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Originally posted by highwind44029
WTF is with the AC charts? The whole Top 20 (except for "Raise Your Glass") have negative bullets? Are they playing mostly recurrent songs? I did notice Mariah's AIWFCIY's airplay comes mostly from that format.
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AC is known for switching to Christmas music 24/7 very early.
If you look at AC's gold chart, you'll notice that every song in the top 20 (excluding "Bubbly" and "Love Song") are all Christmas songs with enormous bullets.
AC's Gold Chart
338 1 MARIAH CAREY All I Want For Christmas Is... 870 152 718 8.054
373 2 BRENDA LEE Rockin' Around The Christmas.. 851 134 717 7.806
357 3 BURL IVES Have A Holly Jolly Christmas 848 143 705 8.574
385 4 ANDY WILLIAMS Most Wonderful Time Of The... 825 127 698 8.431
386 5 NAT KING COLE The Christmas Song 819 127 692 7.981
355 6 BOBBY HELMS Jingle Bell Rock 817 144 673 8.086
380 7 JOHN LENNON Happy Xmas/War Is Over 784 129 655 8.142
382 8 BAND-AID Do They Know It's Christmas? 757 128 629 7.461
384 9 LEROY ANDERSON Sleigh Ride 703 127 576 6.723
467 10 HALL & OATES Jingle Bell Rock 673 95 578 5.693
421 11 WHAM! Last Christmas 626 111 515 6.113
400 12 BING CROSBY It's Beginning To Look A Lot.. 595 119 476 6.125
542 13 BING CROSBY White Christmas 571 74 497 5.317
454 14 PAUL MCCARTNEY Wonderful Christmastime 555 100 455 4.316
476 15 JOSH GROBAN O Holy Night 546 92 454 5.105
453 16 JOSE FELICIANO Feliz Navidad 545 101 444 5.501
3 17 SARA BAREILLES Love Song 517 620 -103 3.035
2 18 COLBIE CAILLAT Bubbly 509 670 -161 4.001
493 19 GENE AUTRY Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer 503 87 416 4.773
523 20 HARRY SIMEONE CHORAL Little Drummer Boy 497 78 419 4.224
Also, I found this pretty interesting. On the AC gold chart, "All I Want for Christmas Is You" has never went #1 before!
She's actually going to do it for the first time tonight!
Top 40 (Gold Chart)
711 143 MARIAH CAREY All I Want For Christmas Is... 54 5 49 0.529
Hot AC (Gold Chart)
1319 554 MARIAH CAREY All I Want For Christmas Is... 30 6 24 0.054
Rock (Gold Chart)
1278 MARIAH CAREY All I Want For Christmas Is... 3 0 3 0.028
This has never charted here before.
Rhythmic (Gold Chart)
1380 1627 MARIAH CAREY All I Want For Christmas Is... 2 2 0 0.033