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I think 37 is the obvious answer so that’s what I’ve gone for.

Brenda is now #1 on Christmas Hits with Laufey up to #5

Apple: #121 SZA - Snooze #185 SZA & Kendrick Lamar - 30 for 30 #156 Sam Ryder - You’re Christmas to Me #163 Band Aid - Do They Know It’s Christmas? (2024 Ultimate Mix) Even with the Christmas songs, that seems like a slow start for SZA

It would go to ACR technically but spend zero weeks on ACR as it would be reset back to SCR again before the first chart in January. Also it’s APT. not ATP.

Looking at the weekly Spotify chart this week it’s interesting to note that despite all the Christmas songs, the top 200 cutoff is actually lower now than at some points earlier in the year.

15 new tracks (although Saturn was already released) plus the whole of SOS tagged onto the end - will obviously be combined in the album chart. Not sure how well it will do on streaming, presumably the track with Kendrick will be the biggest.

Some of that is probably due to it being moved up to #1 on Christmas Hits yesterday. Underneath the Tree is now #1. Will be interesting to see what they put at #1 on Christmas Eve and Day - If they put Brenda at #1 she could overtake Mariah officially imo

Now and Then Merry Christmas Various charity rubbish in 2020

Yes I think Adele’s weekly streaming record will be broken. I expect Wham! to do 12 mil plus next week

It’ll be like when positions missed out in 2020 after spending 6 weeks at #1 and then made it (although only just) in 2021. I imagine That’s So True will be top 20 next year tbh.

Idk what’s happened to Chris Rea especially on Spotify, I remember he was comfortably top 10 a few years ago and I think he even has a daily peak of #4

I mean it’s very clear that Spotify has a lot of power to manipulate songs positions, for example when random old songs randomly jump from outside the top 200 to near the top 50 for a couple of weeks before disappearing - that’s clearly manufactured and not due to people actively seeking them out.

Thanks Julian, and as ever for this information every week. Something in the Orange must not have dropped off as much as I thought based on Spotify.

I agree that KEHLANI vs. 360 could go either way. I attempted to work out an estimate for Bye Bye Bye a while ago and I’d guess it’s somewhere between 350k and 380k for the year.

Summer of '69 and As It Was are very hard to estimate so I could be off on them. It's also possible that Dial Drunk is above ILYIS and leavemealone is below, Dial Drunk is another one that's tricky. Feather I was helped out with as its total sales were in a report the other week.

