I think David Bowie has 5

 

1975 Space Oddity

1980 Ashes to ashes

1981 Under Pressure

1983 Lets Dance

1985 Dancing in the streets

 

Off the top of my head.....

Under Pressure and Dancing In The Streets were not solo singles.

Under Pressure and Dancing In The Streets were not solo singles.

 

That doesn't change the fact that David Bowie is a British male solo artist with 5 UK #1s though?

That doesn't change the fact that David Bowie is a British male solo artist with 5 UK #1s though?

So do you count all the Beatles' number ones in each member's total?

So do you count all the Beatles' number ones in each member's total?

 

No, because The Beatles is (/are/were) a band. 'Queen and David Bowie' is not a band, it's a collaboration. Same goes for 'David Bowie and Mick Jagger'.

Edited September 17, 201113 yr by Bré

There's always a slight chance, but i'm 99.9% sure noone will ever get near 14 #1 singles, thats such an insane amount!

 

I doubt JLS will get there, and then thats a new list, #1s for british male bands/groups? :lol:

 

Westlife have 14 (unfortunately). Actually they're Irish...

I really hate that Geri had 4 no.1s and none of them were Look At Me.

 

 

 

"Look At Me" was Geri's first ever solo single, and it was hyped to the limit. When released on 10th May 1999, the single went straight to #2 in the UK charts, with 142,153 copies sold in its first week, just 700 copies behind Boyzone at #1. Geri had only released one CD single, whereas Boyzone had released two - more transactions were actually made with her single than Boyzone's, but their fans bought both copies of their single to elevate them to #1.

No, because The Beatles is (/are/were) a band. 'Queen and David Bowie' is not a band, it's a collaboration. Same goes for 'David Bowie and Mick Jagger'.

Alexandra Burke is mentioned at the top of this thread, yet many of her hits (and number ones) are actually "featuring someone else", so are they really solo hits?

 

In any case (and here's a whole new thread really) there are hardly any "solo" songs around really. Most hits are written by someone else with someone else creating the backing music and someone else tweaking the vocals using various computers and sound machines anyway.

You can't be serious :o Her first album's releases were all amazing and deserve much more credit I think. Mi Chico Latino is like in my top 5 favourite songs ever :wub:

And how *HOT* did she look in that video!!

 

Have you forgotten about the DIVINE Ride It? :P

 

I hope you're not being sarcastic here, as I liked that song too.

Alexandra Burke is mentioned at the top of this thread, yet many of her hits (and number ones) are actually "featuring someone else", so are they really solo hits?

 

The list is not about solo hits, it's about hits by solo artists. Suggesting a song doesn't/shouldn't count to a solo artist's #1 tally just because it features someone else is ridiculous.

Edited September 18, 201113 yr by Bré

As long as an Artist is credited on a No.1 Single, then it counts as theirs.

So David Bowie can have 'Under Pressure', & 'Dancing In The Streets'.

Mick Jagger can have 'Dancing In The Streets', but not his 8 No.1's

with the Rolling Stones, as only the Group are credited. (Queen can have

'Under Pressure', too).

 

That's how it works.

 

Both Rihanna & Jay-Z can have 'Umbrella'.

 

Paul McCartney can have any No.1's where his name is credited

- such as 'Ebony & Ivory'. He can't have 'Mull Of Kintyre', as that was

just credited to Wings. (Stevie Wonder can have 'Ebony & Ivory', too,

of course). None of the individual Beatles can have their 17 Beatles

No.1's, as only the Group were credited.

 

Had the UK Singles Chart started in June 1952, (rather than November),

then Vera Lynn would certainly have had 2 No.1's that Year, with these

2 Hits - 'Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart', & 'The Homing Waltz' - with the

2nd one replacing the first at No.1. She'd then have had her 3rd, (& final)

UK No.1, in 1954 - 'My Son, My Son'.

Edited September 18, 201113 yr by zeus555