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Seventy-one artists achieved their first top 10 single in 2010, either as a lead or featured artist. Of these, fifteen went on to record another hit single that year: B.o.B, Drake, Ellie Goulding, Emma's Imagination, Example, Florence and the Machine, Iyaz, Justin Bieber, Labrinth, Matt Cardle, Nicki Minaj, Professor Green, Roll Deep, Swedish House Mafia and The Wanted.
Oasis scored their seventh UK number-one album with their second compilation album, Time Flies... 1994–2009. To begin the month of August, new British boyband The Wanted topped the UK Singles Chart with "All Time Low". The Iron Maiden album The Final Frontier was released to enormous acclaim from rock music reviewers.
Before this, the chart week ran from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart date given as the following Saturday. During the 2010s, a total of 242 songs reached number one on the UK Singles Chart. Joe McElderry was the first artist to top the chart in the decade, when "The Climb" replaced "Killing in the Name" by Rage Against the Machine.
13 March 2010: 3 117 Lady Gaga featuring Beyoncé "Telephone" Universal: 3 April 2010: 1 118 Scouting for Girls "This Ain't a Love Song" Sony: 10 April 2010: 2 119 Usher featuring will.i.am "OMG" Sony: 24 April 2010: 1 120 Diana Vickers "Once" Sony: 1 May 2010: 1 re: Usher featuring will.i.am "OMG" Sony: 8 May 2010: 1 121 Roll Deep featuring ...
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] Since 2005, the chart has been based on the sales of both physical and digital singles, originally on the condition that the single was available in both formats. In 2007, the rules were ...
"Closer to the Edge" by Thirty Seconds to Mars was the longest-running number-one single of 2010, spending eight weeks atop the chart during the year. 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 ...
The biggest selling single in the 2010s in the UK based on paid-for sales is "Happy" by Pharrell Williams, which has sold over 1,920,000 copies. [1]During the decade, 37 singles released in the 2010s sold over 1 million copies—the highest number to achieve this within the decade of their release.
23–28 June – The Glastonbury Festival 2010 is headlined by Stevie Wonder. Other acts performing include Muse, Gorillaz, Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, Keane and Scissor Sisters. 15 July – Robbie Williams announces that he will rejoin Take That. 16 July – The Proms 2010 season opens with a performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 ...