Not sure how you've come to the conclusion Move did 14k this week, I assume you'd underestimated last week. Anyway, here's my estimations with two weeks (I think) to go: 41 Not Like Us Kendrick Lamar 604,000 42 Iris The Goo Goo Dolls 599,000 43 yes, and? Ariana Grande 598,000 44 Water Tyla 587,000 45 Asking Sonny Fodera & MK feat. Clementine Douglas 570,000 46 Dreams Fleetwood Mac 568,000 47 Strangers Kenya Grace 568,000 48 Happier The Blessed Madonna feat. Clementine Douglas 564,000 49 Die with a Smile Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars 563,000 50 Someone You Loved Lewis Capaldi 556,000 51 Flowers Miley Cyrus 553,000 52 Training Season Dua Lipa 545,000 53 Anti-Hero Taylor Swift 533,000 54 Sailor Song Gigi Perez 532,000 55 LUNCH Billie Eilish 530,000 56 I Don't Wanna Wait David Guetta & OneRepublic 523,000 57 Birds in the Sky NewEra 520,000 58 Viva la Vida Coldplay 520,000 59 The Night We Met Lord Huron 514,000 60 Another Love Tom Odell 511,000 61 Take Me to Church Hozier 507,000 62 What Was I Made For? Billie Eilish 497,000 63 BACKBONE Chase & Status and Stormzy 496,000 64 As It Was Harry Styles 496,000 65 Yellow Coldplay 493,500 66 Feather Sabrina Carpenter 491,500 67 BAND4BAND Central Cee feat. Lil Baby 486,000 68 Baddadan Chase & Status & Bou feat. IRAH, Flowdan, Trigga & Takura 486,000 69 Sex on Fire Kings of Leon 484,000 70 WILDFLOWER Billie Eilish 482,000 71 Praise Jah in the Moonlight YG Marley 475,000 72 Guess Charli xcx feat. Billie Eilish 473,000 73 Sprinter Dave & Central Cee 473,000 74 Wonderwall Oasis 471,000 75 Whatever Kygo & Ava Max 469,000 76 Don't Stop Believin' Journey 463,000 77 DNA (Loving You) Billy Gillies feat. Hannah Boleyn 461,500 78 Disconnect Becky Hill and Chase & Status 459,500 79 Back on 74 Jungle 456,000 80 Everybody Wants to Rule the World Tears for Fears 452,000 81 Evergreen Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners 449,500 82 Shut Up and Dance WALK THE MOON 449,000 83 Escapism. RAYE feat. 070 Shake 447,000 84 Dancing in the Dark Bruce Springsteen 445,500 85 Summer of '69 Bryan Adams 445,000 86 Move Adam Port, Stryv, Keinemusik, Orso & Malachiii 444,000 87 Valerie Mark Ronson feat. Amy Winehouse 444,000 88 leavemealone Fred again.. & Baby Keem 442,000 89 I Love You, I'm Sorry Gracie Abrams 442,000 90 Dial Drunk Noah Kahan & Post Malone 441,000 91 Naïve The Kooks 439,000 92 Something in the Orange Zach Bryan 438,500 93 Somedays Sonny Fodera, Jazzy & D.O.D 438,000 94 The Sound of Silence [CYRIL Remix] Disturbed 435,000 95 Linger The Cranberries 435,000 96 Dog Days Are Over Florence + the Machine 431,000 97 exes Tate McRae 430,000 98 KEHLANI Jordan Adetunji 424,000 99 360 Charli xcx 423,000 100 Dance the Night Dua Lipa 422,000 101 Don't Look Back in Anger Oasis 422,000 102 My Love Mine All Mine Mitski 420,000 103 Brown Eyed Girl Van Morrison 420,000 104 Take on Me a-ha 418,000 xxx Last Christmas Wham! ~380,000 xxx All I Want for Christmas is You Mariah Carey ~340,000 xxx That's So True Gracie Abrams 336,670 xxx Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree Brenda Lee ~270,000

On the Spotify YTD, Stick Season already has the second highest ever total (only behind Shape of You, which it won't catch), so interesting to see it's gonna end up well behind Blinding Lights and Someone You Loved's Official YE totals.

Impressive for it to get a wrapped boost given its spend a total of zero days in the Spotify chart this year

They seem to be changing the order of Christmas Hits every day. Jingle Bell Rock now #1, the Pogues moved even lower.

That’s a few thousand higher than I thought 360 was. Maybe it can make it after all. Wham! next week for sure, I think Mariah might not make it until the last week tbh. Also I’m amazed that I Remember Everything hasn’t been able to repass I Can Do It with a Broken Heart.

They can’t have been. Surely she’d be ahead of Kelly and the Pogues if they had

It’s a glitch - I think White Christmas’s streams are going to that in the chart for some reason. One day it was showing up as White Christmas the next day as Hey Santa Claus with the movement based on White Christmas’ position the previous day

They’ve messed with the order of Christmas Hits again. Santa Tell Me is now #1 in what I can only assume is some sort of joke

+5 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York +4 Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You +3 Brenda Lee - Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree +2 Kelly Clarkson - Underneath The Tree +1 Wham! - Last Christmas -1 ROSÉ & Bruno Mars - APT. -2 Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock -3 Tom Grennan - It Can’t Be Christmas -4 Gracie Abrams - That’s So True -5 Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me

Brenda ahead of Mariah is crazy. They’ve changed the order of songs on Christmas hits yesterday, Sabrina’s been moved up to #5 and I assume McCartney must have been moved up too. Elton and the Pogues seem to have been moved down.