Monday, December 23, 2024

It's likely to be festive at the top of the Official U.K. Charts later this week, with
Michael Bublé's
Christmas and
Tom Grennan's "It Can't Be Christmas" vying for #1 on the respective albums and singles tallies.
Bublé (pictured) would enjoy a seventh nonconsecutive week at the top if
Christmas (Reprise) holds firm.
Sabrina Carpenter's current #1,
Short n' Sweet, will fall back to #2, while her
Island labelmate
Chapell Roan is holding at #3 with
The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.
Meanwhile, the release of
SZA's
S.O.S. deluxe edition,
Lana, helps the
RCA parent album rocket 28 spots back to #4.
Billie Eilish's
HIT ME HARD AND SOFT (
Darkroom/
Interscope) will nudge forward from #6 to #5.
Fontaines D.C.'s
Romance is on track to climb 15-9, while
Amy Winehouse’s
Back to Black (#32) and
Lana Del Rey’s
Born to Die (#34) are likely to rebound back into the Top 40.
On the singles list, Grennan is locked in a close race with the current chart-topper,
WHAM!’s "Last Christmas." Right behind are
Mariah Carey’s "All I Want for Christmas Is You" (#3),
Laufey's "Christmas Magic" (which shoots 19-4) and
Brenda Lee’s "Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree" (#5).
Kelly Clarkson's "Underneath the Tree" is poised for a new high of #8, which could be her first Top 10 in nearly a decade, and
José Feliciano’s iconic "Feliz Navidad" is on the cusp of its first-ever Top 20 appearance as it rises 21-19.