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Posted by: jimwatts Nov 10 2018, 12:26 AM

Most consecutive weeks in the UK Singles Top 100 (since its introduction in 1983)

1| 105 The Weeknd - Blinding Lights (2019)
2=| 100 Glass Animals - Heat Waves (2021)
2=| 100 Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved (2019)
4| 95 Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud (2014)
5| 94 Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You (2017)
6=| 92 Bastille - Pompeii (2013)
6=| 92 Pharrell Williams - Happy (2013)
8=| 89 Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne - Rather Be (2014)
8=| 89 Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire (2008)
10| 88 Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars (2007)

Most consecutive weeks in the UK Singles Top 75 (since its introduction in 1978)

1| 103 The Weeknd - Blinding Lights (2019)
2| 99 Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved (2019)
3| 95 Glass Animals - Heat Waves (2021)
4| 80 George Ezra - Shotgun (2018)
5=| 73 Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne - Rather Be (2014)
5=| 73 Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud (2014)
7=| 70 Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You (2017)
7=| 70 Pharrell Williams - Happy (2013)
9| 68 John Legend - All Of Me (2014)
10| 67 Tones & I - Dance Monkey (2019)

Most consecutive weeks in the UK Singles Top 50 (since its introduction in 1960)

1| 63 Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud (2014)
2| 62 Rema - Calm Down (2022)
3| 59 Tones & I - Dance Monkey (2019)
4| 58 John Legend - All Of Me (2014)
5| 56 Engelbert Humperdinck - Release Me (1967)
6=| 55 Mr. Acker Bilk - Stranger On The Shore (1961)
6=| 55 The Weeknd - Blinding Lights (2019)
8| 54 Hozier - Take Me To Church (2014)
9| 53 George Ezra - Shotgun (2018)
10=| 50 Pharrell Williams - Happy (2013)
10=| 50 Sia - Chandelier (2014)

Most consecutive weeks in the UK Singles Top 40 (since its introduction in 1960)

1| 54 Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud (2014)
2| 50 Tones & I - Dance Monkey (2019)
3=| 49 Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved (2019)
3=| 49 Pharrell Williams - Happy (2013)
5| 48 The Weeknd - Blinding Lights (2020)
6| 46 Sia - Chandelier (2014)
7=| 45 Mr. Acker Bilk - Stranger On The Shore (1961)
7=| 45 Rema - Calm Down (2022)
7=| 45 Sam Smith - Stay With Me (2014)
10| 44 John Legend - All Of Me (2014)

Most consecutive weeks in the UK Singles Top 20

1| 37 Mr. Acker Bilk - Stranger On The Shore (1961)
2| 36 Frankie Laine - I Believe (1953) *
3| 32 Pharrell Williams - Happy (2013)
4=| 30 Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud (2014)
4=| 30 The Weeknd - Blinding Lights (2020)
6| 29 Doris Day - Secret Love (1954)
7=| 28 Justin Bieber - What Do You Mean (2015)
7=| 28 Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk (2014)
9=| 27 Drake featuring Wizkid & Kyla - One Dance (2016)
9=| 27 Fireboy DML & Ed Sheeran - Peru (2022)
9=| 27 John Legend - All Of Me (2014)
9=| 27 Sia featuring Sean Paul - Cheap Thrills (2016)

* includes weeks before full Top 20 introduced in 1954

Most consecutive weeks in the UK Singles Top 10

1| 35 Frankie Laine - I Believe (1953)
2| 27 Doris Day - Secret Love (1954)
3| 25 Rema - Calm Down (2023)
4=| 23 Drake featuring Wizkid & Kyla - One Dance (2016)
4=| 23 Frank Chacksfield - Terry's Theme (Theme From "Limelight") (1953)
6=| 22 Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits (2021)
6=| 22 Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You (2017)
6=| 22 Fireboy DML & Ed Sheeran - Peru (2022)
6=| 22 Justin Bieber - What Do You Mean (2015)
6=| 22 Mario Lanza - Because You’re Mine (1952)
6=| 22 Obernkirchen Children’s Choir - The Happy Wanderer (1954)

Most consecutive weeks in the UK Singles Top 5

1| 28 Frankie Laine - I Believe (1953)
2| 21 Frank Chacksfield - Terry's Theme (Theme From "Limelight") (1953)
3| 20 Beatles - She Loves You (1963)
4=| 19 Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You (1991)
4=| 19 Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You (2017)
4=| 19 Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around (1994)
7=| 18 Harry Styles - As It Was (2022)
7=| 18 Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved (2019)
9=| 17 Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding - Miracle (2023)
9=| 17 Drake featuring Wizkid & Kyla - One Dance (2016)
9=| 17 Doris Day - Secret Love (1954)

Most consecutive weeks in the UK Singles Top 3

1| 26 Frankie Laine - I Believe (1953)
2=| 18 Beatles - She Loves You (1963)
2=| 18 Harry Styles - As It Was (2022)
4=| 17 Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You (1991)
4=| 17 Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You (2017)
4=| 17 Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around (1994)
7=| 16 Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding - Miracle (2023)
7=| 16 Doris Day - Secret Love (1954)
9=| 15 Drake featuring Wizkid & Kyla - One Dance (2016)
9=| 15 David Whitfield with Mantovani - Cara Mia (1954)

