December 4, 201113 yr JLS are the 27th act to get 6+ UK #1s. As 'We Found Love' was Rihanna's 6th #1 as well, 2011 is only the fourth/fifth* year ever to have produced two 'sixth #1s'. It's also only the second time ever that a 6th #1 has knocked another 6th #1 off #1 (the other time being when George Michael replaced Michael Jackson). List of '6th #1s': 1960 Elvis Presley - Are You Lonesome To-Night? 1961 The Shadows - Kon-Tiki 1962 Cliff Richard - The Next Time 1964 The Beatles - I Feel Fine 1966 The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black 1973 Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody 1977 ABBA - The Name Of The Game 1983 Rod Stewart - Baby Jane 1989 Madonna - Like A Prayer 1995 Take That - Back For Good 1995 Michael Jackson - Earth Song 1996 George Michael - Jesus To A Child 1997 The Spice Girls - Too Much 1999 Blondie - Maria 1999 Boyzone - You Needed Me 2000 Five and Queen - We Will Rock You* 2000 Mariah Carey feat. Westlife - Against All Odds 2001 Kylie Minogue - Can’t Get You Out Of My Head 2002 Oasis - The Hindu Times 2003 Elton John - Are You Ready For Love? 2004 Robbie Williams - Radio 2004 U2 - Vertigo 2005 Eminem - Like Toy Soldiers 2006 McFly - Star Girl 2007 Sugababes - About You Now 2011 Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris - We Found Love 2011 The X Factor Finalists 2011 feat. JLS and One Direction - Wishing On A Star *WWRY is italicised because whether it's Queen's sixth #1 or their fifth depends on if you count 'Bohemian Rhapsody' 1975/6 and 1991/2 as one #1 or two. I personally count it as one so I count WWRY as their fifth #1 but 'officially' it's their sixth so I've included it in the list anyway. In the same way this means it's debatable if 2011 is the fourth or fifth year to produce two 'sixth #1s'. Edited December 4, 201113 yr by Bré
December 4, 201113 yr Author JLS are the 27th act to get 6+ UK #1s. As 'We Found Love' was Rihanna's 6th #1 as well, 2011 is only the fourth/fifth* year ever to have produced two 'sixth #1s'. It's also only the second time ever that a 6th #1 has knocked another 6th #1 off #1 (the other time being when George Michael replaced Michael Jackson). :lol: Have you been saving that up all week? :D
December 4, 201113 yr :lol: Have you been saving that up all week? :D I looked it up a while ago as Rihanna would have done it 2 weeks ago if Take A Chance On Me had got to #1 :kink: These are the sort of pointless facts everyone must know about! Edited December 4, 201113 yr by Bré
December 4, 201113 yr Author I looked it up a while ago as Rihanna would have done it 2 weeks ago if Take A Chance On Me had got to #1 :kink: These are the sort of pointless facts everyone must know about! There's no such thing as a pointless fact. Richard Osman makes a living out of it :P
December 4, 201113 yr By the end of the week it had fallen from the top of the iTunes chart (other download sites are available) suggesting that it could be the first of these monstrosities to spend just a single week at number one. The dire 2009 cover of You Are Not Alone thankfully only managed a week on top.
December 4, 201113 yr Author The dire 2009 cover of You Are Not Alone thankfully only managed a week on top. Oops. I thought last year's abomination was the shortest lived number one. I'd forgotten that sense of satisfaction when Peter Kay overhauled YANA.
December 4, 201113 yr Author Adele achieved best selling album of the 21st century this week :). Yet another record :lol:
December 4, 201113 yr Yet another record :lol: She needs to get some more after she lost the title for weeks at #1 in 2011 (both with an individual song and overall) to Rihanna and looks likely to do the same (but only for a single song) in the USA as well :kink: Unrelated but Love The Way You Lie passed the million long after it left the top 40 so I wouldn't count that as passing the million while still a 'current' hit. Edited December 4, 201113 yr by Bré
December 4, 201113 yr Author She needs to get some more after she lost the title for weeks at #1 in 2011 (both with an individual song and overall) to Rihanna and looks likely to do the same (but only for a single song) in the USA as well :kink: Unrelated but Love The Way You Lie passed the million long after it left the top 40 so I wouldn't count that as passing the million while still a 'current' hit. It returned to the top 75 in the month it passed a million :P But, yes, I should have used a looser definition. The point was that the others reached a million years after they were released.
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