Possible new peak for this in soon coming years

Darlene Love appears every year - another one that deserves more love, hopefully it’ll snatch a Top 20 place one year.

Now the first of two Newsbeat bulletins..

Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) Also partial to the Mariah and Leona versions!

31 | 39 | 35th week

Nat "King" Cole

The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)

Non-album single

Features on The Nat King Cole Story and The Christmas Song

Released: November 1946

Label: Capitol

Chart Statistics

NE (14/12/1991) | 69-74-x

RE (22/12/2007) | 76-51-x

RE (05/01/2017) | 77-x

RE (04/01/2018) | 66-x

RE (03/01/2019) | 56-x

RE (26/12/2019) | 97-51-x

RE (17/12/2020) | 85-84-63-56-x

RE (09/12/2021) | 77-67-63-67-54-x

RE (15/12/2022) | 71-56-50-35-x

RE (07/12/2023) | 94-43-47-36-34-x

RE (12/12/2024) | 62-56-47-32-x

RE (12/12/2024) | 93-49-39-31

Sales: 600,000+

Certification: Platinum

Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio

51 Sales

26 Audio Streaming

xx Video Streaming

Video

Biography

Nat "King" Cole made it all sound easy. That was the art of Nathaniel Adams Coles, born in Montgomery, Alabama in 1919—he hid the sweat. His family joined the Great Migration of Black Southerners who moved North, in his case to Chicago, where Cole got a jazz combo together. Influenced by the light, punchy swing of pianist Earl Hines, Cole pioneered a cocktail trio sound that was fun and urbane. On '40s recordings like "Straighten Up and Fly Right," "Sweet Lorraine," and "It's Only a Paper Moon," he emerged as a jaunty (sometimes) singer and first-rate instrumentalist. If he'd stopped there, he'd still be celebrated today. Good thing he kept going. With zero vocal training, he discovered that his conversational baritone loved a ballad and audiences loved his singing. He transitioned to a pop-jazz sound, featuring big bands and orchestras. This was night-on-the-town Rat Pack music; songs like "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons," "Smile," and "When I Fall In Love" were almost courtly in their manners. An early convert to Latin rhythms, Cole learned enough Spanish to become an international icon in the '50s. Cole died in 1965, but he was on the charts again in 1991, duetting with his daughter Natalie on "Unforgettable" and a Grammy-crushing tribute album. - Apple Music

Top 100 Chart History

1952 03 Somewhere Along The Way -1-

1952 06 Because You're Mine -2-

1953 10 Faith Can Move Mountains -3-

1953 02 Pretend -1-

1953 06 Can't I? -NAS-

1953 07 Mother Nature And Father Time -1-

1954 10 Tenderly -NAS-

1954 02 Smile -NAS-

1954 11 Make Her Mine -NAS-

1955 03 A Blossom Fell -1-

1955 17 My One Sin (In Life) -2-

1956 10 Dreams Can Tell A Lie -1-

1956 08 Too Young To Go Steady -2-

1956 11 Love Me As Though There Were No Tomorrow -3-

1957 02 When I Fall In Love -1-

1957 28 When Rock 'N' Roll Came To Trinidad -NAS-

1957 21 My Personal Possession -NAS-

1957 24 Stardust -1-

1959 22 You Made Me Love You -NAS-

1959 23 Midnight Flyer -NAS-

1960 23 Time And The River -NAS-

1960 10 That's You -NAS-

1960 18 Just As Much As Ever -NAS-

1961 36 The World In My Arms -NAS-

1961 29 Let True Love Begin -NAS-

1962 34 Brazilian Love Song -NAS-

1962 42 The Right Thing To Say -NAS-

1962 11 Let There Be Love (Nat "King" Cole & George Shearing) -1-

1962 05 Ramblin' Rose -1-

1962 37 Dear Lonely Hearts -1-

1988 84 Unforgettable -1-

1991 31 The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You) -NAS-

1994 30 Let's Face The Music And Dance -1-

2023 50 Deck The Halls -AT-

0 x #1 | 6 x Top 5 | 14 x Top 10 | 19 x Top 20 | 31 x Top 40 | 34 x Top 100

Social Media

Nat "King" Cole

Nat "King" Cole has the most gorgeous voice ❤️ nice to see a new peak for this!

New peak for this for a 4th year in a row then!

New peak for this! Glad to see it

Nat King Cole snatching a new peak (just!).

Course Olivia Dean started her journey to the Top 40 with a cover of this song, a number 19 hit in 2021.

A third ever chart play for this one!

DARLENE AND NAT KING COLE???? GAG.

Is this the first song with a new peak this week? And remind me, have any other Christmas songs reached a new peak over the past couple of weeks? Kelly did, didn’t she - and of course new songs by Kylie and Gwen Stefani.

Nat King Cole ain’t got no time for 93 year olds.

