Another week of UK charts is upon us and the UK top five hasn’t changed much since the previous one. Gracie Abrams is still topping the list for the fifth consecutive week, beloved Christmas anthems are rising and keep us guessing who will win the number spot this year over Christmas week and “Sailor Song” and “Apt” are not leaving the UK top five anytime soon.
After the success of “I love you, I’m sorry”, which everyone thought would be Gracie Abrams’s biggest hit for the year, the American singer is making headlines and topping, once again, charts, with “That’s so True”. The song has now been number one for five consecutive weeks. A fan-favorite which Abrams has played at many concerts before the official release, “That’s so True” is one of the longest number one charting songs of the year. The question is whether its success will guarantee the song the top spot over Christmas or if it will lose its crown to pre-established Christmas hits.
WHAM’s “Last Christmas” takes the second spot, climbing charts quickly the closer it gets to Christmas. “Last Christmas” peaked at number one three times in the past and it seems to be headed towards the same direction this year! It topped charts over Christmas in 2020, 2022 and 2023, and peaked at number two on 2021 (losing the title to Ed Sheeran and Elton John’s “Merry Christmas”). In a matter of days, the song went from number eight to number two and is currently the most likely song to be crowned Christmas hit of the year.
Number three and number four are taken by two songs which have been charting in the top five for a couple weeks now. The collaboration between Rosé and Bruno Mars titled “Apt” has been charting in the top 10 for seven weeks but always failing to achieve the number one position. Gigi Perez’s “Sailor Song”, instead, is on its ninth week in the top ten and has already claimed the number one position once.
At number five, Mariah Carey has begun her yearly climbing of the charts. “All I Want for Christmas is You” is one of the most popular Christmas songs of the decade and has achieved the number one position twice in the past. In 2020, twenty-six years after being released, it reached the number one position. It had been charting for seventy weeks before then, and Official Charts have confirmed no other song ever charted for that long before reaching number one. Carey’s Christmas hit also spent the week before Christmas as number one in 2022.
The race for Christmas number one is getting more competitive and it seems like the title will be awarded this year to a classic song that everyone knows and loves instead of a new release. View the full UK top 100 chart of the week here.
