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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 them one of the most successful bands this decade.
The UK Singles Chart is a music chart compiled by the Official Charts Company that calculates the best-selling singles of the week in the United Kingdom. [1] During the 1990s the chart was based purely on the sales of physical singles, with airplay figures excluded from the official chart. At the beginning of the 1990s, sales of singles and ...
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 Righteous Brothers achieved the best-selling single of 1990 with a re-issue of "Unchained Melody", which spent four weeks at number-one.The song had originally peaked at number 14 in the UK upon its initial release in 1965.
The first year of the 1990s saw a total of 17 singles top the chart. The first, "Hangin' Tough" by the boyband New Kids on the Block, which became the group's second chart-topper, set the record for lowest first-week sales for a number 1, with only 28,000 copies sold.
They had nine number 1 singles in the UK and US, including "Wannabe", "2 Become 1" and "Spice Up Your Life" from 1996. [19] They were followed by British groups like All Saints , who had five number 1 hits in the UK and two multi-platinum albums. [ 20 ]
The Beatles have made history by topping the UK singles chart 54 years after their last number one song. ... The group missed out on a chance to score two further number ones in the 1990s, when ...
This is a list of the number-one singles of the UK Indie Chart. Lists of UK Independent Singles Chart number ones of the 1980s; List of UK Independent Singles Chart number ones of 1990; List of UK Independent Singles Chart number ones of 1997; List of UK Independent Singles Chart number ones of 1998; List of UK Independent Singles Chart number ...