In 2022 30 of the 40 songs in the Christmas Top 40 were Christmas song, a number that's been growing every year. In 2011 it was a more modest 10 Christmas songs including 2 versions of "Last Christmas" and "Driving Home For Christmas" with Stacey Solomon charting higher than Chris Rea, and The Cast Of The Only Way Is Essex charting higher than Wham!
The first question has to be what is my view on Christmas music?
The answer is I hate it and the fact I'm going to hear the same bunch of songs over and over again for approximately 1/12 of my life isn't going to change that. Therefore it's zero already for 30 songs in 2022 and 10 songs in 2010.
The fact that 9 of these years finished in the bottom 9 in my best year search and the remaining 3 years finished near the bottom doesn't give much hope for the rest of the records in the Top 40.
There were just 8 records in the 12 Top 40s as a whole that scored full marks. Amongst these were "Activ-8" by Altern-8 and "Glad All Over" by Dave Clark Five which were both old records part of Christmas number one campaigns. There were also a couple of Eminem records in there.
The year that finished bottom of my best year search was 2012 which scored a big far zero so it's therefore impossible for the Christmas week to be any worse and it wasn't with Alicia Keys giving it a solitary point with "Girl On Fire".
Also bucking the trend was 2017 which scored 2.5 compared to the 1.5 it scored in the best year search. It also sits top of the Christmas leaderboard for now as a result. Eminem was the main factor here who contributed 1.5 of the points.
Here's the table so far then with scores from both Christmas week and best year week. I'm colouring the Christmas week red if it's worse, green if better or leaving it if it's the same score as the best year week.
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