Positions are accurate thanks to the fabulous weekly subscription publication, UKChartsPlus. Sales estimates are all my own. Estimating singles sales is never entirely straightforward as the weekly chart has rules applied, but I do my best. Feel free to chip in at any point with more accurate information.

 

I will aim to post the updated YTD Top 40 with sales each week, any entries and dropouts, and anything reaching a new 2026 peak.

Last year’s thread:

Note totals for some of the Christmas / old songs are approximate, but should still be within 100k.

Full chart for Week 1:

1	Olivia Dean	Man I Need	52,000	1,150,000
2	Huntr/x, Ejae, Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami & KPop Demon Hunters Cast	Golden	45,000	1,380,000
3	Raye	Where Is My Husband!	44,000	650,000
4	Taylor Swift	The Fate Of Ophelia	43,000	790,000
5	Dave featuring Tems	Raindance	34,000	270,000
6	Alex Warren	Ordinary	33,000	2,210,000
7	Olivia Dean	So Easy (To Fall In Love)	28,000	400,000
8	Sam Fender and Olivia Dean	Rein Me In	27,000	710,000
9	Wham!	Last Christmas	26,000	6,820,000
10	Djo	End Of Beginning	24,000	1,210,000
11	Disco Lines and Tinashe	No Broke Boys	23,000	740,000
12	Olivia Dean	Nice To Each Other	22,000	800,000
13	Sombr	12 To 12	22,000	550,000
14	Zara Larsson	Lush Life	21,000	3,060,000
15	Haven featuring Kaitlin Aragon	I Run	21,000
16	Mariah Carey	All I Want For Christmas Is You	20,000	6,060,000
17	Saja Boys, Andrew Choi Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast	Soda Pop	19,000	740,000
18	Brenda Lee	Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree	19,000	3,400,000
19	Taylor Swift	Opalite	19,000	430,000
20	Sombr	Back To Friends	18,000	930,000
21	Sienna Spiro	Die On This Hill	18,000
22	Sabrina Carpenter	Manchild	17,000	830,000
23	Chappell Roan	Pink Pony Club	17,000	1,830,000
24	Ravyn Lenae	Love Me Not	16,000	1,160,000
25	Esdeekid and Rico Ace	Phantom	16,000
26	Kelly Clarkson	Underneath The Tree	16,000	2,440,000
27	The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl	Fairytale Of New York	16,000	4,760,000
28	Tyla	Chanel	16,000
29	Kate Bush	Running Up That Hill	15,000	2,890,000
30	Bobby Helms	Jingle Bell Rock	15,000	2,170,000
31	The Killers	Mr Brightside	15,000	6,820,000
32	Elton John	Step Into Christmas	15,000	2,690,000
33	Benson Boone	Beautiful Things	15,000	2,940,000
34	Ariana Grande	Santa Tell Me	15,000	2,690,000
35	Shakin' Stevens	Merry Christmas Everyone	15,000	3,600,000
36	Saja Boys, Andrew Choi Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast	Your Idol	14,000	640,000
37	Lola Young	Messy	14,000	1,630,000
38	Esdeekid	Century	14,000
39	Andy Williams	It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year	14,000	2,330,000
40	The Police	Every Breath You Take	14,000	2,810,000
41	Dean Martin	Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!	14,000	1,850,000
42	Sombr	Undressed	14,000	890,000
43	Huntr/x, Ejae, Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami & KPop Demon Hunters Cast	How It's Done	14,000	540,000
44	Paul McCartney	Wonderful Christmastime	14,000	3,040,000
45	Fleetwood Mac	Dreams	14,000	3,950,000
46	Huntr/x, Ejae, Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami & KPop Demon Hunters Cast	What It Sounds Like	14,000	490,000
47	José Feliciano	Feliz Navidad	14,000	1,510,000
48	Sia	Snowman	14,000	1,430,000
49	Rosé and Bruno Mars	APT.	13,000	1,690,000
50	Olivia Dean	A Couple Minutes	13,000
51	Band Aid	Do They Know It's Christmas?	13,000	6,560,000
52	Teddy Swims	Lose Control	13,000	2,820,000
53	Alex Warren	Eternity	13,000	380,000
54	Goo Goo Dolls	Iris	13,000	4,580,000
55	Sabrina Carpenter	Tears	13,000	410,000
56	Chris Rea	Driving Home For Christmas	13,000	2,520,000
57	Gracie Abrams	That's So True	13,000	1,620,000
58	Olivia Dean	Dive	13,000	680,000
59	Kylie Minogue	Xmas	13,000
60	The Ronettes	Sleigh Ride	13,000	1,740,000
61	Nat "King" Cole	The Christmas Song	13,000	1,260,000
62	John & Yoko and The Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir	Happy Xmas (War Is Over)	13,000	2,760,000
63	Esdeekid	4 Raws	13,000
64	Olivia Dean	Let Alone The One You Love	13,000
65	Tears For Fears	Everybody Wants To Rule The World	12,000	3,510,000
66	Sabrina Carpenter	Espresso	12,000	2,630,000
67	Fleetwood Mac	Everywhere	12,000	4,180,000
68	Olivia Dean	The Hardest Part	12,000	730,000
69	Sonny Fodera, D.O.D. and Poppy Baskcomb	Think About Us	12,000
70	Darlene Love	Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)	12,000	1,400,000
71	Michael Bublé	It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas	12,000	2,830,000
72	Tate McRae	Tit For Tat	12,000	230,000
73	MK featuring Chrystal	Dior	12,000	670,000
74	Diana Ross	Upside Down	12,000	1,280,000
75	Billie Eilish	Birds Of A Feather	12,000	2,240,000
76	Fleetwood Mac	The Chain	12,000	3,340,000
77	Olivia Dean	Baby Steps	11,000
78	Taylor Swift	Elizabeth Taylor	11,000	320,000
79	Justin Bieber	Daisies	11,000	510,000
80	Kehlani	Folded	11,000	270,000
81	Ed Sheeran	Sapphire	11,000	580,000
82	Wizzard	I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday	11,000	2,970,000
83	Tiffany	I Think We're Alone Now	10,000	1,610,000
84	Fred Again…, Sammy Virji and Reggie	Talk Of The Town	10,000
85	Radiohead	Creep	10,000	2,600,000
86	Olvia Dean	I've Seen It	10,000
87	Gigi Perez	Sailor Song	10,000	1,470,000
88	The Kooks	Naïve	10,000	3,750,000
89	Journey	Don't Stop Believin'	10,000	4,300,000
90	Chrystal	The Days	10,000	1,170,000
91	Noah Kahan	Stick Season	10,000	3,260,000
92	Chappell Roan	Good Luck, Babe!	10,000	2,190,000
93	Tate McRae	Sports Car	10,000	830,000
94	Fred Again…, Skepta and PlaqueBoyMax	Victory Lap	10,000	510,000
95	Shaboozey	A Bar Song (Tipsy)	10,000	2,110,000
96	Calvin Harris And Clementine Douglas	Blessings	10,000	650,000
97	Kato featuring Jon	Turn The Lights Off	10,000
98	Slade	Merry Xmas Everybody	10,000	3,310,000
99	Lady GaGa & Bruno Mars	Die With A Smile	9,000	1,740,000
100	Myles Smith	Stargazing	9,000	1,820,000

