Wham’s Last Christmas is the current number one single; and it’s huge streaming numbers could allow the band to hold on to the top spot.<\/p>\n
If they do, Last Christmas will make history as the first ever song to reach Christmas number one three times.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the UK’s best-selling song of the weekend was Together For Palestine’s charity single, which will raise funds for aid for people in Gaza. <\/p>\n
It’s based on the traditional Palestinian folk song Yamma Mwel El Hawa (Mama, Sing to the Wind), with new English lyrics written by Peter Gabriel.<\/p>\n
“The song’s really been a part of my life since an early age,” says Nai Barghouti, a Palestinian singer who features on the track.<\/p>\n
“I remember recording it for the first time when I was 11 years old, and it’s been going a lot of places with me since then. <\/p>\n
“The lyrics are always a strong confirmation of what it means to be Palestinian – a never-ending sense of resilience, defiance, beauty, dignity and hope.”<\/p>\n
Getting into the Christmas chart, she says, would represent “a small beam of light in such darkness”.<\/p>\n
The song has sold just under 10,000 copies so far according to Official Charts Company data. However, it has yet to make Spotify’s Top 100 – which means it may fall down the rankings as the week progresses and streams for other contenders accumulate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wham’s Last Christmas is the current number one single; and it’s huge streaming numbers could allow the band…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-633909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115723622701322226","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}