{"id":8561,"date":"2022-12-12T21:45:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T21:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8561"},"modified":"2022-12-12T21:45:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T21:45:26","slug":"charts-9-december-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8561","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 9 December 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah. Already, then?<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Mariah Carey &#8211; &#8220;All I Want for Christmas Is You&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yXQViqx6GMY\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re now firmly into the Christmas deluge, and in the absence of a particularly strong incumbent number 1 &#8211; Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8220;Anti-Hero&#8221; had already been there for six weeks &#8211; Mariah Carey makes to number 1 already. She had two weeks at number 1 over Christmas 2020 but had the decency that time round to wait for another week.<\/p>\n<p>Some purists hate this sort of thing, but the reality is that this is what people are actually listening to &#8211; in fact, Carey has to overcome the permanent downweighting of back catalogue material. You could see it as a sign that nobody really cares very much about modern music but I suspect it&#8217;s at least as much a case of the long tail suddenly converging on Christmas records at this time of year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The unfortunate record at number 2 is\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Escapism&#8221; by Raye featuring 070 Shake<\/strong>, which you might choose to see as a record that ought to have been a number 1. But there are a couple of points there. First, it could still have its chance in the dead period after Christmas Day. And second, if all these Christmas records weren&#8217;t around, there&#8217;d be a lot more competition from regular releases instead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>13. Metro Boomin featuring The Weeknd &amp; 21 Savage &#8211; &#8220;Creepin'&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_WCD3Z9UmJ4\">39. Metro Boomin featuring Future &amp; Chris Brown &#8211; &#8220;Superhero (Heroes &amp; Villains)&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/61ymOWwOwuk\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_WCD3Z9UmJ4\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Metro Boomin is a producer, and these two tracks both come from his album\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Heroes &amp; Villains&#8221;<\/strong>, which enters the album chart at number 3. His previous solo album reached number 16 in 2018, and a collab with 21 Savage got to number 10 in 2020. One of the tracks from that album, &#8220;Mr Right Now&#8221;, produced his only previous hit single, reaching number 28.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Creepin&#8221; is heavily based on &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Wanna Know&#8221; by Mario Winans, a number one in 2004. That track already incorporated the hook most familiar from the Fugees&#8217; &#8220;Ready or Not&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whosampled.com\/sample\/103172\/Mario-Winans-Enya-P.-Diddy-I-Don%27t-Wanna-Know-Enya-Boadicea\/\">which in turn is actually a sample from &#8220;Boadicea&#8221; by Enya<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As for &#8220;Superhero&#8221;, that was\u00a0<em>meant<\/em> to be the lead single from the album, and as such, it&#8217;s the one that has a video. Why you&#8217;d choose it as a single over &#8220;Creepin'&#8221; is beyond me, and the chart position probably reflects that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>20. Lewis Capaldi &#8211; &#8220;Pointless&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ygkLqJq1Gyk\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s somebody else presumably angling to soar to the top of the chart in the post-Christmas lull. It&#8217;s the second single from his upcoming album; the first got to number 1 for a week, and hung around the top 10 for nine weeks. Predictably, this doesn&#8217;t enter as strongly, because attention is elsewhere. It&#8217;s co-written by Ed Sheeran (what isn&#8217;t?). I normally think the criticism that Lewis Capaldi bellows his ballads is overblown, but&#8230; it&#8217;s kind of right with this one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>21. Chris Rea &#8211; &#8220;Driving Home for Christmas&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uSjq7x67kzM\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Right, back to the Christmas records. &#8220;Driving Home&#8221; failed to make the top 40 on its release in 1988, but it&#8217;s been a regular visitor for the last few years. Last year it reached an all time peak of number 10. That made it his joint biggest UK hit single, matching &#8220;Road to Hell&#8221;. If you leave this track aside, Chris Rea&#8217;s last top 40 hit was in 1994, when &#8220;You Can Go Your Own Way&#8221; reached number 28.