Posted December 18Dec 18 Sales Report: W/E 25th December 2025Source: Music WeekCommentary: Alan JonesSingles01 55,926 Kylie Minogue - XMAS [3,130 CDs, 2,606 7" vinyl, 2,165 12" vinyl, 10,286 downloads, 37,739 streaming]02 46,616 Wham! - Last Christmas [SCR: 91,751]03 38,972 Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You04 35,675 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree05 34,531 Together For Palestine, Nai Barghouti, Leigh-Anne & Neneh Cherry feat. Amena, Bastille, Brian Eno, Celeste, Kieran Brunt, Lana Lubany, London Community Gospel Choir, Mabel, Nadine Shah, Sura Abdo, TYSON, Yasmeen Ayyashi & Ysee - Lullaby [29,879 downloads]06 31,541 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York07 31,358 Dave & Tems - Raindance08 30,355 Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree09 28,144 Elton John - Step Into Christmas10 27,931 Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock13 26,237 Olivia Dean - Man I Need14 24,856 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In27 19,878 RAYE - WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!31 18,143 Nat "King" Cole - The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You)43 15,341 Kato feat. John - Turn the Lights Off47 13,926 Olivia Dean - A Couple Minutes** 13,747 Olivia Dean - So Easy (To Fall in Love)51 11,966 Tyla - CHANEL Quote-Y-L-I-E: Stymying Last Christmas’ efforts to be the first record to be No.1 at Christmas for three years in a row, Xmas rockets from No.16 to secure a glittering victory for Kylie Minogue.The Australian star and her team pulled out all the stops to secure the victory for the track, an Amazon exclusive which delivered a succession of sucker punches to earn pole position.The original, extended, instrumental and acapella mixes were all made available at Amazon at 59p, simultaneous with the single’s physical release on white vinyl 7-inch, zoetrope 12-inch and CD. With Minogue performing the song on Strictly Come Dancing and the release of a promotional video – with choreography clearly inspired by YMCA – Last Christmas didn’t stand a chance.Racking up a 154.83% increase in consumption week-on-week to 55,926 units (3,130 CDs, 2,606 7-inch, 2,165 12-inch, 10,286 digital downloads and 37,739 sales-equivalent streams) – Xmas duly delivers Minogue’s eighth No.1 in all. It is her first for more than 22 years, joining debut hit I Should Be So Lucky (1988), Especially For You (with Jason Donovan, 1989), Hand On Your Heart (1989), Tears On My Pillow ( 1990), Spinning Around (2000) and Slow (2003) on the honours list a week after Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped), from which it is taken, became her 11th No.1 album. Xmas is Minogue’s first Christmas No.1 – Especially For You was a 1988 release, and at No.2 over Christmas, not reaching No.1 till the following year. The 74th Christmas No.1, it is only the sixth by a solo female, emulating Winifred Attwell (1954), Whitney Houston (1992) and X-Factor winners Leona Lewis (2006), Alexandra Burke (2008) and Sam Bailey (2013). The only other solo Aussie to have a Christmas No.1 was Rolf Harris (1969) – although Nicole Kidman shared the honours with Robbie Williams in 2001. Securing Minogue’s highest sales in a week since Can’t Get You Out Of My Head slipped 1-2 on consumption of 73,027 units in 2001, Xmas also earns Minogue the distinction of being the first female soloist to have No.1 singles in four different decades – the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2020s. It’s clear she should never be written off – this is the third time she has topped the chart after a gap of 10 or more years.Although, at 57, Minogue is younger than Kate Bush (then 63) was when Running Up That Hill was belatedly No.1 in 2022, she does become the oldest woman to have a No.1 with a new recording, eclipsing Cher, who was 52 when Believe topped the chart in 1998. Dipping to No.2 despite increasing DUS consumption 9.76% week-on-week to 46,616 units, Last Christmas by Wham! nevertheless continues atop the Top 200 Combined Tracks chart – where its VAR status doesn’t count against it, with unadjusted consumption of 91,751 units. It is one of six oldies on ACR to have higher unadjusted consumption than Xmas. The highest of just two new entries to the Top 75 is Lullaby (No.5, 34,531 sales). Credited to Together For Palestine, Nai Barghouti, Leigh-Anne, Neneh Cherry, Amena, Bastille, Brian Eno, Celeste, Kieran Brunt, Lana Lubany, London Community Gospel Choir, Mabel, Nadine Shah, Sura Abdo, Tyson, Yasmeen Ayyashi and Ysée, it is a charity single benefitting Palestinian humanitarian charities Taawon, The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund and The Palestinian Medical Relief Society. Based on a traditional Palestinian tune, with English lyrics by Peter Gabriel, it debuts at No.1 on the download singles chart, with 29,879 sales – more than the rest of the Top 20 combined. It is three years since a download sold more copies