This year Wham! secured first place in the UK singles charts with the Christmas classic “Last Christmas”.
Fans in the UK have been playing the song, written by the late George Michael in 1984, enough to secure the top spot for the first time on the UK’s Most Streamed Christmas Songs chart, according to Official Charts Company.
– Amazing, says Wham! member Andrew Ridgeley (60). BBC.
He said he accepted the news with humility.
Behind “Last Christmas” on the list we find songs by artists Sam Ryder (34), Mariah Carey (54) and Noah Kahn (26)
According to Ridgeley, Michael, who died in 2016, always wanted classic Christmas films to be at the top of his Christmas list.
– He wanted to prove that a good songwriter should be able to write Christmas songs to order. “Unfortunately it took too long for George, but he would have loved it,” Ridgeley continued to the channel.
In the last seven days, the song has been streamed 13.3 million times, according to data from Official Charts Company. This would also make it the most streamed song of the Christmas week in the UK.
In 1984, “Last Christmas” was surpassed by Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas”, according to BBC.
At the time of writing, “Last Christmas” is in third place among them The 50 most popular songs on Spotify in Norway.
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