SemiNoTV: Whamegeddon in the UK
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Mark Jeffries
Dec 16, 2023, 11:36:03 AM12/16/23
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With one week to go to the UK pop charts' Christmas No. 1 2023, it's the much-hated by some on the Internet 1984 Wham! song "Last Christmas" that is at the top of the Official UK Charts this week, in line to be the first Christmas No. 1 in five years that isn't a parody songs with references to sausage rolls (as LadBaby is not putting out a record this year)--but there is a possibility that something other than Christmas songs, coronation songs for winners of reality comps or songs about sausage rolls may make the top, as American singer-songwriter Noah Kahan's "Stick Season" is at number 2, a song set in New England in the late fall after the leaves fall (which explains the title--there is a reference to Christmas in the lyrics)--the other Christmas songs in the top 5 are That Mariah Carey Song at number 3 and the UK favorite that's too much a downer song for American all-Christmas radio "Fairytale of New York" by the Pogues and the late Kristy MacColl at number 5 (getting a push by Pogues fans in tribute to the recently deceased leader of the band Shane MacGowan)--Jack Harlow's the other odd man out at number 4 with "Lovin on Me"--we find out this Friday around midday US:
Meanwhile in the States, Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," recorded in 1958 when she was 14, is at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for the second week. In the old days of just sales and airplay, the song only peaked at 16, making this its first appearance at the top and making Lee the oldest living act to score a number 1 at 79, beating the previous record-holder Louis Armstrong, who hit the top with "Hello, Dolly!" on his 64th birthday in 1964. Lee now also holds the longest period between number ones--63 years (her last number one was "I Want to Be Wanted" in 1960). The rest of the top 5 in order are That Mariah Carey Song, Bobby Helms' "Jingle Bell Rock" (does anyone remember any of his other hits, if any?), "Last Christmas" and Harlow as the odd man out at number 5.
Bob Jersey
Dec 16, 2023, 1:37:52 PM12/16/23
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The countdown clock on OfficialCharts' main page suggests to me that it'll occur later than that... try 5:45PM east coast US...
And I liked Helms' "My Special Angel," which, like The Vogues' '60s remake, peaked at #7 in Billboard. B
Mark Jeffries, in part, Dec 16th:
we find out this Friday around midday US
[snippy dooooo]
Mark Jeffries
Dec 16, 2023, 2:38:26 PM12/16/23
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That time is British time--the countdown show on BBC Radio 1 starts at 4 p.m. British time, which would be 11 a.m. ET, so the number 1 would be revealed around 5:40 p.m. BT, which would be 12:40 p.m. ET. I should point out that Radio 1 does a 15-minute newscast at 5:45 p.m. (which, granted, contains some entertainment news), which today's Top 40 radio in the U.S. would never do.
And when SiriusXM carried Radio 1, it was on a five-hour delay, so that the programmes would start at Eastern time in the U.S. as the same hour British time. The only Beeb they carry now is the World Service live 24/7.
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