Outside the United Kingdom, the song topped the charts in Denmark, Slovenia, and Sweden and peaked within the top ten of the charts in several countries including Australia, Germany, Ireland, and the United States. Wham! donated all of their royalties to relief efforts for the Ethiopian famine. In a UK-wide poll in December 2012, it was voted eighth on the ITV television special "The Nation's Favourite Christmas Song" and was voted most popular song of the 1980s in Channel 5's Christmas 2020 countdown "Britain's Favourite 80's Songs". It was the most-played Christmas song of the 21st century in the UK until it was overtaken by "Fairytale of New York" in 2015.