Still one of my favourite ever chart stats that no song has ever done all top 10 spots despite all the other impressive records that have been broken. What a moment it would be if it ever did happen!

I think Wham could be the first act to do it - they only need a 4 and a 9 having got the no.1 a few months back. In fact it's a matter of time before this (or Mariah) does it.

Edited April 6, 20214 yr by Smint

Indeed it now joins the 15 on the previous page which have reached 9 out of 10:

 

All except #9

Wham! - Last Christmas (completed 9 positions in 2021, week 27 in the Top 10)

 

Although given how quickly it's lodged itself in the Top 5 in the last few years, it's difficult to see it landing at #9 on the way up, but I guess if the dates fell the right way it might.

#4 might happen this week: Ed, Adele and Mariah above it.

Edited December 5, 20213 yr by Sour Candy

It was #4 last week, #9 is the position it still needs.

Ah stupid me, yes, not happening this year.

What does Mariah need or is she still some way of it happening for her?

What does Mariah need or is she still some way of it happening for her?

#7, #9 & #10 I think. This week was actually its first ever at #3.

#7, #9 & #10 I think. This week was actually its first ever at #3.

 

You're right, just 7, 9 and 10 to get the full Top 10 run. She only needs 15 for a full run of 11-20, and 26 for a full run 21-30 - so she is 5 positions away from a full Top 30 (I know this is Top 10 in this thread!).

 

I suspect she might get 7 this year, given that a lot of new Christmas songs are combining and could de-thrown, looking at the current mid weeks.

 

Falling down this year might also get a good shot at 9 or 10 - Christmas music would be streamed on 24, 25 and 26 Dec for the chart announced 31 Dec, and so others could stream more in those days to push it down the chart enough to stay Top 10 and not leave.... but we shall see!

You're right, just 7, 9 and 10 to get the full Top 10 run. She only needs 15 for a full run of 11-20, and 26 for a full run 21-30 - so she is 5 positions away from a full Top 30 (I know this is Top 10 in this thread!).

 

I suspect she might get 7 this year, given that a lot of new Christmas songs are combining and could de-thrown, looking at the current mid weeks.

 

Falling down this year might also get a good shot at 9 or 10 - Christmas music would be streamed on 24, 25 and 26 Dec for the chart announced 31 Dec, and so others could stream more in those days to push it down the chart enough to stay Top 10 and not leave.... but we shall see!

I feel like locking in a new position at the end of this Christmas season is highly unlikely just because last year's chart that started with Friday on Dec 25th was enough to keep her at #2, whereas this year's equivalent chart starts on Dec 24th, giving the two biggest days together which is likely enough to beat any non-Christmas song.

All except #9

Wham! - Last Christmas (completed 9 positions in 2021, week 27 in the Top 10)

 

Although given how quickly it's lodged itself in the Top 5 in the last few years, it's difficult to see it landing at #9 on the way up, but I guess if the dates fell the right way it might.

And on its 32nd week in the Top 10, it now has!

And on its 32nd week in the Top 10, it now has!

Of course there is the caveat that since 2017, many of the positions are due to suppressed sales (ACR) so that does cheapen the record a little... Of course, The Weeknd - Blinding Lights and Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits have both done it on the 'unmanipulated' sales chart.......

ACR if anything makes it harder to achieve though x

ACR if anything makes it harder to achieve though x

Yeah, its swings and roundabouts. If a song doesn't complete the top 7 or so in its first 9 weeks it's going to be more difficult to do so once on ACR.

Of course Last Christmas would be at 2 not 9 this week without ACR, and may not have reached 4 or 5 if it hadn't been on ACR, but at the same time perhaps it did reach all those positions earlier if it wasn't on ACR... or perhaps another track has done it - we now Blinding Lights and Bad Habits did in the real single sales charts, so perhaps they also did it without ACR? Difficult to know as we don't have access to all the non-ACR data and can only guessestimate the positions if we're not given the exact sales....

 

Actually looking back Last Christmas was probably no.9 w/e 7/12/17 but I don't think it has ever been 4 or 5 without ACR....

Edited December 3, 20222 yr by braindeadpj

Congrats to Wham for this elusive achievement at long last!