Most consecutive weeks at UK Singles #1

1| 16 Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You (1991)
2=| 15 Drake featuring Wizkid & Kyla - One Dance (2016)
2=| 15 Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around (1994)
4| 13 Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You (2017)
5=| 11 Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits (2021) ^
5=| 11 Slim Whitman - Rose Marie (1955)
5=| 11 Tones & I - Dance Monkey (2019)
8=| 10 Dave & Central Cee - Sprinter (2023) ^
8=| 10 David Whitfield with Mantovani - Cara Mia (1954)
8=| 10 Harry Styles - As It Was (2022) ^
8=| 10 Miley Cyrus - Flowers (2023)
8=| 10 Rihanna featuring Jay-Z - Umbrella (2007)
8=| 10 Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You (1992)
[^ without ACR, Drake - God's Plan (2018) would have had 10, Bad Habits would have had 13, Sprinter would have had 12, and As It Was would have had 9]

(years in brackets indicate start of consecutive run)
+ run active at date last updated

See also: Most weeks in total in the UK Singles Top 100, 75, 50, 40 at
http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=222177

Posted by: jimwatts Nov 10 2018, 12:28 AM

First songs to spend X consecutive weeks in the Top X of the UK Singles Chart

Now listed in DanChartFan’s post of Sep 3 2019 below, apart from:

85 weeks in the Top 85 – Someone You Loved (27/08/2020)
94 weeks in the Top 94 – Someone You Loved (29/10/2020)
95 weeks in the Top 95 – Someone You Loved (05/11/2020)
96 weeks in the Top 96 – Someone You Loved (12/11/2020)
97 weeks in the Top 97 – Someone You Loved (19/11/2020)
98 weeks in the Top 98 – Someone You Loved (26/11/2020)
99 weeks in the Top 99 – Someone You Loved (03/12/2020)
100 weeks in the Top 100 – Someone You Loved (10/12/2020)

All songs appear in at least one of the above lists - refer to these for artists and years, except for:
Adele - Someone Like You (2011)
Al Martino - Here In My Heart (1952)
Bing Crosby - Isle Of Innisfree (1952)
Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling (2009)
Guy Mitchell - Feet Up (1952)
Jo Stafford - You Belong To Me (1952)
Rosemary Clooney - Half As Much (1952)

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Songs to spend most consecutive weeks in each Top X of the UK Singles Chart

All songs appear in at least one of the above lists - refer to these for artists and years:

Top 1| (Everything I Do) I Do It For You (16)
Top 2| I Believe (23)
Top 3| I Believe (26)
Top 4-5| I Believe (28)
Top 6| I Believe (30)
Top 7| I Believe (33)
Top 8-9| I Believe (34)
Top 10| I Believe (35)
Top 11-12| I Believe (36)
Top 13-19*| I Believe (36)
Top 20-21| Stranger On The Shore (37)
Top 22| Stranger On The Shore (38)
Top 23-25| Stranger On The Shore (39)
Top 26-27| Thinking Out Loud (41)
Top 28| Dance Monkey / Thinking Out Loud (43)
Top 29| Thinking Out Loud (46)
Top 30| Thinking Out Loud (48)
Top 31| Thinking Out Loud (49)
Top 32-33| Thinking Out Loud (52)
Top 34| Thinking Out Loud (53)
Top 35-41| Thinking Out Loud (54)
Top 42-44| Thinking Out Loud (58)
Top 45| Thinking Out Loud (59)
Top 46| Calm Down (61)
Top 47-48| Thinking Out Loud (62)
Top 49-50| Thinking Out Loud (63)
Top 51| Thinking Out Loud (64)
Top 52| Thinking Out Loud (66)
Top 53| Shotgun (70)
Top 54-56| Shotgun (75)
Top 57| Shotgun (76)
Top 58-59| Someone You Loved (84)
Top 60| Someone You Loved (96)
Top 61-65| Someone You Loved (97)
Top 66-69| Blinding Lights / Someone You Loved (98)
Top 70-71| Someone You Loved (99)
Top 72-76| Blinding Lights (103)
Top 77-99| Blinding Lights (104)
Top 100| Blinding Lights (105)

*chart was a Top 12 at the time

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Songs with highest low point of each Y consecutive weeks spent in the UK Singles Chart

All songs appear in at least one of the above lists - refer to these for artists and years:

