'All I Want For Christmas Is You’ More Popular In Australia Than Ever

All I Want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey was the 1081st #1 single in Australia, first hitting the top on December 31st, 2018, for a single week, while each successive year, the song has reclaimed the top spot during the festive season, again on Dec. 30th, 2019, Dec. 28th, 2020 and it's last was on January 3rd of this year (2022), which means it's sales pertained the prior week from 24th to 30th of December, all holding for a single week at the top, making this now the songs fifth appearance and fifth week at #1 in Australia. 

No song has ever been back to #1 on so many occasions, let alone on a yearly basis, and the track is also at the top of the charts in Germany (12th accumulated week) and The U.S.A. (returns for a 9th overall week), while it lost the top spot in England after last week's third overall week, sitting at #2 there this week, which is also where the song lays in Ireland (3 to #2) and New Zealand (on hold), plus it stays put at #5 in Canada. All I Want For Christmas also racks up its third week at #1 during this decade, and for Mariah, her tally of weeks at #1 now increases to eight moving her to now 74th on the list for 'Accumulated Weeks at #1 (1940 to 2022)', just ahead of Celine Dion (8 weeks from 3 #1's), as Mariah has now had seven separate appearances at the top of the Aussie Singles Chart, five with her Christmas track and her first two Fantasy (1 week on Oct. 8th, 1995) and We Belong Together (2 weeks from June 27th, 2005). 

So for the first time in its chart career, the Mariah Xmas song has hit the top prior to the 25th of December, and with the festive date occurring during the next two chart weeks, the song could remain at the summit for the end of 2022 and the first week of 2023 potentially, which would also mean that the track remains at #1 for the first time in its 28 year chart history, as previously it's only ever logged a solo week at #1, then the new year happens, and Xmas is over. Thus the song drops out of the chart. Only its 2020 run saw it fall #1 to #4, then out of the chart, all other drops occurred from #1.

So Unholy has been triumphed by Christmas, as Sam Smith and Kim Petras return-to-#1 last week is back down to #2 after its fifth broken stay at the singles summit, while also down a spot and landing at #3 is Anti-Hero for Taylor Swift, which also declines in The U.S.A. (1 to #6) and Canada (1 to #2) and sits at #4 in Ireland and #6 in England. The Top 4 songs remain within the Top 4 this week too, as holding at #4 is Meghan Trainor, with her single Made You Look scoring its fifth week within the Top 10.

The second studio album for American singer SZA is called SOS, and it enters at #2 on the Albums Chart this week, while it also scatters nine songs within the Top 50 and 16 in the entire Top 100 (all from the album) and one older return, giving her a total of 17 Top 100 entries this week. The highest of her entries is new at #5, Kill Bill, which has also scored the top slot in New Zealand this week too, while this new entry also becomes her fifth Top 10 appearance (3 as a guest, 2 as lead), with her last being on the Doja Cat track, Kiss Me More (HP-2x6, May-June 2021) which fell out of the Top 10 at the end of August 2021. 

The new #1 single in England this week is the 1984/85 Wham! classic Last Christmas, which is only spending its second time at the top in England after its first on January 1st, 2021 (1-week stay), as its first chart run was up against the original Band Aid song Do They Know it's Christmas? Locally the song jumps up five places to land at #6, giving the duo their 17th week within the Top 10 for ARIA, and it's 27th week all up (10 for AMR, 17 for ARIA), plus the track is newly certified at 6x▲Platinum in sales (the only one within the Top 50 this week). The seasonal tune also sits at #3 in Ireland (LW-4), #2 in Germany (LW-3), #5 in NZ (LW-6) and #9 in both The U.S.A. (LW-10) and Canada (LW-7).

