2008: Easter Sunday 23rd March

Last week's 2 and 3 drop one place each, with Leona Lewis's Double A-side Better In Time/Footprints In The Sand (including individual downloads of Better In Time but excluding individual downloads of Footprints In The Sand, which charted further down at 26, a sales split that cost Leona number one the week before) was now at 3 and Duffy's Mercy was now at 2. There was a new entry at the topspot for Estelle ft Kanye West American Boy.

2009: Easter Sunday 12th April

Ciara ft Justin Timberlake were new at 6 with Love Sex Magic and the Noisettes were down from 2 to 5 with Don't Upset The Rhythm (Go Baby Go). La Roux was going In For The Kill, climbing from 7 to 4, whilst AR Rahman ft The Pussycat Dolls were staying put with Jai Ho (You Are My Destiny). Last week's number 1, Lady Gaga's Pokerface, dropped to 2 to make way for a new entry at the top for Calvin Harris I'm Not Alone.

2010: Easter Sunday 4th April

Tinie Tempah Pass Out drops from 2 to 5. There's a new entry at 4 for Deliriou5? with History Maker, which was a Christian rock track backed by a facebook campaign to get it number one for easter, which obviously failed. Personally I was vaguely aware of the campaign at the time and downloaded the track, but had no idea it was a Christian rock single, and so in the event I never actually played it, neither would I have downloaded it had I known, as I'm atheist, though I should add that I have a huge respect for anyone who has faith in this day and age, it's just that I don't. In any case I have listened to History Maker for the first time tonight as research for this, and it's pretty unremarkable anyway. In fact this was what made me decide to stop buying large numbers of singles, and only buy Now albums and the odd track that I really liked, as clearly I was by that point buying anything at all and needed to be more selective. Sorry the rant I've been holding in for 3 years is over and now back to the chart. New at three was Plan B with She Said, and dropping one place to 2 was Telephone by Lady Gaga. New at the topspot were Scouting For Girls with This Ain't A Love Song.

Edited April 7, 201313 yr by DanChartFan

2011: Easter Sunday 24th April

Chris Brown ft Benny Benassi climbed from 8 to 5 with Beautiful People, whilst Tracy Chapman rocketed from 58 to 4 with Fast Car. Jennifer Lopez ft Pitball were down one at three with On The Floor, and there was a new entry for Wretch 32 ft Example, Unorthodox. The previous week's number one stayed put, LMFAO, Lauren Bennett and Goonrock, Party Rock Anthem.

2012: Easter Sunday 8th April

Gotye climbed from 5 to 3 with Somebody That I Used To Know, whilst Sean Paul stayed put at 2 with She Doesn't Mind. New at number 1 was Carly Rae Jepsen's Call Me Maybe.

Ok you all know what happened last Sunday but I may as well do it for completions sake, in fact my plan originally was to finish this around 7pm last Sunday and tie it in to the announcement, but a poor internet connection last weekend whilst on hols and then some personal probs this week delayed things rather, still here we are 155.5 hours later than planned, but finally up to the present now.

2013: Easter Sunday 31st March

Bastille stayed put at 5 with Pompeii, whilst Justin Timberlake dropped from 2 to 4 with Mirrors. The Saturdays ft Sean Paul fell from the topspot to number 3 with What About Us and Pink ft Nate Reuss climbed one place to 2 with Give Me A Reason. Pink and Nate were denied a number one by something that simply couldn't have been predicted just over a week ago. Because they had several reunited bands from The Big Reunion on their Saturday Night Takeaway, Ant and Dec decided to reform PJ and Duncan and perform Let's Get Ready To Rhumble as a one off. Downloads of the track took off in the next few days resulting in media attention that inspired even more downloads which were enough in the end to declare PJ and Duncan as easter number one for 2013!

FIRESTARTER *.*

 

Thank you for doing this thread, has been a very interesting read!

Yeah, cheers for doing this! The work that's you've put into this has been deserved for all of us.

this topic is an interesting read in 1999 wasnt mr oiso the third number one to spend two weeks at the top (britney Spears,Boyzone)

Yes thanks Dan for doing this! :D

this topic is an interesting read in 1999 wasnt mr oiso the third number one to spend two weeks at the top (britney Spears,Boyzone)

 

Oops yes it was, not sure how I got that wrong, I think I must have skipped that page in my chart book by mistake. I'll edit that post now.

I recently remembered this thread, and knew it was a few years since I last updated it, but it turns out it was as much as 13 years ago! So let's bring it up to the present...

2014: Easter Sunday 20th April
Shift K3y had a new entry, and their chart debut, at #3 with Touch, whilst last week's number one, Sigma - Nobody To Love, dropped to 2, and there was a new entry at #1. and another chart debut, for Kiesza with Hideaway

Edited April 4Apr 4 by DanChartFan

2015: Easter Sunday 5th April
James Bay's Hold Back the River drops from its career peak of #2 down a place to #3, Ed Sheeran rockets up from #26 to #2 with Bloodstream, and Jess Glynne stay at the top for the second of three weeks with Jet 2 Holidays.... erm I mean Hold My Hand

Edited April 4Apr 4 by DanChartFan

2016: Easter Sunday 27th March announced 25th March
Friday chart announcements arrived in July 2015, so I return to adding the announcement date for each of these. For the purposes of this thread (and the notion of an Easter chart or Easter #1) it does at least mean the same chart is current during the entirety of each Easter now I guess. Anyway some long forgotten song called Lush Life, by someone called Zara Larsson was dropping out the Top 3 to #4, swapping place with Fifth Harmony ft Ty Dollar Sign's Work From Home. Lukas Graham's 7 years stays put at #2, and Mike Posner's I Took A Pill In Ibiza spends the second of four weeks at #1.

Edited April 4Apr 4 by DanChartFan

2017: Easter Sunday 16th April announced 14th April
Ed Sheeran drops from #2 to #3 with Galway Girl, and from #1 to #2 with Shape Of You, after 13 weeks at the top, though Shape Of You will return to #1 next week for one final week. Harry Styles enters at the top spot with Sign Of The Times.

Edited April 4Apr 4 by DanChartFan

2018: Easter Sunday 1st April announced 30th March
Portugal the Man's Feel It Still spend a third week at its peak position of #3, while George Ezra's Paradise climbs to a peak of #2. Rudimental, Glynne and Macklemore climb from 2 to #1 for their only week at the top with These Days.

What a glorious Easter top 3 in 2014

2019: Easter Sunday 21st April announced 19th April
Billie Eilish stays put at #3 with Bad Guy, and Lewis Capaldi's Someone You Loved drops to #2 after 7 weeks at number one. Lil Nas X climbs from #2 to #1 for the first of 2 weeks at the top spot. which would be followed by a further seven weeks at #2.

Edited April 4Apr 4 by DanChartFan

2020: Easter Sunday 12th April announced 10th April
Saint Jhn drops from #2 to #3 with Roses, and Drake enters at #2 with Toosie Slide. The Weeknd stays at #1 with Blnding Lights, for the 7th of 8 weeks across three separate stints at the top.

2021: Easter Sunday 4th April announced 2nd April
Justin Bieber/Casear/Giveon stay at #3 with Peaches, Nathan Evans/220Kid/Billen Ted drop to #2 with Wellerman and Lil Nas X enters at #1 with Montero (Let Me Call Your Name) for the first of five weeks at the top, and scoring a second Easter number one in the process.