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Wham's Last Christmas finally gets to number one 36 years after release - and fans are emotional

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direct to your inboxLast Christmas by Wham! has finally topped the UK chart 36 years after it was released.The festive classic is number one on New Year's Day after being streamed 9.2 million times over the past week - knocking the Christmas number one, LadBaby's Don't Stop Me Eating, off the top spot.First released in December 1984, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley's much-loved song about unrequited love was held off the top spot by Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas on which George featured.It has since returned to the top 10 six times, and fans had previously launched a campaign to get it to number one to mark the first anniversary of George's tragic death on Christmas Day 2016.The song reached number seven that year and a year.

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