Wham has topped the chats with the final number one of 2022, 38 years after originally releasing the hit song.
Last Christmas returned to the top of the charts for the second time this year.
The popular festive track, performed by the late George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, was first released in 1984.
38 years later, the track has sold more than 79,000 units and was the UK’s most-streamed track of the week.
Wham tops charts for final week of 2022 with Last Christmas
The beloved Christmas tune once held the record for the best-selling single never to have hit number one in the UK after it was famously kept at number two by Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas?
It finally reached number one on New Year's Day 2021 and actually broke the chart record for the longest time a track has taken to top the singles chart.
This title is now held by Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill which went viral on TikTok earlier after being featured on Netflix's Stranger Things.
The number one spot came after frontman Geroge Michael died on Christmas Day, aged 53, in 2016.
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Who was the Christmas number one 2022?
Social media star LadBaby, whose real name is Mark Hoyle and his wife Roxanne – known as LadBaby Mum, made chart history by securing the Christmas number one for a fifth consecutive year.
This year, their single 'Food Aid' acknowledged the cost of living crisis and featured vocals from MoneySavingExpert founder Martin Lewis.
The Christmas number one has a reworked version of Band Aid's song Do They Know It’s Christmas?.
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