As we all know, the Top 40 is "the chart" according to a lot of ill-informed people outside this site. Therefore those records which peak at Number 41 are unluckily denied their moment of glory.

 

However, this year, we have not had a single genuine "Number 41" single at all. The nearest would be "Valerie" by Amy Winehouse but that was only a re-entry of a single that peaked at Number 37 four years ago.

 

We've had lots of records peaking at Number 40 and a handful at Number 42 but not Number 41

 

I know it's nothing more than a statistical oddity, but it's still quite interesting!

The most heartbreaking one for me I remember was Toy-Box "Best Friend" from 1999. I was gutted haha

A far more bizarre statistical oddity (IMO) is that we've had only one song peak at #7 this year! That being Badman Riddim (Jump) by Vato Gonzalez feat. Foreign Beggars.

 

It is very odd though, there have been four songs this year that peaked at #42 (Linkin Park - Rolling In The Deep, White Lies - Bigger Than Us, Wiz Khalifa - Roll Up, The Wombats - Anti-D) but none peaking at #41.

 

There were quite a few #41s last year and most of them were songs that I really liked: Pendulum - The Island, Sub Focus - Could This Be Real, Sub Focus (again) feat. Coco - Splash, Hot Chip - One Life Stand, Pixie Lott - Use Somebody, Jay-Z, Bono, The Edge and Rihanna - Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)... and the less good Glee Cast - Bad Romance, Duffy - Well, Well, Well and Flo Rida - Turn Around (5,4,3,2,1).

 

Fun.

Edited October 23, 201113 yr by Bré

That is pretty strange. It's good though, I know this is really silly, but it's SOOOO annoying if a song I like peaks at #41, but #42 doesn't seem so bad (even though it's worse in reality :lol:).

And only 1 Number 12 ("Wonderman")?

And only 1 Number 12 ("Wonderman")?

 

That too.

 

We've also only had one #19 (The Wanted - Lose My Mind (and even that is debatable as the week falls into 2010 by the OCC's numbering)) and no #26s.

Edited October 23, 201113 yr by Bré

In fact, the 'no #26s' thing is quite possibly the most bizarre of them all - I'll knock up some stats on this in a bit but I'm pretty sure #26 was actually one of the most common peaks in 2010, aside from #1!

 

2010 #26s:

Elllie Goulding - Guns And Horses

Fugative - Crush

Glee Cast - Somebody To Love

James Blunt - Stay The Night

LZ7 - This Little Light

M.I.A - XXXO

Marco Calliari - We No Speak Americano

Marina & The Diamonds - I Am Not A Robot

Nadine - Insatiable

OneRepublic - All The Right Moves

Paul Weller - No Tears To Cry

Skepta - Bad Boy

Edited October 23, 201113 yr by Bré

Full breakdown of peaks during 2010:

 

#1 x35

#2 x15

#3 x17

#4 x14

#5 x10

#6 x10

#7 x12

#8 x8

#9 x11

#10 x11

#11 x11

#12 x8

#13 x8

#14 x8

#15 x5

#16 x8

#17 x3

#18 x2

#19 x3

#20 x6

#21 x6

#22 x5

#23 x4

#24 x3

#25 x2

#26 x12

#27 x4

#28 x2

#29 x9

#30 x4

#31 x8

#32 x4

#33 x6

#34 x5

#35 x5

#36 x8

#37 x7

#38 x7

#39 x5

#40 x4

#41 x9

#42 x6

#43 x3

#44 x10

#45 x2

#46 x4

#47 x6

#48 x6

#49 x3

#50 x6

#51 x7

#52 x3

#53 x6

#54 x2

#55 x6

#56 x8

#57 x4

#58 x6

#59 x5

#60 x7

#61 x3

#62 x8

#63 x4

#64 x8

#65 x5

#66 x4

#67 x5

#68 x8

#69 x6

#70 x4

#71 x6

#72 x7

#73 x1

#74 x1

#75 x4

#76 x6

#77 x4

#78 x7

#79 x5

#80 x3

#81 x6

#82 x5

#83 x4

#84 x6

#85 x5

#86 x1

#87 x5

#88 x6

#89 x3

#90 x4

#91 x6

#92 x3

#93 x6

#94 x8

#95 x1

#96 x3

#97 x7

#98 x6

#99 x6

#100 x4

 

So yes, #26 was the most common peak outside the top 4 (joint with #7 which we've also coincidentally had a lack of this year!) #73, #74, #86 and #95 each only had one, but all of them had at least one.

Edited October 23, 201113 yr by Bré