It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas on the ARIA charts
The ARIA charts are beginning to fill with Christmas spirit, as the annual holiday classics begin to flood in ahead of the big day.
Mariah Carey’s anthem, All I Want For Christmas Is You, is leading the Christmas charge, sitting at #8 on the ARIA Singles chart, just ahead of Last Christmas by Wham at #10.
Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee has landed at #16, with Bobby Helms’ Jingle Bell Rock at #22. Given those songs were released in 1958 and 1957 respectively, it’s good to see them occupying the charts some six decades-and-change later.
Elsewhere on this week’s chart, Santa Tell Me by Ariana Grande is at #24, Kelly Clarkson’s Underneath The Tree is at #44, and It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas by Michael Bublé is at #45, with the Canadian crooner’s Christmas the only festively-themed record to appear on the ARIA Albums chart, at #13.
Buble’s album was released in October 2011, and has hit #1 in Australia every single December since, except for 2015 – when Adele’s 25 sat at #1 for a seven-week run that went across the new year – and last Christmas, when Taylor Swift held it off the top spot with a number of releases.
Christmas seems to have come a little slowly this year, too, at least compared to last. By this time in 2023, All I Want For Christmas Is You was already sitting at #2, Last Christmas was #6, and Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree was #8.
The next fortnight will no doubt see the likes of War Is Over by John and Yoko, charity single, Do They Know It’s Christmas?, Justin Bieber’s Mistletoe, Bing Crosby’s White Christmas and more jump into the charts – and of course Paul Kelly’s annual favourite, How To Make Gravy will hopefully do likewise from December 21 onwards.
The chart issued on the final weekend of 2023 saw 13 of the top 14 singles made up of Christmas songs, with just Jack Harlow’s Lovin’ On Me spoiling the Christmas spirit by sitting at #7.
In total, a whopping 38 songs in the ARIA Top 50 Singles – 76% of the entire chart – was made up of Christmas cheer as we ended 2023.
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Nathan Jolly is the Features Editor at Mumbrella. He joined the team in July, 2023.
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