UK OCC Charts Midweeks Thread: 2021

[Blondini]

Post any new midweeks info here. Ready for the first chart of 2021 on New Year's Day.

[Blondini]

It doesn't look like we're getting a First Look. Radio 1 are doing a biggest songs of 2020 so far even though it's saying "First Look" on the Sounds player.

[Blondini]

No mids info but after the Christmas number one campaigns we now have a "Brexit number one campaign" and - as you can see from our iTunes thread - there is currently one contender. Asian Dub Foundation ft Stewart Lee.

https://joyzineuk.wordpress.com/2020...-racist-track/


They have to get past Ed Sheeran who is above them on iTunes.

[Wayne]

Hopefully we’ll get a midweeks update at some point in the next couple of days - Sheeran will probably end up #1 if his digital sales are strong enough (his U.K. streaming numbers thus far aren’t that impressive, at least on Spotify).

[Blondini]

OCC site should have the top 100s tomorrow afternoon.

[enJ0Yable]

Could even be another week for Mariah... seeing these streaming numbers Around 2.500.000 Spotify plays on December 25 and 300k again on December 26 is huge... and the current numbers (not more than 200-250k per day for positions) seem like nobody can catch up to this anymore... so only a huge number of downloads will matter, most likely.

[Thriller]

Mariah would be a nice No. 1 to leave the year with but this anti-Brexit track would be a fitting sentiment indeed.

[SholasBoy]

I wonder which songs are going to fill the gaps left behind from Christmas, are we going to see Ed Sheeran's Perfect and Lewis Capaldi back in the top 40

I reckon we might see some of those that have been hanging down a bit further get their shot now, like Shane Codd, Harry's Golden, Nathan Dawe/LM, Jason DeRulo, maybe even Jerusalema.

[Robbie]

Tuesday 29 December Update

Top 100 Singles

1 Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You
2 Wham! - Last Christmas
3 Jess Glynne - This Christmas
4 Justin Bieber - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
5 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York

6-10
6 Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone
7 Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?
8 Elton John - Step Into Christmas
9 Michael Bublé - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
10 Chris Rea - Driving Home for Christmas

11-20
11 Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
12 Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody
13 Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me
14 Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree
15 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
16 John Lennon, Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
17 Leona Lewis - One More Sleep
18 Michael Bublé - Holly Jolly Christmas
19 Andy Williams - It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
20 Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime

21-30
21 Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock
22 Justin Bieber - Mistletoe
23 Kylie Minogue - Santa Baby
24 Coldplay - Christmas Lights
25 The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride
27 Dean Martin - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
28 Katy Perry - Cozy Little Christmas ^
29 Ed Sheeran - Afterglow
30 José Feliciano - Feliz Navidad *

31-40
32 Brett Eldredge feat. Meghan Trainor - Baby, It's Cold Outside *
33 Idina Menzel & Michael Bublé - Baby, It's Cold Outside ^
34 Bing Crosby - White Christmas ^
35 Sam Smith - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas *
36 Liam Payne & Dixie D'Amelio - Naughty List *
37 Jamie Cullum - In the Bleak Midwinter *
38 Griff - Love is a Compass *
39 Sia - Santa's Coming for Us ^


Top 100 Albums

1 Michael Bublé - Christmas
2 Taylor Swift - evermore
3 Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
4 Little Mix - Confetti
5 Eminem - Music to Be Murdered By

6-10
6 Queen - Greatest Hits
7 Playboi Carti - Whole Lotta Red *
8 Pop Smoke - Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon
9 Sam Smith - Love Goes
10 Harry Styles - Fine Line

11-20
12 Elton John - Diamonds
14 Ariana Grande - Positions
15 Lewis Capaldi - Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent
18 Taylor Swift - folklore
19 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop ^
20 Frank Sinatra - Ultimate Christmas *

21-30
21 Jucie WRLD - Legends Never Die
22 Bing Crosby - Christmas Classics *
23 Lil Durk - The Voice *
24 ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits ^
25 Nat "King" Cole - The Christmas Song *
27 The Kid LAROI - F*CK LOVE
28 Ed Sheeran - ÷
29 George Michael - Twenty Five ^

31-40
31 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours ^
33 Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE DO?
34 Choir of King's College Cambridge - Carols from King's College Cambridge *
35 King's College Choir - Christmas at King's *
36 Dermot Kennedy - Without Fear ^
37 Arctic Monkeys - AM ^
38 King's College Choir - Best Loved Christmas Carols *
40 The Beatles - 1 ^

[Robbie]

^
It will be interesting to see by how much the chart changes on Friday. The above update will largely be based on streaming data from Friday and Saturday.

