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Most total weeks inside Top 40 without making Top 20 - "Gold Dust" 21 weeks as mentioned above. Most consecutive weeks with same criteria - 19 and it's a real oldie not mentioned in this thread. See if anyone can find it before I spoil it! Ken Dodd had an interesting early career when it comes to records hanging around between 21 & 40. After his debut "Life Is Like A Violin" was a top tenner, his next six hits all spent decent time in the top 40 without making the top 20 "Once In Every Lifetime" 11 weeks "Pianissimo" 12 weeks "Still" 6 weeks "Eight By Ten" 11 weeks "Happiness" 11 weeks "So Deep Is The Night" 6 weeks (Not all consecutive weeks) His next hit was his blockbuster number one "Tears"

I can only do total weeks: 75 weeks My Way - Frank Sinatra 54 weeks Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets 52 weeks Stranger On The Shore - Mr Acker Bilk with the Leon Young String Chorale 48 weeks Sex On Fire - Kings Of Leon Release Me - Engelbert Humperdinck 47 weeks Fairytale Of New York - Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl 42 weeks Amazing Grace - Judy Collins Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood 40 weeks Someone Like You - Adele 39 weeks Rockstar - Nickelback 38 weeks Ho Hey - Lumineers 37 weeks Sexy And I Know It - LMFAO I Love You Because - Jim Reeves 36 weeks All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey I Believe - Frankie Laine A Scottish Soldier - Andy Stewart 35 weeks Umbrella - Rihanna featuring Jay-Z Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera Use Somebody - Kings Of Leon Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree - Dawn featuring Tony Orlando 34 weeks Happy - Pharrell Williams (Still in Top 40) Counting Stars - OneRepublic (just outside Top 40) Poker Face - Lady Gaga I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas 33 weeks Deck Of Cards - Wink Martindale I'm Yours - Jason Mraz Let's Twist Again - Chubby Checker 32 weeks Titanium - David Guetta featuring Sia Wake Me Up - Avicii Make You Feel My Love - Adele 31 weeks Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye featuring Kimbra All Right Now - Free How To Save A Life - Fray Albatross - Fleetwood Mac Jar Of Hearts - Christina Perri 30 weeks Side Saddle - Russ Conway Let Her Go - Passenger Starships - Nicki Minaj How Do I Live - LeAnn Rimes He'll Have To Go - Jim Reeves Empire State Of Mind - Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys Love The Way You Lie - Eminem featuring Rihanna Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen

"Pompeii" up to joint 12th in the "most weeks on Top 75" list with 63, "Radioactive" not far behind (58 weeks, 19th place) "Happy" finishes its top 20 run (for now at least) at 32 weeks, 5th all-time and now with 34 weeks in the top 30 breaks into the top 10 in that category. "Rather Be" notches its 26th Top 30 week and "Let It Go" the 25th, equalling the most weeks in the Top 30 without making the top 10 (record previously held by Andy Stewart's "A Scottish Soldier")

Final section of "D" artists added. From the above - Ken Doh moved to K, and David Devant etc. moved within the D's. Anita Dobson bio amended to include marriage to Brian May DJ Nation/Nukleuz DJs etc. was always going to be a bit of messy one. I had lumped them in as "DJ Nation" rather than Nukleuz DJs (I think that's probably swings and roundabouts unless anyone can convince me they should be under N. However, as noted above, I had one record credited under the Various Artists moniker, I have now moved that to DJ Nation for consistency but added a note about the original credit. This batch (slightly over my usual 100 artist per week as I didn't see any point of having a final batch of just 8 artists next week) is headlined by Duran Duran with their 230 weeks including 6 at number 1. Drake has racked up 180 weeks (with over half of them from just 3 tracks), and there are four more in this group with over 100 - Craig Douglas (almost forgotten these days), the Drifters, Duffy (103 weeks with tracks from her first album, just 2 with songs from the second) and Bob Dylan, more influential than all of the others in this group put together. Ian Dury and Nick Drake are others who you would have thought had more weeks and hits than he did, Charlie Drake, Hilary Duff and Minnie Driver are better known for their work in other fields than their singing while Duke Dumont is the only one here in this week's Top 75.

Whoops! Sorry I forgot to post yesterday. Hope today's instalment kind of makes up for it. Who's in Part 24 - well the biggest discographies relate to a trio of old timers - Lonnie Donegan, Val Donnican & Ken Dodd. Jason Donovan rode Kylie's (and SAW's) coat tails for a few years and racked up a number of hits, Dollar & Dr Hook represent some 80s MOR while Dr Dre comes from the more urban side of things. Also of course another load of DJ ....., only DJ Sammy and DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince made over 50 weeks on the chart, while the less said about Joe Dolce Music Theatre the better. Hopefully all the amendments and corrections noted above had been taken into account. Last "D" instalment next week.

