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Read the whole thread... I was only considering individual singles that had reached 9 of the top 10 positions, as previously compiled by jim. Specifically for Little Mix it was Sweet Melody that qualified them for this thread.

It's just occurred to me that there could be songs that are missing either two or three of the Top 10, but already have #11 and #12 under their belt, and also some that are missig two of the Top 10 and either #11 or #12 but not both, which means I haven't considered all the candidates that are 2 or 3 short of a full Top 12. I don't really have an easy way of finding those other candidates though, so perhaps someone with their own database might wan't to find them for this thread (or a new thread for the race to get the Top 12 record).

So the previous record, of reaching all of the Top 9 positions stood since 1955, and Wham! have now pushed the record out to a Top 11 as of this weekend. They are only missing 12, 13, 15 and 17 in the Top 20, so will they be the first to the next milestone of a complete Top 12, or will someone else quickly take their record from them? Looking at jim's list from page one for what else those artists need outside the ten: As well as not having #1, and not being likely to get it now, Elvis doesn't have anything between #11 and #13, so extremely unlikely to beat Wham!'s new record Taylor is only missing #1 to complete a Top 14, but that seems unlikely to happen unless something sad happens to her and ACR has been abolished by that point (or waived for that track) The Pogues are only missing #1 and #11 to complete a Top 20, but their chance of #1 has probably declines in recent years, but if they can somehow fluke the elusive #1 (perhaps as and when Shane eventually leaves this moral coil) then smashing Wham!'s record would be well within their reach Eminem doesn't have anything between #11 and #14, and probably isn't going to get it or the #3 on any resurgence. Jane Morgan only needs to also get #12 to complete a Top 12, but realistically she won't get that or the #3 she needs under any conceivable circumstance Lewis's chart run is genuinely astonishing, as he has all of the rest of the Top 31 except for #11, #16 and #17, but three separate weeks in the 'teens' would require a strange sort of resurgence poweful enough to get it back to precisely that sort of level for three or more weeks, whilst also happening to grab that #5 during that run. Alma Cogan only needs her #7 to complete a Top 12, but I can't see that happening. Mantovani only needs his #9 plus a #11 to complete a Top 12, but again it won't happen. Frankie Laine only needs his #9 to complete a Top 11, but has no #12 or beyond, and although this song is probably more likely to have a random resurgence than most of the other 50s songs on the list it still probably won't happen. Doris Day would need #11 and #12, in addition to #9, so not going to happen. Ed Sheeran is only missing #9, #11 and #15 to get a Top 20. Bill Haley is only missing #10, #11 and #16 to get a Top 18 (or a Top 20 if you can also count the 1974 reissue here), and maybe it could resurge for some reason I guess, but probably wouldn't get all three of those even if it did. Kay Starr's #10 is all she needs for full Top 12, but it's another one that just isn't going to happen. Russ Conway only needs #10, #11 and #14 for a Top 15, but yet another that won't ever rechart. Little Mix are missing only #10 and #11 for a Top 12, and as the most recent song on the list probably has the best chance of a seemingly random resurgence, but I have to admit it's the only one oh here with a vocal that I can't instantly remember how it goes, so perhaps that means it's somehow less memorable and less likely to get a resurgence? That's rather rambly, so to summarise them, in order of number of positions needed to complete at least a Top 12: 1 postion: Taylor, Alma, Kay 2 positions: Pogues, Jane, Lewis, Mantovani, Frankie, Ed, Bill, Russ and Little Mix 3 positions: Elvis, Eminem and Doris Maybe a full top 12 won't happen, or at least something else new will come along that eventually achieves it rather than any of these? Of course if a Top 12 ever did happen then it would, in some ways, be the last 'true' record of this type, because the first couple of years of the chart were only a Top 12, so we can never be sure if some of these 50s contenders would have also got positions below #12 in their original chart runs, although I guess assuming it wasn't a 50's contender that got the full Top 12 record then it wouldn't matter that we don't know what their sub-12 positions would have been.

4th December Random Year: 1987 Random Position: 11 Simply Red - Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye (peaked at #11) 4IDgtH-rN6s A Cole Porter standard, but a version of this song I don't recall ever knowing about before.

