Official Singles Chart on 4/12/2020

Does anybody on here actually try to give answers or is it just teenager-ish arguments about who is best

Can’t understand why lonely this Christmas hasn’t been re-released this year totally apt lyrics for this year !!!

New Taylor Swift album coming tonight... this isn’t even a joke! :D

I read that 'Hand in glove' by the smiths (not the version with Sandie Shaw) reached a peak position of 124. Since only the top 100 is published, how is it possible to verify what I read?

It's time for either Mariah or Wham to get that #1. This is getting so boring and repetitive.

As a mariah fan I still support ACR, without it the charts will be STALEEE

#Mariahfor1

The sales chart is the proper chart!

Billie Eilish is a awful singer.

This chart is bad.

next week is Mariah's turn

No time for tears only at 53😪

congratulations to mariah carey for a 3rd week at number 1 on the singles chart! i can’t believe i’m saying this, but i’ve turned on acr. positions clearly sold less. that, river and sweet but psycho are fake number ones. this is getting ridiculous.

if artists are only allowed 3 songs in the chart how come justin bieber has 5

My hero, my inspiration, my idol Dermot Kennedy has KNOCKED HIMSELF OFF #1 IN IRELAND AND GOT #1 AND #2!!! So so so happy for him

Not even going to start on ACR :/

I am not a fan of midnight sky but fair play to it STILL being in the top 5!

One thing I don’t like about the Christmas songs is it stopped nathan dawe and little mix entering the top 40 :(

I'm happy to see Juice still in the top 100 at 95, legend!

Lil Nas X - Holiday better get top 40 next week

I gaurantee at least one of the Christmas #2s (All I Want, Last or Fairytale) will be #1 this year. First week of Jan, when they all sell most is Positions' first ACR week...
More than one could do it if it drops before the ACR week.

can't find the SCOTTISH charts anywhere this week!! The page just disappeared...

I hope the Business picks up

Hoping to see some juice songs back in next week or the week after

My God i wish i could rewind to 35 years ago and 12:45 p.m. and the chart rundown with Gary D....Without sounding like my dad did to me when he was my age now the charts are dire,the only silver lining are the few half decent Christmas songs...

Michael Buble should be grateful that he was defrosted for the first 10 months of the year, he wouldn't have had to put it up with the absolute mess called 2020

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Positions needs to swap positions with Mariah next week

December is the only time i get excited about the charts, I thin I became a chart part timer in 1998...

The charts have been largely a listening chart for a long time. To make them relevant as a something close to what the sales chart was is to consider what is the equivalent to a sale of a physical record and download of an mp3?

As an example, only allow the first 30 plays by a single user to count as a sale. This would stop the endless plays through time that would never have counted towards anything before in the days of just mp3 or physical record sales.

While I have Spotify, I still listen to most of my old music as mp3s and none of those listens will ever contribute to the charts.

I bet songs like 'Diamonds' by Sam Smith and 'Golden' by Harry Styles will rebound to a higher peak after the Christmas songs have had it's time to chart.

It's so close yet again. It's gotta be this year. Really hope it's number 1 next week.

My thoughts & observations on the UK charts as always...

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Thanks for your interest! Enjoy your evening.

The “Official” part of this chart’s name really needs to be reconsidered! Sorry. :/

AIWFCIY is beating positions in both steaming and sales and yet it was still blocked I will never understand ACR fully

Quite remarkable at least 15 old Christmas songs in the top 40, which are the same ones that make the charts each year. Does people delete them from their systems each January? Which is why they got to buy them again? How else can a single become a hit year after year?

As for something non-festive, here are some throwbacks...

#1: Ed Sheeran - Bloodstream (2014)
#2: Avicii - Wake Me Up (2013)
#3: Icona Pop ft Charli XCX - I Love It (2012)
#4: Pitbull ft Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer - Give Me Everything (2011)
#5: Puff Daddy & Faith Evans ft 112 - I'll Be Missing You (1997)
#6: Katy Perry - Teenage Dream (2010)
#7: Katy Perry - Last Friday Night [T.G.I.F.] (2011)
#8: Ariana Grande ft Mac Miller - The Way (2013)
#9: Mariah Carey ft Miguel - #beautiful (2013)
#10: Bridgit Mendler - Ready Or Not (2012)

Let me know what yours are too! ;)

Okay, but shouldn't All I Want For Christmas Is You be off ACR?

I thought if a song on ACR's streams increased by 20% in a week, it would be taken off of it the next week.

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This is possibly one of the best examples of what the streaming era has done to the charts. Another invasion of old Christmas songs that will last a month long and Mariah Carey an annual Christmas Number 1 unless some forgettable novelty act like LadBaby pips her to the post again.

I'm not interested in the charts being exciting or enjoyable, I just want them to be accurate

How the heck does Mariah both sell & stream more than Ariana, but the former is charting lower than the latter?! >:(

That fall for Giants hurts me

Hardly believe the amazing MARIAH didn't make it to the Top spot!! We have to "endure" the awful new single from Ariana at number 1: her single is so boring!!!

Please, please, do away with ACR, it's just blocking the real #1 and not stopping the Christmas wave at all, accept that it's a failure and let the charts be... https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f93242f6b151b74be03b69812b035f2e72ffadd3bfe9f57b85126cfd7a129317.png

I'm not really annoyed, I really want it to get the Christmas Number 1 instead.

Shame that Get Out My Head dropped

ignore "it" people, Just ignore "it"

HOLIDAY by Lil Nas X is a true Top 40. I refuse to accept it being 41.