16| (Everything I Do) I Do It For You (#1)
17| (Everything I Do) I Do It For You / I Believe / Love Is All Around (#2)
18-23| I Believe (#2)
24-26| I Believe (#3)
27-28| I Believe (#4)
29-30| I Believe (#6)
31-33| I Believe (#7)
34| I Believe (#9)
35| I Believe (#10)
36| I Believe (#11)
37| Stranger On The Shore (#20)
38| Stranger On The Shore (#22)
39| Stranger On The Shore (#23)
40| Dance Monkey / Thinking Out Loud (#26)
41| Thinking Out Loud (#26)
42| Dance Monkey / Someone You Loved / Thinking Out Loud (#28)
43| Dance Monkey / Thinking Out Loud (#28)
44-46| Thinking Out Loud (#29)
47-48| Thinking Out Loud (#30)
49| Thinking Out Loud (#31)
50-52| Thinking Out Loud (#32)
53| Thinking Out Loud (#34)
54| Thinking Out Loud (#35)
55-58| Thinking Out Loud (#42)
59| Thinking Out Loud (#45)
60| Calm Down / Thinking Out Loud (#46)
61| Calm Down (#46)
62| Thinking Out Loud (#47)
63| Thinking Out Loud (#49)
64| Thinking Out Loud (#51)
65-66| Thinking Out Loud (#52)
67-70| Shotgun (#53)
71-75| Shotgun (#54)
76| Shotgun (#57)
77-84| Someone You Loved (#58)
85-96| Someone You Loved (#60)
97| Someone You Loved (#61)
98| Blinding Lights / Someone You Loved (#66)
99| Someone You Loved (#70)
100-103| Blinding Lights (#72)
104| Blinding Lights (#77)
105| Blinding Lights (#100)

All lists last updated w/e 04/01/24

Posted by: Suedehead2 Nov 11 2018, 05:43 PM

Good work!

Posted by: 777666jason Nov 12 2018, 05:48 PM

If it wasnt for acr i bet SOY would have overtaken TOL

Posted by: Mack. Nov 14 2018, 09:35 AM

Fantastic work there, thanks for this jimwatts.

Posted by: jimwatts Nov 17 2018, 11:03 PM

Updated - somehow, Perfect defied the midweek chart to notch another consecutive week in the Top 75, meaning it makes that top 10 outright, ousting Counting Stars.

Cheers for the comments. On the point about ACR, for sure without it SOY would have overtaken TOL to top most, if not all, of the lists in the first post - however the domination of songs from circa 2014 here (the early streaming era) goes some way to explaining why ACR was introduced in the first place.

Two older songs deserve a footnote - one made just one of these lists, the other didn't make any of them - I'll expand on this in the next update.

Posted by: Steve201 Nov 18 2018, 10:32 PM

Lol at all except one song being from our era!

Posted by: jimwatts Nov 23 2018, 11:47 PM

Updated - once again Perfect lives to fight another week in the Top 75, it’s now joint 9th in that list.

I mentioned above that two songs deserve a footnote, these are:

(1) Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars: it was ineligible for the charts for 7 weeks in late 2006 as it had been physically deleted - such were the rules at the time, which were then scrapped, allowing it back in. Had it not been for those rules, it would have spent 112 consecutive weeks in the Top 100 (still a record by some distance) and 72 consecutive weeks in the Top 75 (currently placing it 3rd in that list). It would have also been the first song to claim 99 and 100 in the list in my second post in this thread.

(2) Frank Sinatra - My Way: we may never know how long some songs would have spent in the early charts had they been a full Top 100. However in My Way’s case, it’s safe to assume it would have easily topped the most consecutive weeks in the Top 75 and Top 100 lists to this day, while also cleaning up most positions in my second post, had the charts been a Top 100 in the early 1970s. Its longest consecutive run in the chart, then a Top 50, was 42 weeks - yet in the space of its first 122 weeks it only spent 9 of these outside the Top 50, and no more than 3 of these in a row.

Posted by: jimwatts Nov 30 2018, 08:36 PM

Updated - Perfect refuses to drop out of the Top 75 again, so it's now outright 9th on that list. If nothing else, it has raised the bar for This Is Me which would need another 13 weeks to emulate Someone Like You in 10th place.

Posted by: jimwatts Dec 7 2018, 09:46 PM

Updated - Perfect has finally dropped out of the top 75 (most of Buzzjack rejoices). There can't be any further updates to these lists until March at the earliest, depending on how This Is Me (that other Buzzjack favourite) holds up in the next few months.

Posted by: jimwatts Mar 1 2019, 07:03 PM

Updated - This Is Me has arrived more on that next week.

Had it not been for a single week in early December when it dipped to #41, Shotgun would now be spending its 40th consecutive week in the Top 40, something only 7 songs have done. Still I'd expect it to impact some of the other lists above in the coming months.

Posted by: jimwatts Mar 8 2019, 09:29 PM

Updated - of the 62 weeks to date The Greatest Showman has been in the albums Top 5, this is the first where there have been less than 3 of its songs in the singles Top 100, but one thing that has remained constant is the highest placed of those songs - This Is Me. In those 62 weeks, it has yet to drop below its current position of #65, so that takes it to joint 9th on the most consecutive weeks in the Top 75 list, knocking Someone Like You out of that particular top 10.

Posted by: jimwatts Mar 15 2019, 05:59 PM

Updated - its parent album's run in the Top 5 may be over, but This Is Me clings on in the Top 75 (just), taking its run to joint 6th on the all time list. Perfect drops to 10th and its stay may be brief as Shotgun has it in its sights.

