Joseph's Hit 40

This week's Christmas #1 comes from French popstar Nemo Schiffman with his second single I Don't Mind. The track climbs one spot and in doing so, swaps with Louis Tomlinson & Steve Aoki who are down one place to #2. I Don't Mind becomes the first #1 by a French artist in my chart, and unfortunately it's only available on French download/streaming services so it's absent from my Spotify playlist. Last week, Louis & Steve's Just Hold On became the first solo single by a One Direction member to top my chart. 11 One Direction songs went to #1, but neither Niall nor Zayn managed to repeat that with any of their singles so far. In fact, despite four-time #1 artist Taylor Swift collaborating with him on his latest track, Zayn falls 17-24 with his newest song I Don't Wanna Live Forever this week.

Previous Christmas #1s have come from The Saturdays, One Direction, The Vamps, Tom Odell and Louisa Johnson, meaning that Nemo is the first non-British artist to top my chart for Christmas! Fun fact: 2011's Christmas #1, Last Call by The Saturdays, was also my first ever #1!

He achieved a #1 last year with Close Your Eyes, and now RHODES returns to my chart with Felix Jaehn in tow on a reworking of his song Your Soul. The new track, retitled Your Soul (Holding On), makes it to #6 this week. The original never made my chart, although this has helped a revival of RHODES' album Wishes, which topped my album chart last year. It's back in at #7 this week. Felix Jaehn has previously made my top 10, at #9 with Jasmine Thompson collaboration Ain't Nobody (Loves Me Better).

British girl group M.O achieved their first top 10 hit earlier this year with #6 hit Who Do You Think Of?, and they now notch up a second with Not in Love, featuring Kent Jones. It is the thirteenth top 10 hit this year from a girl group, following three from All Saints, three from Fifth Harmony, five from Little Mix and now two from M.O. Kent Jones achieves his first top 10, on his debut chart hit.

Also this week, Pia Mia makes her first solo chart appearance in over a year, while The 1975 score a second top 40 hit with She's American. JP Cooper returns with September Song, and both Daniel Skye and George Shelley record their lowest peaking tracks to date - funnily enough, it's the fifth top 40 hit for both.

Shane Harper and Machine Gun Kelly record new chart peaks this week alongside the aforementioned Nemo Schiffman and Felix Jaehn. Ulrik Munther also re-enters with his Christmas track Shine a Light.