A deserving run for Something New!!!! All Fired Up deservedly having a mammoth run too!

2013

113 will.i.am & Britney Spears "Scream & Shout" (7 weeks)

114 Disclosure feat. AlunaGeorge "White Noise" (2 weeks)

115 Pink feat. Nate Ruess "Just Give Me A Reason" (1 week)

116 Justin Timberlake "Mirrors" (7 weeks)

117 Calvin Harris feat. Ellie Goulding "I Need Your Love" (1 week)

118 Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams "Get Lucky" (7 weeks)

119 Robin Thicke feat. T.I. & Pharrell "Blurred Lines" (2 weeks)

120 Icona Pop feat. Charli XCX "I Love It" (1 week)

121 John Newman "Love Me Again" (1 week)

122 Avicii feat. Aloe Blacc "Wake Me Up" (3 weeks)

123 Lana Del Rey feat. Cedric Gervais "Summertime Sadness" (3 weeks)

124 Lady Gaga "Applause" (2 weeks)

125 Katy Perry "Roar" (5 weeks)

126 Miley Cyrus "Wrecking Ball" (1 week)

127 Britney Spears "Work Bitch" (2 weeks)

128 Lady Gaga feat. R. Kelly "Do What U Want" (2 weeks)

129 Little Mix "Move" (3 weeks)

130 Lily Allen "Somewhere Only We Know" (1 week)

131 Leona Lewis "One More Sleep" (2 weeks)

2013 brings a more diverse list of #1s than we've seen in a while. Yes, we have the usual Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Britney Spears, but we also have Disclosure! John Newman! Avicii! And R. Kelly, oops. Charli XCX gets her first #1 in 2013 (just like the official chart), and the very first Christmas song to top the Multichart happens in 2013. 'One More Sleep' is still the only festive track to achieve this.

Three songs tie with 7 weeks at #1, all in the first half of the year, meaning 'Scream & Shout', 'Mirrors' and 'Get Lucky' were #1 for 21 of those 26 weeks. Britney and Pharrell tie for most weeks at #1 by artist, with 9 weeks apiece.

Glad to see 'Summertime Sadness' had a few weeks at #1, even if it was mostly down to the remix.

Get Lucky and White Noise are great number 1s!

2014

132 Avicii "Hey Brother" (1 week)

133 Little Mix "Little Me" (2 weeks)

134 Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne "Rather Be" (5 weeks)

135 Katy B "Crying For No Reason" (2 weeks)

136 Katy Perry feat. Juicy J "Dark Horse" (1 week)

137 Kylie Minogue "Into The Blue" (2 weeks)

138 Duke Dumont feat. Jax Jones "I Got U" (1 week)

139 Kiesza "Hideaway" (5 weeks)

140 Rita Ora "I Will Never Let You Down" (2 weeks)

141 Paloma Faith "Only Love Can Hurt Like This" (1 week)

142 Ella Henderson "Ghost" (7 weeks)

143 Sia "Chandelier" (2 weeks)

144 Charli XCX "Boom Clap" (2 weeks)

145 Kiesza "Giant In My Heart" (1 week)

146 Iggy Azalea feat. Rita Ora "Black Widow" (3 weeks)

147 Taylor Swift "Shake It Off" (3 weeks)

148 Sigma feat. Paloma Faith "Changing" (1 week)

149 Ella Henderson "Glow" (3 weeks)

150 Cheryl "I Don't Care" (2 weeks)

151 The Veronicas "You Ruin Me" (1 week)

152 Taylor Swift "Blank Space" (5 weeks)

2014 brings us the fastest #1 turnover to date, with a whopping 21 #1s! Many artists getting their very first chart-topper, including Kylie, Rita Ora, Paloma Faith, Ella Henderson, Iggy Azalea, and The Veronicas. Rita, Ella and Paloma quickly followed up with a second #1, as did Kiesza!

Speaking of Ella Henderson, despite the quick turnover, 'Ghost' manages a 7-week reign to be the longest-reigning #1 of the year. She also claims the most weeks at #1 by an artist, as the 3 weeks for 'Glow' give her a total of 10. Meanwhile, Sia's 'Chandelier' had the most overall longevity , ending up at #1 on the Year-End Multichart.

Oh I forgot that 'Glow' went to #1 here! It feels quite forgotten now sadly but I like it a lot.