Posted by: jimwatts Mar 22 2019, 10:29 PM

Updated - This Is Me becomes only the 6th song to spend a 64th consecutive week in the Top 75, and the first of those to peak below #2.

I think this page has run its course as a thread. It has a link from the Chart forum index (thanks danG), and I'll keep the first two posts updated, so if you aren't sick to death of Shotgun you can track its imminent impact here. All being well I'll have some new lists on the way soon.

Posted by: jimwatts Aug 30 2019, 05:07 PM

Wasn't going to add to this thread but then this happened...

Everyone's favourite former #1 that shares its name with a firearm and is sung by someone called George has only gone and made the longest ever run of consecutive weeks in the Top 75. Last week it set a new record of 74 weeks, and this week it has unlocked the magical 75 in the Top 75! In fact, it has yet to drop below #54 in its run!!

It will continue to impact these lists into the autumn, but I can't see it surpassing the Top 100 record as it'll surely be barged out by Christmas songs (at least temporarily) before it can get to 95 weeks.

Posted by: DanChartFan Sep 2 2019, 10:59 PM

Interesting list, thanks for compiling it. There seems to be some mistake with Let It Go being listed as the first single to spend 57 weeks in the Top 57, unless the OCC's chart database has a strange discrepancy in the song's chart run. In it's third chart week it entered the Top 57, but on week 42 of its run it popped out of the Top 57, to #60, for one week, so there aren't 57 consecutive weeks. Hope you don't mind me pointing that out, I'm sure all of us chartologists strive for accuracy above anything else.

Posted by: DanChartFan Sep 3 2019, 02:26 AM

I've found one other error in the list I'm afriad. The 69 weeks in the Top 69 record has been attributed to Happy, but that was a new entry at #71. and on its 70th week dropped to #73, so there aren't 69 consecutive weeks that it was in the Top 69.

By my reckoning the entire list, from the first to get 1 week in the Top 1, all the way down to 100 weeks in the Top 100, looks like this:

NB For those feats between 57 weeks in the Top 57 and 73 weeks in the Top 73 I indicate in the brackets how many other tracks have since reached the same achievement but aren't listed because they weren't first to do it (precise details follow in a second list). From 74 weeks in the Top 74 downwards all feats have either never been achieved, or have been achieved only once, so no bracketed information was necessary. I haven't attempted to calculate the bracketed information from 1 week in the Top 1 to 56 weeks in the Top 56, given that all those records were first achieved between 52 and 66 years ago, so there has been a lot of time for many many tracks/singles to also achieve them, meaning a lot of work would be required to calculate most of that information.

Every feat has the date of the chart week when that track/single became the first to achieve that feat