We are so back! Excited to see how this year unfolds. No real big surprise entries in the first week due to all the Christmas songs, maybe we’ll get some next week.

Wham! should survive until week 4 I think

Official #35 missing the Top 100 just underlines the level of ACR distortion.

Normally this week is very sluggish for sales. This time last year the #100 barely did 8k, but this year it did 9.5k. The difference is partly Christmas songs but in general it feels like a more buoyant start to the year than usual.

Also we don’t have any of the New Year’s party one offs like “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” this year - I guess due to the higher bar and New Year’s Day being an untracked Thursday.

Great to have this back for another year!

'Elizabeth Taylor' not reset it appears - either that or a label decision to chart 'The Life Of A Showgirl' ahead of it. 'Upside Down' would have been comfortably Top 40 with a reset, which it surely would have been given had its increase happened in any other week.

Glad to have this back! Shame about the Christmas songs, think only the official top 38 made it in the first YTD of 2024 so has 2026 set a new low?

9 Olivia Dean songs on the list!!

Glad to see Kylie in the top 100 for once! I can’t remember if ‘Padam Padam’ made it and fell out or never made it.

13 minutes ago, GreyAsh said:

Glad to see Kylie in the top 100 for once! I can’t remember if ‘Padam Padam’ made it and fell out or never made it.

I remember that because “Padam Padam” had a neat 100-99-98-99-100-out YTD run!

Did it not re-enter for 1 week at the start of 2024 too?

