01 | 02 | 113th week

 

Wham!

Last Christmas

 

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1st single from The Final

Released: 1984

Label: Epic Records

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (15/12/1984) | 2-2-2-2-2-3-8-11-21-33-38-51-67-x *

RE (14/12/1985) | 32-10-6-6-14-36-68-x

RE (13/12/1986) | 85-63-47-45-71-x

RE (08/12/2007) | 50-23-14-16-40-x

RE (06/12/2008) | 67-36-26-27-45-x

RE (12/12/2009) | 53-39-41-34-x

RE (11/12/2010) | 57-53-56-61-x

RE (10/12/2011) | 55-26-28-34-x

RE (08/12/2012) | 55-34-41-35-87-x

RE (07/12/2013) | 91-44-40-36-68-x

RE (06/12/2014) | 86-39-36-35-28-x

RE (10/12/2015) | 65-27-24-18-54-x

RE (08/12/2016) | 75-19-20-16-7-x

RE (30/11/2017) | 81-29-6-3-3-2-x

RE (06/12/2018) | 52-14-7-7-3-x

RE (28/11/2019) | 80-43-13-7-5-3-x

RE (19/11/2020) | 76-44-20-3-2-2-3-1-x

RE (18/11/2021) | 85-54-28-4-3-3-3-2-x

RE (17/11/2022) | 71-42-23-9-3-1-2-1

 

* double A side with Everything She Wants

 

Sales: 4,600k+

Certification: 4x Platinum

Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio

 

02 Sales

01 Audio Streaming

01 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

As the energetically punctuated Wham!, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley combined youthful high spirits with a polished union of disco and soul to become one of the defining pop acts of the 1980s. Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (Michael) and Andrew John Ridgeley first met in secondary school as 12-year-olds back in 1975. Their 1981 debut as Wham!, the pop-rap snack “Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?),” preached the joy of life on welfare amid rampant British unemployment. As the group’s principal songwriter and frontman, Michael’s exuberant turn on “Young Guns (Go for It!)” precipitated Wham!’s vibrant, post-disco debut, Fantastic, in 1983, which parlayed the duo’s carefree vigor into the glistening hedonism of “Club Tropicana.” Returning in 1984 with the emphatic “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,” the group folded Detroit soul into an effervescent pop marvel that sent Wham! to the summit of the U.S. pop charts. Michael took over production on their follow-up album, Make It Big, whose modernized Motown sound on the brooding boogie cut “Everything She Wants” and the resplendent pop-soul of “Careless Whisper” cemented his standing as one of pop’s foremost performer/composers. Ending 1984 with the career-defining synth-pop torch song “Last Christmas,” Wham! harked back to their feel-good beginnings with “I’m Your Man” in 1985 before amicably parting to allow Michael to focus on his solo career. Their final album, 1986’s Music from the Edge of Heaven, featuring their last single “The Edge of Heaven,” wrote the postscript on a prodigious four-year passage that flourished into an indelible pop legacy. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

1982 03 Young Guns (Go For It) -1-

1983 08 Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do) -2-

1983 02 Bad Boys -3-

1983 04 Club Tropicana -4-

1983 15 Club Fantastic Megamix -NAS-

1984 01 Wake Me Up Before You Go Go -1- MILLIONAIRE

1984 01 Freedom -2-

1984 01 Last Christmas / Everything She Wants -1- MILLION SELLER

1985 01 I'm Your Man -2-

1986 01 The Edge Of Heaven -3-

 

5 x #1 | 8 x Top 5 | 9 x Top 10 | 10 x Top 20 | 10 x Top 40 | 10 x Top 100

 

Social Media

 

Wham!

 

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Congrats Mariah on a record 11th week at #2!

It’s more that whatever’s popular in America is in the ascendency - maybe they’re even more nostalgic than us haha.

 

This is true as well, the Hot 100 invasion is even more oldie dominated than the UK.

Wham! :wub:

Would be good to get a change in top 2 Christmas songs next year. Probably won't though unless Brenda can get in there.

Wham! coming for their second 1-out drop :cheeseblock: (same for Bublé in the albums possibly)

A long time indeed... not since 1992 to be exact. :lol:

I was gonna include 2008 but I remembered that Alexandra Burke also appeared on the X Factor Finalists 2008 version of "Hero" as well as her winning single "Hallelujah"

I’m actually more disappointed for Ava Max just missing the Top 40 than Sam with his Amazon exclusive, though I suppose Ava might have a chance next year depending on when she hits the 3 year permanent ACR.

glad to see wham and mariah have 3 weeks at #1 each now!

I AM GOING TO SCREAM :o

 

That is actually really frustrating!

 

I thought they'd actually be lower and clear of that dreaded #41 though. :(

Well done Wham! :cheer:

Merry Christmas Everyone by the Shakin' Stevens!

Ladbaby at #85 lol

Just saw the entire top 100, and "Oh Santa!" has reached a new peak of #50! @JosephCarey

What’s at 41 then?

oh santa and ava max both new peaks!!! Yay

Poor Sam Ryder. :(

poor sam st #41 :(

Last Christmas has now spent more weeks in the Top 10 than I Believe by Frankie Laine

Happy New Year everyone, have an amazing new year celebration whatever it is you're doing!