Brutarn

Good post finally with a lot of sensible choices! I was going to give up on this thread after wading through a million "Britney should have got to No.1 with all her songs but was held off by X and X and X and X......" moans. Probably should add to list: Bad Day - Daniel Powter

18 20 E-40 FEATURING T-PAU AND DAT Is this the same group that brought us "China In Your Hand"?? :P

1968 - Lily The Pink - Scaffold 1969 - Ob La Di Ob La Da - Marmalade 1993 - Mr Blobby - Mr Blobby 1996 - Three Lions - Baddiel Skinner et al 1996 - Killing Me Softly - Fugees 1997 - I'll Be Missing You - Puff Daddy 1997 - Perfect Day - Various Artists 1998 - My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion 1998 - Under The Bridge - All Saints Plus loads from the 50's and the others mentioned above. I assume we are not counting those records that had YEARS between spells at No 1? : :P Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen My Sweet Lord - George Harrison Jailhouse Rock, One Night, It's Now or Never - Elvis Presley

Here's a novel idea....if you don't like it, don't read it

This could be a history-making chart! The Top 4 could potentially consist of ALL Female artists whose names end in "A"!!! Okay....clutching at straws a bit :blink:

And S Club Juniors ! :P

Good example, but the most recent was Mr Blobby in 1993: 3-{1}-2-1-1-3-9-23-35-46-55-68 Again, thanks Polyhex.

I don't think we're that close. I would estimate there have been about 700 No.2s?

Brilliant!

I remember that both You Are Not Alone by Michael Jackson and The Real Slim Shady by Eminem both went 1-2-3-4-5->

The Irish are really loving Shayne Ward!! Still Top 10!

Is it a cover of the Queen song? Haven't heard it.

1 - 1 - MANEATER - NELLY FURTADO - GEFFEN - 9859585 - 3 2 - 2 - I WISH I WAS A PUNK ROCKER - SANDI THOM - RCA - 82876843422 – 5 4 - 4 - MONSTER - AUTOMATIC - B UNIQUE/POLYDOR - BUN106CDX - 3 6 - 6 - FROM PARIS TO BERLIN - INFERNAL - APOLLO/EUROPA - APOLLO102CDX - 10 7 - 7 - WHO KNEW - PINK - LAFACE - 82876847022 - 4 Anyone remember the time we last had 5 non-movers in the Top 10??

How high could we possibly see Three Lions climb this week? Where was it on Friday?

The charts are still interesting. Just because a song remains in a particular position for a lenght of time does not make the rest of the chart any less interesting. I actually like seeing a long running No.1. A new no.1 every week decreases the value of being a chart topper.

The Fifth.

Probably I Believe In You by Kylie - Xmas 2004

If you read the post correctly, you are not being judged....the US chart is being judged in the same way you judged our chart. Up until this year the US chart was the worst in the world, dominated by paint-by-numbers Hip-Hop and Pop Idol winners. It has dragged itself out of the mire a little thanks to the effect of downloads but Gnarls Barkleys is a hundred times better than a lot of your No.1s (Check It Out, So Sick, Run It to name just 3....) That said, Gnarls Barkley is probably No.1 by default at the moment purely because there is nothing coming out that is good enough for No.1. I'd rather see them at No.1 for the 8th week selling 40,000 than another Orson (great song, but abysmal sales).

Its Probably Michael Jackson - Heal The World. He's liked the re-releases so far but this one is his FAVOURITE!

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