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Justin Timberlake and Timbaland Ja Rule and Ashanti

Has Foundations outsold The Way I Are? That was the most razor-thin of chart battles

Love the Way You Lie and everything that kept it off the top. The only song to never reach number 1 and still be the biggest track of the year.

Katy B's #1 album Little Red was followed by Honey, which debuted at #28 and then left the top 100.

"Nothing Really Matters" by Mr Probz - #72 (after "Waves" went to #1)

It's actually based on when the song was first available anywhere. If a song appeared on an album before being released as a single the following year, then its release year will be when the album first came out. Same thing with "In the End" (came out as a single in 2001 but appeared on Hybrid Theory in 2000).

22 changes overall then

Just a few changes from last time, e.g. "Party in the USA" replaces "Hey, Soul Sister" and "How You Remind Me" replaces "Last Nite".

Streaming continues to rise in the UK with audio streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer seeing over 90 billion plays in the UK last year - an increase of 34% on 2017’s total. The UK now regularly sees over 2 billion streams per week, spanning brand new hits and lots of classics. Last year’s releases make up just under a quarter of the total, while 2017 tracks like This Is Me from the Greatest Showman and Perfect by Ed Sheeran accounted for 20% of the total streams last year. Unsurprisingly, Christmas songs have huge appeal to the streaming masses; half of the most played songs this decade from between 1940-present were festive songs including Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You, released in 1994 and racking up 39m listens last year – the most of any Christmas song. 57% of music streaming last year came from tracks released before 2016. More than 500 songs released in this time picked up over 10m plays. Bruno Mars’ 2016 single Finesse clocked up the most listens of any song from 2010-2016 with 54.7m plays, thanks to a remix featuring rapper Cardi B released in January 2018. Meanwhile, tracks like Naive by The Kooks - ranked the 2006's most-streamed single for a third year now - show signs of being potential cult classics. Other singles that hold the title as the most streamed song of their year of release are TLC's No Scrubs (1999), Toto by Africa (1982) and Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit (1991). Meanwhile, film soundtracks are proving more popular than ever with rock legends Queen in particular feeling the benefits. Following the release of their biopic Bohemian Rhapsody the band saw a huge lift in streams, with nine of the band's songs reaching the Top 1000 in 2018 compared to just four in 2017. Don’t Stop Me Now was the most streamed single released in 1978 with 25.4 million listens, and Bohemian Rhapsody was the most played track from the 1970s overall with 29.8m. Mr Brightside by The Killers continues to be the biggest track released in the 2000s, placing at Number 75 overall. The 2003 single peaked at Number 10 on the Official Singles Chart following its re-release in 2004, but thanks to its cult status still regularly dips in and out of the Singles Chart Top 100. Check out the complete list of the most streamed songs of 2018 by year of release, compiled by the BPI using Official Charts Company data: YEAR TITLE ARTIST 2018 GOD'S PLAN DRAKE 2017 THIS IS ME KEALA SETTLE/GREATEST SHOWMAN CAST 2016 FINESSE BRUNO MARS 2015 CHEAP THRILLS SIA 2014 THINKING OUT LOUD ED SHEERAN 2013 BUDAPEST GEORGE EZRA 2012 LET HER GO PASSENGER 2011 CAN'T HOLD US MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS 2010 PUMPED UP KICKS FOSTER THE PEOPLE 2009 PARTY IN THE USA MILEY CYRUS 2008 I'M YOURS JASON MRAZ 2007 FLUORESCENT ADOLESCENT ARCTIC MONKEYS 2006 NAIVE THE KOOKS 2005 GOLD DIGGER KANYE WEST FT JAMIE FOXX 2004 LET ME LOVE YOU MARIO 2003 MR BRIGHTSIDE THE KILLERS 2002 LOSE YOURSELF EMINEM 2001 HOW YOU REMIND ME NICKELBACK 2000 IN THE END LINKIN PARK 1999 NO SCRUBS TLC 1998 IRIS GOO GOO DOLLS 1997 BITTERSWEET SYMPHONY THE VERVE 1996 NO DIGGITY BLACKSTREET FT DR DRE 1995 WONDERWALL OASIS 1994 ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU MARIAH CAREY 1993 LINGER THE CRANBERRIES 1992 CREEP RADIOHEAD 1991 SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT NIRVANA 1990 THUNDERSTRUCK AC/DC 1989 WATERFALL THE STONE ROSES 1988 FAST CAR TRACY CHAPMAN 1987 FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK THE POGUES FT KIRSTY MACCOLL 1986 DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS CHRIS REA 1985 MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE SHAKIN' STEVENS 1984 LAST CHRISTMAS WHAM! 1983 SWEET DREAMS (ARE MADE OF THIS) EURYTHMICS 1982 AFRICA TOTO 1981 DON'T STOP BELIEVIN' JOURNEY 1980 YOU MAKE MY DREAMS DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES 1979 WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS TIME PAUL MCCARTNEY 1978 DON'T STOP ME NOW QUEEN 1977 MR BLUE SKY ELO 1976 GO YOUR OWN WAY FLEETWOOD MAC 1975 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY QUEEN 1974 SWEET HOME ALABAMA LYNYRD SKYNYRD 1973 STEP INTO CHRISTMAS ELTON JOHN 1972 SUPERSTITION STEVIE WONDER 1971 TAKE ME HOME COUNTRY ROADS JOHN DENVER 1970 YOUR SONG ELTON JOHN 1969 I WANT YOU BACK THE JACKSON 5 1968 (SITTIN' ON) THE DOCK OF THE BAY OTIS REDDING 1967 AIN'T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH MARVIN GAYE & TAMMI TERRELL 1966 PAINT IT BLACK THE ROLLING STONES 1965 I CAN'T HELP MYSELF THE FOUR TOPS 1964 MY GIRL THE TEMPTATIONS 1963 IT'S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME ANDY WILLIAMS 1962 BRING IT ON HOME TO ME SAM COOKE 1961 STAND BY ME BEN E KING 1960 AT LAST ETTA JAMES ©2019 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved.

