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I mean SZA had a pretty big hit released on Christmas Day 2020 so it can still work.

Yep! In addition to the title track, there's 1 track each for 53 different species of threatened native birds.

Only fraudulently. I don't want to spread mis-information but I'm 99% certain that if the chart were accurately compiled, Mariah would rightly be #1, so stick a big fat asterisk next to it.

27/12/2021 Singles 01 01 19 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 02 08 53 01 ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU Mariah Carey 03 02 05 02 ABCDEFU Gayle 04 03 24 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 05 05 71 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 06 04 10 01 EASY ON ME Adele 07 06 26 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 08 07 15 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 09 12 46 02 LAST CHRISTMAS Wham! 10 13 15 04 IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS Michael Buble 11 09 07 09 DO IT TO IT Acraze feat. Cherish 12 21 16 06 SANTA TELL ME Ariana Grande 13 10 22 04 INDUSTRY BABY Lil Nas X feat. Jack Harlow 14 15 13 11 GHOST Justin Bieber 15 17 03 15 WHERE ARE YOU NOW Lost Frequencies feat. Calum Scott 16 29 03 16 MERRY CHRISTMAS Ed Sheeran & Elton John 17 34 10 17 ROCKIN' AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE Brenda Lee 18 14 32 01 GOOD 4 U Olivia Rodrigo 19 11 06 01 ALL TOO WELL (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 20 18 06 18 ENEMY Imagine Dragons, JID & League of Legends 21 20 37 02 KISS ME MORE Doja Cat feat. SZA 22 16 03 16 I HATE U SZA 23 19 63 04 LEVITATING Dua Lipa 24 39 08 24 JINGLE BELL ROCK Bobby Helms 25 22 14 07 THAT'S WHAT I WANT Lil Nas X 26 23 07 09 ONE RIGHT NOW Post Malone & The Weeknd 27 59 20 03 DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS? Band Aid 28 24 50 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 29 54 05 29 SNOWMAN Sia 30 57 09 19 HOLLY JOLLY CHRISTMAS Michael Buble 31 26 08 16 BETTER DAYS NEIKED & Mae Muller feat. Polo G 32 67 07 29 SLEIGH RIDE The Ronettes 33 28 04 28 I AM WOMAN Emmy Meli 34 25 15 08 MEET ME AT OUR SPOT The Anxiety 35 30 27 03 BEGGIN' Måneskin 36 52 22 20 MISTLETOE Justin Bieber 37 58 07 16 IT'S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR Andy Williams 38 33 17 16 WOMAN Doja Cat 39 32 39 01 MONTERO (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME) Lil Nas X 40 27 21 03 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 41 RE 07 37 HOW TO MAKE GRAVY Paul Kelly 42 36 13 07 MY UNIVERSE Coldplay and BTS 43 RE 03 23 LIGHT A CANDLE Jam Mountain Music 44 64 08 34 UNDERNEATH THE TREE Kelly Clarkson 45 35 31 14 MISSING PIECE Vance Joy 46 82 16 13 HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER) John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band 47 31 05 06 OH MY GOD Adele 48 NE 01 48 SAUSAGE ROLLS FOR EVERYONE LadBaby 49 47 11 30 ACAPULCO Jason DeRulo 50 40 08 08 OVERPASS GRAFFITI Ed Sheeran Albums 01 01 05 01 30 Adele 02 02 08 01 = Ed Sheeran 03 05 05 02 PAUL KELLY'S CHRISTMAS TRAIN Paul Kelly 04 06 07 01 VOYAGE ABBA 05 08 94 01 CHRISTMAS Michael Buble 06 04 06 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 07 09 31 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 08 10 26 02 PLANET HER Doja Cat 09 15 21 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 10 18 313 02 NEVERMIND Nirvana 11 12 46 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 12 11 12 02 ONLY SANTA KNOWS Delta Goodrem 13 03 03 03 SONGS OF DISAPPEARANCE Australian Bird Calls 14 19 71 02 MERRY CHRISTMAS Mariah Carey 15 16 354 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 16 26 03 16 I DREAM OF CHRISTMAS Norah Jones 17 14 91 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 18 21 106 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 19 13 40 01 JUSTICE Justin Bieber 20 07 02 07 FIGHTING DEMONS Juice WRLD 21 22 182 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 22 96 272 02 THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON Pink Floyd 23 17 285 01 25 Adele 24 20 74 01 F*CK LOVE The Kid Laroi 25 RE 44 02 ECHOLALIA Something For Kate 26 24 185 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 27 29 111 01 WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 28 27 251 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 29 28 423 01 21 Adele 30 42 176 04 BACK TO BLACK Amy Winehouse 31 23 16 01 CERTIFIED LOVER BOY Drake 32 25 14 01 MONTERO Lil Nas X 33 38 143 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 34 31 374 01 1989 Taylor Swift 35 46 09 02 THE LOCKDOWN SESSIONS Elton John 36 40 05 28 HAPPY TOGETHER Andre Rieu & Johanna Strauss Orchestra 37 45 54 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 38 47 487 01 THE VERY BEST INXS 39 60 389 01 GREATEST HITS Foo Fighters 40 39 309 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 41 30 34 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 42 63 54 01 SONGS FROM THE OSUTH: PAUL KELLY'S GREATEST HITS 1985-2019 43 32 60 01 LET IT BE The Beatles 44 34 74 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 45 37 237 16 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 46 36 77 01 SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOON Pop Smoke 47 41 197 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 48 65 27 02 ALL I KNOW SO FAR: SETLIST P!nk 49 52 60 04 THE CHRISTMAS ALBUM Human Nature 50 RE 137 01 MTV - UNPLUGGED IN NEW YORK Nirvana This week's ARIA Chart is incorrect. The lack of Thursday data being tracked or even estimated, so all the Christmas music should be a bit higher, Mariah should be #1. Next week should be more accurate though, and that will come in a new thread. I will return to this thread however to post the End Of Year charts when they arrive. Also of note this week, the return of Jam Mountain Music who appeared out of nowhere last December, and LadBaby who has been climbing higher and higher each year gets his first top 50 hit here. Not much happening on the album chart but Norah Jones got a new peak and Something For Kate return with their classic 2001 album "Echolalia", recommend if you like introspective alternative rock by a very tall man.

