Christmas song numbers off to a strong start this year. Wham! should make top 25 again I think. Although Christmas Eve being a Thursday will be bad for it

3 hours ago, maggotsforbrains said:

don't know if anyone's mentioned it yet but looks like Olivia Dean might be coming to be the first artist to ever have 2 songs over 2,000,000 sales within the same year-end period (unless I'm missing someone)

She will have 3 over a million as well, I'm not sure if that's been done before, maybe Ed Sheeran or Spice Girls or something?

Just now, Eric_Blob said:

She will have 3 over a million as well, I'm not sure if that's been done before, maybe Ed Sheeran or Spice Girls or something?

Ed did it in 2017 - he had Shape Of You (#1 with 3,200,000(!) units), Castle On The Hill (#3), Galway Girl (#5) and Perfect (#6) all clear 1,000,000 units - ÷ was an absolute juggernaut

Edited Tuesday at 21:371 day by maggotsforbrains

Ed had 4 songs over a million in 2017 - he also had 3 over the mark in 2022

49 minutes ago, Maestro said:

Christmas song numbers off to a strong start this year. Wham! should make top 25 again I think. Although Christmas Eve being a Thursday will be bad for it

It could be worse - at least Christmas Day is not a Thursday like it was last year.

That actually stopped ‘Last Christmas’ from being crowned the biggest selling single of all time at the end of the week: it briefly overtook Mr. Brightside a few days later, but lost it again by the following Friday - and weekly sales are all that count, really, not daily sales.