‘Perfect’ Christmas number one for 2024 finally revealed and it’s made history
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. The Christmas number one single for 2024 has been revealed and it has already broken chart records. Wham! has once again clinched the top spot with their hit single Last Christmas 40 years after it was initially released.
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Their latest chart-topping feat marks the first time a song has held the Christmas number one spot in two consecutive years. The song was famously beaten to Christmas number one in 1984 by Band Aid’s charity single Do They Know It’s Christmas? and eventually reached the top spot in the UK in 2021 – 36 years after its release.
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The track also secured the Christmas number one title last year, making history as the longest journey to make it to the top spot in time for Christmas Day. It became a particularly poignant track after George Michael died on Christmas Day in 2016 at the age of 53.
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It has been hailed by many as the ‘perfect’ Christmas song, regularly topping lists of the best festive tracks ever made. It was the most-played Christmas song of the 21st century in the UK, until 2011 when it was overtaken by The Pogues’ Fairytale of New York.
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Speaking after this win, Michael’s bandmate Andrew Ridgeley thanked fans for their support and wished them a Merry Christmas. ’37 years to get to Number 1, 39 years to Christmas Number 1, and then like London buses they all come along at once,’ he said in a statement.
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