Got a lot of songs that returned to #1 once but some did it TWICE *.*

 

Sugababes - Hole In The Head (1-1-1-x-x-x-x-1-x-x-1)

Dido - White Flag (1-x-x-x-x-1-x-x-x-1)

Shakira - La Tortura (1-1-1-x-x-x-1-1-x-1)

 

(incidentally those are my faves from each artist respectively :o )

 

The longest pauses between #1's were 16 weeks last year for Jon Nørgaard - Bomber & Bomber and 18 weeks for iamamiwhoami - play in 2012 :o

 

Rihanna - SOS (1-x-1-x-x-x-1-x-x-x-1)

Rihanna - Umbrella (1-x-1-1-x-x-1-1-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-1-x-1)

Timbaland & Keri Hilson - Way I Are (1-1-x-x-x-x-x-x-1-1-x-x-x-x-1)

Britney Spears - Gimme More (1-1-x-x-1-1-x-1-x-1-1)

Madonna feat. Justin Timberlake - 4 Minutes (1-1-1-x-1-x-x-x-x-1)

Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl (1-x-x-1-1-1-x-x-x-1-1-x-1)

Britney Spears - Womanizer (1-1-x-x-1-x-1-x-x-x-x-1)

Lady Gaga - Bad Romance (1-1-x-1-1-1-x-1-1-1-x-1-x-x-1)

Lady Gaga feat. Beyoncé - Telephone (1-x-x-x-1-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-1-1-1-1)

Little Mix - Wings (1-x-x-1-1-x-x-1)

will.i.am feat. Britney Spears - Scream & Shout (1-x-1-x-1)

The Saturdays - What About Us [01-xx-01-01]

The Saturdays - Disco Love [xx-xx-xx-xx-01-01-xx-xx-01-01]

Katy Perry - Roar [01-01-01-01-xx-01]

Clean Bandit - Mozart's House [xx-01-01-01-01-xx-xx-xx-01]

Girls Aloud - Something New - 1-1-2-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-1-2-3-4-3-3-3-3-5-6-8-7-5-7-8-8-9-9-13-12-12-16-14-20-23-30-37-X (37 weeks)

Lucie Silvas - Hide & Seek - 1-1-2-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-4-4-4-5-6-8-11-12-16-18-18-23-28-X-30-28-36-37-X (33 non-consecutive weeks)

 

So quite a rare occasion in my chart but it happens more in the album chart:

 

Carrie Underwood - Blown Away - 1-2-1-1-3-3-4-5-2-4-5-7-10-12-9-11-8-8-11-13-15-15-13-12-15-15-10-13-X-15-9-10-13-X (32 weeks)

Delta Goodrem - Child Of The Universe - 2-1-1-2-2-2-3-2-3-2-2-1-2-3-4-4-5-5-4-6-7-10-12-14-13-13-8-4-7-9-8-10-12-13-X (34 weeks)

Gabrielle Aplin - English Rain - 3-1-1-2-4-2-4-5-3-5-6-7-8-9-10-10-14-13-13-15-13-15-12-7-11-14-13-1-3-7-11-13-X (32 weeks)

Justin Bieber - Believe - 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-3-3-3-4-4-5-4-5-7-4-4-7-8-9-10-7-4-4-5-6-8-6-8-10-10-7-1-2-4-4-7-9-7-9-10-12-13-14-15-X (49 weeks)

One Direction - Midnight Memories - 1-1-2-1-1-3-2-2- (8 weeks so far)

The Saturdays - Living For The Weekend - 1-1-2-1-2-4-6-8-7-4-6-9-11-12- (14 weeks so far)

Tom Odell - Long Way Down - 1-1-2-3-2-3-5-4-3-2-4-4-4-5-2-1-4-2-4-4-4-5-5-5-3-2-2-5-5-4- (30 weeks so far)

Edited January 17, 201411 yr by JosephFox

Avicii 'Hey Brother' (1-1-1-1-x-1-1-1)

Avicii 'I Could Be The One' (1-1-x-x-1-1-1)

Avicii 'Levels' (1-1-1-1-1-x-x-x-1)

Avicii 'Wake Me Up' (1-x-1-1-1-1-1-1-x-x-x-x-1)

Daft Punk 'Get Lucky' (1-1-1-x-x-1-1-1-x-1)

Flo Rida 'Whistle' (1-x-1)

LMFAO 'Party Rock Anthem' (1-1-1-x-1-1-1-1-1)