30 | 26 | 89th week

Chris Rea

Driving Home For Christmas

Non-album single

Released: 1988

Label: Warner Music UK

Chart Statistics

NE (10/12/1988) | 84-72-61-53-93-x

RE (08/12/2007) | 98-51-35-33-77-x

RE (13/12/2008) | 70-53-59-70-x

RE (12/12/2009) | 84-63-63-40-x

RE (18/12/2010) | 100-82-67-x

RE (10/12/2011) | 91-59-53-36-x

RE (15/12/2012) | 54-53-36-95-x

RE (14/12/2013) | 72-61-53-91-x

RE (13/12/2014) | 67-60-53-43-x

RE (17/12/2015) | 67-51-29-78-x

RE (15/12/2016) | 46-37-26-x

RE (14/12/2017) | 68-23-20-14-x

RE (13/12/2018) | 49-36-22-11-x

RE (12/12/2019) | 59-46-42-24-x

RE (03/12/2020) | 55-22-17-13-11-11-x

RE (02/12/2021) | 80-33-27-17-12-10-x

RE (01/12/2022) | 76-42-21-20-22-16-x

RE (30/11/2023) | 86-46-22-22-21-19-x

RE (05/12/2024) | 75-42-34-25-19-x

RE (04/12/2025) | 83-40-26-30

Sales: 2,100,000+

Certification: 3x Platinum

Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio

09 Sales

07 Audio Streaming

24 Video Streaming

Video

Biography

British singer and guitarist Chris Rea enjoyed a run of popularity in Europe during the late '80s and early '90s after almost a decade of recording. Rea started out performing with a local group called Magdalene, taking David Coverdale's place; the band won a national talent contest in 1975 as the Beautiful Losers, but still failed to get a record contract. Rea left the band and recorded the album Whatever Happened to Benny Santini? (an allusion to a discarded stage name), which went gold on the strength of the U.S. Top 20 hit "Fool (If You Think It's Over)." Rea was not heard from again in the U.S. for some time, concentrating his efforts on his main fan base in Europe. A compilation of tracks from Rea's '80s albums, New Light Through Old Windows, was released in 1988 and sold well in the U.K. and Europe and charted in the U.S. Rea followed it up with the critically acclaimed The Road to Hell, which many regarded as his best album. The Road to Hell and its follow-up, Auberge, went to the top of the U.K. album charts, but did not prove as successful in the U.S., where he has failed to chart with his subsequent releases. He released his most ambitious project in 2005, an 11-album, 130-track box set of all new material inspired by the blues and his own paintings called Blue Guitars. The fun The Return of the Fabulous Hofner Blue Notes appeared in 2008. - Spotify

Top 100 Chart History

1978 30 Fool (If You Think It's Over) -1-

1979 44 Diamonds -1-

1982 65 Loving You -1-

1983 85 Let It Loose -1-

1983 60 I Can Hear Your Heartbeat -2-

1984 65 I Don't Know What It Is But I Love It -1-

1984 86 Touche D'Amour -2-

1984 78 Ace Of Hearts -3-

1985 26 Stainsby Girls -1-

1985 67 Josephine -2-

1986 69 It's All Gone -1-

1986 12 On The Beach -2-

1986 79 Hello Friend -3-

1987 12 Let's Dance -1-

1987 47 Loving You Again -2-

1987 67 Joys Of Christmas -3-

1988 73 Que Sera -4-

1988 10 Driving Home For Christmas -NAS- MILLIONAIRE

1989 53 Working On It -1-

1989 10 The Road To Hell (Part 2) -1-

1989 83 That's What They Always Say -2-

1990 24 Tell Me There's A Heaven -3-

1990 69 Texas -4-

1991 16 Auberge -1-

1991 57 Heaven -2-

1991 49 Looking For The Summer -3-

1991 27 Winter Song -4-

1992 16 Nothing To Fear -1-

1992 31 God's Great Banana Skin -2-

1993 53 Soft Top Hard Shoulder -3-

1993 18 Julia -1-

1994 28 You Can Go Your Own Way -1-

1996 77 Girl In A Sports Car -1-

1996 41 'Disco' La Passione (Chris Rea & Shirley Bassey) -1-

1997 44 Let's Dance (Middlesbrough FC feat. Bob Mortimer & Chris Rea) -NAS-

1998 80 Square Peg, Round Hole -1-

2000 78 All Summer Long -1-

0 x #1 | 0 x Top 5 | 2 x Top 10 | 7 x Top 20 | 13 x Top 40 | 37 x Top 100

Social Media

Chris Rea

ayyyyy!

A very dreary start to the charts so far

Just now, chartjack2 said:

Nat King Cole ain’t got no time for 93 year olds.

Always found that lyric weird! Why not 122, the oldest ever recorded age?

Edited Friday at 15:375 days by gasman449

Just now, GreyAsh said:

Is this the first song with a new peak this week? And remind me, have any other Christmas songs reached a new peak over the past couple of weeks? Kelly did, didn’t she - and of course new songs by Kylie and Gwen Stefani.

Kelly's is the only other in the Top 40 that isn't a new song

(Edit: there was also Laufey's 'Winter Wonderland', although that's only a couple of years old and still on SCR)

Chris Rea my fave Christmas song seems to be falling out of favour in the last few years.