-Jay-

Does manifesting actually work? Today is going to be a looooong day waiting to find out. If it does work, then… I’ll manifest myself winning Euromillions!

Just downloaded the Extended version on her official store, so I've now done one of each from there. I'd already bought the Extended on Amazon previously but thought I'd like to have the FLAC/WAV versions for that too. 6 downloads overall plus a CD and 7" vinyl = 8 sales from me!

""Realistic" refers to having a practical understanding of situations, accepting facts." You're literally doing the opposite of this at the moment lol so by definition you're having unrealistic expectations based on past evidence. Yes something can be unrealistic on paper but actually end up happening, but it's incredibly unlikely. Other streaming services are a bit cool towards previous Amazon exclusives and Amazon themselves take their foot off the gas for old exclusives. So it would have to be a very major bucking of the trend for Kylie to go Top 10 again next year, when the best anyone else has managed is #52.

Let's just be present in the moment and focus on how it's performing now, not in 2026 x

Oh my, I didn't know that Je ne sais pas pourquoi came so close to #1! I Believe in You was certainly handled quite oddly, I wonder why the label didn't want it out physically before the album? Considering that it seems remarkable it spent four weeks in the Top 5!

I am going to assume it doesn't sit well with them that Kylie's on track to be the first solo female artist to have a Christmas song as the Christmas #1!

That's a great update! Can we be fully confident she's got this in the bag? If XMAS sells the same today, it could be on course for 54,000! And surely Wham haven't got 18k to add...

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?