-Jay-

There's now 320 copies left of the picture disc on Amazon (there was 348 left at 6:20am) so that's 28 copies in 8 hours. Not destined to sell out today but I suppose it's more of a difficult sell at £20!

I'd maybe get the lambs' disappointment if Mariah was midweek #2 this week behind Kylie, but given that Mariah lags behind Wham in recent years, it feels a bit mean spirited of them to be specifically annoyed at Kylie when she's not solely denying Mariah the #1! Christmas chart positions for All I Want for Christmas Is You: 1994 & 2020 - #2 2023 & 2024 - #3 (and likely 2025 as well) 2017, 2018, 2021 & 2022 - #4 2016 - #5 2007 - #6 2019 - #8 2015 - #11 2013 - #13 2008 & 2011 - #17 2014 - #18 2012 - #20 2009 - #21 2010 - #25 So only two years that it wound up being the Christmas #2... and both times, sadly, it was significantly behind the #1: 1994: #1 - 217,753 - East 17 #2 - 135,303 - Mariah Carey 2020: #1 - 157,733 - LadBaby #2 - 58,559 - Mariah Carey Personally I'm more aggrieved that LadBaby denied Mariah! Although at that point in time, three LadBaby singles in, I think the general public mood was still "it's for a good cause, it's fun" [it really wasn't fun x]. So if Mariah had actually denied them at that point, I'm not sure if that would have gone down too well with the public. More ideally they'd have stopped after two and Mariah would have made it to #1 in 2020 without competition.

Wham disappearing again from the Unlimited songs chart Which makes Kylie show at #2 (Mariah at #1)

Neeeeeeed a midweek/sales update today... don't leave us in the dark, Kylie sources!

Feeling really confident in Kylie doing it. I'm really looking forward to tomorrow's chart countdown! I think I'll try my very best to avoid spoilers and wait for the radio announcement.

Go go go! https://kylie-xmas.tmstor.es/product/xmas-gingey-s-party-mix-amazon-music-original-download

10.0 360 08.5 Club classics 09.0 Sympathy is a knife 05.0 I might say something stupid 09.0 Talk talk 10.0 Von dutch 09.0 Everything is romantic 07.5 Rewind 07.0 So I 08.5 Girl, so confusing 10.0 Apple 08.5 B2b 07.5 Mean girls 06.5 I think about it all the time 10.0 365 08.0 Hello goodbye 08.0 Guess 08.0 Spring breakers 07.5 360 featuring robyn & yung lean 04.0 Club classics featuring bb trickz 10.0 Sympathy is a knife featuring ariana grande 06.0 I might say something stupid featuring the 1975 & jon hopkins 10.0 Talk talk featuring troye sivan 08.5 Von dutch a. g. cook remix featuring addison rae 07.5 Everything is romantic featuring caroline polachek 06.0 Rewind featuring bladee 07.0 So I featuring a. g. cook 11.0 Girl, so confusing featuring lorde 07.5 Apple featuring the japanese house 08.0 B2b featuring tinashe 05.5 Mean girls featuring julian casablancas 06.0 I think about it all the time featuring bon iver 08.0 365 featuring shygirl 10.0 Guess featuring billie eilish 08.5 Spring breakers featuring kesha 04.0 Von dutch remix with skream and benga

Interesting to see how it's selling at this time of the morning... CD down to 2 left, picture disc now 340!

I just don't think it's on anyone's radar, sadly. The CD being #3313 on Amazon currently... that says it all. It seems that only the hardcore fans cared for this release happening back in November, but it's simply not entered the public's consciousness. I can't say I'm surprised. The group aren't currently active, it doesn't contain hit singles. This was the opportunity to try and make it a thing, but they didn't do anywhere near enough to try and make that happen. I wonder if there were intentions for Girls Aloud to promote it harder in 2024 before it got postponed. Somebody on Popjustice described Christmas 'Round at Ours as being "a niche within a niche" and I think that describes it well. The album reissues were already kind of niche interest, but the Christmas release even more so.

Also, I'm definitely getting ahead of myself here considering it's not even officially spent 1 week at #1 yet, but if it was to manage two weeks, it would be her first chart topper to spend 2 weeks (and presumably no more beyond that in the future) at #1! 5 weeks - I Should Be So Lucky 4 weeks - Can't Get You Out of My Head 3 weeks - Especially for You (2 weeks? - XMAS) 1 week - Hand on Your Heart, Tears on My Pillow, Spinning Around, Slow She'd have #1 singles as a teenager, and in her 20s, 30s and 50s. I guess only Cliff Richard beats that? If only All the Lovers had managed to do better and give her that #1 single to tick off the 2010s and her 40s! But alas, it didn't come close... All the Lovers sales while at #4 and #3: 1 84,145 SHOUT - SHOUT FOR ENGLAND FT DIZZEE RASCAL & JAMES CORDEN 2 76,329 WAVIN' FLAG - K'NAAN 3 53,758 KICKSTARTS - EXAMPLE 4 49,212 ALL THE LOVERS - KYLIE MINOGUE ^ That #1 though 👀 1 93,363 CALIFORNIA GURLS - KATY PERRY FT SNOOP DOGG 2 54,845 AIRPLANES - B.O.B FT HAYLEY WILLIAMS 3 52,454 ALL THE LOVERS - KYLIE MINOGUE The last time those artists that held her back from #1 had Top 10 or Top 40 hits: James Corden: 2010 (last Top 10 & last Top 40) K'Naan: 2010 (last Top 10 & last Top 40) Dizzee Rascal: 2013 (last top 10) + 2016 (last top 40) B.O.B: 2013 (last Top 10 & last Top 40) Example: 2014 (last Top 10 & last Top 40) Snoop Dogg: 2014 (last Top 10 & last Top 40) Hayley Williams: 2014 (last Top 10 & last Top 40) [+ her last Top 40 hit in Paramore was in 2017] Katy Perry: 2017 (last Top 10) + 2020 (last Top 40)

Seems to me like there's 348 copies of the 12" picture disc in stock on Amazon, any more than that and the dispatch date changes. They may have found some more stock of the CDs, 15 left at the moment!

