News - 05/12/2014

Lily Allen, Leona Lewis join PPL’s Most Played Christmas Songs in the UK

Lily Allen, Leona Lewis join PPL’s Most Played Christmas Songs in the UK

Lily Allen and Leona Lewis, two of the UK’s most popular contemporary female music-sales chart toppers, are repeating that run in another type of charts: the latest official top ten PPL Most Played Christmas Songs of the Year.

Allen shoots straight to the No.2 spot on PPL’s 2013 chart with Somewhere Only We Know, her rendition of the song by alternative rockers Keane. It had also peaked at No.1 on the Official UK Singles Chart last year after being the soundtrack to department store John Lewis’ Christmas TV commercial.

The other new entry in the PPL chart is One More Sleep by Leona Lewis, winner of the 2006 edition of popular TV talent show The X Factor.

The track, on Lewis’ first Christmas album (Christmas, With Love), entered PPL’s Top 10 sanctum at No.9. It had also reached No.3 on the UK Official Singles chart in December 2013 and the Top 10 Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in the US.

Based on 2013 radio airplay and music featured on public broadcast platforms, the chart is compiled by PPL, the UK collecting society that licenses the use of recorded music in public (including pubs, venues, retail outlets, offices) and on broadcast media (TV, radio and online).

Its annual chart pins down the 10 most popular Christmas-themed songs heard by the public in a given year. The chart in 2013, when more than 30 million seconds of Christmas music was aired, shows Allen and Lewis for the first time entering an arena that has been dominated by The Pogues, Wham!, Slade and Band Aid for years because of the public’s loyalty to what they are familiar with.

So it is quite a coup for Allen and Lewis to defy that trend and make the grade this time.
Here is the full list of the 2013 PPL Most Played Christmas Songs:-
Fairytale Of New York The Pogues (featuring Kirsty MacColl)
Somewhere Only We Know Lily Allen
All I Want For Christmas Is You Mariah Carey
Last Christmas Wham!
Merry Xmas Everybody Slade
I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday Wizzard
Do They Know It's Christmas? Band Aid
Driving Home For Christmas Chris Rea
One More Sleep Leona Lewis
Merry Christmas Everyone Shakin' Stevens

[Juliana Koranteng]
 

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