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December 16, 2022

Last Christmas once again reach the summit of the Official Singles Chart boasting 11.4 million streams.

Originally released in 1984, Last Christmas once held the record for the best-selling single never to have hit Number 1 in the UK; famously kept at Number 2 by Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas? it first went to Number 1 on New Year’s Day 2021, at the time breaking a chart record for the longest time a track has taken to top the Singles Chart. 

This is Last Christmas’s second stint at Number 1, and Wham!’s fifth Number 1 single overall. 

September 30, 2022

The re-issue of Older has re-entered the Official UK Albums Chart at number 2 – having missed out on the number 1 position by a mere 340 copies.

January 1, 2021

 

Last Christmas earned Wham! a fifth UK Number 1. It was the UK’s biggest-selling single never to have reached number one, accumulating 1.9 million sales across its lifetime, according to the Official Chart Company. But Last Christmas does now hold a new chart record – for the longest time taken for a single to reach #1.