Posted July 16, 20213 yr As of this week, “Dance Monkey” by Australian singer-songwriter Tones And I, has become the milestone 20th song to have spent at least 100 weeks on the UK Singles Chart Top 100. Released in 2019, the song became the longest-running number one song in Australian history (24 weeks), and the longest-running number one single in the UK by a female artist (11 weeks). Even today, the song is still continuing to chart. Here is a definitive list of every single song that has spent 100 or more weeks in the UK Singles Chart Top 100: 1) The Killers - Mr. Brightside (276 weeks) 2) Ed Sheeran - Perfect (179 weeks) 3) Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars (166 weeks) 4) Frank Sinatra - My Way (134 weeks) 5) Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved (129 weeks) 6) Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire (125 weeks) 7) George Ezra - Shotgun (122 weeks) 8) Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud (118 weeks) 9) Sia - Chandelier (114 weeks) 10) Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - Shallow (112 weeks) 11) Oasis - Whatever (112 weeks) 12) The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York (111 weeks) 13) The Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling (109 weeks) 14) Imagine Dragons - Radioactive (107 weeks) 15) Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You (107 weeks) 16) Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody (104 weeks) 17) Bastille - Pompeii (103 weeks) 18) Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody (103 weeks) 19) Take That - Rule The World (102 weeks) 20) Tones And I - Dance Monkey (100 weeks)
July 16, 20213 yr Very impressive as it has amassed 100 weeks in only 2 chart runs with only 2 weeks off the chart before re-entering. How many chart runs have each of the top 20 had?
July 16, 20213 yr I missed that 'Perfect' had also surpassed 'Chasing Cars'. Good. x (And it really doesn't feel like it was that long ago that 'Mr. Brightside' took the lead but it's now more than 100 weeks ahead of it, time flies)
July 16, 20213 yr Has anything managed 100 consecutive weeks? Blinding Lights will do that before being knocked out in the Christmas rush.
July 16, 20213 yr Has anything managed 100 consecutive weeks? Blinding Lights will do that before being knocked out in the Christmas rush. Someone You Loved did exactly 100 (on weeks 2-101 of its run)
July 16, 20213 yr Author Very impressive as it has amassed 100 weeks in only 2 chart runs with only 2 weeks off the chart before re-entering. How many chart runs have each of the top 20 had? Mr. Brightside is currently on its 57th (and second-longest) chart run. Perfect is currently on its 7th chart run. Chasing Cars has had 18 chart runs (last seen in the chart in December 2014). My Way has had 9 runs (last seen in the chart in January 1972). Someone You Loved is currently on its second chart run. Sex On Fire has had 6 chart runs (last seen in the chart in January 2013). Shotgun has had 4 chart runs (last seen in the chart in June 2021). Thinking Out Loud has had 7 chart runs (last seen in the chart in February 2021). Chandelier has had 5 chart runs (last seen in the chart in February 2017). Shallow has had 7 chart runs (last seen in the chart in June 2021). Whatever has had 14 chart runs (last seen in the chart in July 2010). Fairytale Of New York has had 19 chart runs (last seen in the chart in January 2021). I Gotta Feeling has had 9 chart runs (last seen in the chart in June 2012). Radioactive has had 7 chart runs (last seen in the chart on this day in 2015). All I Want For Christmas Is You has had 16 chart runs (last seen in the chart in January 2021). Use Somebody has had 21 chart runs (last seen in the chart in June 2014). Merry Xmas Everybody has had 25 chart runs (last seen in the chart in January 2021). Pompeii has had 5 chart runs (last seen in the chart in October 2016). Rule The World has had 8 chart runs (last seen in the chart in November 2012). Dance Monkey is current on its second chart run. Edited July 16, 20213 yr by daniellovesmusic
July 16, 20213 yr Blinding Lights will almost certainly become the first to reach 100 weeks while on its first chart run by the end of October - unless The Weeknd drops a surprise album which gets it starred out before then. It could well be the 21st to cross the line, although Shape Of You is on 98 weeks and looks to have narrowly missed the Top 100 this week and last.
July 16, 20213 yr I missed that 'Perfect' had also surpassed 'Chasing Cars'. Good. x (And it really doesn't feel like it was that long ago that 'Mr. Brightside' took the lead but it's now more than 100 weeks ahead of it, time flies) How many weeks did Chasing Cars potentially lose though from being inelligible when the chart rules allowed labels to 'strike out' their releases, before the rules changed again at new year and allowed all the struck out songs back in? Would it be enough weeks that it could potentially have still been on top otherwise?
July 16, 20213 yr Chasing Cars was ineligible for 7 weeks, so even with these included it would still be some distance behind Perfect (and Mr Brightside) by now. However it would have then stayed 112 consecutive weeks in the Top 100, which would still be the record as things stand.
July 16, 20213 yr Someone You Loved is currently on its second chart run. Third, it had a single week at #100 a little while ahead of the start of its 'main' run.
July 16, 20213 yr One of my friends asked me to put this on in the car the other day and I raised my voice, raised my finger and said "NOT IN THIS CAR." God I can't stand it. :lol:
July 16, 20213 yr One of my friends asked me to put this on in the car the other day and I raised my voice, raised my finger and said "NOT IN THIS CAR." God I can't stand it. :lol: Feels a bit dramatic but okay :lol:
July 17, 20213 yr I got so fed up with Dance Monkey, but now its only played now and again it has regained some of its appeal. The music video remains unwatchable though.
July 17, 20213 yr I believe by the Autumn Tones will have overtaken Mariah to have the biggest female solo single ever. Then Mariah will re-overtake obviously.
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