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This is literally all I care about as far as the top 40 is concerned. Fingers crossed!

Cold Heart dominating the AUS and NZ charts. We love to see it. Just needs a US top 10 peak now. :dance:

Same, been in my head for weeks. The clear stand out for me from a stellar soundtrack. Glad it is now getting some decent attention.

I am expecting the soundtrack to have around the same, if not a little less impact than the Moana soundtrack. It is another Lin Manuel Miranda soundtrack (Hamilton guy) like Moana was. 3 out of the 9 songs are in Spanish, so that won’t help with a UK audience not very receptive to songs that aren’t in English.

Encanto taking over. :dance: Not much else of interest at present.

The OCC haven’t got a vendetta against Mr Brightside to justify such action. If they did, they would have brought in a rule ages ago to stop it clogging up the top 75-100. Besides, they can only grant what labels request so there is a limit to how many they can reset anyway (and must have a solid case to do so).

Oops, good spot. Yes, fingers crossed its improvements this year are reflected in next year's playlists positions early on.

Here for We Don't Talk About Bruno being a hit. The clear stand out (English language) song from Encanto.

Doesn't look like KMIC managed to scrape top 200 n the UK. Loads of random Christmas tracks making it that I have never heard of, but KMIC didn't get the 100k+ necessary to break the top 200. Really competitive year based on those numbers. In better news, OMS is #48 on global Spotify for yesterday with an increase in streams from its Christmas Eve numbers and peak! UK streams appear to have made just over a third of the total amount, so gaining traction outside the UK. Peaked at 58 last year and the UK made over 50% in 2020. Sleeper international hit here we come :cheer:

Shame KMIC didn't make it this week. I was at least expecting it to go top 200 on Spotify but didn't seem to hit the 62k to do that. On the bright side, KMIC had over 435k stream on Spotify alone yesterday so must be doing ok in other regions. Where exactly, I have no idea.

Got to admit, the choir version is much more palatable, dare I even say ‘nice’. Looking forward to seeing the sales still and whether it beat last years peak. Interesting seeing it have any impact abroad given the charity is UK based. Guessing mostly Brits living abroad or do they actually have some international appeal?

There are fewer shoppers out and about due to the sharp rise with the Omicron variant so it isn’t that surprising we aren’t getting huge numbers now. Will see if fewer people going to shops boosts online sales, but they would be cutting it fine with delivery delays. As others have said, the market just isn’t what it used to be either so a CD isn’t a big gift these days.

This re-release has all been handled by Sony who have the rights for former Syco releases. Whether they have any deal beyond this re-release, we don’t know (as far as I am aware). Same management company as before though. Glad they have secured some decent promo slots, I just wish the new material was actually promoted rather than songs we have heard live multiple times over.

The original is already set up for proceeds to go to two other charities, which as they are Ed and Elton’s, I doubt they would want to lose the revenue for. I agree that a new version with a feature of Ladbaby would be preferred, but this way it will make more for charity and will get more press as a Ladbaby lead. Looking forward to next week when it plummets still as I can’t even finish this version, it is just too cringeworthy.

Just imagine if Spotify actually released their 2021 wrapped after Christmas rather than at the end of November, would at least mean more hits from the last year climbing rather than the old songs that get a certain amount of streams no matter what time of year it is. Doubt many people are still listening to theirs. Really hoping some big surprise release is just around the corner to start 2022 with.

Correct me if I am wrong, but it looks like One More Sleep has had a big jump on the biggest Spotify playlist Christmas Hits now it has had it's annual update. Pretty sure it was around the 60th song mark last I checked a week or two ago, but now it is #32. Hopefully will help with its international performance this year. Kiss Me It's Christmas has also been added to the Christmas Is Coming & Easy Christmas playlists (there are probably some more but those are the ones in the top two rows of Christmas playlists they show). :cheer:

I have to agree. The mix on her vocals just sounds off. I can understand the estate’s objections to the project after listening to that. Dread to think what the rest will sound like. For what it is worth The Weeknd does sound good on the track, just not enough to save it.

Given this album a few listens now and really enjoying it bar the two singles, which I actually think are two of the weakest tracks. Alone Together is the stand out for me. Hopefully gets released to radio in time as I think it would be received well.

It also has to get good airplay which takes a long time to build. If this makes top 50 stateside by Christmas week, I would see that as a win.

I doubt the OCC would approve a request like that and to be honest, I don’t think Adele and her label care that much at this point. The video for the second single is done so no doubt they will be plugging that in the new year rather than EOM. Happy to see Wham are comfortably ahead of Mariah this year and we are seeing bigger boosts for Chris Rhea/Shakin Stevens. Shows listening habits are changing with what songs are most prominent each season, so they aren’t in the same order chart wise each year.

I saw them plug Kiss Me It’s Christmas around one of the ad breaks today. Hopefully we get a performance that week.

Ah that’s good to hear. Great to see it building a reputation outside the UK. I have enjoyed seeing the international Christmas charts and seeing which new territories OMS is breaking through in. Had Switzerland in 2018, the Netherlands in 2019 and Germany last year (where Winter Wonderland had previously been the bigger song).

That top 3 seems pretty secure. Can’t see anything budging any of them for a long time considering how well they each stream still. Expect Shakin Stevens to be in that top 10 within the next couple of years.

Really good news, fingers crossed A list next week. Hopefully enough to help the track go top 75. We just need more playlist placements and the tracks future after this year will be more secure.

It is so frustrating these old playlists on Spotify have such an impact. All we need is for these to be updated like they do all their other major playlists but the biggest ones haven’t had a proper update in the last 2-3 years. For all the bad rep Alexa gets, at least Amazon put new tracks in the mix each year so there is some variety each year.