"Heartbeat" by Wham!

Wham! was an English pop duo that set the 80s on fire with a string of 7 consecutive Top 10 hits, the first three being the #1 smashes "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go," "Careless Whisper," and "Everything She Wants." Their success made them the 5th most successful chart artist of the 80s.

With George Michael being the major songwriting and vocal talent behind the duo with Andrew Ridgeley, it was perhaps inevitable that he'd soon depart for a solo career by 1986. Their last chart entry as Wham! seemed destined to be "Where Did Your Heart Go?" which peaked at #50 that year. However, their holiday hit "Last Christmas," recorded in 1984, has charted in multiple years and shows no sign of stopping that trend. The highest it climbed to date was #25 in 1997, and it matched this position again in 2018.

Michael went on to have a legendary but truncated solo career. He died in 2016 at the age of 53. In 2017, Wham! appeared on the charts again when "Careless Whisper" returned to hit #33.

"Heartbeat" goes back to the band's breakthrough album, "Make It Big." It is a great pop tune that was overshadowed by the many hits on this album.