^^ A few more Top 10 runs worthy of a mention..

 

Steps - 15 (Between 1998-2001)

The Shadows - 14 (Between 1960-1963)

Atomic Kitten - 10 (Between 2001-2005)

911 - 10 (Between 1996-1999)

Pet Shop Boys - 10 (Between 1986-1990)

 

I am sure there are many more to...

 

I agree that their should be a chart which monitors all CD and download sales, but it shouldn't be the Singles chart - half of the songs aren't even singles! They are just cherry picked tracks off iTunes.

 

They should do an additional chart just for singles. I dunno how they could determine eligability, but they must be a way. They should still combine physical with digital sales though. Other wise an artist would sell about 50 copies and make top 5! :P

 

It's a shame about all these artists peaking low down though. I can't say it's not fair, but it does make me a bit mad :(

 

I remember being devistated when Madonna peaked and #11 with Love Profusion! (truly heartbroken i was :P) Never in a million years did i imagine she's ever peak as low as #39 though.

 

People being able to download a song weeks ahead of it's official release doesn't help either.

Edited December 10, 200816 yr by Glyn

It's a shame about all these artists peaking low down though. I can't say it's not fair, but it does make me a bit mad :(

 

I remember being devistated when Madonna peaked and #11 with Love Profusion! (truly heartbroken i was :P) Never in a million years did i imagine she's ever peak as low as #39 though.

 

Totally agree - I was gutted when Take That broke their Top 10 run when 'I'd Wait For Life' charted at #17 :cry: I don't know why it bothers me so much but it does :P

Anyone got a list of the biggest top 10 runs?

From memory:

Madonna 34 (and 17 on another occasion)

Cliff 23

Westlife 23*

Oasis 22

Robbie 21

Elvis 20 (on reissue series and 10 on a separate run +10 if EPs excluded)

Abba 18

Beatles 18 (+6)

Boyzone 17*

Girls Aloud 17 (+2*)

Kylie 16* (and 13 on separate occasion)

Steps 15*

McFly 15

The Shadows 14

Ronin Keating 14

Take That 14

Backstreet Boys 13

U2 13*

Destiny's Child 11*

Five 11*

Eminem 10 (+3)(+4*)

Pet Shop Boys 10

Spice Girls 10

911 10

Atomic Kitten 10*

Honourable Mention: All Saints 9*

those with a star * are the ones with the ability to extend their run. those with some controversy have the extra part of their run in brackets. Many of these have been mentioned, but for U2 their run is only maintained if featuring credits are excluded (in this case versus, this actually excludes a no 15 and a no 1 from their run). For Eminem the same applies, if feat. credits are ignored he gets a 13 run, if not a run of 10. Many of his featuring hits actually went top10, but one didn't though i believe it was released on a different label than his own, so if this was ignored on this basis his run would be 17 (then broken by a weird featuring credit with 50cent and Lloyds Bank?! this release had its CD sales and first few weeks downloads excluded due to a technicality with chart rules so some would say should not count either, in which case his run is still active)

Feel free to post more anyone :)

Added these to my list thanks popbitch and starred those potentially who can add to this :)

Steps - 15 (Between 1998-2001)

The Shadows - 14 (Between 1960-1963)

Atomic Kitten - 10 (Between 2001-2005)

911 - 10 (Between 1996-1999)

Pet Shop Boys - 10 (Between 1986-1990)

 

Spicefunk, The Beatles had 18 Top 10 Hits in a row, if you count 'Ain't She Sweet',

(No.29 in 1964). That is correct. However, you indicate that if you don't count that

Hit, (as it was not an Official Beatles Single), they had 6 Top 10 Hits before it - making

24 in a row for The Beatles. This is NOT correct. You are misunderstanding the Guinness

Book. That Book makes it look like 'Love Me Do' was a No.4 Hit in 1962. It wasn't.

It Peaked at No.17. It did not reach No.4 until 1982. Guinness combined its 1962 &

1982 Entries, & made it look like it was No.4 in 1962.

The Beatles never had more than 23 Top 10 Hits in a row. It was never 24. 'Love

Me Do', should not be counted. As I said - it was a No.17 Hit in 1962 - not No.4.

Edited December 10, 200816 yr by zeus555

Anyone got a list of the biggest top 10 runs?

 

A few more to add-

 

George Michael - 14 (1991-2002)

Mariah Carey - 12 (1992-1997)

Slade - 12 (1971-1974)

Another thing regarding GA is i doubt they will ever sell more than a million of any album so there are always plenty of single sales to be had towards the 2nd and 3rd singles.

 

Lets face it, some of the acts like take that with wait for life only sold bad because they had sold what, 2million albums? Everyone already had it.

 

Kylie and madonnas missed top 10 because the campaigns were messed up and mcfly was always gona happen because they dont do anything on downloads.

Edited December 10, 200816 yr by Robintime11

My question is. If the GA song had been a top 10 or number 1. Would they be considering it as a single then ? I think so.