I mean it's not surprising that people don't typically spend the last few days of the year listening to new music. It's gonna get more extreme come New Year's.

I think Spotify's timezones also come into play. Like I believe Australia's '24/12' chart runs until 11am on 25/12, so it's no surprise the Christmas Eve numbers appear to be greater.

+5 Adele - Easy On Me +4 The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York +3 Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone +2 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Aroudn The Christmas Tree +1 Ed Sheeran & Elton John - Merry Christmas -1 Sammy Stratocaster - Seventeen Going Under -2 GAYLE - do re mi -3 Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You -4 I've got 8 minutes left and I'm gonna win Whamageddon gosh darn it -5 41°C tomorrow hbu?

Probably on track to happen in early 2023.

Dang, Kraftwerk done dirty.

+5 Adele - Easy On Me +4 The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York +3 Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone +2 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree +1 Ed Sheeran & Elton John - Merry Christmas -1 ArrDee - Flowers (Say My Name) -2 GAYLE - abcdefu -3 Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You -4 Wham! - Last Christmas -5 It's a shame because Perry Como's version is actually good

20/12/2021 Singles 01 01 18 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 02 04 04 02 ABCDEFU Gayle 03 03 23 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 04 02 09 01 EASY ON ME Adele 05 05 70 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 06 06 25 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 07 07 14 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 08 08 52 01 ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU Mariah Carey 09 11 06 09 DO IT TO IT Acraze feat. Cherish 10 10 21 04 INDUSTRY BABY Lil Nas X feat. Jack Harlow 11 09 05 01 ALL TOO WELL (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 12 18 45 02 LAST CHRISTMAS Wham! 13 14 14 04 IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS Michael Buble 14 12 31 01 GOOD 4 U Olivia Rodrigo 15 13 12 11 GHOST Justin Bieber 16 19 02 16 I HATE U SZA 17 26 02 17 WHERE ARE YOU NOW Lost Frequencies feat. Calum Scott 18 22 05 18 ENEMY Imagine Dragons, JID & League of Legends 19 16 62 04 LEVITATING Dua Lipa 20 15 36 02 KISS ME MORE Doja Cat feat. SZA 21 31 15 06 SANTA TELL ME Ariana Grande 22 20 13 07 THAT'S WHAT I WANT Lil Nas X 23 17 06 09 ONE RIGHT NOW Post Malone & The Weeknd 24 23 49 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 25 24 14 08 MEET ME AT OUR SPOT The Anxiety 26 29 07 16 BETTER DAYS NEIKED & Mae Muller feat. Polo G 27 25 20 03 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 28 43 03 28 I AM WOMAN Emmy Meli 29 27 02 27 MERRY CHRISTMAS Ed Sheeran & Elton John 30 30 26 03 BEGGIN' Måneskin 31 21 04 06 OH MY GOD Adele 32 28 38 01 MONTERO (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME) Lil Nas X 33 35 16 16 WOMAN Doja Cat 34 49 09 31 ROCKIN' AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE Brenda Lee 35 34 30 14 MISSING PIECE Vance Joy 36 39 12 07 MY UNIVERSE Coldplay and BTS 37 36 107 01 BLINDING LIGHTS The Weeknd 38 32 06 08 SMOKIN' OUT THE WINDOW Silk Sonic 39 55 07 37 JINGLE BELL ROCK Bobby Helms 40 40 07 08 OVERPASS GRAFFITI Ed Sheeran 41 41 08 08 MOTH TO A FLAME Swedish House Mafia & The Weeknd 42 38 13 08 LOVE NWANTITI (AH AH AH) CKay 43 33 54 01 WITHOUT YOU The Kid Laroi 44 61 02 44 WANDERED TO L.A. Juice WRLD & Justin Bieber 45 37 49 01 DRIVER'S LICENSE Olivia Rodrigo 46 42 75 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 47 44 10 30 ACAPULCO Jason DeRulo 48 45 22 22 LOVE TONIGHT Shouse 49 46 27 09 NEED TO KNOW Doja Cat 50 47 22 16 DREAMS Jolyon Petch Albums 01 01 04 01 30 Adele 02 02 07 01 = Ed Sheeran 03 05 02 03 SONGS OF DISAPPEARANCE Australian Bird Calls 04 04 05 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 05 03 04 02 PAUL KELLY'S CHRISTMAS TRAIN Paul Kelly 06 06 06 01 VOYAGE ABBA 07 NE 01 07 FIGHTING DEMONS Juice WRLD 08 07 93 01 CHRISTMAS Michael Buble 09 08 30 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 10 09 25 02 PLANET HER Doja Cat 11 25 11 02 ONLY SANTA KNOWS Delta Goodrem 12 14 45 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 