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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.

Is Fairytale of New York not a ballad?

Adding to this, it looks like they are combined on Billboard, Nonsense is at #42 on the global 200 this week with a big climb and the Christmas version isn't in the charts at all, so I can only assume that they're combined.

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.

Should A Nonsense Christmas not technically be classified as a remix of Nonsense and thus inherit its chart run?

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

So the Cure’s live album is presumably combined with the original

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.

Christmas sales come through - would love them to get there. Will the live album this week count towards the original

How is that Chrystal song doing so well. It’s not even top 200 on Spotify

When else has Billie done uncredited features? I can’t think of any

Only for songs that went to ACR in December.

Not how it works. They only reset stuff that went to ACR in December, which Die with a Smile didn’t, therefore it won’t get reset.

How have you come to conclusion it’s gonna get reset. Compared to Friday to Wednesday last week it’s up like 8%. And it won’t get reset after Christmas cos it went to ACR well before December

Would predict no new entries next week - I suspect Wham! will be about 20k short. I also predict that Mariah will miss the top 40 this year barring crazy sales in the last week, I think the top 40 cutoff to be around her sales tally from last year (where she was #29), but she's well down year-on-year. Finally in addition to Cruel Summer being #11 for the second year in a row, Mr. Brightside is going to be #22 again like last year, Taste will catch it but it should finish ahead of Wham! and End of Beginning. Its projected sales for this year (~770,0000 would have put it at #15 last year).

She’ll pass Tom Grennan I’m pretty sure and possibly repass the Pogues. I’m surprised the Pogues are back ahead