I know it's January 25th NOT December 25th, but can anybody remember the following, not mentioned in this thread:

 

~ St Phillips Choir - Sing For Ever (No. 49/1988) ~

~ Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Hooked On Christmas (Failed to reach top 75) ~

~ Frank Kelly - Christmas Countdown (No. 26/Jan' 84) ~

~ Santa Claus and the Christmas Trees - Singalong-A-Santa (No.19/1982) ~

~ Jingle Belles - Christmas Spectre (No. 37/1983) ~

~ Alvin Stardust - So Near To Christmas (No.29/1984) ~

~ Spitting Image - Santa Claus Is On The Dole (No.22/1986) ~

 

I always associate the following with Christmas:

 

Two Little Boys- Rolf Harris (1969)

Grandad - Clive Dunn (1970)

Mull of Kintyre - Wings (1977)

I Have A Dream - Abba (1979)

There's No One Quite Like Grandma - St Winifred's School Choir (1980)

One Of Us - Abba (1981)

Daddy's Home - Cliff Richard (1981)

Hokey Cokey - Snowmen (1981)

A Winter's Tale - David Essex (1982)

My Oh My - Slade (1983)

We All Stand Together - Paul McCartney & the Frog Chorus (1984)

Walking in The Air - Aled Jones (1985)

Separate Lives - Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin (1985)

Say You Say Me - Lionel Richie (1985)

Dear Jessie - Madonna (1989)

Perfect Year - Dina Carroll (1993)

 

By the way, i'm a 'Newbie!) :hi:

 

 

Welcome to Buzzjack :)

 

Any updates on this?

 

Also, shouldn't Fairytale of New York be much higher by now? This list suggests its sold under half million in total

Both Pogues & Mariah should be much higher up the list by now I would think

'All I Want for Christmas Is You' was the best-selling Christmas song last decade, which is quite surprising! :o I also never knew that it was the most-downloaded song of 2007!

'All I Want for Christmas Is You' was the best-selling Christmas song last decade, which is quite surprising!

 

Band Aid 20 would disagree with you. :P

Not my words:

 

While Fairytale Of New York led All I Want For Christmas Is You as the OCC’s top festive seller last year, on the decade-long PPL chart it is Mariah Carey who comes out on top followed by Last Christmas and then the Pogues hit. Slade are fourth and Wizzard’s I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday fifth on a chart that contains few surprises and nothing new. Incredibly the Carey hit, which originally reached number two in the UK in 1994, is its newest track.

 

http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?section...orycode=1043474

How on EARTH has Last Christmas outsold Fairytale Of New York? I'm pretty sure it's never even been ahead for a single week since the start of the download era. (Well, maybe outside of the Christmas period when both are selling peanuts, but no significant weeks).

Not my words:

http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?section...orycode=1043474

I believe PPL stands for Public performance license, they're saying that Mariah is the most played in the public sphere (radio, tv, public events etc) NOT sales.

I believe PPL stands for Public performance license, they're saying that Mariah is the most played in the public sphere (radio, tv, public events etc) NOT sales.

 

That makes a lot more sense. Fairytale Of New York surely must have vastly outsold AIWFCIY in the decade/digital era. This year is looking like being the first year that Mariah could be ahead in the last couple of weeks of the year (and that's only because it's had a big price cut on iTunes while FONY hasn't).

Updated the top 30 on page 3. Mainly because that part of the chart is more correct than the rest, as it does base itself on sales from a 1992 chart, with added singles since then. Other sites do have these lists, but go in to the realms of fantasy with some songs. One quotes Dickie Valentine, as only selling 200,000...definately wrong & Dana certainly passed over 200,000 too. Record sales (45s that is, were at their peak from 1978-1984 & then fell off). And 1975 sales were bigger than 10 years before.

 

I'm sure a figure of 750k was given for Mariah in Music Week around this time last year :unsure:

750,454 was given from MW on 23 October, with a further 1,117 on 6 November and 5,200 on 27 November - plus whatever else it sold on the other weeks, including one more in the top forty on around ~10,000 - so I'd say it's on probably 770k now?

Edited December 10, 201113 yr by THEO.

750,454 was given from MW on 23 October, with a further 1,117 on 6 November and 5,200 on 27 November - plus whatever else it sold on the other weeks, including one more in the top forty on around ~10,000 - so I'd say it's on probably 770k now?

 

Oh, I thought that 750k figure was from October 2010 :P It's probably closer to 775k I'd guess.

