The1984 holiday hit "Last Christmas" from Wham! is shattering new records. The song reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 ...

Ridgeley thanks "everyone who has embraced the song as a little piece of their own merry Christmas." ...

IT’S the song you can’t escape every December – blaring from radios, pubs, shops and office Christmas parties. Almost 40 ...

Wham!’s classic holiday tune "Last Christmas" has hit #2 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard Holiday 100 this week, a ...

As the race for 2025’s Official Christmas Number 1 kicks off today, to be revealed Friday 19, WHAM! displace Taylor Swift ...

One of the most popular songs each December is Wham!’s “Last Christmas.” Wham!’s George Michael had complex feelings about the song. Everybody else just seems to like it. George Michael felt Wham!’s ...

In 1983, George Michael set a goal for himself. He gave himself a songwriting exercise: he’d write a Christmas song. And he wanted a No. 1 hit. “He wanted a definitive Wham! Christmas offering,” ...

Andrew Ridgeley believes George Michael would have loved to see the lasting impression "Last Christmas" has left. In a recent interview with Billboard's Pop Shop Podcast, the musician — one half of ...

In the final week before the official Christmas No.1, the 41-year old single has returned to the summit in the UK on ...

Michael died unexpectedly at the age of 53 on Christmas Day 2016 Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor in Journalism.

Over 40 years after its release, George Michael’s Christmas classic remains arguably the greatest of all time and a holiday ...

George Michael has been nominated for an Ivor Novello Award in the Most Performed Work category for writing Wham!’s 1984 hit “Last Christmas.” The award, which honors songwriters and screen composers ...