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[ad_1] Whamageddon is upon us. The viral trend has had people avoiding Wham's 1986 song "Last Christmas" each holiday season for about 18 years. It's a simple game that has participants across the world hoping they can make it to Dec. 25 without hearing the holiday breakup ballad. What is Whamageddon? The game – which can be played by anyone, anywhere – kicks off Dec.1. All you have to do is avoid hearing "Last Christmas" by Wham until Dec. 25. If you make it, you win.  The #Whamageddon hashtag has more than 12 million uses on TikTok, with people sharing videos when they "die" – or hear the song and get sent to "Whamhalla," or the end. Others, however, rejoice that they lived another day without the tune touching their eardrums. The creators of the game, a group of friends from Denmark, have gone so far as to make an  official website  to teach others the rules. The one saving grace: Covers don...

[ad_1] Saturday Sessions: Gregory Porter performs "Heart For Christmas" - CBS News Watch CBS News Grammy-winning artist Gregory Porter makes a return to Saturday Sessions. Porter, who emerged from small jazz clubs in California, has garnered global acclaim and is now out with his first-ever holiday collection. The album pays tributes to some of the season's greatest singers and songwriters. From "Christmas Wish," here is Gregory Porter with "Heart for Christmas." Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On [ad_2] Source link https://worldnews2023.com/entertainment/saturday-sessions-gregory-...

[ad_1] Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" has topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time since it was released in 1958. The holiday classic outperformed familiar chart-topper Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You," which came in at No. 2. "Rockin'" was streamed nearly 35 million times between the Friday after Thanksgiving and Thursday, according to Billboard . The news follows last month's release of a music video for the song, which Lee has said she knew was special when she first heard it as a child. "I wanted to do it, and we did," she told CMT , a division of Paramount, the parent company of CBS News. "It just came out every year and became what it was. The people were great. They went out, they bought it, they embraced it. Radio embraced it, and 'Home Alone,' of course, didn't hurt it at all. And it's just been a magical time in my life....