I reckon we`d better complete this one...So, eyes down for a full house! (As of 2011)

 

The Top 30 right up to date of this week:

30 MR HANKEY THE CHRISTMAS POO - SOUTH PARK/ISAAC HAYES 1999

29 ROCKIN`AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE - MEL SMITH, KIM WILDE, GRIFF RHYS JONES 1987

28 ANOTHER ROCK N`ROLL CHRISTMAS - GARY GLITTER 1984

27 IT`S GONNA BE A COLD COLD CHRISTMAS - DANA 1975

26 CHRISTMAS ALPHABET - DICKIE VALENTINE 1955 300,000

25 WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS TIME - PAUL MCCARTNEY 1979-2011 305,000

24 SAVIOUR`S DAY - CLIFF RICHARD 1990 319,000

23 PEACE ON EARTH-LITTLE DRUMMER BOY - BING CROSBY/DAVID BOWIE 1977-82

22 BLUE CHRISTMAS E.P. - SHAKIN' STEVENS 1982 400,000

21 CHRISTMAS TIME DON`T LET THE BELLS END - THE DARKNESS 2003 406,000

20 WOMBLING MERRY CHRISTMAS - THE WOMBLES 1974 425,000

19 LET`S PARTY - JIVE BUNNY AND THE MASTERMIXERS 1989

18 I BELIEVE IN FATHER CHRISTMAS - GREG LAKE 1975 467,000

17 DO THEY KNOW IT`S CHRISTMAS - BAND AID II 1989 500,000

16 I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY - WIZZARD 1973-2011 562,000

15 MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE - SHAKIN`STEVENS 1985 745,000

14 ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU - MARIAH CAREY 1994-2011 751,000 plus 60,000 up to this Christmas, so #11 really

13 LONELY THIS CHRISTMAS - MUD 1974 772,000

12 MISTLETOE AND WINE - CLIFF RICHARD 1988 800,000

11 STOP THE CALVARY - JONA LEWIE 1980 817,000

10 FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK - POGUES/KIRSTY MACOLL 1987-2011 820,000

09 HAPPY CHRISTMAS WAR IS OVER - JOHN LENNON/PLASTIC ONO BAND 1972-08 858,000

08 WHEN A CHILD IS BORN (SOLEADO) - JOHNNY MATHIS 1976 877,000

07 WHITE CHRISTMAS - BING CROSBY 1M 1942-08

06 MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY - SLADE 1973-08 1.159600

05 DO THEY KNOW IT`S CHRISTMAS - BAND AID 20 2004 1.151700

04 MARY`S BOY CHILD - HARRY BELAFONTE 1957-59 1.17M

03 LAST CHRISTMAS - WHAM 1984-08 1.62M

02 MARY`S BOY CHILD-OH MY LORD - BONEY M 1978 1.83M

01 DO THEY KNOW IT`S CHRISTMAS 1984-08 3.69M

 

It has to be said that GENE AUTRY in 1950 and "Rudolf The Red-Nosed Reindeer" sold around 400,000 copies. So it should appear above Dickie Valentine, but no higher than Shakin`Stevens "Blue Christmas" by rights. If I add in the the latest sales of last week, Terry Wogan And Aled Jones are now in the top 60 Christmas hits of all time! Well done Terry for passing 40,000 in sales. Not to mention equalling the Crazy Frog`s version of "Jingle Bells!"

 

 

So the Pogues will be a million-seller by next Christmas 2012!

 

Just watching the nations biggest christmas singles on channel 5 (a repeat). Obviously not totally accurate (st winifreds and alexandra burke feature higher up if i recall - neither being christmas songs of course, and david essex's a winter tale must have sold more than the 120k (i think it said) than is being claimed.

 

Future updates will no doubt include streaming, which should result in mariah and the pogues/kirsty maccoll overtaking band aid 20 and harry belafonte, if it hasnt happened already.

 

Does anyone have a rough idea of how much The Waitresses' Christmas Wrapping has sold by now?

Is that one they showed last night the one from last christmas? I taped the one last christmas and the one last night so have still to watch it. Most Ch5 productions are poor quality but the one last yr was quite good.

 

Think theres a more up to date thread on this, one that the OCC did from late november this year which didnt show all the sales for each song!

Last Christmas I gave you my Chart. The very next day, you counted streaming and f*cked it all up!

Alone on Christmas is a huge anthem but big flop!!

Just spied MTV have a OCC sponsored top 40 sales rundown of the biggest selling Xmas songs on at the moment and repeated a few times this week. Seems to be a new rundown too as Mariah is on 1.070m sales at no12. Must record this!!

Edited December 22, 20159 yr by Christmaseve201

Anyone know total sales for Darlene Loves' "All Alone On Christmas"?