We have an alphabet quiz! Below you'll find 26 letters, each hiding something connected to the UK charts - an artist, song, album or group whose name/title begins with that letter.

However, nine of the letters are missing.

For the clues with a visible letter, simply work out the answer that begins with that letter.

For the 9 additional clues at the bottom, you have two things to figure out: the answer itself and which of the missing letters it belongs to. Match each answer to the correct letter to complete the alphabet.

Once you've solved as many as you can, send me your answers via DM as a list in alphabetical order, from A to Z.

For each correct answer with a given letter, you'll receive 2 points, while a correct answer plus the correctly matched missing letter will earn you 4 points.

Let the quiz begin!

A - An artist whose sample returned them to the UK Top 10 after more than a decade.

B - An artist whose UK No. 1 wasn't originally credited to them.

C - A band with no UK Top 10 singles whose final chart hit peaked one place higher than their most-streamed song.

D = ?

E = ?

F - An act whose hit was recorded without conventional instrumental accompaniment.

G = ?

H - A song that had three different versions in the UK Top 40 at the same time.

I = ?

J = ?

K - An album that ends with a recording of the founder of an international spiritual movement.

L – An artist whose first UK Number 1 followed a rise to fame through MySpace.

M - A band that used a shortened version of its name when it first charted in the UK.

N = ?

O = ?

P - A song by a group whose break-up was reportedly triggered by an argument over a jacket.

Q - A song whose seemingly foreign title phrase can actually be traced back to medieval England.

R - An artist who signed a four-album record deal as a teenager but left the label without ever releasing an album.

S - A hit that featured a video game character in its artist credit.

T - Despite more than 40 UK Top 75 singles, this artist never reached Number 1.

U – A song that became associated with a so-called 'curse' because of events that coincided with its success.

V - A song named after a friend of its writer who had been in trouble with the law, and which the following year reached #2 on the UK Singles Chart in a version by another artist.

W = ?

X = ?

Y - A song that became the unofficial anthem of a national football team

Z - An artist whose UK chart appearances all trace back to a career beyond music.

? = clues

- A 2010s single that first reached the UK Top 5 over a decade after its release.

- A song that was once considered inappropriate for BBC airplay because of its pacifist message.

- A band that deliberately stopped manufacturing one of its singles to prevent it from matching a long-standing UK chart record.

- At 18, this artist held two UK No. 1s at the same time.

- An album named simply after the number of studio albums its artist had reached with its release.

- An artist who never appeared on the UK charts during their lifetime, but went on to achieve a UK No. 1 after their death.

- A Eurovision winner whose winning song didn't reach the UK Top 40 until two years after the victory.

- A song that reportedly got a record executive excommunicated by the Vatican.

- A male artist whose two highest-charting UK singles were both duets with female artists.

Good luck! I hope the quiz won't be too difficult, and please don't be shy about sending in your answers, no matter how many you're sure (or unsure!) about. I learned quite a lot myself while putting these questions together, so hopefully you'll discover a few interesting things along the way too! 😊

Also, don’t forget to sign up to host a quiz if you’d like to, by leaving a comment here.

You can send me your answers until Monday, 7 September at 9 PM.

Interesting - should provide some food for thought over the week! I think I know four of them on first glance.

Going to give this a go and have a think!! I think I know what U and Y are on first glance!

We've already got our first DM with answers! 😍

This has definitely peaked my interest. Will try and work some of this out.

It strikes me that some of these might have more than one correct answer. Will you still give points if the answer fits the clue even though it wasn't the answer you had in mind?

Also I wasn't aware a new quiz season had started

Edited Monday at 22:125 days by Mangø

21 minutes ago, Mangø said:

It strikes me that some of these might have more than one correct answer. Will you still give points if the answer fits the clue even though it wasn't the answer you had in mind?

Also I wasn't aware a new quiz season had started

I tried to phrase the questions in a way that narrows down the possible answers as much as possible, especially with the letters, but if there happen to be other correct answers to any of them, I’ll accept them.

I've got about 10 of these on first pass through but the rest are going to need some thinking about!

3 hours ago, Mangø said:

Also I wasn't aware a new quiz season had started

Here are the sign up threads!

UK Charts: https://www.buzzjack.com/forums/topic/288818-%F0%9F%92%A12026-quiz-season-sign-ups/

Lounge: https://www.buzzjack.com/forums/topic/288819-quiz-season-2026-sign-up-thread/

Interesting quiz, a few of these I remember from reading facts in Now booklets over the years.

I've got about 18 or so so far, a few head scratchers so I'll keep mulling it over.

I had so much fun putting the quiz together and doing all the research, and I’m really excited for the results presentation too! I think it’ll be nice to revisit some things you might have forgotten and learn a few new ones along the way.

Oh this quiz looks right up my street! I'll be sure to get some answers in before the deadline

I know none of them. I do have a good guess for one of the letters, but even there I'm not sure. And there are one or two ? clues that I got an answer for but the letters that the answers start with have another clue instead of ? so it's obviously wrong haha.

Not a scooby on 75% of these, be interested to find out the answer to them.

Goodness, this is gonna be a THINKING one... the first bit being wrapping my head round what I actually need to do! 😂

Will submit some answers shortly. ❤️

29 minutes ago, Spiceboy said:

Goodness, this is gonna be a THINKING one...

Oh dear, that's not one of your strong suits, is it?

2 minutes ago, Mangø said:

Oh dear, that's not one of your strong suits, is it?

figured out F on first glance, gonna need to think further on the rest

I’ve got most of the letters I think just need to work out the non letter clues now!

I’m currently going through everything letter by letter, checking all your answers and guesses that are different from mine and doing some research to see if they can also be accepted, so if you keep seeing me reading your messages over and over again, that’s why lol 😅