Aussie pop princess Kylie Minogue has landed the Christmas primary spot along with her model new observe XMAS, ending WHAM!’s two yr reign on the festive chart summit
Kylie Minogue has thwarted Wham! to take the Christmas No1 crown.
37 years after making her debut with I Ought to Be So Fortunate, the Aussie princess is on the high of the pop tree with XMAS – her first-ever UK Christmas No1. Wham! held the highest spot for the final two years with their 1984 hit, Final Christmas.
Overjoyed Kylie instructed the Official Charts: “It’s exhausting to place into phrases how particular this feels. Being Christmas No1 actually is essentially the most fantastic reward! I’m so grateful to everybody who’s been listening and sharing the love and I’m wishing you all a really Merry Christmas!”
It’s an unimaginable chart comeback marking the Aussie’s eighth UK No1 single, 22 years after her final with Gradual means again in 2003.
Appears Final Christmas is so….er Final Christmas, as not solely did Kylie finish WHAM!’s two-year festive chart reign along with her Amazon Music unique observe, she smashed information alongside the best way.
She’s now the primary feminine artist to boast UK No1 singles throughout 4 totally different a long time -the Eighties, Nineties, 2000s and 2020s; surpassing Woman Gaga, Madonna and Mariah Carey, who may solely handle three a long time.
In actual fact, solely 4 artists in chart historical past have achieved the feat full cease. Elvis Presley, Elton John and Queen have managed 4 a long time, whereas Cliff Richard had No1 singles spanning 5 a long time.
Kylie beforehand got here near the festive high spot with Jason Donovan duet Particularly For You stalling at No2 in 1988 behind Cliff’s Mistletoe & Wine. Though the next yr she was a part of the Band Assist II crew who reached the chart summit with a revamped Do They Know It’s Christmas?
The Each day Star spoke to Kylie a number of weeks in the past when she actually didn’t suppose she may topple the likes of WHAM! or Mariah Carey.
“That’s like attempting to cease a tidal wave,” she mentioned. “However hey, we’ll see. It will make me really feel prefer it’s 1988 once more, which might be plenty of enjoyable. It will be the cherry on high of an incredible yr.
Kylie got here up with the concept for XMAS a very long time in the past: “it’s been 10 years in my mind, I knew I had one thing particular.”
Now she is first solo feminine artist to land the Christmas No1 in 12 years, since Sam Bailey’s Skyscraper in 2013. And Kylie’s solely the third worldwide feminine solo artist to indulge in UK Christmas No1 glory ever. She joins Trinidad-born Winifred Atwell, whose Let’s Have One other Celebration took the crown in 1954, and US famous person Whitney Houston, who managed it in 1992 with I Will At all times Love You.
The final Aussie artist to safe the festive UK chart-topper was Nicole Kidman 24 years in the past, with 2001 Robbie Williams team-up Somethin’ Silly.
Kylie loved her largest week of UK gross sales and streams in 23 years – since 2002’s Love At First Sight to achieve No1. XMAS can be the best-selling bodily single of the week within the UK, because of its launch on 7” gold vinyl, 12” zoetrope vinyl and CD.
Time to pop open a few of that Kylie bubbly now!
Kylie’s Official No1 singles within the UK:
I Ought to Be So Fortunate (1988)
Particularly For You (1988)
Hand On Your Coronary heart (1989)
Tears On My Pillow (1990)
Spinning Round (2000)
Can’t Get You Out Of My Head (2001)
Gradual (2003)
XMAS (2025)
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