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Number ones in each year. The Beatles topped the chart 17 times during the 1960s, more than any other act that decade. Madonna is the most successful female solo artist in the UK, having achieved 13 number one singles. Bryan Adams ' first number one, "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You", spent 16 consecutive weeks at number one, longer than any ...
The UK singles chart was first compiled in 1969. However, the records and statistics listed here date back to 1952 because the Official Charts Company counts a selected period of the New Musical Express chart (only from 1952 to 1960) and the Record Retailer chart from 1960 to 1969 as predecessors for the period prior to 11 February 1969, where multiples of competing charts coexisted side by side.
The first number one on the UK Singles Chart was "Here in My Heart" by Al Martino for the week ending 14 November 1952. As of the week ending 22 August 2024, the UK Singles Chart has had 1,429 different number one hits. The current number one single is "Backbone" by Chase & Status and Stormzy. [ 9]
Number-one single(s) Year Weeks at #1 Notes A1: England / Norway "Take On Me" 2000 1 "Same Old Brand New You" 1 Aaliyah: United States "More Than a Woman" 2002 1 Posthumous number one ABBA: Sweden "Waterloo" 1974 2 "Mamma Mia" 1976 2 "Fernando" 4 "Dancing Queen" 6 "Knowing Me, Knowing You" 1977 5 "The Name of the Game" 4 "Take a Chance on Me ...
This list shows the twenty-seven artists with the most number ones on the UK singles chart. American singer-actor Elvis Presley has most number one singles with twenty-one. English band The Beatles have the most number one singles for a band, with eighteen. American singer Madonna has the most number ones for a female solo artist with thirteen.
Melody Maker. Cliff Richard was the last artist to top all five main charts, spending five or six weeks at the top of each chart with "The Young Ones". Richard had the third most number-one singles during this era; four as a solo artist and six with The Shadows (one as "The Drifters"). Melody Maker compiled its own chart from 1956 until 1988 ...
Elton John scored his first solo number one in 1990. After more than a decade without a hit, Meat Loaf topped the charts for the first time in 1993. Danish pop band Aqua scored three consecutive number ones with one of the UK's biggest selling singles "Barbie Girl" in 1997, and the follow up's "Doctor Jones" and "Turn Back Time" in 1998 making ...
Wham! had the first 2021 number-one single with "Last Christmas", 36 years after its original release. The song returned to number-one in December 2022, January 2023, and most significantly as the 2023 Christmas number-one. Ellie Goulding had the first number-one single of the decade with "River", a cover of the 1971 song by Joni Mitchell.