<\/p>\n<p><strong>22. Andy Williams &#8211; &#8220;It&#8217;s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/73UqDX_quk0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This only became a hit single in the streaming era; it reached number 9 last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>24. Elton John &#8211; &#8220;Step into Christmas&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QWMqfKjJoKc\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Step into Christmas&#8221; reached number 24 on release at Christmas 1973, but showed up on every Christmas compilation imaginable for year after year. It reached its all time peak of number 8 in 2019 and again in 2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>28. Wizzard &#8211; &#8220;I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IJPc7esgvsA\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Originally a number 4 in Christmas 1973, this track has long since justified its opening sound effect. Its digital-era peak was number 10 in Christmas 2019, but it only managed 12 in 2020 and 15 in 2021.<\/p>\n<p><strong>30. Paul McCartney &#8211; &#8220;Wonderful Christmastime&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/94Ye-3C1FC8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The most regularly played track from McCartney&#8217;s &#8220;experimenting with my new electronic toys&#8221; phase, this reached number 6 at Christmas 1979. Its digital-era peak was number 17 last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>31. Lizzo &#8211; &#8220;Someday at Christmas&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is an Amazon exclusive, and so it&#8217;s not available for embedding. It&#8217;s a cover version of the Stevie Wonder song from the 1966.<\/p>\n<p><strong>32. Michael Bubl\u00e9 &#8211; &#8220;Holly Jolly Christmas&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dkq3LD-4pmM\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This charted for the first time in 2019; its all time peak was 24 two year ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>33. 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>The chart lists this as &#8220;Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow&#8221;, which sounds like an error message. The title&#8217;s\u00a0<em>meant<\/em> to have the exclamation marks, apparently, and that&#8217;s how it&#8217;s shown on the Dean Martin YouTube channel, which is apparently authorised, so let&#8217;s go with that. This is another track which charted for the first time in the digital era, reaching an all-time peak of number 27 last year. Martin had plenty of big hits back in the 50s, including a number one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>34. Leona Lewis &#8211; &#8220;One More Sleep&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j-_1-uJ6Ml4\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Originally a number 3 hit in 2013, this made the top 10 again in 2018, but it hasn&#8217;t done so well since then; it only got to number 20 last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>35. The Ronettes &#8211; &#8220;Sleigh Ride&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DkXIJe8CaIc\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This charted for the first time in 2017, and reached an all time peak of 23 last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>36. Slade &#8211; &#8220;Merry Xmas Everybody&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PTslBTBl1X8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That\u00a0<em>is<\/em> the officially-sanctioned video, but for understandable reasons you won&#8217;t see any TV channel going near it, when they can stick with the 70s TV performances they tend to prefer. &#8220;Merry Xmas Everybody&#8221; was the Christmas number 1 of 1973, but its digital-era peak was in 2017 when it got to number 16. Last year it only reached number 21.<\/p>\n<p><strong>38. John &amp; Yoko and the Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir &#8211; &#8220;Happy Xmas (War is Over)&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g_kj60DIq2M\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At some point people are going to start making more of an issue about that line about &#8220;the yellow and the red ones&#8221;, but this is the not that year. This reached number 4 on release in 1972, and its all time peak of number 2 in 1980 after Lennon&#8217;s murder. Its digital era peak is number 18 in 2018; last year it got to 22.<\/p>\n<p><strong>40. Jos\u00e9 Feliciano &#8211; &#8220;Feliz Navidad&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N8NcQzMQN_U\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This made the top 40 for the first time in 2020, and it reached number 25 last year. Feliciano&#8217;s biggest UK hit was his cover of &#8220;Light My Fire&#8221;, which reached number 6 in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>The top ten singles on the chart that have no Christmas element are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Raye featuring 070 Shake &#8211; &#8220;Escapism&#8221; (no 2)<\/li>\n<li>Taylor Swift &#8211; &#8220;Anti-Hero&#8221; (no 5)<\/li>\n<li>Meghan Trainor &#8211; &#8220;Made You Look&#8221; (no 7)<\/li>\n<li>venbee &amp; goddard &#8211; &#8220;Messy in Heaven&#8221; (no 8)<\/li>\n<li>Stormzy &#8211; &#8220;Firebabe&#8221; (no 9)<\/li>\n<li>Oliver Tree &amp; Robin Schulz &#8211; &#8220;Miss You&#8221; (no 11)<\/li>\n<li>Metro Boomin, the Weeknd &amp; 21 Savage &#8211; &#8220;Creepin'&#8221; (no 13)<\/li>\n<li>Anne-Marie &amp; Aitch &#8211; &#8220;Psycho&#8221; (no 15)<\/li>\n<li>Lewis Capaldi &#8211; &#8220;Pointless&#8221; (no 20)<\/li>\n<li>Stormzy &#8211; &#8220;Hide &amp; Seek&#8221; (no 23)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers are naturally almost all festive.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Escapism&#8221; by Raye featuring 070 Shake<\/strong> at 2, overtaking &#8220;Bed&#8221; and &#8220;You Don&#8217;t Know Me&#8221; to become her biggest hit.