One of my earliest Multichart memories (I don't think I was a mod yet) was 'Hideaway' reaching #1 before it was officially released. I'm not sure if any other songs managed that feat, but that was the only time I noticed it and I was truly amazed!

2015

153 Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars "Uptown Funk" (5 weeks)

154 Ellie Goulding "Love Me Like You Do" (8 weeks)

155 Years & Years "King" (1 week)

156 Jess Glynne "Hold My Hand" (3 weeks)

157 Major Lazer & DJ Snake feat. MØ "Lean On" (5 weeks)

158 Taylor Swift feat. Kendrick Lamar "Bad Blood" (2 weeks)

159 Little Mix "Black Magic" (8 weeks)

160 Calvin Harris & Disciples "How Deep Is Your Love" (5 weeks)

161 Jess Glynne "Don't Be So Hard On Yourself" (1 week)

162 Sigala "Easy Love" (1 week)

163 Ellie Goulding "On My Mind" (2 weeks)

164 Little Mix "Love Me Like You" (2 weeks)

165 Adele "Hello" (11 weeks)

A much shorter list this year with only 13 #1s. You'll see Ellie Goulding and Little Mix both had an 8-week #1 followed by a 2-week #1, for a total of 10 weeks each. But they both were later outdone by Adele, whose 'Hello' debuted at #1 (a very rare occurrence!) and stayed for 11 weeks, finally breaking the record of 10 weeks shared by 'Bad Romance' and 'We Found Love'!

2016

166 Grace feat. G-Eazy "You Don’t Own Me" (1 week)

167 Little Mix feat. Jason Derulo "Secret Love Song" (7 weeks)

168 Coldplay "Hymn For The Weekend" (1 week)

169 Mike Posner "I Took A Pill In Ibiza" (3 weeks)

170 Fifth Harmony feat. Ty Dolla $ign "Work From Home" (1 week)

171 Sia feat. Sean Paul "Cheap Thrills" (5 weeks)

172 Calvin Harris feat. Rihanna "This Is What You Came For" (4 weeks)

173 Clean Bandit feat. Louisa Johnson "Tears" (6 weeks)

174 Ariana Grande "Into You" (1 week)

175 MØ "Final Song" (2 weeks)

176 Major Lazer feat. Justin Bieber & MØ "Cold Water" (1 week)

177 Christine and the Queens "Tilted / Christine" (1 week)

178 DJ Snake feat. Justin Bieber "Let Me Love You" (3 weeks)

179 Lady Gaga "Perfect Illusion" (1 week)

180 Sia feat. Kendrick Lamar "The Greatest" (3 weeks)

181 The Weeknd feat. Daft Punk "Starboy" (3 weeks)

182 Clean Bandit feat. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie "Rockabye" (8 weeks)

2016, a year that the official charts were known for being extra slow, but the Multichart #1 list doesn't look so bad! Little Mix pick up another long-runner of 7 weeks for 'Secret Love Song', but surprisingly 'Shout Out To My Ex' falls short of the top spot. Coldplay sneaks in for a week, Fifth Harmony get their first and only #1, and Sia adds two more to her tally. MØ appears on back-to-back #1s, while Justin Bieber's pair is sandwiched between none other than Christine and the Queens! The Weeknd makes his first appearance on the list as well.

The year's longest-running #1 is at the very end, when Clean Bandit's 'Rockabye' reigned for 8 weeks. They add 6 more weeks from 'Tears' for a total of 14, followed by Sean Paul, who adds 5 weeks from his feature on 'Cheap Thrills' for a total of 13 weeks.

2017

183 Little Mix "Touch" (5 weeks)

184 Jax Jones feat. RAYE "You Don’t Know Me" (1 week)

185 Dua Lipa "Be The One" (1 week)

186 Katy Perry feat. Skip Marley "Chained To The Rhythm" (6 weeks)

187 Clean Bandit feat. Zara Larsson "Symphony" (7 weeks)

188 Lady Gaga "The Cure" (1 week)

189 Miley Cyrus "Malibu" (6 weeks)

190 Calvin Harris feat. Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry & Big Sean "Feels" (3 weeks)

191 Dua Lipa "New Rules" (10 weeks)

192 ZAYN feat. Sia "Dusk Till Dawn" (1 week)

193 Avicii feat. Rita Ora "Lonely Together" (2 weeks)

194 Rita Ora "Anywhere" (13 weeks)

With this post we enter the (celebrated/dreaded in equal measure) ACR era! Not that the Multichart has ACR of course, but it certainly has affected Buzzjack discussions ever since. You'll remember Ed Sheeran was by far the biggest name of 2017, but he is not to be found on this list, in fact his first/only Multichart #1 is still to come. Instead we stick to our familiar faves, as Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Little Mix and more add to their #1 tallies. Dua Lipa earns her first two #1s, and her rising star is illustrated going from 1-week #1 'Be The One' to 10-week #1 'New Rules'.

