I've updates my lists to reflect Shotgun's progress in the last three weeks, in particular the fact that yesterday it became the first single to spend 78 consecutive weeks in the top 78. Next week it can't achieve a new first, as Rather Be already managed to do 79 in the 79, but the 6 week's after it could carry on making chart history.

Further to my last post Shotgun has now made chart history for 5 of the chart weeks I mentioned, with the sixth week looking likely to also be a chart record in next Friday's chart. After that the next record it could potentially break is '94 weeks in the top 94' but that wouldn't be until w/e 16th January 2020, but although Shotgun has climbed in two of the last three weeks I don't think it will still within the Top 100 for more than 88 or 89 weeks as there is apparently some obscure event called 'Christmas' that is due to happen then which is expected to push out a lot of the regular charting singles, especially at the lower reaches of the chart.

I’ve added a couple of new lists to my second post in this thread. My original list of the first songs to spend X consecutive weeks in the Top X of the UK Singles Chart is now covered by one of Dan’s posts, so I’ve referred to that in my post and added in its place:

 

- Songs to spend most consecutive weeks in each Top X of the UK Singles Chart

- Songs with highest low point of each Y consecutive weeks spent in the UK Singles Chart

 

The first new list goes from a Top 1 to a Top 100 to list the songs which spent the most consecutive weeks in each. For the second new list, I’ve flipped the axes to show which songs had the best run over each number of consecutive weeks from 16 to 95, based on the lowest position each song had in such a run. Aside from the top ends, the usual suspects inevitably dominate both lists, although in the latter, Lewis Capaldi’s biggest hit has made its mark (perhaps not for the last time) to share the record with Thinking out Loud of a best lowest position over 42 consecutive weeks (of #28).

As with the equivalent thread for most weeks in total, I've added lists of songs with the most consecutive weeks in the Top 20, Top 10, Top 5 and Top 3 to the OP - just in time to see Blinding Lights appear on all four of them.

 

Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now just misses out on the Top 20 list with 26 weeks, as does Gotye featuring Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know.

Last update to this page until February, now that Blinding Lights has dropped out of the Top 50.

 

Someone You Loved made it to 100 consecutive weeks in the Top 100 a few weeks ago, so now at least one song has spent X consecutive weeks in the Top X for each number from 1 to 100. The songs with the most 'firsts' of this type (where these are split equally between songs which were the first to do so in the same week) are:

 

Number of 'firsts' | Single (at numbers)

18 | Mr. Acker Bilk - Stranger On The Shore (37-45, 47-55)

12 | Frankie Laine - I Believe (25-36)

8 | Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne - Rather Be (61-62, 66-69, 76, 79)

8 | George Ezra - Shotgun (74-75, 78, 80-84)

8 | Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved (85, 94-100)

8 | Mario Lanza - Because You’re Mine (11-12 / 4 ways; 13-18 / 3 ways; 19 / 2 ways, 20-24)

7.93 | Al Martino - Here In My Heart (1-4; 5, 13-18 / 3 ways; 6, 10-12 / 4 ways; 7-9 / 5 ways)

7 | Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You (77, 86-91)

6 | Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud (70-73, 92-93)

4.43 | Jo Stafford - You Belong To Me (5, 13-18 / 3 ways; 6, 10-12 / 4 ways; 7-9 / 5 ways; 19 / 2 ways)

3 | Pharrell Williams - Happy (63-65)

2 | Adele - Someone Like You (58-59)

2 | Engelbert Humperdinck - Release Me (46, 56)

1.6 | Bing Crosby - Isle Of Innisfree (6, 10-12 / 4 ways; 7-9 / 5 ways)

1.43 | Guy Mitchell - Feet Up (5 / 3 ways; 6, 10 / 4 ways; 7-9 / 5 ways)

1 | Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling (60)

1 | John Legend - All Of Me (57)

0.6 | Rosemary Clooney - Half As Much (7-9 / 5 ways)

Added a new list to the OP: Most consecutive weeks at UK Singles #1

 

On its 9th week, 'drivers license' joins a huge tie in 10th place, which wouldn't be there without ACR as God's Plan would have had a 10th week.

Blinding Lights becomes the first song to spend 100 consecutive weeks in the Top 75!

This year's first update to any of the lists in the OP came this week. The song in question also tops the first of these two new lists, correct to the best of my knowledge and on a similar theme to those I recently added to the equivalent thread for most weeks in total, but with a few different songs making their mark here:

 

Songs with most consecutive weeks in the UK Top 100 on reaching their peaks

 

1=| 40 Glass Animals - Heat Waves (#5, 2021)

1=| 40 Rema - Calm Down (#3, 2023)

3| 33 Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still (#3, 2018)

4| 31 New Order - Blue Monday (#9~, 1983)

5| 30 Teddy Swims - The Door (#5, 2024)

6| 29 Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel - White Lines (Don’t Do It) (#7, 1984)

7| 27 Christina Perri - A Thousand Years (#11, 2013)

8| 26 Chappell Roan - HOT TO GO! (#4, 2024)

9=| 24 Anotr & Abel Balder - Relax My Eyes (#33, 2023)

9=| 24 Hozier - Take Me To Church (#2, 2015)

9=| 24 Luke Combs - Fast Car (#30, 2023)

9=| 24 Post Malone & Quavo - Congratulations (#26, 2017)

 

~ Subsequently reached #3 in 1988 in remixed version.

