Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You and Last Christmas by Wham! are set to re-enter the Official Singles Chart Top 40
Christmas season has officially started as festive classics by Mariah Carey and Wham! are poised to re-enter the Official Singles Chart Top 40 this week.
Mariah's All I Want For Christmas Is You leads the charge of holiday favourites returning to the chart, currently at Number 25 in today's Official Chart Update (November 22).
Having already appeared in the Top 100 for the past two weeks, it marks the fifthteenth consecutive year that AIWFCIY has re-entered the Official Chart - that's every year since 2007.
Streams of AIWFCIY are once again powering the song up the Official Chart; in the first three days of the chart week (Friday and Sunday) the track has notched up 1.3 million plays across all major platforms in the UK.
Mariah Carey with her Official Number 1 Single Award for AIWFCIY
AIWFCIY reached Number 2 on its original release in 1994, losing out on the Official Christmas Number 1 to East 17's Stay Another Day. In 2017, 2018 and 2019 the song matched its Number 2 peak, while last year finally saw it clinch the top spot, 26 years after its release.
Another festive classic, Last Christmas by Wham!, is also on track to return to the Top 40 this week, currently at Number 28. Famous for missing out on the Official Christmas Number 1 to Band Aid in 1984, streams helped boost the song to Number 1 in the first week of 2021, setting a record for the longest time taken for a single to reach Number 1, at 36 years.
Outside the Top 40, 14 more festive songs have entered the Top 100 - including The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl's Fairytale Of New York at 42, Michael Buble's It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas at 46, and Shakin' Stevens' Merry Christmas Everyone.
Notably, several brand-new Christmas songs for 2021 also feature, including George Ezra's Come On Home For Christmas, Olivia Dean's The Christmas Song, and Camila Cabello's I'll Be Home For Christmas. All three are part of Amazon's now-annual lineup of festive releases - recent years have seen Ellie Goulding and Jess Glynne score big hits from the platform.
This week's Official Singles Chart will be revealed on OfficialCharts.com at 5.45pm - listen to the Top 40 countdown live on BBC Radio 1 with Scott Mills from 4pm.
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Mali Anže
I love both,but for my personal opinion Mary´s boy child from Boney M is the most beautiful and soothing.You have a feeling it´s really Christmas.
AUCF
Angry UK Chart Fan
Hooray! Time to get p*ssed off again with the charts until January because of returning Christmas songs and other holiday things!
Alfred Lock
Well you can do that with bottles of mulled wine😆😆🤢🤢🤮🚽
thierry henon
Would love to see THE POGUES at number 1 this Christmas! Still so happy that MARIAH and WHAM finally got the chance last year to claim the number 1 spot after waiting for so long!
BleeUK
I'm sure we love these classic christmas hits, i do, but its too much now its charting every year, it getting a bit boring and it like a repeated christmas playlist, and the same one creeping in, hope there is a rule soon only track released this century like from 2000 is chart eligable here in the UK, mind you its lazy the now christmas album there keep releasing it nearly every year with mainly all the old ones again, there are new christmas songs people have to be aware, lets get them in the charts instead, maybe in 2022 for UK lets Stream and buy new ones. this cant keep happeing classic is classic new is new charts.
Alfred Lock
That would complete the golden hat trick of the original festive almost but not no.1 first time around...Go on buyers it's 5 years this Xmas since the untimely passing of George Michael.
BleeUK
I mean i love the classic christmas songs, it not like i don't, it's fine with streaming, radio and markets, but i think there should be a new rules, from 2022, only christmas songs released from 2000 or 21st Century should count towards the Christmas Charts only! for UK Top 40 Singles Charts, as it be fairer for new releases or current christmas songs to the mix, there was a spell from 1997 to 2006 current ones appered. and i think the now christmas album should all do new christmas songs only, drop the classics.