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Apple: #7 Wham! - Last Christmas #14 Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas is You #16 Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone #25 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York #27 Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree #28 Elton John - Step into Christmas #33 Leona Lewis - One More Sleep #36 Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? (1984 Version) #37 Andy Williams - It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year #41 Michael Buble - It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas #44 Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me #54 Ed Sheeran & Elton John - Merry Christmas #57 Jose Feliciano - Feliz Navidad #60 Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock #61 Wizzard - I Wish it Could Be Christmas Everyday #63 Chris Rea - Driving Home for Christmas #67 Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody #74 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree #92 The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride #143 Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime #163 Justin Bieber - Mistletoe #181 Dean Martin - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! #198 Sia - Snowman

Band Aid is not combined and Mariah and Wham! definitely will not get reset.

Surely Ariana isn’t likely to actually sell that many physicals

Apple: #22 Wham! - Last Christmas #33 Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas is You #35 Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone #41 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York #50 Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree #53 Elton John - Step into Christmas #59 Leona Lewis - One More Sleep #63 Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? (1984 Version) #70 Andy Williams - It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year #80 Michael Buble - It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas #81 Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me #91 Ed Sheeran & Elton John - Merry Christmas #130 Jose Feliciano - Feliz Navidad #133 Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock #135 Chris Rea - Driving Home for Christmas #150 Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody #160 Wizzard - I Wish it Could Be Christmas Everyday #165 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

I would agree that Dirty Cash won’t be combined. I think it’s a Black Friday or HVME’s Goosebumps situation.

At what point does stuff going to ACR start getting an instant reprieve in January? Start of December? In which case if it’s not on DCL1 or worse currently it’s safe

Where is Summer of '69 please?

Obviously it’s difficult to predict its numbers compared to last year in December due to Shane’s death, but based on its strong start and improved playlist positioning on Spotify, I think the Pogues should sneak in again this year.

Wham! back above Mariah and the Pogues hold on in the top 200. Now the 5th highest Christmas song on Spotify.

Regarding FE!N, it is #68 on the Spotify YTD, but as Julian said, its not uncommon for these kind of songs to do well on Spotify but have terrible ratios so get nowhere near the OCC list (for example The Color Violet was #48 on Spotify last year). I'd guess KEHLANI is currently on ~380k and has recovered slightly on Spotify this week, so it could possibly jump Never Lose Me or Popular next week (not sure which one is actually lower now. I also have 360 on around ~375k and Move on ~365k. Someone Like You also must be above 350k for the year now, but I don't have a particularly accurate estimate for that currently.

It's actually down two spots worldwide to #41 so no idea what's going on there

Spotify Christmas Song Comparison to 2023 Equivalent Sunday: All I Want for Christmas is You - 2024: #20 (177k) 2023: #12 (206k) Last Christmas - 2024: #21 (176k) 2023: #10 (210k) Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - 2024: #44 (124k) 2023: #23 (123k) Santa Tell Me - 2024: #61 (108k) 2023: #19 (131k) Jingle Bell Rock - 2024: #80 (98k) 2023: #24 (122k) Fairytale of New York - 2024: #103 (90k) 2023: #85 (81k) Underneath the Tree - 2024: #112 (86k) 2023: #46 (103k) Let It Snow! (Martin) - 2024: #148 (78k) 2023: #72 (87k) It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year - 2024: #151 (77k) 2023: #57 (94k) Snowman - 2024: #178 (73k) 2023: #101 (76k) It's Beginning... (Buble) - 2024: #179 (73k) 2023: #29 (119k) Other 2023 Entries: Merry Christmas Everyone #91 (80k) Holly Jolly Christmas (Buble) #126 (71k) Happy Xmas (War is Over) #134 (68k) Do They Know It's Christmas? #146 (67k) Mistletoe #149 (66k) Sleigh Ride #153 (66k) Driving Home for Christmas #175 (64k) Overall Christmas songs are doing worse, but the rest of the chart being stronger than last year is exaggerating that. #200 last year did 60k, whereas this year its at 70k

5th highest on Apple and 7th on Spotify - This year seems like a very good chance to get top 10. Apple Sunday Update: #26 Wham! - Last Christmas #34 Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas is You #40 Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone #43 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York #49 Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree #60 Elton John - Step into Christmas #65 Leona Lewis - One More Sleep #82 Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? #83 Andy Williams - It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year #118 Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me #200 Ed Sheeran & Elton John - Merry Christmas

Not in the UK, I believe they do have to apply in the US. I don’t understand why it wouldn’t be automatic in every country, surely it’s very simple to just award the certification when a song passes the necessary sales

Yes Spotify have swapped Perry Como and Bublé I believe. And although the Pogues are only #22 on the main Christmas playlist, I think that’s up from about #70 last year so a big improvement

Interesting that Mariah's back ahead of Wham! (at least for now). Also looks like a dead cert that those two will be top 40 this week now. Comparison's to equivalent Saturday last year: All I Want for Christmas is You - 2024: #26; 2023: #17 Last Christmas - 2024: #29; 2023: #16 Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - 2024: #64; 2023: #48 (Was an error where Brenda's streams were going to White Christmas so I've used its position) Santa Tell Me - 2024: #92; 2023: #47 Jingle Bell Rock - 2024: #123; 2023: #60 Fairytale of New York - 2024: #150; 2023: #150 Underneath the Tree - 2024: #182; 2023: #101 It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas - 2024: OUT; 2023: #73 It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year - 2024: OUT; 2023: #132 Let it Snow! (Martin) - 2024: OUT; 2023: #172 Merry Christmas Everyone - 2024: OUT; 2023: #191 Everything apart from the Pogues doing significantly worse than last year. Especially Buble, but we know he's been torpedoed on the main playlist

Here they come... Apple: #38 Wham! #46 Mariah #59 Shaky #67 Pogues #102 Underneath the Tree #121 Step into Christmas #152 One More Sleep Also a new entry for the new BL3SS x CamrinWatsin at #159

Three New Songs on Spotify: #46 Myles Smith - Nice to Meet You #98 Griff - last night's mascara #99 Zach Bryan - This World's a Giant Mariah (#51) back ahead of Wham! (#53) with Brenda (#166) being the only other Christmas song. They're also down around 25k compared to the equivalent Friday last year. Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay's back at #49 with fraudulent streams again.

Myles Smith is still the only new entry on Apple, but is up to #36 now - which seems quite good but I'd say we have to wait for Spotify tomorrow before reading anything into it. Christmas: #43 Last Christmas #59 All I Want for Christmas is You #86 Merry Christmas Everyone #94 Fairytale of New York #193 Step into Christmas

Estimates: Avoided ACR: Pretty Slowly Close to You ACR: 360 I Love You, I'm Sorry Embrace It Don't Dream It's Over Apple [i know it climbed 4 places officially but it was down ~100k week-on-week on Spotify]

What is 'labour' by Paris Paloma and why is it a re-entry at #64 on Spotify

She was like 1.5k behind on Monday, that's definitely catchable.

Ngl I wouldn’t rule out Gracie going to #1 this week. Let’s wait for today’s mids.

Just clocked that Cruel Summer is gonna be #11 two years in a row. That's insanely unlucky

Worth noting that KEHLANI (which must have been close to entering this week) has suddenly collapsed on Spotify and is down ~40% week on week in terms of streams. It also wasn't in the mids this week, so I would guess that it now isn't likely to make the YE anymore.