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I guess at 4 straight weeks at #1, "Rather Be" qualifies as the last long-running single.

148. "Don't let me be the last to know" Britney Spears (2 weeks) Reached #1: 19 March 2001 UK Chart peak: #12 Written by Shania Twain and Mutt Lange, "Don't let me be the last to know" was Britney's eighth consecutive direct #1 in my chart. It was a particularly huge hit in Romania where it topped the charts and was the third biggest selling single of 2001. The chain of Britney number ones would finally be broken later that year, when "I'm a Slave 4 U" entered at #4 and peaked at #2 (although now I regret not having put it on #1 as well). It would take Britney a full three years for her next chart-topper. jGoM7atmJJA

147. "Tudo pode acontecer" João Portugal (2 weeks) Reached #1: 5 March 2001 Such was the massive success of the first edition of Big Brother Portugal that just four weeks after the finale, a second edition was launched. The theme of Big Brother 2 was written and performed by João Portugal, who was in Portugal's most successful boyband of the 90's Excesso. He also was the singer and author of the themes for Big Brother 4 and the first edition of Celebrity Big Brother. KUq6PjjroRY

146. "Nobody wants to be lonely" Ricky Martin feat. Christina Aguilera (1 week) Reached #1: 26 February 2001 UK Chart Peak: #4 Originally a slower track in Ricky Martin's "Sound Loaded" album, "Nobody Wants To Be Lonely" was revamped as a midtempo duet with Christina Aguilera. It duly became Martin's first and Aguilera's second #1 hit in my chart. The song also hit #1 in New Zealand and Romania. It was never released as physical single in the US, but it still made it to #13. JHlYe3lbxjI

145. "Touch me" Rui da Silva feat. Cassandra (3 weeks) Reached #1: 5 February 2001 UK Chart Peak: #1 Rui da Silva became the first Portuguese artist to have a UK #1 hit and therefore made headlines in my country. Originally sampling Spandau Ballet's "Chant #1" (which was removed for its release), the track also topped the charts in Ireland, Israel and of course in Portugal. Rui da Silva's other solo hit in my chart was "Feel The Love" that hit #8 in 2004 (he also had two top 40 hits in 1995 as part of Underground Sound of Lisbon). He also famously remixed Jennifer Lopez's "Play", Lighthouse Family's "Happy" and Yoko Ono's "Walking on thin ice". 3FkApmj8K1M

144. "Here with me" Dido (3 non-consecutive weeks) Reached #1: 22 January 2001, 2 April 2001 UK Chart Peak: #4 This track was used as the theme of the "Roswell" TV series and was featured on the soundtracks of movies such as Bounce and Love Actually. "Here With Me" turned out to be the #1 on my year-end 2001 chart. Such was its continued appeal that it returned to #1 nine weeks after its first run at the top. tlXyHlszjQA

143. "Only pain is real" Silence 4 (2 weeks) Reached #1: 8 January 2001 The title-track of the band's second album was their sixth consecutive #1 in my chart. The chain was finally broken when the next single (which turned out to be their last) "Empty Happy Song" only made to #6. The band made a brief reunion for a few concerts in 2014 after the female vocalist Sofia Lisboa successfully beated leukemia and their #1 hits "Borrow" and "Angel Song" re-entered the top 40 in my chart. lNXPk7L3wo0

142. "Supreme" Robbie Williams (1 week) Reached #1: 1 January 2001 UK Chart Peak: #4 "Supreme" may not be one of the songs on Robbie Williams's repertoir most likelt to immediately spring to one's mind, but it certainly is one of the best and it remains his only solo #1 hit to date in my chart. Robbie recorded this song in French and it stayed on the French charts for 34 weeks although it peaked at #12. ULTtWUZhD9c