13 10 39 01 JUSTICE Justin Bieber 14 13 90 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 15 17 20 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 16 35 353 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 17 12 284 01 25 Adele 18 19 312 02 NEVERMIND Nirvana 19 18 70 02 MERRY CHRISTMAS Mariah Carey 20 15 73 01 F*CK LOVE The Kid Laroi 21 16 105 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 22 34 181 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 23 20 15 01 CERTIFIED LOVER BOY Drake 24 27 184 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 25 22 13 01 MONTERO Lil Nas X 26 79 02 26 I DREAM OF CHRISTMAS Norah Jones 27 30 250 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 28 21 422 01 21 Adele 29 29 110 01 WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 30 23 33 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 31 32 373 01 1989 Taylor Swift 32 31 59 01 LET IT BE The Beatles 33 28 05 04 AN EVENING WITH SILK SONIC Silk Sonic 34 33 73 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 35 36 05 08 BETWEEN US Little Mix 36 48 76 01 SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOON Pop Smoke 37 40 236 16 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 38 38 142 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 39 43 308 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 40 42 04 28 HAPPY TOGETHER Andre Rieu & Johanna Strauss Orchestra 41 39 196 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 42 53 175 04 BACK TO BLACK Amy Winehouse 43 24 04 18 RAISE THE ROOF Robert Plant & Alison Krauss 44 47 08 01 SURRENDER Rüfüs du Sol 45 44 53 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 46 52 08 02 THE LOCKDOWN SESSIONS Elton John 47 59 486 01 THE VERY BEST INXS 48 49 442 02 THE BEST OF: ALL FOR YOU Cold Chisel 49 45 121 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 50 11 02 11 LIVE AT HAMER HALL The Teskey Brothers & Orchestra Victoria As was suggested before, 2 week stays seem to just be in vogue this year so what better way to end the year then with multiple 2 week consecutive reigns at #1 by multiple songs that have actually spent far more than 2 weeks overall. Well, that's what should be happening but as fate would have it, ARIA don't seem to have a very logical solution to the trouble of building streams for Christmas songs. Last year's Christmas charts were rendered completely meaningless because Christmas Eve streams were lost to the ether, and that was back when ARIA published the charts on Saturday afternoon, rather than Friday. Christmas Eve will count this year but that's on the next tracking week, whereas there's still a significant boost on Dec 23rd which will go unrecognised on next week's chart. It would not surprise me if this single day is the difference between Mariah Carey getting to #1 and not, whereas I suspect the combined efforts of Dec 24th & Dec 25th should be more than enough to lock it in for her the week after on the chart dated Jan 3rd, 2022. It's possible that GAYLE could snatch the top spot too as she got rather close this week and I can't really confirm what her extra versions are doing to her streaming total. In noteworthy Christmas shenanigans, Wham! have overtaken Michael Buble for the first time this year, potentially preventing him from hitting a new peak next fortnight. Bobby Helms is doing better than usual, and potentially Jose Feliciano could reach the top 50 for the first time ever this week, despite usually not even charting at all. Elsewhere, Acraze is in the top 10, Imagine Dragons have their highest charting single since "Thunder" and there's just the one top 50 entry from the new Juice WRLD album. "Mr. Brightside" reached a new high in weekly Spotify streams but is unable to reach the top 50 because its Apple streams are missing. On the album chart Adele is #1 again but is facing stiffer and stiffer competition from endangered birds. In their second week they land above the not-highly sought second posthumous Juice WRLD album. Norah Jones' Christmas album climbs into the top 50 and there's not much else happening. RÜFÜS DU SOL got voted for Album Of The Year by triple j listeners which might explain their slight climb this week, we'll see in 11 months if ARIA follow suit (nah they'll give it to Gang Of Youths).

