-Jay-

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

I'm quite chilled out about how XMAS does this week. Would be fabulous if it can already make the Top 10 by Friday of course, but if it doesn't make it, then it's full steam ahead for next week!

Sadly it's When I Said Goodbyeeeee to @Yobnedor and @Spiceboy from the Steps mod team! Thank you both for all you put into this forum over the years. A fun part of the What the Future Holds and Platinum Collection eras was overseeing this forum with you both! I think the Steps forum ideally needs more than one moderator, and I know there's a lot of passion for Steps here on BuzzJack. So if there's anybody who would like to step into this role... if you could reply to this thread and say why you'd like to be one, that would be Steptacular. Good luck!

Sadly we are saying farewell to @Spiceboy from the Spice Girls mod team, but I would like to say thank you for being my Spicy partner in crime for the last 5 and a half years! 🫂 Will miss you here but you can't get rid of me easily elsewhere 2 Become 1 might be the Spice Girls song, but 2 Becomes 1 Becomes 2 again as we welcome @Mr.X to the mod panel! Mr.X's plan to overthrow me and then turn this into an Emma Bunton only forum begins now

Goodness me we're scraping the barrel here Although look who I got... BABY SPICEWarm, joyful, and effortlessly kind.

I guess they need some time to clear the pop-up shop, move the stock back to a warehouse, check the inventory!

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