I am starting this topic as I would like to know many weeks each number one single has spent in the Top 40 UK chart history. To compile the charts, I need some help from other BuzzJack members with this project. The chart will be compiled based on total weeks at number one multiplied by the weeks in the Top 40 chart run.

Example: "The Rap" by adrianreavill83 spent 3 weeks at number one and 14 weeks in the Top 40 and scores 42 points overall

This fictitious entry above explains how this works

I'm sure "All I Want For Christmas Is You" will be the most successful, it has 101 weeks in the top 40. As It Was might be the biggest non-Christmas song

4 minutes ago, gasman449 said:

I'm sure "All I Want For Christmas Is You" will be the most successful, it has 101 weeks in the top 40. As It Was might be the biggest non-Christmas song

That would only put it on 303 points as it's spent 3 weeks at #1. 'As It Was' spent 10 weeks at #1 and, by my counting, 65 weeks in the top 40, giving it 650 points, blowing Mariah (and probably everything else) out of the water!

Edited February 27Feb 27 by Mangø

Here's my stab at a top 10, I may have missed some others above 400 points. Wham! will surely only add to their lead as time goes on:

890 Last Christmas

686 Shape Of You

675 One Dance

650 As It Was

648 I Believe

624 Bad Habits

572 Dance Monkey

560 Blinding Lights

483 Someone You Loved

406 Stick Season

55 minutes ago, jimwatts said:

Here's my stab at a top 10, I may have missed some others above 400 points. Wham! will surely only add to their lead as time goes on:

890 Last Christmas

I make 'Last Christmas' 720 (10 weeks #1 x 72 weeks top 40), how have you got 890?

Edited February 27Feb 27 by Mangø

The OCC splits the 72 weeks from its digital era run and the 17 weeks from its original run in the 1980s, so 89 weeks Top 40 altogether.

Thanks, didn't realise that. Had no idea that it had accumulated as many as 10 weeks at #1 either!

I started this thread to tie in with and to celebrate the new BuzzJack theme

Benson Boone - Beautiful Things spent 2 at number one and 52 in the top 40 (104) at the time of posting

Wonder what this would look like with #2s? I did... points are weeks at #2 x weeks Top 40, as at last Friday - when this had a new leader!

246 Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!

245 Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera - Moves Like Jagger

210 cassö, RAYE & D-Block Europe - Prada

192 Frank Chacksfield - Terry's Theme (Theme From "Limelight"

192 Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York

190 Free - All Right Now *

180 Hozier - Take Me To Church

175 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor

174 Fireboy DML & Ed Sheeran - Peru

162 The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber - STAY

* includes 7 weeks Top 40 for 'The Free EP' for which this was the lead track.

'APT.' should gatecrash this list in April.

No way has Good Luck Babe beaten Moves Like Jagger, that's actually insane!