-Jay-

The two Amazon Songs charts are quite different from each other: 1 Wham! 2 Bobby Helms 3 Ariana Grande 4 Ed Sheeran & Elton John 5 Slade 6 José Feliciano 7 Brenda Lee 8 Elton John 9 Paul McCartney 10 Kylie Minogue 1 Wham! 2 Mariah Carey 3 The Pogues 4 Brenda Lee 5 Shakin' Stevens 6 Kylie Minogue 7 Bobby Helms 8 Band Aid 9 Elton John 10 Ariana Grande

Heh, the quality of the uploaded performances didn’t strike me as being too good. I mean the close ups look pretty good, but then there’s horrors like this going on with their upscale!

I think if there's really any additional versions coming up, they'll be reactionary releases (i.e. released after Monday midweeks) rather than coming in advance of them.

#16 is lower than I'd anticipated by this point, but let's see what this upcoming week brings! I wouldn't have imagined Kylie racking up all these charting songs in the 2020s and while in her 50s: #56 - Say Something #53 - Magic #95 - Real Groove #8 - Padam Padam #19 - Tension #81 - Hold On to Now #60 - Dance Alone #63 - My Oh My #59 - Lights Camera Action #16 - XMAS That's 10 singles charting in the Top 100 this decade. She managed 12 in the 2010s, which makes me wonder if she can outdo that!

The chart I see with Unlimited: 1 Wham! 2 Mariah Carey 3 Brenda Lee 4 The Pogues 5 Shakin’ Stevens 6 Kylie Minogue 7 HUNTR/X - Golden 8 Bobby Helms 9 Band Aid 10 Olivia Dean - Man I Need

There was a lot of goodwill from the chart forum posters for Padam Padam, as it becoming a Top 10 hit was unexpected & against all odds for Kylie after so many years. I don’t think an Amazon driven success will be seen as something to get behind in the same way. You can always link to this thread in a relevant topic there and then those who are interested will see the campaign here?

Beyoncé feat. The Weeknd - 6 Inch

It's a pity that Spotify's support of Not Tonight Santa dropped off last year. It did great numbers in 2022 and 2023. For instance on 10th December 2022 it got over 80,000 streams worldwide, but this year it only managed 10,000 on that date.

Funny to think that 26 years on from performing it, this YouTube upload is the first time that WOMAN is an official part of their online catalogue, i.e. not just a fan upload. I am really not holding my breath for the demo though.

One More Sleep sounds incredibly Christmassy to me! The bells, the choir, Motown-esque feel to it, and of course the lyrics. I don't think how its performing at this point has much to do with what it sounds like. As mentioned, it just isn't as strongly supported on Spotify compared to other Christmas songs, and that might be because it's more of a UK specific Christmas hit. The US centric playlists have a lot of dominance. Kelly Clarkson has that additional advantage of being high up on those playlists.

Yeah I really don't think we have any Girls Aloud chart action to look forward to in the next week or two unfortunately. They (the label, the girls) would have needed to do a lot more to spark some public interest.

As It Was!

Oops that’s a lot lower than I was anticipating! Trust Alexa to ease up on the spamming when it’s Kylie’s turn to do it

75 CDs of XMAS are in stock on Kylie's store. I wonder if they'll allow that to end up being "Sold Out" there though or if they'll have a restock? Or would they rather people be directed to purchasing it from Amazon? By the way, I cancelled and re-ordered my XMAS CD/7" on Amazon. Just like the album, it had my pre-orders showing as "Arriving on Monday". But now that I've re-ordered it says "Arriving on Saturday".

Hired x

Haters will say that money changed hands, in order for you to say this at yours and Yobnedor's words

Thank you very much for sharing @Jerald ! Very nice to see it back in the Top 200… I wonder what’s caused it? I know it’s back at #99 in the physical chart but that’s probably not all that many sales. So maybe the streaming units have improved quite a bit? Maybe the extra Viva Forever attention & presumably an increase for their Christmas #1s is helping out nicely? Greatest Hits reentered the Top 200 last year for 1 week, but I forgot to update the thread! I’ll try and find the post about it. The #151 album this week sold 1,611 which makes me wonder what #178 might be. Maybe it’s 1,500ish or a bit less? So curious to know what the total sales for Greatest Hits are now. All we know is that it’s still not 900k because it’s not gone 3xPlatinum yet!

I wonder the same with just how close it was behind PCD. 😞 But both that album and Taller In More Ways CD being added to HMV’s sale for £7.99 during Chemistry’s release week… I will never forget, and never forgive x

I also doubt they’ll care much about such technicalities seeing as a #1 is a #1 and money is money. From a chart nerd point of view it will definitely give me the ick though All it needed was one more song from the original track list to be considered as a reissue. 🥹 Would be interesting if in Christmas week or the week after that, both original Kylie Christmas and Fully Wrapped are in the chart at the same time, although maybe Fully Wrapped will cause too much of a dent in Kylie Christmas for it to reenter. It would be interesting to know how the streaming sales are divided between them.

Now that we have confirmation about that… do we think Parlophone was aware of the rules? Or they just didn’t care about it becoming its own separate thing? It seems a bit shortsighted / daft of them to not ensure it added to the original Kylie Christmas chart run and sales! And they could have easily ensured that was the case with a more carefully chosen track list. So that technically means the #12 peak will continue to be Kylie Christmas’ peak, but we’re in with a shot of #1 for Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped) lol. Will be interesting to see how this is noted down on her Wikipedia page. Have a feeling they’ll edit Kylie Christmas’ peak position, even though that’s not strictly going to be true.

There’s always more than one Amazon exclusive each year, so it’s negligible, Kylie’s getting the level of support she’s getting regardless of Gwen.

Tom Grennan didn’t have physicals available in this equivalent week last year (in fact his were only released in the week after Christmas chart week). While he was available to download at this point, his download sales were weak (reaching #82 in the download chart in this equivalent week last year). His music video never made the video streaming chart! So really, he was almost entirely driven by audio streaming at this stage. I just hope Amazon really goes into overdrive with XMAS next week!

^ The spreadsheet that this information comes from always has NEW in the “Last Week Position” column even if it’s a re-entry! So we can’t tell from this alone how the OCC is treating Fully Wrapped. What we need from the source is the “number of weeks in chart” information. If it’s only 1 week then it’s definitely treated as a new release, but if it’s… however many weeks Kylie Christmas has spent Top 200… then it’s been combined. In any case, we should find this out later from OCC’s Monday update. It seems like Kylie Christmas is quite safe for #1 as things stand. Sam Fender is #2 with 8,841 and Kylie outsold him based on Sunday sales so he’s not currently catching up. Only Olivia Dean sold more than Kylie on Sunday, but not by much, only 80 or so copies according to the source. XMAS is sadly lagging behind Tom Grennan at this same stage. He was midweek #3 at this point with 16,427 sales. Meaning Kylie’s only doing 61.5% as well he was doing in the equivalent period. I wonder why the Amazon effect is less powerful this year? Unless they really ramp it up next week, I don’t think XMAS will realistically a Christmas #1 contender. It may end up being the case that the week after is its best chance, which in a way would be unfortunate as the week after Christmas chart isn’t aired by Radio 1 as far as I’m aware.

Chistmas is Here lol thankfully the artwork has been fixed