Posted Saturday at 18:153 days Wham! face competition for the Christmas #1 from Kylie Minogue, while Together for Palestine's "Lullaby" single could make a dent. New tracks this week include Gorillaz featuring Omar Souleyman & Yasiin Bey on "Damascus" and fakemink & Fimiguerrero with "Black Jeep", plus singles from J Hus, Mumford & Sons, Dry Cleaning, Sasha Keable and Fatboy Slim/The Rolling StonesReleases on the albums front include 21 Savage's "WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STREETS?", Nas & DJ Premier with "Light-Years", Fred again.. with "USB002" and Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here 50" set - plus new records from HEALTH, Conway The Machine, Clavish and This Is LoreleiSunday 6:00pm - 7:00pm Official Chart: First Look on BBC Radio 1Monday 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.- 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.
Saturday at 18:163 days Author Official Chart First Look: Full Update 1 Kylie Minogue - XMAS (7,000 ahead, less than 10k separating top 5) 2 Wham! - Last Christmas 3 Nai Barghouti, Leigh-Anne, Neneh Cherry & Together For Palestine feat. Amena, Bastille, Brian Eno, Celeste, Kieran Brunt, Lana Lubany, London Community Gospel Choir, Mabel, Nadine Shah, Sura Abdo, TYSON, Yasmeen Ayyashi & Ysee - Lullaby (just under 10,000 units) 4 Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You 5 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York 6 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree 7 Elton John - Step Into Christmas 8 Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree 9 Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone 10 Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock 11 Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me 12 Olivia Dean - Man I Need 13 Dave & Tems - Raindance 14 Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? 15 Andy Williams - It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year 16 Dean Martin - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! 17 HAVEN. & Kaitlin Aragon - I Run 18 Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime 19 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In 20 Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia 21 Michael Bublé - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas 23 Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday 25 José Feliciano - Feliz Navidad 29 Sia - Snowman 30 Nat "King" Cole - The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You) 33 Cher - DJ Play a Christmas Song 40 Michael Bublé - Holly Jolly ChristmasOfficial Charts ReportKylie Minogue takes an early lead in the Official UK Christmas Number 1 race 2025 with her Amazon Music UK exclusive single XMAS, Official Charts can confirm. Currently 7,000 units ahead 48 hours into the race, the Aussie pop princess’s lead is boosted by the release of XMAS's new 7” gold vinyl, 12” zoetrope vinyl and CD editions which freshly dropped on Friday, and also Amazon Music streams which are typically higher over the weekend too. Kylie will also be performing XMAS at tonight’s Strictly Come Dancing semi final, which could propel her chances further still. Despite enjoying a glittering comeback to the Official Singles Chart Top 10 in 2023 with viral single Padam Padam, Kylie hasn't had a UK Number 1 single in 22 years, since her 2003 hit Slow topped the chart. Can she finally end the drought by not taking home just any Number 1, but the coveted Christmas Number 1? At face value it’s a promising lead, but Kylie is not safe. Don't rule out an upset further into the week, as more sales and streaming data arrives for other contenders that are available across all platforms. This means reigning Christmas Number 1 champions WHAM! start the week in second place with Last Christmas. Having claimed the Christmas Number 1 in 2023 and 2024, Last Christmas will have to fight to secure a hat-trick, possibly making Official Charts history in the process by becoming the first-ever single to achieve the accolade. The UK's best-selling track of the week so far, and just 231 chart units behind WHAM!, is Together For Palestine's charity single, Lullaby (3). The song, featuring Leigh-Anne, Bastille's Dan Smith, Mabel, Neneh Cherry, Nadine Shah and more raises life-saving funds for the people of Gaza. All profits from the release will go to Choose Love’s Together For Palestine Fund, supporting three Palestinian-led organisations: Taawon, Palestine Children's Relief Fund and Palestine Medical Relief Service. The song has sold just under 10k units so far according to Official Charts Company data. However, with other contenders outperforming the track on streaming, downloads would need to accelerate to progress or maintain its position across the week. One to watch this week is The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl's Fairytale of New York (5). The track is the third best-selling single of the week thanks to a limited-edition zoetrope vinyl variant which was available to purchase on Friday, as well as boasting strong streaming support. Having achieved every position in the Top 20 bar Number 1, can the UK’s most-loved Christmas track (according to YouGov) break the duck? With less than 10k chart units separating the whole of the Top 5, it’s very much all to play for across all participating campaigns this year. However, with this also being preliminary data only, expect the picture to evolve as more streaming data arrives throughout the week. Looking at the rest of the Top 10, Elton John’s Step Into Christmas could jump an impressive 11 places and achieve its highest position since 2022 (7), Kelly Clarkson’s modern festive classic Underneath The Tree has now seemingly joined the big leagues (8) and Shakin’ Stevens may also find his former Christmas Number 1 Merry Christmas Everyone break the Top 10 standings, 40 years after it reached the festive summit (9). Elsewhere, Andy Williams’ It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year looks to make its move towards the Top 10, currently up five (15), Dean Martin’s Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! is tracking to push four places (16) and Paul McCartney’s Wonderful Christmastime has its sights set on the Top 20 (18). Other hits which may significantly rise and look to have their say in the Christmas Number 1 race include Wizzard’s I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (23), José Felicano’s Feliz Navidad (25), Sia's Snowman (29) and Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song (30). The potential highest climber into the Top 40 this week could be Cher’s DJ Play A Christmas Song, which is on course to fly 25 places to Number 33. We could also see two tracks in the Top 40 for holiday icon Michael Bublé: It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas (21) and Holly Jolly Christmas (40). And now, it’s all down to the British public who can make all the difference this week. Whoever you're backing, get buying and streaming before 11.59pm Thursday 18 December to make it count, with the winner being revealed on Friday 19 December on BBC Radio 1's The Official Chart with Jack Saunders from 3pm.
