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Thought this would interest you, I'm sure you already know some of these facts but it's nice to have a little end-of-year review.

 

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33 facts about the Official Charts in 2013

31/12/2013

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By Justin Myers and Daniel Lane

 

We love a good chart fact – it’s what we do. What better way to round off 2013 than list a whole lot of them? 33 – well, 33 and a third – of them to be exact!

 

Want to be top of the class at your local pop quiz? As we wait to find out the biggest sellers of 2013, we take a look at some of the facts and figures you might not know about this year’s Official Charts. Prepare yourself for some extreme chart-geekery.

 

1. There were 31 Number 1s on the Official Singles Chart in 2013. James Arthur’s Impossible was the first, while Pharrell’s Happy is the last.

 

2. There were 35 Number 1 albums this year. Calvin Harris’ 18 Months kicked things off, and Robbie Williams’ Swings Both Ways saw the year out at the top of the Official Albums Chart.

 

3. The single which spent the most weeks at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart was Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke. It spent five non-consecutive weeks at the top spot

 

4. The longest consecutive run for a Number 1 single this year was four weeks, and is shared by two tracks: Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines and Daft Punk’s Get Lucky. And man of the year Pharrell appeared on both!

 

5. The album spending most weeks at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart during 2013 is shared between three records: the cast recording of Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables, Britain’s Got Talent duo Richard And Adam’s The Impossible Dream, and Robbie Williams' Swings Both Ways. They all spent four weeks at the top spot.

 

6. The album with the most consecutive weeks at Number 1 in 2013 was Richard And Adam’s The Impossible Dream.

 

7. Avicii’s Wake Me Up was the fastest selling single of 2013, selling 267,000 copies in its first week on sale.

 

8. Fastest selling artist album in 2013 was One Direction’s Midnight Memories. It sold 237,000 copies in its first week on sale.

 

9. 12 songs have topped the Official Streaming Chart during 2013.

 

10. Daft Punk’s Get Lucky topped it for the longest, spending 7 weeks at the top.

 

11. Britney had her sixth Number 1 in January 2013, featuring on will.i.am’s Scream & Shout. It was her first chart-topper for almost nine years.

 

12. Three records returned to the top of the Official Singles Chart: Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines, OneRepublic’s Counting Stars and Lily Allen’s Somewhere Only We Know have all made the only comeback that counts.

 

13. 16-year-old New Zealand singer/songwriter Lorde was the youngest star to top the Official Singles Chart in 2013. She reached Number 1 in October with Royals.

 

14. 17-year-old Dutch DJ and producer Martin Garrix was the second youngest star to top the Official Singles Chart this year. He reached Number 1 in November with Animals.

 

15. 15 Number 1 singles have not been credited as a feature or a collaboration. (This includes Storm Queen’s Look Right Through because it was the Marc Kinchen remix which finally got it to the Number 1 spot.)

 

16. 18 acts enjoyed their very first Number 1 single.

 

17. Three Number 1s had three artists credited: Macklemore/Ryan Lewis/Wanz with Thrift Shop, Robin Thicke/TI/Pharrell with Blurred Lines and Calvin Harris/Alesso/Hurts with Under Control.

 

18. In July we revealed that Beyoncé’s best selling UK single was If I Were A Boy. See the full countdown, including her Destiny’s Child hits.

 

19. Two albums released this year have returned to the Number 1 spot: the Les Misérables cast recording and Robbie Williams’ Swings Both Ways.

 

20. Three albums released in 2012 have also returned to the top of the Official Albums Chart this year: Calvin Harris’ 18 Months, Emeli Sandé’s Our Version Of Events, and Mumford & Sons’ Babel.

 

21. Six of the Official Albums Chart Number 1s have been by female acts.

 

22. There have been four singles released in 2013 which became million sellers.

 

23. One of them was Passenger’s Let Her Go, which is the biggest selling single of the year not to reach Number 1.

 

24. A further 12 tracks – including Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You, Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance, Psy’s Gangnam Style and Ed Sheeran’s The A Team to name but a few – have also crossed over the million copies threshold.

 

25. Some 35 years after they first made their debut on the Official Singles Chart, AC/DC finally scored their first Top 10 hit. The band’s classic 1979 single Highway To Hell peaked at Number 4 during Christmas week thanks to a social media campaign by the band’s fans to celebrate their 40th anniversary. For those who rocked, we salute you!

 

26. Miley Cyrus was the only act to achieve an Official Charts ‘double' this year. She was Number 1 on both the Official Albums Chart (with Bangerz) and Official Singles Chart (coming in like a Wrecking Ball) in the same week.

 

27. On Wednesdays BBC Radio 1 reveals the Official Chart Update, which shows how the week’s singles and albums are selling and gives an indication of who might be Number 1 that Sunday. Only five songs predicted to be Number 1 in the Update hadn’t made it when the final whistle went.