[Blondini]

Well, Christmas Tree Farm is in the mids! (won't be there by Friday).

These mids are probably the most misleading mids ever posted. Nobody is buying or streaming Christmas songs and albums beyond Boxing Day.

Ed Sheeran 29 (should be at least top 10 by Friday) .
Comin' Over Here 89 (might be top 40).


Buble has the top album - Taylor might grab it again or Dua retakes it.

Macca's drop might not be so great...

[Thriller]

I’m surprised the Shane Codd song hasn’t cracked the top 10 yet, it’ll surely climb in to it in the coming weeks.

[SholasBoy]

Woahhhh... if the chart stays similar to this, we can definitely expect the OCC to change the rules by next year, this will be a very strange chart show on Friday

[Thriller]

I’m surprised the OCC haven’t siphoned the Christmas songs off into a singles chart of their own by now so they can further tamper with it cos it doesn’t suit what they want it to look like.

[Askforsnow]

Tuesday 29 December Update

Top 100 Albums

24 ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits ^

Very impressed by ABBA almost top 20 and consistently in the top 40. Quality!


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Mod edit: Askforsnow Please do not quote full charts, long lists, etc., etc.

[Wayne]

Omg, that is the most Christmassy chart ever.

[KEY9481]

I’m surprised the OCC haven’t siphoned the Christmas songs off into a singles chart of their own by now so they can further tamper with it cos it doesn’t suit what they want it to look like.

My wish for 2021.

[muzik_biz_wiz]

These charts are so mad. The song at 26 isn't no.1 solely because of the 25 Christmas songs.

[jszmiles]

wow Dua's album gets the biggest boost from gift cards!

[Robbie]

Can Wham! finally make No.1 with Last Christmas?

by Andre Paine

December 31st 2020 at 10:21AM

Mariah Carey has done it. And now Wham! could be about to repeat her trick of taking a Christmas classic to No.1.

Last Christmas (Sony CG) could finally reach a new peak at the top of the charts on Friday (January 1). The single (actually a double A-side with Everything She Wants) by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley was famously held off the top spot by Band Aid for five weeks during December 1984.

In the Midweek sales flash, the beloved ’80s pop duo were just 89 sales behind Mariah Carey, who was on 34,888 by the end of Tuesday (Official Charts Company).

All I Want For Christmas Is You is attempting a return to the summit after LadBaby usurped Carey’s hit on Christmas Day. Carey’s festive favourite has already earned two weeks at No.1 and is chasing a third non-consecutive week at the top.

Crucially, though, Wham! have sales momentum. As festive streaming continues in late December, Last Christmas’ sales were up 11.2% week-on-week compared to 4.5% for Mariah Carey by the end of Tuesday. Wham! could now have pulled ahead of their chart rival.

Wham!’s last No.1 single was The Edge Of Heaven in 1986. The duo had four No.1s between 1984 and 1986.


Last Christmas has so far spent eight non-consecutive weeks at No.2 since 1984.

from musicweek.com

[Wayne]

Omg, come on Wham - I would be delighted if they finally make it!

I think this could conceivably be their last chance, as I feel that the OCC might make changes to the chart next year in view of the madness that has been this week’s chart.

[Blondini]

Sunday 3rd January: First Look



https://www.officialcharts.com/chart...-entry__32042/

9 1 SWEET MELODY LITTLE MIX
13 2 AFTERGLOW ED SHEERAN
14 3 WHOOPTY CJ
22 4 GET OUT MY HEAD SHANE CODD
68 5 LEVITATING DUA LIPA
44 6 BLINDING LIGHTS WEEKND
20 7 34+35 ARIANA GRANDE
28 8 PRISONER MILEY CYRUS FT DUA LIPA
29 9 PARADISE MEDUZA FT DERMOT KENNEDY
26 10 WITHOUT YOU KID LAROI
74 11 YOU BROKE ME FIRST TATE MCRAE
NE 12 ANYONE JUSTIN BIEBER
34 13 WILLOW TAYLOR SWIFT
32 14 REALLY LOVE KSI/CRAIG DAVID/DIGITAL FARM
48 15 DYNAMITE BTS
41 16 HEAD & HEART JOEL CORRY FT MNEK
36 17 THEREFORE I AM BILLIE EILISH
38 18 MOOD 24KGOLDN FT IANN DIOR
RE 19 TRAIN WRECK JAMES ARTHUR
46 20 HOLY JUSTIN BIEBER FT CHANCE

[brian05]

Gerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden, whose version of You'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for his hometown club of Liverpool, has died at the age of 78.