10 Alexandra Burke- Hallelujah 06 Alexandra Burke Ft Flo Rida- Bad Boys 07 Calvin Harris- I'm Not Alone 05 Cascada- Evacuate The Dancefloor 10 Cheryl Cole- Fight For This Love 05 Chipmunk Ft Ms D- Oopsy Daisy 07 David Guetta Ft Akon- Sexy Bitch 07 David Guetta Ft Kelly Rowland- When Love Takes Over 02 Dizzie Rascal- Holiday 08 Dizzie Rascal Ft Armand Van Helden- Bonkers 08 Flo Rida Ft Kesha- Right Round 06 Jay Z Ft Rihanna and Kanye West- Run This Town 06 JLS- Beat Again 07 JLS- Everybody In Love 07 Joe McElderry- The Climb 08 Kelly Clarkson- My Life Would Suck Without You 09 La Roux- Bulletproof 11 Lady Gaga- Bad Romance 10 Lady Gaga- Just Dance 10 Lady Gaga- Poker Face 07 Lily Allen- The Fear 03 Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band- The Official BBC Children In Need Medley 04 Pixie Lott- Boys And Girls 07 Pixie Lott- Mama Do 06 Rage Against The Machine- Killing In The Name 07 Taio Cruz- Break Your Heart 09 The Black Eyed Peas- Boom Boom Pow 10 The Black Eyed Peas- I Gotta Feeling 07 The Black Eyed Peas- Meet Me Halfway 05 The X-Factor Finalists 2009- You Are Not Alone 04 Tinchy Stryder Ft Amelle- Never Leave You 06 Tinchy Stryder Ft N-Dubz- Number 1 -01 Vanessa Jenkins and Bryn West Ft Sir Tom Jones and Robin Gibb- Islands In The Stream

141. "Stronger" Britney Spears (1 week) Reached #1: 11 December 2000 UK Chart Peak: #7 But the year would not be over with another #1 in my chart for Britney Spears, as "Stronger" was her seventh charttopper. However, Delfins recaptured the topspot in the next week and "Vive" was the Christmas #1. Britney became the second act to have four #1s in my chart in a callendar year (the Spice Girls were the first in 1997), but nobody has done that since. AJWtLf4-WWs

140. "Vive" Delfins (3 non-consecutive weeks) Reached #1: 4 December 2000, 18 December 2000 The first season of Big Brother Portugal premiered on September 2000 and pretty soon, and like it was happening in other countries, Portugal was swept away by it like very few television shows did before. Delfins performed its theme, that was actually a Portuguese version from the theme of the Dutch Big Brother ("Leef" by Han van Eijk), which helped them make up for their flop 2000 album. Delfins scored thus their third #1 in my chart but they would only trouble the chart once more with yet a Portuguese version from David Gray's "Babylon" hitting #19 in 2002. J9Q7sL0j7QE

139. "Can't Fight The Moonlight" LeAnn Rimes (1 week) Reached #1: 27 November 2000 UK Chart Peak: #1 Having loved the movie Coyote Ugly back in the day to the point of purchasing its soundtrack album, it was a no-brainer that "Can't fight the moolight" would be a #1 in my chart. It topped the charts in the UK, Australia (where it was the best-selling single of 2001), Flemish Belgium, Finland, Netherlands, Romania, Sweden and Ireland, where is the 18th best-selling single of all time. bx3s99FNXzI

138. "Holler / Let Love Lead The Way" Spice Girls (2 weeks) Reached #1: 6 November 2000 UK Chart Peak: #1 The Spice Girls scored their 9th #1 in my chart (as well as in the UK) with the double A-side "Holler / Let Love Lead The Way". "Holler" was played for the first time on a Brazilian radio station. gFBWbH5CeRE

137. "Beautiful day" U2 (4 weeks) Reached #1: 13 October 2000 UK Chart Peak: #1 U2's big comeback single was as awesome as everyone thought it would be and it flew to the top of my chart immediately, also hitting #1 in Australia, Canada, Netherlands, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Spain and the UK. The song won 3 Grammys. Kylie Minogue's "On a night like this" spent 3 weeks at #2 in y chart behind "Beautiful day". co6WMzDOh1o

136. "Sky" Sonique (1 week) Reached #1: 6 October 2000 UK Chart Peak: #2 Yet another artist following up their debut #1 hit with another charttopper. "Sky" was top 3 in the UK, Spain, Italy and Finland. Sonique had two more top 10 hits in my chart with "I Put A Spell On You" and "Can't Make Up My Mind". JCfAGSkhggQ

