Wham! are Christmas number one for a second time
Wham! are Christmas number one for a second time
Wham!'s Last Christmas has become the UK's Christmas number one for a second consecutive year.
George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley's festive classic beat songs by Mariah Carey, Gracie Abrams, Tom Grennan and Ariana Grande to top the chart.
Ridgeley said he was "especially pleased" for his late band-mate, who died in 2016 and had always wanted the song to reach number one.
"He would have been utterly delighted [that] his fabulous Christmas composition has become such a classic, almost as much a part of Christmas as mince pies, turkey and pigs in blankets."
"It's testament to a really wonderful Christmas song that in a lot of people's minds evokes and represents Christmas as we would all wish it to be," he added.
The Official Charts Company said the song had been streamed 12.6 million times in the week leading up to Christmas.
The only other songs to have topped the Christmas chart more than once are Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (in 1975 and 1991) and Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas (with different versions in 1984, 1989 and 2004). Neither managed it in consecutive years.
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Last Christmas was originally released in 1984, but lost the top spot to Band Aid's single, which raised money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
The charity made a renewed bid for the charts this year, with a 40th anniversary "ultimate mix" of Do They Know Its Christmas, blending vocals from the various versions of the song that have been recorded over the years,
But the re-release faltered after a row over the lyrics, with critics calling the song outdated and colonialist, and Ed Sheeran saying he wasn't asked for permission to re-use his voice.
In the end, the song charted at number 12, nestled between Kelly Clarkson's Underneath The Tree and Andy Williams' 1963 standard It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year.
