Thank you for your very useful input btw. I will note that one down!

A few off the top of my head...

 

Emeli Sande - Next To Me (#25)

Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX - I Love It (Icona Pop are Swedish but Charli is British) (#7)

Zedd ft. Foxes - Clarity (Foxes is British but Zedd is German I think) (#24)

Calvin Harris ft. Ellie Goulding - I Need Your Love (#38)

Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida - Troublemaker (Olly is British but ofc Flo isn't!) (#25)

Little Mix - Wings (#79)

 

Sorry for the ancient history lesson, but if you dont know the facts: The ultimate British USA pop success story?

 

January 1964, The Beatles held all of these positions in the same week on the US Hot 100.

 

That's the ENTIRE Top 5. On plastic round things played with a needley thing that were about 5 times the relative cost of downloads...

 

 

 

1. Can't Buy Me Love

2. Twist & Shout

3. She Loves You

4. I Want To Hold Your Hand

5. Please Please Me

31. I Saw Her Standing There

41. From Me To You

46. Do You Want To Know A Secret

58. All My Loving

65. You Can't Do That

68. Roll Over Beethoven

79. Thank You Girl

 

Top-selling album in the world in the 21st Century...? The Beatles 1.

 

They were quite popular you know :lol:

Ed Sheeran's "Lego House" #42. It might just scrap into the top 40 (It's still climbing in radio play a bit).

 

Labrinth & Emeli "Beneath Your Beautiful" #88. It's just started to rise on radio.

 

Muse "Madness" #45 (But it's sold over 1 million copies despite the lowish peak).

 

One Direction - "One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks)" #13.

 

There's bound to be a bunch more. Little Mix "DNA" is one to watch out for.

Looking at the Billboard #1s of the 1990s, that seemed to be a bit of a low point for British acts over there - there's a few, but mostly ballads instead of all the huge pop and dance hits we had here. One of the few exceptions was 'Wannabe' being huge across America in early 1997.

 

But otherwise, almost every #1 in the US was at least a substantial hit here :lol: Although it's pretty amazing that 'Baby Got Back' completely flopped without trace here, one of the biggest #1s of the decade in the US and completely missing the top 40 here! Maybe the British public of 1991 weren't quite ready for songs about massive rear ends...

2013 - Troublemaker - Olly Murs (#25)

2012 - Heart Skips a Beat - Olly Murs (#96)

 

2010 - Dog Days Are Over - Florece + the Machine (#21)

2011 · 2012 - Shake It Out - Florece + the Machine (#72)

 

Only position of my two British favorite artists....

 

But otherwise, almost every #1 in the US was at least a substantial hit here :lol: Although it's pretty amazing that 'Baby Got Back' completely flopped without trace here, one of the biggest #1s of the decade in the US and completely missing the top 40 here! Maybe the British public of 1991 weren't quite ready for songs about massive rear ends...

 

It could hardly have competed against Bryan Adams anyway...

But otherwise, almost every #1 in the US was at least a substantial hit here :lol: Although it's pretty amazing that 'Baby Got Back' completely flopped without trace here, one of the biggest #1s of the decade in the US and completely missing the top 40 here! Maybe the British public of 1991 weren't quite ready for songs about massive rear ends...

 

I did not know that! Has to be up there with the most well-known non-top 40 hits.

2009- Replay- Iyaz (#2)

2010- Solo - Iyaz (#32)

2011- Pretty Girls- Iyaz (#43)

 

I suppose he counts, right?

I was bored so I compiled the songs in this thread from the 21st century into a list and added a few. :) Top 20 hits are in bold and songs still climbing/peaking are in blue. Note: chart positions are mostly from Wikipedia as I don't have a better source.

 

