2023 Christmas No.1

Indeed- surely a lot will be drunken, past 12am plays.

I know one of the kids at our Christmas said “Alexa, play Christmas songs” on Boxing Day and everyone screamed in horror until it was gone :D
 
Presumably unless Amazon are forcing Sam into every non-festive playlist now, Wham! must have it in the bag.
 
Is that 4 weeks it's had now?

Let's hope the OCC have (a) noticed, and (b) give a shit.
 
Just three non-Christmas songs in the top 40 (and only ten in the top 75).
 
I would have liked Sam get #1, but let's be honest, the song isn't as popular as Space Man. The way it managed to maintain #2, with 84K+ sales in one week, seems a bit scammery. People still mention the chart-fixing controversy surrounding 'River' in 2019.
 
Have I missed the reason why Abba Gold has climbed back as high as #5? The last time it was that high was the Voyage announcement, the week the two singles charted.

I don't think there has been anything on TV except a repeat of a Channel 5 cheap documentary. Were HMV practically giving it away?
 
James Masterton has provided a deservedly disparaging Chart Watch

Perhaps most interesting is THIS:

New year is always the time when I break my own rule against what-ifs and fantasy charts. Time to wonder out loud what the Top 10 might look like without any Christmas hits at all. This week's festive-free chart (with actual chart positions noted in brackets would in that case look like this:

1) Stick Season - Noah Kahan (9)
2) Lovin On Me - Jack Harlow (27)
3) Greedy - Tate McRae (37)
4) Houdini - Dua Lipa (52)
5) DNA (Loving You) - Billy Gillies featuring Hannah Boleyn (55)
6) Is It Over Now (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift (61)
7) Rich Baby Daddy - Drake featuring Sexyy Red & SZA (65)
8) Entrapreneur - Central Cee (71)
9) Prada - Casso/Raye/D-Block Europe) (73)
10) LeaveMeAlone - Fred Again & Baby Keem (75)

Keep your eyes peeled for where they end up next time, while at the same time noting the record number of Christmas singles in the Top 10 (9) and in the Top 40 (37). Remember too, there's a wild card that as of today (29th) the general public don't yet know about. There's a big name comeback scheduled for a surprise New Years' Day release which may well lob a hand grenade into everyone else's well-laid plans.
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01 96,653 Wham! - Last Christmas [494 CDs, 714 vinyl, 1,394 downloads, 94,051 streaming] [SCR: 190,704]
02 86,211 Sam Ryder - You're Christmas to Me [2,948 downloads]
03 83,175 Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You
04 76,694 Ed Sheeran & Elton John - Merry Christmas
05 72,456 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
06 64,042 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York
07 58,260 Michael Bublé - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
08 56,851 Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me [total: 1,970,835]
09 54,674 Andy Williams - It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
10 53,151 Noah Kahan - Stick Season

13 51,817 Dean Martin - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
16 45,958 Jorja Smith - Stay Another Day
18 45,028 Cher - DJ Play a Christmas Song
20 42,895 The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride
26 37,536 Laufey - Winter Wonderland
31 33,690 Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
34 30,960 Nat "King" Cole - The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You)
40 20,834 Burl Ives - A Holly Jolly Christmas

43 19,206 The Beach Boys - Little Saint Nick
44 17,677 Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby
48 16,757 Meghan Trainor - Jingle Bells
57 14,463 Stevie Wonder - What Christmas Means to Me
58 14,423 Mariah Carey - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
59 14,272 Britney Spears - My Only Wish (This Year)
60 14,048 Frank Sinatra - Jingle Bells
63 13,938 Donny Hathaway - This Christmas
67 13,169 Roberta Flack - Deck the Halls
71 12,608 Central Cee - Entrapreneur
72 12,489 John Williams - Carol of the Bells
74 11,677 Dean Martin - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
 
Now I love Roberta Flack a LOT, but her getting a top 75 hit in 2023 with a Christmas song that NOBODY could name in a pub quiz tells us everything we need to know about streaming playlists
 
Santa Tell Me being a TWO MILLION “SELLING” SINGLE is more ridiculous to my eyes.

MAKE THIS MADNESS END!
 
07 58,260 Michael Bublé - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
09 54,674 Andy Williams - It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
13 51,817 Dean Martin - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
34 30,960 Nat "King" Cole - The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You)
40 20,834 Burl Ives - A Holly Jolly Christmas
43 19,206 The Beach Boys - Little Saint Nick
48 16,757 Meghan Trainor - Jingle Bells
58 14,423 Mariah Carey - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
60 14,048 Frank Sinatra - Jingle Bells
67 13,169 Roberta Flack - Deck the Halls
74 11,677 Dean Martin - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

I'm sorry, but Slade and Wizzard not featuring AT ALL in a chart which contains this lot is just unacceptable.
 