Joseph gave us the old rules run for Someone You Loved a while back so we know for a fact that it did it on that basis…

 

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I think I worked out a while ago that from my estimates Blinding Lights did the whole Top 16.

 

But anyway well done Wham! for being the first to do it officially!

#7, #9 & #10 I think. This week was actually its first ever at #3.

 

It's really Incredible that it avoided the #3 position for so long.

So it looks likes the following may be true:

 

Songs to reach every position in the top 10:

Officially

Last Christmas

 

Without ACR:

Someone You Loved

Blinding Lights

 

Sales Only:

Blinding Lights

Bad Habits

 

It may be more frequent in the streaming only chart.....

 

Running up that Hill had 8 out of 10 weeks

1,

2,

3,

4,

5,

6,

8,

9,

So the previous record, of reaching all of the Top 9 positions stood since 1955, and Wham! have now pushed the record out to a Top 11 as of this weekend. They are only missing 12, 13, 15 and 17 in the Top 20, so will they be the first to the next milestone of a complete Top 12, or will someone else quickly take their record from them?

 

Looking at jim's list from page one for what else those artists need outside the ten:

As well as not having #1, and not being likely to get it now, Elvis doesn't have anything between #11 and #13, so extremely unlikely to beat Wham!'s new record

Taylor is only missing #1 to complete a Top 14, but that seems unlikely to happen unless something sad happens to her and ACR has been abolished by that point (or waived for that track)

The Pogues are only missing #1 and #11 to complete a Top 20, but their chance of #1 has probably declines in recent years, but if they can somehow fluke the elusive #1 (perhaps as and when Shane eventually leaves this moral coil) then smashing Wham!'s record would be well within their reach

Eminem doesn't have anything between #11 and #14, and probably isn't going to get it or the #3 on any resurgence.

Jane Morgan only needs to also get #12 to complete a Top 12, but realistically she won't get that or the #3 she needs under any conceivable circumstance

Lewis's chart run is genuinely astonishing, as he has all of the rest of the Top 31 except for #11, #16 and #17, but three separate weeks in the 'teens' would require a strange sort of resurgence poweful enough to get it back to precisely that sort of level for three or more weeks, whilst also happening to grab that #5 during that run.

Alma Cogan only needs her #7 to complete a Top 12, but I can't see that happening.

Mantovani only needs his #9 plus a #11 to complete a Top 12, but again it won't happen.

Frankie Laine only needs his #9 to complete a Top 11, but has no #12 or beyond, and although this song is probably more likely to have a random resurgence than most of the other 50s songs on the list it still probably won't happen.

Doris Day would need #11 and #12, in addition to #9, so not going to happen.

Ed Sheeran is only missing #9, #11 and #15 to get a Top 20.

Bill Haley is only missing #10, #11 and #16 to get a Top 18 (or a Top 20 if you can also count the 1974 reissue here), and maybe it could resurge for some reason I guess, but probably wouldn't get all three of those even if it did.

Kay Starr's #10 is all she needs for full Top 12, but it's another one that just isn't going to happen.

Russ Conway only needs #10, #11 and #14 for a Top 15, but yet another that won't ever rechart.

Little Mix are missing only #10 and #11 for a Top 12, and as the most recent song on the list probably has the best chance of a seemingly random resurgence, but I have to admit it's the only one oh here with a vocal that I can't instantly remember how it goes, so perhaps that means it's somehow less memorable and less likely to get a resurgence?

 

That's rather rambly, so to summarise them, in order of number of positions needed to complete at least a Top 12:

1 postion: Taylor, Alma, Kay

2 positions: Pogues, Jane, Lewis, Mantovani, Frankie, Ed, Bill, Russ and Little Mix

3 positions: Elvis, Eminem and Doris

 

Maybe a full top 12 won't happen, or at least something else new will come along that eventually achieves it rather than any of these? Of course if a Top 12 ever did happen then it would, in some ways, be the last 'true' record of this type, because the first couple of years of the chart were only a Top 12, so we can never be sure if some of these 50s contenders would have also got positions below #12 in their original chart runs, although I guess assuming it wasn't a 50's contender that got the full Top 12 record then it wouldn't matter that we don't know what their sub-12 positions would have been.