According to the OCC website Jake Bugg's Lightning Bolt has been in the chart (presumably the top 200) for 23 weeks but has made the top 75 for the first time this week. Has any song spent longer in the chart wihout making the top 75. If it makes the top 40 next week (fingers crossed) will that be any sort of record?

I think Kylie Minogue's 'Santa Baby' may be not too far off that and if it keeps re-entering the top 200 but stays clear of the top 75 in coming years it'll eventually surpass it (if it hasn't already - I'm not sure how many weeks it has, thought someone quoted it in one of the top 100 thread but it seems not).

 

EDIT: Oh, I clearly didn't look very hard because someone did quote it - 21 weeks the week it was at #100 and it climbed to #99 the following week and was presumably still top 200 the next, which would make 23 so it is already ahead of Bugg. However as liamk97 has posted below Imogen Heap is ahead of that anyway.

 

Drake feat. Lil Wayne 'The Motto', The Black Keys 'Lonely Boy' and Eric Carmen 'Hungry Eyes' all have sizeable top 100 runs without reaching the top 75 so one or more of them could even be ahead of Imogen.

Edited January 7, 201312 yr by Bré

On UKMIX, there's a list of "longest chart runners not to reach the Top 100" as of May 2012:

 

Key: number of weeks charted, peak position, artist (debut year)

30 125 Hide And Seek - Imogen Heap (2005)

21 118 Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack Feat. Elizabeth Fraser (1998)

16 143 Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites - Skrillex (2011)

15 116 Con Te Partiro - Andrea Bocelli (2008)

14 129 Quicksand - La Roux (2009)

14 123 Fire / Jerico - The Prodigy (1997)

14 159 ABBA Medley - Unlimited Beat (1997)

13 109 Jizz In My Pants - The Lonely Island (2009)

12 124 Gone Clubbin' - 'n Sync (2002)

12 111 Suga Suga - Baby Bash (2004)

12 137 Maniac 2000 - Mark McCabe (2000)

12 109 Brown Paper Bag - Roni Size (2005)

11 110 Move Ya Body - Nina Sky (2004)

11 103 Insomnia [import] - Faithless (1997)

10 107 Energy Flash - Joey Beltram (2002)

10 123 Best I Ever Had - Drake (2009)

10 141 Finally / We Got A Love Thang - Ce Ce Peniston (2002)

10 104 Little Bird - Ed Sheeran (2011)

09 109 Can't Leave 'Em Alone - Ciara Feat. 50 Cent (2007)

09 111 I Wanna Go - Britney Spears (2011)

Edited January 7, 201312 yr by liamk97

I think Kylie Minogue's 'Santa Baby' may be not too far off that and if it keeps re-entering the top 200 but stays clear of the top 75 in coming years it'll eventually surpass it (if it hasn't already - I'm not sure how many weeks it has, thought someone quoted it in one of the top 100 thread but it seems not).

It's currently on 23 weeks.

30 weeks with a peak of 125? That's impressive :lol:

I never knew Hide and Seek had that long a chart run and never reached the top 100! :o Did it re-enter the chart after Whatcha Say?

I never knew Hide and Seek had that long a chart run and never reached the top 100! :o Did it re-enter the chart after Whatcha Say?

The week ending 28/11/2009, it re-entered at #169, climbed the following week to #168 and fell out of the chart again.

The week ending 28/11/2009, it re-entered at #169, climbed the following week to #168 and fell out of the chart again.

 

Thanks. It's funny that the song probably had it's highest ever week of sales due to being sampled! :lol:

Florence + the Machine's Dog Days Are Over had a lengthy chart run before entering the T75:

 

89-90-136-178-x

173-93-107-104-119-175-x

117-120-194-118-107-157-169-167-170-x

164-91-113-139-107-107-136-139-130-121-131-109-122-127-129-119-154-139-165-173-x

116-23-

 

Charted at #23 on its 41th chart appearance. (Source: UKMIX)

 

It's more impressive if a song pre-downloads can spend so long charting outside of the Top 75.

