Elton John and Ed Sheeran‘s new Christmas song is set for a second week at the top of the UK singles charts.The pair’s festive collaboration ‘Merry Christmas’, which came out earlier this month (December 3), hit top spot in the charts last week.
Its first week sales saw the song rack up 76,700 chart sales, including 7.6million streams. and 8,100 CD single copies sold, the highest of 2021 so far.Now, according to the Official Charts‘ midweek update, it’s set for a second week at the summit, beating Christmas classics by Wham!
and Mariah Carey at this point.Last week (December 10), it was announced that Sir Elton and Sheeran have also teamed up with novelty act LadBaby for the charity single ‘Sausage Rolls For Everyone’.
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