1 week in the Top 1 – Here In My Heart (15/11/1952)
2 weeks in the Top 2 – Here In My Heart (22/11/1952)
3 weeks in the Top 3 – Here In My Heart (29/11/1952)
4 weeks in the Top 4 – Here In My Heart (06/12/1952)
5 weeks in the Top 5 – Here In My Heart/You Belong To Me/Feet Up (13/12/1952)
6 weeks in the Top 6 – Here In My Heart/You Belong To Me/Isle Of Innisfree/Feet Up (20/12/1952)
7 weeks in the Top 7 – Here In My Heart/You Belong To Me/Isle Of Innisfree/Feet Up/Half As Much (27/12/1952)
8 weeks in the Top 8 – Here In My Heart/You Belong To Me/Isle Of Innisfree/Feet Up/Half As Much (03/01/1953)
9 weeks in the Top 9 – Here In My Heart/You Belong To Me/Isle Of Innisfree/Feet Up/Half As Much (10/01/1953)
10 weeks in the Top 10 – Here In My Heart/You Belong To Me/Isle Of Innisfree/Feet Up (17/01/1953)
11 weeks in the Top 11 – Here In My Heart/You Belong To Me/Isle Of Innisfree/Because You’re Mine (24/01/1953)
12 weeks in the Top 12 – Here In My Heart/You Belong To Me/Isle Of Innisfree/Because You’re Mine (31/01/1953)
13 weeks in the Top 13* – Here In My Heart/You Belong To Me/Because You’re Mine (07/02/1953)
14 weeks in the Top 14* – Here In My Heart/You Belong To Me/Because You’re Mine (14/02/1953)
15 weeks in the Top 15* – Here In My Heart/You Belong To Me/Because You’re Mine (21/02/1953)
16 weeks in the Top 16* – Here In My Heart/You Belong To Me/Because You’re Mine (28/02/1953)
17 weeks in the Top 17* – Here In My Heart/You Belong To Me/Because You’re Mine (07/03/1953)
18 weeks in the Top 18* – Here In My Heart/You Belong To Me/Because You’re Mine (14/03/1953)
19 weeks in the Top 19* – You Belong To Me/Because You’re Mine (21/03/1953)
20 weeks in the Top 20* – Because You’re Mine (28/03/1953)
21 weeks in the Top 21* – Because You’re Mine (04/04/1953)
22 weeks in the Top 22* – Because You’re Mine (11/04/1953)
23 weeks in the Top 23* – Because You’re Mine (18/04/1953)
24 weeks in the Top 24* – Because You’re Mine (25/04/1953)
25 weeks in the Top 25* – I Believe (24/09/1953)
26 weeks in the Top 26* – I Believe (01/10/1953)
27 weeks in the Top 27* – I Believe (08/10/1953)
28 weeks in the Top 28* – I Believe (15/10/1953)
29 weeks in the Top 29* – I Believe (22/10/1953)
30 weeks in the Top 30* – I Believe (29/10/1953)
31 weeks in the Top 31* – I Believe (05/11/1953)
32 weeks in the Top 32* – I Believe (12/11/1953)
33 weeks in the Top 33* – I Believe (19/11/1953)
34 weeks in the Top 34* – I Believe (26/11/1953)
35 weeks in the Top 35* – I Believe (03/12/1953)
36 weeks in the Top 36* – I Believe (10/12/1953)
37 weeks in the Top 37 – Stranger On The Shore (09/08/1962)
38 weeks in the Top 38 – Stranger On The Shore (16/08/1962)
39 weeks in the Top 39 – Stranger On The Shore (23/08/1962)
40 weeks in the Top 40 – Stranger On The Shore (30/08/1962)
41 weeks in the Top 41 – Stranger On The Shore (06/09/1962)
42 weeks in the Top 42 – Stranger On The Shore (13/09/1962)
43 weeks in the Top 43 – Stranger On The Shore (20/09/1962)
44 weeks in the Top 44 – Stranger On The Shore (27/09/1962)
45 weeks in the Top 45 – Stranger On The Shore (04/10/1962)
46 weeks in the Top 46 – Release Me (12/12/1967)
47 weeks in the Top 47 – Stranger On The Shore (18/10/1962)
48 weeks in the Top 48 – Stranger On The Shore (25/10/1962)
49 weeks in the Top 49 – Stranger On The Shore (01/11/1962)
50 weeks in the Top 50 – Stranger On The Shore (08/11/1962)
51 weeks in the Top 51** – Stranger On The Shore (15/11/1962)
52 weeks in the Top 52** – Stranger On The Shore (22/11/1962)
53 weeks in the Top 53** – Stranger On The Shore (29/11/1962)
54 weeks in the Top 54** – Stranger On The Shore (06/12/1962)
55 weeks in the Top 55** – Stranger On The Shore (13/12/1962)
56 weeks in the Top 56** – Release Me (14/02/1967)
57 weeks in the Top 57 – All Of Me (21/03/2015) (+ 4 others since)
58 weeks in the Top 58 – Someone Like You (10/03/2012) (+ 5 others since)
59 weeks in the Top 59 – Someone Like You (17/03/2012) (+ 4 others since)
60 weeks in the Top 60 – I Gotta Feeling (28/08/2010) (+ 5 others since)
61 weeks in the Top 61 – Rather Be (28/03/2015) (+ 3 others since)
62 weeks in the Top 62 – Rather Be (04/04/2015) (+ 3 others since)
63 weeks in the Top 63 – Happy (14/02/2015) (+ 4 others since)
64 weeks in the Top 64 – Happy (21/02/2015) (+ 4 others since)
65 weeks in the Top 65 – Happy (28/02/2015) (+ 4 others since)
66 weeks in the Top 66 – Rather Be (02/05/2015) (+ 3 others since)
67 weeks in the Top 67 – Rather Be (09/05/2015) (+ 2 others since)
68 weeks in the Top 68 – Rather Be (16/05/2015) (+ 2 others since)
69 weeks in the Top 69 – Rather Be (23/05/2015) (+ 2 others since)
70 weeks in the Top 70 – Thinking Out Loud (29/10/2015) (+ 1 other since)
71 weeks in the Top 71 – Thinking Out Loud (05/11/2015) (+ 1 other since)
72 weeks in the Top 72 – Thinking Out Loud (12/11/2015) (+ 1 other since)
73 weeks in the Top 73 – Thinking Out Loud (19/11/2015) (+ 1 other since)
74 weeks in the Top 74 – Shotgun (29/08/2019)
75 weeks in the Top 75 – Shotgun (05/09/2019)
76 weeks in the Top 76 – Rather Be (09/07/2015) (+ 1 other since)
77 weeks in the Top 77 – Shape Of You (05/07/2018) (+ 1 other since)
78 weeks in the Top 78 – Shotgun (26/09/2019)
79 weeks in the Top 79 – Rather Be (30/07/2015)
80 weeks in the Top 80 – Shotgun (10/10/2019)
81 weeks in the Top 81 – Shotgun (17/10/2019)
82 weeks in the Top 82 – Shotgun (24/10/2019)
83 weeks in the Top 83 – Shotgun (31/10/2019)
84 weeks in the Top 84 – Shotgun (07/11/2019)
85 weeks in the Top 85 – [YET TO HAPPEN]
86 weeks in the Top 86 – Shape Of You (06/09/2018)
87 weeks in the Top 87 – Shape Of You (13/09/2018)
88 weeks in the Top 88 – Shape Of You (20/09/2018)
89 weeks in the Top 89 – Shape Of You (27/09/2018)
90 weeks in the Top 90 – Shape Of You (04/10/2018)
91 weeks in the Top 91 – Shape Of You (11/10/2018)
92 weeks in the Top 92 – Thinking Out Loud (31/03/2016)
93 weeks in the Top 93 – Thinking Out Loud (07/04/2016)
94 weeks in the Top 94 – [YET TO HAPPEN]
95 weeks in the Top 95 – [YET TO HAPPEN]
96 weeks in the Top 96 – [YET TO HAPPEN]
97 weeks in the Top 97 – [YET TO HAPPEN]
98 weeks in the Top 98 – [YET TO HAPPEN]
99 weeks in the Top 99 – [YET TO HAPPEN]
100 weeks in the Top 100 – [YET TO HAPPEN]
* Achieved even though the chart was only a Top 12 throughout the run
** Achieved even though the chart was only a Top 50 throughout the run

