At least "Happy" wasn’t kept in the top 40 by streaming

Dan's list of songs with the longest top 40 runs is very useful when answering this, the first three that came to mind (Thinking Out Loud, All of Me and Happy) happened to be the top three! Chandelier and Stay With Me are both very good suggestions too.

 

I don't have as much of a problem with the more recent songs that have had long top 40 runs being overplayed but that's almost certainly because they don't get played every week since the chart moved to being just 1 hour 45 mins.

Here's some I can remember from the early 10s:

 

BoB and Hayley Williams - Airplanes

Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are

Chris Brown - Yeah 3x

Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling

Lumineers - Ho Hey

 

I didn't follow the charts at the time but Nickleback - Rockstar's long chart run would have been annoying probably back in 2008.

Nobody's mentioned Let It Go :o :jameela:

Not a song but Jameela Jamil outstayed her welcome as the host of the chart show.

Nobody's mentioned Let It Go :o :jameela:

Always found it amusing that after all that casual drama with the Frozen soundtrack, Jameela would go on to co-star with Kristen Bell in The Good Place :D

For me - and this is despite liking the songs in question - based on how it felt at the time - 'Ghostbusters' by Ray Parker Jr, and 'Relax' by Frankie Goes To Hollywood. While now I celebrate them as enduring pop moments whose 'pure' sales as we must now call them kept them alive in the Top 75 for so many months, it did feel at the time as if they'd long-since run their course. Modern chart listeners will relate to this far more readily as there have been so many long-runners owing to the nature of the market and the way the charts are compiled, but these were early examples of 'too much of a good thing'. These two felt particularly frustrating because they both had second winds in the chart, recovering a Top 10 position after what had apparently been their natural peak. 'Blue Monday' of course did the same, at least once, but it is still a perfect record to my ears and so I won't have a word said against it! Shows how enduring it was for its repeated chart profile not to have annoyed me, in an era where your average typical Top 10-peaking track would spend between 10 and 20 weeks on the Top 75 and usually follow a conventional climb-peak-fall pattern.

Given that this thread was started 3 months ago, on this day in fact, I want to add that Tones & I – Dance Monkey has now become an insufferable chart pest that just won’t go away, and it’s now been 39 consecutive weeks inside the Top 40 and 37 of those consecutive weeks have been inside the Top 30. At the current rate it will break the chart run recorded by Lewis Capaldi with Someone You Love as it continually seems to escape ACR by bouncing between positions.

 

Is anyone else sick to death of this song yet? :unsure:

Lewis deserves more weeks top 40 tbh

Dance Monkey.

Given that this thread was started 3 months ago, on this day in fact, I want to add that Tones & I – Dance Monkey has now become an insufferable chart pest that just won’t go away, and it’s now been 39 consecutive weeks inside the Top 40 and 37 of those consecutive weeks have been inside the Top 30. At the current rate it will break the chart run recorded by Lewis Capaldi with Someone You Love as it continually seems to escape ACR by bouncing between positions.

 

Is anyone else sick to death of this song yet? :unsure:

 

Couldn’t agree with you more.

 

I just find it obscene that almost all one hit wonders end up having a long running number one; they don’t just spend a couple of weeks at the summit but instead rule the throne for weeks on end. Omi’s Cheerleader is one that has springs to mind.

Edited May 26, 20205 yr by Cognizant

Given that this thread was started 3 months ago, on this day in fact, I want to add that Tones & I – Dance Monkey has now become an insufferable chart pest that just won’t go away, and it’s now been 39 consecutive weeks inside the Top 40 and 37 of those consecutive weeks have been inside the Top 30. At the current rate it will break the chart run recorded by Lewis Capaldi with Someone You Love as it continually seems to escape ACR by bouncing between positions.

 

Is anyone else sick to death of this song yet? :unsure:

 

Dance Monkey is on ACR though and has been for some time now!

Edited May 26, 20205 yr by chrissmith276

yes it would’ve actually been top ten all this time if it hadn’t gone to acr just before christmas and didn’t do enough for a reset in the new year.

All Lewis Capaldi songs.

Edited May 26, 20205 yr by Sid_

The songs from Frozen

I don't know if it actually was in the top 40 for so long but at the time 'Rockstar' by Nickelback seemed to hang around for ages! Maybe it was a bit of a slow-burner and took a while to peak compared to other songs from that time but I'm sure it was played on the chart show constantly.*

 

*I may have still been listening to hit40uk/Heart's chart at the time still believing that was the real chart. :lol:

Yes i remember Everything I Do i do for you. Was around for ever. Didnt like the song, didnt like the film. It was quite rate for a song to jang around so long in those days. Not sure how that many people could have bought it for that many weeks, especially as it was not that good.

Dance Monkey is on ACR though and has been for some time now!

yes it would’ve actually been top ten all this time if it hadn’t gone to acr just before christmas and didn’t do enough for a reset in the new year.

So if it is already in ACR why is it not dropping more places each week? I just don’t understand the ACR rules properly.

Cos it'll still doing enough streams to counteract ACR.

Dance Monkey is currently #4 on Amazon streaming (but was still #1 recently), #12 on Apple Music, #19 on Spotify

#5 on Youtube streams (but was #1 very recently) and #18 on iTunes

 

so still a very popular song especially on Youtube and Amazon