Prelude to a potential new Spotify peak come NYE :lol:

Love when awards shows do this, just primo content

+5 Adele - Oh My God +4 Ed Sheeran - Overpass Graffiti +3 Adele - Easy On Me +2 Taylor Swift - All Too Well (Taylor's Version) +1 Adele - I Drink Wine -1 Roger Riff - Seventeen Going Under -2 ArrDee - Flowers (Say My Name) -3 GAYLE - abcdefu -4 Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You -5 Wham! - Last Christmas

This is par for the course. The numbers are a little higher than last year on Spotify (except for "Santa Tell Me" which was probably boosted by "Positions" last year). Something something nobody wants to listen to Tony Bennett on a 40C day in summer.

Looking through the games I think the underlying problem is that most of the 1v3 games have always been pretty bad or unbalanced :lol: Maybe I'd chuck in Lights Out but there's not much on offer.

13/12/2021 Singles 01 02 17 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 02 01 08 01 EASY ON ME Adele 03 03 22 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 04 04 03 04 ABCDEFU Gayle 05 08 69 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 06 06 24 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 07 05 13 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 08 18 51 01 ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU Mariah Carey 09 07 04 01 ALL TOO WELL (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 10 09 20 04 INDUSTRY BABY Lil Nas X feat. Jack Harlow 11 11 05 11 DO IT TO IT Acraze feat. Cherish 12 16 30 01 GOOD 4 U Olivia Rodrigo 13 12 11 11 GHOST Justin Bieber 14 35 13 04 IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS Michael Buble 15 22 35 02 KISS ME MORE Doja Cat feat. SZA 16 24 61 04 LEVITATING Dua Lipa 17 13 05 09 ONE RIGHT NOW Post Malone & The Weeknd 18 41 44 02 LAST CHRISTMAS Wham! 19 NE 01 19 I HATE U SZA 20 15 12 07 THAT'S WHAT I WANT Lil Nas X 21 10 03 06 OH MY GOD Adele 22 20 04 20 ENEMY Imagine Dragons, JID & League of Legends 23 28 48 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 24 17 13 08 MEET ME AT OUR SPOT The Anxiety 25 21 19 03 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 26 NE 01 26 WHERE ARE YOU NOW Lost Frequencies feat. Calum Scott 27 NE 01 27 MERRY CHRISTMAS Ed Sheeran & Elton John 28 31 37 01 MONTERO (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME) Lil Nas X 29 19 06 16 BETTER DAYS NEIKED & Mae Muller feat. Polo G 30 25 25 03 BEGGIN' Måneskin 31 RE 14 06 SANTA TELL ME Ariana Grande 32 14 05 08 SMOKIN' OUT THE WINDOW Silk Sonic 33 44 53 01 WITHOUT YOU The Kid Laroi 34 32 29 14 MISSING PIECE Vance Joy 35 30 15 16 WOMAN Doja Cat 36 37 106 01 BLINDING LIGHTS The Weeknd 37 55 48 01 DRIVER'S LICENSE Olivia Rodrigo 38 26 12 08 LOVE NWANTITI (AH AH AH) CKay 39 27 11 07 MY UNIVERSE Coldplay and BTS 40 23 06 08 OVERPASS GRAFFITI Ed Sheeran 41 29 07 08 MOTH TO A FLAME Swedish House Mafia & The Weeknd 42 43 74 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 43 60 02 43 I AM WOMAN Emmy Meli 44 33 09 30 ACAPULCO Jason DeRulo 45 38 21 22 LOVE TONIGHT Shouse 46 42 26 09 NEED TO KNOW Doja Cat 47 34 21 16 DREAMS Jolyon Petch 48 54 54 04 THE BUSINESS Tiësto 49 RE 08 31 ROCKIN' AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE Brenda Lee 50 61 44 04 ASTRONAUT IN THE OCEAN Masked Wolf Albums 01 01 03 01 30 Adele 02 02 06 01 = Ed Sheeran 03 06 03 02 PAUL KELLY'S CHRISTMAS TRAIN Paul Kelly 04 03 04 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 05 NE 01 05 SONGS OF DISAPPEARANCE Australian Bird Calls 06 04 05 01 VOYAGE ABBA 07 08 92 01 CHRISTMAS Michael Buble 08 07 29 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 09 09 24 02 PLANET HER Doja Cat 10 13 38 01 JUSTICE Justin Bieber 11 NE 01 11 LIVE AT HAMER HALL The Teskey Brothers & Orchestra Victoria 12 10 283 01 25 Adele 13 14 89 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 14 15 44 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 15 22 72 01 F*CK LOVE The Kid Laroi 16 11 104 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 17 21 19 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 18 35 69 02 MERRY CHRISTMAS Mariah Carey 19 12 311 02 NEVERMIND Nirvana 20 20 14 01 CERTIFIED LOVER BOY Drake 21 18 421 01 21 Adele 22 28 12 01 MONTERO Lil' Nas X 23 23 32 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 24 19 03 18 RAISE THE ROOF Robert Plant & Alison Krauss 25 42 10 02 ONLY SANTA KNOWS Delta Goodrem 26 RE 13 03 HALL OF FAME Polo G 27 27 183 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 28 17 04 04 AN EVENING WITH SILK SONIC Silk Sonic 29 33 109 01 WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 30 31 249 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 31 24 59 01 LET IT BE The Beatles 32 30 372 01 1989 Taylor Swift 33 29 72 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 34 26 180 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 35 43 352 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 36 32 04 08 BETWEEN US Little Mix 37 05 02 05 FAMILY TIES ChillinIT 38 34 141 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 39 44 195 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 40 39 235 16 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 41 NE 01 41 NO ONE GETS LOST ANYMORE The Smith Street Band 42 53 03 28 HAPPY TOGETHER Andre Rieu & Johanna Strauss Orchestra 43 40 307 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 44 36 52 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 45 37 120 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 46 63 48 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 47 38 07 01 SURRENDER Rüfüs du Sol 48 54 75 01 SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOON Pop Smoke 49 52 441 02 THE BEST OF: ALL FOR YOU Cold Chisel 50 51 169 06 DON'T SMILE AT ME Billie Eilish With Spotify Wrapped and Christmas shenanigans, this week's chart is so algorithmically driven as to be autonomous, which in the event of a close top 10, means that tragically Australia is being made to post cringe again. We'll probably be stuck like this until Mariah Carey claims #1 for the 4th year in a row. Two things I will note about Christmas stuff this year, firstly that Michael Buble has seemingly charged ahead of Wham! which is atypical, while Brenda Lee is charting higher than usual purely because she no longer has her streams split on Spotify so ARIA is actually counting it correctly...or at least it appears to be, as she's still quite low all things considered, so maybe Apple streams aren't counting. In ARIA getting things right, Lost Frequencies finally arrives for both his and Calum Scott's 3rd top 50 hits, it just took about 6 weeks to finally get the tick of approval. Arriving higher is SZA who may have to wait until January to really get going though she's doing well so far. Ed Sheeran & Elton John are largely being carried by sales without much in the way of streaming, but that might increase enough next week to offset the sales dip. Oh and someone called Emmy Meli is in the top 50 for the first time. Adele holds the top album slot as she is known to do. She'll need another 5 weeks to match "25"'s reign. This week's big new entry comes from an album of bird calls, comprised of 53 of our most threatened species. Below that is a live Teskey Brothers album, a surprisingly acknowledged re-issue for Polo G, and a 10th anniversary re-issue of The Smith Street Band's first album, which seems to be the common route to getting bands' back catalogues onto the chart for the first time now.

