performed on Strictly Come Dancing on Sunday night<\/a>, comes complete with a dance routine spelling out the letters X-M-A-S, essentially making it a yuletide YMCA.<\/p>\nMore importantly in chart terms, it’s an Amazon exclusive. That means it’s prominently placed on the playlists you hear when you ask Amazon-branded smart speakers to play Christmas music – and every one of those streams counts towards the chart.<\/p>\n
Kylie’s Christmas jigsaw<\/p>\n
XMAS is a brand new song, recorded for the 10th anniversary edition of the star’s Kylie Christmas album, which topped the album charts last week.<\/p>\n
It dates back to the original recording sessions, but never quite made the cut. Kylie told the BBC it had always bothered her that the song wasn’t finished.<\/p>\n
“It’s not something I’ve constantly thought about, but it’s had a place in my mind. <\/p>\n
“As the years went by, I kept thinking someone else was going to release a song called Xmas – and it would have been so annoying that I didn’t get it done in time.<\/p>\n
“It’s the only song that’s ever lived with me this long.”<\/p>\n
However, it’s not the first time that Kylie’s been in the running for the festive top spot: In 1988, Especially For You was a close runner-up to Cliff Richard’s Mistletoe and Wine. <\/p>\n
However, no matter what happens, the star won’t be in the UK to celebrate.<\/p>\n
“I’m heading home,” she told BBC News. “I’m looking forward to spending time with my family and, you know, obsessing over a jigsaw with the cricket on. <\/p>\n
“That’s about the level I want to get to.”<\/p>\n
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Last Christmas was denied the top spot in 1984 by Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas, and eventually rose to number one in 2021<\/p>\n
Wham’s Last Christmas is the current number one single; and it’s huge streaming numbers could allow the band to hold on to the top spot.<\/p>\n
If they do, Last Christmas will make history as the first ever song to reach Christmas number one three times.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the UK’s best-selling song of the weekend was Together For Palestine’s charity single, which will raise funds for aid for people in Gaza. <\/p>\n
It’s based on the traditional Palestinian folk song Yamma Mwel El Hawa (Mama, Sing to the Wind), with new English lyrics written by Peter Gabriel.<\/p>\n
“The song’s really been a part of my life since an early age,” says Nai Barghouti, a Palestinian singer who features on the track.<\/p>\n
“I remember recording it for the first time when I was 11 years old, and it’s been going a lot of places with me since then. <\/p>\n
“The lyrics are always a strong confirmation of what it means to be Palestinian – a never-ending sense of resilience, defiance, beauty, dignity and hope.”<\/p>\n
Getting into the Christmas chart, she says, would represent “a small beam of light in such darkness”.<\/p>\n
The song has sold just under 10,000 copies so far according to Official Charts Company data. However, it has yet to make Spotify’s Top 100 – which means it may fall down the rankings as the week progresses and streams for other contenders accumulate.<\/p>\n
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Fairytale of New York is another perennial favourite<\/p>\n
Those songs include Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You (currently predicted to land at number four) and The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl’s Fairytale of New York (which is at five).<\/p>\n
Fairytale is the third best-selling single of the week thanks to a limited-edition zoetrope vinyl, which was released on Friday. <\/p>\n
The song has famously achieved every position in the Top 20 except for number one; and strong streaming numbers could help it leapfrog the competition.<\/p>\n
Less than 10,000 “sales” separate the top five, according to the Official Charts Company.<\/p>\n
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