in a week, Food Aid by LadBaby (54,295 sales) and F**k The Tories by The K**ts (36,850 sales) both doing so in this very week in 2022.With one exception, the rest of the Top 10 is stuffed with Christmas songs, namely: All I Want For Christmas Is You (3-3, 38,972 sales) by Mariah Carey, Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree (4-4, 35,675 sales) by Brenda Lee, Fairytale Of New York (8-6, 31,541 sales) by The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl, Underneath The Tree (5-8, 30,355 sales) by Kelly Clarkson, Step Into Christmas (18-9, 28,144 sales) by Elton John and Jingle Bell Rock (10-10, 27,931 sales) by Bobby Helms.Standing out like a sore thumb, Raindance by Dave & Tems rebounds 13-7, with consumption up 34.94% at 31,358 units, seven weeks after it debuted and peaked at No.5. It is being helped considerably by its new viral success, kickstarted by the pair’s own 26-second TikTok video in support of the song. Olivia Dean had three songs in the Top 10 last week – but this week she has none, with Man I Need falling 7-13 (26,237 sales), Sam Fender duet Rein Me In sliding 9-14 (24,856 sales) and So Easy (To Fall In Love), which was No.6 last week, being is ‘starred-out’ on its first week on ACR with adjusted consumption of 13,747 units. Its handicap allows A Couple Minutes, with 13,926 unadjusted sales, to re-enter at No.47 in its stead. No.2 for the last three weeks, Where Is My Husband! by Raye is another ACR casualty, tumbling to No.27 (19,878 sales). Registering consumption of just 2,531 from release in 2010 to its viral arrival on TikTok last month, powering a meme of actor Jon Hamm dancing, Turn The Lights Off by Danish duo Kato - 44-year-old DJ Thomas Vittrup and 40-year-old singer Jon (Nørgaard) – increases consumption for the eighth week in a row and becomes the first hit for both, debuting at No.43 (15,341 sales). Written by late jazz singer Mel Tormé when he was just 20, and covered by hundreds of artists, the definitive 1946 recording of The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) by Nat ‘King’ Cole jumps 39-31 (18,143 sales), surpassing the previous peak of No.32 it achieved last year.There is also a new peak for Chanel (61-51, 11,966 sales) by South African singer Tyla. In the last chart before the big day, there are eight Christmas/winter songs in the Top 10, 14 in the Top 20, 27 in the Top 40 and 45 in the Top 75. In the same week last year, those totals were seven Christmas/winter songs in the Top 10, 16 in the Top 20, 29 in the Top 40 and 42 in the Top 75, so it’s slightly up or down, depending on where you draw the line. Overall singles consumption is down 0.13% week-on-week to 32,360,950 units, 4.39% above same week 2024 consumption of 31,000,560 units. Paid-for sales are up 17.71% week-on-week at 320,821, 8.08% above same week 2024 sales of 296,841.Albums01 24,476 Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here [5,889 CDs, 13,295 vinyl, 4,431 Blu-rays, 277 downloads, 584 streaming] [post-1994 total: 894,538]02 21,793 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving03 17,133 Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl04 11,714 Michael Bublé - Christmas05 9,678 Sabrina Carpenter - Man's Best Friend06 8,609 Sam Fender - People Watching07 7,330 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours [3,382 vinyl] [total: 5,378,700, including 345,352 21st century vinyl sales]08 7,299 The Weeknd - The Highlights09 7,283 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop10 6,999 Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?11 6,983 Tate McRae - So Close to What20 5,137 Bring Me the Horizon - That's the Spirit [total: 423,120]23 4,936 Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory? Singles29 4,603 Kylie Minogue - Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped)32 4,399 Geese - Getting Killed44 3,304 Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome [2,910 Blu-rays]45 3,186 Fred again.. - USB55 2,876 21 Savage - WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STREETS?xxx 1,310 Fred again.. - USB002Compilations01 11,134 KPop Demon Hunters [2,070 Yoto cards, 129 downloads, 8,935 streaming] QuoteTheir ninth studio album and the second of their seven No.1s when it was first released, Pink Floyd’s seminal 1975 release Wish You Were Here is the subject of a plethora of deluxe, expanded editions to mark its 50th birthday. It duly reaches No.1 again on consumption of 24,476 units (5,889 CDs, 13,295 vinyl albums, 4,431 Blu-rays, 277 digital downloads and 584 sales-equivalent streams).Returning to the summit a mere 32 weeks after the remastered and expanded Pink Floyd At Pompeii: MCMLXXII topped the chart for the first time, Wish You Were Here was last in the chart in 2011 - when 14 Pink Floyd albums were simultaneously released in remastered editions - reaching No.38. It has undoubtedly sold well in excess of a million copies, though no exact data is available. It has achieved consumption