charts discussion UK Mid: Xmas takes up top 25, Little Mix #26

[Fitzswiftie]

 

Official Singles/Albums Chart Update Top 100
Source: OCC
Missing Data: unknown

Top 100 Singles

1 Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You
2 Wham! - Last Christmas
3 Jess Glynne - This Christmas
4 Justin Bieber - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
5 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York

6-10

6 Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone
7 Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?
8 Elton John - Step Into Christmas
9 Michael Bublé - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
10 Chris Rea - Driving Home for Christmas

11-20

11 Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
12 Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody
13 Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me
14 Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree
15 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
16 John Lennon, Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
17 Leona Lewis - One More Sleep
18 Michael Bublé - Holly Jolly Christmas
19 Andy Williams - It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
20 Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime

21-30
21 Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock
22 Justin Bieber - Mistletoe
23 Kylie Minogue - Santa Baby
24 Coldplay - Christmas Lights
25 The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride

26 Little Mix - Sweet Melody
27 Dean Martin - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
28 Katy Perry - Cozy Little Christmas ^
29 Ed Sheeran - Afterglow
30 José Feliciano - Feliz Navidad *

31-40
32 Brett Eldredge feat. Meghan Trainor - Baby, It's Cold Outside *
33 Idina Menzel & Michael Bublé - Baby, It's Cold Outside ^
34 Bing Crosby - White Christmas ^
35 Sam Smith - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas *
36 Liam Payne & Dixie D'Amelio - Naughty List *
37 Jamie Cullum - In the Bleak Midwinter *
38 Griff - Love is a Compass *
39 Sia - Santa's Coming for Us ^

[Azulito]

This is obviously gonna change but looks like Positions got affected by ACR  

[Brando]

Didn't Xmas finish like at the start of tracking week? The UK is something else

[ChrisTheLoner]

They’re worse than Billboard when it comes to Christmas music clogging the charts 

[BGood2Me]

8 minutes ago, Brando said:

Didn't Xmas finish like at the start of tracking week? The UK is something else

Yeah, I don't understand this chart 

[Tinashegrande6]

10 minutes ago, Brando said:

Didn't Xmas finish like at the start of tracking week? The UK is something else

They've all dropped on Spotify now, but I can imagine people celebrated Christmas for the whole of the long weekend 

[Kiall]

Some christmas songs got more than 2 million streams on Spotify in the 25 alone (and a lot more than or almost 1 million), in the 26 some of then were still charting very high. The N.1 on Spotify right now is getting 200k streams Daily... that's why christmas songs are still so high, because with the streams from the 25 alone is enough for a lot of christmas songs to chart for the whole week and for Mariah, Wham! or Jess Glyne to be N.1.

Edited December 29, 2020 by Kiall

[Brando]

4 minutes ago, Kiall said:

Some christmas songs got more than 2 million streams on Spotify in the 25 alone (and a lot more than or almost 1 million), in the 26 some of then were still charting very high. The N.1 on Spotify right now is getting 200k streams Daily... that's why christmas songs are still so high, because with the streams from the 25 alone is enough for a lot of christmas songs to chart for the whole week and for Mariah, Wham! or Jess Glyne to be N.1.

Jesus

[Kyoto]

So the UK celebrates Xmas for 2 whole months?

 

[The Slayer]

COME ON LITTLE MIX SECURE THAT NO.1 

[alfonso12]

So Little Mix would've been #1 if it wasn't for christmas? I would've been pressed af if I was them.

[DearSociety13]

Will Shawn & Camila's Christmas song debut on the UK charts?

[Lovett]

 Little Mix continuing to smash.

[wehavetostan]

I hope Sweet Melody rises to number 1 next week

[J Legend X]

The UK and the obsession with this song... Wham! - Last Christmas

[josesuxx]

22 minutes ago, J Legend X said:

The UK and the obsession with this song... Wham! - Last Christmas

It's the best Xmas song of all time after all 

[Michael196]

When I tell you I’M FUMING

I F*CKING MEAN IT 

if only it can survive ACR somehow next week and hold up, and get that #1 

[myles]

3 hours ago, Brando said:

Didn't Xmas finish like at the start of tracking week? The UK is something else

 

2 hours ago, Kyoto said:

So the UK celebrates Xmas for 2 whole months?

 

 

3 hours ago, BGood2Me said:

Yeah, I don't understand this chart 

sweeties... the first day of this tracking week was literally Xmas day?  

 

[Brando]

Just now, myles said:

 

 

sweeties... the first day of this tracking week was literally Xmas day?  

 

And that 1 day was enough for a #1 

[myles]

Just now, Brando said:

And that 1 day was enough for a #1 

yes sir. i think xmas day is the absolute biggest single day streams of the whole year usually?

we also have a second bank holiday the day after Xmas on 26th which the USA doesn't have 

 

 

by friday, the chart will be way more diluted though

this is just a snapshot of the actual figures so far for the first 3 days or so

[Kyoto]

9 minutes ago, myles said:

 

 

sweeties... the first day of this tracking week was literally Xmas day?  

 

And this was exact my point. They started celebrating Xmas in November and they are still going strong.

[Brando]

1 hour ago, myles said:

yes sir. i think xmas day is the absolute biggest single day streams of the whole year usually?

we also have a second bank holiday the day after Xmas on 26th which the USA doesn't have 

 

 

by friday, the chart will be way more diluted though

this is just a snapshot of the actual figures so far for the first 3 days or so

Mariah had the record breaking xmas day figures in the US too (17m+), but she'll only chart at #8 next week. But in the UK she'll be #1 from Xmas day (and Boxing Day if you wanna add that). Not to mention that the UK chart also handicaps her by 50% due to chart rule and she'll still be #1, so yea.....  

[alestevens]

6 minutes ago, Brando said:

Mariah had the record breaking xmas day figures in the US too (17m+), but she'll only chart at #8 next week. But in the UK she'll be #1 from Xmas day (and Boxing Day if you wanna add that). Not to mention that the UK chart also handicaps her by 50% due to chart rule and she'll still be #1, so yea.....  

The chart rule doesnt affect Mariah because she hasnt been dropping. You need to fall 3 weeks in a row before the rule affects you

 

BTW i see Bublé is at #1 on the album midweek so far with Taylor at #2. I'd love to know how much units each one is getting

 

 

[Lovett]

46 minutes ago, alestevens said:

The chart rule doesnt affect Mariah because she hasnt been dropping. You need to fall 3 weeks in a row before the rule affects you

 

BTW i see Bublé is at #1 on the album midweek so far with Taylor at #2. I'd love to know how much units each one is getting

You're thinking of a different chart rule. AIWFCIY is literally capped at 50% of its charting points, due to its age. Which is why it's struggled to hit #1 until this year. The UK has some bizarre AF charting rules.

[Popboi.]

1 hour ago, alestevens said:

The chart rule doesnt affect Mariah because she hasnt been dropping. You need to fall 3 weeks in a row before the rule affects you

 

BTW i see Bublé is at #1 on the album midweek so far with Taylor at #2. I'd love to know how much units each one is getting

 

 

Any song over 3 years old is hit by the rule, permanently and irreversibly regardless of dropping/rising. AIWFCIY is capped at 50%.