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For Q2, David Gilmour should be incorrect as he reached #19 at the end of 2006 with a re-recording of Arnold Layne. Thanks for hosting, awardinary!

Flo Rida and Pitbull are 2 other artists who have not had a top 40 hit since 2015.

I voted for Moves Like Jagger (for the reasons already mentioned), but a few others deserve a mention: Beatles - Please Please Me: spent a total of 3 weeks at #2 in the Record Retailer chart (retrospectively deemed 'official'), apparently only missing out on #1 on one of those weeks on a tie-break. It topped the other charts that were compiled at the time e.g. NME, thus was widely considered a #1 at the time. DJ Jurgen pts Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone: spent 3 weeks at #2 behind 3 different tracks, only losing out to Westlife by about 1,000 sales in the second of those weeks. Puretone - Addicted To Bass: missed out on #1 by a small margin to Aaliyah's posthumous More Than A Woman, but may have made it had a few copies not accidentally been sold the previous week (causing it to chart at #68).

This week saw what were at the time the biggest drops from #1 and #2: Elvis fell 1-20 (equalled by McFly in 2007 and beaten several times since in the streaming era), and Manic Street Preachers fell 2-26 (beating their own 2-22 record from 3 months earlier).

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Mike Oldfield - In Dulce Jubilo (an instrumental re-working of a Christmas song) was at #22 in the Christmas chart in 1975, jumped up from #21 to #4 on w/e 17/1/76, and was still top 10 in the first chart week of February 1976. JLS - Do You Feel What I Feel? (a re-working of Do You Hear What I Hear) peaked at #16 in January 2012.

I used to Mel Smith & Kim Wilde's version of Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree regularly in the early 2000s but don't seem to hear it now. Chris Rea's Driving Home For Christmas is another one that has largely increased in popularity over the years - it didn't reach the top 40 when first released (it reached #53 as part of The Christmas EP).

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The top 4 that week were all female soloists - unless I am mistaken that was the first time it had happened (and may still be the only time).

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Peter Sarstedt reached #1 with Where Do You Go To My Lovely and #10 with Frozen Orange Juice but had no other hits. In fact, the 3 Sarstedt brothers (Eden Kane, Peter Sarstedt, and Robin Sarstedt) between them had 8 top 10 hits and no other top 50 (as the chart was then) hits!

Bob The Builder had 2 #1 hits and no other top 75 hits. Alien Ant Farm had 2 top 5 hits then their next hit reached #66 before they vanished. Eiffel 65 had 2 top 3 hits and no other top 75 hits.

Incorrect - its entry at #35 was on the download sales of a re-mix, with its first week at #1 being full downloads, then the physical being released.

Daniel Bedingfield (born 3 December 1979) did it twice - with Gotta Get Thru This (2001) and If You're Not The One (2002).

#1 would reach the top 3 again less than 3 years later as the last in a sequence of collectors' item re-issues. #7 was a rare hit from the era not to peak in week 1 - it went 7-5-2-4-2-2-. #28 was the lowest-charting of Badly Drawn Boy's 3 hits from 2002 (the others being Silent Sigh and the criminally-forgotten You Were Right) but seems to be the best-remembered now. #30 was re-issued the following year as a mash-up with Kings Of Tomorrow's Finally (which reached #24 in 2001) under the title Love Story (Vs Finally), reaching #8.

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Korn's entry at #25 meant that their first 7 chart hits had all peaked between #22 and #26 inclusive. This remarkable consistency was broken with their next hit Here To Stay which reached #12 in 2002.

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