Thanks. It's funny that the song probably had it's highest ever week of sales due to being sampled! :lol:

You're probably right actually! :P I think back in 2005, sometimes 1,000 sales could get you #40, whereas in 2009 1,000 would get you #200 if you were lucky!

Florence + the Machine's Dog Days Are Over had a lengthy chart run before entering the T75:

 

89-90-136-178-x

173-93-107-104-119-175-x

117-120-194-118-107-157-169-167-170-x

164-91-113-139-107-107-136-139-130-121-131-109-122-127-129-119-154-139-165-173-x

116-23-

 

Charted at #23 on its 41th chart appearance. (Source: UKMIX)

 

It's more impressive if a song pre-downloads can spend so long charting outside of the Top 75.

 

I'm not 100% sure about it, but I think Dog Days Are Over made the year-end top 200 one year (2009?) without reaching the top 75.

30 125 Hide And Seek - Imogen Heap (2005) :o :o :o :o

21 118 Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack Feat. Elizabeth Fraser (1998) :o :o :o :o

14 129 Quicksand - La Roux (2009) - I remember them releasing this before In For The Kill and they attempted to re-release Quicksand again after Bulletproof success.

13 109 Jizz In My Pants - The Lonely Island (2009) :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: - Obviously from Youtube hits, I guess.

12 124 Gone Clubbin' - 'n Sync (2002) :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: - Not surprised that flopped lol, it reminds me of JC Chazez (one of the N'Sync members) releasing All Day Long I Dream About Sex :lol: :lol: . Heard it entered T200 on import sales.

12 111 Suga Suga - Baby Bash (2004) - This song was huge in Australia and New Zealand.

11 110 Move Ya Body - Nina Sky (2004) - same as above, especially in New Zealand

09 109 Can't Leave 'Em Alone - Ciara Feat. 50 Cent (2007) - I think I only heard this song once. I think the song Love, Sex and Magic (with Justin Timberlake) in 2009 reboosted her career.

09 111 I Wanna Go - Britney Spears (2011) - such a shame that it didn't enter T75, let alone T40. So much potential

I don't get the list - half of them *did* chart top 100 surely? Move Ya Body got to #6, Fire/Jericho to #11, Brown Paper Bag to #20, and surely an import of Insomnia (which on full release went to #3) shouldn't count? Unless I'm being stupid :P

On UKMIX, there's a list of "longest chart runners not to reach the Top 100" as of May 2012:

 

Key: number of weeks charted, peak position, artist (debut year)

21 118 Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack Feat. Elizabeth Fraser (1998)

 

wow i'd always thought this was huge

I don't get the list - half of them *did* chart top 100 surely? Move Ya Body got to #6, Fire/Jericho to #11, Brown Paper Bag to #20, and surely an import of Insomnia (which on full release went to #3) shouldn't count? Unless I'm being stupid :P

 

I assumed it meant weeks outside T100 *before* breaking through (some never did, of course).

wow i'd always thought this was huge

 

It got to #13 in 1991, I assume that's 21 weeks without going top 100 in the download era.

 

(Not that it only having a peak of #13 is any less surprising).

Edited January 7, 201312 yr by Bré

The version of unfinished sympathy isn't the 1991 version as that has Shara Nelson as the vocalist! I assume this is a rerecording of it from 1998.

21 118 Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack Feat. Elizabeth Fraser (1998)

 

 

Oh dear.

Edited January 7, 201312 yr by AnthonyT

The version of unfinished sympathy isn't the 1991 version as that has Shara Nelson as the vocalist! I assume this is a rerecording of it from 1998.

 

Does that exist? I've never heard of it - I assumed this was a mistake and that it should be Teardrop in the list, instead.

It got to #13 in 1991, I assume that's 21 weeks without going top 100 in the download era.

 

(Not that it only having a peak of #13 is any less surprising).

 

 

Are there not thousands of songs that peaked far lower than may be expected - to the degree that it should not be a surprise any more to find out that, for example - REM's Losing My Religion only peaked at 19?

 

Is there a general expectation that classic songs do well in the charts? I must say, I've never - even as a teenage chart fan - been under that illusion.

Edited January 7, 201312 yr by AnthonyT