{"id":6050,"date":"2020-12-18T21:45:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T21:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=6050"},"modified":"2020-12-18T21:45:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T21:45:29","slug":"charts-18-december-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=6050","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 18 December 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s not <em>quite<\/em> the Christmas number one. This year, Christmas Day falls on a Friday, and so the chart will be announced on the day itself. The last minute novelty and charity releases aren&#8217;t out yet; the Christmas songs have already flooded the chart, and there&#8217;s no room for them to climb any further. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1 Mariah Carey &#8211; &#8220;All I Want for Christmas is You&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s two weeks at number one. It&#8217;s entirely possible that she could hold on for Christmas Day. Wham!&#8217;s &#8220;Last Christmas&#8221; remains steady at number 2. But to stop us being completely becalmed, here&#8217;s a surprise release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3. Taylor Swift &#8211; &#8220;Willow&#8221;<\/strong><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wMpqCRF7TKg\">15. Taylor Swift &#8211; &#8220;Champagne Problems&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IEPomqor2A8\">19. Taylor Swift featuring Haim &#8211; &#8220;No Body No Crime&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RsEZmictANA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Say what you want about Covid-19, but it&#8217;s done wonders for the quality of Taylor Swift songs. Her surprise second lockdown album <strong>&#8220;Evermore&#8221; <\/strong>enters the album chart as her sixth consecutive number one, and predictably registers the maximum three tracks on the single chart. &#8220;Willow&#8221; is the official single, in the sense that it has a proper video (not to mention a whole batch of remixes on her YouTube channel). The video calls back to the video for &#8220;Cardigan&#8221;, continuing the log cabin folk direction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Champagne Problems&#8221; is a rather pretty ballad. And &#8220;No Body No Crime&#8221; gets guest stars Haim back into the singles chart for the first time since 2015 &#8211; in fact, this is their second-highest chart position, beaten only by their biggest hit &#8220;The Wire&#8221; (number 16 in 2013).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are surprisingly few climbers this week, since the Christmas tracks are logjammed. <strong>Band Aid&#8217;s &#8220;Do They Know It&#8217;s Christmas&#8221;<\/strong> climbs 8-7, matching its peak from last year. <strong>&#8220;This Christmas&#8221; by Jess Glynne<\/strong> climbs 13-9 &#8211; remember, this is a new release and so it isn&#8217;t labouring under the permanent downweighting of older tracks&#8217; streams. Glynne hasn&#8217;t had a top ten hit for two years, so this will be welcome. Boldly ignoring the season, <strong>&#8220;Whoopty&#8221; by CJ<\/strong> climbs 12-10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;Driving Home for Christmas&#8221; by Chris Rea<\/strong> climbs 17-13, and <strong>&#8220;I Wish It Could be Christmas Everyday&#8221; by Wizzard<\/strong> climbs 19-16. <strong>&#8220;Merry Xmas Everybody&#8221; by Slade<\/strong> climbs 26-25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>37. Kid Cudi featuring Skepta &amp; Pop Smoke &#8211; &#8220;Show Out&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0OfSyl9gkWM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another spillover from the album chart &#8211; this is a track from Cudi&#8217;s album <strong>&#8220;Man on the Moon III &#8211; The Chosen&#8221;<\/strong>, which charts at number 26 this week. It&#8217;s his seventh album, but only the second time that he&#8217;s made the album top 40 &#8211; the last time was in 2013, when &#8220;Indicud&#8221; reached 32. He did have a hit single earlier this year, &#8220;The Scotts&#8221;, as part of his collaboration with Travis Scott.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>40. The Ronettes &#8211; &#8220;Sleigh Ride&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DkXIJe8CaIc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only back catalogue Christmas record to enter the chart this week. &#8220;Sleigh Ride&#8221; only made the top 40 for the first time last year, when it got to number 34. Their biggest hit was &#8220;Be My Baby&#8221;, which got to number 4 in 1963.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The album chart is predictably quiet. We&#8217;ve already mentioned Taylor Swift at number 1, and Kid Cudi at 26. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>31. James &#8211; &#8220;Live in Extraordinary Times&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gGZsaKgO3Rg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A collection of live tracks from their tour last year in support of the album &#8220;Living in Extraordinary Times&#8221;. It&#8217;s also available as a concert video (which seems like the more natural format to buy something like this in), and the sales in that format wouldn&#8217;t count towards the chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>36. Katherine Jenkins &#8211; &#8220;Christmas Spectacular &#8211; OST&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4vx6MeuSHw4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, it&#8217;s the songs performed on a TV special on Amazon Prime. Number 36 is actually very low for a Katherine Jenkins album &#8211; they usually make the top 10, and even her last Christmas collection in 2012 made number 26 &#8211; but this <em>is <\/em>a rather unusual release and not exactly a proper studio album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>39. 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