{"id":7443,"date":"2021-12-26T14:38:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T14:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7443"},"modified":"2021-12-26T14:38:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T14:38:38","slug":"charts-24-december-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7443","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 24 December 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you liked the years of the\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> winner&#8217;s single, you&#8217;ll\u00a0<em>love<\/em> LadBaby!<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. LadBaby featuring Ed Sheeran &amp; Elton John &#8211; &#8220;Sausage Rolls for Everyone&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GsRJ-iRZasQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mark Hoyle has had the Christmas number one for the last three years, with essentially the same joke: do a cover version of a well known song but change the lyrics to be about sausage rolls. By having a fourth Christmas number one, Hoyle has matched the record set by the Beatles, although of course they did it organically, in the days before the Christmas Number One was a big part of British popular culture (for reasons now lost in the mists of time to younger generations). Hoyle is doing it as a campaign record.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This year there&#8217;s actual competition in the form of Ed Sheeran and Elton John, but the simple solution is that this is, in effect, an extra version of that song &#8211; but credited with a different title and lead artist so that it&#8217;s listed separately on the chart. It&#8217;s not very good; the joke is getting tired and nobody&#8217;s going to claim it&#8217;s a musical improvement. But it is what it is.<\/p>\n<p>Hoyle has an odd kind of status. He hasn&#8217;t really managed to convert his Christmas hits into a wider career outside YouTube, or at least not one that&#8217;s registered much with me. A YouTube audience can be a pretty big deal in itself, though, so how does he fit in over there? Well, he has 1.07 million subscribers. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/LadBabyOfficial\/videos\">looking at his videos archive<\/a>, a typical video is getting an audience of maybe 100-150K. Let&#8217;s ignore December (when he was promoting this single) and take an average of the views for videos posts 1 or 2 months age &#8211; I make his average audience to be 122,500. Not bad at all, but someone like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/TomScottGo\/videos\">Tom Scott<\/a>\u00a0consistently gets over a million views per video. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/GeoWizard\/videos\">GeoWizard<\/a> has a similar subscriber count but more actual views per video. We&#8217;re not in the top tier of YouTube, then.<\/p>\n<p>Has the joke run its course yet with the public? I suspect it might have, since the angle this year was to push for a record, and it really does feel a bit like he&#8217;s been enlisted to provide a charity angle for Ed Sheeran and Elton John.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. The Kunts &#8211; &#8220;Boris Johnson is Still a Fucking Cunt&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yFgAllmI6LY\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last Christmas, the Kunts reached number 5 with their thoughtful number &#8220;Boris Johnson is a Fucking Cunt&#8221;. This year, they&#8217;re back for another go with exactly the same result. In a shameless bid to game the charts, the song is available for download in 11 formats, and they&#8217;re also encouraging people to stream it 24\/7. Presumably, the assorted mixes &#8211; which all have their own video &#8211; also help to get more video streams for the chart. The Cassetteboy mix is probably the best.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oP5-KpgGO3o\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s song is basically a cover version of &#8220;Rock &amp; Roll (Part 2)&#8221; by Gary Glitter, a number 2 hit in 1972, which has been largely verboten since the 1990s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gary_Glitter\">for all the obvious reasons<\/a>. That said, it&#8217;s a seminal glam rock track, and it\u00a0<em>was<\/em> used in the\u00a0<em>Joker<\/em> soundtrack a couple of years ago, perhaps because &#8220;Part 2&#8221; is an instrumental on which Glitter himself doesn&#8217;t appear. As the video above also alludes to, it was the basis of the novelty hit &#8220;Doctorin&#8217; the Tardis&#8221; by the Timelords in 1988 &#8211; the band who went on to be the KLF.