Martin Garrix 'Animals' (1-x-x-x-x-x-1)

Nelly Furtado 'Big Hoops (Bigger The Better)' (1-x-x-1)

Pitbull 'Give Me Everything' (1-1-x-1-1)

Porter Robinson 'Language' (1-1-1-x-1-1-1)

Rihanna 'S&M' (1-1-x-1-1-1-1-1)

Sak Noel 'Loca People' (1-x-*-x-x-x-x-x-x-1-1-1-1)

Swedish House Mafia 'Greyhound' (1-x-1-1-1-1-x-x-1)

The Black Eyed Peas 'The Time (Dirty Bit)' (1-x-1-x-x-x-1)

Usher 'OMG' (1-x-1)

Yolanda Be Cool 'We No Speak Americano' (1-x-1)

 

*no chart happened that week

 

Avicii seems to love returning to #1 on my chart.

Coldplay - Paradise (1-x-1-1-1-x-1-x-x-1)

Jay-Z and Kanye West - Niggas In Paris (1-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-1)

James Blake - Retrograde (1-1-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-1)

Lorde - Royals (1-1-1-x-x-x-1-x-1-1-1-1-1-1-x-1)

 

Not as many as I thought actually (but two that returned to the top three separate times *.*)

Within Temptation – Shot In The Dark [1-1-x-1-1-x]

Jennifer Lopez Feat. Pitbull – On The Floor [1-1-1-1-1-1-x-1-x]

Jennifer Lopez – Papi [1-1-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-1-x]

Matt Cardle – Amazing [x-x-x-1-x-x-1-x]

Matt Cardle – Run For Your Life [1-1-1-1-1-1-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-1-x]

Matt Cardle – Starlight [x-x-x-1-1-1-1-x-x-x-1-x-1-x]

Faith Hill – American Heart [1-1-1-x-x-1]

Kylie Minogue – Flower [1-1-x-x-x-1-x]

Alanis Morissette - Guardian [1-1-x-x-x-x-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-x]

Matt Cardle & Melanie C - Loving You [x-x-1-1-1-1-x-1-x]

Within Temptation feat. Howard Jones – Dangerous [1-1-1-x-1-]

 

G'won Matt *.*

Just 3 times I think:

 

2000 Filter "Take A Picture" (..-01-02-01-..)

2001 Roger Sanchez "Another Chance" (..-01-02-04-02-01-..)

2011 WU LYF "We Bros" (..-01-02-01-..)

2005

Ashanti - Only U [1-x-x-1-x-1] Returned to #1 twice

Ciara feat. Petey Pablo - Goodies [1-1-x-1]

Girls Aloud - Wake Me Up [1-1-x-1]

Mariah Carey - We Belong Together [1-x-x-x-x-x-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1]

Sugababes - Push The Button [1-1-1-x-1-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-1-1] Returned to #1 twice | Longest gap between stints at #1 - 11 weeks

Girls Aloud - Biology [1-x-1-1-1-1]

Girls Aloud - See The Day [1-x-1]

 

2006

Nelly Furtado - Maneater [1-1-x-x-1]

Girls Aloud - Something Kinda Ooooh [1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-x-x-x-1-1]

 

2007

Rihanna feat. Jay-Z - Umbrella [1-x-x-x-x-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1]

Amerie - Take Control [1-x-1-1]

Girls Aloud - Sexy! No No No... [1-1-1-x-1-1-1-1]

Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love [1-x-1-x-x-1-x-1-1-x-x-x-x-1-1-1] Returned to #1 four times

Girls Aloud - Call The Shots [1-1-x-x-x-x-1-1-1-1]

 

2008

The Saturdays - If This Is Love [1-x-x-1-x-1-1] Returned to #1 twice

Rihanna - Disturbia [1-x-x-1]

Britney Spears - Womanizer [1-x-1-1]

 

2009

Lady Gaga feat. Colby O'Donis - Just Dance [1-1-x-1]

The Saturdays - Work [1-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-1-1]

Sugababes - Get Sexy [1-x-x-1-1]

Alexandra Burke feat. Flo Rida - Bad Boys [1-1-x-x-x-x-1]

Cheryl Cole - Fight For This Love [1-1-1-1-x-1-1]

The Saturdays - Ego [1-x-x-x-x-x-x-1]

 

2010

Glee Cast - Don't Stop Believin' [1-1-x-1]

Rihanna - Rude Boy [1-1-1-1-x-x-x-x-1]

Cheryl Cole - Promise This [1-1-1-x-x-x-1]

