George is top of the pops

CARELESS WHISPER WINS POLL FOR SEVENTH YEAR

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GEORGE Michael's hit song Careless Whisper has been voted the nation’s favourite for a seventh year in a row, according to a Smooth Radio poll.

The track, which was voted as the number one song on Smooth Radio's All Time Top 500 - an annual list of the UK's best-loved songs, was written by the late singer and his pop partner Andrew Ridgeley for their Wham! album Make It Big.

This comes after the song celebrated its 40th anniversary last year, with more than 1.4 billion views on YouTube.

Michael, who died aged 53 on Christmas Day in 2016, also scored the most popular music artist in Smooth’s chart with 19 songs, including 13 solo songs such as A Different Corner at number three.