions, most pertinently showcasing new tracks Hot In December, This Time Of Year and Office Party and Amazon-exclusive XMAS. Ineligible to be combined with the previous releases, it is Minogue’s 22nd Top 10, and 11th No.1 in an album chart career that spans 37 years. Her previous No.1s: studio albums Kylie (1988), Enjoy Yourself (1989), Fever (2001), Aphrodite (2010), Golden (2018), Disco (2020), Tension (2023), Tension II (2024) and compilations Greatest Hits (1992) and Step Back In Time: The Definitive Collection (2019). One of 17 acts to have 10 or more No.1 albums hitherto, the 57-year-old is now one of 12 to have 11 or more – with just seven acts ahead of her – and the only Australian. In all of its previous incarnations, Kylie Christmas has total consumption of 176,868 units. Number one on debut 41 weeks ago, People Watching catapults 34-3 (14,443 sales) for Sam Fender, after being released in a new edition which adds eight tracks, most notably the duet version of Rein Me In, with Olivia Dean, and Elton John collaboration, Talk To You. In the Top 100 continuously since release, People Watching is in third place in Fender’s list of most-consumed albums, with 263,598 units, behind his other studio albums and No.1s, 2019 debut Hypersonic Missiles (558,650 units) and 2021 follow-up, Seventeen Going Under (476,838 units).The rest of the Top 10: The Art Of Loving (1-2, 20,233 sales) by Olivia Dean, The Life Of A Showgirl (2-4, 11,442 sales) by Taylor Swift, Christmas (4-5, 11,320 sales) by Michael Bublé, Man’s Best Friend (3-6, 9,800 sales) by Sabrina Carpenter, So Close To What (5-7, 7,703 sales) by Tate McRae, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (7-8, 7,373 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, The Highlights (8-9, 7,134 sales) by The Weeknd and Rumours (13-10, 6,556 sales) by Fleetwood Mac. Rumours has improved its position for three weeks in a row, and is back in the Top 10 for the first time in 85 weeks. The +-=÷× Tour Collection (6-15, 5860 sales) and Play (10-20, 5,183 sales) by Ed Sheeran and Rebel (9-16, 5,840 sales) by EsDeeKid depart the Top 10.Three live double albums make their chart debuts this week, namely Live From Glastonbury (A BBC Recording (No.12, 6,103 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, Memento Mori: Mexico City (No.22, 5,087 sales) by Depeche Mode; and Live God (No.33, 3,973 sales) by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Rodrigo’s album, recorded during her headline slot at Glastonbury Festival in June, contains songs from her two No.1 studio albums, Sour and Guts, and much more, including The Cure collaborations Friday I’m In Love and Just Like Heaven. The Depeche Mode and Nick Cave sets are both themed around their latest studio albums, with the former’s Memento Mori: Mexico City celebrating their 2023 No.2 album Memento Mori but inevitably includes live versions of older favourites like Everything Counts and Personal Jesus. Ditto Live God, which uses their No.5 2024 studio set Wild God as its starting point but introduces venerated oldies like their silver singles O Children, Red Right Hand and Into My Arms. Depeche Mode have now had 23 Top 75 albums, Cave two more.Rotherham rock quartet The Reytons’ surprise release of Roll The Dice sees them fall short of the Top 20 for the first time with a studio set, debuting at No.27 (4,442 sales). It follows Kids Of The Estate (No.11, 2021), What’s Rock & Roll? (No.1, 2023) and Ballad Of A Bystander (No.2, 2024). With EP May Seriously Harm You And Others Around You peaking at No.27 in 2021 and live set Clifton Park reaching No.5 in 2024, they have racked up six Top 40 entries in a little less than five years. Number two behind Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Wham! and Alison Moyet in its initial chart foray in 1984/1985, The Collection never did reach the summit for synth-pop royalty Ultravox, but it returns to the Top 75 for the first time in more than 40 years this week, re-entering at No.41 (3,290 sales) after being released in much expanded editions, which includes further singles B-sides and newly-created 12” mixes in 1980s style.Forty years since their debut release, new compilation The Factory Singles (No.56, 2,665 sales) is home to newly remastered recordings by Madchester legends The Happy Mondays. Their eighth charting album, it is the first addition to their tally since 2007 when their most recent (fifth) studio album peaked at No.73.A little over a week after his acclaimed directorial debut Netflix series Sean Combs: The Reckoning dropped, veteran rapper 50 Cent’s 2017 compilation Best Of receives a serendipitous surge, jumping 36-29 (4,122 sales) to surpass its previous (2024) peak of No.31. Thirteen weeks after it debuted and peaked at No.3, Little Mix star Jade’s debut solo album, That’s Showbiz Baby! is a re-entry at No.59 (2,652 sales), following the digital release of an expanded The Encore edition. Netflix’s animated fantasy film Kpop Demon Hunters’ soundtrack is No.1 on the compilation chart for the second week in a row, and 24th week in total on consumption of 11,821 units (1,975 Yoto cards, 141 digital downloads and 9,705 sales-equivalent streams). Overall album sales are up 1.63% week-on-week at 2,902,774 units, 3.14% above same week 2024 sales of 2,814,503. Physical product accounts for 617,860 sales, 21.29% of the total.Bonus InformationSingle Totals (digital era)984,504 Frank Sinatra - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!Album Totals558,650 Sam Fender - Hypersonic Missiles476,838 Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under176,868 Kylie Minogue - Kylie ChristmasNotes- Sales can appear at any time, so please bear with us, we're doing our best to get the report + breakdown up as quickly as possible.- If you have any sales information to share, please back it up with a source.- Please don't ask us for any other sales info - if it's not in the report, we don't have it!- The mods reserve the right to delete any posts that are deemed inappropriate or inflammatory.