+5 Adele - Oh My God +4 Ed Sheeran - Overpass Graffiti +3 Adele - Easy On Me +2 Taylor Swift - All Too Well (Taylor's Version) +1 D-Block Europe - Overseas (I've finally heard a DBE song!) -1 Adele - I Drink Wine -2 Kyle Gibson - Seventeen Going Under -3 Ed Sheeran - Shivers -4 ArrDee - Flowers (Say My Name) -5 Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits

Or for that matter, the most famous "All Fired Up" :heehee: (though curiously The Saturdays have a barely over 0.1% margin on Spotify against Pat Benatar :P)

06/12/2021 Singles 01 01 07 01 EASY ON ME Adele 02 03 16 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 03 04 21 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 04 17 02 04 ABCDEFU Gayle 05 05 12 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 06 07 23 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 07 02 03 01 ALL TOO WELL (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 08 08 68 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 09 09 19 04 INDUSTRY BABY Lil Nas X feat. Jack Harlow 10 06 02 06 OH MY GOD Adele 11 16 04 11 DO IT TO IT Acraze feat. Cherish 12 12 10 11 GHOST Justin Bieber 13 14 04 09 ONE RIGHT NOW Post Malone & The Weeknd 14 13 04 08 SMOKIN' OUT THE WINDOW Silk Sonic 15 19 11 07 THAT'S WHAT I WANT Lil Nas X 16 22 29 01 GOOD 4 U Olivia Rodrigo 17 20 12 08 MEET ME AT OUR SPOT The Anxiety 18 76 50 01 ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU Mariah Carey 19 23 05 16 BETTER DAYS NEIKED & Mae Muller feat. Polo G 20 35 03 20 ENEMY Imagine Dragons, JID & League of Legends 21 24 18 03 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 22 27 34 02 KISS ME MORE Doja Cat feat. SZA 23 29 05 08 OVERPASS GRAFFITI Ed Sheeran 24 30 60 04 LEVITATING Dua Lipa 25 28 24 03 BEGGIN' Måneskin 26 26 11 08 LOVE NWANTITI (AH AH AH) CKay 27 34 10 07 MY UNIVERSE Coldplay and BTS 28 32 47 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 29 36 06 08 MOTH TO A FLAME Swedish House Mafia & The Weeknd 30 37 14 16 WOMAN Doja Cat 31 38 36 01 MONTERO (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME) Lil Nas X 32 39 28 14 MISSING PIECE Vance Joy 33 44 08 30 ACAPULCO Jason Derulo 34 42 20 16 DREAMS Jolyon Petch 35 RE 12 04 IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS Michael Buble 36 10 02 10 I DRINK WINE Adele 37 40 105 01 BLINDING LIGHTS The Weeknd 38 41 20 22 LOVE TONIGHT Shouse 39 11 02 11 MY LITTLE LOVE Adele 40 15 02 15 CAN I GET IT Adele 41 RE 43 02 LAST CHRISTMAS Wham! 42 43 25 09 NEED TO KNOW Doja Cat 43 45 73 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 44 47 52 01 WITHOUT YOU The Kid Laroi 45 48 21 13 2055 Sleepy Hallow 46 51 13 24 A-O-K Tai Verdes 47 53 18 42 FANCY LIKE Walker Hayes 48 60 10 31 OUT OUT Joel Corry, Jax Jones, Charli XCX & Saweetie 49 62 03 49 FLOWERS (SAY MY NAME) ArrDee 50 57 75 29 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers Albums 01 01 02 01 30 Adele 02 04 05 01 = Ed Sheeran 03 03 03 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 04 05 04 01 VOYAGE ABBA 05 NE 01 05 FAMILY TIES ChillinIT 06 02 02 02 PAUL KELLY'S CHRISTMAS TRAIN Paul Kelly 07 08 28 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 08 40 91 01 CHRISTMAS Michael Buble 09 09 23 02 PLANET HER Doja Cat 10 07 282 01 25 Adele 11 