Out of the top 100, exactly 50 were on last year's list, including 'Mr. Brightside' and 'DAISIES' being in the exact same position that they finished last year:

Out of the remaining 50, nine have made at least one previous year end list but not 2025 (admittedly four of these are Christmas songs):

The remaining 43 have never made a year end before:

Once again a lot of these are Christmas songs and I think a number of them would have made Year End's in the 1970's if they'd been compiled correctly:

Happy Xmas (War is Over): 1972 & 1980

Merry Xmas Everybody: 1973

I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday: 1973

Wonderful Christmastime 1979 (less sure on this one tbf)

The below songs have been in the YTD every week since week one of 2025, and those in bold since week one of 2024:

That's So True

APT.

Die with a Smile

Messy

Sailor Song

BIRDS OF A FEATHER

Espresso

Good Luck, Babe!

Beautiful Things

Lose Control

The Days (NOTION Remix)

A Bar Song (Tipsy)

Stargazing

Stick Season

Mr. Brightside

Pink Pony Club

Iris

Everywhere

Dreams

Don't Stop Believin'

Every Breath You Take

Naive

Naive being one of the few songs to have been on the list for the last two years straight amongst two mega-hits from the last two years and long term mainstays is very impressive imo. This marks the end of Capaldi's Reign of Terror as 'Someone You Loved' drops out for the first time since the start of 2019, this is also the first time 'Riptide' hasn't been on the list for a while.

The following six songs charted on audio streaming this week but did not make the YTD:

KATSEYE - Gabriela (#86)

She & Him - I Thought I Saw Your Face Today (#91)

Gunna feat. Burna Boy - wgft

EsDeeKid, fakemink & Rico Ace - LV Sandals (#97)

Sabrina Carpenter - Taste (#99)

Bing Crosby w/ Ken Darby Singers & John Scott Trotter & His Orchestra - White Christmas (#100)

They were replaced by the bottom five songs on the YTD.

“Taste” at YE25 #19 is the highest not to make 2026 Week 1, though I fully expect that, the 2 Teddys, Myles and Alex to be back with the Christmas outflux meaning the highest we’ve definitely lost for good is “Show Me Love” at YE25 #32. I won’t count on having lost “Someone You Loved” for good just yet either, though it was flagging a bit towards the end of last year so I’m not surprised it hasn’t made it this week.

Think we’ve got 15 guaranteed drop outs (probably 17 as I doubt Kelly or the Pogues hold on), so lots of space to fill.

Think Wham did 2k in week 2 for 2025, what are we thinking Christmas songs will do this year?

9 minutes ago, gasman449 said:

Think Wham did 2k in week 2 for 2025, what are we thinking Christmas songs will do this year?

It was actually 3.5k!

On 14/01/2025 at 20:51, Julian_ said:

Oh and if you’ve ever wanted to know how much “Last Christmas” sells in the 2nd week of January the answer’s 3.5k!

On 06/01/2026 at 21:19, Maestro said:

KATSEYE - Gabriela (#86)

She & Him - I Thought I Saw Your Face Today (#91)

the way these two charted this week 😂

I wonder how many of the 19 new entries @Maestro or @gasman449 can guess.

30 minutes ago, Julian_ said:

I wonder how many of the 19 new entries @Maestro or @gasman449 can guess.

Ok way more Christmas dropping out than I expected. Let's see...

Purple Rain

Landslide

Stateside

Heroes

Silver Springs

WGFT

Should I Stay Or Should I Go

People Watching

Such A Funny Way

OK Love You Bye

Lady Lady

You Stole The Show

I Thought I Saw Your Face Today

Gabriela

Riptide

Carry You Home

Sweater Weather

The Door

LV Sandals?

Not sure Heroes makes it this week tbh.

Hopefully the Cure but I suspect they have a terrible premium ratio

Edited January 13Jan 13 by Maestro

51 minutes ago, gasman449 said:

Ok way more Christmas dropping out than I expected. Let's see...

Purple Rain

Landslide

Stateside

Heroes

Silver Springs

WGFT

Should I Stay Or Should I Go

People Watching

Such A Funny Way

OK Love You Bye

Lady Lady

You Stole The Show

I Thought I Saw Your Face Today

Gabriela

Riptide

Carry You Home

Sweater Weather

The Door

LV Sandals?

Think you got 14! Or 14.5 counting the right artist wrong title. 😆