I did wonder if people would get caught out by Frankie Laine

I think I tripped up on a pairing towards the very bottom... forgot 'Escapism.' was #1 for only one week

By my calculations im beating @Spiceboy by 115 points and IIRC only 10 questions so with 1 left it finally defeated him 🤣 could be second to last overall for all i care 🤣

10. Rank these songs in order of how many chart sales they achieved on their FIRST WEEK at #1, from MOST to LEAST.

Will Young - Anything Is Possible/Evergreen (1,108,659)

Gareth Gates - Unchained Melody (850,535)

Shayne Ward - That's My Goal (742,180)

Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name (502,569)

Adele – Hello (332,599)

Avicii - Wake Me Up (266,524)

Taylor Swift - The Fate Of Ophelia (132,501)

Olivia Dean - Man I Need (76,820)

Kenya Grace – Strangers (40,152)

Orson - No Tomorrow (17,694)

“First week at #1” was important here, because not all of these debuted at #1! I decided not to include Elton John – Candle In The Wind as that would’ve tripped people up, its million-selling week was not its first week at #1. People generally remembered that Kenya Grace had low sales weeks at the top, but not as low as Orson, and Taylor just had a higher-selling first week than Olivia Dean. That said, some of you still got mixed up here or there, but overall this was a well-scoring question to end the quiz on.

100 points: danG, gasman449, gooddelta, Jahq, jimwatts, paulgilb, rio309, TimConArtist

80 points: 1^∞, 777666jason, dandy*, Dobbo, Jade, PeteFromLeeds, vibe

75 points: Roba

60 points: Chez Wombat, chrissmith276, jack, Jordanlee1402

55 points: AaronTM

50 points: Adele, Ansel, Conorw, Spiceboy

40 points: DaTilt, King Rollo, Mango, RabbitFurCoat

30 points: !!!

25 points: LiamSime

15 points: CowTzy

10 points: uptempo_owww!

If your name's not here, you're in the top 5, which I'll post next! #tensionandsuspense #mysteryandintrigue

6 740 Dobbo

7 700 Jordanlee1402

8 670 Jade

9 650 Conorw

10 630 AaronTM

11 600 TimConArtist

12 590 Chez Wombat

13 570 1^∞

14 565 rio309

15 560 PeteFromLeeds

16 550 Roba

17 545 Ansel

17 545 777666Jason

19 540 Adele

20 525 chrissmith276

20 525 RabbitFurCoat

22 510 Mango

23 495 Jahq

24 480 !!!

25 475 dandy*

26 445 King Rollo

27 430 jack

28 415 DaTilt

29 380 Spiceboy

30 360 uptempo_owww!

31 320 vibe

32 315 LiamSime

33 230 CowTzy

Just catching up in time for the final results - I did terribly for the first few but gradually got better as the subjects fitted better with my knowledge... I don't think I was way out on any of them though so I'll take heart from that - but the scoring most definitely rewards accuracy, which is fair enough. Glad I managed to get one completely correct though ☺️

1 885 gasman449

2 830 gooddelta

3 825 jimwatts

4 820 danG

5 800 paulgilb

Congrats all five of you on remarkable scores, getting 80% or more of the possible points!

Wish I could've stretched out the results thread but I wanted to wrap it up in one afternoon. At least this thread is a relatively quick read for you all

Thanks again to everyone who gave this quiz a chance! I learned a lot and think I'll run it at least one more time in a future quiz season.

That was a rollercoaster of a results show so I'm happy that my top 10 streak lives on in the end despite some shaky moments *.*

Congrats gasman - a belated virtual birthday present for you!

Thank you Jordan for bringing a fun new quiz concept to the forum ❤️

Oh wow another win, get in! Thanks for hosting this Riser, it was really fun

17 is my highest result yet 🙌

Congrats gasman! Very impressive to be able to recall that much knowledge against the clock. Well done Rich, Dan and Paul on the 800+ scores too, happy to be up there.

Thanks Jordan for hosting and a fun quiz concept - will certainly welcome it back in a future series!

Great performance gasman, well done! And well done to the rest of the top 5 there, Rich and Jim proving very consistent at these quizzes!

Loved the introduction of this to the quiz season Jordan, thank you for hosting it

59 minutes ago, Riser said:

7. Rank these artists in the order of how many #1 singles they have, from MOST to LEAST. For groups, DO NOT INCLUDE the solo #1s of their individual members.

