George Michael's top 10 songs, according to Spotify, throw up some interesting choices. Although primarily compiled from aggregated stream counts, they make adjustments for recency and other factors like sharing and discovery. This means that a track like Father Figure manages to make the top three despite having fewer listens than other tracks. With 44 single releases throughout his career, the list was always going to be contentious and some favourites are bound to be missing. Glaringly omitted are his 1990 hit Praying For Time and his 1998 smash Outside. His music remains hugely popular following his death on Christmas Day 2016 at the age of 53 and the top 10 alone has a combined listenership of 3,079,423,461.

Express.co.uk ran the list by a trio who know George's catalogue best - his former backing singers. Now performing as The George Michael Singers Jo Garland, Shirley Lewis and Jay Henry all recorded and performed with George throughout the years. They are about to undertake a tour where they will share stories about the music legend alongside performing his best known hits. They took a break from rehearsals for their tour, which kicks off in Southend on March 27, to give us their thoughts on the top 10 as decreed by Spotify.