Wham! - Last Christmas (Live at Wembley)

George Michael was only 22 when he wrote this future classic, a song which became best-selling non-number one single in UK and covered about 200 singers including Hilary Duff, Taylor Swift, Crazy Frog, Billie Piper, Ashley Tisdale, Cascada, Coldplay and Alcazar.
Wham! had been a dominant force in the UK Singles Chart in 1984 and news that they were planning a Christmas single meant that a battle for the coveted Christmas #1 spot in the UK seemed set to be between Wham! and the year's other big act, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, who had achieved a third #1 in early December with "The Power of Love". However, the Band Aid project, helmed by Bob Geldof, produced the #1 single. Wham!'s offering peaked at #2 for much of the period, although George's involvement in Band Aid meant that Wham! still had an input. Wham! subsequently topped the monies raised by Band Aid by donating all of their "Last Christmas/Everything She Wants" royalties to the Ethiopian famine appeal.
"Last Christmas" did make #1 in various other countries.
The single sold well over a million copies and became the biggest selling single in UK chart history not to reach #1. A year later, it was re-issued for Christmas again (this time without a billed flip-side) and got to #6. A second re-issue at Christmas 1986 - by which time Wham! had split - stalled outside the top 40.
The song gradually sold in Japan, and finally became the best-selling single that did not reach that country's top-10 chart, selling more than 600,000 copies and peaking on the chart at #12 in 1992.
Since 1997, the song enters the German Singlecharts every year and peaked at #4 in 2007. In the airplay charts the songs enters every year the Top 5.
In 2007, the track re-entered the UK Top 20 and hit the UK iTunes Top 10.
In 2008, the song re-entered the UK Singles Chart again, this time at #36 and peaked at #26.
In 2009, the song re-entered the UK Singles Chart at number #39.
In 2009, the song re-entered the Spanish Lista de Canciones (Singles Chart( at number #9

[@hellerstern1906]

Oh George, you are a big, big loss 😥
to all of us 😥 and
gone way too soon. 😥
But your unique moments ❤ and
your wonderful music 🎶
always remain in our hearts ❤ and
are ❤ forever ❤
❤ UNFORGETTABLE ❤
A thousand thanks 👏👏 for that ❤ and
🎄 Merry Christmas 🎄
☃️ all of you 🎅

[@sonor1981]

for me one of the greatest christmas songs of all time , when i first hear this on radio or tv , it really fells like christmas big time

[@Mr-vp1eh]

So many beautiful memories wish I could go back to these times….RIP George Michael 🙏🏽

[@user-pt5xq5rs1t]

RIP George.

[@ceciliaruizdesomocurcio4672]

This Year I give it to someone like you !! 😊❤️❤️❤️👍

[@saidimaryam2954]

Omg I love this song

[@chrissiregar1739]

RIP, George

[@Seira94]

ich liebe das lied
es passt so wunderbar zu weihnachten xD

[@1789473]

I hope sony will realeses all Wham video and The Final world tour on Blue Ray

[@paularibeiro4722]

Happy Cristhmas my sweet sweet baby love... loving you always and Forever 🌲🌲💖💖➕➕🌹🌹🌈

[@Faraday66]

wish the world out there a Merry Christmas and a happy new year, especially health
greetings from germany:-)))

[@rioblancoman]

awwww.

[@stonewolf777]

die 80er waren ECHTE ZEIT! Voll verrückt, volles MUSIK ... heutzutage, nichts! Was sollen wir hören ... Lady Gaga? Komm schon bitte ...

[@DaFredPS3]

@sombodylove2 gleichfalls