 

Those songs (and the songs that beat them to Number 1) were:

– My Life by 50 Cent/Eminem/Adam Levine (will.i.am & Britney’s Scream & Shout)

– Boomerang by Nicole Scherzinger (Justin Timberlake – Mirrors)

– Can We Dance by The Vamps (OneRepublic – Counting Stars)

– Story Of My Life by One Direction (Eminem FT Rihanna – The Monster)

– Of The Night by Bastille (Lily Allen’s Somewhere Only We Know)

 

28. Sam Bailey became the first X Factor winner to score a Christmas Number 1 for three years. She topped the festive chart with her cover of Demi Lovato’s Skyscraper.

 

29. The closest Number 1 single race of 2013 was between Lily Allen’s Somewhere Only We Know and Bastille's Of The Night. Lily clinched victory with a very tight margin of just 660 copies.

 

30. The closest Number 1 albums battle was between Robbie Williams’ Swings Both Ways and One Direction’s Midnight Memories. Robbie Williams beat 1D to the Official Christmas Number 1 album by fewer than 200 copies.

 

31. One Direction’s This Is Us became the first music DVD/Blu-ray to top the Official Video Chart since Michael Jackson’s This Is It in 2010. 1D also overtook MJ’s chart record for the fastest selling music DVD/Blu-ray in British history.

 

32. Leona Lewis set a new Official Singles Chart record with her Christmas hit One More Sleep. She became the first British female solo artist ever to score eight Top 5 singles.

 

33. Scottish DJ and producer Calvin Harris hit the Top 10 with I Need You Love FT Ellie Goulding and became the first artist to score eight Top 10 hits from one album (18 Months) beating Michael Jackson’s record of seven (which the King Of Pop actually managed twice – with 1987’s Bad and 1991’s Dangerous).

 

And finally, room for a little one…

 

331/3 In July Calvin actually went one better and took that tally to NINE Top 10 hits from one album with Thinking About You FT Ayah Marar.

I would say 29 #1s in the singles chart, James Arthur's single was released in 2012, so it doesn't really count, he just returned back at #1.

Just because Pharrell's sales fell into 2013 and the chart was announced on the 29 Dec 2013, the week ending date is the 4 Jan 2014, so I really count Pharrell as the first #1 of 2014. Its always been that way if you look on the OCC site.

 

for example http://www.officialcharts.com/all-the-numb...es-list/_/2010/ week ending date of 2 Jan 2010

Only 5 songs didn't make #1 after being #1 in the midweeks. That just shows how utterly ridiculous it is that Radio 1 broadcast the midweeks and present the top 3 at the start of the Sunday chart. If there's a 90% chance it will be the same #1 at the end of the show what is the point of listening?

Some good facts there cheers!

The real fact. Independant Radio' Big Top 40 (although shite) managed to grab nearly 3 million listeners in the final 6 months of 2013. Though Radio One still manage to flop badly. If they were a department store, they'd be closed down. Oops.

The real fact. Independant Radio' Big Top 40 (although shite) managed to grab nearly 3 million listeners in the final 6 months of 2013. Though Radio One still manage to flop badly. If they were a department store, they'd be closed down. Oops.

 

 

Yep this has been going on for the best part of the last 20 years. Only once Radio 1 was in front in the mid Noughties.

 

Even Mark Goodier regrets being beaten by Dr Fox when they went head to head mid 90's to early 00's.

 

Gone are the days of 7 to 8 million listeners in the 70's & 80's.

But don't they count all the capital stations as their audience whereas radio 1 just has radio 1?

They're both nationwide though so it shouldn't make a difference.

It's a shame that it is looking like a flop, I like the way Jameela presents the show, I like the cheeky way she gets away with speaking what ever she likes, and making the show a less regimented show, I buck the trend, as soon as Bruno was Booted of the show, I switched over to Dr Fox and it has been that way until 20th January 2013, when I was tempted back to The Radio 1 Chart Show.

 

I remember in 1995, Dr Fox saying his usual rhyme at the start of the show (the start of the rhyme that I cannot remember) then "Bruno's But Kicking Foxy" as a special deviation from the usual Rhyme in April 1995.

I like radio 1 in general I think public broadcast radio is far better than commercial radio!

I thought James Arthur was number one during Christmas last year?

No he was no1 the week before & after Xmas - the Xmas no1 was The justice Collective!

I'm no really sure, but, wasn't Babel vs To be loved the closest Number 1 battle :???:

No he was no1 the week before & after Xmas - the Xmas no1 was The justice Collective!

 

Sorry...you were correct..I've just checked back. I forgot they managed to get there for a week.

I'm no really sure, but, wasn't Babel vs To be loved the closest Number 1 battle :???:

 

Not quite - there were 215 between Mumford & Sons and Bublé, but only 184 between Robbie and 1D.

