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Three of these songs charted in the UK top 10 in early 2022, including "We Don't Talk About Bruno", which topped the chart for seven weeks, and was also the first-ever original song from a Disney film to reach number-one in the UK. Taylor Swift secured three top 10 singles in 2022, including "Anti-Hero", which spent six weeks at number-one.
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. From ...
Chart date (week ending) Song Artist(s) Record Label References 6 January "Merry Xmas Everybody" Slade: BMG [1]13 January "Down Under" Luude featuring Colin Hay: Sweat It Out [2]20 January
Official Chart logo. The UK singles chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) [1] is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.
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 ...
The chart was founded in 1952 by Percy Dickins of New Musical Express (NME), who telephoned 20 record stores to ask what their top 10 highest-selling singles were. Dickins aggregated the results into a top 12 hit parade, which was topped by "Here in My Heart" by Al Martino. NME ' s chart was published each week in its eponymous magazine.
The Official Big Top 40 from Global - Non-OCC singles chart introduced in 2009, compiled from iTunes sales, Apple Music streams and Global radio airplay. [3] UK Singles Downloads Chart - Singles chart based purely on downloads. Introduced in 2004. [4] UK Album Downloads Chart - Albums chart based purely on downloads. Introduced in 2006.
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. [5]