Rihanna - Only Girl (In The World) [1-1-x-1-1-1]

Rihanna feat. Drake - What's My Name? [1-x-x-1-1-1-1]

 

2011

Britney Spears - Till The World Ends [1-1-x-x-x-x-x-1]

Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull - On The Floor [1-1-x-x-1]

The Saturdays - All Fired Up [1-x-1-x-1-1-1-1] Returned to #1 twice

Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris - We Found Love [1-1-1-x-1-1-1-1-1-1]

 

2012

Nicki Minaj - Starships [1-1-1-x-x-x-1-1]

Cheryl - Call My Name [1-1-x-x-x-x-x-1-1-1]

Rihanna - Where Have You Been [1-1-1-x-x-x-x-x-1]

Little Mix - Wings [1-x-x-x-x-x-x-1]

 

2013

Justin Timberlake - Mirrors [1-1-x-1]

Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball [1-x-x-x-1]

Britney Spears - Work Bitch [1-x-1]

Just 3 times I think:

 

2000 Filter "Take A Picture" (..-01-02-01-..)

2001 Roger Sanchez "Another Chance" (..-01-02-04-02-01-..)

2011 WU LYF "We Bros" (..-01-02-01-..)

Palindrome overload!

 

Air France - It Feels Good To Be Around You [1-2-2-1-1-1-2-2-5-3-2-5-7-4-1-1-1-1-1-1-3-6-10-15-20-22-22-22-27-29-x-x-40-x(9)-37-27-25-30-20-21-19-18-23-23-23-19-19-21-23-24-27-27-31-33-40]

Chordashian - Cold Nights [17-14-15-10-9-5-1-1-1-1-3-6-4-1-2-1-2-4-10-17-19-24-23-22-25-34]

Postiljonen - Supreme [11-7-6-6-4-5-4-2-2-1-3-3-2-1-2-2-3-2-4-6-8-10-15-26-36-37-x(8)-39-34-36-34-33-36]

 

My first one to do it was Miley Cyrus

 

Miley Cyrus - We Can't stop (1-1-3-1-2-6-11-9-19-38-39)

 

More recently I had Jason Derulo

 

Jason Derulo - Trumpets (4-1-3-1-6-12-9-7-16-26-27-32-32-33-31-30-33-37)

 

Even more recently Cher has achieved the feat with I Walk Alone. This song deserves to smash internationally, it is amazing!

 

Cher - I Walk Alone (28-13-6-6-1-3-1-1-3-6-7-8-7-7)

Britney Spears - Baby One More Time (3 times!)

The Offspring - Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)

Britney Spears - Sometimes

Smash Mouth - All Star

Christina Aguilera - Genie In A Bottle (3 times!)

Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5

Britney Spears - (You Drive Me) Crazy

Backstreet Boys - Larger Than Life

Eiffel 65 - Blue

Britney Spears - Oops... I Did It Again

'N Sync - It's Gonna Be Me

Britney Spears - Lucky

Janet Jackson - Someone To Call My Lover

Alicia Keys - Fallin'

Backstreet Boys - Drowning

Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head

Avril Lavigne - Complicated

Eminem - Lose Yourself

Michelle Branch - Breathe

Hoobastank - The Reason

Britney Spears - Everytime

The Wreckers - Leave The Pieces

Christina Aguilera - Hurt

Gwen Stefani - The Sweet Escape

Kate Voegele - Only Fooling Myself

Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You

Kelly Clarkson - Dark Side

Austin Mahone - What About Love

Let it go- Idina Menzel returned on 30th March and 25th May this year

2014

Idina Menzel - Let It Go 1-X-1

Ariana Grande ft. Iggy Azalea - Problem 1-X-X-1-1

Palindrome overload!

 

There is also some kind of binary number progression in there with the years too - > 2000 2001 2011, just missing 2010. <3

The Saturdays - All Fired Up (1-1-x-x-1-x-1-)

David Guetta feat. Sia - Titanium (1-1-x-x-1-1-1-)

Nicki Minaj - Starships (1-1-x-1-1-1-)

Loreen - Euphoria (1-1-x-x-x-x-1-)

Rihanna - Diamonds (1-x-x-x-x-1-1-)

Rihanna - Stay (1-1-x-x-x-1-)

The Saturdays - What About Us (1-1-1-x-1-)

Naughty Boy - La La La (1-1-x-x-1-1-1-1-x-1-)

Iggy Azalea - Change Your Life (1-1-x-x-1-1-)

Beyonce - Drunk In Love (1-1-x-x-x-x-x-1-)

 

Just because this is probably the best album run ever I'll just include this album (since most albums tend to return to #1 on mine so it would be a long list)...