Elvis Presley (21)

The Beatles (18)

Cliff Richard (14)

Take That (12)

Spice Girls (9)

Jess Glynne (7)

Ladbaby (5)

Olivia Rodrigo (3)

Charli XCX (2)

Hozier (1)

I gathered all these statistics from Wikipedia, so just crossing my fingers that none of it’s wrong People did pretty well although the answers for Cliff Richard were kind of all over the place. Hopefully you remembered Ladbaby had 5 #1s and could work out the order of Olivia, Charli and Hozier.

100 points: 1^∞, danG, Dobbo, gasman449, gooddelta, Jade, jimwatts, paulgilb, rio309

80 points: 777666jason, Chez Wombat, chrissmith276, Jahq

75 points: Mango, RabbitFurCoat

70 points: !!!, Ansel, jack

60 points: Adele, Conorw, Jordanlee1402, King Rollo, LiamSime, PeteFromLeeds, Roba, TimConArtist

50 points: AaronTM

45 points: CowTzy

40 points: dandy*, DaTilt

30 points: Spiceboy, uptempo_owww!

20 points: vibe

I’m an idiot I included the solo members in mine! 🤦‍♂️

52 minutes ago, Riser said:

8. Rank these artists in the order of how many Top 10 singles they have, from MOST to LEAST. For groups, DO NOT INCLUDE the solo hits of their individual members.

Madonna (64)

Drake (46)

Eminem (34)

Girls Aloud (21)

Adele (11)

Sabrina Carpenter (9)

Chappell Roan (5)

Teddy Swims (3)

Noah Kahan (2)

Benson Boone (1)

This one was problematic for me, I originally had Eminem ahead of Drake and had to re-do all the scores right before I started this thread. I was surprised how many didn’t have Benson Boone ranked at the bottom, believe it or not he only has one top 10 single, but a handful of top 20s!

100 points: AaronTM, danG, gasman449, gooddelta, jimwatts, Jordanlee1402, paulgilb

80 points: Adele, Chez Wombat, Conorw, Dobbo, King Rollo, PeteFromLeeds, Spiceboy, TimConArtist

60 points: !!!, Ansel, chrissmith276, jack, Jade, Jahq, Mango, RabbitFurCoat, rio309, uptempo_owww!

50 points: 1^∞, CowTzy

40 points: dandy*, 777666jason

35 points: DaTilt

30 points: Roba, vibe

20 points: LiamSime

FINALLY!!

Oh dear not my finest result but I really had no idea what to expect! It's a shame we couldn't see what we put because I can't really remember my answers now, would have been good to see where we tripped up. Congrats to @gasman449 and thanks @Riser for a fun and entertaining new quiz format - I hope you consider doing another one of these next quiz season!

I hated that obviously, since I did so shit! 🤣

No, seriously a great new format the time

Limit tripped me up with a lot of them. I’m a tad annoyed at myself about the #1s one as I read it wrong in my rush including solo

Members I saw the DO but not the NOT! I think I could have got 100 points for that one too!

Huge well done to Too 5 over 800 points is excellent!

Thanks for hosting Jordan and well done.

Great quiz idea, the more modern chart weeks, album chart and Apple Music ones were mainly guesses, but I'm pleased to that I got above 60 in most of them and managed 100 for the number 2s one. I think it was just Cliff I was unsure about for the overall number 1s, I have the top 2 memorised but not beyond that x

Thanks for hosting and for bringing to the forum a fun new format Riser and congrats to gasman!

Chuffed with second as it's a format I was unfamiliar with and I played it on a laptop which was cumbersome dragging stuff with a mouse.

I mucked up the 2024 album No.1s question because I ran out of time to put Beyoncé in place oops (as well as the Bublé trap), while Halloween on Apple Music was always going to be a shot in the dark, but otherwise mostly good!

Well done @gasman449 and cheers @Riser for presenting

Got distracted forgot to mention earlier 🤣

22 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

Well done @gasman449 and cheers @Riser for presenting

Got distracted forgot to mention earlier 🤣

Too obsessed with me to think about our host Jason… shame on you! 😎🤣😘

32 minutes ago, Spiceboy said:

Too obsessed with me to think about our host Jason… shame on you! 😎🤣😘

Well someone's got to be x