UK OCC Charts: 10th - 16th December 2021

[Blondini]

full singles and albums charts will be posted in this thread later

links:
https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/
https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/

(plenty of other specialist charts also on OCC site)

[Blondini]

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart...mber-1__34650/

10 December 2021
Adele’s 30 reigns supreme on Official Albums Chart for third week at Number 1

JLS also gain this week's highest new entry with 2.0.
By George Griffiths
Adele’s 30 reigns supreme on the Official Albums Chart this week, holding at Number 1 for a third week.

30 shifted over 73,000 chart sales in its third week on sale, comprised of 81% physical and digital download copies.



This week’s highest new entry is courtesy of boyband JLS, who debut at Number 4 with 2.0, their first album of original material in eight years. It becomes their sixth UK Top 10 collection.

Michael Buble’s Christmas rises into the Official Albums Chart Top 5 for the first time this year, while Andre Rieu and his Johan Strauss Orchestra enter the Top 10 with Happy Together, rising six places to Number 6. It’s now the celebrated Dutch composer’s 12th UK Top 10 album.
MORE: All the Number 1 albums


Following on from the news last week that Little Mix will enter an extended hiatus in 2022 to focus on solo careers, their greatest hits collection Between Us is up two to Number 7.

Meanwhile, just outside the Top 10 alt-pop band The Lottery Winners are a new entry at Number 11 with their third album Something To Leave The House For, their first Top 20 album and a career-best peak for them on the Official Albums Chart.

Following on from the release of a special boxset to celebrate its 30th anniversary, Nirvana’s iconic second album Nevermind is this week’s highest climber, breaking back into the Top 40 after vaulting 27 places to Number 24.

Further down, Dutch rock band Volbeat’s Servant of the Mind is straight in at Number 31, and finally Polo G’s Hall of Fame 2.0 debuts at Number 32. The collection is a deluxe, expanded edition of his recent album Hall of Fame which peaked at Number 3 upon its release earlier this year.
See the full Official Albums Chart Top 100

[Blondini]

Music Week Singles Report
by Alan Jones

Friends since 2011, when the former signed to the latter’s management company as part of a joint venture, Ed Sheeran & Elton John’s first collaboration, Merry Christmas, debuts atop the singles chart this week (76,708 sales, including 14,055 download sales and 8,101 CDs), ending the seven-week reign of Adele’s Easy On Me (1-2, 53,072 sales). It is sweet revenge for John, as Easy On Me dethroned his last No.1 (Dua Lipa collaboration Cold Heart) in October.

An original song penned by the pair, Merry Christmas provides Sheeran’s 12th No.1 in all (third of 2021), and John’s ninth (second of 2021). Only Elvis Presley (21, or 18 if you exclude reissues), The Beatles (17), Westlife (14), Cliff Richard (14) and Madonna (13) have had more No.1s than Sheeran, who ties for sixth place on the list with Take That. All of Sheeran’s No.1s have come since 2014 – a remarkable feat. It’s the most of any act in the near 21 years of the 21st century, leaving joint runners-up Calvin Harris and Eminem (10 apiece) in his wake. Sheeran’s track consumption, tallying actual sales and sales-equivalent streams, is an awesome 74,191,208. Thirty-eight of his tracks have achieved platinum certification, the most unlikely being Tenerife Sea, which only reached No.62, but has to-date consumption of 802,558 units.

The 10th No.1 to include Christmas in its title (11th if we include Xmas), Ed & Elt’s effort is one of over 150 such Top 75 entries but the first entitled simply Merry Christmas. The biggest-selling of more than 50 songs of that title released this century is Bryan Adams’ 2011 effort, which sold a mere 3,990 copies.

Sheeran’s 59th hit, and John’s 91st, Merry Christmas is the third seasonal single by Elton John to make the chart, following 1973’s Step Into Christmas and 1984’s Cold As Christmas. The latter is almost forgotten, as is Ho Ho Ho! Who’d Be a Turkey At Christmas, the original flipside of Step Into Christmas, though ‘Step’ itself has latterly become a massive annual chart hit, with 21st century consumption (mostly sales-equivalent streams) of 1,230,875 units. It jumps 30-16 this week (23,382 sales), making the Top 20 for the fifth year in a row.

