1 hour ago, Steve201 said:

Ffs can people not understand the seasons anymore.

Anymore??

Christmas songs have received a major boost on 1st November for a while now! It really shouldn’t be shocking anymore.

However, what I do find odd is that I haven’t seen a single post about Christmas music (like I have done for the last few years) outside of this forum, but somehow it’s had a huge start?

Maybe my algorithm is just algorithming hard this year and keeping them posts away?

2 hours ago, Tafty said:

Anymore??

Christmas songs have received a major boost on 1st November for a while now! It really shouldn’t be shocking anymore.

However, what I do find odd is that I haven’t seen a single post about Christmas music (like I have done for the last few years) outside of this forum, but somehow it’s had a huge start?

Maybe my algorithm is just algorithming hard this year and keeping them posts away?

I've been getting Christmas reels etc since late August It could just be you've avoided it long enough that it hasn't impacted your algorithm yet?

13 hours ago, danG said:

#155 Smooth Criminal (Immortal version)

The version that’s only 1 min 58 Seconds in length ?

5 hours ago, Tafty said:

Anymore??

Christmas songs have received a major boost on 1st November for a while now! It really shouldn’t be shocking anymore.

However, what I do find odd is that I haven’t seen a single post about Christmas music (like I have done for the last few years) outside of this forum, but somehow it’s had a huge start?

Maybe my algorithm is just algorithming hard this year and keeping them posts away?

It is to someone who doesn’t use social media like Tik Tok.

8 hours ago, Yog1963 said:

Wham! did 860.909k streams yesterday on Spotify Global merged

I expected a bit more

Mariah did 671.366k with their main version

Effectively there is only version of AIWFCIY on Spotify (the others get minimal streams) - so just under 680,000 in total.

(And thanks for the clarification of which day this corresponds to, which I got wrong before).

Edited November 2Nov 2 by GreyAsh

Apple:

31 Wham!

98 Mariah Carey

122 Shakin’ Stevens

139 Pogues and Kirsty MacColl

Amazon Music Unlimited:

9 Mariah Carey

14 Wham!

23 Pogues and Kirsty MacColl

53 Shakin’ Stevens

65 Ariana Grande

69 Band Aid

74 Elton John

78 Brenda Lee

92 Bobby Helms

For Amazon: this appears to be for all versions combined, but the chart has had Halloween music deliberately removed from it by Amazon.

I think these will be the peaks for the songs, at least until next weekend, if not beyond.

But it also clearly shows what the UK’s top four Christmas songs would be if it wasn’t for Spotify.

Wham! will be even bigger this year because 'The Pudding mix' is going viral (well as viral as it can be this early in November)

Edited November 2Nov 2 by Mr. C. Joel

1 hour ago, Mr. C. Joel said:

Wham! will be even bigger this year because 'The Pudding mix' is going viral (well as viral as it can be this early in November)

Why is ‘The Pudding Mix’ going viral?

10 hours ago, Yog1963 said:

Wham! did 860.909k streams yesterday on Spotify Global merged

I expected a bit more

Mariah did 671.366k with their main version

I make this approx 867k including instrumental and live versions. These will be included too as they were on the 2024 EP - and therefore all on the same label.

So 867k v 680k

That’s a 27.5% lead.

Main versions: 723k v 671k

Edited November 2Nov 2 by GreyAsh

1 hour ago, GreyAsh said:

Why is ‘The Pudding Mix’ going viral?

Younger people preferring it to the original. There was a few TikTok's saying 'this beats the original' and it's taken off from there. It's not super viral by any means but there's a fair few tiktok's being added daily using it over the original some getting 200/300k likes plus and millions of views already.

Babydoll back at #1

LAST CHRISTMAS #8 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

AIWFCIY #10

don't worry guys, it's only (checks calendar) 53 days until Christmas... jfc what are the numbers going to be like in December if they're that high already

7 hours ago, GreyAsh said:

Apple:

31 Wham!

98 Mariah Carey

122 Shakin’ Stevens

139 Pogues and Kirsty MacColl

Amazon Music Unlimited:

9 Mariah Carey

14 Wham!

23 Pogues and Kirsty MacColl

53 Shakin’ Stevens

65 Ariana Grande

69 Band Aid

74 Elton John

78 Brenda Lee

92 Bobby Helms

For Amazon: this appears to be for all versions combined, but the chart has had Halloween music deliberately removed from it by Amazon.

I think these will be the peaks for the songs, at least until next weekend, if not beyond.

But it also clearly shows what the UK’s top four Christmas songs would be if it wasn’t for Spotify.

And here is me thinking 'Its November, lets get that Gabrielle Aplin song on'

looking at last years' Streaming thread, Mariah was down at #31 (160,152) and Wham! at #62 (125,151) on November 1st - All I Want For Christmas Is You is up 13.97% and Last Christmas is up 56.08%(!)...

can't believe I'm saying this but Babydoll save us from the incoming Christmas blizzard

Edited November 2Nov 2 by maggotsforbrains

Christmas songs on Nov 1st on UK Spotify; 2025 vs 2026

2025:

#31 All I Want For Christmas Is You (160,152)

#62 Last Christmas (125,151)

#145 Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree (88,134)

#147 Santa Tell Me (88,001)

2026:

#8 Last Christmas (195,339)

#10 All I Want For Christmas Is You (182,524)

#47 Santa Tell Me (103,446)

#52 Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree (101,314)

#54 Underneath The Tree (96,668)

#63 Jingle Bell Rock (91,456)

#66 Fairytale of New York (90,083)

#85 Snowman (82,390)

#121 It’s Beginning to Look a Lot like Christmas (72,860)

#189 Wonderful Christmastime (61,801)

#198 Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (60,504)

#200 Do They Know It’s Christmas? (60,392)

It wouldn't be so bad if the christmas songs that did changed year to year and if the playlisting on Spotify had more prominent British songs.

Those two songs being in the top 10 already is so ridiculous

Oh good grief, time to tune out for the rest of the year

For the first time ever, Wham are ahead of Mariah based on streams from 1st November.

New peaks on Spotify today:

#146 Kingfishr - The Sun Will Never Settle

Edited November 2Nov 2 by DanielScarey

Mariah didn't increase that much compared to last year, but why Last Christmas did so well?