Oasis on course to hit Number One with ‘Whatever’ after 31 years

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Oasis‘ former Christmas single ‘Whatever’ is on course to score its first Number One after 31 years.The 1994 stand-alone single, which was released on December 18 months after their debut album ‘Definitely Maybe’ that year, was re-issued on Friday (February 21) in pink and blue splatter vinyl featuring remastered audio B-side ‘(It’s Good) To Be Free’.While the band has never had a Christmas Number One, they came close that year, with only enduring Christmas classics ‘Stay Another Day’ by East 17 and Mariah Carey‘s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ keeping it off the top spot.The single is currently battling it out with Kendrick Lamar‘s ‘Not Like Us’ which is currently at Number Two in the UK singles chart and only 500 units behind and Chappell Roan‘s ‘Pink Pony Club, which is at Number Three, according to the Official Charts Company.A post shared by Oasis (@oasis)Speaking about the video for the track with Alan Carr previously, Noel Gallagher explained that he had a big night out before the shoot.“I was very drunk that day.

I had been out all night. What I’m wearing, you don’t usually wear that kind of stuff on a video shoot,” he said at the time.“I’d been out the night before to the pub.

I woke up in a bus shelter in Maida Vale.”He continued: “It was before the days of mobile phones and I didn’t know where the video shoot was and I didn’t have any way of getting in touch with anybody.“Someone from the record label just happened to be passing in a car when I was trying to hail a taxi even though I didn’t know where I was going, but it made for a good video.”Later this week, the band will reissue a 25th anniversary reissue of their fourth studio album ‘Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants’.The new version of the record is.