A comment in the weekly chart show thread got me thinking about this... has there ever been a song in chart history that has spent a week or more at each chart position in the Top 10? :unsure:

 

I think it’s highly unlikely but not impossible, and would love to be proved wrong!

Edited May 1, 20205 yr by awardinary

I checked the list of songs that have spent the most weeks in the Top 10 and there's a few that have spent a week at each position but one.

 

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/t...-top-10__29522/

 

I'll try and think of some other possibilities.

I’d love if it we eventually got a song that went 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 in its first ten weeks :lol:

More likely to happen in the streaming era than any other time I would imagine.

I’d love if it we eventually got a song that went 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 in its first ten weeks :lol:

I was thinking about this, I'm sure there was a song that seemed like it could manage it or did it apart from a couple of positions but I can't think what it was.

 

The notable example of a song nearly achieving it is Eminem's 'The Real Slim Shady' moving 1-2-3-4-5-7-8-10-11

Wow didn't realise that about 'The Real Slim Shady'!

Flo Rida's 'Good Feeling' had a top 10 run of 2-3-4-5-6-7-3-1-2-5-9.

So if Dua Lipa manages to drop one chart position next week to claim #10 with Don’t Start Now she will have managed 9 chart positions, all excluding the most coveted chart position at #1.

 

I’m guessing she could be the first person to achieve 9 chart positions it if it happens for her next week.

So if Dua Lipa manages to drop one chart position next week to claim #10 with Don’t Start Now she will have managed 9 chart positions, all excluding the most coveted chart position at #1.

 

I’m guessing she could be the first person to achieve 9 chart positions it if it happens for her next week.

Not at all, several managed 9 chart positions in the top 10 including Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud managing all apart from #9.

Yeah I did say in my first post that it's happened several times.

Found another with 9 chart placements, missing position 3.

 

Eminem feat. Rihanna – The Monster

{1}-2-4-5-7-6-10-9-5-6-8-9

Not at all, several managed 9 chart positions in the top 10 including Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud managing all apart from #9.

 

Also there's approximately a negative chance that 'Don't Start Now' will still be top 10 next week anyway since it's going to ACR.

 

The original 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' is only missing #5, #8 and #10, could definitely manage at least the latter two positions in the next couple of years.

Was just checking Mariah’s chart run to see if she’d come close with “All I Want”, and I found that she’s spent 24 weeks in the top 10, but bizarrely only charted at the positions 2, 4, 5, 6 & 8! Very strange coincidence that she appears to chart at the same numbers every year.

After spending a regrettably long amount of time looking through the chart runs of every number one single ever, I'm pretty sure that a chart run including all of the top ten positions has never been achieved. I was hoping I could find some lesser-known old track that did it, but it seems as though it hasn't been done before. That's an evening I'll never get back :lol:

 

At least we know that if it does happen it will (unless I've missed something) be a first!

Was just checking Mariah’s chart run to see if she’d come close with “All I Want”, and I found that she’s spent 24 weeks in the top 10, but bizarrely only charted at the positions 2, 4, 5, 6 & 8! Very strange coincidence that she appears to chart at the same numbers every year.

 

Fairytale Of New York similar to Mariah has done nearly all the top 10 in its time to Of 18 weeks in the top 10 at positions

 

8,2,2,4,3,5,10,6,8,4,9,10,7,7,5,10,4,4.

 

Only missing no1!

This was discussed a few months ago and I've found the thread here so thanks coi for confirming Dobbo's point that it's never happened before!

 

Coincidentally, I'm doing a quiz on a very similar theme next week, so I'm sure some of your research will come in handy then! (Although I may edit a few of the questions so they're not too obvious from reading this thread.) Among the songs that have done 9 out of the Top 10 is Bill Haley and his Comets - Rock Around The Clock which has been at every position in the Top 9, but not #10!

Jane Morgan - The Day The Rains Came only spent 9 weeks in the top 10, but all at different positions: 24-14-11-8-6-5-2-1-4-7-9-10-16-18-24-25.

After spending a regrettably long amount of time looking through the chart runs of every number one single ever, I'm pretty sure that a chart run including all of the top ten positions has never been achieved. I was hoping I could find some lesser-known old track that did it, but it seems as though it hasn't been done before. That's an evening I'll never get back :lol:

 

At least we know that if it does happen it will (unless I've missed something) be a first!

And the award for weirdest use of lockdown time goes to... :o

Both Secret Love and I Believe got every position but #9

Started compiling this in February once Sweet Melody had been at every position from 1-9 and have just got around to completing it - I think these are the 15 songs which have been at 9 positions in the Top 10:

 

All except #1

Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel (completed 9 positions in 1971, week 17 in the Top 10)

Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble (2013, week 11)

Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York (2017, week 13)

 

All except #3

Jane Morgan - The Day The Rains Came (1959, week 9)

Eminem featuring Rihanna - The Monster (2014, week 11)

 

All except #5

Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved (2020, week 30)

 

All except #7

Alma Cogan - Dreamboat (1955, week 13)

 

All except #9

Mantovani - The Song From The Moulin Rouge (1953, week 14)

Frankie Laine - I Believe (1953, week 35)

Doris Day - Secret Love (1954, week 25)

Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud (2015, week 18)

 

All except #10

Bill Haley and his Comets - Rock Around The Clock (1955, week 19)

Kay Starr - Rock And Roll Waltz (1956, week 16)

Russ Conway - Side Saddle (1959, week 18)

Little Mix - Sweet Melody (2021, week 13)