Certainly a step up from the contributions of other "boy bands" over the last couple of years - 5 Seconds of Summer, Vamps, MAD, One Direction, Lawson etc.

Well "Scream And Shout" wasn't much cop either.

Revised (& Hopefully correct this time!) version of most Number 1's in the Top 40 w/e 11/1/14 - 18 number ones Number 1 - Timber by Pitbull featuring Kesha reached number one on 11/01/14 Number 2 - Happy by Pharrell Williams reached number one on 04/01/14 Number 6 - The Monster by Eminem featuring Rihanna reached number one on 09/11/13 Number 7 - Skyscraper by Sam Bailey reached number one on 28/12/13 Number 8 - Animals by Martin Garrix reached number one on 23/11/13 Number 10 - Counting Stars by OneRepublic reached number one on 12/10/13 Number 11 - Roar by Katy Perry reached number one on 14/09/13 Number 15 - Wake Me Up by Avicii reached number one on 27/07/13 Number 16 - Somewhere Only We Know by Lily Allen reached number one on 30/11/13 Number 17 - Royals by Lorde reached number one on 02/11/13 Number 19 - Burn by Ellie Goulding reached number one on 24/08/13 Number 22 - Love Me Again by John Newman reached number one on 13/07/13 Number 24 - Look Right Through by Storm Queen reached number one on 16/11/13 Number 26 - Under Control by Calvin Harris & Alesso featuring Hurts reached number one on 07/12/13 Number 28 - Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke featuring T.I. & Pharrell Williams reached number one on 08/06/13 Number 29 - Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus reached number one on 19/10/13 Number 33 - Talk Dirty by Jason Derulo featuring 2 Chainz reached number one on 28/09/13 Number 39 - Get Lucky by Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams reached number one on 04/05/13

So, if "Chandelier" had sold a few more, we'd have had 8 consecutive entries each going down just one place.

Thanks, will go back and check my programme! Yep, I had left one line of code that restricted my search to 2012 charts in for some reason. Can't even remember adding that clause to the programme. So please disregard my previous post - new version imminent

Sam Smith may just have the dullest voice for a so-called "emotional" pop star for many a year.

Looks like the record may be 13 number ones (past, present & future) in the Top 40 w/e 7/1/12, 21/1/12, 15/9/12, 22/12/12 & 29/12/12

Thanks, I will amend for Monday's update

Thanks. I've confirmed both those corrections and they will be amended as part of the Monday update.

Wasn't he the Mosquito in the artist credit? Sorted. I hate "vs" credits even more than I hate so many "featured" credits. It implies the artists are competing against each other, yet they're actually collaborating with each other. I blame MC Tunes and 808 State. And of course what appears to be the "sleeve" credit for "Gecko (Overdrive)" is Oliver Heldens x Becky Hill. The OCC are listing this as "&" though. Sorted. Thanks for all these

Part 23 added. Céline Deon is probably the biggest name of this batch, but there are several other very succesful acts (some moreso on the album front to be honest) - Neil Diamond, Dire Straits, Dido, Dexy's Midnight Runners and from more recent times Disclosure & DJ Fresh This is the first half of the "DJ..." section, doubtless there are numerous examples of two or more DJ's using the same professional name, and I expect I've got at least one or two wrong. If so, please let me know. Previous "D" parts also brought up to date with this week's chart, plus the amendments for Dare & Destiny's Child as reported above.

Excellent idea for a thread.

Even better would be something like 1-1-2-2-3-68

At least the Vamps have stopped their run of getting worse single-by-single. Don't see what Demi adds to it though.

"Older" by George Michael

It sounds like it is Rihanna singing it. Doesn't sound like Sia at all to me.

Sounds like the vocals on the Janoskians track from sometime ago

Fantastic to see "Let It Go" still hanging around. The music actually sounds quite summery, but the lyrics of course don't!!!!

Equalled by Pink's "So What" going from 38 to 1. I've put together a list of the last time each chart movement within the Top 75 happened at http://www.fchd.info/temp/POSITIONCHANGES.TXT The formatting is not particularly nice but hopefully the data is understandable enough. I street again these are only the LAST time a particular movement happened, so if say more than 1 record has moved from number 63 to number 9, I am only listing the last one.

Puff Daddy featuring Jimmy Page's "Come With Me" leapt from 75-2 in August 1998