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»The songs in the most popular playlists lead to the highest access rates and thus end up in the charts. The songs that are high in the charts, in turn, end up in the most popular playlists. The brave new, democratic world looks different. «

Millions of listeners wait every year for „Last Christmas“ to haunt them wherever they go. Loved dearly and hated abysmally in equal measure, this brilliantly generic schmaltzy song has been sweetening and ruining every December since 1984. For George Michael, however, who produced the song almost single-handedly and recorded every single instrument on it himself, the track represented a small blot on the otherwise almost perfect chart history of his band Wham! during his lifetime because the song never reached the top position in the UK charts.

At the time, the single competed against the charity release “Do They Know It‘s Christmas?” (on which Michael also sang) and lost. Posthumously, after all, the song has now experienced a late triumph. In 2020 “Last Christmas” was the most successful song of the pre-Christmas season