5 hours ago, blackmascara said:

2025:

#147 Santa Tell Me (88,001)

2026:

#47 Santa Tell Me (103,446)

Ariana.

all ariana stannings aside, god damn streams are low this year if she can climb 100 places in comparison to last on a 15K increase…

16 minutes ago, maggotsforbrains said:

...that's actually on my Christmas playlist oops 💀

As it should be!!

2 hours ago, musicfan97 said:

Will this finally be the year Spotify gives British artists’ christmas songs their fair share of exposure?

they should shed more light on British legacy acts' Christmas material - material this good shouldn't be left to flounder in obscurity x

8 hours ago, Jayd0n said:

Ariana.

all ariana stannings aside, god damn streams are low this year if she can climb 100 places in comparison to last on a 15K increase…

It was a Sunday compared to Saturday last year.

Surprise midweek release for the John Lewis advert

It's not the John Lewis advert. He pulls the same stunt every year - it's his version of a John Lewis advert

3 minutes ago, ManicKangaroo said:

It's not the John Lewis advert. He pulls the same stunt every year - it's his version of a John Lewis advert

You've got your Sams confused, Sam Clegg is the guy who does the fake John Lewis ads, Sam Fender is the real deal

My bad, I never even looked at what he had included. I assumed it was the Sam Ckegg one that dropped at the weekend

7 minutes ago, ManicKangaroo said:

It's not the John Lewis advert. He pulls the same stunt every year - it's his version of a John Lewis advert

Wrong Sam - this is Fender not Clegg.

Hopefully Sam Fender can get the John Lewis Christmas advert single back in the charts - doesn’t look like it has since Celeste in 2020.

27 minutes ago, SLlewellyn said:

Hopefully Sam Fender can get the John Lewis Christmas advert single back in the charts - doesn’t look like it has since Celeste in 2020.

Was just looking up the history of the JL tracks - started off strong but the last Top 40 (just) was Bastille in 2019.

Interested to see what Sam manages to do with this, it might get NMF support next week and the CD/Vinyl releases also due next week should give it a boost.

The streams will peak later though so timing of the physicals is a bit weird.

Surely if you are aiming for Christmas number 1 it's better to have the physicals released near to the date?

much like Olivia, I don't think Sam's aiming for the Christmas #1 (yet - if his streams keep him competitive closer to the time he'll 100% give it another round of physicals later on)

By releasing early, surely stand a better chance at going 1 now then trying to complete with the monolith wham later

5 minutes ago, Henessy Lake said:

By releasing early, surely stand a better chance at going 1 now then trying to complete with the monolith wham later

although Babydoll's numbers are pretty monolithic rn - ~70k sales is a lot to clear for anybody!

Here are the streams of the two leading Christmas songs globally on Spotify on November 1st:

Last Christmas:

Total: 2,109,696

Main version: 1,814,107

Pudding Mix: 149,026

Single Version: 137,603

Instrumental: 5,247

Live: 3,713

All I Want For Christmas Is You:

Total: 1,961,335

Main version: 1,936,740

Magical Christmas version: 19,929

Other versions: 4,666

What stands out is that 99% of AIWFCIY’s streams are included in the Spotify chart, but only 86% of those for ‘Last Christmas’.

This would suggest that in the UK on Sunday, ‘Last Christmas’ probably had around 227,000 streams in the UK - putting it above ‘expectations’, ‘Nicole Kidman’ and ‘Great Expectation’ (and ‘Thriller’) - to be the 6th most streamed song of the day.

12 minutes ago, Henessy Lake said:

By releasing early, surely stand a better chance at going 1 now then trying to complete with the monolith wham later

I feel most artists just want their Christmas songs to be successful and popular. They are certainly not looking for Christmas Number 1, or even a Number 1. But just to find a place in the public consciousness, and be as successful and high-peaking as possible.

9 minutes ago, GreyAsh said:

I feel most artists just want their Christmas songs to be successful and popular. They are certainly not looking for Christmas Number 1, or even a Number 1. But just to find a place in the public consciousness, and be as successful and high-peaking as possible.

exactly! I feel like Olivia's probably looking to do similar to what Sabrina's managed with her fruitcake tracks - none of them are massive hits but they get decent holiday streams (especially a nonsense christmas) and are generally well-liked with a chance at becoming future staples in a decade or two

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2 hours ago, Sour Candy said:

The streams will peak later though so timing of the physicals is a bit weird.

I guess it’s to coincide with the advert release - the physicals say the release date is actually this Friday (6th) but will ship by the 13th.

Guessing they are not even considering the Christmas #1 especially given the run rate of the last few years of JL songs so maybe they are hoping for an early high peak and hope this it has some legs to carry it through Christmas?.