 

Adele - 21 (1-1-1-1-1-x-x-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-x-x-x-x-x-x-1-1-1-1-1-1-x-x-x-1-1-1-1-1-1-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-1-x-x-x-x-1-x-x-1-x-1-1-x-x-x-x-1-1-1-1-1-)

Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk {3-1-2-1-3-3-5-4-6-7-11-15-20-22-24-28-35-26-18-15-21-34-39-41-47-46-44-49-61-67-84-97}

Blonde feat. Melissa Steel - I Loved You {1-1-2-3-3-1-1-3-3-4-5-6-7-6-5-5-6-6-7-6-7-9-8-12-15-17-22-22-21-21-22-24-25-27-30-27-23-19...}

Years & Years - King {15-11-6-3-1-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-3-1-2-5-6-5-7-10-9-9-6-7-7-4-8-11-12-12-13...}

Florence + The Machine - What Kind Of Man {1-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-2-1-2-3-3-6-8-4-1-3-1-5-10-13-15-16-17-20...} Returned to number one three times

Years & Years - Shine {1-2-2-6-7-5-5-4-1-2-3-2-2-1-3...} Returned to number one twice

Sigma feat. Ella Henderson - Glitterball {1-1-2-2-3-3-3-2-1-1-2-4...}

Edited August 22, 20159 yr by Taylor Jago

there have been 6 returns to #1 since my last update, which are indicated by •

 

•Alex Adair 'Make Me Feel Better' (1-1-1-x-1-1)

Avicii 'Hey Brother' (1-1-1-1-x-1-1-1)

Avicii 'I Could Be The One' (1-1-x²-1-1-1)

Avicii 'Levels' (1-1-1-1-1-x³-1)

•Avicii 'The Days' (1-1-x²-1)

Avicii 'Wake Me Up' (1-x-1-1-1-1-1-1-x⁴-1)

Daft Punk 'Get Lucky' (1-1-1-x²-1-1-1-x-1)

•Ferreck Dawn & Redondo 'Love Too Deep' (1-1-x-1-1-1)

Flo Rida 'Whistle' (1-x-1)

•Lilly Wood & The Prick 'Prayer In C (Robin Schulz Remix)' (1-1-x⁶-1-1)

LMFAO 'Party Rock Anthem' (1-1-1-x-1-1-1-1-1)

Martin Garrix 'Animals' (1-x⁵-1)

Nelly Furtado 'Big Hoops (Bigger The Better)' (1-x²-1)

Pitbull 'Give Me Everything' (1-1-x-1-1)

Porter Robinson 'Language' (1-1-1-x-1-1-1)

Rihanna 'S&M' (1-1-x-1-1-1-1-1)

Sak Noel 'Loca People' (1-x⁸-1-1-1-1)

•Sandy Rivera 'BANG!' (1-1-x-1-1-1-1-1)

•Shadow Child & Doorly 'Climbin' (Piano Weapon)' (1-1-x-1-1)

Swedish House Mafia 'Greyhound' (1-x-1-1-1-1-x²-1)

The Black Eyed Peas 'The Time (Dirty Bit)' (1-x-1-x³-1)

Usher 'OMG' (1-x-1)

Yolanda Be Cool 'We No Speak Americano' (1-x-1)

Buzzjack era only:

 

2010

†The Black Eyed Peas ~ The Time (The Dirty Bit) 1-4-1-2-3-4-1-6-11-6-6-6-8-16-14-19-25-37-40-39-42-48-x

 

2011

Rihanna ~ S&M 8-8-11-14-2-1-1-2-1-1-1-1-1-3-4-4-6-9-10-9-13-19-14-12-18-18-19-23-34-30-30-33-36-45-46-42-45-49-x

LMFAO ~ Party Rock Anthem (feat. Lauren Bennet & GoonRock) 30-1-1-1-2-1-1-1-1-1-2-3-3-4-4-11-14-10-10-10-7-11-13-7-14-19-33-35-39-42-38-36-33-46-41-47-44-50-x-42-47-44-44-x-41-44-47-x

Pitbull ~ Give Me Everything (feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer) 30-40-34-36-40-22-4-1-1-2-1-1-7-12-20-20-20-16-27-19-17-28-25-30-36-42-47-41-39-50-x

Sak Noel ~ Loca People 1-5-5-7-10-32-7-3-3-1-1-1-1-2-6-6-9-17-13-17-16-25-27-34-36-36-46-48-42-x

 

2012

†Avicii ~ Levels 12-1-1-1-1-1-2-3-3-1-4-7-18-27-33-36-43-39-47-49-49-46-46-38-27-39-39-48-x-41-x-...

