I always set up a poll predicting how many Christmas songs will make the final chart of the year but with charts coming out in Christmas Day and New Year's Day this year, I am lost on which chart to go with so can anyone help me?

it’ll be the chart that’s announced on new year’s day as that’ll include christmas day streams which are so insanely high it doesn’t matter that christmas songs fall completely off the face of the streaming chart before new years eve

2 minutes ago, danG said:

it’ll be the chart that’s announced on new year’s day as that’ll include christmas day streams which are so insanely high it doesn’t matter that christmas songs fall completely off the face of the streaming chart before new years eve

as well, streams for other non-seasonal songs often hit their lowest levels between Christmas and the New Year which allows them a further advantage over other tracks

yea def NYD chart, this happened in 2020.

This is what the chart looked like last time Christmas fell on a Friday (28 trees, count em - up from 26 the previous week)

01 03 97 Wham! ~ Last Christmas 🎄
02 02 107 Mariah Carey ~ All I Want For Christmas Is You 🎄
03 04 06 Jess Glynne ~ This Christmas 🎄
04 08 07 Justin Bieber ~ Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree 🎄
05 06 111 The Pogues ~ Fairytale Of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl) 🎄
06 07 78 Shakin' Stevens ~ Merry Christmas Everyone 🎄
07 09 87 Band Aid ~ Do They Know It's Christmas? 🎄
08 10 42 Elton John ~ Step Into Christmas 🎄
09 20 10 Little Mix ~ Sweet Melody
10 12 40 Michael Bublé ~ It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas 🎄
11 11 62 Chris Rea ~ Driving Home For Christmas 🎄
12 13 83 Wizzard ~ I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday 🎄
13 30 02 Ed Sheeran ~ Afterglow
14 22 10 CJ ~ Whoopty
15 16 54 Brenda Lee ~ Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree 🎄
16 14 23 Ariana Grande ~ Santa Tell Me 🎄
17 15 25 Kelly Clarkson ~ Underneath the Tree 🎄
18 17 108 Slade ~ Merry Xmas Everybody 🎄
19 21 74 John & Yoko and the Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir ~ Happy Xmas (War Is Over) 🎄
20 28 09 Ariana Grande ~ 34+35
21 18 29 Leona Lewis ~ One More Sleep 🎄
22 38 09 Shane Codd ~ Get Out My Head
23 23 41 Andy Williams ~ It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year 🎄
24 25 20 Michael Bublé ~ Holly Jolly Christmas 🎄
25 26 38 Paul McCartney ~ Wonderful Christmastime 🎄
26 31 07 The Kid Laroi ~ Without You
27 27 16 Bobby Helms ~ Jingle Bell Rock 🎄
28 35 06 Miley Cyrus ~ Prisoner (feat. Dua Lipa)
29 40 09 Meduza ~ Paradise (feat. Dermot Kennedy)
30 29 28 Justin Bieber ~ Mistletoe 🎄
31 32 22 Kylie Minogue ~ Santa Baby 🎄
32 45 10 KSI ~ Really Love (feat. Craig David and Digital Farm Animals)
33 34 15 The Ronettes ~ Sleigh Ride 🎄
34 37 03 Taylor Swift ~ Willow
35 33 34 Coldplay ~ Christmas Lights 🎄
36 43 07 Billie Eilish ~ Therefore I Am
37 39 24 Dean Martin ~ Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! 🎄
38 54 20 24kGoldn ~ Mood (feat. Iann Dior)
39 42 12 Katy Perry ~ Cozy Little Christmas 🎄
40 44 10 José Feliciano ~ Feliz Navidad 🎄

oh yea wasn't that the first time Feliz Navidad went top 40 (or at least in modern day)

Love how Little Mix were so powerful they broke up the Xmas top 10

13 minutes ago, danG said:

This is what the chart looked like last time Christmas fell on a Friday (28 trees, count em - up from 26 the previous week)

Interesting - almost all tracks climbed, both Christmas and non-Christmas. Was that a week that suddenly loads of songs went to ACR?

1 minute ago, GreyAsh said:

Interesting - almost all tracks climbed, both Christmas and non-Christmas. Was that a week that suddenly loads of songs went to ACR?

a mixture of ACR hits and campaign songs wearing off, the five dropouts were:

45 19 10 Ariana Grande ~ Positions
60 36 20 Miley Cyrus ~ Midnight Sky
61 24 05 Liam Gallagher ~ All You're Dreaming Of
78 01 02 LadBaby ~ Don't Stop Me Eatin'
xx 05 01 The K**ts ~ Boris Johnson Is A F**king C**t

so we'd have had 26 Xmas songs in both weeks had Ari/Miley not been demoted

So those two weeks were roughly equal then.

On 03/11/2026 at 19:15, Jayd0n said:

yea def NYD chart, this happened in 2020.

Of course that was Alex and Numi hosting the chart show on Radio 1.. but they heavily called it "the first number one of 2021", which I would argue correct on week ending date, but in reality I'd call it week 53 of 2020 (see also the cases in 1994/95, 2005/06, 2011/12 and 2015/16).