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One million! Could go OCC #1 this week then? Think we can safely rule Jack Harlow out of Christmas #1

Problem is she’ll be starred out behind Is It Over Now?, Cruel Summer and Now That We Don’t Talk this week, so it’ll have to be next week

In Ireland the Pogues are #2 on Spotify, only behind Stick Season. Also #18 in Sweden and #19 in Norway

Unless a massive download campaign is successful, which I don't see tbh, will be tricky to find the 30,000 or so downloads required, I would be inclined to agree the Pogues can't do it

The Pogues are now number 2 and only behind Jack Harlow on Apple

The Pogues are up to #5 on Apple

I think it depends if anyone can get a proper download campaign for the Pogues going or not

Bits of the north of England have snow atm so expect jumps for Dean Martin and Sinatra tomorrow

Christmas songs starting to climb again on Apple Taylor's also at #44 with You're Losing Me

On the last Monday of November last year for comparison: #2 All I Want for Christmas is You (312,186) #3 Last Christmas (306,475) #12 Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree (221,616)

Christmas songs now have nine out of the top 10 on Apple with Jack Harlow at #1 the only exception. Shaky ahead of Mariah now before you consider her second version also in the top 100

I know that Jack Harlow's doing relatively strong numbers at the moment but looking at the progress of Christmas songs on Apple, I think Wham! and Mariah will be top 2 on Spotify tomorrow: #3 (& #168) Wham! - Last Christmas #7 (& #84) Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas is You #8 Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone #11 Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree #14 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York #15 Leona Lewis - One More Sleep #16 Elton John - Step Into Christmas #19 Michael Buble - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas #20 Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? #25 Andy Williams - It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year #28 Wizzard - I Wish it Could Be Christmas Everyday #31 Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me #34 Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody #36 Chris Rea - Driving Home for Christmas #38 Ed Sheeran & Elton John - Merry Christmas #42 Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime #44 Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock #47 Dean Martin - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! #53 Jose Feliciano - Feliz Navidad #54 The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride #62 Justin Bieber - Mistletoe #65 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree #71 Michael Buble - Holly Jolly Christmas #82 Sia - Snowman #85 John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Happy Xmas (War is Over) #86 Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry #91 Perry Como & the Fontane Sisters - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas #96 Frank Sinatra w/ the B. Swanson Quartet - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! #172 Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) #200 East 17 - Stay Another Day

It should get a reset this week under the OCC’s new rules even if the label doesn’t request one

They can’t do signed CD’s this year tho

She was only #22 in yesterday’s mids. She’s too far away imo

+18 Meghan Trainor ~ Mother +15 Caity Baser ~ Pretty Boys +13 Jazzy - Giving Me +12 David Guetta, Anne-Marie and Coi Leray ~ Baby Don't Hurt Me +11 Morgan Wallen - Last Night +10 Jax Jones ~ Whistle (feat. Calum Scott) +09 Switch Disco and Ella Henderson ~ React +08 Sonny Fodera and MK ~ Asking (feat. Clementine Douglas) +07 Oliver Anthony Music ~ Rich Men North of Richmond +06 Kim Petras ~ Alone (feat. Nicki Minaj) +05 Tory Lanez - The Color Violet +04 Chris Brown ~ Angel Numbers / Ten Toes +03 Chris Brown ~ Nightmares (feat. Byron Messia) +02 Chris Brown ~ Sensational (feat. Davido and Lojay) +01 HStikkytokky and General G ~ Twust Not actually heard the Tory Lanez or Chris Brown songs but they're both terrible people so deserve points anyway

That’s literally what re-peaking means?

Mariah back ahead of Wham! on Apple, and the gap was only 6k on Spotify today too

That’s not how the rules work tho I don’t think. I might be wrong but I think Another Love went to ACR over Christmas last year and got a reset again after Christmas (although in fairness that one did repeak)

I Remember Everything was up 60k streams on Spotify compared to last week, so I’d say it’s probably increased

Only new stuff on Apple so far is an EP by Drake that he's tagged onto the end of For All the Dogs, he's at: #26 Red Button (This one mentions Taylor Swift in the lyrics apparently) #32 Stories About My Brother #37 The Shoe Fits #39 Evil Ways (feat. J. Cole) #45 You Broke My Heart #61 Wick Man

Ngl I don’t really see the point in nominating stuff like LadBaby, sure it’s bad, but it’s a charity song, they’re all bad and at the end of the day it’s not a real song just a ploy for charity, seems out of place in comparison to hits from actual artists which are terrible

Mariah is up to #28 on Apple, one spot above Wham! Might be to do with the BBMA announcement regarding her performing All I Want for Christmas is You?

Is there any need to give Chris Brown a hit?

I’d love Fairytale of New York to go to #1, but I just don’t see how it happens tbh. The streaming gap is absolutely massive between that and Wham!/Mariah these days. Would require an absolutely unprecedented download campaign imo