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This list documents Britain's best-selling music artists alphabetically as well as by record sales. This page lists those artists who have had claims of over one million or more records in sales. The list is divided into numerous record-sales brackets within each of which, artists are listed in alphabetical order, rather than by number of records sold. The artists on the list are supported by ...
The most successful are American group Foo Fighters and British rock band Muse who have both reached number one with 15 different songs. Five more artists have topped the chart with ten or more different songs: Linkin Park has 14 while Bon Jovi, My Chemical Romance and Bring Me the Horizon with 12 each, and Nickelback with 11.
This list shows the thirty-nine artists with the most top-ten singles on the UK singles chart. American singer-actor Elvis Presley holds the record for most top-ten singles with seventy-six entries. [7] British musician Cliff Richard is in second place, with sixty-eight. [7] American singer-songwriter-actress Madonna in third, with sixty-four. [8]
Brit Beat: The Top 10 British Music Stories of 2023. ... the trend looks to extend to a host of alternative rock bands hosting huge hometown shows in places such as Wigan (the Lathums), Doncaster ...
Ten releases by Led Zeppelin have topped the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart. Muse have spent 59 weeks at number one with nine releases. Korn have topped the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart with nine studio albums. The Darkness have spent 28 weeks at number one with eight releases. Blink-182 have topped the chart with eight albums for a total of 13 ...
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.
In 1983, 30% of the record sales were from British acts. 18 of the Top 40 and 6 of the Top 10 singles on 18 July were by British artists. Overall record sales would rise by 10% from 1982. [ 71 ] [ 74 ] Newsweek featured Annie Lennox of Eurythmics and Boy George of Culture Club on the cover of one of its issues, while Rolling Stone would release ...
Published by The Official Charts Company in June 2012 to coincide with both the 60th anniversary of the UK Official Singles Chart and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.At the time of publication, there were twelve artists with more than ten million UK singles sales with Paul McCartney the only artist to achieve this both as part of a group and as a solo artist.