{"id":65549,"date":"2024-01-02T00:02:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T05:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/01\/02\/christmas-rush-holiday-songs-swamp-u-k-singles-chart\/"},"modified":"2024-01-02T00:02:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T05:02:58","slug":"christmas-rush-holiday-songs-swamp-u-k-singles-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/01\/02\/christmas-rush-holiday-songs-swamp-u-k-singles-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Rush: Holiday Songs Swamp U.K. Singles\u00a0Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tWham<\/a>\u2019s \u201cLast Christmas\u201d is the last U.K. No. 1 of 2023, leading a top 40 that features a record-setting array of holiday singles.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLast Christmas\u201d logs a fourth consecutive week at No. 1 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart, and ends the year as one of the market\u2019s top 20 singles<\/a>, based on sales and streams captured by the Official Charts Company.<\/p>\n

\n\tReleased back in 1984, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley snagged a piece of chart history when \u201cLast Christmas\u201d recently completed the longest journey to the coveted Christmas No. 1<\/a>, completing its odyssey after 39 years. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe British duo\u2019s evergreen pop treat heads-up an all-Xmas top 5, outpointing Sam Ryder<\/a>\u2019s \u201cYou\u2019re Christmas to Me\u201d (unchanged at No. 2 via EastWest\/Rhino), Mariah Carey<\/a>\u2019s \u201cAll I Want For Christmas Is You\u201d (unchanged at No. 3 via Columbia), Ed Sheeran<\/a> and Elton John<\/a>\u2019s \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d up 5-4 via Atlantic\/EMI) and Brenda Lee<\/a>\u2019s \u201cRockin\u2019 Around The Christmas Tree (up 7-5 via MCA), respectively. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLast Christmas\u201d became Wham\u2019s fifth U.K. No. 1 when it summited on Jan. 1, 2021 \u2013 some 36 years after release. And in doing so, it discarded the unwanted record as the U.K.\u2019s best-selling single to not hit the top.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe latest Official U.K. Singles Chart, published Friday, Dec. 29, is one for the history books, boasting a record 37 festive songs in the top 40. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe singles to buck the trend are Noah Kahan<\/a>\u2019s \u201cStick Season\u201d (down 4-10 via Republic Records), the only non-Christmas song in the top 10; Jack Harlow<\/a>\u2019s \u201cLovin On Me\u201d (down 8-27 via Atlantic), and Tate McRae<\/a>\u2019s \u201cgreedy\u201d (down 17-37 via Ministry of Sound).<\/p>\n

\n\tFinally, Cher<\/a> scores her highest-charting single in the U.K. in over 22 years, as \u201cDJ Play a Christmas Song\u201d (Warner Records) lifts 20-18. <\/p>\n

\n\tA week earlier, the pop icon established two new Official Chart records<\/a> by becoming the first solo artist ever to score a top 40 hit with new material across seven consecutive decades, and the oldest female solo artist to crack the top tier. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDJ Play a Christmas Song\u201d is Cher\u2019s highest charting track in the U.K. since \u201cThe Music\u2019s No Good Without You\u201d reached No. 8 in November 2001.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Wham\u2019s \u201cLast Christmas\u201d is the last U.K. No. 1 of 2023, leading a top 40 that features a record-setting array of holiday singles. \u201cLast Christmas\u201d logs a fourth consecutive week at No. 1 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart, and ends the year as one of the market\u2019s top 20 singles, based on sales and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}