Australian pop icon Kylie Minogue has scored her first Christmas No.1 single on the UK charts with Xmas. Her 2025 song beat English pop duo Wham!’s Last Christmas (1984), at No.2, and American singer Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You (1994), at No.3. Xmas, an upbeat dance-pop tune, is found in the reissue of Kylie Christmas, Minogue’s first holiday album originally released in 2015. “Being Christmas No.1 really is the most wonderful gift.”The 57-year-old is now the first woman to secure UK No.1 singles in four different decades. She did not top the UK charts in the 2010s.

Source: The Star December 24, 2025 10:30 UTC