Whoo-Hoo! Cher’s NEW Holiday Tune ‘DJ Play a Christmas Song’ Sleighs To No. 1 Via Billboard Adult Contemporary Chart.
“Cher makes a merry move to No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary radio airplay chart (dated Dec. 9) with “DJ Play a Christmas Song.”
The single surged by 31% in plays in the Nov. 24-30 tracking week, according to Luminate.
The carol is the 29th holiday No. 1 on the AC chart since 2000, around the time that most stations in the format began playing seasonal songs heavily, or 24/7, between Thanksgiving and Christmas each year. NewSong’s “The Christmas Shoes” became the first such leader, while Backstreet Boys’ cover of Wham!’s “Last Christmas” reigned for five weeks last holiday season.
“DJ Play a Christmas Song” also makes history for Cher, as it’s her first AC No. 1 since “If I Could Turn Back Time,” which led for a week in September 1989. She ends the longest break between No. 1s in the chart’s 62-year history: 34 years and two weeks. She surpasses Elton John, who went 23 years, 11 months and one week between “Something About the Way You Look Tonight” in 1997-98 and his own latest holiday hit, “Merry Christmas” with Ed Sheeran two Yuletide seasons ago. ” – Billboard.com