 

Plus single or not. In years to come it is going to show in the Book of singles as being in the charts.

Edited December 10, 200816 yr by Dannyboy

My question is. If the GA song had been a top 10 or number 1. Would they be considering it as a single then ? I think so.

 

Plus single or not. In years to come it is going to show in the Book of singles as being in the charts.

 

Maybe they'd argue if they did their normal promotion and promoted it as a single, they would have made the top 10, as it stands the video was made from a scene in the film, and released to promote the film... i dont really see the problem anyway... did great to chart they should be proud of it, did better than alot of songs that are promoted! (anastacia!)

 

come on it got to #51 you'd have to be incredibally naivie to think girls aloud would have had a number 51 hit at that stage of their career when songs like see the day and long hot summer (which i dislike) where making top 10 due to video, tv promotion (not just video), radio airplay and a physical and download single release... not a download only release taken from a soundtrack! with a video with footage from the film, recieving minor airplay (GA Videos on a whole are top 10 video airplay) it was also removed after it charted.

Edited December 10, 200816 yr by Paulo

Another thing regarding GA is i doubt they will ever sell more than a million of any album so there are always plenty of single sales to be had towards the 2nd and 3rd singles.

 

Lets face it, some of the acts like take that with wait for life only sold bad because they had sold what, 2million albums? Everyone already had it.

 

Kylie and madonnas missed top 10 because the campaigns were messed up and mcfly was always gona happen because they dont do anything on downloads.

 

McFly do a lot of special downloads but Do Ya was just a rubbish single choice. It's just one of the reasons people don't take them seriously. They never release the best songs tbh.

 

 

Spicefunk, The Beatles had 18 Top 10 Hits in a row, if you count 'Ain't She Sweet',

(No.29 in 1964). That is correct. However, you indicate that if you don't count that

Hit, (as it was not an Official Beatles Single), they had 6 Top 10 Hits before it - making

24 in a row for The Beatles. This is NOT correct. You are misunderstanding the Guinness

Book. That Book makes it look like 'Love Me Do' was a No.4 Hit in 1962. It wasn't.

It Peaked at No.17. It did not reach No.4 until 1982. Guinness combined its 1962 &

1982 Entries, & made it look like it was No.4 in 1962.

The Beatles never had more than 23 Top 10 Hits in a row. It was never 24. 'Love

Me Do', should not be counted. As I said - it was a No.17 Hit in 1962 - not No.4.

Thanks for the info Zeus. As i said in my original post, this was from memory- i'd love to say it was a misunderstanding as technical and well researched as you suggested but no! I will correct my original post :)

 

Popbitch, thanks for your others, again i will add them to my post for completeness :)

McFly do a lot of special downloads but Do Ya was just a rubbish single choice. It's just one of the reasons people don't take them seriously. They never release the best songs tbh.

even though it was a rubbish single they still didn't do any promotion

imean none of the fans even wanted 'Do Ya' released

i know for a fact the next single 'Falling in love' will go top 10 as usual

I looked up polyhex and Iron Maiden's most recent hit went 3-26-73

Steps debut hit peaked at number 14 and also spent 14 weeks inside the top 40.

Now, which of these two examples would people consider the bigger hit?

what about mis-teeq?

what about mis-teeq?

 

They managed a run of 7 Top 10 hits - We have been listing people with a run of 10 or more.

I looked up polyhex and Iron Maiden's most recent hit went 3-26-73

Steps debut hit peaked at number 14 and also spent 14 weeks inside the top 40.

Now, which of these two examples would people consider the bigger hit?

 

I guess it depends if you are looking at sales or chart position? To the general public just looking at the position the single reached then they would assume that Iron Maiden was the bigger of the two. That has always heppened in the charts though - I mean just look at the following yet most would count McFly as having the bigger hit...

 

McFly - Baby's Coming Back/Transylvania: 1-20-39-59 (4 weeks)

 

Lonestar - Amazed: 24-23-30-36-32-30-28-26-21-23-22-22-21-26-30-35-37-42-51-57-64-73 (22 weeks)

How can Amazed only get to #21, can this please be used on an advert so we can rectify this

How can Amazed only get to #21, can this please be used on an advert so we can rectify this

 

Indeed - Love the song :wub: The single should have been huge and their chart run is amazing considering downloads were not part off the chart then so all their sales were physicals!

even though it was a rubbish single they still didn't do any promotion

imean none of the fans even wanted 'Do Ya' released

i know for a fact the next single 'Falling in love' will go top 10 as usual

 

 

I'm not so sure, if they release that. It had to grow on me and it was on the free album. I think they should release one of the 3 new songs because it would boost the albums sales and less people will already own them.

From memory:

Honourable Mention: All Saints 9*

From memory? :o

And would complete super flops that missed the top 75/100 count? All Saint's most recent single; Chick Fit was still a single even if it had a cancelled physical. It charted at around #250 :lol:

 

They never release the best songs tbh.

They released Lies :P

Chick Fit was such a great song, I can't believe it did so badly :cry: