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Record charts in the UK began in 1952, when Percy Dickins of the New Musical Express (NME) gathered a pool of 52 stores willing to report sales figures. For the first British chart Dickins telephoned approximately 20 shops, asking for a list the 10 best-selling songs. These results were then aggregated into a Top 12 chart published in NME on 14 November 1952, with Al Martino's "Here in My Heart" awarded the number-one position.

 

According to the Official Charts Company's statistics, as of 1 July 2012 1,200 singles have topped the UK singles chart.

 

Here is the personal chart with 100 my favourite UK # 1 singles.

 

In late 2012 "Bohemian Rapsody" was named "Nations Favourite # 1 Single" . Elton John with "Candle In The Wind" sold 4.9 million copies in the UK, overtaking the 13-year-old record held by Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?". It has been certified as the best-selling single of all time in the UK.

 

Which song will be my favourite UK # 1 single ?

 

Any predictions are allowed.

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# 100.

 

Edited June 6, 201411 yr by Alex.

 

# 99. Elton John & Kiki Dee - Don't Go Breaking My Heart (6 weeks # 1 - 1976)

 

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"Don't Go Breaking My Heart" is a duet by Elton John and Kiki Dee. It was written by Elton John with Bernie Taupin under the pseudonyms "Ann Orson" and "Carte Blanche" (a pun on the expression "an horse and cart, blanche").

 

Like many of Elton John's singles from the 1970s, it was never included on an original album (though it was recorded during the same sessions that produced Blue Moves).

 

"Don't Go Breaking My Heart" was the first No. 1 single in the UK for both Elton John and Kiki Dee, topping the chart for six weeks in mid 1976. John would not enjoy a solo British chart-topper until "Sacrifice" in 1990. It also became his sixth No. 1 single in the US, topping the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks. In the U.S. it was certified Gold Recording Industry Association of America. This single also sold near 1.000.000 copies in UK.

I love 'Frozen'. 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart' is so cheesy for all the wrong reasons!

 

I suspect (hope) your favorite UK #1 single is by the Sugababes :D

15 years later and Frozen is still really good and would feature in my Top 40 number 1s ever.

I hope that you surprise me with this countdown. ^_^

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Record charts in the UK began in 1952, when Percy Dickins of the New Musical Express (NME) gathered a pool of 52 stores willing to report sales figures. For the first British chart Dickins telephoned approximately 20 shops, asking for a list the 10 best-selling songs. These results were then aggregated into a Top 12 chart published in NME on 14 November 1952, with Al Martino's "Here in My Heart" awarded the number-one position.

 

According to the Official Charts Company's statistics, as of 1 July 2012 1,200 singles have topped the UK singles chart.

 

Here is the personal chart with 100 my favourite UK # 1 singles.

 

In late 2012 "Bohemian Rapsody" was named "Nations Favourite # 1 Single" . Elton John with "Candle In The Wind" sold 4.9 million copies in the UK, overtaking the 13-year-old record held by Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?". It has been certified as the best-selling single of all time in the UK.

 

Which song will be my favourite UK # 1 single ?

 

Any predictions are allowed.

Hi Alex,

Steps Tragedy or Abba (one of several) is my guess:)

Frozen never made my number one, shockingly (it should have!). Elton & Kiki did though, bit of fun...:)

 

cheers

john

http://www.dingsme.info/avatar8.jpgAcross Europe "Frozen" was also a large success,

 

# 98. Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now (3 weeks # 1 - 1988)

 

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"I Think We're Alone Now" is a song written by Ritchie Cordell. It was initially a 1967 hit for the American recording artists Tommy James & the Shondells, reaching #4 on the Billboard Hot 100.

 

The song was re-popularized when American singer Tiffany covered the song for her first album Tiffany (1987). Tiffany's version of the song spent two weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and three weeks at #1 on the UK Singles Chart. The video was shot in a shopping mall which echoed the way her early career had been promoted. Elements of the video were filmed in the now demolished Bullring Centre in Birmingham, UK.

 

When George Tobin, Tiffany's manager, gave Tiffany the cassette of the original version by Tommy James & the Shondells, Tiffany hated the idea of recording a version of her own for her album mostly because she thought the song wasn't modern or hip enough. It turned out to be her biggest hit once she recorded it.

 

"I Think We're Alone Now" was not the first single from Tiffany's debut album. The first single was "Danny", but radio started picking up "I Think We're Alone Now", another track on the album. It became a runaway #1 hit and was the eighteenth highest selling single for 1987 and the thirty-second highest selling single in Australia for 1988.

 

In 2006, the British all-female pop group Girls Aloud covered "I Think We're Alone Now" for their greatest hits album The Sound of Girls Aloud and the soundtrack of It's a Boy Girl Thing. Girls Aloud's version was produced by Brian Higgins and his production team Xenomania. The song was recorded just days before the group's greatest hits was sent to be manufactured. Following a single remix, "I Think We're Alone Now" was released as a contender for the Christmas number one. It reached the top five on the UK Singles Chart.

 

The music video, inspired by heist films, features Girls Aloud robbing a Las Vegas casino.

 

 

# 97. Sugababes - About You Now (4 weeks # 1 - 2007)

 

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"About You Now" is a 2007 single by English girl group Sugababes, written by Cathy Dennis for the group's fifth studio album, Change. The song is the album's opening track, and was released as its leading single between September and October 2007.

 

Upon its release, the song became the group's highest-charting single since 2005's "Push the Button", reaching the top of the charts in Hungary and the UK, as well as the top 10 in Austria, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Spain and Belgium. An acoustic version of the song appears as a bonus track on the group's sixth studio album Catfights and Spotlights (2008). In December 2009, it was revealed by BBC that "About You Now" was the UK's fifth most-played song of the decade (2000–09).

 

"About You Now" would make its first chart appearance in the United Kingdom, in the week beginning 17 September 2007. It debuted at number thirty five on the UK Singles Chart after the release of a remix package for legal download. A week later, a major boost in downloads, induced by the official release of the digital single, helped catapulting the song to the top of the UK chart. This feat made the Sugababes only the fourth act and second British act to chart at number-one on download sales alone."About You Now" became the band's fourth collective chart-topper following "Freak like Me" (2002), "Round Round" (2002), "Hole in the head" (2003) and "Push the Button" (2005) and spent four weeks at number-one, surpassing the chart run of latter single. According to The Official Charts Company, it was ranked both the sixth most-downloaded and sixth best-selling single in the UK in the year of 2007. Having sold more than 485,000 copies on the UK alone as of 2011, it ranks as their best-selling single.

Edited January 30, 201312 yr by AlexRange

# 97. Sugababes - About You Now (4 weeks # 1 - 2007)

 

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"About You Now" is a 2007 single by English girl group Sugababes, written by Cathy Dennis for the group's fifth studio album, Change. The song is the album's opening track, and was released as its leading single between September and October 2007.

 

Upon its release, the song became the group's highest-charting single since 2005's "Push the Button", reaching the top of the charts in Hungary and the UK, as well as the top 10 in Austria, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Spain and Belgium. An acoustic version of the song appears as a bonus track on the group's sixth studio album Catfights and Spotlights (2008). In December 2009, it was revealed by BBC that "About You Now" was the UK's fifth most-played song of the decade (2000–09).

 

"About You Now" would make its first chart appearance in the United Kingdom, in the week beginning 17 September 2007. It debuted at number thirty five on the UK Singles Chart after the release of a remix package for legal download. A week later, a major boost in downloads, induced by the official release of the digital single, helped catapulting the song to the top of the UK chart. This feat made the Sugababes only the fourth act and second British act to chart at number-one on download sales alone."About You Now" became the band's fourth collective chart-topper following "Freak like Me" (2002), "Round Round" (2002), "Hole in the head" (2003) and "Push the Button" (2005) and spent four weeks at number-one, surpassing the chart run of latter single. According to The Official Charts Company, it was ranked both the sixth most-downloaded and sixth best-selling single in the UK in the year of 2007. Having sold more than 485,000 copies on the UK alone as of 2011, it ranks as their best-selling single.

 

 

I had hoped this would be in your top 10. It's just amazing. I remember when I heard it first - I was in bed and I think I got high on the melody and the way it progressed. Wonderful. It would be in my Top 40 number 1s chart, if I did one.

All The Things She Said for Number 1 - by the way.

I had hoped this would be in your top 10. It's just amazing. I remember when I heard it first - I was in bed and I think I got high on the melody and the way it progressed. Wonderful. It would be in my Top 40 number 1s chart, if I did one.

# 97 in this chart is not very bad result for a song, which was only # 30 in my Sugababes personal countdown. :)

 

I hope that you surprise me with this countdown. ^_^

 

Yes, I have some jokers and aces in my hands.

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# 96. Esther and Abi Ofarim - Cinderella Rockefella (3 weeks # 1 - 1968)

 

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"Cinderella Rockefella" was a novelty single written by Mason Williams and Nancy Ames, and most famously released by the Israeli duo group Esther and Abi Ofarim, a married couple, in 1968.

 

The song features yodelling and a somewhat 1920s style lyrics and music. Perhaps surprisingly, the structure of the song is a twelve-bar blues.

 

According to Radio Caroline DJ Andy Archer, the song was the last to be played on Radio Caroline South on the night of 2-3 March 1968, before its radio ship (like that of its sister station Radio Caroline North) was towed into harbour over unpaid debts on the morning of 3 March.

 

All The Things She Said for Number 1 - by the way.

 

I would like that :wub:

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Which song will be my favourite UK # 1 single ?

 

Any predictions are allowed.

Blazin Squad - Crossroads ?

 

# 95. Katie Melua & Eva Cassidy - What A Wonderful World (1 week # 1 - 2007)

 

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"What a Wonderful World" is a song written by Bob Thiele (as "George Douglas") and George David Weiss. It was first recorded by Louis Armstrong and released as a single in 1967. Thiele and Weiss were both prominent in the music world (Thiele as a producer and Weiss as a composer/performer). Armstrong's recording was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. The publishing for this song is controlled by Memory Lane Music Group, Carlin Music Corp., and Bug Music, Inc.

