Posted January 22, 20169 yr Slightly late this week as I was waiting for one final bit of information, but this week's commentary is now available from the front page and the latest news box.
January 22, 20169 yr Below I List Justin Bieber's very impressive 2015/2016 UK Singles Chart Feats. There are a few things that he has yet to achieve. Despite all of his 2015 & 2016 Singles Chart success, his 'Purpose' Album has yet to reach No.1 in the UK. It has spent 1 Week at No.2 - so far. Which means that 'Believe', (2012), is his only UK No.1 Album, & that was only No.1 for 1 Week. Nor has he - yet - been able to have the UK No.1 Single & No.1 Album at the same time. JUSTIN BIEBER -- CHART FEATS -- (So Far!) 1)... He has had 3 Top 10 Hits for the past 10 Weeks - a UK Chart Record. 2)... He's had 3 Top 5 Hits for 9 Weeks - another UK Chart Record. 3)... He had the No.1 & No.2 Singles for 6 Weeks - another UK Chart Record. 4)... He replaced himself at No.1 on W/E 10th December. Becoming only the 4th Act to manage that in the Singles Chart. (The Beatles, (1963), John Lennon, (1981), and Elvis Presley, (2005). 5)... He had the No.1, No.2 & No.3 Singles in the Chart of W/E 14th January 2016. Becoming the only Act to ever achieve that. 6)... He spent 11 Weeks at No.1 in the 2015 Singles Chart, with Zero No.1 Weeks in the Album Chart. The last Year that an Act had so many No.1 Singles Weeks with no No.1 Albums Weeks was 1967. That was when Engelbert Humpadinck was at No.1 for 11 Weeks in the Singles Chart, with 'Release Me', (6 Weeks), and 'The Last Waltz', (5 Weeks). He had the Top 3 Singles of the Year - and no Act has managed it before or since. 7)... WHAT DO YOU MEAN? Until now there was only 1 Single that had its first 19 Weeks inside the UK Top 7. That was 'Love Is All Around' by Wet Wet Wet. (1994). 4-2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-4-8 Now What Do You Mean? has broken that Chart Record, by having its 1st 21 Weeks inside the Top 7:, 1-2-1-1-2-1-1-5-7-6-7-5-4-4-6-5-5-4-3-4-4 8)... So now What Do You Mean? has 21 Top 10 Weeks. That is the 8th= most ever. Only 7 Singles have spent longer in the Top 10, & it is still unclear how many further Top 10 Weeks it will have. 9)... It has had 16 Top 5 Weeks & that is the 9th= most ever. 10)... SORRY Justin's 'Sorry' has also achieved something. Its Top 10 'Run' (So Far):, 2-2-2-1-1-2-2-2-3-2-2-3-3 It has had 8 Weeks at No.2 & only 3 other No.1 Hits have had 8, (or more), Weeks at No.2. (Plus 1 No.2 Hit). YOU BELONG TO ME -- JO STAFFORD (1952 to 1953) 9 Weeks at No.2 - no No.1 or No.2 Hit has spent as long at No.2 2-5-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-1-2-5-5-6-9-11-8 SUCH A NIGHT -- JOHNNIE RAY (1954) 8 Weeks at No.2 - and the Hit with the most consecutive No.2 Weeks 10-4-3-1-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-7-7-9-10 LITTLE THINGS MEAN A LOT -- KITTY KALLEN (1954) She died on January 7th this Year 8 Weeks at No.2 5-3-2-2-2-3-2-2-2-2-1-3-5-6-2-4-5-9-10-9 THE ONLY No.2 HIT WITH AS MANY AS 8 No.2 WEEKS TERRY'S THEME (FROM 'LIMELIGHT') -- FRANK CHACKSFIELD (1953) 8 Weeks at No.2 10-3-2-2-5-4-2-2-2-3-2-2-3-5-2-3-3-5-5-5-5-5-6 Edited January 22, 20169 yr by zeus555
January 22, 20169 yr DAVID BOWIE -- 3 SIMULTANEOUS TOP 10 ALBUMS A)... He has 3 simultaneous Top 10 Albums in the latest Chart - W/E 28th January Chart). No.1 -- BLACKSTAR No.3 -- BEST OF BOWIE No.6 -- NOTHING HAS CHANGED - THE VERY BEST OF B)... He has achieved it before - for 6 Weeks in 1973. W/E 18th August to W/E 1st September 1973 - THREE WEEKS No.2/No.3/No.5 - ALADDIN SANE No.3/No.5/No.3 - HUNKY DORY No.7/No.6/No.8 - THE RISE & FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST & THE SPIDERS FROM MARS W/E 15th September to W/E 29th September 1973 - THREE WEEKS No.4/No.5/No.3 - ALADDIN SANE No.5/No.6/No.6 - HUNKY DORY No.8/No.9/No.9 - THE RISE & FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST & THE SPIDERS FROM MARS C)... He is now only the 2nd Artist to have 3 Top 10 Albums, at the same time, in 2 entirely different Years. The other Artist is Elvis Presley, who had 3 Top 10 Albums, for 2 consecutive Weeks, in December 1957 & for 1 Week in September 1977. (The Album Chart was only a Top 5 in 1957, so Elvis had 2 Weeks with 3 Top 5 Albums). D)... Bowie is the 1st Artist to have 3 Albums in the same Top 10 since Amy Winehouse in August 2011. She is the only Female to achieve it. (Unless you count the Females in the George Mitchel Minstrels, who had 3 Top 10 Albums, (3 Weeks), from December 1962 to January 1963). AMY WINEHOUSE W/E 6th August 2011 No.1 - BACK TO BLACK No.5 - FRANK No.10 - FRANK//BACK TO BLACK (Double CD ‘Set’) Edited January 22, 20169 yr by zeus555
