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    ‘It’s mission accomplished’: Wham! secure Christmas No 1 with ‘Last Christmas’ as Sam Ryder lands No 2

    by Roisin O'Connor Dec 22, 2023 3 minutes
    Source: Sony Music/Getty

    Wham! have achieved this year’s UK Christmas No 1 with their 1984 single, “Last Christmas”, concluding one of the fiercest chart battles in recent memory.

    The classic song by the Eighties pop duo – comprising Andrew Ridgeley and the late George Michael – can now claim the longest journey to the festive top spot, a record-breaking 39 years after it was first released.

    They were denied the No 1 the first time round, when it was famously kept at bay by

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