Mariah Carey's 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' Is Already Leaping Up The Aus Chart

Expect the seasonal song to climb up the charts fast in the next four weeks (yep, Xmas is now four weeks away!).

Taylor Swift holds for a fifth consecutive week at the top of both charts, with her single Anti-Hero newly ▲Platinum in sales.

The Anti-Hero track also holds for a fifth week atop the English and Irish singles chart, while it also remains at #1 in The U.S.A. (fourth week) and returns to the summit in Canada (third week). This past week Taylor won six Awards at the November 20th held American Music Awards ceremony including 'Artist of the Year', 'Favourite Music Video' for All Too Well, 'Favourite Female Pop Artist' and 'Favourite Female Country Artist' along with 'Favourite Pop Album' and 'Country Album' both for her redone Red (TsV) set.

The current #1 Anti-Hero also scores its first sales certification, bypassing Gold and going straight to ▲Platinum, while her fifth week astride both single and album chart gives her a ninth overall week sitting atop both charts, tying with the same amount racked up by Ed Sheeran, while the last time a single and its parent album spent five weeks at #1 was Olivia Rodrigo with Good 4 U and SOUR for five weeks from May 31st, 2021.

Taylor's tally of weeks at #1 during the 2020s has now increased to eight, placing her seventh on the list for 'Accumulated Weeks at #1: Singles; 2020s' just ahead of Harry Styles (8 weeks from one #1), as Taylor has had four chart-topping singles this decade (the most so far), plus on the similar listing (1940 to 2022) she rises from 33rd to now 30th (21 weeks at #1 from 9 #1s) sitting just ahead of Bryan Adams (21 weeks from 4 #1s) and Pharrell Williams (21 weeks from 3 #1s).

After achieving Gold in sales at the start of November, this week Unholy for Sam Smith and Kim Petras achieves ▲Platinum in sales, while it also logs a fourth week of sitting at #2, plus the song remains at #1 in New Zealand for a seventh broken week, and the track is also at #2 in England, Ireland, Kim's homeland of Germany and rises back up to #3 in The U.S.A. and Canada, while the #1 song in Canada last week was Drake & 21 Savage with Rich Flex, which here is holding for a third week at its entry position of #3 and is one of only two Top 50 entries this week for the pair.

The biggest climbing track within the Top 10 jumps three places to land at a new peak of #4, as Meghan Trainor and Made You Look becomes her fifth Top 5 single in Australia (of eight Top 10 entries), while the song climbs to #3 in England, Ireland and New Zealand and leaps to a new peak in both The U.S.A. (61 to #40) and Canada (48 to #31). Meghan's jump pushes down one place each I'm Good (Blue) for David Guetta and Bebe Rexha, Miss You for Oliver Tree and Robin Schulz and I Ain't Worried for OneRepublic to #5, #6 and #7 respectively. Steve Lacy's tour here helps keep his Bad Habit single stable at #8 this week, while rising one spot each are Harry Styles' As It Was (10 to #9), which won him an A.M.A. this past week for 'Favourite Pop Song' while he also picked up 'Favourite Male Pop Artist'. After which B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All) for Eliza Rose and Interplanetary Criminal (11 to #10) returns to the ten, logging a seventh week within the Top 10, with October 24th its last Top 10 placement.

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Beyoncé's Cuff it rises one spot to #11, while also achieving ▲Platinum in sales; current local tourist Dean Lewis sees an eight place jump to a new peak of #14 with his current ballad How Do I Say Goodbye, his first Top 20 placement since 7 Minutes peaked at #10 on April 1st, 2019. The song remains stable (again) in The Netherlands (#3 for a third week) England (#24) and Ireland (#16), rises in Canada (67 to #64, HP-56) and scores new peaks in Belgium, Switzerland (both #11) and Austria (#14).

Rising back up two places each are 2 Be Loved by Lizzo (18 to #16), Something In The Orange by Zach Bryan (19 to #17, HP-15), Sunroof by Nicky Youre and dazy (20 to #18) and Cold Heart for Elton John and Dua Lipa (21 to #19), while Elton's duet with Britney and Hold Me Closer is back up four spots to #43. Jumping to a new peak of #21 is the Tom Odell track Another Love, rising six places this week and surpassing its former peak of #23 from October 24th.

With multiple ARIA Award nominations for the ceremony held on Thursday night (which will affect next week's chart), The Kid LAROI sees his former 17 week #1 song Stay jump back up eight places to land at #23, while screening after the ARIA Awards was an Ed Sheeran documentary Full Circle about his Mathematics World Tour, which has helped his singles Shivers (37 to #26) and Bad Habits (43 to #37) to jump back up.

Lewis Capaldi's Forget Me along with Afraid To Feel by LF System both rise back up six places each to #27 and #28 respectively, while Lewis' new track achieves Gold (●) in sales; after which is a return to the Top 50 for the JVKE track golden hour, leaping back up twenty-two spots to land at a new chart height of #29, while recent tourist Dua Lipa's Levitating does just that, holds its position at #30.

Luke Combs' The Kind of Love We Make rises back up seven spots to #33, while Lizzo's About Damn Time moves back up four places to #40, and could rise again next week thanks to her new Special recording documentary called Love, Lizzo which dropped on Friday. The Killers' tour kicks off in Brisbane on Tuesday, so expect another big rise next week for their classic Mr. Brightside, which this week jumps up nine places to #41.

Lost Frequencies will rack up their one-year chart anniversary next week (within the T100) for Where Are You Now, which this week is back up eight places to #44. Making their first Top 50 appearance by moving up nine places to a new peak of #46 are Rema and Selena Gomez with Calm Down, which after twelve weeks within the Top 100 makes its first Top 50 berth, having previously peaked at #55 for two weeks on November 7th and 14th. It becomes the 21st Top 50 entry for Selena (and eighth as a guest artist), and the first for the Nigerian-born musician and performance artist Rema (born Divine Ikubor in 2000).

Three further songs return to the Top 50 this week, as Save Your Tears for The Weeknd is back up five spots to #48 (last in the T50 on October 31st), followed by Ferrari for James Hype and Missy Dela Rose, jumping eleven spots to #49 (last in the T50 on October 24th and newly Gold (●) in sales), while making her annual sojourn up the charts is Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas is You, which snuck back into the Top 100 last week at #94 and this week it leaps up forty-four places to land at #50, with the songs stay within the Top 100 (since it first charted in 1994) now up to 56 weeks, while the song is newly certified 9x▲Platinum in sales. Expect the seasonal song to climb up the charts fast in the next four weeks (yep Xmas is now four weeks away!!).

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The only song leaving the Top 10 this week is Lavender Haze for Taylor Swift (HP-2, WI10-4), which drops down three spots to #12, while the song is newly Gold (●) in sales, as too is her track Midnight Rain (14 to #24), while Swift also declines with Bejewelled (17 to #25), Maroon (23 to #31), You're On Your Own, Kid (24 to #33), Karma (28 to #36) and Snow On The Beach (29 to 38).

The next declining track is a five-place slump to #20 for Rihanna's Wakanda Forever theme Lift Me Up, after which Drake and 21 Savage's second (and final) Top 50 entry sees Circo Loco fall thirteen places to land at #39, while the last major drop occurs for SZA's Shirt, tumbling twelve chart-rungs to #47.