This Year CoverDrive got 2012's first #1 to Enter at the Top, What Song made the 1st entry at the Top every year since 1952, and what month & week(Chart Week) did it happen. I have used the OCC website for the weeks.

 

 

There are a lot of years where there has been No Number 1's that have entered at the Top.

 

I Have classed the Months on the W/E Date.

 

1952 - Wk - - - NONE -

1953 - Wk - - - NONE -

1954 - Wk - - - NONE -

1955 - Wk - - - NONE -

1956 - Wk - - - NONE -

1957 - Wk - - - NONE -

1958 - Wk - 4 - January - JAILHOUSE ROCK - ELVIS PRESLEY

1959 - Wk - - - NONE -

1960 - Wk - 44 - November - IT'S NOW OR NEVER - ELVIS PRESLEY

1961 - Wk - - - NONE -

1962 - Wk - 2 - January - THE YOUNG ONES - CLIFF RICHARD AND THE SHADOWS

1963 - Wk - - - NONE -

1964 - Wk - - - NONE -

1965 - Wk - - - NONE -

1966 - Wk - - - NONE -

1967 - Wk - - - NONE -

1968 - Wk - - - NONE -

1969 - Wk - 17 - April - GET BACK - BEATLES WITH BILLY PRESTON

1970 - Wk - - - NONE -

1971 - Wk - - - NONE -

1972 - Wk - - - NONE -

1973 - Wk - 9 - March - CUM ON FEEL THE NOIZE - SLADE

1974 - Wk - - - NONE -

1975 - Wk - - - NONE -

1976 - Wk - - - NONE -

1977 - Wk - - - NONE -

1978 - Wk - - - NONE -

1979 - Wk - - - NONE -

1980 - Wk - 12 - March - GOING UNDERGROUND/DREAMS OF CHILDREN - JAM

1981 - Wk - 19 - May - STAND AND DELIVER - ADAM AND THE ANTS

1982 - Wk - 6 - February - TOWN CALLED MALICE/PRECIOUS - JAM

1983 - Wk - 12 - March - IS THERE SOMETHING I SHOULD KNOW - DURAN DURAN

1984 - Wk - 24 - June - TWO TRIBES - FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD

1985 - Wk - 36 - September - DANCING IN THE STREET - DAVID BOWIE AND MICK JAGGER

1986 - Wk - - - NONE -

1987 - Wk - 14 - April - LET IT BE - FERRY AID

1988 - Wk - - - NONE -

1989 - Wk - 20 - May - FERRY 'CROSS THE MERSEY - CHRISTIANS, HOLLY JOHNSON, PAUL MCCARTNEY, GERRY MARSDEN AND STOCK AITKEN WATERMAN

1990 - Wk - - - NONE -

1991 - Wk - 1 - January - BRING YOUR DAUGHTER... TO THE SLAUGHTER - IRON MAIDEN

1992 - Wk - 24 - June - ABBA-ESQUE (EP) - ERASURE

1993 - Wk - 17 - May - FIVE LIVE (EP) - GEORGE MICHAEL AND QUEEN WITH LISA STANSFIELD

1994 - Wk - 7 - February - WITHOUT YOU - MARIAH CAREY

1995 - Wk - 14 - April - BACK FOR GOOD - TAKE THAT

1996 - Wk - 3 - January - JESUS TO A CHILD - GEORGE MICHAEL

1997 - Wk - 4 - January - YOUR WOMAN - WHITE TOWN

1998 - Wk - 4 - January - ALL AROUND THE WORLD - OASIS

1999 - Wk - 2 - January - PRAISE YOU - FATBOY SLIM

2000 - Wk - 3 - January - THE MASSES AGAINST THE CLASSES - MANIC STREET PREACHERS

2001 - Wk - 2 - January - TOUCH ME - RUI DA SILVA FEAT. CASSANDRA

2002 - Wk - 3 - January - MORE THAN A WOMAN - AALIYAH

2003 - Wk - 4 - January - STOP LIVING THE LIE - DAVID SNEDDON

2004 - Wk - 3 - January - ALL THIS TIME - MICHELLE

2005 - Wk - 2 - January - JAILHOUSE ROCK - ELVIS PRESLEY (Note on OCC Website as a Re-Entry)

2006 - Wk - 4 - January - WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN - ARCTIC MONKEYS

2007 - Wk - 12 - March - WALK THIS WAY - SUGABABES VS GIRLS ALOUD

2008 - Wk - 8 - February - MERCY - DUFFY

2009 - Wk - 6 - February - THE FEAR - LILY ALLEN

2010 - Wk - 2 - January - REPLAY - IYAZ

2011 - Wk - 3 - January - GRENADE - BRUNO MARS

2012 - Wk - 5 - February - TWILIGHT - COVER DRIVE

 

LOL after 1995 it was always january apart from 2007 when record companies didnt know how to work the new dload system!

Up until the mid-80's, instant #1's were regarded as something special - I wonder where the dividing line as to when they became routine, should be drawn?

Edited January 31, 201213 yr by vidcapper

Up until the mid-80's, instant #1's were regarded as something special - I wonder where the dividing line as to when they became routine, should be drawn?

 

1996.

I'd say the middle of 1995, after Back For Good almost every other number 1 (Oasis, Livin' Joy, Robson & Jerome, Blur etc) all went straight to the top. '96 would be the first full calendar year though.

 

By the time I really started listening to music in 1999, the words "straight to number 1" I just saw as being fairly normal, and not the major news it would have been just a few years earlier.

Didnt Simon Cowell start at Sycho at this time lol!!

I believe it was when Livin Joy - Dreamer (1995) was released that a concerted effort was first made on the part of the record company to release a single to all outlets at the same time and to build promotion and exposure before the record's release resulting in an instant number. Before that it was rabid fan-bases, high-profile releases and charity records that provided instant number 1s - of course there were exceptions.

 

From then on it became the normal practice in the promotion/release cycle.

I believe it was when Livin Joy - Dreamer (1995) was released that a concerted effort was first made on the part of the record company to release a single to all outlets at the same time and to build promotion and exposure before the record's release resulting in an instant number. Before that it was rabid fan-bases, high-profile releases and charity records that provided instant number 1s - of course there were exceptions.

 

From then on it became the normal practice in the promotion/release cycle.

 

Wasn't there something funny about "Dreamer" that nearly cost it #1? I could have sworn that I read something about it when I was reading about how Oasis have never had a single last more than a week at the top. Of course "Don't Look Back In Anger" would have done so had Take That not come along and posted even bigger weekly sales the week after, and "D'You Know What I Mean?" could have done despite an alarming drop in sales had Diddy's sales not been so consistent.

I do feel slightly silly but maybe I should pin my Closest races to number one thread- it seems to be the answer to so many questions today! :o :D closest races to No 1 post 290 will give you the answer.