These are a few of the huge acts who've not had a number one on the AH Gold Chart:

 

Pink - highest peak No.2 (Just Like A Pill, 2002)

Jennifer Lopez - highest peak No.2 (Love Don't Cost A Thing, 2001)

Lady GaGa - highest peak No.2 (Just Dance, Poker Face, Eh Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say), 2009)

Manic Street Preachers - highest peak No.2 (Tsunami, 1999)

Blur - highest peak No.2 (Girls & Boys, 1994)

Depeche Mode - highest peak No.2 (Enjoy The Silence (remix), 2001)

Sash! - highest peak No.2 (Encore Une Fois, Stay, 1997. Mysterious Times, 1998)

Robbie Williams - highest peak No.2 (Feel, 2002)

Avril Lavigne - highest peak No.2 (I'm With You, 2003. My Happy Ending, 2004)

Gwen Stefani - highest peak No.2 (What You Waiting For, 2004)

The Verve - highest peak No.2 (Sonnet, 1998)

U2 - highest peak No.2 (Discotheque, 1997)

Beyonce - highest peak No.3 (Irreplacable, 2006. If I Was A Boy, 2008)

Spice Girls - highest peak No.3 (Wannabe, 1996. Holler, 2000)

Oasis - highest peak No.7 (Don't Go Away, 1997)

 

And despite having well over 20 chart entries:

 

Usher - highest peak No.12 (DJ Got Us Falling In Love, 2010)

Edited July 17, 201114 yr by AH Gold

Massive Attack (#2 Teardrop)

Radiohead (#3 Street spirit)

Metallica (#2 Nothing Else Matters 2000)

Robbie Williams (solo, #2 Feel)

Usher (#4 Burn)

Calvin Harris (#4 I'm not alone)

Depeche Mode (#4 Precious)

Green Day (#3 Basket Case, The saints are coming)

The Saturdays (#5 I just can't get enough)

50 Cent (#6 In da club)

 

erm...

Justin Bieber (#9 Next to you)

Edited November 5, 201113 yr by N-S

A few others:

 

Radiohead - highest peak No.6 (Idioteque, 2001)

Kanye West - highest peak No.2 (American Boy - with Estelle, 2008)

Pussycat Dolls - highest peak No.2 (Don't Cha, 2005)

Nicole Scherzinger - highest peak No.2 (Heartbeat - with Enrique Iglesias, 2010. Don't Hold Your Breath, 2011)

Enrique Iglesias - highest peak No.2 (Heartbeat, 2010)

Edited September 1, 201113 yr by AH Gold

Massive Attack (#2 Teardrop)

Radiohead (#3 Street spirit)

Metallica (#2 Nothing Else Matters 2000)

Robbie Williams (solo, #2 Feel)

Amy Winehouse (#4 Tears dry on their own)

Usher (#4 Burn)

Calvin Harris (#4 I'm not alone)

Depeche Mode (#4 Precious)

Green Day (#3 Basket Case, The saints are coming)

The Saturdays (#5 I just can't get enough)

50 Cent (#6 In da club)

 

erm...

Justin Bieber (#17 Somebody to love)

 

UPDATE

Amy Winehouse hit #1 with "Back to black" after her death.

The Saturdays hit #1 with "All fired up"

Nicole Scherzinger has just scored her second number 2 hit on my chart with "Wet". She also lost out with "Right There (feat. 50 Cent)". No other act has had 2 #2s without a #1 ever