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Elton John & Ed Sheeran’s ‘Merry Christmas’ Hits Hot 100’s Top 40

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Elton John & Ed Sheeran’s ‘Merry Christmas’ Hits Hot 100’s Top 40

As vacation hits enhance the Billboard Sizzling 100’s total high 10, and high 16, spots for the primary time, one other seasonal tune, amongst others, makes a notable jolly jaunt: Ed Sheeran and Elton John’s “Merry Christmas” jingles 4 locations to No. 38, marking its first week within the chart’s high 40 – and John’s milestone sixtieth high 40 hit and Sheeran’s likewise landmark twenty fifth.

The team-up, which Sheeran and John co-wrote, was launched in 2021 and first peaked at No. 42 a yr later.

Within the Dec. 20-26 monitoring week, the tune drew 20.2 million official streams (up 38%) and a pair of.8 million in radio airplay viewers (up 25%) and offered 2,000 (up 59%) in the US, in accordance with knowledge tracker Luminate.

Notably, John ties Beyoncé for the ninth-most high 40 Sizzling 100 hits, courting to the chart’s Aug. 4, 1958, begin.

Most Prime 40 Billboard Sizzling 100 Hits:

  • 206, Drake
  • 165, Taylor Swift
  • 89, Lil Wayne
  • 81, Elvis Presley (whose profession predates the Sizzling 100’s inception)
  • 78, Kanye West
  • 74, Nicki Minaj
  • 72, Future
  • 63, Eminem
  • 60, Beyoncé
  • 60, Elton John
  • 57, Kendrick Lamar
  • 55, Travis Scott

John first reached the Sizzling 100’s high 40 on the chart dated Dec. 19, 1970, when “Your Music” jumped 49-38. He appeared within the high 40 yearly consecutively via 1999 – linking a file 30-year streak within the tier – and returned together with his 58th and 59th entries in 2021 and 2022, respectively: “Chilly Coronary heart (Pnau Remix),” with Dua Lipa (No. 7 peak), and “Maintain Me Nearer,” with Britney Spears (No. 6).

(From 1972 via 1986, John charted 36 consecutive Sizzling 100 hits within the high 40. The run included 20 high 10s, of 29 in his profession, and 7 No. 1s, of his 9 whole.)

Plus, John extends the longest span of high 40 Sizzling 100 appearances for a soloist excluding vacation fare to 54 years and two weeks. Amongst all acts and backing out seasonal songs, The Beatles boast the longest span: 59 years, 9 months and three weeks, from “I Need To Maintain Your Hand” in 1964 via “Now and Then” in 2023.

Sheeran first positioned within the Sizzling 100’s high 40 with “The A Workforce” on the chart dated Nov. 10, 2012, and had most lately ranked within the area with “Eyes Closed” in July 2023.

The Sizzling 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and gross sales knowledge, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of bodily singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles gross sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) websites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated Jan. 4, 2025) will replace on Billboard.com tomorrow (Dec. 31). For all chart information, you’ll be able to observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X, previously often called Twitter, and Instagram.

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