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The UK Singles Chart is a weekly record chart which for most of its history was based on single sales from Sunday to Saturday in the United Kingdom. Since July 2014 it has also incorporated streaming data, and from 10 July 2015 has been based on a Friday to Thursday week. As of 28 December 2023, 1420 singles have reached number one.
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.
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.
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]
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 ...
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 ...
John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, who had two number-one singles in 1978 and occupied the top spot for over a quarter of the year. ABBA, who had 7 number-one singles in the 1970s, the most of any musical act during the decade. Rod Stewart, who had 5 number-one singles in the 1970s. Former Beatles member George Harrison had the best-selling ...