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Friday 9 December 2022

Mariah Carey makes glittering return to Number 1

Mariah Carey makes a glittering return to Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart with All I Want For Christmas Is You. Ending Taylor Swift's six-week long reign at the top of the Official Singles Chart with Anti-Hero, Mariah reaches the summit notching up 10.8 million streams over the past seven days. This is All I Want For Christmas Is You's second stint at Number 1 in the UK, having first reached the top in 2020, 26 years after its release.

While the undeniable Queen of Christmas may rule supreme this week, we also see four more Christmas songs land in the Official Top 10: Wham! with Last Christmas (3), Ed Sheeran & Elton John's Merry Christmas (4), Brenda Lee's Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (6) and Michael Bublé with It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas (10). 

Shakin' Stevens moves up fourteen with Merry Christmas Everyone (12), The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl jump 16 with Fairytale of New York (14), Ariana Grande's Santa Tell Me sashays back into the Top 20 (16) as does Kelly Clarkson's extravagant Underneath The Tree (17). 

Also present this week are: Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? (18), Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock (19), Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas (21), Andy Williams - It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (22), Elton John - Step Into Christmas (24), Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (28), Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime (30), Lizzo - Someday At Christmas (31), Michael Bublé - Holly Jolly Christmas (32), Dean Martin - Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow (33), Leona Lewis - One More Sleep (34), The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride (35), Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody (36), John Lennon & Yoko Ono – Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (38) and finally, Jose Feliciano - Feliz Navidad (40).

(Official Charts)



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