The aforementioned Elton John & Dua Lipa single, Cold Heart provided the most disparately-aged No.1 duet of all-time, with 48 years between Elton (74) and Dua (26). Elton is still 74 and Sheeran is 30, making the pair the second most disparately-aged chart-topping duo. In the Top 75 as a whole, the record is arguably held by Amy Winehouse & Tony Bennett. There was 57 years between them when their collaboration Body And Soul was recorded – Winehouse was 27 and Bennet was 84 – but Winehouse died shortly thereafter, and the track was released on what would have been her 28th birthday in 2011, subsequently reaching No.40. Amongst duos alive at the time a record was a Top 75 hit, Elton & Dua’s track broke a record set in 2002, when Andy Williams, then 73, reached No.23 with a new version of his 1968 hit Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, accompanied improbably by Denise Van Outen who, at 28, was his junior by 45 years.

The only 2021 recording amongst them, Merry Christmas is but the most prominent of seven Christmas songs in the Top 10, the others being Last Christmas (4-3, 43,865 sales) by Wham!, All I Want For Christmas Is You (3-4, 42,975 sales) by Mariah Carey, Merry Christmas Everyone (17-6, 29,911 sales) by Shakin’ Stevens, Fairytale Of New York (16-7, 29,764 sales) by The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl, It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas (20-9, 26,777 sales) by Michael Buble and Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree (22-10, 26,700 sales) by Brenda Lee.

A little snowed under, Gayle’s debut hit, abcdefu, drifts 2-5 despite increasing consumption 13.51% to 36,391 sales, with ArrDee’s Flowers (7-8, 27,199 sales) completing the Top 10.

The seasonal obsession sends five regular releases tumbling out of the Top 10: Overpass Graffiti (9-13, 24,404 sales) by Ed Sheeran, Seventeen Going Under (8-15, 24,183 sales) by Sam Fender, I Drink Wine (5-18, 22,387 sales) by Adele, Oh My God (6-23, 20,581 sales) by Adele and All Too Well (10-24, 20,509 sales) by Taylor Swift. ACR wasn’t a factor in any of the declines – and without ACR, by the way, Merry Christmas would be No.3 this week, trailing Last Christmas and All I Want For Christmas Is You, whose tallies would be 86,814 and 84,637.

The only new releases to make it through the morass of Christmas perennials to make their debuts are: I Hate U (No.38, 14,911 sales), the 11th hit in all but only third solo hit by R&B singer SZA; Make You Smile (No.42, 13,539 sales), the 32nd hit for D-Block Europe and the 28th for AJ Tracey; Wandered To L.A. (No.59, 10,334 sales), the 21st hit (14th posthumous) for Juice Wrld and the 74th for Justin Bieber; Little Things (No.61, 10,000 sales), ABBA’s 30th hit: and Santa Can You Hear Me (87-66, 9,844 sales), the 21st hit for Kelly Clarkson and the 42nd for Ariana Grande.

Meanwhile, there are new peaks for Come On Home For Christmas (36-26, 19,943 sales) by George Ezra, The Christmas Song (46-39, 14,325 sales) by Olivia Dean, I’ll Be Home For Christmas (59-48, 12,296 sales) by Camila Cabello, Christmas Tree Farm (60-52, 11,405 sales) by Taylor Swift and Snowman (73-55, 10,962 sales) by Sia.

Singles consumption smashes through the 24m. mark for the first time ever, rising 4.16% week-on-week to 24,606,453 units – 11.45% above same week 2020 consumption of 22,078,868 units. Paid-for sales are up 8.12% week-on-week at 379,451 – 14.99% below same week 2020 sales of 446,340.

