Olivia Rodrigo is entering the race for the Christmas No.1. The US artist has confirmed details of her first ever festive single, Take Me Home (4 Christmas), released via Polydor/Interscope.

The brand-new original track arrives on Friday November 6, officially putting the four-time UK chart-topper among this year's potential Christmas Number 1 contenders.

Source: MW

And Bonnie Tyler with her final track recording Love, Light and Peace

Arriving on Friday November 13, the festive single was recorded last winter, months before the Welsh music legend passed away in July 2026, aged 75.

Source: OCC

Edited November 2Nov 2 by Mart!n

20 minutes ago, conorw said:

Wonder if they’ll reset any of the Halloween associated ones ie disturbia or if they will do the same as what they do for Christmas. Must be a bit harder to categorise “Halloween songs” database wise than it is Christmas songs as there’s plenty of regular pop songs that are Halloween leaning but not specifically

The top few Halloween songs got reset as would any normal song last year, the seasonal exception is only for Christmas songs.

14 minutes ago, Paramore said:

Come on Editors, no one has ever heard of The Snuts!

As much as I would like to have not heard of them (they have some decent songs but a truly horrific band name x), The Snuts' first 3 albums all made the top 3, they're quite an established chart force by this point. (For exactly 1 week per album ofc)

16 minutes ago, Mart!n said:

Olivia Rodrigo is entering the race for the Christmas No.1.

The US artist has confirmed details of her first ever festive single, Take Me Home (4 Christmas), released via Polydor/Interscope.

Source: MW

And Bonnie Tyler with her final track recording Love, Light and Peace

Source OCC

Well not really because she's bringing it out a month too soon for Christmas number 1 and will surely disappoint me by yet again not quite getting there.

'Psycho Killer' charting at least for the midweeks we love to see <3 doubt it'll be high enough to get noticed for a reset so I assume it'll drop out but we can pray x

The Queen's of the Stone Age album sounding very good on first listen. Its a pity acts like that cannot have hit singles anymore. Also, wouldn't it be wonderful to have the Halloween movie theme finally in the Top 100 charts?

10 minutes ago, Paramore said:

Well not really because she's bringing it out a month too soon for Christmas number 1 and will surely disappoint me by yet again not quite getting there.

Both tracks are out in November, Bonnie Tyler a week later as posted on OCC site as well.

Album sales for new releases quite low apart from QOTSA, expect next week to be a different story though

46 minutes ago, maggotsforbrains said:

OCC updated the midweek charts on time on their website! 😮

Halloween - everything aside from Thriller is on ACR

#2 - Thriller

#8 - Ghostbusters

#10 - Monster Mash

#11 - Somebody's Watching Me

#13 - This Is Halloween

#14 - Spooky, Scary Skeletons

#45 - Disturbia

#63 - Time Warp

#66 (NEW) - "Halloween" Theme

#68 - Bloody Mary

#69 - Maneater

#70 (NEW) - The Addams Family

#75 - Heads Will Roll

#76 (NEW) - Psycho Killer ❤️

#80 - Everybody (Backstreet's Back)

#82 - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

#94 (NEW) - Super Freak

I would guess all of those in the top 40 today will be reset and stay there, while all those outside the top 40 (i.e. 'Disturbia' downwards) won't be reset and drop out of the top 100 by Friday.

'Disturbia' I imagine gets a pretty strong baseline of streams regardless of Halloween so might have a decent chance to get a reset as well. (I guess 'Dracula' should maybe get a reset too?)

47 minutes ago, maggotsforbrains said:

OCC updated the midweek charts on time on their website! 😮

Halloween - everything aside from Thriller is on ACR

#2 - Thriller

#8 - Ghostbusters

#10 - Monster Mash

#11 - Somebody's Watching Me

#13 - This Is Halloween

#14 - Spooky, Scary Skeletons

#45 - Disturbia

#63 - Time Warp

#66 (NEW) - "Halloween" Theme

#68 - Bloody Mary

#69 - Maneater

#70 (NEW) - The Addams Family

#75 - Heads Will Roll

#76 (NEW) - Psycho Killer ❤️

#80 - Everybody (Backstreet's Back)

#82 - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

#94 (NEW) - Super Freak

also one more which may be of note...

