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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 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 other track Westlife were the ...
Zarakan (Blues Rock and Blues Band) Liss. Aeone; Liverpool. Anathema; Atomic Kitten; The Bandits; BBMak; The Beatles [3] The Boo Radleys; Carcass; Cast; Crucial Three; The Crescent; The Christians; Christopher Maloney; Cilla Black; Circa Waves; Dead or Alive; Echo and the Bunnymen; The Farm; Gerry and the Pacemakers [4] Hot Club De Paris; The ...
Steve 'Silk' Hurley on 24 January 1987 had his only UK solo chart entry "Jack Your Body" which went to number 1. The well-known producer had scored many hits on the UK Dance Chart and was a member of JM Silk (who have had other chart entries). Hurley refused to promote himself as a solo artist and went on to remix many more chart hits. [121]
The chart was first published on 9 October 1994, when American hard rock band Bon Jovi was number one with the Cross Road single "Always". [2] As of the chart ending on 27 February 2025, a total of 393 songs have topped the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart. 11 artists have topped the chart with eight or more different songs.
There are four Irish rock stars, and 33 dead people on this list. Eight groups have multiple rock stars on the list, and four of those have three, including one group, the Yardbirds, that featured ...
British pop rock singers (1 C, 4 P) British punk rock singers (2 C, 16 P) + British women rock singers (3 C, 35 P) British male rock singers (2 P) A.
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.