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The following is a list of songs that have charted for 100 weeks or more in total on the UK singles chart top 100, according to the Official Charts Company (OCC). [1] The chart here is as recorded by the OCC, i.e. usually a Top 50 from 1960 to 1978, Top 75 from then until 1982, and Top 100 from 1983 onwards.
Any album or single must be credited to the named artist and must appear in the top 75 singles or albums chart as recorded by the Official Charts Company. [1] Ed Sheeran has the most weeks on the singles charts with 1514 weeks. Cliff Richard, Elvis Presley, Drake and Rihanna are the only other artists to achieve over 1000 weeks in the singles ...
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 Beatles also became the act with the longest gap ever between UK number-one singles, as they last reached the top with "The Ballad of John and Yoko" 54 years earlier in 1969, thus overtaking Kate Bush's 44 years between "Wuthering Heights" (1978) and "Running Up That Hill" (2022). The single earned 78,200 chart sales, including 48,600 sales ...
The Beatles have made history by topping the UK singles chart 54 years ... The Beatles‘ original run of number ones lasted just over six years, starting with “From Me To You” in April 1963 ...
Bryan Adams set a record in 1991 for the longest run at the top of the UK charts.. The UK Singles Chart is a record chart compiled on behalf of the British record industry. . Until 1 February 1994, the chart was compiled each week by Gallup – after this date, it was managed by Millward Brown, who expanded the number of sales figures sampled, and extended the use of electronic point of sale ...
Kate Bush broke three chart-topping records in June 2022 with "Running Up That Hill". The song holds the longest gap between two of an artist's number one singles, the previous 44 years earlier with "Wuthering Heights" in 1978). It also holds the record for the longest time for a song to reach number one after its initial release and the oldest ...
In the United Kingdom, "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" had the longest unbroken run at number one, spending sixteen consecutive weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart from July 7, 1991, to October 27 when it dropped to number four, [8] surpassing the record 11 weeks set by Slim Whitman's hit single "Rose Marie" in 1955. [9]