16 103 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 12 20 310 02 NEVERMIND Nirvana 13 12 37 01 JUSTICE Justin Bieber 14 14 88 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 15 17 43 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 16 RE 14 16 RINGSIDE Cold Chisel 17 11 03 04 AN EVENING WITH SILK SONIC Silk Sonic 18 10 420 01 21 Adele 19 18 02 18 RAISE THE ROOF Robert Plant & Alison Krauss 20 15 13 01 CERTIFIED LOVER BOY Drake 21 21 18 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 22 19 71 01 F*CK LOVE The Kid Laroi 23 30 31 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 24 100 59 01 LET IT BE The Beatles 25 06 02 06 THE LEGENDARY 1979 NO NUKES CONCERTS Bruce Springsteen 26 49 179 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 27 31 182 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 28 22 11 01 MONTERO Lil Nas X 29 26 71 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 30 25 371 01 1989 Taylor Swift 31 24 248 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 32 23 03 08 BETWEEN US Little Mix 33 32 108 01 WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 34 36 140 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 35 78 68 02 MERRY CHRISTMAS Mariah Carey 36 42 51 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 37 37 119 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 38 27 06 01 SURRENDER Rüfüs du Sol 39 33 234 16 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 40 38 306 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 41 97 437 02 GREATEST HITS Queen 42 13 09 02 ONLY SANTA KNOWS Delta Goodrem 43 39 351 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 44 41 194 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 45 69 02 45 THE STARS BENEATH MY FEET (2004 - 2021) James Blunt 46 45 06 02 THE LOCKDOWN SESSIONS Elton John 47 55 163 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Queen / Soundtrack 48 35 14 01 DONDA Kanye West 49 75 173 04 BACK TO BLACK Amy Winehouse 50 46 484 01 THE VERY BEST INXS I'm not going to pretend that December/January charts are remotely interesting but here we are. Adele gets a 4th week at #1 or perhaps befitting of 2021, a second 2 week reign at #1. She should maintain it next week although afterwards it's hard to say. GAYLE storms into the top 5 no less prior to being yanked back down by the forces of Spotify Wrapped. Our typical Christmas affair begins as we try and work out which songs will be let onto the chart and when. Oddly it seems that "Santa Tell Me" is missing from the chart, but stuff like this will be more apparent next week. It seems even ARIA don't care enough to write midweeks anymore. I also must apologise to all the people who might recall me mentioning that ArrDee's "Flowers" wasn't doing anything in Australia because I had somehow glazed over it. Anyway Sweet Female Attitude never charted here of course so make of that what you will. This is ArrDee's first proper credited entry in the top 50 if you're a stickler for that. Adele is #1 again of course on the album chart. The only new arrival we get is from Chillinit who of course last week was also arrested for not wearing a mask in a shopping centre. James Blunt also climbs into the top 50 after debuting below it last week.

