\n MORE: Kylie and XMAS secure the Official Christmas Number 1\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
The Pogues<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Kirsty MacColl<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0Fairytale of New York<\/a>\u00a0may finish the year in the Top 5, tracking to move one position from last week (5).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Elsewhere in the Top 10,\u00a0Elton John<\/a>\u2019s festive favourite\u00a0Step Into Christmas<\/a>\u00a0is on course to rise three (6),\u00a0Shakin\u2019 Stevens<\/a>\u00a0former chart topper\u00a0Merry Christmas Everyone<\/a>, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year is currently up four (7), while\u00a0Gwen Stefani<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Shake\u00a0the Snow Globe<\/a>\u00a0could jump an incredible 50 places to pierce the Top 10 for the very first time (10).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Driving Home\u00a0for\u00a0Christmas<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0Chris Rea<\/a>\u00a0looks to make its move towards the Top 10, aiming to scale an impressive 17 spots (13).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The Christmas enigma that is\u00a0Michael Bubl\u00e9<\/a>\u00a0could find\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0Beginning\u00a0to\u00a0Look a Lot Like Christmas<\/a>\u00a0break the Top 20 (20).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n After beating its personal best chart position on Friday,\u00a0Nat King Cole<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The Christmas Song<\/a>\u00a0is set to break that accolade once more,\u00a0possibly ascending\u00a0eight places to a new peak (23).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Finally, the holiday hits which may enter the Top 40 this week include:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Merry Christmas<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ed Sheeran & Elton John<\/a>\u00a0(30) (up nine places)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n It\u2019s\u00a0Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Perry Como<\/a>\u00a0(36) (up 13 places)\u00a0(new peak)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Mistletoe<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Justin Bieber<\/a>\u00a0(37) (up five places)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n White Christmas<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Bing Crosby<\/a>\u00a0(39) (up nine places)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This means your\u00a0Official\u00a02025\u00a0Christmas Number 1 song\u00a0XMAS\u00a0begins this week at Number 2. Kylie broke all sorts of records on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,15776,61,60,32038,278,43,40327],"class_list":{"0":"post-204670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gwen-stefani","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-kylie-minogue","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-wham"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}