Randomly they decided to update the list again today. The best-selling albums of all time on the Official Chart POS TITLE ARTIST YEAR HIGH POSN 1 GREATEST HITS QUEEN 1981 1 2 GOLD - GREATEST HITS ABBA 1992 1 3 SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND BEATLES 1967 1 4 21 ADELE 2011 1 5 WHAT'S THE STORY MORNING GLORY OASIS 1995 1 6 THRILLER MICHAEL JACKSON 1982 1 7 THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON PINK FLOYD 1973 2 8 BROTHERS IN ARMS DIRE STRAITS 1985 1 9 BAD MICHAEL JACKSON 1987 1 10 GREATEST HITS II QUEEN 1991 1 11 RUMOURS FLEETWOOD MAC 1977 1 12 THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION MADONNA 1990 1 13 BACK TO BLACK AMY WINEHOUSE 2006 1 14 STARS SIMPLY RED 1991 1 15 COME ON OVER SHANIA TWAIN 1997 1 16 LEGEND BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS 1984 1 17 BACK TO BEDLAM JAMES BLUNT 2004 1 18 URBAN HYMNS VERVE 1997 1 19 BAT OUT OF HELL MEAT LOAF 1977 9 20 1 BEATLES 2000 1 21 BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER SIMON & GARFUNKEL 1970 1 22 DIRTY DANCING ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 1987 4 23 SPIRIT LEONA LEWIS 2007 1 24 CRAZY LOVE MICHAEL BUBLE 2009 1 25 NO ANGEL DIDO 2000 1 26 WHITE LADDER DAVID GRAY 1998 1 27 25 ADELE 2015 1 28 TALK ON CORNERS CORRS 1997 1 29 SPICE SPICE GIRLS 1996 1 30 THE FAME LADY GAGA 2008 1 31 A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD COLDPLAY 2002 1 32 LIFE FOR RENT DIDO 2003 1 33 ONLY BY THE NIGHT KINGS OF LEON 2008 1 34 BEAUTIFUL WORLD TAKE THAT 2006 1 35 HOPES AND FEARS KEANE 2004 1 36 THE JOSHUA TREE U2 1987 1 37 THE WAR OF THE WORLDS JEFF WAYNE 1978 5 38 SCISSOR SISTERS SCISSOR SISTERS 2004 1 39 BUT SERIOUSLY PHIL COLLINS 1989 1 40 X&Y COLDPLAY 2005 1 41 JAGGED LITTLE PILL ALANIS MORISSETTE 1995 1 42 TUBULAR BELLS MIKE OLDFIELD 1973 1 43 THE MAN WHO TRAVIS 1999 1 44 TRACY CHAPMAN TRACY CHAPMAN 1988 1 45 PARACHUTES COLDPLAY 2000 1 46 GREATEST HITS ABBA 1975 1 47 GREASE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 1977 1 48 I'VE BEEN EXPECTING YOU ROBBIE WILLIAMS 1998 1 49 X ED SHEERAN 2014 1 50 COME AWAY WITH ME NORAH JONES 2002 1 51 GRACELAND PAUL SIMON 1986 1 52 THE SOUND OF MUSIC ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING 1965 1 53 LADIES & GENTLEMEN - THE BEST OF GEORGE MICHAEL 1998 1 54 TANGO IN THE NIGHT FLEETWOOD MAC 1987 1 55 THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP EMINEM 2000 1 56 SWING WHEN YOU'RE WINNING ROBBIE WILLIAMS 2001 1 57 PROGRESS TAKE THAT 2010 1 58 EYES OPEN SNOW PATROL 2006 1 59 NEVER FORGET - THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION TAKE THAT 2005 2 60 AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE REM 1992 1 ©2016 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved. Look back through the UK's official biggest selling album of every year since 1956 below:

Perhaps their current tour will help sales

"A Boogie wit da Hoodie" is bigger than Busted. In the words of Jacques from Finding Nemo, I am ashamed...

How long till Ariana takes the top spot?

Pixie Lott outselling Beyonce with an album from 2009

Somehow I'm not sure Busted will even be in the top 100 by the end of the year :(

Behind These Hazel Eyes is my favourite song of Kelly's - and hers too!

Surprised Dirrty is more popular than Beautiful TBH

Beyoncé hasn't had a single top 10 as a lead artist in the streaming era (two features though). She refuses to use Spotify because she's still trying desperately to make Tidal a thing.

Eminem having more top 10 hits than the Beatles - sheeeeet

how did I forget Coldplay...

Maroon 5 and Pink seem to be the only artists from the early 2000s that are still really big. I suppose you could make a case for Justin Timberlake as well, but after the dismal performance of his last album (missing the year-end 100), I wouldn't be so sure.

THIS. I thought they'd broken up until MLJ came out!

Pretty sure Radio 1 played These Days as well

My favs are: 1. Sunday Morning 2. Sugar 3. This Love 4. She Will Be Loved 5. Payphone

Elvis has more than 20, and only one sold a million.