Posted by: DanChartFan Sep 3 2019, 02:33 AM

For completeness sake here is the list of all the tracks to achieve feats between 57 weeks in the Top 57 and 100 weeks in the Top 100, with the chart date it happened. Excuse the fact it's acronyms (I usually abhor posts that drop an acronym or two into a comment, in place of the name of an artist, track, tv show etc and expect you to magically know what it means) but this list was originally just the notes I made to check the main list from 57 down, and I only decided afterwards to share it. In any case all the acronyms should be pretty straight forward as all the tracks are literally listed on the post immediatley above, as well as elsewhere in the thread.

57 in the Top 57
21/03/2015 AOM
30/07/2015 TOL
08/10/2015 TMTC
15/02/2018 SOY
02/05/2019 S

58 in the Top 58
10/03/2012 SLY
28/03/2015 AOM
06/08/2015 TOL
15/10/2015 TMTC
22/02/2018 SOY
09/05/2019 S

59 in the Top 59
17/03/2012 SLY
04/04/2015 AOM
13/08/2015 TOL
01/03/2018 SOY
16/05/2019 S

60 in the Top 60
28/08/2010 IGF
21/03/2015 RB
11/04/2015 AOM
20/08/2015 TOL
08/03/2018 SOY
23/05/2019 S

61 in the Top 61
28/03/2015 RB
27/08/2015 TOL
15/03/2018 SOY
30/05/2019 S

62 in the Top 62
04/04/2015 RB
03/09/2015 TOL
22/03/2018 SOY
06/06/2019 S

63 in the Top 63
14/02/2015 H
11/04/2015 RB
10/09/2015 TOL
29/03/2018 SOY
13/06/2019 S

64 in the Top 64
21/02/2015 H
18/04/2015 RB
17/09/2015 TOL
05/04/2018 SOY
20/06/2019 S

65 in the Top 65
28/02/2015 H
25/04/2015 RB
24/09/2015 TOL
12/04/2018 SOY
27/06/2019 S

66 In the Top 66
02/05/2015 RB
01/10/2015 TOL
19/04/2018 SOY
04/07/2019 S

67 in the Top 67
09/05/2015 RB
08/10/2015 TOL
26/04/2018 SOY
11/07/2019 S

68 in the Top 68
16/05/2015 RB
15/10/2015 TOL
18/07/2019 S

69 in the Top 69
23/05/2015 RB
22/10/2015 TOL
25/07/2019 S

70 in the Top 70
29/10/2015 TOL
01/08/2019 S

71 in the Top 71
05/11/2015 TOL
08/08/2019 S

72 in the Top 72
12/11/2015 TOL
15/08/2019 S

73 in the Top 73
19/11/2015 TOL
22/08/2019 S

74 in the Top 74
29/08/2019 S

75 in the Top 75
05/09/2019 S

76 in the Top 76
09/07/2015 RB
28/06/2018 SOY
12/09/2019 S

77 in the Top 77
05/07/2018 SOY
19/09/2019 S

78 in the Top 78
26/09/2019 S

79 in the Top 79
30/07/2019 RB
03/10/2019 S

80 in the Top 80
10/10/2019 S

81 in the Top 81
17/10/2019 S

82 in the Top 82
24/10/2019 S

83 in the Top 83
31/10/2019 S

84 in the Top 84
07/11/2019 S

85 in the Top 85

86 in the Top 86
06/09/2018 SOY

87 in the Top 87
13/09/2018 SOY

88 in the Top 88
20/09/2018 SOY

89 in the Top 89
27/09/2018 SOY

90 in the Top 90
04/10/2018 SOY

91 in the Top 91
11/10/2018 SOY

92 in the Top 92
31/03/2016 TOL

93 in the Top 93
07/04/2016 TOL

94 in the Top 94

95 in the Top 95

96 in the Top 96

97 in the Top 97

98 in the Top 98

99 in the Top 99

100 in the Top 100

Posted by: jimwatts Sep 3 2019, 07:28 AM

Thanks Dan, I appreciate your interest and research to add to this thread. Good spots on 57/Top 57 and 69/Top 69 - I've corrected those in my original post. By the same token, I should mention that on the OCC website, Stranger On The Shore dropped to #47 in week 46, so the first to get 46 in the Top 46 was Release Me instead.

