AC Chart Sans Recurrent Rules (12/26/03)

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LW TW Artist - Song
02 01 Jose Feliciano - Feliz Navidad 2 weeks @ #1
01 02 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree 1 week @ #1
06 03 The Carpenters - Merry Christmas Darling 1 week @ #1
04 04 Burl Ives - Holly Jolly Christmas
07 05 Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song (Chesnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)
09 06 John Lennon - Happy Christmas (War Is Over)
03 07 Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock
13 08 Bing Crosby - White Christmas
05 09 Band-Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?
12 10 Wham! - Last Christmas
10 11 The Eagles - Please Come Home For Christmas
08 12 Paul McCartney & The Wings - Wonderful Christmastime
14 13 Elton John - Step Into Christmas
20 14 Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas
19 15 Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You
22 16 Johnny Mathis - It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas
16 17 Andy Williams - The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
18 18 Gene Autry - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
11 19 matchbox twenty - Unwell 2 weeks @ #1
15 20 Train - Calling All Angels
24 21 Faith Hill - Where Are You Christmas?
23 22 Newsong - The Christmas Shoes
29 23 Bruce Springsteen - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
27 24 The Eurythmics - Winter Wonderland
17 25 Shania Twain - Forever & For Always 4 weeks @ #1 5 weeks @ #1[/i]
21 26 Uncle Kracker f/ Dobie Gray - Drift Away 22 weeks @ #1
25 27 Phil Collins - Look Through My Eyes
** 28 James Taylor - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
RE 29 Clay Aiken - Invisible
RE 30 Sheryl Crow - The First Cut Is The Deepest

Droppers:
The Beach Boys - Little Saint Nick
Simply Red - Sunrise
Counting Crows f/ Vanessa Carlton - Big Yellow Taxi

Next Up:
Josh Groban - O Holy Night
Jim Brickman w/ Kristy Starling - Sending You A Little Christmas
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Canon
Bette Midler - White Christmas

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[EvanJ]

With Christmas being this week, will a Christmas song be Number 1 next week? Some stations like WMGQ will start going all-Christmas for a few days next week. Some stations play Christmas music after Christmas (it was posted that Christmas music has been played in January) but I don't know how many.
Out of the 23 artists with Christmas songs on the chart, how many of them would have a regular song in the Top 100 Sans Recurrent Rule in another month? I'd expect John Lennon, The Eagles, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Mariah Carey, Faith Hill, Bruce Springsteen, The Eurythmics, and James Taylor to be possiblities. I don't know much about any secular music by artists like Jose Feliciano, Brenda Lee, Burl Ives, Bobby Helms, Bing Crosby, Band-Aid, Wham!, Johnny Mathis, Andy Williams, and Gene Autry. I'd expect "Feliz Navidad" to be Jose's most popular song in the United States, with that name I have no idea if he had a successful Spanish career.
Celine Dion and Barbra Streisand have two of the best selling Christmas albums of all-time but aren't on the chart. I don't know if Barbra's Christmas music would do better on Oldies stations, but Celine is certainly newer than John Lennon, Nat King Cole, Elvis Presley and others.
Do Faith Hill and NewSong (both released in 2000) have the newest Christmas songs on the chart?
With songs not going for adds and only one Christmas song on the chart to drop off, it doesn't look like too many debuts on the next R and R chart.

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EvanJ said:

I'd expect "Feliz Navidad" to be Jose's most popular song in the United States.

It's definitely his most heard song. He's also known for the theme song to Chico And The Man and a controversial (at the time) version of "The Star Spangled Banner".