Mariah peaks at #2 for a fourth year in a row and a fifth time overall, hopefully she goes one step further this year

WEEKLY CHART REVIEW (04/12/2020 - 10/12/2020)

🔴 (Negative)

1) Serious question… why did ‘Positions’ have to tie ‘Thank U, Next’ as Ariana’s longest running #1 single?! For as much as the title track of her last album has got a surprisingly low replay factor for me, at least that song had some of her most honest & personal writing to date. It doesn’t deserve to lose that honour to something as uninspired as this!

2) What arguably frustrated me even more is that if ‘Positions’ gets just one more week at the #1, it’ll pass ‘Head & Heart’ (one of the most uplifting songs I’ve ever heard, no exaggeration!), as the longest consecutive leader of 2020! It would just to see the latter lose out on that title in the final month of the year to someone who has already seen huge chart success before, but given that ‘Positions’ isn’t going on ACR for at least another month & most of the songs below it are already on permanent ACR, I’m not getting my hopes up.

3) While we’re on the topic of ACR… this is just one of those weeks which highlights just how unrepresentative this chart can be around the festive period! You wouldn’t exactly hear the Premier League say; “So, if a team have been at the top of the league for ten weeks in total & they don’t win three consecutive games, the number of points they have in the table are halved.”. .. so why should OCC be applying an incredibly similar rule on songs in the charts? It’s been proven time & time again to be ineffective (look at the longevity for ‘Blinding Lights’, ‘Dance Monkey’, ‘Perfect’, even ‘Mr Brightside’!) & it’s about time the rule was dropped now, knowing that we’ll never get another ‘÷’ scenario again, nor anything even coming close to it!

4) Christmas Songs: ‘Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree’ by Justin Bieber. The only saving grace for this being here is that the original version is charting higher than it!

🟠 (Mixed)

1) I remember that ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ would always re-enter the Top 40 in the first week of December when I first started to listen to Radio 1’s chart show, so to see it in the runner-up position already is truly promising! However, I can’t call this a positive point just yet, because arguably the most iconic Christmas song of all-time doesn’t deserve to peak at #2 for the fifth year in the total (& fourth consecutive); it deserves to go all the way to the top! It seems promising that it could get there next week though, as long as we don’t get another ‘River’ mishap here.

2) ‘34+35’ somehow found its way back into the Top 10! I’m not particularly sure why outside of maybe the official video, but hey, at least it’s a better single than its predecessor.

3) Speaking of Ariana, ‘Santa Tell Me’ replaced ‘POV’ as her third charting entry… so that’s one awesome tune knocking out another awesome tune!
Gary Barlow took the #1 on the albums chart! I don’t mind his solo work, but he was better as part of Take That & I just would’ve been more satisfied seeing Steps or Miley Cyrus take it instead.

4) Christmas Songs: ‘It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas’, ‘I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday’, ‘Driving Home For Christmas’, ‘This Christmas’, ‘All You’re Dreaming Of’, ‘It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year’, ‘Holly Jolly Christmas’, ‘Happy Xmas [War Is Over]’ & ‘Jingle Bell Rock’.

🟢 (Positive)

1) ‘Dynamite’ stayed in the Top 40 thanks to it coming off ACR this past week! I expect it to drop out of the chart entirely later this month though.

2) Christmas Songs: ‘Last Christmas’, ‘Fairytale Of New York’, ‘Merry Christmas Everyone’, ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’, ‘Santa Tell Me’, ‘Step Into Christmas’, ‘Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree’ by Brenda Lee, ‘Underneath The Tree’ (new peak!), ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’, ‘One More Sleep’ & ‘Wonderful Christmastime’.

Thanks for reading everyone! Have a good weekend. :)

This chart should show the issue with including streams in the chart to anyone. Yes we occasionally got old christmas songs resurrecting themselves during downloads era, but I honestly think we’re getting to the point a release eligibility cut-off should be considered for charts.

It’s meant to represent the biggest music now, yet here we are a few weeks from the end of 2020 and the chart is awash with 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s Christmas songs. It’s utterly insane and it’s understandable why people think modern music is poor when the chart that’s supposed to track sales of music has become one that tracks replay value of music - two completely different things.

Which also comes back to the general whiteness of this year's official chart, perhaps it is actually including youtube streams and spotify and similar streams that is causing this. Back to sales please. Replay value is not the same as good current pop music.

It also must make new artists wonder what the point of releasing anything in December is if it’s going to get swallowed up by streams of ancient songs, which can’t be good for new music overall and might explain Whoopty knocking on Top 10. Absolutely livid at the state of this supposed top 40 that is instead just measuring replay value of christmas songs, it’s as daft as tracking how many times people played a CD when everyone had them.

This issue has been evident with the tik tok problem all year, but it’s really become evident with christmas looming that something needs done.

The way that is compiled needs a complete overhaul and release date caps on re-entries would be a good place to start if you’re going to include streams or even if you’re not.

That's a very high re entry for santa tell me

Guys, don’t blame Ari, blame ACR! :(

Ireland's chart is even more disappointing🤦🏾‍♂️

Dear OCC

Please scrap ACR and three song per artist rule

Thanks

Three weeks until Christmas Day & four weeks until 2021! ❤️

If you're feeling disappointed today, always remember that there's someone out there called Peter File

guys stop streaming Ariana and stream Mariah come on

And once again Mariah gets blocked from 1

Mariah deserved the #1 instead.

We've always got next week though, so there’s still hope! :D

excuse me WTF

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