 

Eva Cassidy's "What a Wonderful World" was spliced together with new vocals by Melua and released as a single exclusively at the British retail chain Tesco. It debuted at #1 on the UK Singles chart in December 2007. All profits from the single went to the British Red Cross.

 

 

# 94. Jane Morgan - The Day the Rains Came (1 week # 1 - 1959)

 

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Jane Morgan is an American popular music singer. Morgan initially found success in France and the UK before achieving recognition in the U.S. She won six gold records.

 

Morgan wanted to advance her career in the United States, but booking agents and managers in show business felt she was too specialized and wouldn't make it outside the nightclub circuit. She left her agent and began singing at Lou Walters' Latin Quarter in New York. Walters kept Morgan at the Latin Quarter for a year, when she was noticed by Dave Kapp, who had recently founded a new recording label, Kapp Records. Kapp signed Morgan to a recording contract, and near that same period he also signed pianist Roger Williams.

 

To counter her reputation as a French singer, Kapp had Morgan record "Baseball, Baseball," and her first album release was entitled "The American Girl from Paris". She recorded several additional albums and soon was paired with Williams, who had gained national acceptance with his recording of Autumn Leaves. They recorded Two Different Worlds, which gave Morgan her first significant airplay on US radio. In 1957 Kapp brought The Troubadors, a virtually unknown group of five musicians, to his studio. They had appeared in the 1957 comedy film Love in the Afternoon.

 

Kapp asked Morgan to join The Troubadors and sing "Fascination". Although written in 1904 by F. D. Marchetti as "Valse Tzigane", the song was modified in Paris at the Folies Bergère as a "strip" number. With English lyrics added by Dick Manning in 1932, it had been played throughout the 1957 movie (the French lyric had been created in 1942). Morgan's recording was released in late 1957 and remained on the charts for 29 weeks. In 1958 Kapp released The Day the Rains Came (a French song by Gilbert Becaud called "Le jour où la pluie viendra") with Morgan singing in English on one side and in French on the other. It reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in January 1959.

 

On May 6, 2011 she received the 2,439th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

 

# 93. Steps - Stomp (1 week # 1 - 2000)

 

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"Stomp" is a song by Steps, released as a hit single, which became the group's second and last single to hit #1 on the UK charts. Debuting at #1 and spending 11 weeks on the British charts, this disco-esque song was later released in Australia, Japan, and Europe. The song features (with minor alterations in key and modulation) a dramatic orchestral riff from "Everybody Dance", released by Chic in 1978.

 

The video features group members Lisa and H looking after a penthouse apartment while the owner is away on business. They, and the other group members, then throw a party for all their friends, but struggle to tidy up before the owner returns.

 

My least favourite single from Steps.

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# 92. Anne Shelton - Lay Down Your Arms (4 weeks # 1 - 1956)

 

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Anne Shelton was a popular English vocalist, who is remembered for providing inspirational songs for soldiers both on radio broadcasts, and in person, at British military bases during the Second World War. Shelton was also the original singer in the United Kingdom of the song, "Lili Marlene".

 

In 1942, Shelton began playing military bases across England and as her popularity grew, was offered her own radio program, Calling Malta, which remained on the air for five years. In 1944, Shelton was invited to sing with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, and although some of these shows were recorded, none has ever surfaced in its entirety. Miller invited Shelton to stay on with the band and travel to Versailles, France for a series of shows; she had to turn him down because of prior commitments in Britain, and this saved her life, as Miller's aircraft disappeared over the English Channel. Shelton soon performed with another American: Bing Crosby. Crosby and Shelton appeared on the Variety Bandbox radio show together and afterwards played a show together, duetting on the songs "Easter Parade" and "I'll Get By". In 1948 she recorded "If You Ever Fall in Love Again" written by Irish songwriter Dick Farrelly who is best remembered for his song "Isle of Innisfree", which Anne also recorded. In 1949, Shelton began to make headway Stateside, scoring a pair of hits with "Be Mine" and "Galway Bay," which resulted in her inaugural U.S. tour two years later (all the while continuing to entertain the troops).

 

She had a No.1 hit song in 1956 in the UK with "Lay Down Your Arms", engineered by Joe Meek. She also had a Top 10 hit in 1961 with her cover version of "Sailor". In the same year she participated in BBC Television's A Song for Europe contest, the UK qualifying heat for the Eurovision Song Contest. Her entry, "I Will Light a Candle" was placed fourth. Shelton made another attempt at Eurovision in 1963 with "My Continental Love" – and came fourth again. In addition to her hits 'Lay down your arms' and 'Sailor' she also charted with other hits in the late 1950s with 'Seven Days' and the beautiful 'The village of St Bernadette'. In 1967 she covered the song, "It Won't Be Long 'Til Christmas" which was originally to be featured in the Walt Disney feature motion picture musical, The Happiest Millionaire but then was deleted from the final cut of the film. Shelton's versions of the song has since been featured on several compilation recordings.