[Blondini]

Music Week Albums Report
by Alan Jones


No.1 for the week, and now No.1 for the year – Adele’s 30 racks up its third straight week atop the album chart, with sales of 73,212 copies (including 55,115 CDs, 4,294 vinyl, 2,018 digital sales and 21 cassettes). That’s more than twice as many as any other album, and raises its 21 day cume to 437,349.

It thus becomes the biggest selling album of 2021, pushing Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour album into second place. Released in May, Sour has spent a grand total of five weeks at No.1, with an initial two-week reign followed by three single week returns to the summit. It moves 17-16 on its 29th week on the chart on sales of 6,918 copies, raising its career tally to 377,048.

30 rockets 9-4 in the to-date standings for the 102 weeks that have thus far elapsed in the 2020s, trailing Lewis Capaldi’s Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent (615,843 sales), Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia (486,224 sales) and Harry Styles’ Fine Line (462,983 sales). Lipa’s album was a 2020 release, so its cumulative sales are identical to its 2020s sales, but Capaldi and Styles’ albums were both 2019 releases, and have overall consumption figures of 1,256,737 and 532,626, respectively.

Styles, of course, was previously a member of One Direction, one of a plethora of acts who came to fame on ITV’s now defunct The X Factor in a 15-season run from 2004 to 2018. Fifth season (2008) runners-up JLS provide this week’s highest new entry with their first album in nine years, 2.0, debuting at No.4 (23,705 sales, including 1,508 vinyl albums and the week’s top cassette tally of 907). It is their sixth Top 10 album, a tally which includes all five of their studio albums and 2013 compilation, Goodbye: The Greatest Hits.

The only X Factor graduates with more Top 10 albums are Little Mix, whose seventh such release, compilation Between Us, moves 9-7 (10,210 sales) on its fourth straight week in the Top 10. Olly Murs has also had six Top 10 albums, while One Direction have had five. Of course, if we include individual members’ solo releases, One Direction top the list with 11 – Styles and Niall Horan have had two, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson one apiece. Fifth member Liam Payne’s only solo album, LP1, peaked at No.17.

After a fortnight at No.12, Happy Together sprints to No.6 (12,531 sales) for Andre Rieu & His Johann Strauss Orchestra. Recorded after Covid forced the normally prolific Rieu and his cohorts to spend more than a year apart, it’s a celebration of music from all around the world, and becomes Rieu’s 12th Top 10 album.

The rest of the Top 10: = (3-2, 36,067 sales) by Ed Sheeran, Voyage (4-3, 25,920 sales) by ABBA, Christmas (6-5, 14,206 sales) by Michael Buble, Wild Dreams (2-8, 10,207 sales) by Westlife, The Lockdown Sessions (10-9, 9,568 sales) by Elton John and The Tears Of Hercules (7-10, 8,797 sales) by Rod Stewart.

Dipping out of the Top 10 are The Dream Of Christmas (5-13, 7,172 sales) by Gary Barlow and Red (Taylor’s Version) (8-14, 7,031 sales) by Taylor Swift.

Without a chart album to their name two years ago, indie quartet The Lottery Winners from Leigh have now had three, with the latest, Something To Leave The House For, debuting at No.11 (8,339 sales) this week to become their first Top 20 success. Available in no fewer than 20 variations, the album follows their earlier success with a self-titled March 2020 album, which reached No.23, and Sounds Of Isolation, a lockdown covers set which reached No.61 in September 2020. Sounds Of Isolation includes covers of tracks by fellow Greater Manchester acts Oasis, Joy Division, The Smiths and Rick Astley, as well as an a capella rendition of Caravan Of Love that gives The Housemartins’ version a good run for its money. The band – all in their late 20s and early 30s – supposedly released an album called The Art Of Communication back in 2011, but there is no reference to it on their website, it has never recorded an OCC sale, and is available nowhere, suggesting it was shelved, and that the eponymous set mentioned above was their first album.