 

The list does not include runs after songs reached their eventual peaks (e.g. Killers - Mr Brightside reached #61, the highest position of its 47-week Top 100 run of 2021, at 33 weeks into that run, but this came after it had peaked at #10)

 

Songs with most consecutive weeks in the UK Top 40 on reaching their peaks

 

1| 38 Rema - Calm Down (#3, 2023)

2| 25 Teddy Swims - The Door (#5, 2024)

3=| 22 Chappell Roan - HOT TO GO! (#4, 2024)

3=| 22 The Weeknd - Save Your Tears (#2, 2021)

5| 21 Dasha - Austin (#5, 2024)

6| 20 Hozier - Take Me To Church (#2, 2015)

7=| 19 David Guetta, Becky Hill & Ella Henderson - Crazy What Love Can Do (#5, 2022)

7=| 19 Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud (#1, 2014)

9=| 17 AJ Tracey - Ladbroke Grove (#3, 2019)

9=| 17 Benson Boone - Slow It Down (#14, 2024)

 

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Last updated w/e 26/06/25

Edited Friday at 22:113 days by jimwatts

Songs with most consecutive weeks in the UK Top 100 while on SCR

Since its introduction in July 2017

 

1 43 Rema Calm Down (2022)

2| 38 Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still (2017)

3=| 36 Disturbed - The Sound Of Silence (2024)

3=| 36 Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners - Evergreen (2024)

5| 34 Teddy Swims - The Door (2024)

6| 33 Freya Ridings - Lost Without You (2018)

7| 32 Ed Sheeran - Perfect (2020)

8| 31 Pinkfong - Baby Shark (2018)

9=| 30 Jax Jones featuring MNEK - Where Did You Go? (2022)

9=| 30 Nathan Dawe featuring Jaykae - Flowers (2020)

9=| 30 Ruth B. - Dandelions (2022)

9=| 30 Sam Fischer - This City (2020)

 

Songs with most consecutive weeks in the UK Top 40 while on SCR

Since its introduction in July 2017

 

1| 41 Rema - Calm Down (2022)

2| 30 Jax Jones featuring MNEK - Where Did You Go? (2022)

3| 29 Teddy Swims - The Door (2024)

4| 28 Fireboy DML & Ed Sheeran - Peru (2021)

5=| 27 Freya Ridings - Lost Without You (2018)

5=| 27 Harry Styles - Adore You (2019)

7=| 26 Benson Boone - Slow It Down (2024)

7=| 26 Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! (2024)

7=| 26 Dasha - Austin (2024)

7=| 26 Dua Lipa - Don’t Start Now (2019)

 

(years in brackets indicate first weeks on chart)

 

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Edited Friday at 22:113 days by jimwatts

Fascinating stuff jimwatts, thanks so much - I guess an arguable foot note to the "Songs with most consecutive weeks in the UK Top 40 on reaching their peaks" would be Boney M's 'Brown Girl in the Ring' which peaked at no.2 on its 20th consectuive week in the top 40 having being promoted after 'Rivers of Babylon' got all the glory for the initial chart run in 1978 (including 5 weeks at no.1) but I know it's all one double A side for chart puporses and difficult to split out the two.

Confirmation, in the post three above this one, that Rema has managed the longest continuous Top 40 run en route to its peak to date.

 

On Smint's point above (sorry for the late response), I think you'd have to say either that Brown Girl In The Ring went back up to #2 on its 20th week having already reached #1 on weeks 3-7 when it was the B-side of Rivers Of Babylon, or that it reached its #2 peak on only its 8th (+/-1) week of being promoted as the lead of the double A-side. It's nevertheless an unusual case, and raises the question of whether it should be included in the forthcoming #2 Singles sessions.

'Stick Season' is the 10th song to reach 45 consecutive weeks in the Top 40 - it may have a few more in it, although the record 54 weeks of 'Thinking Out Loud' are still some way off.

 

'Austin' peaking on its 21st consecutive week in the Top 40 was the latest anything has done so at #5 or below, while 'Slow It Down' on its 17th week had the latest peak outside the Top 10 for a single Top 40 run.

'Stick Season' is the 10th song to reach 45 consecutive weeks in the Top 40 - it may have a few more in it, although the record 54 weeks of 'Thinking Out Loud' are still some way off.

 

'Austin' peaking on its 21st consecutive week in the Top 40 was the latest anything has done so at #5 or below, while 'Slow It Down' on its 17th week had the latest peak outside the Top 10 for a single Top 40 run.

Stick Season can still get another ten weeks long before the Christmas invasion.

'Stick Season' has matched the record set by 'Thinking Out Loud' of its lowest position over a stretch of 55 weeks being #42.

 

'The Door' looks like it has already taken the accolade from 'Slow It Down' of the latest peak outside the Top 10 from a single Top 40 run, that being on its 21st week.