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This is a summary of the year 2009 in British music charts. 31 singles have occupied the number-one spot including 15 new entries.Due to the increase in downloads over physical sales, singles now tend to enter the chart at a lower position, before climbing to the top a few weeks later: a trend which was previously rarely seen in the later half of the 1990s and most of the 2000s.
[2] [3] This list shows singles that peaked in the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart during 2009, as well as singles which peaked in 2008 and 2010 but were in the top 10 in 2009. The entry date is when the song appeared in the top 10 for the first time (week ending, as published by the Official Charts Company, which is six days after the chart is ...
16 May – Alexander Rybak wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, for Norway. Within a couple of days, his song, "Fairytale", reaches the top ten in charts in most of Europe, including a No. 10 entry in the UK Singles Chart. Jade Ewen finishes 5th for the UK with "It's My Time". [3]
Leona Lewis, the winner of The X Factor in 2006, has three songs in the top 100: "Bleeding Love" (11), "A Moment Like This" (16) and "Run" (44). Rage Against the Machine's song "Killing in the Name" – originally released in 1993 – was the Christmas number-one in 2009 and also became the 35th best-seller of the decade.
[1] The 2009 list was dominated by The Black Eyed Peas and Lady Gaga, who shared the top four spots. In late December, DJ Earworm released a mashup video to YouTube titled "Blame It On The Pop", featuring the top twenty-five songs from the list, as he had also done the previous two years for his "United State of Pop" series. The video quickly ...
Elvis Presley performed the best-selling song in three years (1958, 1960, 1961). This is a list of the best-selling singles on the UK Singles Chart for each year. Note that the Number sold section denotes the number sold within the year, not in total, as very often the single continues to sell more in later years (and sometimes other singles released within a particular year will go on to ...
Lists of Hot 100 number-one singles of 2009 are lists of singles released in 2009 as ranked by Billboard magazine in the United States and associated magazines in other countries. Lists [ edit ]
These are The Official UK Charts Company UK Dance Chart number one hits of 2009. [1] [2] [3] The dates listed in the menus below represent the Saturday after the Sunday the chart was announced, as per the way the dates are given in chart publications such as the ones produced by Billboard, Guinness, and Virgin.