November 10, 20232 yr Author 37 | | 114th week Wham! Last Christmas http://is1.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music/v4/02/0d/a0/020da063-f950-e967-64cd-1a06eb11f9e6/source/170x170bb.jpg 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-x RE (16/11/2023) | 37 * double A side with Everything She Wants Sales: 4,800k+ Certification: 5x Platinum Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio 02 Sales 01 Audio Streaming 01 Video Streaming Video E8gmARGvPlI 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! http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png
November 10, 20232 yr I dunno why people can't stream this until December? It's too early. It's mostly shops/retail/cafes I think, I've heard them everywhere.
November 10, 20232 yr Wow...first year Wham! have started ahead of Mariah? I cannot believe how high they are in early November :o Imagine where we'll be a month from now. Even Dua won't be able to pull off a Houdini act to get more than three weeks at No.1 (before returning in the new year, natch).
November 10, 20232 yr With Wham! entering ahead of Mariah on the first week, could this be the first ever time that Mariah has never charted above Wham! in a given year?
November 10, 20232 yr Author I dunno why people can't stream this until December? It's too early. Why wait though x
November 10, 20232 yr New Top 40 positions for both Christmas songs - this one moves level with 'Blinding Lights' on 33 altogether, the joint most.
November 10, 20232 yr As I haven't heard Mariah or Wham since December is nice to hear them again, but will be sick of them in a couple of chart shows' time!
November 10, 20232 yr "Last Christmas" is now the third longest-running top 40 song in the UK at 76 weeks, after "All I Want For Christmas Is You" (87 weeks) and "Fairytale of New York" (84 weeks).
November 10, 20232 yr Author 36 | 43 | 5th week K.A.D and Kak Hatt Just How You Like It Non-album single Released: 15th January 2021 Label: TEAMKAD Chart Statistics NE (19/10/2023) | 86-60-50-43-36 Sales: 30k+ Certification: - Status: Standard Chart Ratio 94 Sales 00 Audio Streaming 63 Video Streaming Video 755NP0YpiCY Top 100 Chart History K.A.D 2023 36 Just How You Like It (K.A.D & Kak Hatt) -NAS- 0 x #1 | 0 x Top 5 | 0 x Top 10 | 0 x Top 20 | 1 x Top 40 | 1 x Top 100 Kak Hatt 2023 36 Just How You Like It (K.A.D & Kak Hatt) 0 x #1 | 0 x Top 5 | 0 x Top 10 | 0 x Top 20 | 1 x Top 40 | 1 x Top 100 Social Media K.A.D Kak Hatt http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png
November 10, 20232 yr Omg I've heard this all over TikTok and since someone said it sounds like Shane Richie, I can't hear otherwise lmao
November 10, 20232 yr Author Omg I've heard this all over TikTok and since someone said it sounds like Shane Richie, I can't hear otherwise lmao !
November 10, 20232 yr Seeing the re-entry dates all lined up for Wham! and Mariah above is very interesting, and shows how things were pulled forward in terms of Christmas consumption in 2020, which of course is unsurprising as people wanted a welcome Covid distraction. What's surprising is that every year since, the trend has continued and even magnified, and now shops are all playing Christmas songs from the day after Halloween (Asda earlier had a Xmas song playing every few - I worked there for many years and they never played them before December, and even then quite sparsely until the week or two before Christmas). Edited November 10, 20232 yr by gooddelta
November 10, 20232 yr What on earth is this? It sounds like Bad Boy Chiller Crew but even worse if possible
November 10, 20232 yr Omg I've heard this all over TikTok and since someone said it sounds like Shane Richie, I can't hear otherwise lmao Hahahaha bloody brilliant!
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