†Swedish House Mafia ~ Greyhound 1-2-1-1-1-1-3-3-1-2-9-29-44-48-35-26-20-35-29-34-37-46-x-33-22-46-41-49-x

Nelly Furtado ~ Big Hoops (Bigger The Better) 4-4-4-3-1-4-21-1-5-6-14-12-30-21-40-39-47-x

Flo Rida ~ Whistle 47-24-24-2-2-1-2-1-2-3-10-11-19-22-50-44-39-33-42-45-43-49-x

Porter Robinson ~ Language 21-7-5-11-3-1-1-1-2-1-1-1-8-14-26-x-36-x-32-41-46-48-42-44-31-34-x-34-35-x

 

2013

Avicii vs. Nicky Romero ~ I Could Be The One (feat. Noonie Bao) 3-2-2-3-1-1-2-2-1-1-1-6-18-42-x-29-33-x-46-x-6-19-22-22-26-34-38-x

†Daft Punk ~ Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) 1-1-1-3-2-1-1-1-2-1-3-6-4-18-6-9-15-12-15-29-26-45-x

†Avicii ~ Wake Me Up (feat. Aloe Blacc) 1-4-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-2-4-2-1-3-4-10-7-16-15-21-28-34-22-18-18-43-45-6-17-24-42-43-49-45-38-26-46-x-3-17-19-21-28-43-45-x

Martin Garrix ~ Animals 33-32-30-11-3-3-13-10-21-18-46-x-30-1-3-3-5-6-3-1-2-3-13-19-11-13-11-16-13-19-21-34-43-39-47-49-x

Avicii ~ Hey Brother (feat. Dan Tyminski) 12-28-x-1-1-1-1-2-1-1-1-3-2-6-9-10-3-14-21-36-30-35-45-x-7-37-46-48-x

 

2014

Ferreck Dawn & Redondo ~ Love Too Deep 28-30-28-1-1-2-1-1-1-2-6-11-16-15-13-19-19-22-20-35-41-17-33-47-47-x-16-46-x

Lilly Wood & The Prick ~ Prayer In C (Robin Schulz Remix) 43-8-5-1-1-4-3-3-2-3-3-1-1-2-3-4-10-18-28-33-46-43-50-x-41-x

Avicii ~ The Days (feat. Robbie Williams) 1-1-2-2-1-2-2-4-4-5-8-13-26-24-45-x-26-x

Shadow Child & Doorly ~ Climbin (Piano Weapon) 2-1-1-2-1-1-2-2-3-3-4-7-7-14-19-47-x-34-x

 

2015

Sandy Rivera ~ BANG! (feat. April) 10-1-1-3-1-1-1-1-1-3-4-7-22-44-47-29-x-36-x

Alex Adair ~ Make Me Feel Better 6-9-16-24-17-16-10-2-2-1-1-1-2-1-1-7-10-18-21-31-33-47-44-x

 

2016

offaiah ~ Trouble 24-6-4-3-3-3-1-1-1-2-1-1-2-2-2-2-3-4-6-10-15-47-x-17-23-22-23-24-29-44-x

Calvin Harris ~ My Way 2-1-2-2-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-8-8-31-21-7-9-10-13-12-17-23-27-38-43-38-x

 

2017

†Avicii ~ Lonely Together (feat. Rita Ora) 3-3-3-2-2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-1-1-1-3-6-17-1-1-1-2-4-5-10-9-9-12-18-14-14-12-16-14-2-2-4-8-9-9-10-11-20-23-35-35-x

Hurts ~ All I Want For Christmas Is New Year's Day 41-20-x-43-15-7-x-15-17-1-1-x-18-1-1-1-x

 

2018

†Avicii ~ Levels ...-x-1-3-3-9-10-10-11-16-21-24-33-29-x-41-*

Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa ~ One Kiss 1-1-4-1-1-2-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-5-5-4-*

 

Longest time between runs at #1: Avicii - Levels (6 years, 4 months)

Longest time between runs at #1 in a single chart run: Sak Noel - Loca People (8 weeks)

Most returns to #1: 2 returns (songs marked with †)

* still charting