The second and final non-mover within the Top 10 is at #7 for Oliver Tree and Robin Schulz with Miss You, while not only on hold at #7, it also racks up a seventh week within the Top 10, after which are two songs which each fall three places apiece; I Ain't Worried for OneRepublic (equal 16th longest running Top 10 of all time at 22 weeks), and I'm Good (Blue) by David Guetta and Bebe Rexha to #8 and #9 respectively, while the new #1 debut in Canada (and #5 entry in the U.S.A.) is here down two places to #10 after debuting last week at #8, Creepin' for Metro Boomin' with The Weeknd and 21 Savage, while it's also his only Top 50 entry this week after landing three last week. 

RIGHT DOWN SANTA CLAWS LANE: 

As many people prepare for next week's festive season, the tally of Xmas songs within the chart starts to increase, with eight inside the Top 50, plus a further ten in the lower fifty, making 18 within the Top 100 this week. With Mariah returning to #1 prior to Xmas for the first time, and Wham! joining her inside the Top 10, the next climbs occur within the Top 20 as Michael Bublé's It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas is up two places to #11, followed by a three-place rise to #12 for Brenda Lee's Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, while Ariana Grande is up two spots with Santa Tell Me to #15 and returning to the Top 20 this season is Bobby Helms with Jingle Bell Rock, also up two spots to sit at #19 this week. 

Michael Bublé sees his second Top 50 entry rising twelve spots this week to #36, as Holly Jolly Christmas is joined within the fifty by Andy Williams' 1963 single It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year, which jumps ten places to #48, having peaked at #16 on Dec. 30th in 2019 while it made it to #54 in 2020 and #20 in 2021. Last week saw a heap of Xmas tunes return to the Top 100, with them climbing higher this week. Starting with Kelly Clarkson's Underneath the Tree (59 to #51), then Sleigh Ride by The Ronettes (71 to #57), Do They Know it's Christmas? for Band Aid 30 (74 to #61), Justin Bieber with Mistletoe (76 to #64), Snowman by Sia (88 to #67), two versions of Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! by Dean Martin (87 to #74) and Frank Sinatra (94 to #88), Burl Ives' 1964 version of A Holly Jolly Christmas (85 to #77) and returning to the chart is the 1972 John Lennon and Yoko Ono track Happy Xmas (War is Over) at #83 (logging its 18th week within the ARIA Top 100, the same amount of weeks it accrued in 1972/73) and back in at #100 is Jose Feliciano's Feliz Navidad for it's third overall week on the ARIA Chart (peaked #28 on last year's chart run), the song first charting at #99 for a single week in early 1971 (Jan 4th). 

UP:

The first non-Xmas song to climb outside of the Top 10 is a forty-three place leap back up to #21 for SZA's Shirt, the first track issued from her new SOS album seven weeks ago, when it first debuted at #20 on November 7th, while she also returns the Top 100 at #78 with her first solo Top 10 entry Good Days (peaked Feb. 8th, 2021), plus she also lands a further 15 new entries from her new album within the Top 100.

The only new entry from last weeks Top 50 to climb this week is the current Irish #1 single for RAYE and 070 Shake with Escapism, which jumps up seven places to land at #22, while it's also at #3 in England (LW-2), lands within the Top 10 in New Zealand (11 to #7), jumps in Canada (79 to #43) and debuts in The U.S.A. at  #100, plus a second version of the song called the Sped Up version debuts locally at #91 (although that might change next week as her three-track EP Escapism: Live at Metropolis has both the regular and sped up version along with a live rendition).

After falling #14 to #26 last week, the Dean Lewis ballad How Do I Say Goodbye is back up three spots to #23, while it's also up in both England (55 to #53) and Ireland (36 to #33), drops down in Canada (65 to #76), Germany (52 to #69) and Austria (36 to #56), and holds in The Netherlands (#4) and Sweden (#70). The Killers Australian tour continued this past week (it finishes on Dec. 19th), and their Mr. Brightside track is back up two places to #35.

