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Wham! and Mariah Carey Lead Christmas Chart Surge

Christmas is creeping back into the UK Top 40, and two seasonal staples are setting the pace. In the latest Official Singles Chart First Look, based on early sales and streaming data ahead of Friday's full Top 100, Wham! are on course for the biggest festive return, with Last Christmas currently heading for Number 11. The song has already topped the Christmas chart twice, in 2023 and 2024.

Right behind them is Mariah Carey, whose All I Want For Christmas Is You sits at Number 19. Elton John and CMAT are poised for Number 28 with Step Into Christmas, while the rest of the early holiday wave inside the Top 40 includes Kelly Clarkson's Underneath The Tree at 36, The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl's Fairytale of New York at 37 and Brenda Lee's Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree at 39.

At the summit, Jamie Miller's Babydoll is chasing a fifth straight week at Number 1 and currently holds off Ashe's Stop The Wedding at Number 2. American singer-songwriter sombr looks set for a new career best, with My Body Isn't Ready up two places to Number 3, ahead of Tate McRae's Housewife at 4 and Sienna Spiro's Great Expectation at 5.

Further inside the Top 10, Ella Langley stays put at Number 6 with Choosin' Texas, and Sienna Spiro picks up a second Top 10 entry as Die On This Hill rises to 7. Sam Fender and Olivia Dean's Rein Me In climbs to 8, Dean's solo Man I Need breaks into the Top 10 at 9, and ADELA's Nicole Kidman rounds out the group at 10.

Lower down, Justice, Tame Impala and SZA's Flower In A Hurricane could leap to Number 22 after the release of GTA VI. Grace's Not Over Yet moves up to 30 following its use in the JD Sports Christmas campaign, and Shawn Mendes' Treat You Better is eyeing a return at Number 31 thanks to a tenth-anniversary picture disc vinyl. Full chart details are available via Official Charts.

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