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Saturday at 18:164 days Author Official Chart First Look: Full Update 1 Wham! - Last Christmas 2 Kylie Minogue - XMAS 3 Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You 4 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree 5 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York 6 Elton John - Step Into Christmas 7 Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone 8 Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree 9 Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock 10 Gwen Stefani - Shake the Snow Globe 11 Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me 12 Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? 13 Chris Rea - Driving Home for Christmas 14 Dave & Tems - Raindance 15 Andy Williams - It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year 16 Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime 17 Dean Martin - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! 18 John Lennon, Yoko Ono & the Plastic Ono Band - Happy Xmas (War Is Over) 19 José Feliciano - Feliz Navidad 20 Michael Bublé - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas 23 Nat "King" Cole - The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to you) 30 Ed Sheeran & Elton John - Merry Christmas 36 Perry Como - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas 37 Justin Bieber - Mistletoe 39 Bing Crosby - White ChristmasOfficial Charts ReportWith the Official Christmas Number 1 results still fresh in our memory, this week’s Official Chart First Look sees WHAM! and Last Christmas potentially back on top to clinch the final Number 1 of 2025. After Kylie Minogue and XMAS nabbed the most coveted chart award of the year on Friday, WHAM! are looking to put that disappointment behind them and earn Last Christmas its 12th week at the top in all. This means your Official 2025 Christmas Number 1 song XMAS begins this week at Number 2. Kylie broke all sorts of records on Friday, including the first female solo artist to claim Number 1 singles across four different decades, marking an historic day in chart history. The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl’s Fairytale of New York may finish the year in the Top 5, tracking to move one position from last week (5). Elsewhere in the Top 10, Elton John’s festive favourite Step Into Christmas is on course to rise three (6), Shakin’ Stevens former chart topper Merry Christmas Everyone, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year is currently up four (7), while Gwen Stefani and Shake the Snow Globe could jump an incredible 50 places to pierce the Top 10 for the very first time (10). Driving Home for Christmas from Chris Rea looks to make its move towards the Top 10, aiming to scale an impressive 17 spots (13). The Christmas enigma that is Michael Bublé could find It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas break the Top 20 (20). After beating its personal best chart position on Friday, Nat King Cole and The Christmas Song is set to break that accolade once more, possibly ascending eight places to a new peak (23). Finally, the holiday hits which may enter the Top 40 this week include: Merry Christmas – Ed Sheeran & Elton John (30) (up nine places) It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas – Perry Como (36) (up 13 places) (new peak) Mistletoe – Justin Bieber (37) (up five places) White Christmas – Bing Crosby (39) (up nine places)
Saturday at 18:164 days Author Official Chart UpdateSingles (Top 100) 01 Wham! - Last Christmas 02 Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You 03 Kylie Minogue - XMAS 04 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree 05 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York 06 Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree 07 Elton John - Step Into Christmas 08 Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone 09 Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock 10 Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me 11 Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? 12 Andy Williams - It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year 13 Chris Rea - Driving Home for Christmas 14 Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime 15 Gwen Stefani - Shake the Snow Globe 16 Dean Martin - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! 18 John Lennon, Yoko Ono & the Plastic Ono Band - Happy Xmas (War Is Over) 19 José Feliciano - Feliz Navidad 20 The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride 21 Sia - Snowman 22 Michael Bublé - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas 23 Nat "King" Cole - The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You) 24 Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) 25 Michael Bublé - Holly Jolly Christmas 27 Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody 30 Ed Sheeran & Elton John - Merry Christmas 31 Leona Lewis - One More Sleep 34 Justin Bieber - Mistletoe 36 Perry Como - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas 38 Bing Crosby - White Christmas++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Albums (Top 100) 01 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving 02 Michael Bublé - Christmas 03 Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl 04 Sabrina Carpenter - Man's Best Friend 05 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 07 Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory? 08 JADE - THAT'S SHOWBIZ BABY! 11 Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet 12 Arctic Monkeys - AM 13 Kylie Minogue - Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped) 18 ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits 21 Bing Crosby - Ultimate Christmas 22 Oasis - Definitely Maybe 25 Ed Sheeran - Play 26 Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT 30 Eminem - Curtain Call: The Hits 31 Geese - Getting Killed 33 Madness - Hit Parade 35 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not 36 Radiohead - In Rainbows 38 Taylor Swift - THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT
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Saturday at 18:204 days Remains to be seen whether we'll get any info on Wednesday but Sunday and Monday should be as normal!
