Official Singles Chart on 22/12/2017

I actually agree with quite a lot of these, but there are some that I'd change. I'd put 'Fairytale of New York' at the top with a higher score, 'Santa Tell Me' would be a lot lower down, as would 'All I Want For Christmas Is You'. I'd keep 'Last Christmas' in the same place, though.

Fair enough! this list was actually really helpful for my Christmas chart although I did switch a couple of them for it. have you checked that out yet? ill go over now to see if you have! :D

I'll go check it out now! :D

Good review as usual mate! :D
I was definitely one of those people who would've preferred 'Last Christmas' at #1 than 'Perfect', but I like the latter a lot too as you know. How do you think Christmas songs are going to be performing this time next year? I think very similarly, although 'Last Christmas' might be a little lower unfortunately.
Regarding the same Christmas songs in the Top 40 as last week, I believe that Spotify playlists are responsible for this, as the Christmas playlists don't really change & people just keep on streaming the same songs. It seems like the festive spirit peaked early for British music fans in general.
I'm surprised that we don't have more Christmas songs charting lower down the chart as well as in the Top 40. 'Perfect' will probably remain at #1 going into 2018, but I still think 'River' is a contender afterwards.

well, I think things will be similar next year, but of course it depends on who releases a single just in time to become Christmas #1, like the Perfect remixes and River this year. but I presume others will see what Ed has done and try and emulate his success next year, unless rules are changed of course.

True. If the Beyoncé duet of 'Perfect' never happened, 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' would've been #1 last week... that's incredible now that I think about it!
Sorry I need to sign off so soon, but I'll be back again tomorrow! Have a good evening. :)

yeah that'd have been cool if AIWFCIY had been #1 for the first time! :)
alright speak to you tomorrow!

Ed started the year at #1 and #2 on the singles chart, and now he's ending the year at #1 and #2 on the singles chart. It really has been an incredible year for him.
It's cool to see 'Last Christmas' as the highest charting Christmas song of the week, even if my personal favourite Christmas song is 'Fairytale of New York'.
I absolutely love seeing 'Let You Down' hit the Top 10. It's one of my favourite tracks of the year, and I thought that it might stall at #11, so I'm really happy for it!
Kind of weird to see more Christmas songs in the chart last week than this week though. Some may enter next week though, as that chart includes Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, where Christmas songs will undoubtedly absolutely take over Spotify.
I love seeing '÷' selling over 100,000 for a 6th week, and 'Revival' debuting straight in at #1.
My '+' review: http://disq.us/p/1orwx78
My latest CrownNote chart: https://crownnote.com/charts/gameskiller01/15th-december-2017-21st-december-2017

yeah, I agree that it was weird and a bit annoying to see not very many Christmas songs in the top 40 this week. and as I was telling Piran, this is literally the worst day for a Christmas chart, as the days for Christmas songs taking over Spotify haven't quite hit yet, but wont have enough of an effect next week either as theres three more days for them to drop. so its disappointing. :/
anyway, I'm about to post my ranking of every Christmas song in the top 100 so I hope you can check that out! speak to you soon! :D

Hey Piran! tbh I was quite disappointed with the charts today, as no Christmas song re-entered into the top 40 that wasn't there already. there may be more next week, but I doubt it as over half the week will be after Christmas so they'll have time to drop down.
River has grown on me a bit this week, but its still not his best. and I haven't really heard revival yet so I don't really know any others, and I think I missed that one at #19 when the charts were on. I'm gonna do a review in a sec so I hope you can check that out! :D

Yeah, I wish there was a bit more movement in the charts in general, as was only one song re-entering the Top 40 ('Walk On Water').
Haha, yeah, I prefer it when Greg announced 40-26 & then played the Top 25 in full.
'River' is certainly one of the better tracks from 'Revival' to be honest, but I really don't think his album is as bad as many critics are making it out to be.
Are you going to upload a new chart tonight? As usual, my next one will be up on Sunday.
I'll check out your review shortly, but it might have to be tomorrow as I won't be on Disqus for very long tonight.

yeah, the charts were quite boring tbh, although the 22nd is pretty much the worst day for a Christmas chart, as its before the Christmas songs get binge-streamed then the 29th is too late for them to do well too as its four days after Christmas.
I'm not sure which way I preferred it tbh, but I guess they changed it as there were some songs they didn't have clean copies of available. I don't mind it this way, as long as they actually do what theyre meant to, and skip fallers and old songs, and play climbers and new ones. for me, playing New Rules today (which was down 6) and skipping loads of Christmas songs was outrageous, this is exactly what they shouldn't do with this system. I kinda get it if its gonna be its last week on the chart, but given all the festive songs will drop out soon, it should stay on longer.
yeah, ill have a chart up tonight if I can, hopefully not too late, maybe 8/9. hope you can check it out! :)

