Last Christmas is the 2023 Christmas Number One

Editor Stephen Hill 23rd / Dec/ 2023

Eighties boyband Wham has finally cliched the Christmas Number one spot with their timeless classic

 "LAST CHRISTMAS" 

The Christmas winner is decided by a combination of downloads, sales a streams and the result was announced on 22 December. 

 

UK fans streamed the song 13.3 million times, making it the most-played song ever during Christmas week.

 It's also UK's third-biggest song of all time, with a lifetime total of 5.34 million chart units - a measure that combines streams and sales.

WHAM! have simply pulled off the chart triumph of a lifetime, finally securing the Christmas Number one after a record-breaking 39 years after the first being denied it.

Penned and produced by the late, world class iconic singer George Michael with the aim of landing the Christmas Number 1 in 1984, the festive classic Last Christmas was famously kept off the top spot upon release by the phenomenon that was Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas? (the second best-selling single of all time). 

Nearly four decades on, Last Christmas finally claims the coveted festive chart crown, in a victory for ‘80s pop duo WHAM! and their legions of devoted fans up and down the country who have campaigned to rewrite history for decades.