3rd December Random Year: 1981 Random Position: 26 Kool and the Gang - Get Down On It (peaked at #3) qchPLaiKocI

And as soon as I posted that it dawned on me that I was thinking of Sheryl Crow's All I Wanna Do.

There's something in the backing track that is descending and which reminds me of another track, but I can' place which one...

Yeah I realised afterwards that it was that long ago that he was charged. I also hadn't realised he was ever released again until I was looking it up just now, apparenly he was out in 2017.

And that's a pretty good song for something that didn't make the top 75. I did wonder if that was a pre-peroxide Amanda Holden in the video, but as she was about 13 at the time I gues not.

A good novelty record to start this thread, and only missed out on being a one-week wonder due to the chart being repeated to cover a week when one wasn't compiled.

It's interesting to also note what DIDN't make the Top 40: All xmas number ones from 1952-1961, which is perhaps no surprise (but Harry Belafonte surely's gets some streams each xmas?). 1968 The Scaffold - Lily The Pink 1969 Rolf Harris - Two Little Boys [wonder if that may have made the the threshold but been excluded for other reasons?] 1970 Dave Edmunds Rockpile - I Hear You Knockin' 1971 Benny Hill - Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West) 1972 Little Jimmy Osmond - Long Haired Lover From Liverpool 1977 Wings - Mull Of Kintyre/Girls School 1980 St Winifred's School Choir - There's No One Quite Like Grandma 1982 Renee and Renato - Save Your Love 1989 Band Aid II - Do They Know It's Christmas? 1993 Mr Blobby - Mr Blobby 1999 Westlife - I Have A Dream [the other side of the AA does make the Top 40] 2000 Bob The Builder - Can We Fix It? 2004 Band Aid 20 - Do They Know It's Christmas? 2007 Leon Jackson - When You Believe 2011 Military Wives with Gareth Malone - Wherever You Are 2012 The Justice Collective - He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother 2013 Sam Bailey - Skyscraper 2015 Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir - A Bridge Over You 2018 Ladbaby - We Built This City 2019 Ladbaby - I Love Sausage Rolls 2020 Ladbaby - Don't Stop Me Eatin' 2021 Ladbaby ft Elton John and Ed Sheeran - Sausage Roll For Everyone I suppose most of the post 2000 on this list, being for charity, are probably not on streaming, but I'd guess most of the earlier ones will be.

Here's an idea I've (somewhat belatedly) come up with, which is based on the same thing as Scott Mills' Now Roulette feature, but uses the Xmas chart's instead of Now albums. Every day from today (with two picks due to missing the 1st of December) until either 24th or 25th I will use a random number generator to pick a year from 1952 to 2021 (or 2022 once this year's Xmas chart is announced) and then to pick a position from 1 to whatever the chart goes to down to in that year, I will then find out what was at that position in the xmas chart of that year and put it on here as a sort of advent calendar of daily audio, and even I don't know in advance what will end up being included in the thread. So here goes: 1st December Random Year: 2014 Random Postition: 73 Ariana Grande ft Zedd - Break Free (peaked at #16) L8eRzOYhLuw I have to be honest, I wasn't sure at first if I knew this one, but then I played it and was like "oh it's thaaaaat one!". 2nd December Random Year: 1954 Random Position: 4 Rosemary Clooney - This Ole House (peaked at #1) DmiBJ64k5cI From one extreme date-wise to the other, but definitely a classic. So let me know if you like this idea, and what you think of each day's random xmas chart pick....

Oh and someone had a complete collection, including downloads where applicable, up to 2012, because they were feature in articles during the 60th anniversary, and at the time were looking to sell it to someone else (with the downloads all on an ipod), which if they did then it clearly isn't this guy's collection.

