{"id":6106,"date":"2021-01-02T21:07:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T21:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=6106"},"modified":"2021-01-02T21:07:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T21:07:38","slug":"charts-1-january-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=6106","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 1 January 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a little unexpected. This chart period includes Christmas Day, but it also includes the six days following. And normally the Christmas records tail off sharply once Christmas itself is passed. So I assumed we&#8217;d start to see the clear out this week. Instead, festive domination continues for a further week, and&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1. Wham! &#8211; &#8220;Last Christmas&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E8gmARGvPlI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8221;Last Christmas&#8221; sneaks a week at number one before the season ends. It hasn&#8217;t been a number one before &#8211; it was the Christmas number 2 in 1984 behind Band Aid. That&#8217;s 36 years ago, setting a new record for the longest time between entering the charts and reaching number one. (The previous record holder was Tony Christie&#8217;s &#8220;(Is This The Way To) Amarillo&#8221;, which reached number 1 as a charity re-issue 33 years after it first charted.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Wham! now have five number one hits to their name, the others all falling between 1984 and 1986: &#8220;Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go&#8221;, &#8220;Freedom&#8221;, &#8220;I&#8217;m Your Man&#8221;, and less obviously &#8220;The Edge of Heaven&#8221;. George Michael had a further seven solo numbers between 1984 and 1996: &#8220;Careless Whisper&#8221;, &#8220;A Different Corner&#8221;, &#8220;I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)&#8221; (with Aretha Franklin), &#8220;Don&#8217;t Let The Sun Go Down On Me&#8221; (with Elton John), the &#8220;Five Live&#8221; EP (with Queen), and &#8220;Jesus to a Child&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Needless to say, there&#8217;s no much else going on on the top 40 singles chart; a handful of climbers and a couple of Christmas records that were just outside the top 40 scrape their way in. <strong>&#8220;This Christmas&#8221; by Jess Glynne<\/strong> climbs 4-3, and <strong>&#8220;Rockin&#8217; Around the Christmas Tree&#8221; by Justin Bieber<\/strong> climbs 8-4. <strong>&#8220;Step Into Christmas&#8221; by Elton John<\/strong> climbs 10-8, to match its peak from last year. <strong>&#8220;I Wish It Could be Christmas Everyday&#8221; by Wizzard<\/strong> climbs 13-12, slightly short of last year&#8217;s position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Afterglow&#8221; by Ed Sheeran<\/strong> climbs 30-13 in its first full week on release, which rather suggests that it would have come nowhere close to being the Christmas number one. <strong>&#8220;Happy Xmas (War is Over)&#8221; by John &amp; Yoko and the Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir<\/strong> climbs 21-19. <strong>&#8220;Get Out My Head&#8221; by Shane Codd<\/strong> rebounds 38-22, beating the number 24 peak it reached last month &#8211; not quite sure what&#8217;s going on there. <strong>&#8220;Holly Jolly Christmas&#8221; by Michael Bubl\u00e9 <\/strong>climbs 25-24, which is a new all-time peak for it. <strong>&#8220;Wonderful Christmastime&#8221; by Paul McCartney<\/strong> climbs 26-25 for its best position of the streaming era. <strong>&#8220;Santa Baby&#8221; by Kylie Minogue<\/strong> climbs 32-31, which is a new peak for it. <strong>&#8220;Sleigh Ride&#8221; by the Ronettes<\/strong> is up 34-33, again for an all-time peak. And the same goes for <strong>&#8220;Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow&#8221; by Dean Martin<\/strong>, climbing 39-37. Earth-shattering stuff, I think you&#8217;ll agree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>39. Katy Perry &#8211; &#8220;Cozy Little Christmas&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sg8Gk1iXEIs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Climbing from number 42. This reached number 23 on its first release two years ago, and got to number 22 last year. Number 39 is a significant tailing off, but it&#8217;s still charted three years running, which is an achievement of sorts in a modern record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>40. Jose Feliciano &#8211; &#8220;Feliz Navidad&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N8NcQzMQN_U\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Climbing from 44 to enter the top 40 for the first time, fifty years after it was released. Feliciano <em>did<\/em> have some hits back in the sixties &#8211; his biggest UK hit was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0Jfars3T8zY\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0Jfars3T8zY\">his cover of the Doors&#8217; &#8220;Light My Fire&#8221;<\/a>, which reached number 6 in 1968, and was the template for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BNwIqFGna2E\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BNwIqFGna2E\">the Will Young cover that reached number 1 in 2002<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the album chart, the number 1 is <strong>&#8220;Christmas&#8221; by Michael Bubl\u00e9<\/strong>, which returns to the chart every year, but hasn&#8217;t been number 1 since its release in 2011 (when it managed three weeks). It got to number 2 last year, mind you, and in a declining album market, a record that has a decent shot of being put on as a background playlist over Christmas has a good shot of picking up streaming points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album chart is mostly year-in-review and discount material &#8211; Dua Lipa&#8217;s &#8220;Future Nostalgia&#8221; rebounds from 18 to 3, for example, and there are re-entries for a bunch of greatest hits albums from people like Fleetwood Mac, Abba and Michael Jackson &#8211; but there are a couple of genuine new entries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>17. Playboi Carti &#8211; &#8220;Whole Lotta Red&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wGBsIelFe-E\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>His second studio album (not counting mixtapes, none of which charted in the UK anyway). Its predecessor, 2018&#8217;s &#8220;Die Lit&#8221;, got to number 27 &#8211; but it was released in May, so it&#8217;s not exactly comparable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>26. Lil Durk &#8211; &#8220;The Voice&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9-6STGzbx6k\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Officially a mixtape, but it does better than his 2020 album &#8220;Just Cause Y&#8217;all Waited 2&#8221;, which got to 32. Again, the release week probably has something to do with that. He&#8217;s still only had one appearance on the singles chart, guesting on Drake&#8217;s &#8220;Laugh Now Cry Later&#8221;, which reached number 4 in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a little unexpected. This chart period includes Christmas Day, but it also includes the six days following. And normally the Christmas records tail off sharply once Christmas itself is passed. So I assumed we&#8217;d start to see the clear out this week. Instead, festive domination continues for a further week, and&#8230; 1. Wham! 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