Behind Ed Sheeran’s Perfect, Wham’s festive classic Last Christmas climbs a place to Number 2, reaching returning to its original chart peak for the first time since its 1984 release. Fans had launched a campaign to get the song to the top of the Official Singles Chart to mark one year since George Michael’s death. 

With Christmas Day falling inside of this week’s chart week, festive favourites continue to dominate, led by Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You (4), The Pogues’ Fairytale Of New York ft. Kirsty MacColl (5), Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas (7), Brenda Lee’s Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree (9) and Shakin’ Stevens’ Merry Christmas Everyone (10). 

Further down, there are new all-time chart peaks for Elton John’s Step Into Christmas (11), Michael Buble’s It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas (13), Chris Rea’s Driving Home  For Christmas (14), Andy Williams’ It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year (17),Ariana Grande’s Santa Tell Me (28), Buble’s Holly Jolly Christmas (34), Kylie Minogue’s Santa Baby (38) and Sia’s new Christmas song Santa’s Coming For Us (39).