A.R. Rahman & M.I.A. - "O...Saya" - #93
Adele - "Chasing Pavements" - #21
Adele - "Rolling In The Deep" - #1
Adele - "Rumour Has It" - #16
Adele - "Set Fire To The Rain" - #1
Adele - "Skyfall" - #8
Adele - "Someone Like You" - #1
Adele - "Turning Tables" - #63
Alex Clare - "Too Close" - #7
Amy Winehouse - "Rehab" - #9
Amy Winehouse - "You Know I'm No Good" - #77
Calvin Harris - "Feel So Close" - #12
Calvin Harris feat. Ellie Goulding - "I Need Your Love" - #30
Calvin Harris feat. Florence Welch - "Sweet Nothing" - #10
Calvin Harris feat. Ne-Yo - "Let's Go" - #17
Cher Lloyd - "Want U Back" - #12
Cher Lloyd feat. Becky G - "Oath" - #73
Coldplay - "Christmas Lights" - #25
Coldplay - "Clocks" - #29
Coldplay - "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall" - #14
Coldplay - "Fix You" - #59
Coldplay - "Like A Star" - #56
Coldplay - "Lost!" - #87
Coldplay - "Major Minus" - #92
Coldplay - "Moving To Mars" - #90
Coldplay - "Paradise" - #15
Coldplay - "Speed Of Sound" - #8
Coldplay - "Talk" - #86
Coldplay - "Violet Hill" - #40
Coldplay - "Viva La Vida" - #1
Coldplay - "Yellow" - #48
Coldplay feat. Jay-Z - "Lost+" - #40
Coldplay feat. Rihanna - "Princess Of China" - #20
Corinne Bailey Rae - "Put Your Records On" - #64
Craig David - "7 Days" - #10
Craig David - "Fill Me In" - #15
Craig David - "Walking Away" - #44
Daniel Bedingfield - "Gotta Get Thru This" - #10
Daniel Bedingfield - "If You're Not The One" - #15
David Guetta feat. Taio Cruz & Ludacris - "Little Bad Girl" - #70
Dido - "Thank You" - #3
Dido - "White Flag" - #18
Duffy - "Mercy" - #27
Ed Sheeran - "Lego House" - #42
Ed Sheeran - "The A Team" - #16
Ellie Goulding - "Anything Could Happen" - #47
Ellie Goulding - "Lights" - #2
Emeli Sandé - "Next To Me" - #25
Eminem feat. Dido - "Stan" - #51
Estelle - "Thank You" - #100
Estelle feat. Kanye West - "American Boy" - #9
Florence + The Machine - "Dog Days Are Over" - #21
Florence + The Machine - "Shake It Out" - #72
Icona Pop feat. Charli XCX - "I Love It" - #7
James Blunt - "1973" - #73
James Blunt - "Goodbye My Lover" - #66
James Blunt - "High" - #100
James Blunt - "Stay The Night" - #94
James Blunt - "You're Beautiful" - #1
Jay Sean feat. Lil Wayne - "Down" - #1
Jay Sean feat. Lil Wayne - "Hit The Lights" - #18
Jay Sean feat. Nicki Minaj - "2012 (It Ain't The End)" - #31
Jay Sean feat. Pitbull - "I'm All Yours" - #85
Jay Sean feat. Sean Paul & Lil Jon - "Do You Remember" - #10
Jessie J - "Domino" - #6
Jessie J feat. B.o.B - "Price Tag" - #23
Kevin Rudolf feat. Birdman, Jay Sean & Lil Wayne - "I Made It (Cash Money Heroes)" - #21
La Roux - "Bulletproof" - #8
Labrinth feat. Emeli Sandé - "Beneath Your Beautiful" - #88
Leona Lewis - "Better In Time" - #11
Leona Lewis - "Bleeding Love" - #1
Leona Lewis - "Happy" - #31
Leona Lewis - "I Will Be" - #66
Leona Lewis - "Run" - #81
Lifehouse feat. Natasha Bedingfield - "Between The Raindrops" - #79
Little Mix - "Wings" - #79
LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock - "Party Rock Anthem" - #1
M.I.A. - "Paper Planes" - #4
Madonna feat. Nicki Minaj & M.I.A. - "Give Me All Your Luvin'" - #10
Mis-Teeq - "Scandalous" - #35
Mumford & Sons - "Babel" - #60
Mumford & Sons - "Ghosts That We Knew" - #88
Mumford & Sons - "Holland Road" - #84
Mumford & Sons - "I Will Wait" - #12
Mumford & Sons - "Little Lion Man" - #45
Mumford & Sons - "Lover Of The Light" - #97
Mumford & Sons - "Lovers' Eyes" - #85
Mumford & Sons - "The Cave" - #27
Mumford & Sons - "Whispers In The Dark" - #81
Muse - "Madness" - #45
Muse - "Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)" - #77
Muse - "Uprising" - #37
Natasha Bedingfield - "Angel" - #63
Natasha Bedingfield - "Pocketful Of Sunshine" - #5
Natasha Bedingfield - "Single" - #57
Natasha Bedingfield - "Soulmate" - #96
Natasha Bedingfield - "Strip Me" - #91
Natasha Bedingfield - "These Words" - #17
Natasha Bedingfield - "Unwritten" - #5
Natasha Bedingfield feat. Sean Kingston - "Love Like This" - #11
Nero - "Promises" - #70
Oasis - "The Shock Of The Lightning" - #93
Olly Murs feat. Chiddy Bang - "Heart Skips A Beat" - #96
Olly Murs feat. Flo Rida - "Troublemaker" - #25
One Direction - "Kiss You" - #46
One Direction - "Little Things" - #33
One Direction - "Live While We're Young" - #3
One Direction - "One Thing" - #39
One Direction - "One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks)" - #13
One Direction - "Rock Me" - #98
One Direction - "What Makes You Beautiful" - #4
Rascal Flatts feat. Natasha Bedingfield - "Easy" - #43
Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris - "We Found Love" - #1
Rita Ora - "How We Do (Party)" - #62
S Club 7 - "Never Had A Dream Come True" - #10
Seal - "Love's Divine" - #79
Seal - "Waiting For You" - #89
Shakira feat. Dizzee Rascal - "Loca" - #32
Snow Patrol - "Called Out In The Dark" - #78
Snow Patrol - "Chasing Cars" - #5
Snow Patrol - "Signal Fire" - #65
Snow Patrol feat. Martha Wainwright - "Set The Fire To The Third Bar" - #54
Spice Girls - "Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)" - #90
Sugababes - "Hole In The Head" - #96
Taio Cruz - "Dynamite" - #2
Taio Cruz feat. Flo Rida - "Hangover" - #62
Taio Cruz feat. Ke$ha - "Dirty Picture" - #96
Taio Cruz feat. Ludacris - "Break Your Heart" - #1
Taio Cruz feat. Travie McCoy - "Higher" - #24
The Ting Tings - "Shut Up And Let Me Go" - #55
The Ting Tings - "That's Not My Name" - #39
The Wanted - "Chasing The Sun" - #51
The Wanted - "Glad You Came" - #3
The Wanted - "I Found You" - #89
Tinie Tempah feat. Eric Turner - "Written In The Stars" - #12
Tinie Tempah feat. Wiz Khalifa - "Till I'm Gone" - #90
Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse - "Body And Soul" - #87
Zedd feat. Foxes - "Clarity" - #14