{"id":221147,"date":"2025-12-08T03:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T03:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/221147\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T03:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T03:06:14","slug":"kylie-minogue-on-course-for-36th-uk-top-10-single-with-xmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/221147\/","title":{"rendered":"Kylie Minogue on course for 36th UK Top 10 single with XMAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p paraeid=\"{48471ccb-8d22-4942-b362-9307e12e1ab4}{167}\" paraid=\"1828077402\">The Australian icon\u2019s new festive hit made its Top 40 debut last Friday, and is on course to climb 19 places to Number 5 on the Official Chart: First Look.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{48471ccb-8d22-4942-b362-9307e12e1ab4}{181}\" paraid=\"358713796\">If it holds, XMAS will mark Kylie\u2019s first Top 10 hit since 2023\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/songs\/kylie-minogue-padam-padam\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Padam Padam<\/a> peaked at Number 8, and highest-charting song since 2010\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/songs\/kylie-minogue-all-the-lovers\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">All The Lovers<\/a>, which topped out at Number 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{48471ccb-8d22-4942-b362-9307e12e1ab4}{205}\" paraid=\"1836348353\">XMAS is an Amazon Music Original, and features on the Amazon-exclusive variants of her Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped) album, released last Friday (December 5th).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{48471ccb-8d22-4942-b362-9307e12e1ab4}{231}\" paraid=\"1318926612\">It\u2019s a three-horse race for Number 1, with festive favourites from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/19823\/wham\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">WHAM!<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/25943\/mariah-carey\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Mariah Carey<\/a> battling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/50464\/raye\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">RAYE<\/a> this week. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/songs\/wham-last-christmas\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Last Christmas<\/a> is pole position so far, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/songs\/mariah-carey-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">All I Want For Christmas Is You<\/a> in the runner-up slot, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/songs\/raye-where-is-my-husband\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!<\/a> at 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{640dbfd5-b173-4bec-aaf7-72c140e4df7b}{16}\" paraid=\"1777689193\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/8197\/brenda-lee\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Brenda Lee<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/songs\/brenda-lee-rockin-around-the-christmas-tree\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Rockin\u2019 Around The Christmas Tree<\/a> is on course to re-peak at Number 4, its highest ever placement achieved in 2022 and 2024.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{640dbfd5-b173-4bec-aaf7-72c140e4df7b}{38}\" paraid=\"991020773\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/13611\/kelly-clarkson\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly Clarkson<\/a>\u2019s modern Christmas classic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/songs\/kelly-clarkson-underneath-the-tree\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Underneath The Tree<\/a> scales three places to Number 6 so far this week, a potential new peak for the song which hit its current personal best of Number 7 in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{640dbfd5-b173-4bec-aaf7-72c140e4df7b}{64}\" paraid=\"213264059\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/16392\/gwen-stefani\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gwen Stefani<\/a> could claim this week\u2019s highest climber with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/songs\/gwen-stefani-shake-the-snow-globe\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Shake The Snow Globe<\/a> (16), which would mark her first UK Top 40 single since 2007. Similarly to Kylie\u2019s XMAS, this track is a new Amazon Original for 2025, and features on the Amazon exclusive deluxe reissue of her holiday album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/albums\/gwen-stefani-you-make-it-feel-like-christmas\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">You Make It Feel Like Christmas<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{640dbfd5-b173-4bec-aaf7-72c140e4df7b}{107}\" paraid=\"886826456\">Finally, dance anthem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/haven-ft-kaitlin-aragon\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">I Run<\/a> by Haven ft. Kaitlin Aragon could break into the Top 20 for the first time, up four spots to 17 midweek.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian icon\u2019s new festive hit made its Top 40 debut last Friday, and is on course to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,14344,19,17,23833,337,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-221147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-gwen-stefani","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-kylie-minogue","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115681741112124829","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}