Friday at 19:084 days 4 minutes ago, 777666jason said:Kylie geet nearly 8k in 2 days seems a bit off who was withholding data 🤣Well my signed bundle only shipped on the Thursday because the gold CD was out of stock all week so I'm guessing all the signed bundles sold from the 5th were held back plus the Banquet personally signed all got marked as stock allocated on Thursday so that probably explains it. Edited Friday at 19:094 days by Mr. C. Joel
Friday at 19:094 days With "WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!" and "So Easy (To Fall In Love)" on ACR next week, "Man I Need" will be the top charting non-seasonal song next week, with "Rein Me In" possibly second.
Friday at 19:124 days 1 minute ago, 777666jason said:Kylie geet nearly 8k in 2 days seems a bit off who was withholding data 🤣I think they must have belatedly added in some orders at the end of the week for it to be that much.
Friday at 19:164 days So potentially to be: 1 Man I Need2 Rein Me In 3 I runNew top 3 next with acr and Christmas songs removed.
Friday at 19:334 days Updates for two huge Christmas classics:Wham! - Last Christmas 1,419,915 pre February 1994 units + 5,093,989 post February 1994 units = 6,513,904 total chart unitsBrenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree 130,000 1960s units + 3,042,687 post February 1994 units = 3,172,687 total chart units
Friday at 19:544 days 20 minutes ago, Ne Plus Ultra said:Updates for two huge Christmas classics:Wham! - Last Christmas1,419,915 pre February 1994 units + 5,093,989 post February 1994 units = 6,513,904 total chart unitsBrenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree130,000 1960s units + 3,042,687 post February 1994 units = 3,172,687 total chart unitsWhere did you find the updated total for Wham?
Friday at 20:084 days 13 minutes ago, gasman449 said:Where did you find the updated total for Wham?In the Music Week chart pack:Wham! – Last Christmas (Epic)This week’s sales: 42,470 | Physical: 377 | Downloads: 550 |Streams: 41,543 | Total sales to date: 5,093,989Kylie Minogue – Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped) (Rhino)This week’s sales: 23,279 | Physical: 21,076 | Downloads: 1,057 |Streams: 1,146 | Total sales to date: 23,279from Music Week Chart Pack
Friday at 20:334 days If you’d told me just a couple of months ago that Kylie would have another top 20 single (or top 10 next week!) and #1 album before the year was up I wouldn’t have believed it for a second! 🤭❤️
Friday at 20:484 days Probably best to make most of it i dont think she'll have many more in her unfortunately 😪
Friday at 20:544 days 2 minutes ago, 777666jason said:Probably best to make most of it i dont think she'll have many more in her unfortunately 😪Of all the pop girls out there, Kylie has proven you can never count her out. I’m sure everyone thought Padam would be her last hit. Never say never.What has been so great seeing Kylie reinvent herself again is the inspiration she has given others like Sophie Elis Bexter and Louise Redknapp. I love that our pop girls who have been such a fundamental part of my childhood are still releasing music today.
Friday at 20:594 days 2 minutes ago, Knightr634 said:Of all the pop girls out there, Kylie has proven you can never count her out. I’m sure everyone thought Padam would be her last hit. Never say never.Exactly! Before Padam I and most people doubted she'd even have a top 40 hit ever again, she's proven time and time again throughout her career you can't write her off!
Friday at 21:054 days Just now, Jessie Where said:Exactly! Before Padam I and most people doubted she'd even have a top 40 hit ever again, she's proven time and time again throughout her career you can't write her off!Even Padam Padam success aside, for her to be achieving Top 100 positions is something of an achievement at this stage of her career! She’s still relevant with younger current artists who are keen to collaborate with her so I definitely wouldn’t right off her having more Top 10s.
Friday at 22:034 days Kylie continues to prove, again and again, that she can deliver both great music and strong chart results. She’s the only artist who debuted in the ’80s and still maintains this level of consistency, scoring hits well into her late 50s despite ageism. And every time the press tries to dismiss her, she returns even stronger
Friday at 22:204 days To be fair I think Jason has a point, she likely doesn't have many more in her. 2 in 15 years suggests that while you can't write her off having some more, it's highly likely she won't have many more. I can definitely see her achieving quite a few more top 40s though if she plays her cards right, and certainly not writing her off ever having a top 10 again (but then I'm not sure Jason was either by his post). Edited Friday at 22:334 days by Spiceboy
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