Wham’s Christmas classic, Last Christmas, has been placed as the festive number one for the second year running.
The 1984 tune by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley has once again beaten off Mariah Carey, Ariana Grande and many other to top the Christmas chart.
Ridgeley, 61, commented he was “especially pleased” for the late Michael, who died in 2016 at the age of 53.
The singer had always wanted the song to reach number one.
“He would have been utterly delighted [that] his fabulous Christmas composition has become such a classic, almost as much a part of Christmas as mince pies, turkey and pigs in blankets,” Ridgeley stated.
He continued: “It’s testament to a really wonderful Christmas song that in a lot of people’s minds evokes and represents Christmas as we would all wish it to be,” the BBC reports.
The Official Charts Company said the song had been streamed 12.6 million times in the week leading up to Christmas.
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