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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.
The Official Chart, broadcast on BBC Radio 1 and formerly MTV (Official UK Top 40), is the UK music industry's recognised official measure of singles and albums popularity because it is the most comprehensive research panel of its kind, today surveying over 15,000 retailers and digital services daily, capturing 99.9% of all singles consumed in ...
The best-selling single not to top the UK Singles Chart is "Mr Brightside" by The Killers, which reached number 10 in 2004. [6] When streaming is taken into account, " All of Me " by John Legend , which has over 2.1 million combined sales, is the highest-selling single not to have topped the charts.
The Top 100 is published each week by the Official Charts Company. 36 songs have reached 100 or more weeks in the Top 100. The longest continuous run in the Top 100 is 105 weeks for "Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd. On 4 February 2022, "Mr Brightside" became the first song to hit 300 weeks in the top 100. [82] It has subsequently passed 400 ...
[2] [3] This list shows singles that peaked in the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart during 2008, as well as singles which peaked in 2007 and 2009 but were in the top 10 in 2008. The entry date is when the single 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 ...
The UK Albums Chart is a weekly record chart based on album sales from Friday to Thursday in the United Kingdom. The Official Charts Company (OCC) defines an "album" as being a type of music release that feature more than four tracks and last longer than 25 minutes; [1] sales of albums in the UK are recorded on behalf of the British music industry by the OCC and compiled weekly as the UK ...
The UK singles chart is a weekly record chart compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC) on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Friday to Thursday, with the chart date given as the following Thursday. [1] Audio streaming data was incorporated into the chart in 2014, with 100 streams equivalent to one sale. [1]
Having been streamed over 562 million times, "Someone You Loved" by Lewis Capaldi is the UK's most-streamed song (up to November 2022).In June 2014, the Official Charts Company (OCC) started including audio streams in the official UK Singles Chart, recognising their importance as an indicator of current popular trends and tastes in music.