Charting in the past shouldn't be a pre-requisite, the charts themselves iterate on people discovering/listening to music over time. Not to mention there are massive swathes of people not even born in 1957 who see Jingle Bell Rock as a staple via its inclusion in Home Alone 2, Mean Girls or perhaps even playlists of past Christmases! Who are we to judge?

To be fair, looking at the current charts to credit long running TikTok hits as proof of concept is very plane with red dots on it I don't know about the UK Chart as well but I know on the AU chart in the past few months, stuff like Everybody Talks, Everybody Dies In Their Nightmares, Loverboy, Strange, Collard Greens, Teenagers have popped onto the Spotify chart for a few weeks at most before vanishing into the ether. I'm expecting the same of I Love You So & Notion which just arrived too.

I feel like locking in a new position at the end of this Christmas season is highly unlikely just because last year's chart that started with Friday on Dec 25th was enough to keep her at #2, whereas this year's equivalent chart starts on Dec 24th, giving the two biggest days together which is likely enough to beat any non-Christmas song.

Oh that doesn't surprise me but we're talking about how known songs are which doesn't necessarily correlate to how much people go out of their way to listen to them, very different situations! I'll also say regarding Mr. Brightside that it has very little notable traction outside of countries where English is the only official language. It never even cracks the global top 100 on Spotify because UK/US/AU/CA/NZ/IE can only do so much.

I think it's important to note that music as an interest is *relatively* niche compared to things like sports, film & such. Which is to say that there are probably TV Themes that could make a good shout though I would be just chipping in with my age if I could decide the best suggestion there. Or it could just be something like Macarena idk. Edit: Also there are a lot of extremely famous classical compositions that make the best shout for 'everyone has heard this but doesn't necessarily know what it's called'