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It never ceases to amaze me how the British public/press will claim someone is #1 in the charts, because it’s #1 on iTunes.

I REALLY hoped Stateside would scrape top 10 this week!

Do Radio 1 just add what pleases them these days? Baby Steps by Olivia and Such A Funny Way by Sabrina, neither appear to be singles.

Yeah I would do the same. In 2027 add: Say Something Magic Padam Padam Tension Hold on To Now Lights Camera Action XMAS Job done, but I feel like we will get another (unnecessary) hits collection.

1| Slow (The best song of Kylie’s career) 2| Spinning Around 3| Can’t Get You Out of My Head (Amazing, but so overplayed) 4| XMAS (a Christmas miracle) 5| Hand on Your Heart (Kylie’s best 80’s single) 6| Especially For You (she’s cute) 7|8 I Should Be So Lucky / Tears On My Pillow (Don’t care for either) Better The Devil You Know, Love At First Sight, On a Night Like This and All the Lovers really should’ve been #1’s as they are better than a lot of this list and a better representation of Kylie’s career.

2026 is gonna be Zara’s year! Midnight Sun is a great album, hopefully people keep discovering it.

The Kylie Documentary has been announced for 2026 by Netflix

It must be getting about 8 sales a week to have not passed 100,000 yet, but not really a surprise. Even for me, it’s not an album I revisit a lot. My Certifications Predictions for 2026 (or wish list!). 2 Hearts - Silver (It MUST be close by now) Magic - Silver In Your Eyes - Gold Tension (Single) - Silver Love at First Sight - Platinum

Great news and it’s actually been certified a lot quicker than I was expecting! I think the last update we had was 41,000 in November 2024. So 19,000 units in 58 weeks.

The Joel Corry collab is a strange one, it’s been teased since 2023? but he said recently he would love to finish it, so it was unfinished? Joel Corry is way past his peak though and I think it would be best if it was left unreleased.

Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped) was #43 on the Streaming Album Chart this week, its first entry. So Streaming did the heavy lifting for the album this week. I would imagine it will add 2-3K each year, so it will be a long road to silver. But I’m sure there will be a new vinyl out next year, as they’ll want the version with XMAS everywhere.

Obviously we can’t know for sure, but I think XMAS will do better in the long run than the Sam/Tom tracks, mainly because it’s now a former Christmas #1, which should put it in a more favourable position for Christmas playlists, but we won’t know for another year. What a ride it’s been!

Is it not just the case that Sam and Tom had Christmas Day streams included, which is the biggest streaming day and Kylie had estimated streams for yesterday, based on the lower streams during the week. Has it ever been confirmed that Amazon Streams are included for Thursday’s?

Merry X.M.A.S. Everyone! To my amazement my family were talking about Kylie being Christmas #1 and my niece loves the X.M.A.S. dance, so maybe this song has caught on more than I thought!

Exactly, whatever happens this week it doesn’t really matter. She got Christmas #1 which was beyond most fans wildest dreams. XMAS will still be top 3 regardless.