(CNN) — It turns out the Christmas chart is a real thing in the United Kingdom – not something made up for the classic film “Love Actually” – and a certain beloved band has topped it this year with ...

Wham!’s “Last Christmas” sleigh-rides from No. 18 to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Dec. 14), as the 1984 classic by the British duo of Michael, who died in 2016, and Andrew Ridgeley hits a new ...

Wham!’s festive song Last Christmas never got to number one in the year of its release 1984, but it has scored a historical first, becoming the first track to occupy the festive chart’s top slot for a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. George Michael performs at the MGM Grand arena in Las Vegas, in 2008. Wham!'s 1984 song "Last Christmas" reached No. 2 on ...

Longtime Wham! manager Simon Napier-Bell reflected on the legacy of the 1984 Christmas song in an interview with 'The Telegraph' Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty “Last Christmas” remains Wham!’s most ...

‘Tis the season for yuletide classics of yesteryear to finally reach the top spot on the charts as Wham!‘s “Last Christmas” was awarded the U.K.’s Christmas Number One this week, 39 years after the ...

Andrew Ridgeley finds “Last Christmas” as inescapable as you do at the holidays. The Wham! star is calling via video from Central London, where “the pedicabs are playing it, so it’s a constant ...

*Decades after its release, Wham!’s 1984 holiday classic “Last Christmas” has achieved a new milestone, reaching the number one spot on the Billboard Global 200 for the first time ever. Billboard ...

One of the most popular songs each December is Wham!’s “Last Christmas.” Wham!’s George Michael had complex feelings about the song. Everybody else just seems to like it. George Michael felt Wham!’s ...

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the song, BBC Two and BBC Music are set to debut the hour-long WHAM!: Last Christmas Unwrapped in December. From Blink Films and Sony Music Entertainment in ...

The annual Christmas tradition, which involves avoiding listening to one classic holiday song as long as possible, is trending across social media Sadie Bell was a digital news writer on the music ...