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Cruel Summer was not above a million last year.

Blinding Lights didn’t manage it either

 

Someone You Loved (2019 & 2020) and Perfect (2017 & 2018) are the two other examples I can think of as well as Bad Habits

 

Edit: Dance Monkey also did it in 2019 & 2020

 

Thanks for the info! So quite a rare occurrence then, and not since 2021/22? I can’t see anything managing it for 2024/25 even with the increasing streams!?

Welcome and glad you’re enjoying the countdown! :)

 

Thank you! Yes I’m really enjoying the countdown, unfortunately I missed the voting this time but I’ll hopefully be ready in future!

I hope you don’t mind Julian, but I was considering stealing your idea for a Richard Osman style ‘World Cup Of…..’ vote (a family tradition) on best the Christmas number 2s next Christmas!😂

Hoping Doechii or Mk.Gee for number one. They had two of my favourite albums of last year

Did Cruel Summer have 2 consecutive years of over 1 million then? How common is that? I remember Bad Habits doing it, any others? Blinding Lights?

Ah Greg Lake, the first record I ever bought with my own pocket money. It was partly a fruitless attempt to get it to Christmas number one ahead of Queen. Thinking back that was probably the start of my lifelong love affair with the UK charts! It’s still my favourite Christmas song, really beautiful with bittersweet lyrics, that are still very relevant to our modern world (sadly).

So pleased and surprised at Jeff Buckley placing so high. That’s one of my favourite songs of all time, never mind number 2s at Christmas. Fantastic work guys!

New Sky Ferreira!!!!!

Noah closing in on 2 million for the calendar year, I think he should manage it (just), an impressive achievement. Would that be a record for the streaming era? Even in the ‘sales’ era I can only think of the huge charity records managing that, Band Aid & Elton. Are there any others managed 2 million on the EOY chart?