Posted by: DanChartFan Sep 3 2019, 10:04 AM

QUOTE(jimwatts @ Sep 3 2019, 08:28 AM)

Posted by: DanChartFan Sep 21 2019, 04:36 PM

I've updates my lists to reflect Shotgun's progress in the last three weeks, in particular the fact that yesterday it became the first single to spend 78 consecutive weeks in the top 78. Next week it can't achieve a new first, as Rather Be already managed to do 79 in the 79, but the 6 week's after it could carry on making chart history.

Posted by: DanChartFan Nov 1 2019, 09:59 PM

Further to my last post Shotgun has now made chart history for 5 of the chart weeks I mentioned, with the sixth week looking likely to also be a chart record in next Friday's chart. After that the next record it could potentially break is '94 weeks in the top 94' but that wouldn't be until w/e 16th January 2020, but although Shotgun has climbed in two of the last three weeks I don't think it will still within the Top 100 for more than 88 or 89 weeks as there is apparently some obscure event called 'Christmas' that is due to happen then which is expected to push out a lot of the regular charting singles, especially at the lower reaches of the chart.

Posted by: jimwatts Nov 23 2019, 05:08 PM

I’ve added a couple of new lists to my second post in this thread. My original list of the first songs to spend X consecutive weeks in the Top X of the UK Singles Chart is now covered by one of Dan’s posts, so I’ve referred to that in my post and added in its place:

- Songs to spend most consecutive weeks in each Top X of the UK Singles Chart
- Songs with highest low point of each Y consecutive weeks spent in the UK Singles Chart

The first new list goes from a Top 1 to a Top 100 to list the songs which spent the most consecutive weeks in each. For the second new list, I’ve flipped the axes to show which songs had the best run over each number of consecutive weeks from 16 to 95, based on the lowest position each song had in such a run. Aside from the top ends, the usual suspects inevitably dominate both lists, although in the latter, Lewis Capaldi’s biggest hit has made its mark (perhaps not for the last time) to share the record with Thinking out Loud of a best lowest position over 42 consecutive weeks (of #28).

Posted by: jimwatts Jul 3 2020, 10:23 PM

As with the equivalent thread for most weeks in total, I've added lists of songs with the most consecutive weeks in the Top 20, Top 10, Top 5 and Top 3 to the OP - just in time to see Blinding Lights appear on all four of them.

Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now just misses out on the Top 20 list with 26 weeks, as does Gotye featuring Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know.

Posted by: jimwatts Dec 27 2020, 11:26 PM

Last update to this page until February, now that Blinding Lights has dropped out of the Top 50.

Someone You Loved made it to 100 consecutive weeks in the Top 100 a few weeks ago, so now at least one song has spent X consecutive weeks in the Top X for each number from 1 to 100. The songs with the most 'firsts' of this type (where these are split equally between songs which were the first to do so in the same week) are:

Number of 'firsts' | Single (at numbers)
18 | Mr. Acker Bilk - Stranger On The Shore (37-45, 47-55)
12 | Frankie Laine - I Believe (25-36)
8 | Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne - Rather Be (61-62, 66-69, 76, 79)
8 | George Ezra - Shotgun (74-75, 78, 80-84)
8 | Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved (85, 94-100)
8 | Mario Lanza - Because You’re Mine (11-12 / 4 ways; 13-18 / 3 ways; 19 / 2 ways, 20-24)
7.93 | Al Martino - Here In My Heart (1-4; 5, 13-18 / 3 ways; 6, 10-12 / 4 ways; 7-9 / 5 ways)
7 | Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You (77, 86-91)
6 | Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud (70-73, 92-93)
4.43 | Jo Stafford - You Belong To Me (5, 13-18 / 3 ways; 6, 10-12 / 4 ways; 7-9 / 5 ways; 19 / 2 ways)
3 | Pharrell Williams - Happy (63-65)
2 | Adele - Someone Like You (58-59)
2 | Engelbert Humperdinck - Release Me (46, 56)
1.6 | Bing Crosby - Isle Of Innisfree (6, 10-12 / 4 ways; 7-9 / 5 ways)
1.43 | Guy Mitchell - Feet Up (5 / 3 ways; 6, 10 / 4 ways; 7-9 / 5 ways)
1 | Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling (60)
1 | John Legend - All Of Me (57)
0.6 | Rosemary Clooney - Half As Much (7-9 / 5 ways)

Posted by: jimwatts Mar 13 2021, 12:31 AM

Added a new list to the OP: Most consecutive weeks at UK Singles #1

On its 9th week, 'drivers license' joins a huge tie in 10th place, which wouldn't be there without ACR as God's Plan would have had a 10th week.

Posted by: jimwatts Oct 29 2021, 04:47 PM

Blinding Lights becomes the first song to spend 100 consecutive weeks in the Top 75!