I attempted to collect all the number ones too. I've no idea exactly how many I have on an original format, but it would be the majority from 50s to 00s, so well into the hundreds, and in many cases I have mutliple formats, as I wanted all formats for each release too. I began the collection around 2000 and started to drift away from it in 2009 for a combination of reasons, one was I got my own flat, which in one stroke limited my available funds and my potential storage space (somehow I never worried about storage space when I was at my parents house, filled my room, then began taking over my sister's room with it) Another was that not all new number ones were available on a physical release to start with (and I only dabbled with downloads for a little while into 2010 or 2011), and those that were available on physicals, at least in my branch of HMV, tended to be on Syco/BMG and be exactly the things I least liked about the charts at that time. The third reason was that I moved away from collecting in general at that time (I had many different collections, not just music), again partly due to funding and space, and partly because it stopped being fun and luck-based when you could go on ebay or Amazon Marketplace and basically complete a collection in the first day/week of trying to collect it. Collecting for me was fun when it was a weekly trawl around local charity shops to see what might turn up for any of my collections, and perhaps the odd visit to a car boot if I had a weekend off, as that meant it was entirely down to fate as to what I would find, and it also helped control my spending a bit as I wasn't likely to find and need to buy dozens and dozens of items in one go. I could have carried on like with weekly trawls and ignored the ecistence of ebay et al, but it would have always been on my mind and bugging me that a single big splurge on ebay could have finished what would otherwise have been potentially years of dedicating one afternoon a week to endlessly trawling shops. I really must do an audit of my collection though, both to ascertain what and how many I have, but also to do a check for condition and storage, as it's been way to long since I fought my way into the back end of the apare room to check on any of the vinyls. I think cassettes from 89-03 and CDs were probably complete for all number one singles that had one. I know I must have put a list of my cassette nymber ones on this forum at some time in the past as a couple of people have contacted me over the years to ask if they could buy one of the rarer 2003 ones from me.

The lyric is 'and pretty maids all in a row'. I'm guessing you weren't sung that nursery rhyme as a small child.

I loved (and still love) Changes, and it was the reason I had to buy myself CD player, as it was the first single I really wanted to buy that wasn't available on a cassette tape.

I knew there was something else I was going to mention! Yes, conk was a very common slang for nose, and I was surprised to see the suggestion that they could have been putting their red nose on any other part of their anatomy.

In this song the word queer is just being used as a synonym for 'unusually' (i.e. he must admit his dog is acting unusually), it isn't in any way shape or form referring to sexuality (unless you genuinely think that in that last line he was saying his dog was acting homosexually, which would be an odd final remark for the song to make, as it would have nothing to do with any of the rest of the song). I seriously doubt that Billy has any issue at all with his having used the word queer on this record in a utterly inoffensive context. The song does however also contain him spelling out the c-word (ableit usually bleeped out, though it's still fairly obvious what the word is), which probably has much more bearing on why the song isn't on Spotify, that and the fact that Billy doesn't especially rate his own 70s-era music in general these days. For what it's worth I actually quite like Billy's comedy songs and am surprised to see his number one finish so high up on here. I'm also very surprised to see The Stonk crowned the worst number one of all, considering some of the other dross that was in the running (Telly Savalas in particular).

The first time in 1975 it definitely wasn't. The second time in 1991 they were planning to release Those Were The Days Of Our Lives in time for Xmas, and I think when Freddie died in November they added Bohemian Rhapsody to the single as a tribute to him, but I think it was then always promoted as a double-A rather.

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So is 7m just pure sales (which the '1 in 4 households now own a copy' bit implies) or is it 7m from sales + stream-equivelant-sales (which the other quote about approx 1.26m s-e-s's since it passed 6m seems to imply)?

Jane Wyman sang on the #10 hit Zing A Little Zong, and won an Oscar.

There are still 'rights' of some sort to it though aren't there? Or at least there used to be. BMRB had the rights or contract from 1969-1982, and Gallup from 1983-Feb 1994, with the current incumbent (originally under the name Chart Information Network, and with actual data compilation handled by a third party, Millward Brown) having been in place since then.

I bought new physical singles a lot in the noughties, and often bought things from the new entries stand out of pure curiousity, with the discounted week 1 price making me more likely to do so, and whilst they sometimes turned out to be good singles that I continued to play it wasn't uncommon for me to buy something in week 1 then play it once and file it away in my collection and not play it again, so I do think that week 1 curiousity cionsumption was already a factor in the physical charts, at least once front loading of releases with a heavily discounted week 1 price was an established marketing practice. It's also worth remembering that entering high and then plummeting in week 2 was a very familiar chart behaviour back in the late nineties and early noughties due to the frontloading, which itself was probably stimulating at least some amount of curiousity purchases.

Following the link, and counting the ones highlighted in blue, I make it 24 times up to 10/02/2022, unless I am misunderstanding something.