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Wham! are ahead of Mariah on the global chart today. First time they’ve done this before Christmas. I believe they went ahead for a couple of days between Christmas and New Year last year. Unfortunately not able to claim the #1 spot for the first ever time due to Taylor.

Wham! probably won’t overtake the Killers this year then assuming the estimation on Christmas Day works against them. Would need to do 200k that week probably? Although I guess they could have enough momentum to sneak past the week after.

Haven’t updated from last week yet so not sure but I agree it’s looking unlikely.

Come on Dakota! Does it realistically stand any chance of getting past more than just MUTT?

People too busy starting a war about Kylie clearly

I know lots of stuff is on ACR but I think it’s going under the radar how well this Dave song is holding up

Have to say I rate Kylie’s chances pretty well from here. Did anyone manage to get a bet on her at decent odds?

Would be incredibly fraudulent if this happens. How much do we expect her to fall this week? Would be great to see the Pogues or Brenda go top 3

Love Step into Christmas. Great to see it doing better on Spotify this year

Spotify Weekly Chart Year-on-Year: Wham!: -8.7% Mariah: -6.7% Brenda: -8.5% We’ll see how the official chart numbers compare year on year shortly

Not sure I agree (especially given I predict Wham! to be top 10 on the new year chart this year). IMO whichever year the last week of the year has more days in should be the chart it contributes to. In this case the week after Christmas has 6 days in 2025 so should contribute to the 2025 YE.

It should be a 53 week year but the OCC will not use logic. Well tbh it should be a 52 week year, as week 1 should’ve counted towards 2024.

Why wouldn’t it be week 52 figures? Pretty sure they ran chart of the year on 27/12 last year with the final numbers

Seems similar to what PUSH 2 START was doing this time last year which didn’t really kick on tbh

Because they’re all excluded and confined to the legacy chart, where Mariah was #1 last week.

Possibly although it dropping only 6.7% today is irrelevant if it’s back to being down 10% over next weekend when streams are up again. We’ll have to wait and see if it continues trending in the right direction over the rest of the week

Would absolutely love it if this could chart officially. One of my favourites

+3.1% year on year for yesterday, which given a lot of the other songs are down is very good relatively speaking. That said Shaky does much better on Apple than Spotify so his year on year performance there is more important (not that we have any idea what that is really). Echo the thoughts of hoping it stays top 10 tho

Monday 8th Dec 2025 vs. Monday 9th Dec 2024: Wham!: -6.7% Mariah: -8.2% Brenda: -9.7% Ariana: +3.2% (Has been moved to #1 on Christmas Hits) Kelly: +7.6% Bobby Helms: -12.1% Pogues: -0.8%

Thought Another Love had lost its chance, not looking good for Dakota in that case even though I am very confident Brenda is going to miss now

How is Bitter Sweet Symphony #85

Still massively down year on year. Wham! over 100k less than the equivalent Saturday last year

Santa Tell Me is one of the worst Christmas songs of all time. Up there with the McCartney stinker

Wham! down > 10% year on year compared to the equivalent Friday last year

Not sure about other countries but in the UK, the totals of all versions are combined for the official chart