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Ella Langley's Choosin' Texas returns to its previous peak at #13 and get's a seventh week here. Will it crack the Top 10 next week and force me to recalculate 7 week's worth of this list?

Olivia Rodrigo's The Cure drops to #3 for a second week on this list.

I wonder if it was partly the gradual shift towards CD (and/or Cassettes) as the early 90s gave way to the late 90s. Not everyone would have adopted CD straight away so in the earlier 90s there would have been some who were vinyl only, as well as some of the newest consumers who were CD only, both of which would have restricted which singles they could buy if they weren't on all formats, or would have restricted which week they could buy it if the different formats were out in different weeks. By 1996 vinyl had all but died anyway, and the 3 format rule had been established by then, so most singles were 2 CDs and a cassette, and most people could buy and play either of those (or at least the cassette if not the CD), so everyone who wanted the release could be assured of getting it in week1 in a format they could play. Related to this is the fact that I seem to recall that Woolworths (at least in my hometown) started having a chart wall in around the mid 90s or so, once it was all CD/Cassette and therefore more possible to do without taking up to much space or having gaps (due to no CD for that release etc), whereas before that they had big wire baskets of vinyls, so maybe Woolworths deciding to merchandise music releases like they were a normal music retailer had an effect too (given Woolies may well have sold more music than anyone else anyway).

Ella Langley's Choosin' Texas at #16 get's a sixth week on this list. A new entry from Olivia Rodrigo in the Top 10, and two Zara Larsson climb into the 10, but as the latter had already been Top 10 there are no other changes to this list.

Olivia Rodrigo's The Cure is new at #2 and joins the list.

Ella Langley's Choosin' Texas at #17 get's a fifth week on this list. There are three new entries to the top 10 for Drake, but nothing climbs into the 10 from outside so no other changes to this list.

Drake's Janice STFU is a new entry at #2 and joins this list.

Tame Impala's Dracula stays at #2 for a third week on this list.

Ella Langley's Choosin' Texas at #15 get's a fourth week on this list. The Chemical Brothers climb into the Top 10 from #22 with Go, and Michael Jackson reenters there with Human Nature at #6, which previously peaked at #62, with neither causing any further changes to this list.

I've put together a playlist for the above chronological list, for anyone who fancies listening to all 47 tracks and has a spare 2.75 hours to do so. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5F7v7tp71acdJ2HmzDgsmp?si=gERl1fQWT5uwsdCHhoN6bw

Thank you. It did take a while, though I can't remember for sure how long, but it's the sort of thing I love doing. I've done this one and the highest place non-charttopping list in the other thread that I keep up to date, but I'm wondering if there are others I should do too, so I'm open to suggestion. I'm toying with doing a highest placed non-Top 40 list, due to that being the cut off for the BBC etc, but maybe there are other possibilities that buzzjackers would like to see.

