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Most consecutive/collective Top 10/20 singles in the UK

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As Girls Aloud's "Untouchable" is set to hit Top 10 this week (despite being number 11 on the mids), I want to ask these questions.

 

1. Who has the most consecutive Top 10 singles in the UK?

 

2. Who has the most collective Top 10 singles in the UK?

 

3. Who has the most consecutive Top 20 singles in the UK?

 

4. Who has the most collective Top 20 singles in the UK?

 

5. Does "Theme to St. Trinian" count towards Girls Aloud's official single release or not? If not, having over 20 consecutive Top 10 hits is really good.

 

EDIT - I wrote "which single" when I was supposed to write "who". This is what happens when you feel a bit tired and a bit out of focus. I had a late night.

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St Trinians was a "hit" yes, but it wasn't an official single was it? It was just part of the soundtrack?

^At least in one thread rather than on iTunes and/or Sunday Chart Predictions :teresa:

 

1. GA when it comes to official singles, not sure about the other acts chartwise whether a single or not.

 

2. Not sure between Oasis and U2.

 

3. Madonna

 

4. I guess U2

 

5. Not an official single, just available to download as a part of the soundtrack.

 

EDIT: I guess most of these are wrong, ignore it. :lol:

Edited by FMbassador11

From 'everyhit.com':

 

Madonna holds this record with 34 (from "Like A Virgin" in 1984 to "Secret" in 1994. The run was broken by "Take A Bow" which peaked at no. 16).

 

Top male artist is Cliff Richard with 23 (from "A Voice In The Wilderness" in 1960 to "The Minute You're Gone" in 1965. Run broken by "On My Word" which peaked at no. 12).

 

Two groups fare well in this respect; Westlife have 23 consecutive Top 10 hits Westlife (from "Swear It Again" in 1999 to "Us Against The World" in Mar 2008) and Oasis have the same total (from "Live Forever" in 1994 to "The Shock Of The Lightning" in 2008). However, the latter's run is over as "I'm Outta Time" stalled at number 12.

Top all-girl group is Girls Aloud with 20 consecutive Top 10 hits (from "Sound Of The Underground" in 2002 to "The Loving Kind" in Jan 2009).

 

The Beatles and Abba each have 18 consecutive Top 10 hits. (Beatles from "A Hard Day's Night" 1964 to "Yesterday" in 1976, broken by "Back In The USSR" which stalled at no. 19. Abba from "S.O.S." in 1975 to "One Of Us" in 1981, broken by "Head Over Heels" which peaked at no. 25).

Both Westlife and Girls Aloud have, in fact, had tracks peak outside the Top 40 which, were we to include them, would break their consecutive Top 10 runs. But the tracks responsible for this were never declared as singles, merely album tracks which charted due to the popularity of their individual downloads.

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This surely needs putting an end to now.

 

St Trinians charted at 51 was it? in the uk singles chart. Thats singles chart. Just because it wasnt released on cd means nothing, album songs are allowed to chart.

 

Untouchable was number 28 last week, that is 28 from album downloads. So what are people saying? Chart runs dont count until the cd is released?

 

The top ten run ended with St Trinians, its a top 75 hit single - end of.

This surely needs putting an end to now.

 

St Trinians charted at 51 was it? in the uk singles chart. Thats singles chart. Just because it wasnt released on cd means nothing, album songs are allowed to chart.

 

Untouchable was number 28 last week, that is 28 from album downloads. So what are people saying? Chart runs dont count until the cd is released?

 

The top ten run ended with St Trinians, its a top 75 hit single - end of.

 

Oh, this is going to be argued to near death again, is it? :lol:

 

Yes, there's no denying that the St Trinian's theme charted on the OCC's Official Singles Chart. If Girls Aloud or their management had any beef over it's inclusion in the Official Singles Chart, why did they not ask for it to be omitted? Why did OCC include it in the Official Singles Chart if it didn't meet the required criteria?

 

Unless the OCC backtrack and re-issue the affected charts minus such songs, it cannot be claimed otherwise.

This surely needs putting an end to now.

 

St Trinians charted at 51 was it? in the uk singles chart. Thats singles chart. Just because it wasnt released on cd means nothing, album songs are allowed to chart.

 

Untouchable was number 28 last week, that is 28 from album downloads. So what are people saying? Chart runs dont count until the cd is released?

 

The top ten run ended with St Trinians, its a top 75 hit single - end of.

 

No-one's saying that chart runs dont count until the CD is released. However, St. Trinians was never promoed as a single or even hinted at being a single, therefore it doesn't count as being a single. Just an album track that had enough downloads to chart. Nothing more, nothing less. Therefore it doesn't effect their run of top 10 singles :)

No matter how much you argue the point, their core fans and the general public are never going to include 'St. Trinians' in the list of Girls Aloud releases. Pretty much every article about them and anything they feature on will continue to list them as having 20 consecutive Top 10s. Anyone going through Wikipedia for general information or any fansite or anything will not see 'St. Trinians' in their run. That's in the same way as if a random song from an artists album gets in the Top 75, people are hardly going to care or recognise it's existance.

