Wham!’s Final Christmas stays prime of singles chart for an additional week

Wham! have continued their belated festive domination after Final Christmas remained prime of the singles chart, every week after being topped 2024’s Christmas No 1.

The pop duo of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley made historical past final week after their 1984 single Final Christmas grew to become the primary UK Christmas No1 to prime the chart for 2 years in a row.

The band lastly achieved the festive prime spot 39 years after the tune was initially denied the coveted place by Band Support’s Do They Know It’s Christmas?

And on Friday, the duo marked their tenth non-consecutive week on the prime of the UK singles chart with their famed festive tune. It first topped the singles chart on 1 January 2021, greater than 5 years after Michael’s loss of life on Christmas Day in 2016 on the age of 53.

Ridgeley advised the Official Charts final week that Michael can be “completely delighted” the tune had grow to be a festive traditional. As Final Christmas continues at primary, Mariah Carey has moved as much as second place with All I Need For Christmas Is You.

Carey’s tune was crushed to the summit by East 17’s Keep One other Day upon its launch in 1994, however lastly reached the highest of the chart in 2020.

This week, the Little Little bit of Love singer Tom Grennan’s new observe It Can’t Be Christmas, a collaboration with Amazon Music Unique, has gone from fourth place to 3rd place.

The festive favourites’ listing positioned Brenda Lee’s 1958 hit Rockin’ Across the Christmas Tree at No 4 and the 1957 tune Jingle Bell Rock by Bobby Helms at No 5.

All the highest 10 spots featured festive songs throughout Christmas week, together with The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl’s Fairytale of New York (six), Kelly Clarkson’s Beneath the Tree (seven), Ariana Grande’s Santa Inform Me (eight), Band Support’s Do They Know It’s Christmas? (9) and Sir Elton John’s Step Into Christmas (10).

Within the album charts, the Canadian singer Michael Bublé returned to No 1 after lacking out on the highest spot final week, when the US pop star Sabrina Carpenter secured the Christmas No 1 album title with Brief n’ Candy.