January 22, 20169 yr ELVIS PRESLEY'S IF I CAN DREAM ALBUM So far it has done this in the UK Top 10:, 12 Top 10 Weeks - all Top 5 1-1-3-2-2-3-2-2-2-2-2-8 He's had so many Top 10 & Top 5 Albums that it is hard to believe that If I Can Dream has his best UK Top 10 Album Chart 'Run' since the 1960's! A)... The last time that an Elvis Album spent as many as 12 Weeks in the Top 10 was in 1964 - Kissin' Cousins 16 Top 10 Weeks 9-6-9-6-6-5-7-7-7-7-8-9-9-9-9-10 B)... The last time that an Elvis Album spent as many as 11 Weeks in the Top 5 was in 1963 - It Happened At The World's Fair 12 Top 5 Weeks 8-4-4-4-4-4-5-5-5-7-6-4-4-5-5-8-9 C)... The last time that an Elvis Album had as many as 11 Top 3 Weeks was in 1961 to 1962 - Blue Hawaii 30 Top 3 Weeks 9-3-2-4-1-2-2-2-2-2-2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-2-2-4-4-4-5-4-4-4-7-7-7-7-8-8-9-15-15-14-17-19-17 8-11-16-17-11-10-11-17-16-18-19-18-19 Edited January 22, 20169 yr by zeus555
January 22, 20169 yr Author Thanks for all of that Colin. Whatever people think of Justin Bieber (and the various changers in chart rules), there are some pretty impressive feats there. It's interesting to see how well the Elvis album has done too. Six weeks with three albums in the top ten is quite a feat as well, particularly for a living artist. I suppose that's an advantage in releasing a few albums before finally achieving success!
January 23, 20169 yr @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ABBA GOLD -- THE FIRST ALBUM TO REACH 500 TOP 75 WEEKS ABBA Gold is at No.74 in the latest UK Top 75. It is its 500th Top 75 Week. It becomes the 1st Album to reach 500 Weeks in the UK Top 75. It also has the most Top 100 Weeks - 736. It really has 738 Top 200 Weeks, but The OCC only have Top 75 Charts for the period of W/E 12th September 1992 to W/E 5th February 1994. The ABBA Gold Album had 2 No.77 Weeks during that period. But, The OCC only have Top 75's & don't count those 2 Weeks. Greatest Hits (One) by Queen loses out on 32 Top 100 Weeks for that period. The OCC give it 706 Top 100 Weeks & 475 Top 75 Weeks. Both Totals are wrong. 1)... The OCC miss out a No.73 Week for it in the early 1980's. So that gives it 476 Top 75 Weeks. 2)... But, they give it 7 Top 75 Weeks too many, as well. In 1994 they mistakenly give it 7 Top 75 Weeks that are for a Queen Double CD. 3)... So it is really on 469 Top 75 Weeks. 4)... Its Top 100 Weeks are given as 706 by The OCC. But they give it 7 Weeks that it should not have in 1994. That leaves it with 699 Top 100 Weeks. Add in the Week that they miss out in the early 1980's & we get 700 Top 100 Weeks for the Queen Album. 5)... On top of this they miss out 32 Weeks of its No.76 to No.100 Positions, between 1992 & 1994. So it should really have 732 Top 100 Weeks. ABBA Gold has the 3rd most Top 200 Weeks - 1106. Only Greatest Hits by Queen, (over 1200 Weeks), & Legend by Bob Marley & The Wailers, (1173 Weeks), have more Top 200 Weeks than ABBA Gold. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ UK ALBUMS WITH THE MOST TOP 75 WEEKS To W/E 28th January 2016 1)... Gold : Greatest Hits - ABBA - 500 Weeks 2)... Greatest Hits - Queen - 469 Weeks 3)... Legend - Bob Marley & The Wailers - 465 Weeks 4)... Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf - 454 Weeks 5)... Rumours - Fleetwood Mac - 435 Weeks 6)... The Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd - 370 Weeks @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Edited January 23, 20169 yr by zeus555
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