In a threadbare week for new releases, there are also debuts for Servant Of The Mind (No.31, 3,897 sales), the eighth studio album and third chart entry for Danish heavy metal band Volbeat; and Hall Of Fame 2.0 (No.32, 3,659 sales), which is the third chart album by 22-year-old Chicago rapper Polo G. It is technically an expanded (by 14 tracks) version of Hall Of Fame, which debuted and peaked at No.3 in June on first week sales of 8,229.

There’s a vinyl-fuelled leap for Nirvana album Nevermind (51-24, 4,213 sales, 2,952 on vinyl). Released in 1991, Nevermind reached its peak position (No.5) 20 years later following the release of an anniversary edition, and now, a few weeks after its 30th birthday, reaches its highest position since. Renewed vinyl sales - 1,847 of them - also boost Amy Winehouse’s 2006 chart-topper Back To Black (58-41, 3,005 sales).

Now That’s What I Call Music! 110 tops the compilation chart for the third week in a row (12,807 sales).

Overall album sales are down 0.02% week-on-week at 2,259,168 – 3.24% below same week 2020 sales of 2,334,848. Physical product accounted for 760,981 sales, 33.68% of the total.

[Blondini]

Official Singles Chart Top 100
10 December 2021 - 16 December 2021

The Official UK Top 100 chart is compiled by the Official Charts Company, based on official sales of downloads, CDs, vinyl, audio and video streams.

https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/

1 NE 1* Ed Sheeran and Elton John ~ Merry Christmas
2 1 8 Adele ~ Easy On Me
3 4 77**(102) Wham! ~ Last Christmas ***
4 3 112 Mariah Carey ~ All I Want For Christmas Is You ***
5 2 4 Gayle ~ ABCDEFU
6 17 81 Shakin' Stevens ~ Merry Christmas Everyone ***
7 7 5 ArrDee ~ Flowers (Say My Name)
7 16 105**(115) The Pogues ft Kirsty MacColl ~ Fairytale Of New York ***
9 20 44 Michael Bublé ~ It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas ***
10 22 57 Brenda Lee ~ Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree ***
11 12 3 D-Block Europe ft Central Cee ~ Overseas
12 11 6 SwitchOTR ft A1 and J1 ~ Coming For You
13 9 6 Ed Sheeran ~ Overpass Graffiti
14 23 90**(91) Band Aid ~ Do They Know It's Christmas? ***
15 8 21 Sam Fender ~ Seventeen Going Under
16 30 45 Elton John ~ Step Into Christmas ***
17 29 28 Kelly Clarkson ~ Underneath The Tree ***
18 5 3 Adele ~ I Drink Wine
19 31 26 Ariana Grande ~ Santa Tell Me ***
20 38 44 Andy Williams ~ It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year ***
21 14 6 Acraze ft Cherish ~ Do It To It
22 15 17 Elton John and Dua Lipa ~ Cold Heart ***
23 6 3 Adele ~ Oh My God
24 10 4 Taylor Swift ~ All Too Well (Taylor's Version)
25 28 66**(86) Wizzard ~ I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday ***
26 36 3 George Ezra ~ Come On Home For Christmas
27 33 65 Chris Rea ~ Driving Home For Christmas ***
28 13 13 Ed Sheeran ~ Shivers ***
29 54 40 Paul McCartney ~ Wonderful Christmastime ***
30 18 14 Ewan McVicar ~ Tell Me Something Good
31 47 31 Leona Lewis ~ One More Sleep ***
32 42 18 Bobby Helms ~ Jingle Bell Rock ***
33 48 110 Slade ~ Merry Xmas Everybody ***
34 25 6 Joel Corry ft Mabel ~ I Wish
35 53 46**(81) John & Yoko and The Plastic Ono Band with The Harlem Community Choir ~ Happy Xmas (War Is Over) ***
36 51 17 The Ronettes ~ Sleigh Ride ***
37 27 19 Dermot Kennedy ~ Better Days
38 NE 1 SZA ~ I Hate U
39 46 2 Olivia Dean ~ The Christmas Song
40 34 4 Imagine Dragons ft JID ~ Enemy

