well U2 were #1 with the lead single off their 5 big albums post The Joshua tree (except Zooropa)

just in 2005 they happened to have a 2nd #1 off an album cos the market was so so low, same times as those Elvis reissues all getting#1 with 20K

No 62- Tinie Tempah (7)- 9 weeks

 

 

Chart toppers:

 

• Pass Out (2010)

• Written In The Stars (2010)

• RIP (2012)

• Tsunami (2014)

• Crazy Stupid Love (2014)

• Not Letting Go (2015)

• Turn The Music Louder (2015)

 

Still the UK’s most successful rap artist by amount of chart toppers. He’s disappeared over the last few years preferring to concentrate on his fashion label getting married and becoming a father. Maybe he’ll be back shortly.

 

No 61- Ray Hedges (7)- 10 weeks

 

 

Chart Toppers:

 

• A Different Beat (1996)

• C’est La Vie (1998)

• Rollercoaster (1998)-

• To You I Belong (1999)

• Blame It On The Weatherman (1999)

• Don’t Give It Up (2000)

• Shout (2010)

 

The writer of choice if you were a late 90s Irish pop group clear. His nickname was “Mad”- don’t know why- but he co-penned all 4 of B*Witched’s No 1’s but he took a 10 year break from writing the chart toppers until randomly Dizzee Rascal helped him back.

 

No 60- Savan Kotecha (7)- 11 weeks

 

 

Chart toppers:

 

• The Club Is Alive (2010)

• Start Without You (2010)

• What Makes You Beautiful (2011)

• Problem (2014)

• Bang Bang (2014)

• Love Me Like You Do (2015)

• Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored (2019)

 

Check out his wiki page to see the full list of acts this Guy has written for- a pretty impressive list by anyone’s standard. He was executive musical director for the film “Eurovision: Story Of Fire Saga” and arranged the music for the flick.

 

Freddie gets one extra for these are the days of our life?

 

Hal david, slade, u2, freddie significantly fab. Clean bandit writers decent too. :)

Freddie gets one extra for these are the days of our life?

You could add it to Mercury as the official credit is Queen though it was written by Roger Taylor so I erred on the side of caution. :D

Savan Kotecha is a background name I'm more familiar with due to his writing with Ariana. Turns out his Sound of Music interpolation involvement is 'The Club Is Alive' and not '7 rings', though. :lol:

No 103- Per Magnusson & David Krueger (5)- 10 weeks

 

 

Chart toppers:

 

• If I Let You Go (1999)

• Fool Again (2000)

• My Love (2000)

• Evergreen (2002)

• Anyone Of Us (Stupid Mistake) (2002)

 

How many former members of Cheiron will feature here? Well Magnusson and Krueger were one of the founding members and started writing No 1 hits when they co-wrote for Westlife’s first two albums which in turn led to their involvement with the original “Pop Idol” series contestants. Krueger still writes regular entries for Swedish Eurovision tracks.

 

:unsure: I thought Evergreen was a really old song? How does this work :thinking:

 

Great thread btw very interesting!

 

I think you mean a different Evergreen, the Barbra Streisand song from the 70s that won an oscar?

this is a different Evergreen, written for Westlife and then covered by Will Young who took it to #1

Tinie hasn't stopped releasing music, it just mostly goes very under the radar these days (he made a very minor 'comeback' in 2020 with a song that got to #64) - tbh I feel like the appeal of his early hits was mostly in them being a bit humorous and he started taking himself too seriously after that so not surprised the interest fell off.