<\/p>\n<p><strong>36. Dean Martin &#8211; &#8220;Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rnil5LyK_B0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Climbing from last week&#8217;s number 41. This has only charted in the previous two years, and in both cases it got to number 39. It&#8217;s an album track recorded in 1959 &#8211; the original, by Vaughan Monroe, was a number 1 hit in America in 1946. Yes, Billboard was doing a chart that far back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>38. Camila Cabello &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;ll Be Home for Christmas&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3V4DaaNHFqA\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A track recorded for a Michael Bubl\u00e9 special, which has been hovering outside the top 40 for a few weeks. Originally a hit for Bing Crosby in 1943, this song hasn&#8217;t made the UK singles top 40 before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>39. Justin Bieber &#8211; &#8220;Mistletoe&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LUjn3RpkcKY\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Originally a number 21 hit in 2011, this has charted every year since 2018 &#8211; but until now it&#8217;s always made the top 30, so this is a weak year for it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>40. Kelly Clarkson &amp; Ariana Grande &#8211; &#8220;Santa Can&#8217;t You Hear Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PPcpd-YBlGw\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a track from Clarkson&#8217;s 2021 Christmas album (her second), which happens to have been promoted in a US television special. It&#8217;s perfectly decent, but it&#8217;s not up there with &#8220;Underneath the Tree&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Come On Home for Christmas&#8221; by George Ezra<\/strong> climbs 15-10. It&#8217;s his sixth top 10 hit.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Driving Home for Christmas&#8221; by Chris Rea<\/strong> climbs 17-12, one place shy of its peak from 2018 and 2020.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Step Into Christmas&#8221; by Elton John<\/strong> climbs 14-13. It got to number 8 in each of the last two years (but there&#8217;s time yet, since the next chart week will cover both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day).<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year&#8221; by Andy Williams<\/strong> climbs 18-15. That&#8217;s a new all-time peak, beating 2017, when it got to 17.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Santa Tell Me&#8221; by Ariana Grande<\/strong> climbs 19-16. It&#8217;s got to 11 in the past.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;I Wish it Could Be Christmas Everyday&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>by Wizzard<\/strong> climbs 22-17.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Underneath the Tree&#8221; by Kelly Clarkson<\/strong> climbs 20-19.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;One More Sleep&#8221; by Leona Lewis<\/strong> climbs 28-21.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Jingle Bell Rock&#8221; by Bobby Helms<\/strong> climbs 26-22. It was already at an all-time peak last week.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Wonderful Christmastime&#8221; by Paul<\/strong> <strong>McCartney<\/strong> climbs 27-23.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Merry Xmas Everybody&#8221; by Slade\u00a0<\/strong>climbs 30-24.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Happy Xmas (War is Over)&#8221; by John Lennon &amp; Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band\u00a0<\/strong>climbs 34-26.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The Christmas Song&#8221; by Olivia Dean<\/strong> climbs 38-27.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Sleigh Ride&#8221; by the Ronettes<\/strong> climbs 35-29. That&#8217;s an all-time peak for this single (though they had bigger hits back in the 60s).<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Holly Jolly Christmas&#8221; by Michael Bubl\u00e9<\/strong> climbs 39-33. It got to 24 last year, but that doesn&#8217;t look to be repeating.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Feliz Navidad&#8221; by Jose Feliciano<\/strong> climbs 40-34 &#8211; this is its first run on the top 40.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The top 10 non-Christmas (and non-novelty) singles would be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 &#8211; &#8220;ABCDEFU&#8221; by Gayle.<\/li>\n<li>2 &#8211; &#8220;Seventeen Going Under&#8221; by Sam Fender.<\/li>\n<li>3 &#8211; &#8220;Flowers&#8221; by Arrdee<\/li>\n<li>4 &#8211; &#8220;Overseas&#8221; by D-Block Europe<\/li>\n<li>5 &#8211; &#8220;Easy on Me&#8221; by Adele (which gets hit by the downweighting rule this week).<\/li>\n<li>6 &#8211; &#8220;Coming for You&#8221; by SwitchOTR<\/li>\n<li>7 &#8211; &#8220;Overpass Graffiti&#8221; by Ed Sheeran<\/li>\n<li>8 &#8211; &#8220;Do It To It&#8221; by Acraze<\/li>\n<li>9 &#8211; &#8220;Make You Smile&#8221; by D-Block Europe<\/li>\n<li>10 &#8211; &#8220;Shivers&#8221; by Ed Sheeran<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The album chart, of course, is dead.\u00a0<strong>&#8220;30&#8221; by Adele<\/strong> is still at number 1. The only new entry is\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Live Life Fast&#8221; by Roddy Ricch<\/strong> at number 34 &#8211; which got a single, &#8220;Late at Night&#8221;, to number 40 earlier in the year. Considering the previous album got to number 13, this is a disappointing number, so either releasing in Christmas week was a mistake in this market, or something&#8217;s gone badly wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you liked the years of the\u00a0X Factor winner&#8217;s single, you&#8217;ll\u00a0love LadBaby! 1. 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