UPDATE: It will be eligible! ‘Ding-dong, The Witch Is Dead’ is too short to be a Top 40 Single

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Update: From the Official Charts website.

Three versions of the song are currently figuring in the Top 200 – Judy Garland’s version at 54, Ella Fitzgerald’s 1961 cover is at 146 and the Munchkins‘ version at 183. Contrary to some reports, all three versions qualify under industry chart rules.

At 51 seconds, Judy Garland’s version of ‘Ding-dong, The Witch Is Dead’, currently at #11 in the iTunes Singles Chart in the UK, is too short to be eligible for the Official Top 40 this weekend.

Short of some sort of rule bending, the number one is going to be a big name artists such as Pink, Nelly, or Duke Dumont. Not Liza Minelli’s Mum.