Posted February 22, 20196 yr This week's commentary can be found from the latest news box and the front page.
February 23, 20196 yr SOLO FEMALE ARTISTS WHO MANAGED THE UK 'DOUBLE TOP' FOR 2 - OR MORE - WEEKS IN A ROW (The Weeks of the 'Double Top' in Brackets) 1)... Ariana is the 1st Female to achieve it when her No.1 Single was different in each of the Weeks... 2)... She is only the 9th Solo Female to manage it and only the 10th Female Act to do so... 3)... Only 16 Solo Females and 18 Female Acts, over-all, have ever achieved the UK 'Double Top'... @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 12/07/1986 (3) Madonna - True Blue // Papa Don't Preach 01/04/1989 (2) Madonna - Like A Prayer // Like A Prayer 26/11/2005 (2) Madonna - Confessions On A Dancefloor // Hung Up 26/02/1994 (3) Mariah Carey - Music Box // Without You 04/02/1995 (5) Celine Dion - The Colour Of My Love // Think Twice 13/10/2001 (2) Kylie Minogue - Fever // Can't Get You Out Of My Head 12/07/2003 (3) Beyonce - Dangerously In Love // Crazy In Love 24/11/2007 (4) Leona Lewis - Spirit // Bleeding Love 15/03/2008 (2) Duffy - Rockferry // Mercy 26/02/2011 (4) Adele - 21 // Someone Like You 21/02/2019 (1) Ariana Grande – Thank U, Next // Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored 28/02/2019 (1) Ariana Grande – Thank U, Next // 7 Rings NOTES A)... Madonna also had the 'Double Top' on: 10/05/2008 (1) Madonna - Hard Candy // 4 Minutes (Featuring Justin Timberlake) B)... Adele also had the 'Double Top' on: 02/04/2011 (1) Adele - 21 // Someone Like You C)... Spice Girls are the only other Female Act to manage it for more than 1 Week in a row. They did that twice... @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Ariana becomes only the 5th Solo Female to achieve the UK 'Double Top' in more than 1 'Run' at No.1. Apart from Madonna, Adele and Ariana, there were also Rihanna and Lady GaGa.. Athough all 3 of Rhianna's were with a Featured Artist. 1 of Lady GaGa's was with Bradley Cooper. 16/06/2007 (1) Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad // Umbrella (Featuring Jay-Z) 15/01/2011 (1) Rihanna - Loud // What’s My Name? (Featuring Drake) 03/12/2011 (1) Rihanna - Talk That Talk // We Found Love (Featuring Calvin Harris) 11/04/2009 (1) Lady GaGa - The Fame // Poker Face 27/03/2010 (1) Lady GaGa - The Fame/The Fame Monster // Telephone (Featuring Beyonce) 01/11/2018 (1) Lady GaGa & Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born (Motion Picture Cast Album) // Shallow @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Only 2 other Female Acts have managed the UK 'Double Top' more than once. Spice Girls and Sugababes. 28/12/1996 (3) Spice Girls - Spice // 2 Become 1 22/03/1997 (2) Spice Girls - Spice // Who Do You Think You Are? / Mama 22/10/2005 (1) Sugababes - Taller In More Ways // Push The Button 20/10/2007 (1) Sugababes - Change // About You Now @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Female Acts who achieved the UK 'Double Top' for 1 Week are: 08/11/1980 (1) Barbra Streisand - Guilty // Woman In Love 13/06/1987 (1) Whitney Houston - Whitney // I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) 21/02/2009 (1) Lily Allen - It’s Not Me It’s You // The Fear 07/11/2009 (1) Cheryl Cole - 3 Words // Fight For This Love 19/10/2013 (1) Miley Cyrus - Bangerz // Wrecking Ball @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Britney Spears is the biggest Female Act to never achieve it. She's had 6 UK No.1 Singles, but Zero UK No.1 Albums. Diana Ross and Kate Bush are 2 other big Female Acts, who have never managed it... @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Edited February 23, 20196 yr by zeus555
February 23, 20196 yr Author Thanks for that. I can’t help wondering how those acts would score if it was a Pointless question. There are a lot of fairly obvious names on that list plus a few (e.g. Duffy) whose success was fairly brief.
February 23, 20196 yr Simon -- My brothers watch 'Pointless'. I do not. I'm glad that I don't. On Friday 8th June 2018, the 2nd Host - Richard Osman - 'Tweeted', that 'ABBA Gold' had spent "22 Years or 1,159 Weeks in the Top 75". He totally misunderstood that they were its Top 200 Weeks!. (He had 'rounded' the Years total up. 1,159 divided by 52 = just over 21.7 Years). It won't even reach 600 Top 75 Weeks until next Week - W/E 7th March. Unfortunately, 426 people Re-Tweeted his grossly inaccurate 'Tweet'. I contacted his Secretary about it, but she just ignored me and Richard Osman's silly 'Tweet' is still there... Edited February 23, 20196 yr by zeus555
February 23, 20196 yr Author To be fair to Richard (after all, his brother is in Suede), the OCC don't help matters by showing the top 200 weeks in some places even where they only list the top 75 or top 100. I'm sure most people outside site like this have no idea a top 200 even exists, so naturally assume any "weeks i chart" figure quoted refers to the published chart.
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