{"id":212654,"date":"2025-12-26T23:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/212654\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T23:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:47:08","slug":"wham-and-michael-buble-top-final-uk-music-charts-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/212654\/","title":{"rendered":"Wham! and Michael Buble top final UK music charts of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pop duo Wham! and singer Michael Buble have topped the final UK singles and albums charts of 2025 respectively, the Official Charts Company has confirmed.<\/p>\n

Buble, 50, topped the album charts with 2011\u2019s Christmas for the eighth time non-consecutively while Wham!, who are made up of Andrew Ridgeley and the late George Michael, topped the singles chart with 1984\u2019s Last Christmas, having also been Christmas number one in 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n

In the singles chart, the rest of the top five was made up of Mariah Carey\u2019s All I Want For Christmas Is You (two), Brenda Lee\u2019s Rockin\u2019 Around The Christmas Tree (three), Kylie Minogue\u2019s Xmas (four), and Fairytale Of New York by The Pogues featuring the late Kirsty MacColl (five).<\/p>\n

\"Wham!:Wham! have topped the last singles chart of 2025 with Last Christmas (PA)<\/p>\n

It comes after Minogue\u2019s single was crowned Christmas number one last week while Last Christmas was number two at Christmas, seeing its 12th non-consecutive week at number one.<\/p>\n

The Australian singer, 57, saw her project Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped) return to the albums chart top 20, moving up nine places.<\/p>\n

Chris Rea\u2019s Driving Home For Christmas re-entered the top 10 this week, following the Middlesbrough-born singer\u2019s death aged 74 on Monday.<\/p>\n

The rest of the top five in the albums chart was made up of Olivia Dean\u2019s The Art Of Loving (two), Taylor Swift\u2019s The Life Of A Showgirl (three), Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s Man\u2019s Best Friend (four), and Fleetwood Mac\u2019s Rumours (five).<\/p>\n

Dean\u2019s The Art Of Loving topped the official vinyl chart for the most physical records sold, while rising US rock band Geese\u2019s latest album Getting Killed topped the official record store chart for selling the most records in the UK\u2019s independent record shops.<\/p>\n

Rising mysterious UK rapper EsDeeKid saw his debut LP Rebel re-enter the top 10, reaching a new peak of eight, having seemingly dismissed rumours he is Timothee Chalamet by including the A Complete Unknown star in his 4 Raws Remix video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pop duo Wham! and singer Michael Buble have topped the final UK singles and albums charts of 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-212654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}