Rising from last week’s Number 5, All I Want For Christmas Is You leads the Official Chart: First Look following the airing of her Mariah Meets Rylan interview on BBC Two over the weekend, plus the release of new CD, 12” and 7” vinyl variants to mark the song’s 30th anniversary.
Mariah’s perennial Christmas classic first reached Number 1 in the UK in 2020, spending two weeks in the top spot. We’re a week away from the starting horn of the Christmas Number 1 race – can Mariah claim the ultimate Christmas accolade come December 20th?
Mariah has the edge at the halfway point of this week, but less than 300 chart sales separate the Top 3. Fresh from another weekend of putting up the Christmas tree, Tom Grennan’s Amazon exclusive It Can’t Be Christmas surges 23 places to 2, and WHAM!’s Last Christmas drops one place to 3.
Last week’s Number 1 Gracie Abrams could see her five-week reign with That’s So True come to an end, with it currently placing at Number 4 midweek.
Another new Christmas song rising the ranks is Laufey’s Christmas Magic. The Icelandic-Chinese artist’s 2024 Amazon Original made its Top 40 debut last week (39) and is tracking to rise 32 spots (7).
Finally, cutting through Christmas is Lola Young. Her breakthrough track Messy marked her first Top 40 single last week when it entered at Number 35, and it’s risen 16 places midweek to Number 19. Lola soundtracked the John Lewis Christmas ad in 2021, and was nominated for BRITs Rising Star and BBC Sound Of… the same year, losing out to Holly Humberstone and PinkPantheress.