16 43 Wham! - Last Christmas (125wks) (1984)
17 38 Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You (134wks) (1994)
34 76 Brenda Lee - Rockin Around the Christmas Tree (75wks) (1958)
46 97 Arianna Grande - Santa Tell Me (44wks) (2014)
48 90 Pogues ft. Kirsty McColl - Fairytale of New York (127wks) (1987)
51 RE Bobby Helm - Jingle Bell Rock (35wks) (1957)
52 RE Kelly Clarkson - Underneath The Christmas Tree (45wks) (2013)
60 RE Shakin Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone (98wks) (1985)
62 RE Andy Williams - It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (60wks)
65 RE Michael Buble - It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas (61wks)
79 RE Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas (106wks) (1984)
82 RE Elton John - Step Into Christmas (64wks) (1974)
69 71 Coldplay - Yellow (42wks) (2000)
90 67 The Killers - Mr Brightside (436wks) (2004)
92 RE Dean Martin - Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow (41wks)
94 79 Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (100wks) (1977)
96 RE Ronettes - Sleigh Ride (31wks) (1963)
OUT:
28 20 One Direction - Night Changes (22wks)
42 36 One Direction - Story of My Life (33wks)
53 54 Disturbed - The Sound of Silence (40wks)
59 68 Goo Goo Dolls - Iris (144wks)
60 53 One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful (81wks)
68 65 Vance Joy - Riptide (156wks)
86 77 NSync - Bye Bye Bye (26wks)
89 100 Adventures of Stevie V - Dirty Cash (21 wks)
91 96 Tom Odell - Another Love (130wks)
93 79 Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere (94wks)
Firstly, are you OK?
Christmas has hit the charts like a named storm. Only Coldplay, Killers and Fleetwood Mac have survived in terms of non seasonal hits. Dreams hits 100 weeks. I doubt we'll see them again until the new year.
Wham chart one place higher than Mariah, which I expect to continue. The Pogues have dropped to fifth place in terms of biggest recurrent Christmas hits behind Brenda and Ariana.
I've added the year of the original release, this week, so you can get a further sense of the age of the song beyond weeks tally, which only tells half the story. Here we see Bobby Helm's "Jingle Bell Rock" is from 1957, which I presume is the oldest song to rechart this year. Although I anticipate Bing Crosby will chart and beat Helms. White Christmas was first recorded in 1942, so that will be 82 years old, compared to Jingle Bells 67 years.
In non seasonal news Dirty Cash drops out but is replaced by a new remix at #44. This is the third version of the song to chart, if you include noted wife beater Dizzee Rascal reworking from 2009.