{"id":7484,"date":"2022-01-01T15:54:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T15:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7484"},"modified":"2022-01-01T15:54:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T15:54:28","slug":"charts-31-december-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7484","title":{"rendered":"Charts – 31 December 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final chart of 2021 covers the chart week 24-30 December – which means it includes both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Although the streams of Christmas songs generally fall off a cliff\u00a0after<\/em> Christmas itself, they do so well on the big day that this is another Christmas-dominated top 40. Next week, almost all of these Christmas records will vanish, and we’ll have a massive influx of new singles.<\/p>\n

1. Ed Sheeran & Elton John – “Merry Christmas”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, of\u00a0course<\/em> people weren’t going to keep buying the LadBaby version. That track exists to be bought as part of a charity campaign or just as part of a narrative – it doesn’t exist to be\u00a0listened<\/em> to, and so it places this week at number 29. To be fair to him, that’s better than he managed in the previous two years, when he dropped from number 1 straight out of the top 40.<\/p>\n

The proper version of the song returns to number 1 for a third week, but given the festive angle (and the fact it’s been out a month already) I doubt it’ll manage a fourth.<\/p>\n

28. Fireboy DML & Ed Sheeran – “Peru”<\/strong><\/p>\n