Music <\/p>\n
Forty years after it was held off the No 1 spot by Band Aid, Wham!\u2019s Last Christmas<\/a> is the UK Christmas No 1 for the second year running.<\/p>\n Andrew Ridgeley, who was one half of Wham! alongside the late George Michael<\/a>, celebrated by saying: \u201cThirty seven years to get to No 1, 39 years to Christmas No 1, and then like London buses they all come along at once! I\u2019m especially pleased for George, he would have been utterly delighted, his fabulous Christmas composition has become such a classic, almost as much a part of Christmas as mince pies, turkey and pigs in blankets.\u201d<\/p>\n The quintessential song of yuletide heartache has become arguably the defining contemporary Christmas song: so ubiquitous that it has inspired the game Whamageddon<\/a>, which involves people trying to avoid hearing it for as long as possible each year.<\/p>\n It remains massively popular not just in the UK but worldwide, currently getting 7.7m plays a day globally on Spotify, and it is at No 4 in this week\u2019s US singles chart.<\/p>\n