41 52 21 Michael Bublé ~ Holly Jolly Christmas ***
42 NE 1 D-Block Europe ft AJ Tracey ~ Make You Smile
43 32 17 Arz ~ Alone With You
44 56 30 Justin Bieber ~ Mistletoe ***
45 62 26 Dean Martin ~ Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! ***
46 37 9 Justin Bieber ~ Ghost
47 64 12 José Feliciano ~ Feliz Navidad ***
48 59 2 Camila Cabello ~ I'll Be Home For Christmas
49 26 5 Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak) ~ Smokin Out The Window
50 40 22 The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber ~ Stay ***
51 41 56 Glass Animals ~ Heat Waves ***
52 60 6 Taylor Swift ~ Christmas Tree Farm
53 35 19 Clean Bandit and Topic ft Wes Nelson ~ Drive
54 82 29 Jona Lewie ~ Stop The Cavalry ***
55 73 4 Sia ~ Snowman ***
56 39 13 Ckay ~ Love Nwantiti (Ah Ah Ah) ***
57 44 6 D-Block Europe ~ No Competition
58 50 9 Lost Frequencies ft Calum Scott ~ Where Are You Now?
59 NE 1 Juice Wrld ft Justin Bieber ~ Wandered To LA
60 80 24 Kylie ~ Santa Baby ***
61 NE 1 ABBA ~ Little Things
62 79 47 Bing Crosby ~ White Christmas ***
63 85 10 Frank Sinatra ~ Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! ***
64 81 36 Coldplay ~ Christmas Lights ***
65 RE 25**(29) Mud ~ Lonely This Christmas ***
66 87 2 Kelly Clarkson and Ariana Grande ~ Santa, Can't You Hear Me?
67 77 15 Nat "King" Cole ~ The Christmas Song ***
68 92 15 Darlene Love ~ Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) ***
69 91 15 The Jackson 5 ~ Santa Claus Is Coming To Town ***
70 70 7 Craig David and MNEK ~ Who You Are
71 63 6 Da Beatfreakz ft Russ Millions, Raye and WeWantWraiths ~ Money Calling
72 43 5 Post Malone and The Weeknd ~ One Right Now
73 75 30 Olivia Rodrigo ~ Good 4 U ***
74 45 6 Amaarae ft Moliy (and Kali Uchis) ~ Sad Girlz Luv Money
75 49 7 Neiked, Mae Muller and Polo G ~ Better Days

76 90 2 Vundabar ~ Alien Blues
77 61 20 Lil Nas X ft Jack Harlow ~ Industry Baby ***
78 71 17 Doja Cat ~ Woman ***
79 74 2 Michael Bublé ~ The Christmas Sweater
80 RE 15 Perry Como and The Fontane Sisters ~ It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas ***
81 55 15 Becky Hill and Topic ~ My Heart Goes (La Di Da) ***
82 57 13 Central Cee ~ Obsessed With You ***
83 21 15 The Anxiety (Willow and Tyler Cole)~ Meet Me At Our Spot ***
84 98 27 Pretenders ~ 2000 Miles ***
85 58 7 Swedish House Mafia and The Weeknd ~ Moth To A Flame
86 24 11 Coldplay and BTS ~ My Universe ***
87 RE 24**(35) Boney M. ~ Mary's Boy Child - Oh My Lord ***
88 67 19 Billie Eilish ~ Happier Than Ever ***
89 86 48 The Weeknd (ft Ariana Grande) ~ Save Your Tears ***
90 RE 8 Justin Bieber ~ Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree ***
91 RE 7 Jess Glynne ~ This Christmas
92 65 10 Sam Fender ~ Spit Of You
93 NE 1 Shawn Mendes ~ It'll Be Okay
94 NE 1 Summer Walker ~ I Want To Come Home For Christmas
95 72 6 Meduza ft Hozier ~ Tell It To My Heart
96 68 17 Joel Corry and Jax Jones ft Charli XCX and Saweetie ~ Out Out ***
97 69 12 Lil Nas X ~ Thats What I Want ***
98 78 4 FelixThe1st and Dreya Mac ft Finch Fetti ~ Own Brand Freestyle
99 95 2 Emmy Meli ~ I Am Woman
100 76 21 Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak) ~ Leave The Door Open

