Ariana Grande's thank u, next charges ahead for this week's Number 1 single after music video release
Ariana Grande could extend her lead at the top of the Official Singles Chart for a fifth week this Friday following the release of the video for thank u, next.
The clip, which broke YouTube and Vevo records as the most viewed video ever in 24 hours, has given a boost to the song's lead over the Top 40, currently 13,500 combined sales ahead of her closest competition.
Trailing Grande is rising star Ava Max, who looks set for another climb this week with her breakthrough hit Sweet Buy Psycho, currently up four places to Number 2. Both are in the running for this year's Official Christmas Number 1 - see the full list of this year's contenders.
Meanwhile, Halsey's Without Me climbs a spot to 3, Jess Glynne's Thursday is at 4, and 6ix9ine leaps 33 rungs to 5 with Kika. Two more songs from the rapper's new album Dummy Boy are on track to enter this week's Top 40, Mamma ft. Nicki Minaj is at 17 and Tic Toc ft. Lil Baby at 32.
New entries and high climbers
With the Christmas season now in full swing, Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You looks set to return to the Top 10, currently up 27 spots to Number 7. Last year the song reached its original 1994 peak at Number 2.
James Arthur & Anne-Marie's rendition of Rewrite The Stars from The Greatest Showman is up nine places to Number 8, and Mark Ronson's brand new track with Miley Cyrus Nothing Breaks Like A Heart starts at Number 9.
More festive tunes are Top 40-bound this Friday: Last Christmas by Wham! is so far up 36 places to 16, The Pogues' Fairytale of New York jumps 38 spots to 28, Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas hops 50 places to 38, and Michael Buble's rendition of It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas zooms 55 rungs to 39.
Finally, X Factor champion Dalton Harris ft. James Arthur is off to a strong start with his winner's single The Power Of Love, opening at Number 23 with just a few hours of sales counted up to midnight after his win last night (Dec 2), and Meek Mill's What's Free ft. Rick Ross opens at 35.
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Sami24601
I find it really problematic that given the things that 6ix9ine has been charged with that he is doing as well as he has.
Nischal Joshi
Instead it has given unneeded popularity to him. I find it problematic to that he is charting. Stop it already people.
Piran
I know Ariana will be #1 on Friday looking at its overall lead, but I really hope Ava Max gets there eventually! :)
I'm amazed how fast 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' took to re-enter the Top 10, especially with the ACR disadvantages it has.
Nischal Joshi
All I Want For Christmas Is You has been in the Top #2 streamed song for the past few days and even upsurged "thank u, next" so I was expecting this.
What are the chances of the X-factor single debuting at #1?
Piran
It could very well pass 'Thank U, Next' on Spotify tomorrow, so I still wonder if this'll be the year that it finally hits #1.
'The Power Of Love' has huge sales, but winner's singles usually don't do as well in streaming & it lost two days of the tracking week, so I'd say a #2 or #3 debut for that.
Piran
Actually, looking at the new sales numbers, it's currently outselling the next best selling song with about a 5:1 ratio on iTunes, so a #1 debut for it might not be out of the question just yet, unless it goes into freefall there. If it did enter straight in at the top, it would be the first winner's single to do that since Ben Haenow in 2014 with 'Something I Need'.
Are you happy that Dalton Harris won by the way? He's really good, but I was hoping Scarlett Lee would do it (although it looked very likely for the former anyway based on the odds throughout the live shows).
Nischal Joshi
I checked the sales right now and it seems to be on a roll with a 5:1 ratio still. Their decision to use James and a Christmas tune has definitely payed off and we may see a #1 after a long time. Though, I want Sweet but Psycho to top the charts tbh. It is my favorite track going on right now. Let us see what happens.
I was in the see-saw between Scarlett and Dalton so I gave it to the finals to make up my mind and I kinda had the edge with Dalton at the end. Apart from LM and Leona (in the US), and James somewhat, no winner has really done much so it is left to see if he will fade away quickly like the others. Being honest, I really don't see the longevity with Dalton though.
Piran
So it appeared to have debuted at #4. One thing that's worth noting is that we've only had one X Factor winner's single go to #1 since streams started contributing to the charts & that was 'Something I Need' by Ben Haenow in 2014. Before then, thanks to just sales & the series finishing later, a #1 for the winner's single appeared to be a given unless there were a charity single or unexpected campaign.
If recent years are anything to go by, more pop hits are getting Christmas #1 instead of any than anything to do with the festive season in particular ('Rockabye' & 'Perfect').
Nischal Joshi
Another shocking figure I saw was that The Power of Love only managed 35000 combined sales. Considering how Xfactor songs used to dominate the charts purely on physical sales, this is really shocking tbh. This is the worst figure of all the season. Raksu did 40k last year.
Considering how Hallelujah did 576k sales, Impossible did 490k sales, I guess it is safe to say the show has ran its course now. James is now the only X-factor winner that is even signed to Syco and LM are the only thing that is relevant. The ratings haven't been great as well and their winner singles aren't doing great as well. Maybe its time to shut down the show?
Piran
I think that's more due to much weaker streaming for the winner's single than usual (I don't think it's hardly been in the Top 200 of Spotify at all since release), but it's download numbers looked decent enough even if it lost two days of tracking. Really, the only song that's ever got to #1 since late 2014 with almost no streaming was 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' last year.
I don't know about finishing the show entirely though; as we know, the biggest acts to come from it haven't necessarily been the winners (some winners we never hear from again). Other than Leona Lewis, Little Mix & maybe James Arthur, the winners haven't really done too much outside of the UK.