Posted May 2May 2 Here is the definitive list of every song that has spent 20 or more weeks in the UK Top 10:53 weeks: All I Want For Christmas Is You51 weeks: Last Christmas39 weeks: Fairytale Of New York37 weeks: As It Was35 weeks: I Believe34 weeks: Beautiful Things32 weeks: Man I Need31 weeks: Someone You Loved, Lush Life30 weeks: Rein Me In29 weeks: Cruel Summer27 weeks: Secret Love, Calm Down26 weeks: Ordinary25 weeks: Don't Start Now24 weeks: The Happy Wanderer, Stick Season23 weeks: Terry's Theme From "Limelight", Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree, One Dance, Espresso, So Easy (To Fall In Love)22 weeks: Because You're Mine, The Song From Moulin Rouge, Relax, What Do You Mean?, Shape Of You, Blinding Lights, Bad Habits, Peru, Prada, Pink Pony Club, Golden21 weeks: She Loves You, (Everything I Do) I Do It For You, Austin20 weeks: Oh Mein Papa, Little Things Mean A Lot, Cara Mia, Rock Around The Clock, Bohemian Rhapsody, Love Is All Around, Happy, Thinking Out Loud, greedy Edited May 15May 15 by DanielCarey
May 2May 2 You say that Ordinary and Golden are on 21 top 10 weeks.Ordinary has 26 and Golden has 22 Also, Bohemian Rhapsody has 20 top 10 weeks.
May 10May 10 I've done a chronological listing of the tracks, partly because I was interested in how they would divide up into different chart eras, and partly because there were some song titles that could be multiple different songs by multiple different artists and I wanted to be sure which was the eligible one here. It's got to be said the OCC's site was rather less help than it might have been, with an example being searching for Bohemian Rhapsody and it suggesting five different recordings of that name, but none of them were either of the chart runs of the OG recording, with the closest being the 'Queen and the Muppets' version which I love but which is surely a lot less likely to be what someone searching for 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is actually looking for than the original Queen version. The OCC also seemed to draw a complete blank (as I admittedly also had) on 'Golden', and suggested five possible artists for a track called 'Golden', most notably Harry Styles, and I could see it wasn't any of them. In the end I had to Google 'golden' and 'top ten hit' to realise that of course it was that Hunter/X computer generated band thingy, but even knowing exactly what artist credit to search for on the OCC site it still couldn't find it, so in the end I had to find a random article on the OCC about it and then click through to the single via a convenient hyperlink in that. Anyway that's enough of me having a grumpy old man's rant about the OCC site....The tracks with two asterisks achieved their weeks total across more than one separate chart run.The tracks with one asterisk achieve their weeks total across a single chart run, but over two or more separate stints within the top 10The tracks with no asterisks achieved their weeks total in both a single chart run AND a single stint in the top 10[Let me know if I have put the wrong number of asterisks for any of them]The list clearly falls into three eras, namely into 'pre-history 1952-1954', 'the golden era 60s-90s', and 'the streaming anarchy 2013-2025'. Note that five 2025 new entries are already on this list, which is more than any other year in chart history, though 1953, 1954, 2019 and 2024 all currently have four tracks.1952/11/14 Mario Lanza - Because You're Mine1953/04/03 Frankie Laine - I Believe1953/05/22 Frank Chacksfield - Terry's Theme From 'Limelight'1953/05/29 Mantovani - The Song From The Moulin Rouge**1953/12/18 Eddie Calvert - Oh Mein Papa1954/01/22 Obenkirchen Childrens Choir - The Happy Wanderer**1954/04/08 Doris Day - Secret Love1954/06/18 David Whitfield with Mantovani and his Orchestra - Cara Mia1954/07/02 Kitty Kallen - Little Things Mean A Lot1955/01/07 Bill Haley and his Comets - Rock Around The Clock**1962/11/29 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree**1963/08/29 The Beatles - She Loves You1975/11/08 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody**1983/11/12 Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax**1984/12/15 Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas**1984/12/15 Wham! - Last Christmas**1987/12/05 Pogues ft Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York**1991/06/29 Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You1994/05/21 Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around1994/12/10 Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You**1996/06/01 Baddiel/Skinner/Lightning Seeds - Three Lions/3 Lions 98**2013/12/07 Pharrell - Happy2014/07/05 Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud2015/09/10 Justin Bieber - What Do You Mean?2016/01/14 Zara Larsson - Lush Life**2016/04/14 Drake ft Wizkid & Kyla - One Dance2017/01/19 Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You2019/01/17 Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved*2019/09/05 Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer**2019/11/14 Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now*2019/12/12 Weeknd - Blinding Lights*2021/07/08 Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits2022/01/06 Fireboy DML & Ed Sheeran - Peru2022/04/14 Harry Styles - As It Was*2022/09/08 Rema - Clam Down*2023/08/24 Casso/Raye/D-Block Europe - Prada*2023/09/28 Tate McCrae - Greedy*2023/10/12 Noah Kahan - Stick Season*2024/02/01 Benson Boone - Beautiful Things*2024/03/07 Dasha - Austin2024/04/25 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso*2024/09/26 Chappell Roan - Pink Pony Club2025/02/20 Alex Warren - Ordinary*2025/06/26 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In*2025/07/03 Hunter/X/Ejae/Audrey Nuna/Rei - Golden*2025/08/28 Olivia Dean - Man I Need*2025/10/09 Olivia Dean - So Easy (To Fall In Love)** Edited May 10May 10 by DanChartFan Added the two tracks that Jim pointed out had been missed
May 10May 10 I've put together a playlist for the above chronological list, for anyone who fancies listening to all 47 tracks and has a spare 2.75 hours to do so.https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5F7v7tp71acdJ2HmzDgsmp?si=gERl1fQWT5uwsdCHhoN6bw Edited May 10May 10 by DanChartFan Updated to reflect the addition of two missed tracks
May 10May 10 A couple of additions, both for 20 weeks: 'Do They Know It’s Christmas?' and 'Three Lions' (the latter's original combined with the '98 version, as they have been for chart purposes throughout the digital era).
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