{"id":123047,"date":"2024-12-30T15:06:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T20:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/12\/30\/elton-john-notches-60th-top-40-billboard-hot-100-hit-with-ed-sheeran-collaboration-merry-christmas-2\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T15:06:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T20:06:40","slug":"elton-john-notches-60th-top-40-billboard-hot-100-hit-with-ed-sheeran-collaboration-merry-christmas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/12\/30\/elton-john-notches-60th-top-40-billboard-hot-100-hit-with-ed-sheeran-collaboration-merry-christmas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Elton John Notches 60th Top 40 Billboard Hot 100 Hit With Ed Sheeran Collaboration \u2018Merry\u00a0Christmas\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tAs holiday hits decorate the Billboard Hot 100<\/a>\u2019s entire top 10<\/a>, and top 16, spots for the first time, another seasonal song, among others, makes a notable jolly jaunt: Ed Sheeran<\/a> and Elton John<\/a>\u2019s \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d jingles four places to No. 38, marking its first week in the chart\u2019s top 40 \u2013 and John\u2019s milestone 60th top 40 hit and Sheeran\u2019s likewise landmark 25th.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe team-up, which Sheeran and John co-wrote, was released in 2021 and first peaked at No. 42 a year later.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the Dec. 20-26 tracking week, the song drew 20.2 million official streams (up 38%) and 2.8 million in radio airplay audience (up 25%) and sold 2,000 (up 59%) in the United States, according to data tracker Luminate.<\/p>\n

\n\tNotably, John ties Beyonc\u00e9 for the ninth-most top 40 Hot 100 hits, dating to the chart\u2019s Aug. 4, 1958, start.<\/p>\n

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