UK Christmas Number 1: Wham! make history as they are crowned 2024’s Christmas Number 1
- Wham!'s 'Last Christmas' has become the UK's Christmas number one for a second consecutive year.
- The song is the first to be crowned Christmas number one two years in a row, marking its 40th anniversary.
- The Official Charts Company reported it as the most-streamed and physically purchased song of the week.
- Official Charts boss Martin Talbot declared it as the British nation's all-time favourite Christmas song.
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Wham!'s "Last Christmas" has become the UK's number one Christmas song for the second year in a row, breaking records. The song, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, has racked up 12.6 million streams in the week leading up to Christmas.
Andrew Ridgeley has a message for anyone trying to avoid Wham's jubilee "Last Christmas" this year. - Good luck with that, he says and laughs.


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Switzerland's Saas-Fee commemorates iconic Wham! video after 40 years
The classic "Last Christmas" by pop duo Wham has topped the British charts for the second year in a row, 40 years after its release - the first song ever to do so. The Official Charts Company has announced this.
Last Christmas marked the first time that »Last Christmas« has reached the top of the UK charts at Christmas, and again this year – the Wham! song has achieved something no other song has ever done before.
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