We end the year with the most-weeks-at-#1 record being broken yet again (actually, it didn't happen until January). Rita Ora's 'Anywhere' spent 13 weeks at the top spot, a full three months, or quarter of a year, overtaking Adele whose 'Hello' held the record of 11 weeks for 2 years.

2018

195 Dua Lipa "IDGAF" (3 weeks)

196 Rudimental feat. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen "These Days" (3 weeks)

197 Marshmello & Anne-Marie "FRIENDS" (3 weeks)

198 George Ezra "Paradise" (2 weeks)

199 Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa "One Kiss" (4 weeks)

200 Ariana Grande "no tears left to cry" (4 weeks)

201 Clean Bandit feat. Demi Lovato "Solo" (6 weeks)

202 Cheat Codes & Little Mix "Only You" (2 weeks)

203 Ariana Grande "God is a woman" (5 weeks)

204 Calvin Harris & Sam Smith "Promises" (3 weeks)

205 Silk City & Dua Lipa feat. Diplo & Mark Ronson "Electricity" (1 week)

206 Rita Ora "Let You Love Me" (7 weeks)

207 Ariana Grande "thank u, next" (1 week)

208 Ava Max "Sweet But Psycho" (2 weeks)

209 Mark Ronson feat. Miley Cyrus "Nothing Breaks Like A Heart" (8 weeks)

Dua Lipa follows up her two #1s in 2017 with three more in 2018! 'IDGAF' was the one to finally put Rita Ora’s record-breaking run to a stop, then 'One Kiss' had four weeks and 'Electricity' had one. Rita, by the way, spent seven more weeks at #1 this year with 'Let You Love Me'.
Ariana Grande also had three #1s in 2018, with 10 weeks total between 'no tears left to cry' (the 200^th Multichart #1!), 'God is a woman' and 'thank u, next'.
As for George Ezra, we decided 'Paradise' was more worthy of #1 than 'Shotgun', which tbf was faced with tougher competition. Even brand-new Buzzfave Ava Max was lucky to get two weeks at #1 with her debut 'Sweet But Psycho', before Mark and Miley’s 'Nothing Breaks Like A Heart' stormed its way to the top, where it held on for 8 weeks.

2019

210 Ariana Grande "7 rings" (5 weeks)

211 Mabel "Don’t Call Me Up" (2 weeks)

212 Ava Max "So Am I" (2 weeks)

213 Billie Eilish "Bad Guy" (2 weeks)

214 Jax Jones & Martin Solveig present Europa with Madison Beer "All Day And Night" (3 weeks)

215 Taylor Swift feat. Brendon Urie "ME!" (3 weeks)

216 Katy Perry "Never Really Over" (6 weeks)

217 Kygo & Whitney Houston "Higher Love" (10 weeks)

218 Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus & Lana Del Rey "Don’t Call Me Angel" (2 weeks)

219 Tones and I "Dance Monkey" (3 weeks)

220 Jax Jones & Ella Henderson "This Is Real" (1 week)

221 Dua Lipa "Don’t Start Now" (9 weeks)

It was another female-heavy year of #1s in 2019, with familiar faces like Ariana Grande and Katy Perry, mixing with fresher faces like Mabel, Billie Eilish and Tones And I. Yes, despite how maligned it was around here, 'Dance Monkey' still had enough fans on Buzzjack to be #1 for 3 weeks. And then there's the late Whitney Houston casually getting her first Multichart #1. She and Kygo spent the most weeks at #1 with 10, even more than Ariana Grande and Jax Jones who had multiple chart-toppers. We end the year with another #1 for Dua Lipa, whose 9 weeks for 'Don't Start Now' carry over into 2020.

