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Well at least that would be preferable to the MNEK track for example. Dull old music is better than really bad new music.

Yes, w/e 4/10/69 16 & 3, w/e 11/10/69 33 & 1

"Thinking Out Loud" has now racked up 32 weeks in the Top 20, tying "Happy" for 5th all-time. The most is 37 by "Fairytale Of New York"

Are we expecting 5 Sam Smith entries in the chart today? If so, he will become only the 9th artist to achieve that Ruby Murray 1 week (19/3/55) Bill Haley & His Comets 8 weeks between 22/9/56 & 11/10/56 Elvis Presley - 5 weeks from 19/10/57 to 16/11/57 - for the third and fourth of those weeks he had 7. Also 5 in week ending 12/2/05 and 6 the week after Beatles 1 week with 5 (10/4/76) and 1 with 6 (17/4/76) Michael Jackson after his death, the 4 weeks from 4/7/09 saw 6, 13, 10 and 5 of his in the Top 40 Rihanna 1 week - 25/12/10 Tinie Tempah - 1 week 26/2/11 Amy Winehouse - 1 week 6/8/11

"All Of Me" now equal second in most weeks in the Top 40 all time with "Rock Around The Clock" (54 wks). Only "My Way" (75 wks) to catch up! ... and "Rather Be" joins "Let It Go" with 45 weeks Top 40 for equal 9th all time.

The pre-orders were added into the Itunes chart when they were purchased. I always thought it was a bit of a fudge that they got added in again when the pre-order was turned into an actual purchase, so am glad this change was made.

Was Paul Burnett doing the Tuesday lunchtime chart reveal when "Convoy GB" made the charts?

(Virtually) all publicity is good publicity. I'm sure the Brits saga did her more good than bad in terms of sales of the single and album.

It's not really that contemporary though, is it? It could easily have been released anytime since the early 1970s

Really? I've always spelt it with a hyphen. Hundreds of database records to chance if that's not right!

Mother & son Hilda & Robert Woodward had a number one hit together as part of Lieutenant Pigeon. All 3 members of Wilson Phillips were daughters of 60s hitmakers

Is it wrong of me that when everyone refers to "Flo" I think of Florence & The Machine rather than Flo-Rida?

If it includes airplay, to me it is always going to be a fake chart.

The article also adds 41 - Erotica 42 - Lucky Star

McCartney of course has dozens extra to add with The Beatles and Wings hits.

On those listings, all three have 49 each.

That's a pretty horrible thing to say, after all Dame Veral Lynn seems to have full control of her faculties closing in on her 100 years

I was looking through some "M" artists for my other thread when I came across Tony Martin, who died less than 18 months from his 100th birthday and was wondering if anyone who made the UK singles chart ever made three figures? Vera Lynn is a fortnight away from her 98th, Al Caiola and Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson are well into their 80s. Buster Martin from the Zimmers was probably 97 or 98 when he died (and Alf Carretta was 93) but I can't think of one at present.

Yes, you're quite right. I will amend that next week.

Welcome to the M thread. This was one of the hardest so far to work with, due to the high number of artists involved. There was also the question of how to work with the Macs and Mcs. I've decided to basically follow the precedents used in the Guinness and Virgin books and treat them all as Mac for the purpose of alphabetising. I've been able to improve on what they did though and move some groups that happen to start with the letters M A C but aren't really Mac names (e.g. Maccabbes) and place them after all the Macs I've also added a new rule to the first post, noting that I am still using Top 75 data only for now, despite Top 100s being in the new shiny OCC archive. Anyway, on to this batch of 100 and this group is headlined by Paul McCartney. The hits that include his name of course can be added to those of the Beatles and those credited just to Wings to give one of the most successful careers in UK music history. Next up, McFly - 7 number ones is impressive, even if most of them were blink-and-you-miss-it affairs. M People racked up over 130 weeks on chart but may well best be remembered for a freak Mercury prize award with "Bizzare Fruit" and Kirsty MacColl, a career cut tragically short by her fatal accident but still guaranteed to add another few weeks on chart each December. Other number ones came from Martine McCutcheon, George McCrae, Brian McFadden and the criminally under-rated Maria McKee, plus Joe McElderry whose week at number one is less memorable than his week at number two behind Rage Against The Machine. Some more unusual entries include that of tennis pros John McEnroe & Pat Cash, MC Spy-D & "Friends" which was really Brian May, actor Ewan McGregor's two hits and M Dubs, not to be confused with N-Dubz

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