 

You can argue to facts of it being a song and in this day and age its a songs chart so everything counts yada yada yada, but that's only going to affect those who follow the chart closely....in general terms it will be Untouchable which breaks their consecutive run in most peoples eyes.

 

Just to settle a stupid, old argument - both are right...

- They had 20 consecutive Top 10 SINGLES

- They had 17 consecutive Top 10 chart entries

 

Either way they STILL have more than any UK girl group EVER! That record was secured ages ago!

 

 

Edited by Andy87

As St. Trinians Theme wasn't an official single, this means it wasn't part of their Top 10 strike.

People who say it is, does that mean any album tracks are singles? NO :)

^^ yes i know all that but this was all started by the girls getting that guiness record for 16 consecutive top tens and the media played on it and its become a tag associated with girls aloud.

 

I know the fanbase will never allow st trinians to affect the run but the guiness records will count st trinians as ending the run so officially, it ended. What other people want to believe is fine, but they are wrong :)

As St. Trinians Theme wasn't an official single, this means it wasn't part of their Top 10 strike.

People who say it is, does that mean any album tracks are singles? NO :)

 

Yes because album tracks do chart in the UK SINGLES CHART!!!

 

If album tracks were not allowed to chart, then songs wouldnt chart early before release would they? :rolleyes:

Edited by andyboiuk

This surely needs putting an end to now.

 

St Trinians charted at 51 was it? in the uk singles chart. Thats singles chart. Just because it wasnt released on cd means nothing, album songs are allowed to chart.

 

Untouchable was number 28 last week, that is 28 from album downloads. So what are people saying? Chart runs dont count until the cd is released?

 

The top ten run ended with St Trinians, its a top 75 hit single - end of.

 

it's a huge grey area but I totally agree

 

if St Trinians WASN'T a hit, then neither was Rihanna's Disturbia or Leona Lewis' Run, both album tracks that charted on downloads alone, and are now seen as official singles but never actually were intended to be...

 

if Disturbia and Run had both missed the top 75 (unlikely) would they then have not been seen as singles, merely album tracks that hadn't built up enough momentum to chart!?!

if St Trinians WASN'T a hit, then neither was Rihanna's Disturbia or Leona Lewis' Run, both album tracks that charted on downloads alone, and are now seen as official singles but never actually were intended to be...

if Disturbia and Run had both missed the top 75 (unlikely) would they then have not been seen as singles, merely album tracks that hadn't built up enough momentum to chart!?!

Ehh...not sure if that's strictly true, they both had new videos filmed for promotion. Perhaps something like Eminem's "Crack A Bottle" or the "Swagga Liks Us" collaboration is more accurate. They didn't have videos or (as far as I know) a physical release but they still made the top 40. I think Eminem is releasing a new song from his album each week until the release as well. If they all made the top 40, they would surely be counted?

 

This argument has been done to death already. The songs Girls Aloud have chosen to release as singles have all gone top 10 (so far) but they've had a song that didn't make the top 40.

Ehh...not sure if that's strictly true, they both had new videos filmed for promotion. Perhaps something like Eminem's "Crack A Bottle" or the "Swagga Liks Us" collaboration is more accurate. They didn't have videos or (as far as I know) a physical release but they still made the top 40. I think Eminem is releasing a new song from his album each week until the release as well. If they all made the top 40, they would surely be counted?

 

This argument has been done to death already. The songs Girls Aloud have chosen to release as singles have all gone top 10 (so far) but they've had a song that didn't make the top 40.

 

fair enough, Crack A Bottle is a far better example... ^_^

 

I would certainly say that it is one of Eminem's top 5 'hits', despite having no physical release, specific digital single release (it was a taste track), video or promotion

Anyone going through Wikipedia for general information or any fansite or anything will not see 'St. Trinians' in their run.

 

Did you actually look through Wikipedia before posting this. If so, you'd have seen this. Which lists "St Trinians" has a chart entry.

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Yes but the record is for consecutive top ten SINGLES!

 

it would be interesting to see, for example, if in 5 years time (although it would never happen!!!) The Saturdays had also racked up 20 top ten singles in a row, but in between this, an album track of theirs had crept up to No.10 too off the back of a TV show/performance...would the record compilers say 'The Saturdays have now broken Girls Aloud's run of top ten singles/hits' or would the run be exempt because one of them was an album track :wacko:

 

this blurry line between singles and album tracks defining what is a hit really needs to be cleared up by the people who compile these records

^^ it think if an album track starts to become successful they release it as a single. For example, say a F**k You from Lily's second album were to get into the Top 40, the record label execs would decide that it would be a good single choice and make that the next official single release.

 

 

And Leona's Run was an official single as she announced it on the Chart Show and then it almost instantaneously went to #1 on itunes.

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