Since we're revisiting this article, 26 is wrong too now, the Big Top 40 replaced the one bit the public could actually decide! All of their top 40 is decided by a combination of sales/streams and their repetitive airplay, which is remarkably lacking in variety.

First time I've read this article actually, madonna had some 10 year run didn't she. Also interesting about the different formats and the rule in 1995 to limit this - shows some other reasons why songs started entering their peak in week 1!

Here's a few more:

 

'Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers' surprisingly became the 3rd act in chart history to have their first 3 singles go to No.1 after 'Gerry and the pacemakers' and 'Frankie goes to Hollywood'. Fronted by a cartoon rabbit, they also managed to have 3 UK No.1 singles in the shortest space of time, between August - December 1989.

 

That's not all, they were also the biggest selling singles act of 1989!

 

Madonna's "Who's that girl" was (at the time in 1987) the highest debut by a female soloist in UK chart history when it entered at No.3. It went to No.1 the week after.

 

 

Kylie Minogue did even better the next year in 1988.

 

On the WK Ending 6 August 1988, "The Locomotion" debuted at No.2 after selling 52,000 copies.

 

Kylie was on course to make chart history and become the first female soloist to enter in at No.1. It was pipped to the post by Yazz and the plastic populatation's " The only way is up".

 

Yazz was at No.10 the previous week, and leapfrogged Kylie at the last minute to grab the top spot selling 54,000 copies, 2k more than Kylie. So so close that week.

 

 

She suffered a similar fate in 1989 because of a cock-up from S/A/W.

 

On the WK Ending 6 May 1989, "Hand on your heart" had 'technically' sold 78,000 copies, but 11,000 sales were discounted because PWL had the cassingle retail price lower than BPI rules, so it's sales were decreased to 67,000 that week. Kylie had debuted at No.2 yet again and failed to make chart history.

 

The Bangles were on their 4th and final week at No.1 with "Eternal Flame" selling 69,000 copies that week. The issue was resolved the following week and Kylie climbed to No.1 selling 103,000 copies.

Edited January 6, 20196 yr by Danny89

OMI has had only 2 charts hits.

 

1: “Cheerleader”- which spent 4 weeks at number 1.

2: “Hula Hoop”- which spent 1 week at number 75, the original lowest published position of the official chart.

 

The only other chart act to have 1 number 1 and 1 number 75 is 1982 Eurovision winner Nicole.

If we conveniently forget he featured on the #30 "hit" 'I Found A Girl' (The Vamps) that is.

The Vamps - ruining chart facts since 2016.

The Simpsons "Do the Bartman" hit the top spot of the U.K. Charts in February 1991. Although the music video for "Do the Bartman" was screened on TOTP, a full episode of the Simpsons would not air on BBC1 until the 23rd November 1996 at 5.30pm.

 

This was the first time that a full episode of "The Simpsons" had aired on terrestrial television. The only way UK viewers could watch it would be on satellite/cable (Sky One), or on home video, which usually consisted of two episodes released by Fox television.

 

The first episode screened on BBC1 was "There's no disgrace like home". It faced competition from ITV which had started showing the new hit show "Sabrina the teenage witch". Sabrina narrowly defeated it in the ratings.

Edited January 3, 20196 yr by Danny89

The simpsons were also the first 'non-human' act to top the chart since 1969.

It’s crazy how Take A Bow was Madonna’s longest running number one in the US yet here it ended a record breaking reign of top tens.

It’s crazy how Take A Bow was Madonna’s longest running number one in the US yet here it ended a record breaking reign of top tens.

I don't know the exact details, but I think this is partly due to when it was released. In the early-ish '90s there were no shortage of Hot 100 #1s with mammoth chart runs, but at the peak of Madonna's career in the mid to late '80s, songs never lasted longer than a month at #1. Bryan Adams in 1991 was the longest runner since..."Like A Virgin" actually!

Edited February 7, 20196 yr by Dircadirca