2020

222 The Weeknd "Blinding Lights" (4 weeks)

223 Dua Lipa "Physical" (10 weeks)

224 Dua Lipa "Break My Heart" (5 weeks)

225 Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande "Rain On Me" (10 weeks)

226 Dua Lipa "Hallucinate" (3 weeks)

227 Kylie Minogue "Say Something" (1 week)

228 Miley Cyrus "Midnight Sky" (8 weeks)

229 Dua Lipa feat. DaBaby "Levitating" (2 weeks)

230 Little Mix "Sweet Melody" (4 weeks)

231 Miley Cyrus feat. Dua Lipa "Prisoner" (5 weeks)

Dua Lipa began the year with six Multichart #1s, and nearly doubles that amount over the course of the year with five more, bringing her total to 11! I’m sure 5 #1s in a year is a record for any artist. In total, Dua was #1 for nearly half the year, 25/52 weeks. Her longest-running #1 was ‘Physical’ at 10 weeks, which was later matched by ‘Rain On Me’ as the joint-longest running #1 of the year.
The biggest non-Dua faves of 2020 were ‘Blinding Lights’, ‘Midnight Sky’ and ‘Sweet Melody’, which all spent at least a month at the top. And Kylie managed to sneak in for just a week with ‘Say Something’, her first Multi #1 since ‘Into The Blue’ in 2014!

So grateful to Dua for saving us from that pandemic ❤️

2021

232 Taylor Swift "willow" (2 weeks)

233 Olivia Rodrigo "drivers license" (6 weeks)

234 Ava Max "My Head & My Heart" (3 weeks)

235 Jessie Ware "Remember Where You Are" (1 week)

236 Lil Nas X "MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)" (4 weeks)

237 Years & Years "Starstruck" (4 weeks)

238 Galantis, David Guetta & Little Mix "Heartbreak Anthem" (8 weeks)

239 Ed Sheeran "Bad Habits" (3 weeks)

240 The Weeknd "Take My Breath" (2 weeks)

241 Elton John & Dua Lipa "Cold Heart" (9 weeks)

242 Adele "Easy On Me" (8 weeks)

In this list I see a fair amount of relatively veteran artists finally earning their first Multichart #1 - namely, Jessie Ware, Years & Years, Ed Sheeran, and of course, Elton John! 'Cold Heart' was even the longest-running #1 of the year, with 9 weeks at the top. Lil Nas X also earns his first and only Multi #1 to date, and Olivia Rodrigo unsurprisingly got her first with 'drivers license', although her follow-up singles fell short.

For the first time, no artist appears on the list more than once, although Dua Lipa kind of does, with the #1 run of 'Prisoner' carrying over into 2021.

I thought Ed's only #1 would have to be 'Bad Habits' - he nearly got a second with 'Azizam'. A couple of omissions stand out for 2021 - 'Save Your Tears' was probably too much of a slow burner, but 'good 4 u' is a surprising one!

*Video has an epilepsy warning!*

2022

243 GAYLE "abcdefu" (4 weeks)

244 The Weeknd "Sacrifice" (3 weeks)

245 Charli XCX feat. Rina Sawayama "Beg For You" (5 weeks)

246 Jax Jones feat. MNEK "Where Did You Go?" (3 weeks)

247 Harry Styles "As It Was" (6 weeks)

248 Sam Ryder "SPACE MAN" (4 weeks)

249 Lizzo "About Damn Time" (1 week)

250 LF SYSTEM "Afraid To Feel" (3 weeks)

251 Beyoncé "Break My Soul" (6 weeks)

252 Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal "B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All)" (3 weeks)

253 Elton John & Britney Spears "Hold Me Closer" (1 week)

254 David Guetta & Bebe Rexha "I’m Good (Blue)" (3 weeks)

255 Sam Smith feat. Kim Petras "Unholy" (2 weeks)

256 Taylor Swift "Anti-Hero" (8 weeks)

14 #1s in a year during the streaming era is pretty good! Harry Styles finally gets his very first Multi #1, as does Lizzo, while Beyoncé has her first since 2011, Britney her first since 2013, and Charli her first since 2014. Eurovision and the Buzzjack Song Contest are both represented with 'SPACE MAN' and 'B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All)' respectively.

The longest-running #1 of the year was Taylor Swift with 'Anti-Hero', its 8th week at #1 coinciding with the last chart week of 2022. For the second year in a row, no artist has multiple #1s!

