Elton John and Ed Sheeran have debuted at No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart with their holiday single Merry Christmas.
The longtime friends’ first-ever collaboration rocketed to the top of the charts, notching 76,708 sales in its first week, including 22,156 physical and digital units and 7.6 million streams.
It also earned the biggest week of CD single sales of the year so far, with 8,101 copies sold over the last seven days.
It marks Ed’s third No. 1 single of 2021- after Bad Habits and Shivers – and Elton’s second, following Cold Heart with Dua Lipa.
It’s one of several Christmas tunes in the charts this week, with Wham! overtaking Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You to take the No. 3 spot. The diva sits at No. 4.
Meanwhile, Shakin’ Stevens is at six with Merry Christmas Everyone, Pogues and Kirsty MacColl sit at seven with Fairytale of New York and Michael Bublé’s It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas is at nine.
Brenda Lee rounds out the Top 10 with Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.
Elton and Ed could still score another chart-topper before the year is out – the pair have teamed up with LadBaby in a bid to snatch the Christmas No. 1 spot with novelty track Sausage Rolls at Christmas.
