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Graph showing number of UK number-one singles for each year since 1953. The 2011 figure is projected. Al Martino 's track " Here in My Heart " was the first single ever to top the UK Singles Chart, and the only single to reach number one during 1952.
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. [1] The chart was founded in 1952 by Percy Dickins of New Musical Express (NME), who telephoned 20 record stores to ask what their top 10 highest-selling singles were.
List of UK singles chart Christmas number ones The Christmas number one single is a single that reaches number one on the national pop music charts in the week in which Christmas Day falls. It is primarily a pop culture phenomenon in the United Kingdom [ 1 ] and Republic of Ireland .
This is a list of artists who have reached number one on the UK Singles Chart as recorded by the Official Charts Company since November 1952. Artists are listed alphabetically. Solo artists are listed by surname and groups are listed by full names excluding "the" or any foreign translations of "the".
The Beatles had their 18th number-one single with "Now and Then" in November 2023, making it the longest gap (60 years) between an artist's first and last number one in UK chart history. Mariah Carey earned her third number-one single with "All I Want for Christmas Is You", which topped the UK charts in its 70th week in the top 40 in December ...
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.
List of UK singles chart number ones of the 2020s; U. Lists of UK singles chart number ones This page was last edited on 13 September 2024, at 01:27 (UTC). ...
This is the list of the number-one songs of the UK Singles Downloads Chart during the 2020s. As of 14 September 2024 [update] , 130 different singles have topped the chart during the 2020s. Number one songs