Wow, I never realised that Dirty Vegas "Days Go By" charted higher on the US chart than ours!

" [5] Ella Henderson - Ghost (2014/11/15) (2 wks) * "

 

I think it needs a "2" after that 5 lol. :P

 

2014 has seen the most entries for British & Irish artists since 1993.

 

 

2014 has seen the most entries for British & Irish artists since 1993.

2014 - 10 Top 10 hits

1993 - 7 Top 10 hits (incl. 2 #1s)

 

 

 

2014 may still have a #1 if/when Mark Ronson climbs to #1.

 

 

I'm still wondering if both versions of "Lay Me Down" will be counted, despite John Legend being featured on one of them.

Great list I had been looking for something like this for a while.

 

The Escape Club are missing from 1991, #8 with I'll Be There. They didn't chart in the UK but later wrote hits for Louise from Eternal.

Notable that there hasn't been a British Hot 100 number 1 for 3 years now, of which that & the previous 2 were the same artist. Also just noticed Leave Right Now charted in 2010! That seems rather random, no?

Notable that there hasn't been a British Hot 100 number 1 for 3 years now, of which that & the previous 2 were the same artist. Also just noticed Leave Right Now charted in 2010! That seems rather random, no?

There's actually been 3 within the past year roughly. This thread has been on my mind, will definitely be brought up to date this year while it's not too big of a task.

 

Leave Right Now was randomly used as the send-off song on American Idol that year, and charted when Will Young performed it on the finale!

 

There's actually been 3 within the past year roughly. This thread has been on my mind, will definitely be brought up to date this year while it's not too big of a task.

I think he meant fully British, which discounts "Uptown Funk" because Bruno is American.

 

Other than that we've had "Hello" and "PILLOWTALK" just in the past two months which is still a surprisingly good turnout.

 

(Still crying over the many times 1D could have had that #1 ~)

can anyone update this list? :)

Edited February 16, 20178 yr by fiesta

can anyone update this list? :)

You're in luck, I just finished 2015! It's updated to the point of the final chart of 2015. 2016 should be a little less time consuming if anyone wants to volunteer :P

Thank you! very useful information!

I would like to congratulate British & Irish artists to get the place in Billboard hot 100.

This is now updated to the end of 2016! (I see that I've done it exactly a year and a day after the last update, which is just a coincidence :kink: I actually started the 2016 update in May and just came back to it now, 9 months later)

 

Volunteers for 2017 are welcome :P

This is now updated to the end of 2017, and here's where it starts to get complicated. First of all, we're seeing more and more songs get excluded due to the British artist having a lead credit, but not being the first credited artist. There were three in 2017 alone: 'Scared To Be Lonely', 'Something Just Like This', and 'Get Low', and there's bound to be more when we get to 2018 (such as 'FRIENDS'). So we'll need to re-evaluate whether to change this rule and include these songs after all.

 

Second of all, two songs which originally charted before the Soundscan era have now re-entered and had a charting week within the Soundscan era (specifically 'Faith' and 'Careless Whisper', both of which occurred following the death of George Michael). So I will probably give these a special mention somewhere as well.

 

And lastly, I may have to go back and include 21 Savage's chart entries, but I'd rather wait for now and see how the news plays out. :lol:

 

(And yes, volunteers to do 2018 are welcome :magic:)

This is now updated to the final chart week of 2018. Only 17 new British entries that year, the fewest since 2010 which also had 17. But actually that's not counting 'Friends' or 'Happier' since those are considered non-British (i.e. belonging to Marshmello only) under Britster's original criteria. I'm for sure (eventually) going to revise the criteria for joint lead credits as it doesn't feel right to exclude some of these artists' biggest hits.

 

There should be another upswing for 2019 with the help of several entries each from Harry Styles and Ed Sheeran. Stay tuned ~

makes no sense to exclude co-leads, I could understand features but excluding a co-lead, why? if a song is a duet why it has all the credit be given the 1st name? makes zero sense

This is now updated to the end of 2019! You'll see a few of 2020's biggest hits were already charting but hadn't peaked yet.

 

Also, finally made an update to the criteria to allow all joint lead credits, even if the first listed artist is not British or Irish. So the likes of 'Never Forget You', 'Just Hold On', 'Scared To Be Lonely', 'Something Just Like This', 'Get Low', 'Friends' and 'Happier' are now included under their respective years.

 

Next project, note to self...the #1s from 1991-2010 don't have the chart date of the week they reached #1. Will do that along with the 2020 update unless someone else would like to look up those dates :magic:

This is now updated to the final chart week of 2020! Only 13 British/Irish chart entries in 2020, the lowest since 2009. And it would've been 12 under the old criteria which would've excluded 'Know Your Worth'. Oh well, we're almost guaranteed to have had an increase in 2021.

 

Also, now every #1 has the date that it reached #1. 2021 entries coming up next, as always volunteers are welcome x