Yesterday, on Halloween - 31st October - Wham! ‘Last Christmas’ was streamed 656,027 streams on Spotify globally. It had around 797,500 across all versions, of which two others contributed significant streams.

This was way ahead of Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ - which had 554,102 streams - but only an extra 8,000 across other versions - so a total of around 562,000 streams - 235,000 less than Wham!!

Obviously, Mariah will have a big push today, but it is interesting to see whether this will be indicative of the Christmas number one race this year.

I never really noticed before that ‘Last Christmas’ had its streams spread more widely than ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You!’

11 minutes ago, Jade said:

'Thriller' is #1 combined today with 889,604 streams across the two versions 👻

4,041,832 streams in the US and 8,965,045 globally

Just now, GreyAsh said:

Yesterday, on Halloween - 31st October - Wham! ‘Last Christmas’ was streamed 656,027 streams on Spotify globally. It had around 797,500 across all versions, of which two others contributed significant streams.

Obviously, Mariah will have a big push today, but it is interesting to see whether this will be indicative of the Christmas number one race this year.

I never really noticed before that ‘Last Christmas’ had its streams spread more widely than ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You!’

Last Christmas streams much better than Mariah outside of the Holiday streaming period - it often builds a bigger lead in the post-Christmas Day period as the staples slowly melt off the streaming charts

Edited Sunday at 14:182 days by maggotsforbrains

Lady Gaga had more songs on Spotify’s Global chart than any other artist on Halloween, with eight:

19. Bloody Mary (RE), 2.6 million

21. Die With A Smile (-5), 2.6 million

92. The Dead Dance (RE), 1.6 million

93. Poker Face (+18), 1.6 million

94. Abracadabra (RE), 1.6 million

113. Paparazzi (-13), 1.5 million

121. Just Dance (+18), 1.5 million

180. Judas (+17), 1.3 million

Queen of Halloween

Why can’t I seem to find the top 50 UK playlist on Spotify today 🤣

Spotify

Bloody Mary #15

The Dead Dance #40

Toxic #41

Edited Sunday at 14:252 days by Benson Boone

We cross over time year Halloween song and Christmas songs cross over be interesting how many Halloween song make top 100 last year think 8 of right 7th November 2025

Halloween effect:

#1 Ghostbusters [639,413]

(#2 Babydoll [621,101])

#3 Monster Mash [611,385]

#4 Thriller [596,941] {889,604 combined}

#5 Somebody's Watching Me [464,538] {597,805 combined}

(#6 Housewife [461,166])

#7 This Is Halloween [452,962]

#8 Spooky Scary Skeletons (Remix) [425,767] {521,820 combined}

(#9 Stop the Wedding! [346,709]

#10 Rein Me In [341,903])

#12 Thriller (2003 Edit)

#14 Disturbia

#15 Bloody Mary

#18 Psycho Killer

#19 Super Freak

#21 Zombie

#22 Dracula {388,737 combined}

#23 Maneater (Nelly F)

#25 Everybody (Backstreet's Back)

#26 Dracula (Jennie Remix)

#32 Goo Goo Muck

#36 Blinding Lights

#37 The Addams Family

#40 The Dead Dance

#41 Toxic

#43 Bring Me To Life

#52 Abracadabra

#55 Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

#58 Smooth Criminal

#62 Somebody's Watching Me (Album version)

#65 The Phantom of the Opera

#74 (Don't Fear) The Reaper

#78 Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Edit)

#83 Halloween Theme (John Carpenter)

#87 Mary on a Cross

#88 Season of the Witch

#100 Halloween Theme (John Carpenter)

#107 Running Up That Hill

#108 Bad Guy

#114 Highway to Hell

#115 Harry Potter (Trap Remix)

#120 Time Warp

#125 Sweet but Psycho

#129 Spooky Scary Skeletons (Original)

#135 She Wolf

#138 Maneater (Hall & Oates)

#140 Bones (Imagine Dragons)

#150 Goosebumps Theme

#151 Edge of Seventeen

#155 Smooth Criminal (Immortal version)

#156 I Put a Spell on You (Screaming Jay Hawkins)

#183 Cannibal

that has to be a new record for the most Halloween tracks on the Spookify chart? 👻

Mariah/Wham! are coming tomorrow - only 54 days 'til Christmas...

Edited Sunday at 14:302 days by maggotsforbrains

Other than ‘Thriller’ does anyone know if any of the other Halloween songs are on SCR? I guess this would only apply to songs less than three years old that have never been on ACR, or never charted.

Some great tunes in there showing up! Hope at least a few of them make it officially

Love the resurgence for Blue Öyster Cult at this time of year 🖤 what a classic

6 minutes ago, GreyAsh said:

Other than ‘Thriller’ does anyone know if any of the other Halloween songs are on SCR? I guess this would only apply to songs less than three years old that have never been on ACR, or never charted.

both Somebody's Watching Me and Ghostbusters re-entered Audio Streaming last week (#97 & #100 respectively) so they were both on ACR last week - I'd guess based on previous years that provided they increase by 25% or more and would make the top 40 they'll get reset?

Bloody Mary should chart on Friday if the OCC lets it.

6 minutes ago, maggotsforbrains said:

both Somebody's Watching Me and Ghostbusters re-entered Audio Streaming last week (#97 & #100 respectively) so they were both on ACR last week - I'd guess based on previous years that provided they increase by 25% or more and would make the top 40 they'll get reset?

What I’d like to ascertain is whether any Halloween songs will be on SCR in the First Look Chart.

I assume that Monday’s Chart Update will be the peak chart for Halloween songs, other than those that end up getting a reset on Friday.

Apple Music

200 Mariah Carey all I want Christmas is you

4 minutes ago, Dj Cheeky magpie said:

Apple Music

200 Mariah Carey all I want Christmas is you

And Wham! 98

Christmas already its just turned November!

Wham miles head Mariah use Mariah head warm early days then swap round late on

Wednesday Addams has single handedly made Googoo muck a Halloween staple