Saturday at 18:574 days If 'Last Christmas' returns to #1 for a 12th week, we'd end the year with there having been at least one #1 of every number of weeks from 1 to 16 (as well as 'I Believe' with 18).So if there are soon to be radical rule changes which prevent it from returning to #1, that would be the ideal point for it to go out.
Saturday at 19:084 days I wish we were having a first look next Sunday ( after the Christmas clearout ) instead of tomorrow which will just be full of Christmas songs again,
Saturday at 20:324 days 1 hour ago, mrpopquiz said:I wish we were having a first look next Sunday ( after the Christmas clearout ) instead of tomorrow which will just be full of Christmas songs again,With Christmas falling on a Thursday and Boxing Day falling on Friday and then the weekend which is essentially just extending the Christmas break into a four-day run, the week after Christmas is likely to still be full of festive songs. I don't think we'll get the tumble until the chart for first week of the New Year.
Saturday at 20:334 days FONY will most likely be played on both radio 1 and 2 tomorrow around the same time as tomorrow’s POTP is going back to 1987 where they were Christmas number 2. It will also be making a POTP appearance on 4th January when they’re going back to 2006 but I expect it to be skipped on that one
Saturday at 21:184 days Kylie still selling some nice physicals on Amazon, probably including downloads she will be 1k+ She is 3 on Amazon Music and her video is doing well on Youtube. I think she may well be top 3 on Sunday's first look.
Sunday at 00:004 days Usually this is the week Amazon go hardest for their festive tracks but I wonder will they still do that since Kylie made the gop spot last week? I imagine she’ll probably still do well, I’m expecting a top 3 finish but doubtful she’ll stay at the top ?
Sunday at 01:554 days Kylie for that second week at no 1!! She has had too many spending one week at no 1.
Sunday at 16:063 days 19 hours ago, heartmightmelt said:With Christmas falling on a Thursday and Boxing Day falling on Friday and then the weekend which is essentially just extending the Christmas break into a four-day run, the week after Christmas is likely to still be full of festive songs. I don't think we'll get the tumble until the chart for first week of the New Year.I seriously doubt people will still be streaming Christmas songs on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th. By the way - looking ahead - next year's Christmas number 1 will be revealed on Christmas Day itself !!
Sunday at 16:303 days 23 minutes ago, mrpopquiz said:I seriously doubt people will still be streaming Christmas songs on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th.Wham! were #10 on Spotify on Friday 27th last year which was a normal working day so I think they will
Sunday at 16:323 days 24 minutes ago, mrpopquiz said:I seriously doubt people will still be streaming Christmas songs on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th.By the way - looking ahead - next year's Christmas number 1 will be revealed on Christmas Day itself !!Some people still do stream Christmas songs after Christmas Day. Christmas Day is actually the first day of Christmas, and it ends on 5th January. In countries like Armenia (which is the oldest Christian country in the world, having adopted the religion over 1,700 years ago), they celebrate Christmas on 6th January and not 25th December. Edited Sunday at 16:343 days by DanielCarey
Sunday at 16:373 days 15 minutes ago, mrpopquiz said:I seriously doubt people will still be streaming Christmas songs on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th.By the way - looking ahead - next year's Christmas number 1 will be revealed on Christmas Day itself !!Last year on Spotify:Saturday 28th December 2024:#21 - 155,226 - Wham! - Last Christmas#31 - 132,297 - Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree#33 - 128,820 - Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You#51 - 110,385 - Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock#84 - 95,245 - Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me#90 - 92,775 - The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York#110 - 85,078 - Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree#156 - 76,242 - Dean Martin - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!#157 - 76,137 - Sia - Snowman#171 - 74,001 - Band Aid - Do They know It's Christmas#173 - 73,882 - Andy Williams - It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year#195 - 71,258 - Elton John - Step Into ChristmasSunday 29th December 2024:#44 - 108,396 - Wham! - Last Christmas#74 - 92,830 - Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You#79 - 90,764 - Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree#121 - 77,585 - Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock#191 - 67,620 - Ariana Grande - Santa Tell MeFriday 3rd January 2025 official singles chart (sales from Fri 27th Dec 24 to Thurs 2nd Jan 25):#30 - Tom Grennan - It Can't Be Christmas [Amazon Music Original]#42 - Wham! - Last Christmas#62 - Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You#85 - Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
Sunday at 16:433 days I think we have the "when does Christmas end" debate on these threads every year 😅
Sunday at 16:443 days regardless of when xmas really ends I expect Wham, Mariah and Kylie at least will hold on to top 40 from strong Boxing Day streaming
Sunday at 16:463 days 3 minutes ago, WhoOdyssey said:I think we have the "when does Christmas end" debate on these threads every year 😅March 1st candlemas🤭
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