The week beginning next Sunday (chart date 27/12) which will be the official Xmas chart, or the week after, of which 5 of 7 days will still be on or before Xmas day?

I'm confused...

Are you asking which Sunday the Christmas chart should be on?

Cos if so I'd have to say the 21st like is planned as that's before Christmas. Christmas Day and such itself will be gone by the week after.

I'm confused too. Think actually he means which chart will have the most Christmas songs in it.

That's how I read it. It depends on how Christmas falls. I think it could actually be the week after rather than the one coming, as Christmas isn't until that week. Maybe a Christmas song could actually be number one in that week (although not if Simon Cowell has anything to say about it!)

I'm confused too. Think actually he means which chart will have the most Christmas songs in it.

 

Yes - that, in combination with Xmas songs peak positions.

 

Last year most Xmas songs started to drop a little on the Sunday 23rd Dec chart.

This year however, I think, being 2 days earlier, they will peak then and drop come Sunday 28th because:

I think certainly these days, people tend to look forward to something and so with Xmas. I think it's the looking forward to that plays a big part. Once it's here, there's a gear change and it feels like it's forget Xmas now it's here, let's look forward to: New Year/Summer Holidays/DIY, you take your pick.

I don't think Xmas records will be high on the agenda come Xmas Eve even. (That's regards buying records/Downloading)

Edited December 12, 200816 yr by Sound-Bite

Also with Xmas falling on a Thursday, most shops will close early on Xmas Eve and Boxing Day, I should imagine that week it be a fairly static chart

Also with Xmas falling on a Thursday, most shops will close early on Xmas Eve and Boxing Day, I should imagine that week it be a fairly static chart

 

That might be the case for the albums, but online download stores don't close over the weekend, so I think there could still be changing in the singles chart right up until the SUnday.

That might be the case for the albums, but online download stores don't close over the weekend, so I think there could still be changing in the singles chart right up until the SUnday.

 

Especially with the recent practice of post-Xmas 'iPod-filling'.

 

Obviously the Xmas songs will plummet from the 26th, but the years big hits will surge back up/into the charts.

 

The chart of December 21st will be the one with the Christmas songs. Simply because December 28th's chart will have a "Greatest Hits of 2008" feel to it, with people getting new iPods downloading their favourite songs from the previous 12 months to put on them.

This might feel a bit of a random post in here, but it seems adequate

 

I'm assuming this week's chart is Week 51, I know in some cases there is the odd Week 53 in some years, personally I don't own a diary, so I wouldn't know if there is a Week 53. So I'm assuming week ending 3rd Jan 09 is Week 1, or Week 53.

The chart of December 21st will be the one with the Christmas songs. Simply because December 28th's chart will have a "Greatest Hits of 2008" feel to it, with people getting new iPods downloading their favourite songs from the previous 12 months to put on them.

 

Don't forget though, that 5 of the 7 sales days that week will be pre/on Xmas day, so it won't be until the following week that the Xmas songs 'do a McFly'... :)

 

This might feel a bit of a random post in here, but it seems adequate

 

I'm assuming this week's chart is Week 51, I know in some cases there is the odd Week 53 in some years, personally I don't own a diary, so I wouldn't know if there is a Week 53. So I'm assuming week ending 3rd Jan 09 is Week 1, or Week 53.

 

The 3/1/09 chart will cover sales from 21-27/12/08, so it surely must count as week 53.

 

I've leafed through the Radio Times double issue and I havent noticed an additional programme for the chart of 2008 on R1. I'm assuming, that they'll have it more or less in place of the weekly chart on Dec 28th, like they did last year. Though Sunday 4th Jan is a possibility I suppose. Hope I'm wrong.

I've leafed through the Radio Times double issue and I havent noticed an additional programme for the chart of 2008 on R1. I'm assuming, that they'll have it more or less in place of the weekly chart on Dec 28th, like they did last year. Though Sunday 4th Jan is a possibility I suppose. Hope I'm wrong.

 

I hope you're wrong too. Though there's never a huge amount of action in the last chart of the year, it can often throw up some surprises. (Wasn't it the last week of the year 1998/99 that Steps had their first number one with Hearbeat/Tragedy?)

I think the 28th chart will be very interesting. Think of all the people getting new ipods and itunes vouchers for Christmas :P

 

I think we could see like the end of last year with lots of resurgences for old hits and huge sales personally. Most of the Xmas songs will drop off considerably that week though I expect the likes of Mariah and the Pogues to drop a little slower.

I'm hoping for the biggest single sales since records began record that was broken on the last week of 2007 to be beaten this year :D