I am soooooo glad I don't engage in Whamageddon, even though I avoid local always-switching-to-all-holiday-tunes WLEV radio like the plague.
Last night one of my online DJ friends (all or mostly on Mixcloud.com) played a heavy-metal version of that Lawn Guyland mama's tune, to which I noted in public chat, "She ain't complaining... the royalty checks are in U.S. funds, just like with her own." B Mark Jeffries, Dec 20th: For the first time in the 72-year history of the UK singles charts, a record has repeated as the Christmas week number 1 for two years in a row--Wham!'s 1984 song, the much-maligned "Last Christmas": https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/christmas-number-1-2024-whams-last-christmas-makes-official-chart-history-again-andrew-ridgeley The repeat was helped by the release of various limited-edition collectables marking the record's 40th anniversary--the only other song to hit Christmas No. 1 in separate years in the same version was Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" (1976 and 1991, after Freddie Mercury's death)--the Band Aid charity song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" hit the top in 1984 (keeping "Last Christmas" out of the top in its original release year), 1989 and 2004, but in different versions, and "Mary's Boy Child" went to the top in two different versions (Harry Belafonte in 1957 and the disco group Boney M, from the man who would later bring you Milli Vanilli, in 1978)--the rest of the Top 5 is "APT," the duet from K-Popper Rose and Bruno Mars at 5, singer-songwriter Tom Grennan's "It Can't Be Christmas" at 4 (which was only available through Amazon), That Mariah Carey Record at 3 and J.J. Abrams' daughter Gracie Abrams' "That's So True" at 2. Meanwhile in the States, number one on the Billboard Hot 100 Christmas week is--That Mariah Carey Record. Again. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/efc35a2c-f9ab-48bb-8322-bb872532b7ben%40googlegroups.com.
