After claiming spots in the top five for over a month, Gracie Abrams and Rosè have drastically fallen out of the UK’s top five which instead is now taken by all kinds of Christmas songs. Along with Abrams and Rosè, ‘Messy’ singer Lola Young also gave up her spot in the top ten after climbing charts with the TikTok viral song and being placed in the Official Chart’s Ones To Watch list. With the charts overtaken by Christmas hits, we wonder whether the moment of fame has died out for those hits that we have come to know so well, which spent week after week topping charts and topping radios. The current UK top five includes ‘Last Christmas’ by WHAM!, Maria Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’, ‘It Can’t be Christmas’ by Tom Grennan, ‘Rocking Around the Christmas Tree’ by Brenda Lee and ‘Jingle Bell Rocks’ by Bobby Helms.
Gracie Abrams’s ‘That’s So True‘ was already viral among fans of the American artist before its release on the deluxe version of Abrams’s second full length album, titled ‘The Secret of Us'; the song had been performed by Abrams and co-writer Audrey Hobert at one of Abrams’s show, and successively it was announced by the latter that the song would be released on the deluxe version of the album. Mostly thanks to TikTok, the song reached a level of popularity that none of Abrams’s songs ever had in the past, becoming her first UK number one. Up until last week, the song charted at number two, second only to WHAM!’s ‘Last Christmas’; but this week, the song fell almost twenty spots down charting at number 21, lower than its debut. It is ‘That’s So True”s ninth week on the UK chart, the song previously spent over a month at number one but was dethroned by Christmas hits. Will Abrams fight back and climb charts once again, or is it time for a new chart-topping hit?
Similarly to Abrams, Rosè’s ‘APT‘ featuring Bruno Mars charted in the UK’s top five for well over a month, peaking at number two. The song was released as a lead single for Rosè’s debut album, titled ‘Rosie’, which was released earlier this month. A couple weeks after its release, the song debuted at number four on the UK Official Charts, and from then it went on to spend eight weeks charting in the top five and, despite never achieving the number one position, the song became a hit immediately after its chart debut. Last week, ‘APT’ claimed spot number five of UK charts, while this week it is currently charting at number 28, losing over twenty spots. Alike ‘That’s So True’, ‘APT’ also had to make space for Christmas hits, giving up its well-deserved spot in the top five: will ‘APT’ come back to top charts once the Christmas excitement has died down, or is its time as a certified chart-topper over?
As the UK’s top twenty is over taken by the festive hits, some honourable mentions of those songs that bravely climbed charts over the Christmas period are Lola Young’s ‘Messy‘, that currently charts in the 33rd spot but last week had peaked at number seven; Wicked’s ‘Defying Gravity’ is currently number 58 after charting in the 20th spot last week, Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Bed Chem‘ charts as 66 after claiming the 38th spot last week and Gigi Perez’s ‘Sailor Song‘ went from charting at number 34 last week to 68 this week.