Yeah, the charts will probably be reasonably stationary next week too, as Christmas songs will be streamed for the next three days & then like you said, they just collapse in performance for the next four days.
Another thing I don't like about the new system is that the host can choose what they want to play, whereas they had to play every song in the Top 25 previously, hence there couldn't be bias.
I don't think I'll be on longer than another 10 minutes tonight, but I'll leave a comment there tomorrow!
I'm also now about to check out your review of the actual chart! ;)

It's cool to see 'Perfect' get an 3rd week at #1 and to get the Christmas #1, but I would've much preferred to see 'River' get there instead. It's still holding strong at #1 on Spotify and iTunes though, so I have hope for it in the coming weeks! It'll also be really interesting on Monday when http://www.mediatraffic.de/ updates its UK section to see just how far ahead of 'River' 'Perfect' was, and to see whether it was a close race or whether 'Perfect' had a huge lead.

EDIT: On the Spotify chart for 22/12/2017, 'River' loses its crown and drops 2 places to #3. It didn't really lose all that many streams though, it's just that 'Last Christmas' (#1) and 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' (#2) are starting their in the run-up to Christmas. The only other non-Christmas song in the Top 10 is 'rockstar' (#8).

I'm also ecstatic to see 'Let You Down' reach the Top 10, and hopefully climb in the coming weeks as the Christmas songs drop out of the chart. Good to see 'Barking' climb so much as well; the track has really grown on me over the past week.

I don't really know why 'In Your Head' charted so high either. It's one of the weaker songs from the album and it never really got that high on either Spotify or iTunes. 'Believe' seemed to do better on streams than 'In Your Head', so I'm surprised that it didn't make a debut.

Both 'Revival' and '÷' sold over 100,000 this week, which is pretty huge. This also brings '÷'s total to well over 2.6m, and it just needs around 70,000 more sales before the end of 2017 to end the year with over 2.7m sales, the highest total since Adele's '21' sold just under 3.8m in 2011.

Great to see 'Revival' sell so well in its first week and to become the 2nd fastest selling album of the year, selling even more than I predicted! This week also marks a couple of other landmarks in the album chart, as it's 'x's 175th week inside the album chart Top 40, and its 183rd consecutive week inside the Top 75, further extending its lead as the longest consecutive run in the albums chart Top 75. It's also '+'s 300th week inside the albums chart Top 100 this week, which means that '+' has spent just 28 weeks outside of the region since its release!

Ed Sheeran's got another record to add to his list today as well, as 'Thinking Out Loud' passes 1 billion streams and joins 'Shape of You' in the exclusive club. This marks the first time that an artist has 2 songs that have passed the landmark. Also on Spotify, 'Save Myself' passes 'Bibia Be Ye Ye' again, and is now a mere 10,000 streams ahead of it. All songs on '÷' have also passed 90m streams now, and 'Eraser' may manage to pass 100m before the end of the year as it's at 97.1m now.

Seeing the Top 100 songs of the year will be very interesting. I've got no doubt that 'Shape of You' will be 1st and 'Despacito' will be 2nd, and I think that 'Castle on the Hill', 'Galway Girl' and 'Perfect' should all make the Top 10 as well. It'll be cool to see where 'Havana' lands, as the list shouldn't include the 300:1 ratio that sends it down to #13 this week (it would've been either #5 or #6 without it) and it got certified platinum a little while back.

Do you think that any album tracks from '÷' will make the Top 100? 'Happier' and 'New Man' have been doing very well on streams throughout the entire year, but I don't know whether they'll be able to make the Top 100.

My '+' review: http://disq.us/p/1orwx78

My latest CrownNote chart: https://crownnote.com/charts/gameskiller01/15th-december-2017-21st-december-2017

Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year Piran, and a big thank you for your comments !!!

Thanks! I hope you're enjoying the festive season too. :)

Hey Gameskiller! I hope you're having a good weekend. :)
Yeah, I think 'River' will retake the #1 on Spotify by the middle of next week at the very latest, although it'll probably still remain at #2 next week, but there obviously won't be an Official Chart Update tomorrow.
Interestingly, the Top 3 songs on the my personal chart this week are in the exact same order as that of the UK chart!
Regarding the Top 100 songs of the year, 'Shape Of You' will absolutely be at #1, with 'Despacito' at #2. I think 'Castle On The Hill' might have a chance at #3, but 'Unforgettable' & probably 'New Rules' will be very high up & I agree with you that 'Perfect' might make the Top 10 & yeah, 'Galway Girl' might be able to reach the region too.
Here's the link to my new chart: https://crownnote.com/charts/piran-delves/pirans-top-40-56
I'll hopefully be able to check out your '+' review a little bit later. :D
See you soon! ;)