But don't they count all the capital stations as their audience whereas radio 1 just has radio 1?

There's a technical answer to this one. Yes Capital & Heart have multipler stations around the Country on various frequencies, but Radio One operates from various transmitters & various frequencies around the Country too.

 

Radio One pitted against a certain member of JLS in Top 40 Vs Big Top 40 from Sunday 5th January. Last June, Big Top 40 decided to junk the airplay factor for the complete iTunes chart of the week, but kept the 6pm change around. This might of given them a slightly bigger audience....but in the closing weeks of 2013, they brought back a percentage of airplay figures with the iTunes sales figures. The airplay (now) is only used in conjunction with the sales of songs making the iTunes Top 40 of the week. The other funny ruling of Big Top 40 is the relegation of artist album tracks making the top 40. The album versions of songs are thrown out, if they are featured on an Artists album, but songs charting on compilations (like Now 86) are included with the main single version. So it gets confusing. Though (probably) Big Top 40's regular audience are rather too thick to notice.

 

During the Christmas chart (in the top 10 of the week) they had Sam Bailey at #1. But the 6pm change around relegated her to #2 & Pharrell was crowned Big Top 40 #1! (It was also crowned Christmas #1, without a change around on some other daft chart called "The Direct UK Chart") but that is down to the complilers basing it on iTunes on a Sunday, which could never work on a chart countdown. It has to be based on more than iTunes, especially when there are big physical copies available. Not often, but it happens.

 

The Big Top 40 of the year (of 2013) varied to the Official chart of the year (mainly in the 21 to 40 positions). This was because of those ignoring of Artist album tracks. But (we could say) at least Independant Radio did countdown the Top 40 of the year, where as the BBC did not...They preferred to play out a chart of re-entries, instead of bothering with tradition of playing out any chart of the year, at all.

 

Some say "why don't they put the top 40 on Radio 2?" The answer is they'd never do that, because Radio 2 is not a teenage based radio station. What Radio 2 is aimed out is quite hard to understand. They like lots of rabbit in their programmes. Traffic news all the time, News every single hour. They like employing celebrities....Dodgy on it's own & various people, who talk complete rubbish. Talking Blackburn (of course). Apparenty (says Tony) "Lovin' Spoonful never had a hit in the UK". When (of course) they did. He also failed to recollect that there was no group called "Manic Street Porters" (it was Preachers of course!) And there wasn't a #1 in 1980 called "Coward Of The COUNTRY" (it was COUNTY of course). Taking into account that Blackburn's shows are produced by this "Unique Broadcasting" (a Independant Production company) that used to produce Neil Fox's "Pepsi Chart" & (in all honesty) are all ex-Capital Radio producers anyway. So, we have to question why Radio 2 is letting themselves be run by old celebrities & old Capital Radio producers.....And then we must also ask is Radio 1 losing listeners, because it is broadcasting to such a small age group? (i.e. 12 to 25 year olds)

 

They're both nationwide though so it shouldn't make a difference.

 

It's not really the same. I haven't checked in a while, but there used to be about 6 stations where I live that broadcast the Big Top 40 Show vs. 1 station playing the official chart show.

 

Also, this is the very important point that everybody keeps missing with this discussion: Hardly anybody actually intentionally listens to the chart show. People aren't deciding what station to listen to based on which has the better chart. People just turn on their normal radio station as they always do when they're driving to the shop or their friends house. Nobody except the few thousand chart geeks in the country sits down and weighs out the pros and cons of each chart show and decides to spend 3 hours each week listening to the best one. People just listen to the station they normally listen to for the rest of the week. Or at least just flick through stations to see which one is playing a song they like.

And I'm sure if they could somehow get the info of how many people specifically listen to one over the other Radio 1 would be winning by miles.

The real fact. Independant Radio' Big Top 40 (although shite) managed to grab nearly 3 million listeners in the final 6 months of 2013. Though Radio One still manage to flop badly. If they were a department store, they'd be closed down. Oops.

 

Yes, but what has this got to do with the official chart? Stop trying to stir up trouble.

Edited January 2, 201411 yr by Doctor Blind

It's a shame that it is looking like a flop, I like the way Jameela presents the show, I like the cheeky way she gets away with speaking what ever she likes, and making the show a less regimented show,

 

I guess you never listened to the chart show when Reggie was presenting it then, totally unregimented and at times he seemingly forgot it was meant to be a chart show at all. In comparison Jameela has, in my opinion, actually brought back some regimentation and some semblance of an actual chart show. In the Reggie days we'd be given 'facts' that were regularly wrong, and he'd spend a lot of time reading texts like "I'm doing the washing up" and "I'm just eating sprouts" that had no place in a chart show, whereas Jameela just plays the records and concentrates on the chart itself for the most part.