It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas – at least on the ARIA charts
This weekend’s ARIA charts saw Christmas officially arrive, with nine Christmas carols trickling like snowflakes into the top 50 – with a deluge expected over the next few weeks.
Mariah Carey’s perennial anthem All I Want For Christmas Is You is currently #2 on the ARIA Singles chart, with Last Christmas by Wham at #6.
Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee is #8 — not at all bad for a song recorded in 1958 — while It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas by Michael Bublé (more on him in a bit) is #15, one spot ahead of Bobby Helms’ 1957 recording of Jingle Bell Rock, at #16.
Ariana Grande’s Santa Tell Me is #18, while lower in the charts sits It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year by Andy Williams (#42), Holly Jolly Christmas by Michael Bublé(#47), and Underneath The Christmas Tree by Kelly Clarkson (#49).
This is just the beginning.
Last year, in the charts that came out on Boxing Day, there were 19 Christmas songs in the Top 50.
Expect the likes of Do They Know It’s Christmas?, War Is Over, Sia’s Snowman, Justin Bieber’s Mistletoe, White Christmas, and How To Make Gravy to pop into the charts over the next few weeks. Expect the crooners, too: Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, et al (the original Bublé’s).
Over on the albums chart, Michael Bublé’s imaginatively titled Christmas jumped from #45 to #5, signaling the start of the silly season. This album has hit #1 in Australia every single December since 2011, except for 2015 — when Adele’s 25 sat at #1 for a seven-week run that went across Christmas. Bah humbug!
This week, Mariah Carey’s slightly better named Merry Christmas jumped from #74 to #42.
We can expect a flood of Christmas albums to enter the charts over the next few weeks: Barnesy, Paul Kelly, Vika and Linda, Sia, John Farnham & Olivia Newton-John, Peanuts, Bing Crosby, and various others.
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Nathan Jolly is the Deputy Editor of Mumbrella. He joined the team in July, 2023.
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