I Gave You My Tart said:
07 58,260 Michael Bublé - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
09 54,674 Andy Williams - It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
13 51,817 Dean Martin - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
34 30,960 Nat "King" Cole - The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You)
40 20,834 Burl Ives - A Holly Jolly Christmas
43 19,206 The Beach Boys - Little Saint Nick
48 16,757 Meghan Trainor - Jingle Bells
58 14,423 Mariah Carey - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
60 14,048 Frank Sinatra - Jingle Bells
67 13,169 Roberta Flack - Deck the Halls
74 11,677 Dean Martin - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

I'm sorry, but Slade and Wizzard not featuring AT ALL in a chart which contains this lot is just unacceptable.
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Wizzard are 25 and Slade 32 but I agree fuck the playlists.

Also if we must have this every year can they please not wait for her to die and bump Darlene up a bit.
 
FetchFugly said:
Wizzard are 25 and Slade 32 but I agree fuck the playlists.

Also if we must have this every year can they please not wait for her to die and bump Darlene up a bit.
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Can they not use All Alone On Christmas as well? That's a fucking BANGER.

And can Kate Bush PLEASE put December Will Be Magic Again on streaming?
 
Slade isn't even on that main Spotify one hundred track playlist at all. Arguably the most enduring British Christmas song of all time, and well into this millennium still being voted 'Best Christmas Song Of All Time'.
 
How is that Ed Sheeran and Elton song in the top five? I don’t think I have ever heard it and I wouldn’t expect it to be a classic…is it on SCR instead maybe?
 
Devil said:
How is that Ed Sheeran and Elton song in the top five? I don’t think I have ever heard it and I wouldn’t expect it to be a classic…is it on SCR instead maybe?
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Chart rules state

a track within the top 100 on ACR and which is within 3 years of release can automatically return to SCR if its streams total increases by 25 percentage points greater than the streaming market change week on week.

So seemingly it will have got an automatic reset.

As this is its third chart year, I thought it would be the last year of it on SCR, but reading the rule, presumably as it was released on 03/12/2021, it will get reset to SCR automatically when it starts outperforming the market in November next year when the Christmas effect kicks in, but then hopefully ACR will kick in at the start of December, and it doesn't maintain SCR for the whole of its run.

It was only #21 on the streaming chart this week (which just counts total streams) which is probably a far better indicator of where it would have ended up if it was on ACR already.
 
...and Step Into Christmas was #13 on streaming alone but #17 in the overall chart, so next year we really should see that restored to Elton John's highest ranking Christmas single, which will please @Funky at least. The overall #4 placing of Merry Christmas really does flatter to deceive.
 
I was all geared up to hate it, but I do think it's a great little Christmas song and I've willingly played it / had it on my playlists these past few Decembers. SORRY
 
Finn said:
I was all geared up to hate it, but I do think it's a great little Christmas song and I've willingly played it / had it on my playlists these past few Decembers. SORRY
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Yeah I don't dislike it. Like is probably too strong, though. I think it will endure better than Sam Ryder.
 
I think I’ve just spotted some faint Ed Sheeran praise in this thread and I’m just alerting everyone to the fact that I’ve registered a complaint and will report back anon. Nobody panic just yet.
 
A Lolly Dolly Christmas said:
Chart rules state

a track within the top 100 on ACR and which is within 3 years of release can automatically return to SCR if its streams total increases by 25 percentage points greater than the streaming market change week on week.

So seemingly it will have got an automatic reset.

As this is its third chart year, I thought it would be the last year of it on SCR, but reading the rule, presumably as it was released on 03/12/2021, it will get reset to SCR automatically when it starts outperforming the market in November next year when the Christmas effect kicks in, but then hopefully ACR will kick in at the start of December, and it doesn't maintain SCR for the whole of its run.

It was only #21 on the streaming chart this week (which just counts total streams) which is probably a far better indicator of where it would have ended up if it was on ACR already.
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Won’t it be 2025?

I don’t know if it’ll suddenly go on ACR when it’ll be reset again in December before it’s 3 year release date.
 
So how does next week work then if anyone knows? I read something about the week we are in now all songs can’t get auto reset due to Christmas but from next week they can but that seems a bit weird, if fair enough as all non Christmas songs will naturally get a reset otherwise.

Or even Cruel Summer will be interesting…it’s over three years old, but it got sent back to ACR in December so I assume it won’t get reset even if many do next week? But maybe because the label got it reset in late summer it now works like a ‘current’ song?

It is so confusing! Our Soph for #1 please :disco:
 
A track older than 3 years can automatically reset to SCR if that track has not charted in the Top 100 Official Singles Chart within the past 3 years (excluding any track with a Christmas genre) and if its streams total increases by 25 percentage points greater than the streaming market change week on week.

Shouldn't that mean SEB gets reset? Although the word 'can' rather than 'will' automatically reset worries me a little.
 
It’s going to be a hot mess of a chart but at least it’s more interesting than the past six weeks.
 
Looks like the big name New Year's Day comeback is Lewis Capaldi. Unless there's more than one...

 
Oh. 'Comeback' is a bit dramatic given that his album came out in, what, May? But I guess he was officially away.
 
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