Posted by: jimwatts Apr 7 2022, 09:00 PM

This year's first update to any of the lists in the OP came this week. The song in question also tops the first of these two new lists, correct to the best of my knowledge and on a similar theme to those I recently added to the equivalent thread for most weeks in total, but with a few different songs making their mark here:

Songs with most consecutive weeks in the UK Top 100 on reaching their peaks

1=| 40 Glass Animals - Heat Waves (#5, 2021)
1=| 40 Rema - Calm Down (#3, 2023)
3| 33 Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still (#3, 2018)
4| 31 New Order - Blue Monday (#9~, 1983)
5| 29 Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel - White Lines (Don’t Do It) (#7, 1984)
6| 27 Christina Perri - A Thousand Years (#11, 2013)
7=| 24 Anotr & Abel Balder - Relax My Eyes (#33, 2023)
7=| 24 Hozier - Take Me To Church (#2, 2015)
7=| 24 Luke Combs - Fast Car (#30, 2023)
7=| 24 Post Malone & Quavo - Congratulations (#26, 2017)
11| 23 Journey - Don’t Stop Believin’ (#6, 2010)

~ Subsequently reached #3 in 1988 in remixed version.

The list does not include runs after songs reached their eventual peaks (e.g. Killers - Mr Brightside reached #61, the highest position of its 47-week Top 100 run of 2021, at 33 weeks into that run, but this came after it had peaked at #10)

Songs with most consecutive weeks in the UK Top 40 on reaching their peaks

1| 38 Rema - Calm Down (#3, 2023)
2| 22 The Weeknd - Save Your Tears (#2, 2021)
3| 20 Hozier - Take Me To Church (#2, 2015)
4=| 19 David Guetta, Becky Hill & Ella Henderson - Crazy What Love Can Do (#5, 2022)
4=| 19 Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud (#1, 2014)
6| 17 AJ Tracey - Ladbroke Grove (#3, 2019)
7=| 16 French Montana featuring Swae Lee - Unforgettable (#2, 2017)
7=| 16 Hilltoppers - Only You (#3, 1956)
7=| 16 Lewis Capaldi - Grace (#9, 2019)
7=| 16 Post Malone & Quavo - Congratulations (#26, 2017)
7=| 16 The Weeknd - The Hills (#3, 2015)

+ peak reached on date last updated
Last updated w/e 04/01/24

Posted by: jimwatts Jun 5 2022, 09:04 PM

Songs with most consecutive weeks in the UK Top 100 while on SCR
Since its introduction in July 2017

1 43 Rema Calm Down (2022)
2| 38 Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still (2017)
3| 33 Freya Ridings - Lost Without You (2018)
4| 32 Ed Sheeran - Perfect (2020)
5| 31 Pinkfong - Baby Shark (2018)
6=| 30 Jax Jones featuring MNEK - Where Did You Go? (2022)
6=| 30 Nathan Dawe featuring Jaykae - Flowers (2020)
6=| 30 Ruth B. - Dandelions (2022)
6=| 30 Sam Fischer - This City (2020)
10| 28 Fireboy DML & Ed Sheeran - Peru (2021)

Songs with most consecutive weeks in the UK Top 40 while on SCR
Since its introduction in July 2017

1| 41 Rema - Calm Down (2022)
2| 30 Jax Jones featuring MNEK - Where Did You Go? (2022)
3| 28 Fireboy DML & Ed Sheeran - Peru (2021)
4=| 27 Freya Ridings - Lost Without You (2018)
4=| 27 Harry Styles - Adore You (2019)
6| 26 Dua Lipa - Don’t Start Now (2019)
7=| 24 David Guetta, Becky Hill & Ella Henderson - Crazy What Love Can Do (2022)
7=| 24 Nathan Dawe featuring Jaykae - Flowers (2020)
9=| 22 Harry Styles - As It Was (2023)
9=| 22 Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved (2019)
9=| 22 Sam Fischer - This City (2020)
9=| 22 Tate McRae - She's All I Wanna Be (2022)

(years in brackets indicate first weeks on chart)

+ run active at date last updated
Last updated w/e 04/01/24

Posted by: Smint Jun 5 2022, 09:26 PM

Fascinating stuff jimwatts, thanks so much - I guess an arguable foot note to the "Songs with most consecutive weeks in the UK Top 40 on reaching their peaks" would be Boney M's 'Brown Girl in the Ring' which peaked at no.2 on its 20th consectuive week in the top 40 having being promoted after 'Rivers of Babylon' got all the glory for the initial chart run in 1978 (including 5 weeks at no.1) but I know it's all one double A side for chart puporses and difficult to split out the two.

Posted by: jimwatts Feb 25 2023, 10:38 AM

Confirmation, in the post three above this one, that Rema has managed the longest continuous Top 40 run en route to its peak to date.

On Smint's point above (sorry for the late response), I think you'd have to say either that Brown Girl In The Ring went back up to #2 on its 20th week having already reached #1 on weeks 3-7 when it was the B-side of Rivers Of Babylon, or that it reached its #2 peak on only its 8th (+/-1) week of being promoted as the lead of the double A-side. It's nevertheless an unusual case, and raises the question of whether it should be included in the forthcoming #2 Singles sessions.