“Last Christmas”, by Wham
"Last Christmas" is a song by the British pop duo Wham!, released in December 1984 on CBS Records globally and Epic Records in the UK as a double A-side with "Everything She Wants." It was written and produced by George Michael, and has been performed by numerous artists since its original release. It has been described as a "high watermark of mid-80s British synthpop songcraft".
Outside of the United Kingdom, the song reached the top of the charts in Denmark, Germany, Slovenia, and Sweden, and reached the top 10 in Australia, Ireland, and the United States.
It was the most-played Christmas song of the twenty-first century in the United Kingdom until it was surpassed in 2015 by "Fairytale of New York."
On Spotify, there are around 100 distinct covers of the song. It presently has 550, 542, 191 Spotify streams, making it their most-streamed song.
- Published in: 3 December 1984
- Genre: Synth-pop; dance-pop; Christmas
- Composer: George Michael
- Link to listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8gmARGvPlI
