Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1969 or 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer. Referred to as the "Songbird Supreme" by Guinness World Records, she is noted for her five-octave vocal range, melismatic singing style, and signature use of the whistle register.
She rose to fame in 1990 after signing to Columbia Records and releasing her eponymous debut album, which topped the U.S. Billboard 200 for eleven consecutive weeks. Soon after, Carey became the only artist ever to have their first five singles reach number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, from "Vision of Love" to "Emotions".
George Michael’s Christmas Song Makes History With UK’s Christmas Number One Spot, 40 Years On
deadline.comLast Christmas by Wham! has made pop history, topping the Christmas chart for the first time since it was released almost four decades ago.
The popular song, written by George Michael when he was a teenager and one half of the pop duo with his schoolfriend Andrew Ridgeley, has been a staple of the Christmas charts ever since, but never made it to the festive number spot before this year. (It has sat at number one before, in January 2021.) The song, whose official video you can watch below, was released in the winter of 1984, but was famously held off the number one spot that year by the UK’s charity anthem Do They Know It’s Christmas?
sung by the collected efforts of Band Aid. At the time, George Michael, who also sang on the charity song, decided to donate all the profits of Last Christmas to the Band Aid fund to aid humanitarian efforts in the Ethiopian famine of that year.
George Michael died in 2016, but his song has continued to rise in popularity. Andrew Ridgeley called Last Christmas finally getting to the festive number one a “fantastic achievement.” The UK’s Eurovision 2022 runner-up Sam Ryder was also this year’s festive runner-up, bagging the number two spot with You’re Christmas to Me, with Mariah Carey’s evergreen All I Want For Christmas coming in at number three.
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