Wham!’s ‘Closing Christmas’ Is U.K.’s Christmas No. 1 for 2024

It’s respectable: Wham!’s “Closing Christmas” is the U.K.’s Christmas No. 1 for 2024.

It makes for the second one consecutive 12 months that the pop duo – made up of Andrew Ridgeley and the past due George Michael – have accomplished the feat. The tune, first launched in 1984 and written via Michael, used to be crushed to the Christmas No. 1 spot on the time of liberate via Band Support’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” and in the end took the coveted slot 39 years later in 2023. 

Talking at the fulfillment to the Reliable Charts Corporate, Ridgeley mentioned, “37 years to get to No. 1, 39 years to Christmas No. 1, after which like London buses, all of them come alongside without delay! I’m particularly happy for George — he would were totally extremely joyful his fabulous Christmas composition has transform this kind of vintage, nearly as a lot part of Christmas as mince pies, turkey and pigs in blankets.”

The fulfillment puts Wham! in a unprecedented staff of artists to have had more than one Christmas No. 1s at the Reliable Singles Chart. With its 2nd identify, the duo joins Queen (2), Spice Ladies (3), The Beatles (4) and the present record-holders, LadBaby (5). The latter, the moniker for YouTube influencer Mark Hoyle, holds the checklist for collection of Christmas chart-toppers with 5 other songs hitting No. 1 between 2018 and 2022.

“Closing Christmas” may be experiencing good fortune at the Billboard Sizzling 100, lately hanging at No. 3, a brand new top for the one. Chatting with Billboard‘s Pop Store podcast, Ridgeley mirrored on how the good fortune each within the U.K. and in a foreign country felt.

“Neatly, extraordinarily pleasurable. You understand, Yog [Michael’s nickname], we positioned quite a lot of significance on being a good fortune within the States. It used to be, for any artist, of that generation … you had been nowhere except you had been a large deal within the States. That you must be a large noise within the U.K., however the States used to be the golden prize, in reality. We had been lucky sufficient … and one or two of our contemporaries, we had nice good fortune within the States.”

In different places, Wham! confronted stiff pageant over the process the week. Gracie Abrams completed at No. 2 along with her unmarried “That’s So True,” which has loved a 5 weeks on the best spot already in 2024, whilst Mariah Carey’s “All I Need for Christmas Is You” completed at No. 3. Carey’s 1994 tune took the honour of Christmas No. 1 again in 2020, greater than 26 years after its unique liberate.

Tom Grennan, in the meantime, submit a robust struggle to complete at No. 4 with “It Can’t Be Christmas,” his unique for Amazon Song U.K., which may be his very best charting solo tune at the Reliable Singles Chart.

See the total Reliable Singles Chart right here.