of 894,538 units in the Kantar (Millward Brown) era, since February 1994, and will receive a triple platinum award when it surpasses 900,000 units imminently. The band’s biggest seller, of course, is 1973 magnum opus Dark Side Of The Moon, which has racked up an estimated 4,928,396 sales, and is one of the 10 biggest albums of all-time in the UK.It is actually 50 years and 11 weeks since Wish You Were Here’s previous week at No.1. It is the first album to return to pole position after such a lengthy interval, narrowly pipping The Beatles’ Abbey Road, which was just short of 50 years between its initial 1969 coronation and its 2019 return to pole position. Although Wish You Were Here is Pink Floyd’s first No.1 album at Christmas, they topped the singles chart in Christmas 1979 with Another Brick In The Wall. They are only the fourth group in chart history to have had a Christmas No.1 single and album, following The Beatles, Queen and The Spice Girls. Cliff Richard, Ed Sheeran, Robbie Williams and Paul McCartney have also managed it. Wish You Were Here is also No.1 in Germany, where the charts are based on fiscal value. It becomes their ninth No.1 there - having originally peaked at No.4 – replacing Memento Mori: Mexico City, which gave Depeche Mode an historic 13th No.1 a week ago, putting them one No.1 ahead of Madonna and Robbie Williams as the international act with most No.1 albums – though it should be noted that data only dates from 1977, when the album chart first went weekly.(What’s The Story) Morning Glory? elevates 13-10 (6,999 sales) for Oasis and is joined in the chart by the 30th anniversary edition of (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? – The Singles, which opens at No.25 (4,936 sales), after being released in limited edition black vinyl and ‘splatter-vinyl’ box sets whose design and contents – the four singles taken from the album, and their B-sides – replicate the 1996 cigarette box style CD release of the same material. The vinyl edition is charted as a new entry. The original box set - styled as (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?: Gold - for chart purposes, debuted and peaked at No.24, eventually selling 47,467 copies.In the week it becomes the first studio album to spend 500 weeks in the Top 40, Rumours (10-7, 7,330 sales) achieves its highest chart position for 670 weeks for Fleetwood Mac. The album, which was released in 1977, and topped the chart in 1978, was last higher on the list in February 2013, just after the release of expanded and remastered editions across all formats. It hasn’t been made available in a new variant recently – but the 2013 vinyl edition and a March 2025 vinyl edition contributed 3,382 towards its total this week, while increasing 21st century vinyl sales of Rumours to 345,352 units – more than any other album. Like Dark Side Of The Moon, cited above, Rumours is one of the 10 best-sellers of all-time with to-date consumption of 5,378,700 units. This is the fourth week in a row that Rumours has climbed, and the first time in 51 weeks that it has been higher in the chart than Fleetwood Mac’s blockbusting 2018 compilation 50 Years: Don’t Stop, which eases 8-9 (7,283 sales). The rest of the Top 10: The Art Of Loving (2-2, 21,793 sales) by Olivia Dean, The Life Of A Showgirl (4-3, 17,133 sales) by Taylor Swift, Christmas (5-4, 11,714 sales) by Michael Bublé, Man’s Best Friend (6-5, 9,678 sales) by Sabrina Carpenter, People Watching (3-6, 8,609 sales) by Sam Fender and The Highlights (9-8, 7,299 sales) by The Weeknd. While Xmas explodes 16-1 on the singles chart for Kylie Minogue, parent album Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped) dives 1-29 (,603 sales). Also exiting the Top 10 is So Close To What (7-11, 6,983 sales) by Tate McRae.UK-born but US-raised and domiciled, rapper 21 Savage reached No.2 here with his last album, American Dream, at the start of 2024. His surprise new release, What Happened To The Streets?, is his fourth solo studio set and his seventh charted album in all but has to cope with elevated Christmas levels for other albums, lack of overall awareness in its release, the fact it is only available digitally and its very mixed reviews, all of which conspire to see it fizzle to a below par No.55 debut (2,876 sales). It is the only bona fide new release to chart this week. No.2 on debut in 2015, Bring Me The Horizon’s fifth studio album, That’s The Spirit is newly released in four vinyl editions to make its 10th birthday and re-enters at No.20 on consumption of 5,137 units, raising its overall tally to 423,120 and lengthening its lead as the band’s most-consumed album. The release of one new 12-inch variant and the replenishment of another give us a second gander at American rock band Geese’s fourth album, Get Killed, which debuted 11 weeks ago at No.26 and promptly absented itself from the Top 75. It returns this week, climbing 76-32 (4,399 sales).Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s chart-topping 1984 debut, Welcome To The Pleasuredome, reached No.70 after being given the super deluxe treatment with a plethora of rarities and a new Steve Wilson mix last month. It now adds a Blu-ray variant which account for 2,910 of the 3,304 sales which propel it to re-enter at No.44.Fred Again’s 2022 release USB eventually peaked at No.29 in June 2024 after being released on vinyl. It climbs for the fifth straight week, and achieves its highest position since then – 78 weeks ago – jumping 74-45 (3,186 sales) following the release of a new 34 track digital edition. The simultaneously released standalone 16-song, double vinyl USB002, sold 1,310 copies. The Kpop Demon Hunters’ soundtrack is No.1 on the compilation chart for the third week in a row, and 25th week in total on consumption of 11,134 units (2,070 Yoto cards, 129 digital downloads and 8,935 sales-equivalent streams). Overall album sales are up 2.07% week-on-week at 2,962,747 units, 5.30% above same week 2024 sales of 2,813,696. On the 20th anniversary of their highest ever weekly tally of 10,581,571 sales (all physical), it is the highest level for exactly seven years, having reached 3,228,818 this week in 2018. Physical product accounts for 702,493 sales, 23.71% of the total. Bonus InformationAlbum Totals4,928,396 Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon47,467 Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?: GoldNotes- 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 18:245 days Mods - feel free to delete this if it shouldn't be posted hereAlan Jones' weekly chart commentary is late coming through today. Its Chart Pack version is already available. Kylie Minogue – XMAS (Rhino)This week’s sales: 55,926 | Physical: 7,901 | Downloads: 10,286 |Streams: 37,739 | Total sales to date: 110,685(3,130 CDs, 2,606 7-inch, 2,165 12-inch, 10,286 downloads and 37,739 sales-equivalent streams)Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here (Sony Music Commercial Group)This week’s sales: 24,476 | Physical: 23,615 | Downloads: 277 |Streams: 584 | Total sales to date: 894,538Last Christmas: 46,616 (unadjusted: 91,751)from Music Week Chart Pack
Friday at 18:415 days 3 minutes ago, LouisL said:Wow Kylie would've done it without any physicals!Well done Kylie.Nice clear lead in the end and hopefully next week will see her streams increase.
Friday at 18:435 days Take it the Christmas vinyls wernt as popular as the other vinyls for Taylor then if included?Decent sales for Kylie then 🙌
Friday at 18:465 days 4 minutes ago, Padamic_Tension said:Well done Kylie.Nice clear lead in the end and hopefully next week will see her streams increase.I dont think she fell below her openning lead all week did she?
Friday at 18:465 days Happy to see the Christmas No.1 remain over 50k. Turns out I didn't need all those downloads, although I like a lot of the versions. I can probably go back and delete the acapella though!Strong debut for Kato, it's really taking off so will be high in two weeks I suppose.
Friday at 18:475 days Great sales for Kylie, and hope the sales are even bigger next week! Should be certified Silver in 2026!
Friday at 18:485 days Looks like Kylie would be #7 without ACR, the first ever Top 10 from an Amazon exclusive.
Friday at 18:505 days 5 minutes ago, 777666jason said:Take it the Christmas vinyls wernt as popular as the other vinyls for Taylor then if included?Decent sales for Kylie then 🙌The Taylor vinyl's were ridiculous it was just the standard album cover and poor Variants for Christmas IMO.I don't mind extra versions if they're worthwhile it felt just like a total cash grab without any thought so I'm not surprised they didn't sell well.
Friday at 18:545 days 3 minutes ago, Mr. C. Joel said:The Taylor vinyl's were ridiculous it was just the standard album cover and poor Variants for Christmas IMO.I don't mind extra versions if they're worthwhile it felt just like a total cash grab without any thought so I'm not surprised they didn't sell well.Yeah the best vinyls were definitely the originals not that I bought any 🤣
Friday at 18:545 days 6 minutes ago, DanielCarey said:Great sales for Kylie, and hope the sales are even bigger next week! Should be certified Silver in 2026!Her streams should increase to make up for the enivitable drop in physical sales and downloads.
Friday at 18:585 days 9 minutes ago, Julian_ said:Looks like Kylie would be #7 without ACR, the first ever Top 10 from an Amazon exclusive.I'm guessing it would be like thisWham!MariahBrendaThe Pogues ft. Kirsty MacCollKellyEltonKylie
Friday at 18:585 days On 18/12/2025 at 18:54, JosephCarey said:this is the third time she has topped the chart after a gap of 10 or more years.2nd time?Also missed Head off her list of No1s
Friday at 18:595 days Kylie’s streaming figure looks like it was neck and neck with Mariah‘s adjusted figure! I wonder which of the two had a higher streaming figure? Does anyone know?
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