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Official Albums Chart Top 100
10 December 2021 - 16 December 2021

The UK's Top 100 biggest artist albums of the week is compiled by the Official Charts Company, based on sales of CDs, downloads, vinyl and weighted audio streams.

https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/

1 1 3* Adele ~ 30
2 3 6 Ed Sheeran ~ =
3 4 5 ABBA ~ Voyage
4 NE 1 JLS ~ 2.0
5 6 95 Michael Bublé ~ Christmas
6 12 3 Andre Rieu and His Johann Strauss Orchestra ~ Happy Together
7 9 4 Little Mix ~ Between Us
8 2 2 Westlife ~ Wild Dreams
9 10 7 Elton John ~ The Lockdown Sessions
10 7 4 Rod Stewart ~ The Tears Of Hercules
11 NE 1 The Lottery Winners ~ Something To Leave The House For
12 13 3 D-Block Europe ~ Home Alone 2 [mixtape]
13 5 2 Gary Barlow ~ The Dream Of Christmas
14 8 4 Taylor Swift ~ Red (Taylor's Version)
15 11 3 Robert Plant and Alison Krauss ~ Raise the Roof
16 17 29 Olivia Rodrigo ~ Sour
17 15 8 Coldplay ~ Music Of The Spheres
18 19 975 Queen ~ Greatest Hits
19 14 3 Oasis ~ Knebworth 1996 (live)
20 16 217 Adele ~ 25
21 18 9 Sam Fender ~ Seventeen Going Under
22 22 9**(62) The Beatles ~ Let It Be
23 23 213 Elton John ~ Diamonds
24 51 369 Nirvana ~ Nevermind ****new vinyl of 2xLP deluxe
25 25 1023 ABBA ~ Gold: Greatest Hits
26 21 3 James Blunt ~ The Stars Beneath My Feet (2004-2021)
27 27 249 Ed Sheeran ~ ÷
28 32 24 Doja Cat ~ Planet Her
29 26 44 The Weeknd ~ The Highlights
30 31 918 Fleetwood Mac ~ Rumours
31 NE 1 Volbeat ~ Servant Of The Mind
32 NE 1 Polo G ~ Hall Of Fame 2.0 ****deluxe of Hall Of Fame (with first volume as "disc 2") - OCC changing rules?
33 20 305 Adele ~ 21
34 36 430 Arctic Monkeys ~ AM
35 33 104 Harry Styles ~ Fine Line
36 34 160 Fleetwood Mac ~ 50 Years: Don't Stop
37 35 14 Drake ~ Certified Lover Boy
38 30 4 Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak) ~ An Evening with Silk Sonic
39 37 344 The Beatles ~ 1
40 41 19 Billie Eilish ~ Happier Than Ever

41 58 451 Amy Winehouse ~ Back To Black ****new vinyl
42 39 491 Eminem ~ Curtain Call: The Hits
43 48 20 Dave ~ We're All Alone In This Together
44 40 89 Dua Lipa ~ Future Nostalgia
45 47 72 Taylor Swift ~ Folklore
46 67 11 Michael Ball and Alfie Boe ~ Together At Christmas
47 44 134 Lewis Capaldi ~ Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent
48 45 9 Jamie Cullum ~ The Pianoman At Christmas
49 46 431 Oasis ~ Time Flies... 1994-2009
50 50 23 Tom Grennan ~ Evering Road
51 56 75 Pop Smoke ~ Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon
52 69 42**(140) The Beatles ~ Abbey Road
53 52 3 The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ~ Motown with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (A Symphony Of Soul)
54 29 5 Gregory Porter ~ Still Rising - The Collection
55 62 38 Justin Bieber ~ Justice
56 63 12 Lil Nas X ~ Montero
57 70 369 Arctic Monkeys ~ Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
58 64 264 David Bowie ~ Legacy
59 RE 7 Jack Savorett ~ Europiana
60 65 1007 Bob Marley and The Wailers ~ Legend
61 RE 4 Duran Duran ~ Future Past
62 59 10 The Script ~ Tales From The Script: Greatest Hits
63 49 220 Adele ~ 19
64 54 518 Oasis ~ (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
65 76 51 Taylor Swift ~ Evermore
66 RE 14 Kylie ~ Disco
67 60 31 Rag'n'Bone Man ~ Life By Misadventure
68 57 61 Sam Fender ~ Hypersonic Missiles
69 71 228 Taylor Swift ~ 1989
70 55 3 Sting ~ The Bridge
71 93 53 D-Block Europe ~ The Blue Print - Us vs. Them
72 42 3 Elbow ~ Flying Dream 1
73 73 141 Billie Eilish ~ When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
74 66 525 Michael Jackson ~ Number Ones
75 43 4 Ronan Keating ~ Songs from Home