135. "7 Days" Craig David (1 week) Reached #1: 29 September 2000 UK Chart Peak: #1 Craig David had his second #1 hit with "7 Days", which was nominated for both a Brit and Grammy. The last time he troubled my chart's top 5 was in 2009 with "Insomnia" (#3). ABuWphlnZ1A

134. "Gotta tell you" Samantha Mumba (3 weeks) Reached #1: 8 September 2000 UK Chart Peak: #2 Irish popstar Samantha Mumba scored a #1 in my chart with her debut hit "Gotta Tell You", holding off the topspot from Modjo's "Lady (Hear Me Tonight)", one of the most successful songs on my chart ever not to reach #1. "Gotta Tell You" topped the charts in Ireland and New Zealand and made it top #4 in the US, which is always quite something for an European artist. Mumba would have five more top 20 hits in my chart. gQMV1iQ-Xsc

133. "Lucky" Britney Spears (1 week) Reached #1: 1 September 2000 UK Chart Peak: #5 There you have it, AlexRange! There was no stopping Britney at the time in my chart and Lucky was her sixth consecutive #1. The single also was #1 in Austria, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland. 4vvBAONkYwI

132. "I turn to you" Melanie C (3 weeks) Reached #1: 11 August 2000 UK Chart Peak: #1 Miss Chisholm not only became the first Spice Girl to have a solo #1 hit, she was the first artist ever to have #1s in my chart both in a group and as a solo artist. (But some others have done the same since). It is her most successful solo single internationally, hitting #1 also in Austria, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. Melanie C never had another solo #1 yet in my chart, but she almost did it in 2006, when "The first day of my life" hit #2 (and she performed Portugal several times that year). But as a Spice Girl, the #1's were not over yer. 5DyGKWnYudg

Yeah, back in the turn of the millenium Britney was the supreme queen of my chart. Geri does have a solo hit in my chart. ;)

131. "Wicked game" HIM (1 week) Reached #1: 4 August 2000 Following the success of "Join Me In Death", HIM scored their second #1 in my chart with this cover version of Chris Isaak's 1990 hit. This is notably one of the most paradigmatic non-number ones in my chart, dropping to #9 on its second week and vanishing out of the top 40 after five weeks on chart. pBW--bgyezg

130. "To give" Silence 4 (2 weeks) Reached #1: 14 July 2000 The first single from Silence 4's second (and last) album, it became the band's fifth consecutive #1 in my chart. This video is credited for a boost of federated athletes of the sport of synchronized swimming in Portugal in the early 2000's. CvnsL_rc5ww

129. "It feels so good" Sonique (2 non-consecutive weeks) Reached #1: 7 July 2000, 28 July 2000 UK Chart peak: #1 Originally released in 1998 (where it peaked at #24 in the UK), "It Feels So Good" became an unexpected hit in America where it made to the top 10, prompting a new release in 2000, which topped the charts in the UK and Norway. In the crazy year of 2000 where there seemed to be a new UK Number One every week, the track was able to stay three weeks on top, therefore making Sonique the first British female artist to have a record spend more than a fortnight at #1 since Kate Bush back in 1978. hVzvdCKuu4w

128. "Toca's Miracle" Fragma (1 week) Reached #1: 30 June 2000 UK Chart peak: #1 Mashing up German dance group's "Toca Me" with Coco Star's "I Need a Miracle" (which were both UK top 40 hits), "Toca's Miracle" became one of the definite dance hits of the year. A 2008 release with new mixes of the track hit #8 in my chart. zO_uwj7Rvzc

127. "Fill me in" Craig David (2 weeks) Reached #1: 16 June 2000 UK Chart peak: #1 After guest starring on garage seminal hit "Re-rewind the crowd say Bo Selecta", Craig David was ready for stardom with its first single, that topped the UK chart in a week where the top 6 was entirely consisted of new entries. In 2009, BBC Radio placed this song at #93 in their list of UK Top 100 Songs of the Decade. YG8ll9EXMOw