I've done a chronological listing of the tracks, partly because I was interested in how they would divide up into different chart eras, and partly because there were some song titles that could be multiple different songs by multiple different artists and I wanted to be sure which was the eligible one here. It's got to be said the OCC's site was rather less help than it might have been, with an example being searching for Bohemian Rhapsody and it suggesting five different recordings of that name, but none of them were either of the chart runs of the OG recording, with the closest being the 'Queen and the Muppets' version which I love but which is surely a lot less likely to be what someone searching for 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is actually looking for than the original Queen version. The OCC also seemed to draw a complete blank (as I admittedly also had) on 'Golden', and suggested five possible artists for a track called 'Golden', most notably Harry Styles, and I could see it wasn't any of them. In the end I had to Google 'golden' and 'top ten hit' to realise that of course it was that Hunter/X computer generated band thingy, but even knowing exactly what artist credit to search for on the OCC site it still couldn't find it, so in the end I had to find a random article on the OCC about it and then click through to the single via a convenient hyperlink in that. Anyway that's enough of me having a grumpy old man's rant about the OCC site.... The tracks with two asterisks achieved their weeks total across more than one separate chart run. The tracks with one asterisk achieve their weeks total across a single chart run, but over two or more separate stints within the top 10 The tracks with no asterisks achieved their weeks total in both a single chart run AND a single stint in the top 10 [Let me know if I have put the wrong number of asterisks for any of them] The list clearly falls into three eras, namely into 'pre-history 1952-1954', 'the golden era 60s-90s', and 'the streaming anarchy 2013-2025'. Note that five 2025 new entries are already on this list, which is more than any other year in chart history, though 1953, 1954, 2019 and 2024 all currently have four tracks. 1952/11/14 Mario Lanza - Because You're Mine 1953/04/03 Frankie Laine - I Believe 1953/05/22 Frank Chacksfield - Terry's Theme From 'Limelight' 1953/05/29 Mantovani - The Song From The Moulin Rouge** 1953/12/18 Eddie Calvert - Oh Mein Papa 1954/01/22 Obenkirchen Childrens Choir - The Happy Wanderer** 1954/04/08 Doris Day - Secret Love 1954/06/18 David Whitfield with Mantovani and his Orchestra - Cara Mia 1954/07/02 Kitty Kallen - Little Things Mean A Lot 1955/01/07 Bill Haley and his Comets - Rock Around The Clock** 1962/11/29 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree** 1963/08/29 The Beatles - She Loves You 1975/11/08 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody** 1983/11/12 Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax** 1984/12/15 Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas** 1984/12/15 Wham! - Last Christmas** 1987/12/05 Pogues ft Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York** 1991/06/29 Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You 1994/05/21 Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around 1994/12/10 Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You** 1996/06/01 Baddiel/Skinner/Lightning Seeds - Three Lions/3 Lions 98** 2013/12/07 Pharrell - Happy 2014/07/05 Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud 2015/09/10 Justin Bieber - What Do You Mean? 2016/01/14 Zara Larsson - Lush Life** 2016/04/14 Drake ft Wizkid & Kyla - One Dance 2017/01/19 Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You 2019/01/17 Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved* 2019/09/05 Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer** 2019/11/14 Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now* 2019/12/12 Weeknd - Blinding Lights* 2021/07/08 Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits 2022/01/06 Fireboy DML & Ed Sheeran - Peru 2022/04/14 Harry Styles - As It Was* 2022/09/08 Rema - Clam Down* 2023/08/24 Casso/Raye/D-Block Europe - Prada* 2023/09/28 Tate McCrae - Greedy* 2023/10/12 Noah Kahan - Stick Season* 2024/02/01 Benson Boone - Beautiful Things* 2024/03/07 Dasha - Austin 2024/04/25 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso* 2024/09/26 Chappell Roan - Pink Pony Club 2025/02/20 Alex Warren - Ordinary* 2025/06/26 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In* 2025/07/03 Hunter/X/Ejae/Audrey Nuna/Rei - Golden* 2025/08/28 Olivia Dean - Man I Need* 2025/10/09 Olivia Dean - So Easy (To Fall In Love)**

Ella Langley's Choosin' Texas, at #16. returns to the list this week, after taking a week off for Noah Kahan. There are three tracks that climb into the top 10 this week, but the two by Michael Jackson have obviously been in the Top 10 in the past. Zara Larsson's Midnight Sun however reaches the Top 10 for the first time at #7, and the two weeks it previously had on this list have to be given to someone else. For w/e 19/03/2026 we now add to the list Olivia Dean's The Hardest Part at #23, whilst for w/e 16/04/2026 Raye and Hans Zimmer's Click Clack Symphony, at #13, now gets a second week on the list.

Tame Impala's Dracula returns to #2 and gets a second wee on this list.

Noah Kahan's Doors joins this list as a new entry at number 12.

Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj's Beauty And A Beat stays at number 3 and gets a second week on this list.

Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj's Beauty And A Beat climbs into the Top 10 at number 3 and they give up their spot on this list to Ella Langley's Choosin' Texas which was at #13 last week. Ella also gains a second week on the list in respect of this week, despite a drop to #16.

Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj's Beauty And A Beat climbs into the Top 10 at number 3 and gets added to this list.

Tame Impala's Dracula climbs to a new peak of #2 and joins the list.

This week's new track on the list is Beauty And A Beat by Justin Bieber ft Nicki Minaj, which gains a new peak at #11 having reentered the charts 13 years after it last charted. No other changes to the make up of the Top 10 this week.

Bella Kay's Iloveitiloveitiloveit is at #2 again and now has 5 weeks on this list.

The new track on the list this week is Zara Larsson's Midnight Sun, peaking at #12 this week. Dominic's Fike's White Keys which last week took the w/e 19th March 2026 week from his other track, Babydoll, when that entered the Top 10, has now entered the Top 10 itself, so it's back off the list again, and we look down as far as #22 to see that Zara Larsson's Midnight Sun also gets that week on the list too in addition to this week.

Thanks, I've edited the post to correct it. It must have been a typo as I got it correct on the main list in the first post of page 2.

2026: Easter Sunday 5th April announced 3rd April That brings us to the present, where Tame Impala's Dracula flies up from #12 to a new peak of #3, Bella Kay makes a third fortnightly visit to #2 from last weeks #3, and Sam Fender & Olivia Dean stay at #1 for the 6th week overall.

2025: Easter Sunday 20th April 2025 announced 18th April Ed Sheeran stays at #3 with Azizam, Chappell Roan stays at #2 with Pink Pony Club, and Alex Warren's Ordinary stay at #1 for the 5th of a total of 13 weeks at the top.