Wham! have secured a 10th non-consecutive week at the top of the UK singles chart with their festive hit Last Christmas.
The group, consisting of George Michael, Andrew Ridgeley, Shirlie Holliman and Pepsi (Helen DeMacque) made chart history this year when Last Christmas became the first song to be crowned Christmas number one two years in a row.
Initially released in December 1984, the song had a 39-year wait to claim the coveted title, first reaching the top of the singles chart on January 1, 2021, over five years after Michael's passing on Christmas Day in 2016 at the age of 53. According to Ridgeley, Michael would be "utterly delighted" that the song has become a festive classic.
As Last Christmas maintains its position at number one, Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You has moved up to second place. Carey previously reached the top of the charts with the song in 2020, but was initially beaten to the summit by East 17's Stay Another Day upon its release in 1994.
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Greg Allen/Invision/AP)This week, Tom Grennan's new track It Can't Be Christmas, a collaboration with Amazon Music Original, has risen from fourth place to third place. Tom had pleaded with fans after the initial Christmas Number 1 was released, asking them to continue streaming his new track.
Taking to his Instagram, the Coventry City supporter said: "Oh we didn't get the Number One but that's alright. Congrats to Wham! like Andrew said in his interview, Last Christmas is definitely the fabric of what Christmas is. To be up there with the likes of Wham! is an incredible achievement, I'm very, very proud, thank you everybody who's bought the record, streamed the record, now we still could get a Number One at Christmas, next week, unofficially a Number One at Christmas, if you keep streaming, keep buying, around the Christmas dinner table, tell Alexa play 'It Can't Be Christmas'."
He previously revealed that had he bagged the top spot, his life would have changed forever. The musician who wrote the song in the height of the summer visited tattooist Tal Booker and had "Christmas No.1 2024 is..." tattooed on his thigh. The rest of the list features festive favourites, with Brenda Lee's 1958 hit Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree at number four and Bobby Helms' 1957 song Jingle Bell Rock at number five.
The Christmas week saw the charts decked with festive hits, as The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl's Fairytale Of New York nabbed the sixth spot, followed by Kelly Clarkson's Underneath The Tree at seven, Ariana Grande's Santa Tell Me in eighth place, Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas? at nine, and Sir Elton John'sStep Into Christmas rounding out the top ten. Meanwhile, Michael Bublé reclaimed his throne at number one on the album charts, pushing last week's Christmas chart-topper, Sabrina Carpenter's Short N Sweet', to second place.
Pop sensations continue to reign supreme with SZA's SOS returning at three, Chappell Roan's debut The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess slipping to four, and British icon Charli XCX securing fifth with her influential Brat, which sparked the "Brat Summer" movement.
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