U.K. CHARTS: ELTON & ED UNWRAP #1
Ed Sheeran and Elton John have landed straight in at #1 on the U.K.'s Official Singles Chart with “Merry Christmas” (Atlantic). Over on albums, Adele’s 30 (Columbia) claims a third week at the top.
“Merry Christmas” scored 76.7k in sales this week, including 22.1k in pure sales and 7.6m streams. It's also amassed the biggest-CD-single sales of the year so far, with 8.1k copies sold on disc.
Four festive tracks make today’s Top 10: Shakin’ Stevens’ “Merry Christmas Everyone” (Sony) at #6; The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl’s “Fairytale of New York” (Warner Music U.K.) at #7; Michael Bublé’s “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” (Reprise) at #9; and Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” (Universal), bopping in at #10.
In all, there are 22 Christmas tracks in the Top 40, including George Ezra’s Amazon Original, “Come on Home for Christmas,” which rises 10 slots to #26.
On the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart, 30 shifted more than 73k to hold on to #1, with 81% of those physical and digital-download copies.
This week’s highest new entry is JLS with its first album of original material in eight years, 2.0 (BMG), at #4.
Bublé’s Christmas is up one to #5, while Andre Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra enter the Top 10 for the first time, with Happy Together (Universal) at #6.
Following its announcement of an extended hiatus, Little Mix’s greatest hits collection, Between Us (Sony), rises two to #7. Just outside the Top 10, indie band The Lottery Winners land at #11 with their third set, Something to Leave the House For (Modern Sky).
