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Last Christmas / Everything She Wants – Wham!

This double A-side by Wham! spent seven weeks in the UK top 10 in 1984 and 1985.

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Thirty years ago this week, Last Christmas / Everything she wants by Wham! was at its highest position of number 2 in the UK singles chart for the fourth of five weeks, having entered the top 40 three weeks previously. After five week at its peak position, the song started to slide down the chart but stayed in the top 10 for another two weeks, one of them in the top 5. A further four weeks in the lower top 40 followed before the record left the chart.

Last Christmas / Everything she wants was released on the Epic record label and was the seventh top 10 hit for Wham! in the UK. Everything she wants was taken from the quadruple-platinum-selling album Make it big, which spent two weeks at the top of the UK album chart. Last Christmas was included on the platinum-selling album The final, which peaked at number 2 in 1986.

Last Christmas has been re-issued many times at Christmas, the most successful of which reached number 6 in 1985. It has also been covered by many artists and has entered the top 40 on two other occasions. In 1995, Whigfield took her version to number 21 and a recording by the Crazy Frog reached number 16 in 2006.

More music from Wham!

 

UK singles chart for the week ending 5 January 1985

  1. Do they know it’s Christmas?Band Aid

  2. Last Christmas / Everything she wants (remix)Wham!

  3. We all stand togetherPaul McCartney and the Frog Chorus

  4. Like a virginMadonna

  5. Nellie the elephantToy Dolls

  6. GhostbustersRay Parker Jr

  7. The power of loveFrankie Goes To Hollywood

  8. ShoutTears For Fears

  9. Everything must changePaul Young

  10. I want to know what love isForeigner

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