Two songs claiming new peaks this week are Calm Down for Rema and Selena Gomez, which is up two places to a new chart height of #40, while another duet between Stephen Sanchez and Em Beihold called Until I Found You lands its first week within the Top 50 by rising ten places to land at #44. The song first charted on June 13th, 2022, at #71 before scoring an initial peak of #65 the following week, spending eight weeks within the Top 100, then it returned for two weeks on September 12th (85-97), then a third return on October 17th for a further five weeks, while last week the song leapt back into the Top 100 at No.54, while this week it logs a 17th week within the Top 100. The track is the first chart appearance for Stephen Sanchez, while it's the second for Em Beihold, while the song has peaked at #1 in Malaysia, #20 in Vietnam, #4 in The Philippines and Singapore, #27 in Portugal, and #38 in The U.S.A. so far. 

DOWN:

Leaving the Top 10 this week are two tracks; As it Was for Harry Styles (HP-1x8, WI10-33), down three spots to #13, followed by a five-place fall to #14 for Rich Flex by Drake and 21 Savage (HP-3x3, WI10-5), while last week's T10-dropout in Bad Habit for Steve Lacy is this week down five places to #17, followed by four place declines for Heat Waves by Glass Animals and B.O.T.A. (Baddest of Them All) by Eliza Rose and Interplanetary Criminal to #18 and #20 respectively. 

Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) for Elton John and Dua Lipa is down five to #24, followed by a seven-place dive to #25 for Beyoncé's Cuff it, and a six-spot fall to #26 for Sunroof by Nicky Youre and dazy. Zach Byran's Something In The Orange sours five spots to #28, Chris Brown's Influence reduces eight places to #30, and Ed Sheeran drops with both Shivers (25 to #29) and Bad Habits (33 to #39). 

After three weeks back within the Top 30 Stay for The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber is over as the song falls back down seven places to #31, Lizzo drops down with both 2 Be Loved (Am I Ready) (28 to #33) and About Damn Time (31 to #43). LF System dropped five to #37 with Afraid to Feel, and Post Malone with Doja Cat saw their track I Like You (A Happier Song) fall seven spots to #42. Further tumbles occur for Super Freaky Girl by Nicki Minaj (36 to #45), Where Are You Now by Lost Frequencies with Calum Scott (34 to #46) and Levitating by Dua Lipa (40 to #49).

FURTHER NEW ENTRIES:

* #5 - Kill Bill by SZA (Top Dawg/RCA)  

* #16 - Nobody Gets Me by SZA (Top Dawg/RCA)  

* #27 - Blind by SZA (Top Dawg/RCA)  

* #34 - Low by SZA (Top Dawg/RCA)  

* #38 - Seek & Destroy by SZA (Top Dawg/RCA)  

* #41 - Love Language by SZA (Top Dawg/RCA)[samples "I Don't Wanna" by Aaliyah and "Hit Different" by SZA feat. Ty Dolla $ign]

* #47 - Special by SZA (Top Dawg/RCA)  

* #50 - Used by SZA feat. Don Toliver (Top Dawg/RCA) are all taken from her second studio album SOS, which has entered at #2 on this week's Albums Chart, far surpassing her debut Ctrl (#30 peak on June 20, 2022, entered June 19th, 2017 at #40), with the albums first single Shirt (43 to #21, HP-20 upon entry seven weeks ago) leaping back up this week, while a further seven tracks from her album land (out of 23 in total) within the lower fifty plus her former #7 song Good Days returns at #78. The other entries for SZA this week are the album's title track SOS (#56), Snooze (#59), Ghost in the Machine with Phoebe Bridgers (#72), Open Arms with Travis Scott (#81), Notice Me (#85), Gone Girl (#86) and F2F (#87). 

New Certifications

Last Christmas - Wham!▲6

Star Walkin' - Lil' Nas X ●

HP = Highest Position

LW = Last Week

WI10 - Weeks in Top 10

*ARIA Chart info is based on sales for the week from the 9th to the 15th of December 2022.

Written, Compiled and Researched by Gavin Ryan.