Wham!’s ‘Last Christmas lands first Number One on UK singles chart

nme.com:

Wham!‘s ‘Last Christmas’ has reached Number One in the UK for the very first time, 36 years after it was first released.Climbing from Three to One, the Christmas favourite racked up 9.2 million streams over the past week, reaching the top of the chart on the fourth anniversary of George Michael’s death.‘Last Christmas’ spent five weeks at Number Two when it was first released in 1984 – kept off the Number One spot by Band Aid’s ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’.Since 2007, shortly after downloads were introduced to the UK singles chart, ‘Last Christmas’ has re-entered the Top 40 on a further 13 occasions, reaching Number Two again in 2018.It’s followed in this week’s chart by two other vintage Christmas classics, with Mariah Carey‘s ‘All I.