His family said on Sunday he died after a short illness not linked to Covid-19.

Marsden's band was one of the biggest success stories of the Merseybeat era, and in 1963 became the first to have their first three songs top the chart.

The second of those was Ferry Cross The Mersey, written by Marsden.

Marsden was made an MBE in 2003 for services to charity after supporting victims of the Hillsborough disaster.

22 +837 Gerry & The Pacemakers - You'll Never Walk Alone
on iTunes.

And on iTunes albums chart,
19 NEW Gerry & The Pacemakers - The Best of Gerry & The Pacemakers

[Blondini]

^ won't make much impact on singles mids because of ACR but i'll update iTunes thread. Don't think it'll make much impact on albums, either.

[Blondini]

Monday Update
Source: OCC
Missing Data: Spotify and YouTube (both for Sunday)

Top 100 Singles

1 Little Mix - Sweet Melody (9.6k)
2 Ed Sheeran - Afterglow (8.4k)
3 CJ - Whoopty (7.7k)
4 Shane Codd - Get Out My Head (7.2k)
5 Dua Lipa (ft DaBaby) - Levitating (6.8k) ^

6 Ariana Grande - 34+35
7 Justin Bieber - Anyone *
8 Meduza ft Dermot Kennedy - Paradise
9 The Kid Laroi - Without You
10 Miley Cyrus ft Dua Lipa - Prisoner

11 Tate McRae - You Broke Me First ^
12 The Weeknd - Blinding Lights ^
13 Taylor Swift - Willow
14 KSI ft Craig David and Digital Farm Animals - Really Love
15 Billie Eilish - Therefore I Am
16 BTS - Dynamite ^
17 Joel Corry ft MNEK - Head & Heart ^
18 24kGoldn ft Iann Dior - Mood ^
19 James Arthur - Train Wreck ^
20 Justin Bieber ft Chance The Rapper (/ The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir) - Holy ^

21 Ariana Grande - Positions ^
22 Lil Nas X - Holiday *
23 Nathan Dawe and Little Mix - No Time for Tears *
24 Central Cee - Loading ^
25 Shawn Mendes and Justin Bieber - Monster ^
26 Miley Cyrus - Midnight Sky ^
27 Harry Styles - Golden ^
28 Internet Money and Gunna ft Don Toliver and Nav - Lemonade ^
29 Becky Hill - Forever Young *
30 Jason Derulo and Nuka - Love Not War (The Tampa Beat) *

31 Wes Nelson and Hardy Caprio - See Nobody ^
32 Justin Bieber and benny blanco - Lonely ^
33 Tones and I - Dance Monkey ^
34 Tiësto - The Business ^
35 Jax Jones and Au/Ra - i miss u ^
36 Paul Woolford, Diplo and Kareen Lomax - Looking for Me ^
37 Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar ^
38 SZA - Good Days *
39 Sam Smith - Diamonds ^
40 Pop Smoke - What You Know Bout Love? ^

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Top 100 Albums

1 Taylor Swift - Evemore (2.4k)
2 Harry Styles - Fine Line (1.7k - 61 ahead)
3 Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia (1.7k - 28 ahead)
4 Little Mix - Confetti (1.7k)
5 Queen - Greatest Hits (1.5k)

6-10
7 Sam Smith - Love Goes
9 Elton John - Diamonds
10 Lewis Capaldi - Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent

11-20
12 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop
13 Miley Cyrus - Plastic Hearts
15 The Kid Laroi - F*ck Love
16 Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka ^
17 Juice Wrld - Legends Never Die
18 Ed Sheeran - ÷ (Divide)
19 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Songs From The Kitchen Disco (Sophie Ellis-Bextor's Greatest Hits) ^

21-30
21 ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits
23 Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
24 Dermot Kennedy - Without Fear
25 George Michael - Twenty Five
26 Bee Gees - Timeless: The All-Time Greatest Hits ^
27 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
28 Mabel - High Expectations
29 Michael Jackson - Number Ones
30 Madvillain - Madvillainy *

31-40
32 Juice Wrld - Goodbye & Good Riddance
33 David Bowie - Legacy ^
36 Oasis - Time Flies...1994-2009
37 The Weeknd - After Hours ^
40 Whitney Houston - The Ultimate Collection ^

Click on the above relevant links.