I think you mean a different Evergreen, the Barbra Streisand song from the 70s that won an oscar?

this is a different Evergreen, written for Westlife and then covered by Will Young who took it to #1

 

Oh :lol: well that explains that, thank you

No 59- Timbaland (7)- 15 weeks

 

 

Chart Toppers:

 

• More Than A Woman (2002)

• Maneater (2006)

• Sexyback (2006)

• Give It To Me (2007)

• The Way I Are (2007)

• 4 Minutes (2008)

• Mirrors (2013)

 

Who recalls the Timbaland domination of the UK charts in the mid to late 00s? His music dominated the radio and the charts becoming synonymous with the era, of course he started out in the 90s helping out Missy Elliott and Aaliyah and being instrumental in moving R’N’B to centre stage in the main pop arena. His work with Justin Timberake and Nelly Furtado remains his most successful era UK No 1 wise.

 

No 58- Cirkut (7)- 15 weeks

 

 

Chart toppers:

 

• Good Feeling (2012)

• Domino (2012)

• Roar (2013)

• Wrecking Ball (2013)

• Timber (2014)

• Sweet But Psycho (2019)

• Unholy (2022)

 

Henry Walter is his proper name but this Canadian Producer and writer knows how to write number 1’s. He’s been involved romantically with Ava Max for the better part of a decade so naturally helped out with “Sweet But Psycho” and recently increased his tally thanks to co-writing “Unholy”.

 

No 57- James Napier (7)- 16 weeks

 

Chart toppers:

 

• La La La (2013)

• Stay With Me (2014)

• Rather Be (2014)

• Lay Me Down (2015)

• Writing’s On The Wall (2015)

• Too Good At Goodbyes (2017)

• Unholy (2022)

 

Also known as Jimmy Napes he got his big break when he started working with Eliza Doolittle and Disclosure in 2010 which in turn led to an introduction to Sam Smith. Since then he’s been a collaborator of choice for Smith as well as the occasion track with Taylor Swift, Celine Dion and Stormzy.

 

Timbaland is another one who feels too low but again I guess he was just involved with a lot of big hits that didn't quite reach #1.

 

Funny that we have 2 of the writers of 'Unholy' back to back with them sharing no other songs!

Timbaland's the great one in that batch, he was on fire back in the day. Some of the obscure names cropping up now are all part of the formulaic faceless hordes of polish-it-up songwriters that have dominated the streaming era, or previous formulaic bandwagon pullers. For the most part I'm not especially impressed with the listed tracks, and I'd wonder how much La La La (one I rate highly) was Naughty Boy and how much non-Naughty Boy - certainly the basic song was Naughty Boy as he intended to work with Emeli Sande to finish it, but she wasn't available (happily for everyone concerned as it turns out).

No 55- Mick Jagger & Keith Richards (7)- 17 weeks

 

 

Chart Toppers:

 

• The Last Time (1965)- 3

• (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (1965)- 2

• Get Off Of My Cloud (1965)- 3

• Paint It, Black (1966)- 1

• Out Of Time (1966)- 1

• Jumpin Jack Flash (1968)- 2

• Honky Tonk Woman (1969)- 5

 

The only act to truly rival the Beatles in the second half of the sixties, it was these two that wrote the hits for the band, They did like to cover old Blues tracks so they lose some traction on this list but gifted one of their songs to Chris Farlowe who took it No 1 to make up for it.

 

No 53- Bruno Mars & Phillip Lawrence (7)- 18 weeks

 

 

Chart toppers:

 

• Right Round (2009)

• Nothin’ On You (2010)

• Just The Way You Are (Amazing) (2010)

• f*** You (2010)

• Grenade (2011)

• Lazy Song (2011)

• Uptown Funk (2014)

 

We’ve already had Ari Levine but here’s the rest of the Smeezingtons. Mars was of course once a regular to the top spot scoring 5 of his own chart toppers but pre fame he helped Flo Rida to the No 1 spot, Lawrence hasn’t worked with Mars since 2018 choosing to focus on his family life.

 

As the next entry are a trio it means that we have started on the top 50 Songwriters of all time! (in terms of No 1 singles).

Ooh I didn't know that 'Out of Time' was originally a Stones song! I absolutely love the Chris Farlowe version. :wub: