WHAM! and Mariah Carey to re-enter UK Top 10 as Christmas season begins

And there’s a lot more Christmas magic where that came from! Tom Grennan’s It Can’t Be Christmas could enter the Top 20 for the first time (19).

We’re still a few weeks away from the Official kick-off date for the year’s biggest Number 1 race – the UK’s Official Christmas Number 1 single – and you can catch up with all the acts we’ve pegged as contenders here.

Following the surprise drop of his sixth album gnx, Kendrick Lamar could see three of the LPs tracks hit the Top 20; Wacced Out Murals (6), Squabbled Up (7) and Luther (13).

Are you ready to get Wicked? The musical adaption of the best-selling theatre show is finally in cinemas – its signature song Defying Gravity with stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande is set to debut at Number 12, while Grande’s Popular could debut at Number 22.

Outside the Top 20, there are a lot of festive tracks present in the Top 40 mid-week; Brenda Lee’s Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree (21), Bobby Helms’ Jingle Bell Rock (25), Ariana Grande’s Santa Tell Me (29), The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl’s Fairytale of New York (31), Laufey’s Christmas Magic (33), Shakin’ Stevens’ Merry Christmas Everybody and Andy Williams’s It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (38).