No, they 100% know that the Christmas chart is the 19th December chart.

Amazon reports on time, so I'm pretty certain that their Thursday streaming data is taken into account and isn't estimated like Spotify/Apple Music! So I think it would still be worth streaming tomorrow.

Me just before getting a bad cough and cold last week

Thank you! So this covers its sales achieved since 21st November, but it was released on 5th November! I just looked back on the thread and @Liam.k. had an estimate for the first couple of weeks of its availability being 8k, so perhaps we can say 93k-94k at this point? Hopefully when all is said and done XMAS will be able to go Silver before the Christmas period is over! (Assuming XMAS actually peaks at #1) it would be interesting if it went Silver this year and did it in just 2 months, in the same year that her previous #1 single Slow went Silver... which took 22 years to achieve.

Including the latest midweek figure, have we got an idea of what XMAS has sold in total so far?

Did we get sales shared yesterday, or was it just info that Wham! had closed the gap?

You just can't underestimate Kylie and her fanbase! It would be great to have a break down in physicals / downloads / streaming so we can have an idea of how much she's likely left to add in streaming. On this day last year Tom Grennan was midweek #4 with 27,554, while Wham! was midweek #1 with 39,294.

364,872,371 - Natalie La Rose feat. Jeremih - Somebody [72 | Q - 5th] 55,804,120 - 3LAU feat. Bright Lights - How You Love Me [67 | Q - 5th] 41,682,501 - Lion Babe - Treat Me Like Fire [73 | Q - 8th] 40,546,147 - Audrey Mika - Just Friends [125 | DNQ - 21st in SF2] 38,781,954 - COIN - Run [74 | Q - 40th] 12,095,648 - Liz Longley - Rescue My Heart [80 | Q - 37th] 10,135,340 - Donna Missal - Hurt by You [124 | Q - 13th] 4,860,930 - Keke Palmer - I Don't Belong to You [81 | DNQ - 24th in SF1] * 3,062,592 - Naxxos - New Orleans (Sam Feldt Remix) [66 | DNQ - 16th in SF1] 896,771 - Sharon Doorson - Killer [55 | Q - 9th] 685,349 - Adam Rickfors feat. Marylin - Heartbeats [75 | Q - 18th] 636,658 - Tom Swoon feat. Taylr Renee - Wings (Myon & Shane 54 Summer of Love Mix) [58 | DNQ - 18th in SF1] 406,761 - Call Me Loop - Maybe I'm a Liar [100 | DNQ - 29th in SF1] 359,715 - THE PERFECT KISS - Indebted to You [123 | Q - 36th] 163,042 - TGC - Kisses from the Sky [57 | DNQ - 18th in SF1] 153,473 - Bonnie Anderson - Unbroken [77 | Q - 5th] * 64,129 - Coracle feat. Michael Bird - Running on Empty (Chris Howland Remix) [92 | DNQ - 32nd in SF1] 27,381 - Myzica - Wait Just a Minute (Makeup and Vanity Set Remix) [79 | Q - 13th] 9,693 - Kay - Next to You [56 | DNQ - 20th in SF1] n/a - Joel Compass - Astronaut (Ghost Loft Remix) [59 | Q - 31st] * * Unavailable on Spotify UK SF1 = Semi Final 1 SF2 = Semi Final 2 Green - Qualified Red - Did Not Qualify 5 and a half years since I last took part btw!

I feel like there isn't any particular reasons why XMAS physical sales would be reported too slowly, as it's just the versions available from her store or Amazon since pre-order. I think Kylie Christmas had two reasons why it ended up being the case that sales were reported quite late: the late addition of the pop-up store vinyl to her online store, or most likely the signed copies from Banquet (and they can be very slow to get things processed and dispatched - to the point that sometimes they even miss the cut off for the first sales week).

Random mention but Kylie's #1 singles either entered straight in at #1 (Spinning Around, Can't Get You Out of My Head and Slow) or climbed there from #2 (I Should Be So Lucky, Especially for You, Hand on Your Heart and Tears on My Pillow). So going 16-1 with XMAS would be a new one for her! Hopefully I've not jinxed this into going 16-2-1 lol (which incidentally is chart movement that I Should Be So Lucky did)

I can't read the full article because it's behind a paywall, but this seems like such clickbait from The Times: CAROL MIDGLEY Kylie, please stop: I have an allergy to Christmas music Every festive song sends me into a spiral of existential despair, but Minogue’s XMAS might be the worst one ever recorded The Times Any publicity is good publicity, as they say, I guess... Carol, you're a Scrooge, hun x

Kylie leading the way in both polls

XMAS music video has now been viewed over 500,000 times on YouTube! I've also edited my signature in the hope that anyone on BuzzJack might see it and be interested to click the links.