2023

257 RAYE feat. 070 Shake "Escapism." (4 weeks)

258 Miley Cyrus "Flowers" (9 weeks)

259 Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding "Miracle" (7 weeks)

260 Loreen "Tattoo" (3 weeks)

261 Kylie Minogue "Padam Padam" (7 weeks)

262 Peggy Gou "It Goes Like (Nanana)" (1 week)

263 Olivia Rodrigo "vampire" (3 weeks)

264 Billie Eilish "What Was I Made For?" (2 weeks)

265 Olivia Rodrigo "bad idea right?" (3 weeks)

266 Kylie Minogue "Tension" (4 weeks)

267 Tate McRae "greedy" (2 weeks)

268 Troye Sivan "One Of Your Girls" (1 week)

269 Dua Lipa "Houdini" (10 weeks)

Did you notice how more male artists than usual got to #1 in 2022? Well, that's not the case in 2023, as we retreat back to our female faves. Miley Cyrus has the longest-running #1 with 9 weeks for 'Flowers'. Dua Lipa spends 10 weeks at #1 with 'Houdini' but a few of those were in 2024. And Kylie spends 11 weeks in total at #1 between 'Padam Padam' and 'Tension'. Olivia Rodrigo also sends a pair of her songs to #1.

Congrats to four artists getting their first Multi #1: 070 Shake, Peggy Gou, Tate McRae and Troye Sivan!

2024

270 Ariana Grande "yes, and?" (5 weeks)

271 Dua Lipa "Training Season" (5 weeks)

272 Ariana Grande "we can’t be friends (wait for your love)" (4 weeks)

273 Sabrina Carpenter "Espresso" (10 weeks)

274 Sabrina Carpenter "Please Please Please" (3 weeks)

275 JADE "Angel Of My Dreams" (7 weeks)

276 Sabrina Carpenter "Taste" (6 weeks)

277 ROSÉ & Bruno Mars "APT." (12 weeks)

2024 is (so far) remembered as having a lot of big hits and a decent amount of turnover in the official charts. But that was not reflected in the Multichart, as this list of #1s is the shortest to date, with only 8 of them! Not one song had a 1 or 2-week stay at the top, only one had a 3-week run and likewise for 4 weeks.

It was Sabrina Carpenter's year as she got three consecutive singles to #1 in pretty quick succession, and spent a total of 19 weeks in the top spot. 'Espresso' technically had the longest run at #1 within the year, with 10 weeks. ROSÉ & Bruno Mars would surpass that with 'APT.' staying for 12 weeks, but only 9 of those weeks occurred in 2024. 9 weeks matches how long Ariana Grande spent at the top with her pair of #1s.

Speaking of Bruno Mars, not only was he the only male artist at #1 the entire year, but he closes nearly a 10-year gap between #1s, with 'Uptown Funk' getting there in early 2015!

2025

278 Lola Young "Messy" (3 weeks)

279 Lady Gaga "Abracadabra" (10 weeks)

280 Miley Cyrus "End Of The World" (5 weeks)

It may be June, but we've only had three new #1s so far this year. Lady Gaga earned her third 10-week #1, with 'Abracadabra' matching the reigns of 'Bad Romance' and 'Rain On Me'. In total Gaga has spent 65 weeks at #1 - that's a year and three months! Let's see who's accumulated the most #1s and the most weeks at #1:

Lady Gaga - 15 #1s, 65 weeks at #1

Dua Lipa - 14 #1s, 77 weeks at #1

Rihanna - 12 #1s, 44 weeks at #1

Katy Perry - 12 #1s, 43 weeks at #1

Little Mix - 11 #1s, 46 weeks at #1

Calvin Harris - 9 #1s, 38 weeks at #1

Ariana Grande - 9 #1s, 37 weeks at #1

Miley Cyrus - 8 #1s, 44 weeks at #1

Girls Aloud - 8 #1s, 30 weeks at #1

Taylor Swift - 7 #1s, 26 weeks at #1

Britney Spears - 7 #1s, 24 weeks at #1

Clean Bandit - 5 #1s, 32 weeks at #1

Rita Ora - 5 #1s, 27 weeks at #1

Beyoncé - 4 #1s, 21 weeks at #1

Adele - 3 #1s, 22 weeks at #1

*a few artists missing from the lower end of this list

And Miley Cyrus has the honor of being #1 on the 1000th Multichart. Thanks to everyone who has followed and commented on this thread, it turned out to be a great celebration!