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Sixty-six artists achieved their first top 10 single in 2009, either as a lead or featured artist. Of these, four went on to record another hit single that year: Joe McElderry, Kesha, La Roux and Pitbull. N-Dubz and Pixie Lott had two more singles reach the top ten. Lady Gaga and Tinchy Stryder both scored three more top 10 singles in 2009.
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.
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]
One-hundred and forty-seven albums charted in the top 10 in 2009, with one-hundred and twenty-six albums reaching their peak this year (including Abbey Road, Bad, Hits Out of Hell, Number Ones, Off the Wall, Revolver, Rubber Soul, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Essential Michael Jackson, The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits, The Stone Roses, The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac ...
Weekend openings in the Top 10 Reference(s) 1: 4 January 2009: Yes Man [a] ... 10 May 2009: Star Trek: ... UK Box Office Archive at the Internet Movie Database; UK ...
The X Factor winners Alexandra Burke (5th), and Shayne Ward (8th) and the band formed on Popstars in 2001, Hear'Say (9th), also reached the top ten. [7] Kylie Minogue, Shaggy and Tony Christie were the other solo artists who made the top ten of best-selling singles; Christie's best-seller was a charity single recorded for Comic Relief in 2005.
List of UK top-ten singles is a series of lists showing all the singles that have reached the top 10 on the UK Singles Chart in a particular year. Before 1969, there was no single officially recognised chart, but the New Musical Express (1952–1959) and Record Retailer (1960–1969) are considered the canonical source for the data.
"New Divide" by Linkin Park was the longest-running number one of 2009, spending 13 weeks atop the chart. The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2009, there ...