#94 (RE) - DANCE... by Slayyter! ❤️

Plus Zombie and Dracula.

That is all of the Halloween day streaming counted now - so ‘Thriller’ won’t make it to number 1. The other songs will decline as the week goes on, apart from those that end up getting a reset. Therefore, I wouldn’t be surprised if that is mostly just the ones that are currently in the top 40 of the Chart Update, and possibly ‘Disturbia’.

The others will probably have all fallen out by the end of the week, and won’t get reset either.

‘Zombie’ will be the anomaly. I can’t imagine it would get a reset, but it will still stay strong in the top 75. That’s my prediction anyway.

Well damn I thought Glitter might’ve managed top 100 today

3 hours ago, Paramore said:

Come on Editors, no one has ever heard of The Snuts!

My listening figures, as per last.fm say otherwise!

4 hours ago, Paramore said:

Well not really because she's bringing it out a month too soon for Christmas number 1 and will surely disappoint me by yet again not quite getting there.

It’ll be higher on the Spotify playlists if it’s released this week then she can release the physicals in december

10 hours ago, Steve201 said:

It’ll be higher on the Spotify playlists if it’s released this week then she can release the physicals in december

the shipping date for the physicals on her website is confirmed to be this Friday...

It’ll be on scr vs the old xmas songs so I reckon it’ll do decently, she is a solid streamer anyway so I think it’ll be big enough! Not sure if she’ll manage no1 as I think it’s too early and come December wham and Mariah will be doing massive numbers even on acr

7 hours ago, conorw said:

It’ll be on scr vs the old xmas songs so I reckon it’ll do decently, she is a solid streamer anyway so I think it’ll be big enough! Not sure if she’ll manage no1 as I think it’s too early and come December wham and Mariah will be doing massive numbers even on acr

Yeh it’ll need to be on Alexa (first mention this year) to do well in December but could be a recurrent song!

Silly to release CDs the release week, a release for the Xmas chart makes much more sense

Just checked out last year’s Halloween chart - the 5 songs that were reset that week ended up lower in the chart than before they were reset.

None of the other Halloween songs that were in the chart update managed to hang on in the top 100 until the end of the week (except ‘Everybody Scream’).

I think it will be the same this year – the songs that were in the top 40 on Monday will get reset - but will still end up lower than on Monday.

Tracks from the Thriller album, plus Disturbia and Zombie may hang on and may even get reset - but probably unlikely, they will get reset.

And despite a shorter productive week - ‘Last Christmas’ looks like it will be streamed more this week than both itself and Mariah last year - and therefore could make the top 75.

If Rein Me in stays top ten this week it will be one week behind Mariah Carey

Music Week Top 40 Sales Flash

Singles

01 Jamie Miller - Babydoll (40,554)

02 Michael Jackson - Thriller (23,109)

03 Tate McRae - Housewife (22,506)

04 Ashe - Stop the Wedding! (18,429)

05 Olivia Rodrigo & Chappell Roan - expectations (15,686)

13 Olivia Dean - Man I Need

16 Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters

19 Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia

20 Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me

21 Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers - Monster Mash

23 Harry Styles - Sign of the Times

24 The Citizens of Halloween - This Is Halloween

25 TLC - No Scrubs

29 Andrew Gold - Spooky, Scary Skeletons

30 Noah Kahan - Willing and Able

31 Alex Warren - Ordinary

38 Tame Impala - Dracula

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Albums

01 Queens of the Stone Age - Perfecth (12,385)

02 Nickelback - Everything Under the Sun (7,534)

03 Editors - Surface, Echo & Sound (7,482)

04 The Snuts - Joy in Short Moments (7,411)

05 Olivia Rodrigo - you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love (6,820)

08 Michael Jackson - Thriller

14 Noah Kahan - The Great Divide

15 Ed Sheeran - +-=÷× (Tour Collection)

17 Elton John - Diamonds

18 The Who - The Who By Numbers

21 MK - In the Night Again (2,654)

23 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

24 ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits

25 Alex Warren - You'll Be Alright Kid

26 The Big Moon - Forever (2,225)

27 Dua Lipa - Live from Mexico

28 Nines - Young Nina (2,164)

36 Michael Jackson - Bad

37 Sam Fender - People Watching

Very close between 2-4 on the albums!

Edited November 4Nov 4 by gasman449