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I Imagine It’s a Fine Time to be a Man from Portugal
Quiet action overall in the top 25 this week, though Portugal, The Man bring a 2nd song into the top 10 as ‘Live In The Moment” leaps 15-8. Imagine Dragons, after stalling just outside the top 25 for a month, move up 11 spots to #15 with “Whatever It Takes” while the polarizing “Thunder” also moves back into the top 20.
The best move in the upper reaches though belongs to the Wombats and “Lemon To A Knife Fight”, with a 32-18 move. The band’s most recent single before that, 2015’s “Emoticons”, was my #2 song of 2016, the first to reach my weekly top 40 after 11 tries.
Ed Sheeran, who remains at the top for a 6th week, is also part of the highest top 100 entry on Eminem’s “River” at #43. Close behind at #46 is the return of the seminal UK outfit Manic Street Preachers with “International Blue”.
This week’s chart is the last with major holiday music impact so I thought it would be fitting to present the top 50 Holiday songs as charted from Dec. 4-Jan. 8. The top 10 is a mix of new music from Sia, Gwen Stefani, Kelly Clarson and Lindsey Stirling along with perennial favorites. Of course Mariah at the top is no surprise.
1 MARIAH CAREY All I Want For Christmas
2 MARIAH CAREY The Star
3 WHAM Last Christmas
4 SIA Santa’s Coming For Us
5 GWEN STEFANI f/ BLAKE SHELTON You Make It Feel Like Christmas
6 THE POGUES Fairytale Of New York
7 KELLY CLARKSON Christmas Eve
8 SIA Candy Cane Lane
9 LINDSEY STIRLING Carol Of The Bells
10 LINDSEY STIRLING f/ BECKY G Christmas C’mon
11 ECHOSMITH Baby Don’t Leave Me (All Alone On Christmas)
12 TARJA O Come, O Come Emmanuel
13 SIA Snowman
14 BAND AID Do They Know It’s Christmas
15 HANSON Finally It’s Christmas
16 TOM CHAPLIN Under A Million Lights
17 LINDSEY STIRLING f/ SABRINA CARPENTER You’re A Mean One Mr. Grinch
18 LINDSEY STIRLING Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy
19 DRAKE BELL Jingle Bells
20 CHRIS REA Driving Home For Christmas
21 MARIAH CAREY Lil’ Snowman
22 ECHOSMITH f/ HUNTER HAYES Merry Xmas (The War Is Over)
23 MARIAH CAREY Miss You Most (At Christmastime)
24 GWEN STEFANI Jingle Bells
25 PENTATONIX Carol Of The Bells
26 PROSECCO SOCIALIST This Dog’s Just For Christmas (Not For Life)
27 PENTATONIX Sleigh Ride
28 SKINNY LISTER Christmas Calls
29 JON MCLAUGHLIN Christmastime Is Here (But You’re Not)
30 THE 69 EYES Christmas In New York City
31 THEGIORNALISTI f/ RADIO DEEJAY ALL-STARS Happy Christmas John
32 AMY MACDONALD This Christmas Day
33 TARJA O Tannenbaum
34 TARJA Feliz Navidad
35 SHAKIN STEVENS Merry Christmas Everyone
36 NICK JONAS f/ SHANIA TWAIN Say All You Want For Christmas
37 TAYLOR SWIFT Santa Baby
38 AMERICA Winter Holidays
39 SIA Underneath The Mistletoe
40 PENTATONIX Hallelujah
41 WIZZARD I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
42 SHADOW SHAKERS Christmas Eve
43 HANSON Everybody Knows The Claus
44 CARLY RAE JEPSEN Last Christmas
45 AVERY SUNSHINE I Never Knew Christmas
46 SLADE Merry Xmas Everybody
47 PENTATONIX God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
48 PENTATONIX Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
49 JOSH GROBAN Happy Xmas (The War Is Over)
50 TRAIN Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
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