76 79 8 Daniel O'Donnell ~ 60
77 75 25 Whitney Houston ~ I Will Always Love You: The Best Of Whitney Houston
78 77 242 George Michael ~ Twenty Five
79 68 387 Ed Sheeran ~ ×
80 78 236 Dua Lipa ~ Dua Lipa
81 89 66 The Kid Laroi ~ F*ck Love / Savage / Over You [mixtape]
82 82 219 Maroon 5 ~ Singles
83 92 74 Juice Wrld ~ Legends Never Die
84 RE 52 Nirvana ~ Unplugged In New York
85 53 3 Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band ~ The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts (live)
86 94 541 Pink Floyd ~ The Dark Side Of The Moon
87 80 365 Sam Smith ~ In The Lonely Hour
88 72 5 Kidz Bop Kids (UK) ~ Kidz Bop 2022
89 61 5 Summer Walker ~ Still Over It
90 90 428 Oasis ~ Definitely Maybe
91 85 174 Billie Eilish ~ Don't Smile At Me
92 86 106 Dermot Kennedy ~ Without Fear
93 95 434 Foo Fighters ~ Greatest Hits
94 97 132 Dave ~ Psychodrama
95 RE 56 Travis ~ The Invisible Band ****20th anniversary edition
96 81 5 Diana Ross ~ Thank You
97 RE 12 Mariah Carey ~ Merry Christmas
98 RE 34 D-Block Europe ~ PTSD
99 91 219 Bruno Mars ~ Doo-Wops & Hooligans
100 88 126 Ed Sheeran ~ No.6 Collaborations Project


here's the video streaming chart
here's the overall streaming chart

Source: OCC / Radio 1

Text source: BuzzJack (edited and refined by your host)

*Weeks on top 100 chart as listed on OCC site.
**Complete total of all entries in brackets.
***ACR affected tracks.
****Notes on special re-entries or other trivia

[CZB]

Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (22-10, 26,700 sales) by Brenda Lee.

After all the extensive discussion of the ages of various duet performers in the preceding paragraph, I'm surprised / disappointed that there is no indication here of whether Brenda Lee, whose 77th birthday is tomorrow, is the oldest living female singer ever to appear in the top ten in the UK. I found myself wondering that, not for the first time, when listening to the Official Chart show this afternoon. Or is there any older lady previously achieving this feat that I'm overlooking?

[braindeadpj]

So as Alan Jones already states Wham get their 2nd week at no.1 without ACR. Interestingly Mariah beats Wham on sales (1,313 vs 916) but not streams (41,662 vs 42,949 halved chart streams, or 83,324 vs 85,898 total chart streams).
Shaking Stevens is at 4, The Pogues at 5, Michael Buble at 6, Brenda Lee at 7 and Adele falling to 8, Band Aid at 9, Elton John - Step Into Christmas at 10, Kelly Clarkson at 11, Ariana Grande at 12, Andy Williams at 13, Cold Heart at 14 and Wizzard at 15. Gayle is probably at 19 without ACR.