The current record of 37 Christmas songs in the top 40 was equaled last year but could it go one, two or even three better making it a full house? I think it will be a new record this time with 38 with only Raindance and Rein Me In surviving.

I actually think there will be 35 - Raindance, Man I Need, Rein Me In, I Run and Fate Of Ophelia staying in. Christmas sales seem to be down quite a bit from last year

Edited Friday at 23:395 days by gasman449

I’ll go with 36. Not sure what the 4 non Christmas songs will be though.

Could even be touch and go for Olivia to remain in, last year the No.40 marker was 26k and sure sales are down a bit for Christmas on last year but that could be offset by the chart period being as perfect as it gets for festive exposure. So let's assume it's 26/27k for No.40, then that could see everything apart from Dave and Tems washed away.

Does also depend on how quickly this Kato song is growing, and if it can continue that against the tide. Would imagine it won't get above 26k though, so I'm taking a punt at 39/40 but minimum 37.

Edited Friday at 23:565 days by gooddelta

trick one because Christmas Day stream estimates as Thursday 34 Sam fender oliva dean trick push out for week

3 hours ago, Paddington James said:

I’ll go with 36. Not sure what the 4 non Christmas songs will be though.

Raindance and Man I Need will definitely be two of them

I’ve gone for 39 - just RainDance.

I can’t get my head around the impact that Christmas being on a Thursday will have on the chart.

But I’ll vote for the two Olivia Dean tracks just missing out.

However, we could well be in a position where Christmas tracks appear to be well down on last year. Am I right in thinking that sales for Christmas tracks last year were falsely inflated - because estimates for Boxing Day were an average of the previous six days, including Christmas Day, whereas the streaming of Christmas songs on Boxing Day is lower than any day in many weeks?.

Christmas being on a Thursday will mean all the Xmas music will likely get underestimated Thursday streams as Spotify/Apple don't report on time so it's hard to predict.

I'm gonna guess all five non-Xmas/charity songs in this week's top 20 will remain in, so 35.

24 minutes ago, dancember said:

Christmas being on a Thursday will mean all the Xmas music will likely get underestimated Thursday streams as Spotify/Apple don't report on time so it's hard to predict.

But - Amazon streams for Christmas songs will be higher than last year, and those for non-Christmas songs will be lower.

But I think that will be more than made up for by the fact that last year Spotify effectively had two Christmas days, and this year they will have zero.

I think 35, though I'm sure it would be more if Spotify / Apple could report their Thursday streams on time. On previous form, their Christmas Day streams will be hugely underestimated.

1 hour ago, GreyAsh said:

But - Amazon streams for Christmas songs will be higher than last year, and those for non-Christmas songs will be lower.

But I think that will be more than made up for by the fact that last year Spotify effectively had two Christmas days, and this year they will have zero.

Christmas Eve streams on time