This week's commentary is in the usual spot on the front page and the latest news box

'Hey Brother' is the fourth top 5 hit for Avicii this year (after 'I Could Be The One', 'Wake Me Up' and 'You Make Me').

'Hey Brother' is the fourth top 5 hit for Avicii this year (after 'I Could Be The One', 'Wake Me Up' and 'You Make Me').

Oops, so it is

I compile a List of the Acts with the most No.1 Weeks in the UK Charts.

 

It can be any combination of Singles No.1 Weeks & Albums No.1 Weeks.

 

The List shows which Acts really dominated the Charts - rather than just the

ones that get the most Media Hype.

 

My List consists of 188 Acts, & an Act needs at least 8 No.1 Weeks to make

the List. So 188 Acts have managed it.

 

Despite all the hype, One Direction have yet to make the List.

 

They have had 4 No.1 Weeks from 4 No.1 Singles, & 3 No.1 Weeks from 2 No.1 Albums.

That's adding in their 2011, (credited No.1), with the 2011 X Factor Finalists. If you

don't add that in, One Direction have spent 6 Weeks at No.1 in the UK.

 

If an Act reaches 8 No.1 Weeks they add to the 23 Acts who have exactly 8 Weeks at

No.1. The 23 Acts are 166= in my List.....

 

As a contrast, by getting back to No.1 in the UK Album Chart, Robbie Williams reaches

32 No.1 Weeks in that Chart. Added to his 11 Singles Chart No.1 Weeks, it gives him

43 No.1 Weeks. This enables him to rise above Queen, to 11th= place in the All Time

List. He is 11th= with Simon & Garfunkel, who get their 43 No.1 Weeks from 3 Weeks

in the Singles Chart, & 40 Weeks in the Albums Chart. (Queen are 13th - 42 No.1

Weeks. 21 No.1 Weeks in both the Singles & Albums Charts).

Edited December 16, 201311 yr by zeus555

LEONA LEWIS

 

Leona is now the British Female Soloist with the most Top 5 Hits.

Her 8 takes the record. Only 3 other British Female 'Solo' Singers have

even 7. Dusty Springfield, but only 4 were Solo. 2 were with The Springfields,

& 1 was with the Pet Shop Boys. Olivia Newton-John - She is not Australian,

she was born in Cambridge.. But, you have to count her 4 Top 5 Hits with

John Travolta, & 1 with ELO, to get 7 for her. So she's only really had 2 Solo

Top Hits.

 

HOWEVER - If you count Dusty's 2 Top 5 Hits with The Springfields, then you would

also have to add the Spice Girls 10 Top 5 Hits to Geri Halliwell's 6. So, I guess Dusty

is really on 5.

 

These UK Females have had 6 Top 5 Hits each - Petula Clark, Shirley Bassey,

Cilla Black, Louise, Geri Halliwell, Cheryl Cole, & Ellie Goulding. Billie Piper has

had 7 Top 5 Hits, but one was a multi Artist collaboration, so she's had 6 Solo.

 

Although Jessie J & Emeli Sande have each had 6 Top 5 Hits, 3 of Jessie's were

collaborations, & 2 of Emeli's were.

 

VERA LYNN - Of course, if we take the Singles Chart from November 1952 to

January 1940, then Vera Lynn has far more Top 5 Hits than any other UK Female

Soloist - but, The OCC still starts the Singles Chart in November 1952.

Vera Lynn has only had 1 Top 5 Hit since 1952 - a 1954 No.1. But, if we go back

to 1940, she's had by far the most Top 5 Hits by a British woman - 27. Seven of

them were No.1 Hits. Anne Shelton's had 1 Top 5 Hit since November 1952 - a 1956

No.1. But, she had 7 Top 5 Hits before then, so she's had 8.

 

 

 

Edited December 16, 201311 yr by zeus555

You seem to have omitted Billie Piper with 7 Top 5 hits, and Emeli Sande & Cheryl Cole with 6 each.

 

 

Those on 5 - Sandie Shaw, Ruby Murray, Mel C, Lily Allen, Kim Wilde, Gabrielle, Emma Bunton, Dusty Springfield, Alexandra Burke, Adele

Thanks for the info Colin.

 

Billie Piper has "only" had six solo top five hits (although that's still six too many). The seventh (Thank Abba For The Music) was not a solo hit.

I guess so, but she was named in the act, so I include it as one of her hits.

Fchd - thanks for your observations.

 

Suedehead2 - I found this British Females in the Top 5 'Trivia' to be a nightmare.

I first started work on it at 1pm today, & I made mistake after mistake, & omission

after omission. I don't know why it was so hard for me to do.

 

I've re-written parts of my initial Post on the matter.

 

 

Edited December 16, 201311 yr by zeus555

The fact that some of these hits are collaborations is surely irrelevant - the record is for hits by a solo artist, not 'solo hits'.

 

Leona only has 7 top 5 hits if you want to exclude collaborations (though going against my point here that's still the record as Billie and Olivia would also 'lose' hits).

As with all Chart Records, it is a matter of what to count & not count, that decides the

Facts & Feats. The OCC do not count re-issued Hits, as extra Top 5, or Top 10 Hits.

Some people count Remixes as a new Hit. Others see them as a slightly different

version of an old Hit, & do not count it as a new one.

 

As a result of people looking at things in different ways, I keep 2 'Sets' of many of my

Lists. One 'Set' adds Cliff Richard & The Shadows Hits to those of The Shadows. So they

do very well in those Lists. The 2nd Set has only Cliff getting credited with Cliff & The

Shadows Singles & Albums. The Shadows get only Hits by The Shadows. They do not

do anywhere near as well in those 2nd Lists.

 

There is always opposing views on these matters.

 

But, it matters not - we are all free to decide what we think is 'right', & make our

own statistics, if we like.

As with all Chart Records, it is a matter of what to count & not count, that decides the

Facts & Feats. The OCC do not count re-issued Hits, as extra Top 5, or Top 10 Hits.

Some people count Remixes as a new Hit. Others see them as a slightly different

version of an old Hit, & do not count it as a new one.

 

As a result of people looking at things in different ways, I keep 2 'Sets' of many of my

Lists. One 'Set' adds Cliff Richard & The Shadows Hits to those of The Shadows. So they

do very well in those Lists. The 2nd Set has only Cliff getting credited with Cliff & The

Shadows Singles & Albums. The Shadows get only Hits by The Shadows. They do not

do anywhere near as well in those 2nd Lists.

 

There is always opposing views on these matters.

 

But, it matters not - we are all free to decide what we think is 'right', & make our

own statistics, if we like.

That's part of the joy of the whole exercise :lol: It gets us back to the old question of whether Rihanna's contribution to Love The Way You Lie and Christina Aguilera's contribution to Moves Like Jagger should be considered equal. Then there's the added complication that, for example, Yesterday was a Paul McCartney solo in all but name but doesn't count towards his top ten hits as a solo artist.

There is always opposing views on these matters.

 

But, it matters not - we are all free to decide what we think is 'right', & make our own statistics, if we like.

 

 

Agreed. Whichever way you cut it, a total of 8 top 5 leaves the leading British solo female a long way down the list of non-Brits (by my reckoning I've got 16 females above Leona Lewis, headed by Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Rihanna, Britney Spears & Mariah Carey)