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Last Christmas&#8221; by Wham!<\/strong>, climbing 9-3.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; by Ed Sheeran &amp; Elton John<\/strong>, climbing 15-4.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Rockin&#8217; Around the Christmas Tree&#8221; by Brenda Lee<\/strong>, climbing 18-6.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Firebabe&#8221; by Stormzy<\/strong> climbs 11-9, which is some impressive swimming against the tide.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas&#8221; by Michael Bubl\u00e9<\/strong> climbs 20-10.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Merry Christmas Everyone&#8221; by Shakin&#8217; Stevens<\/strong> climbs 26-12.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Fairytale of New York&#8221; by the Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl<\/strong> climbs 30-14.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Santa Tell Me&#8221; by Ariana Grande<\/strong> climbs 28-16.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Underneath the Tree&#8221; by Kelly Clarkson<\/strong> climbs 31-17. This has never previously been higher than 15, so it has a good shot of setting a new peak this year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Do They Know It&#8217;s Christmas&#8221; by Band Aid<\/strong> climbs 34-18.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Jingle Bell Rock&#8221; by Bobby Helms<\/strong> climbs 36-19.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The sixteen (!) singles leaving the top 40 this week for being insufficiently festive are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Rocket Science&#8221; by Clavish featuring D-Block Europe<\/strong>, which entered at 9 but only lasted two weeks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Lionheart (Fearless)&#8221; by Joel Corry &amp; Tom Grennan<\/strong>, which peaked at 22.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Life Me Up&#8221; by Rihanna<\/strong>, which peaked at 3 but only lasted six weeks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Kiss Me&#8221; by Dermot Kennedy<\/strong>, which got to 15 and lasted 8 weeks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Forget Me&#8221; by Lewis Capaldi<\/strong>, a former number 1.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Celestial&#8221; by Ed Sheeran<\/strong>, which got to 6.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m Good (Blue)&#8221; by David Guetta &amp; Bebe Rexha<\/strong>, another former number 1.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Lavender Haze&#8221; by Taylor Swift<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>&#8220;Snow on the Beach&#8221; by Taylor Swift featuring Lana Del Rey<\/strong>\u00a0which both hung around surprisingly long for album tracks, and reached numbers 3 and 4 respectively.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;All for You&#8221; by Cian Ducrot<\/strong>, which peaked at 19 but lasted a remarkable 16 weeks on the top 40.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;How Do I Say Goodbye&#8221; by Dean Lewis<\/strong>, which peaked at 23 and lasted 7 weeks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;3 Lions&#8221; by David Baddiel, Frank Skinner and the Lightning Seeds<\/strong>, for obvious reasons.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Alone&#8221; by Burna Boy<\/strong>, which reached number 28.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Ghost of You&#8221; by Mimi Webb<\/strong>, which reached number 23.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;This is What I Mean&#8221; by Stormzy<\/strong>, which got a week at number 32.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Warm&#8221; by K-Trap<\/strong>, which reached number 17.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the album chart&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Olly Murs &#8211; &#8220;Marry Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WrWoA6mA11c\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the first Olly Murs album to produce no top 40 singles at all &#8211; not even a top 100, in fact &#8211; but it still becomes his fifth number 1 album. His other two albums both reached number 2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Metro Boomin &#8211; &#8220;Heroes &amp; Villains&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve covered that. And finally&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>18. Leftfield &#8211; &#8220;This is What We Do&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q2-U9VJr2Iw\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<em>this<\/em> week? Really? Okay. The dance veterans released two huge albums in the late 90s and put out a comeback album, &#8220;Alternative Light Source&#8221;, that reached the top 10 in 2015. This is their first album to miss the top 10, but after such a long break and 27 years after their debut, that&#8217;s not too bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah. Already, then? 1. Mariah Carey &#8211; &#8220;All I Want for Christmas Is You&#8221; We&#8217;re now firmly into the Christmas deluge, and in the absence of a particularly strong incumbent number 1 &#8211; Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8220;Anti-Hero&#8221; had already been there for six weeks &#8211; Mariah Carey makes to number 1 already. 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