Clean Bandit hold on to Number 1, with strong debuts from One Direction's Louis Tomlinson and X Factor winner Matt Terry

your hate grinding is curious

people choose what and whom they want to listen to: NO one forces them to like any particular song or artist.

Let's see what Radio ones' arch enemy Big Top 40 will have as it's festive chartopper tomorrow then even though the vast diference between it and Radio one showed earlier this year regarding that monotonous Drake hit. For the spirit of Xmas it has to be one for charity otherwise there's no point anymore in xmas on a musical sense.LOVING AND GIVING REMEMBER? :-)

Hey Techfan! Sorry I didn't respond to this post of yours sooner, but I've had a very busy day & my Disqus notifications are very delayed right now. :/
Anyway, I'm really pleased about 'Rockabye' as well. I edited this into my review earlier, but it now passes '7 Years' & 'Cold Water' to become the longest UK #1 single of this year by a group (six weeks). Next week, it could get the honour of becoming the Christmas #1 of 2016 in my country! :)
Well 'Just Hold On' is losing sales quite fast right now & only making slight rises on streaming, so I expect to fall slightly next Friday. As for 'When Christmas Comes Around', it will have seven days count towards it's tracking week instead of five, so I expect to chart higher next week (it's also rising slightly in sales & streaming). :D
Regarding your question, the Top 200 songs is only an exclusive feature in UKChartsPlus, which a weekly newsletter over here (similar to Billboard magazine in the US). You can only access the Top 100 on the main website.

Hey Piran. Dunno if im reading wrong but you appeared to have said that Rockabye is now the longest running number 1 of the year... what about One Dance?

Thanks for answering my question! :D

Wouldn't it be interesting if When Christmas Comes Around somehow manages to become the Christmas #1? Anyway, I'd think after next week most holiday songs will drop a lot if not out based on only 3 days including Christmas.

Hey Riley! :)
Thanks for reminding me. I meant to say that 'Rockabye' is the longest UK #1 this year by a group. Yeah, it's still not even close to matching 'One Dance' yet. Sorry I left that last part out! :P LOL
Anyway, have you had a good week buddy? ;)

You're welcome! I did edit something in my post though: I meant to say that 'Rockabye' was the longest UK #1 single by a group; the longest UK #1 in 2016 was actually 'One Dance' by Drake (15 weeks at the top!) Well 'When Christmas Comes Around' is the X Factor winner's single & other than last year, that has always gone to #1 & that's mostly happened on Christmas week. I still think it's going to be 'Rockabye' vs 'When Christmas Comes Around' for #1 next Friday, but that could all change over the weekend! :)
Yeah, I think on the Friday after next (the 30th), WCCA & potentially 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' could be the only Christmas songs left in the Top 40.

I actually did know about One Dance. :P Yeah, it figures. It'll be interesting to see how many holiday songs manage to re-enter the Hot 100 based on the charting week ending before Christmas as well. The nuance in the U.S. is even greater, since many AC radio stations became holiday music station since Thanksgiving and after Christmas, they go back to their original programming. So even, AIWFCIY might not survive the week after. Hallelujah, even though it's a recent one, might if sales continue for it at a decent level for that week.

Another thing I wasn't expecting to see for this week is 'Jingle Bell Rock' & 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' re-enter the Hot 100 so high.
I wanted to ask another question: Simm said that AIWFCIY has to be Top 50 to re-enter the Hot 100. Why would it have a recurrent rule if the song has only charted on the Hot 100 for 16 weeks?
Also, Simm's early prediction of 236 points for IDWLF is almost completely accurate. Billboard posted an article saying how it will debut with around 3 million streams, 175-200k (so going by Kworb's prediction, 188k) & about 25 million in radio audience. Using the current chart formula, that gives around 237 points, which should be #5 or #6. However, the good news for me is that the song is now available on Spotify & a lyric video is on YouTube, so that will significantly boost it's streaming going into next week. :)

In the case of RATCT, I did chart for 3 weeks last year, so it's quite normal to return at this time. I think it had been stuck at #2 in Holiday Songs behind AIWFCIY for quite a few weeks.

In the case of JBR, it returned last year for the last week of the holiday season, so it's early return was unexpected.

The other song that did that as well but was #3 in Hot 100 Recurrent last week was The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You) by Nat King Cole. Interesting #2 there was It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year by Andy Williams which didn't re-enter the Hot 100 last year. I'd expect to see both at least the chart for one week.

Regarding this older holiday songs, they are applying the same rules as they are for songs that charted a long time ago regarding them as 20-week Recurrent in spite of not actually reaching the 20 weeks. You probably remember some of Whitney's songs re-entering the Hot 100 after hear death. Basically, they applied this to Prince's and Bowie's as well as holiday songs that have charted before, it seems.

Regarding IDWLF's, I know which article you're referring to. Those type of articles tend to underestimate some of those values you mention. The one I'm 100% that should be higher should be radio. The others, I don't know. Probably not enough to change its final position in next week's Hot 100.

Oh okay, that makes sense haha. I was thinking, how an earth could anyone forget Drake? He was number 1 for basically the hole summer LOL :D
I have had a brilliant week thanks, just looking forward to Christmas, what about you?

I'm pleased to hear you've had a good week! Mine was great as well. I got back home from University a few days ago & just did some Christmas shopping yesterday. :)
So who you think will be the Christmas #1 of 2016 then? I think it'll be 'Rockabye', but 'When Christmas Comes Around' will be very close behind it.

Thats good that your home for the holidays! Doing anything nice? I`m doing my Christmas shopping tomorrow, dreading it haha.
Regarding the Christmas number 1, i`m with you. Clean Bandit will almost certainly be number 1 this Christmas. Still doing well in streams and has seen a gain in sales over night and is currently as im typing, back at number 1 on the Itunes chart. Gonna be hard to stop it. And if im honest, id rather have that at number 1 over Matt terry. i`m not really a fan of his single, then again. I`m never really a fan of the x factor winner singles haha!

Well I'm just spending time with family & friends over the next three weeks, but not doing anything big. :)
Also, how many more weeks do you think 'Rockabye' will stay at #1 for? I think Clean Bandit will probably spend the rest of 2016 there. Regarding the iTunes chart, 3 hours after your last reply to me & 'Human' by Rag'n'Bone Man is now #1 on that chart. It just shows how close it is on sales right now, but 'Rockabye' still has a slight lead on streaming like you said.
I actually really like 'When Christmas Comes Around', but that's probably because I enjoy most X Factor winner's singles! LOL

I agree, i think it will be there for another week or 2 yet!