{"id":358508,"date":"2025-12-19T18:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/358508\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:25:09","slug":"as-it-happened-kylie-beats-wham-to-land-her-first-uk-christmas-number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/358508\/","title":{"rendered":"As it happened: Kylie beats Wham! to land her first UK Christmas number one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kylie ends the Wham! streak with first-ever Christmas number onepublished at 18:13 GMT<\/p>\n<p>18:13 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/c30ea702-5d4e-4d84-afea-041293d17acb.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Jamie Whitehead<br \/>Back in the BBC Newsroom<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After a week of asking, &#8220;will it be Kylie&#8221; or &#8220;will it be Wham!?&#8221; &#8211; we finally have our answer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kylie Minogue has scored Christmas number one for the first time ever, and with that, she has ended Wham!&#8217;s attempts of a festive hat trick. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were a lot of classics in the countdown, but we also had a few first timers reach the Christmas top ten. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dave &amp; Tems didn&#8217;t really bring the festive vibes, but what a song that is. And Lullaby became the highest new entry this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If someone had told the music obsessed teenager writing this post he&#8217;d one day sit in the Radio 1 studio for the Christmas number one chart, he probably would have asked if you could fast forward time. It was great watching Kaya, Alias and Jack put the show together. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That&#8217;s all from us today, but you can get caught up on all the festive fun that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c3w7290wl5xo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unfolded on Radio 1 over here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thanks for joining us, and as Kylie said earlier: &#8220;We wish you all the merriest of Christmases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alians, Jack and Kaya in the Radio 1 studio.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/c59db53d-db19-4411-acdc-227c8a76d0ab.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1905\" height=\"1072\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kylie ends the Wham! streak with first-ever Christmas number onepublished at 18:13 GMT 18:13 GMT Jamie WhiteheadBack in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-358508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}