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Mariah Carey makes glittering return to Number 1 with All I Want For Christmas Is You
The Queen of Christmas cometh.
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Mariah Carey makes a glittering return to Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart with All I Want For Christmas Is You.
Ending Taylor Swift’s six-week long reign at the top of the Official Singles Chart with Anti-Hero, Mariah reaches the summit notching up 10.8 million streams over the past seven days.
This is All I Want For Christmas Is You’s second stint at Number 1 in the UK, having first reached the top in 2020, 26 years after its release. See Mariah’s Official Charts history in full here.
Watch Mariah Carey accept her Number 1 Award for All I Want For Christmas Is You in 2020:
Meanwhile, there’s fantastic news for Raye today who, following her move from major label to a newly independent artist, earns a career-best peak with Escapism. feat. 070 Shake, up four places to Number 2 - more on that here.
While the undeniable Queen of Christmas may rule supreme this week, we also see four more Christmas songs land in the Official Top 10; Wham! with Last Christmas (3), Ed Sheeran & Elton John’s Merry Christmas (4), Brenda Lee’s Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree (6) and Michael Bublé with It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas (10).
Stormzy’s tender ballad Firebabe (9) cracks the Top 10 for the first time, up two places following the Number 1 debut of his third studio album, This Is What I Mean, last week.
Outside the Top 10, American producer Metro Boomin lands two Top 40 debuts today following the release of new album Heroes & Villains; Creepin’ ft. The Weeknd and 21 Savage (13), and Superhero (Heroes & Villains) with Future and Chris Brown (39).
Lewis Capaldi’s new single Pointless (co-written with Ed Sheeran) is another new entry at Number 20.
Watch Lewis Capaldi perform his new single Pointless to unsuspecting London commuters:
@officialukcharts Lewis Capaldi surprises commuters at London's St Pancras International with an inpromptu performance of his brand-new single #Pointless 😱😍 @Lewis Capaldi's second single from his #BrokenByDesireToBeHeavenlySent album is released December 2, and was co-written with Ed Sheeean (@edsheeran) ❤️ Could it be a contender for this year's Christmas Number 1? 👀🎄 #LewisCapaldi ♬ original sound - Official Charts
As is to be expected at this time of year, we see a grand total of 24 Christmas classics – both new and old – flood into the wider Top 40 today.
Shakin’ Stevens moves up fourteen with Merry Christmas Everyone (12), The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl jump 16 with Fairytale of New York (14), Ariana Grande’s Santa Tell Me sashays back into the Top 20 (16) as does Kelly Clarkson’s extravagant Underneath The Tree (17).
Also present this week are: Band Aid - Do They Know It’s Christmas? (18), Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock (19), Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas (21), Andy Williams - It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (22), Elton John - Step Into Christmas (24), Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (28), Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime (30), Lizzo - Someday At Christmas (31), Michael Bublé - Holly Jolly Christmas (32), Dean Martin - Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow (33), Leona Lewis - One More Sleep (34), The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride (35), Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody (36), John Lennon & Yoko Ono – Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (38) and finally, Jose Feliciano - Feliz Navidad (40).
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thierry henon
So happy to see some of my favorite Xmas song back already inside the Top 10 this week: BRENDA LEE being after Mariahm my second Xmas favorite EVER!! then ELTON...but surprised not to see THE POGUES making the Top 10 already...
thierry henon
OMG! i cannot believe what i am seeing!! the queen of Xmas already at number 1!! So happy for Mariah....but hope to see RAYE claiming her 1st number 1 single next week....She so deserves it..ESCAPISM is just sublime!! Love that girl..so talented
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husk
So that Ed Sheeran and Elton John song is now added to the list of songs that come back every year? I did not see that coming tbh
Michael Jenkins
Definitely not surprising..she’s the queen of Christmas.
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Roland
Sorry but it's high time we had some new festive songs. There's no longer any originality in the songs constantly being re-released.
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Vikingman
Whatever happened to Greg Lake I believe in Father Christmas, great tune but never enough streams.
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Roland
I heard that yesterday and thought the same 😁
Andii
Beautiful song, but just not well known enough it seems.
Alfred Lock
I have officially learned that Ladbaby is officially releasing a 5th sausage roll themed song based around Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas? If England don't win the World Cup then Three Lions will not stop him and that's the Xmas no. 1 chapter closed.Forget the rest.
Andii
I really wish they would just go away. No-one needs yet another song written by someone with the mental age of a five year old, who thinks it's funny to replace the words in a song with "sausage rolls". The Teletubbies song in 1997 had more intelligence.
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Atrin
Thank God. If it weren't for ACR rules fudging up the charts then that grating Anti-Hero song would have already been kicked out sooner than this.
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Jovian
Phenomenal for Raye, although a shame that she couldn't sneak a week at #1 before the total Xmas takeover...obviously Escapism will fall next week but hopefully can maintain momentum for another few weeks and secure #1 on 6th Jan.
Blank
I'm not so sure it is obvious. The Christmas songs have had early peaks in previous years.
Blank
Actually, having looked it up. AIWFCIY has fallen in or before Christmas week every year for the last 4 years. It's quite possible for Raye to be Christmas #1.
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Vikingman
God help us!
Piran
Not gonna lie, I feel a bit bad for all the upcoming artists around this time of year! 😔
With this many Christmas songs in the chart at the same time, it makes it way more difficult than normal for a lot of rising stars to get their first charting opportunity, which is already a tough enough task for them anyway. :/
Hoping to see a lot of new names break through & take over the charts in 2023!
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Vikingman
Make sense for them to release their new material in the new year when the Christmas songs have disappeared and low sales can get higher chart positions. Any artist releasing anything this time of the year surely knows the consequences.
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Tim Russell
it's only for a few weeks... they will all climb up the charts in January
Piran
True, but it may take a while after release for them to get recognition & it doesn’t change the fact that the charts aren’t all that interesting to follow in December outside of maybe the Christmas chart. 🤔
Piran
That’s the only thing I’m excited for in January! 😅