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WHAM! take Last Christmas to 10th week at Number 1
37 Christmas songs are in the UK Top 40 today - a record-equalling feat.
By George Griffiths
WHAM! remain strong at Number 1 with Last Christmas, celebrating the song’s 10th total week at the top of the Official Singles Chart.
Last week, George Michael & Andrew Ridgeley’s pensive Christmas classic became the first song to ever spend two consecutive years as the UK’s Official Christmas Number 1 single. This week it reaches its tenth non-consecutive week at Number 1, having first managed to reach the top of the Official Singles Chart on 1st January 2021.
WHAM!’s perennial festive rival, Mariah Carey, jumps up to Number 2 with All I Want For Christmas Is You, which celebrates its 30th anniversary year.
Tom Grennan may have missed out on Number 1, but Amazon Music Original It Can’t Be Christmas officially becomes his highest-charting track ever in the UK, moving up to Number 3.
Christmas songs dominate the entire UK Top 10 today, other tracks rising include; Brenda Lee’s Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree (4), Bobby Helms’ Jingle Bell Rock (5), The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl’s Fairytale of New York (6), Kelly Clarkson’s Underneath The Tree reaches a new peak (7), Ariana Grande’s Santa Tell Me (8), Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas? (9) and Elton John’s Step Into Christmas (10).
Icelandic-Chinese jazz star Laufey is quickly becoming a festive sensation in the UK, with a trio of tracks in the Top 40 today; Christmas Magic (13), Winter Wonderland (27) and Santa Baby (35).
Other festive tracks jumping week-on-week in the Top 20 are; Andy Williams’s It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (11), Michael Bublé’s It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas (14), The Ronnete’s Sleigh Ride (15), Paul McCartney’s Wonderful Christmastime (16), José Feliciano’s Feliz Navidad (17), Chris Rea’s Driving Home for Christmas (19) and Dean Martin’s Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
In total, this week’s Top 40 features 37 Christmas songs – matching last year’s record-breaking total.
The three non-Christmas songs that have held on to a place in the Top 40 are Gracie Abrams’ chart-topping That’s So True (21), APT. by ROSÉ and Bruno Mars (28) and Lola Young’s breakout hit Messy (33).
The remaining Christmas songs rising up the Top 40 are; Wizzard’s I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (22), Michael Bublé’s Holly Jolly Christmas (23), John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (24), Slade’s Merry Xmas Everybody (26), Ed Sheeran & Elton John’s Merry Christmas (29), Darlene Love’s Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) (30), Mark Ambor’s Run Rudolph Run (31), Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song (33), Leona Lewis’s One More Sleep (34), Justin Bieber’s Mistletoe (36), John Williams’s Carol of the Bells (37), Kesha’s Holiday Road (38), Cher’s DJ Play A Christmas Song (39) and Perry Como’s It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas (40).
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jaded
genuinely confused why this week's chart isn't the christmas number 1 chart? it includes the week of christmas and boxing day. it makes the most sense?
Velvet Android
Because the chart announced today wasn't the current chart on Christmas Day. Last weekend's chart was.
We don't get a new chart published every single day, to give us a constant 'live' Top 100, do we?
So the current chart for any given day isn't what sold the most ON that day. It's whatever was announced/published the previous Friday (or previous Sunday, as it used to be until recently), telling us what sold the most during the last week. It stays current until it's superseded by the next Friday's one.
By the same token, the Christmas Number One is whatever sits top of the last published chart before the day comes around.
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Musician2002
Yes, as Velvet Android says, its always the chart preceding Christmas Day (meaning the song is N1 on Christmas Day itself), not the following one (that one is the last/final chart of a calendar year, unless it falls on Christmas Day itself, which makes its Christmas chart-topper and end of year/last chart)
However, I wouldn't mind the Official Charts explaining something, by the logic above which the charts do use to define Christmas N1s, based on research done earlier this year, Cliff Richards first Christmas chart-topper and the subsequent year hit (1960 and 1961) I Love You, and Moon River are incorrect. How come these hits are regarded as christmas N1s, when they are not top of charts in the week covering christmas ?
Piran
Happy that Darlene Love and Cher returned to the Top 40!
Looking forward to seeing nearly everything as a re-entry next week lol.