Saturday at 18:163 days Author Official Chart UpdateSingles (Top 100) 01 Kylie Minogue - XMAS (24,242) [5,664 physicals] 02 Wham! - Last Christmas (17,390) 03 Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You (14,614) 04 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree 05 Nai Barghouti, Leigh-Anne, Neneh Cherry & Together For Palestine feat. Amena, Bastille, Brian Eno, Celeste, Kieran Brunt, Lana Lubany, London Community Gospel Choir, Mabel, Nadine Shah, Sura Abdo, TYSON, Yasmeen Ayyashi & Ysee - Lullaby (13,029) 06 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York 07 Elton John - Step Into Christmas 09 Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock 10 Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone 12 Andy Williams - It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year 13 Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? 14 Dean Martin - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! 16 Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime 18 Michael Bublé - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas 19 The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride 20 John Lennon, Yoko Ono & the Plastic Ono Band - Happy Xmas (War Is Over) 21 José Feliciano - Feliz Navidad 22 Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday 26 Nat "King" Cole - The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You) 27 Sia - Snowman 31 Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) 32 Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody 33 Cher - DJ Play a Christmas Song 34 Leona Lewis - One More Sleep 35 Ed Sheeran & Elton John - Merry Christmas++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Albums (Top 100) 01 Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (16,735) [16,292 physicals] 02 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving (6,972) 03 Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory? Singles (4,701) 04 Bring Me the Horizon - That's the Spirit (4,146) 05 Michael Bublé - Christmas 09 Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome 10 Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory? 16 Geese - Getting Killed 17 Arctic Monkeys - AM 20 Elton John - Diamonds 24 Lily Allen - West End Girl 25 Oasis - Definitely Maybe 31 Blur - The Great Escape 34 Radiohead - OK Computer
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Saturday at 18:493 days Together for Palestine's "Lullaby" Sorry stay sound like screeching cats blood awful take anyone number 1 than that earache never hear ever agin.
Saturday at 18:533 days 2 minutes ago, Dj Cheeky magpie said:Together for Palestine's "Lullaby" Sorry stay sound like screeching cats blood awful take anyone number 1 than that earache never hear ever agin.So sound like Mariah Carey then 🤭
Saturday at 18:573 days I take kyile or wham number 1 and take a dump on number 10 in top 100 Edited Saturday at 18:573 days by Dj Cheeky magpie
Saturday at 20:353 days I never like a huge group of singers singing together, it never not sounds terrible
Saturday at 21:013 days 25 minutes ago, Henessy Lake said:I never like a huge group of singers singing together, it never not sounds terribleSo solid crew were decent
Saturday at 22:223 days 1 hour ago, jayson1982 said:Kylie for Christmas no 1Fingers crossed she can do it but it wont be easy if she does.
Sunday at 16:432 days Im hoping beyond hope that todays chart brings a good start for Kylie.Its so hard to call.
Sunday at 17:192 days Come on Kylie, pretty obvious Wham! will get it but I'd love her to put up a bit of a fight for it.
Sunday at 17:522 days 7 minutes ago, jayson1982 said:When will they be posted I'm so impatient lolThe shows on from 6, the number one in the update will be announced around 6:50 ish
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