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That's what I get for doing this on a weekend of very little sleep (Counting Crows in Birmingham, very good indeed plus long drive and a long day at work on Monday). Thanks for pointing it out.

You don't speak me for me, and it's breathtaking arrogance to assume you do.

Part 38 added, a day late but better late than never. The big names here are all oldies - the four most weeks on chart of this group are the Hollies, Herman's Hermits, Buddy Holly & Ronnie Hilton, with Vince Hill and Michael Holliday also in the Top 7. The only "modern" name to break into that group is Keri Hilson, most of whose weeks/hits are as a result of being a featured vocalist. The best position she achieved with one of her own records was Number 34. We have an interesting selection of Hills - Vince (see above), Benny, Faith, Lauryn & Becky among others, the Honeycombs whose number one has spawned a large number of cover versions, the legendary John Lee Hooker, but in all honesty not a whole lot else among this batch.

And the email address indicates the very school I went to, a long, long time ago!

The 40 songs in the Top 40 for w/e 8/11/14 have a total of 481 previous weeks in the Top 40, with Idina Menzel's "Let It Go"'s re-entry adding a whole chunk of weeks. With so many long runners (11 of them with 18 or more previous weeks in the Top 40) it is no surprise that this sets a new record, and by quite a distance 481 w/e 8/11/14 412 w/e 5/5/12 & 1/11/14 403 w/e 3/3/12 399 w/e 4/1/14 397 w/e 25/2/12 396 w/e 12/1/08 395 w/e 28/7/12 392 w/e 7/1/12, w/e 6/9/14 385 w/e 9/1/10 381 w/e 14/1/12 As a contrast, the same week 10 years ago (i.e. w/e 6/11/04) had a grand total of 73 (!) previous weeks, and the following week shares the record for the lowest total from when the chart has been at least a top 40 - 62 previous weeks, no one record contributing more than 7 such weeks.

One record that has the potential to be an all-time classic against one with a pointless disco beat draped over some monotone vocals, no contest. Bastille to win by a landslide please.

If you select "None at all" you still have to select which individual days you would like them!

Why are people keeping "Summertime Sadness" in? It's not even summer.

Or that's why we don't love her. We only put up with her because she is still a million times better than her predecessor

Hope we're going to get the way she says Zhu's website says "Music is faceless. Let my music tell my story" in a stupid "voiceover" type way.

Last year, in a similar press release, they only gave sales rounded to 100. To be honest, detailing sales to an individual unit doesn't give us much more useful information than rounding it to 100, does it?

Ed Sheeran?

Probably because they're not getting played on the main Media outlets - check out the Radio 1 playlist and you'll see how few ballads appear on there or on the music channels

Got to be "Summertime Sadness" now, surely?

Oasis' 1996 total was mainly due to their back catalogue being re-released (or at least re-promoted) as 3 for £10 CD or 12" singles, and "Wonderwall" hanging over from 1995. They only released one new single in 1996.

2008 34 KATY PERRY 2009 60 KATY PERRY 2010 85 KATY PERRY 2011 94 KATY PERRY 2012 51 KATY PERRY 2013 28 KATY PERRY 2014 84 KATY PERRY I think what you call the "Teenage Dream" era was split between 2010 & 2011. But in relation to Kath's post earlier, Perry does have more weeks in her career total than Lady Gaga, albeit not in any particular calendar year. And on another note, am I the only one to find references to "slaying" in almost every other post these days getting tiresome?

Yes, I am counting from w/e 4/1/14 as this year. Looks like no one else is going to join the 100-week club this year.

I hope the title makes sense! With Ed Sheeran clocking up 4 chart weeks each calendar week at the moment, I thought I'd see how many he has so far in 2014 and how that compares to the best ever 2011 206 RIHANNA 2011 163 ADELE 2009 152 LADY GAGA 2011 150 BRUNO MARS 2012 149 RIHANNA 2012 135 DAVID GUETTA 1996 134 OASIS 2008 129 RIHANNA 2010 126 LADY GAGA 2011 125 DAVID GUETTA 2014 125 ED SHEERAN 2009 120 BEYONCÉ 2012 119 NICKI MINAJ 2007 119 AMY WINEHOUSE 2010 119 GLEE CAST 1957 118 ELVIS PRESLEY 2010 117 RIHANNA 1961 117 SHADOWS 2011 117 TINIE TEMPAH 1963 116 SHADOWS 2011 111 JESSIE J 1956 110 BILL HALEY & HIS COMETS 1960 108 SHADOWS 2012 108 EMELI SANDÉ 2007 105 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE 2011 104 CHRIS BROWN 2009 104 KINGS OF LEON 2007 100 AKON 2013 100 WILL.I.AM With 8 chart weeks left in 2014, he may well clock up another 30 or so appearances ("I See Fire"'s hold on a Top 75 place has been a little close for comfort over the last couple of months), Ed could well move up to 3rd overall by the turn of the year (All based on the "Week Ending" dates on charts, not date of publication etc.) As usual, any amendments or corrections welcomed.

And a dodgy Annie Lennox cover version. She's better than that.

Come on, time to get rid of "Summertime Sadness"

I don't normally track weeks in the top 30, but as I've seen how many "All Of Me" has now clocked up... Most weeks in the top 30 47 Bill Haley & His Comets - "Rock Around The Clock" 41 Mr Acker Bilk etc. - "Stranger On The Shore" 40 Frankie Goes To Hollywood - "Relax" Kings Of Leon - "Sex On Fire" Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl = "Fairytale Of New York" 39 Pharrell Williams - "Happy" 37 John Legend - "All Of Me" 36 Frank Sinatra - "My Way" Frankie Laine - "I Believe" 34 Mariah Carey - "All I Want For Christmas Is You" Jim Reeves - "I Love You Because" 33 Lumineers - "Ho Hey" 32 Clean Bandit featurign Jess Glynne - "Rather Be" 31 LMFAO - "Sexy And I Know It" OneRepublic - "Counting Stars" ... A long runners list without Adele in it!

"Mirrors" and "Hold On, We're Going Home" are more MOR than most of the ones you mention in your first sentence.

Got here at last! A fairly weak selection all in all, not one of this batch has yet reached 100 weeks on chart, although the Jimi Hendrix Experience are/were massively influential, and they lead the way with 88 weeks. Heaven 17 and Heatwave are next, ahead of Heart and Hear'Say Other than the first and last named above, a few have spent some time at number one - Isaac Hayes (1 week as Chef), Chesney Hawkes (5 weeks!), Helping Haiti (2 weeks) and more recently Ella Henderson (2) & Oliver Heldens (1) Jeremy Healy probably has one or two more aliases I need to add in for him, I've treated PJ Harvey as an idnividual although I know it can be argued that that was the name of the group and that it should appear under P, Ted Heath was nothing to do with the former Prime Minster of the same name, and we've got a bunch of people better known as actors - Anne Hathaway, David Hasselhoff, Paul henry and Bill Maynard. Finally, a personal mention to two female artists who produced excellent (in my opinion at least) albums but did relatively little in the singles chart - Juliana Hatfield and Gemma Hayes. PS - for next week's part, can anyone supply a line-up for the Hermes House Band from the period when they had their hits (Dec 01-Dec 02) please?

What a dull streaming chart The Top 28 are the same top 28 as last week with the biggest movements a 4 place drop the The Script and a 4 place gain for One Direction. The Top 47 are also the same records as last week, at least Jeremih & YG's 12 place gain is a notable one (the biggest fall is then 6 places by 5 Seconds of Summer)

"Summertime Sadness" should have gone a long time ago.