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The [[UK singles chart]] was first compiled in 1969. However, the records and statistics listed here date back to 1952 because the [[Official Charts Company]] counts a selected period of the ''[[New Musical Express]]'' chart (only from 1952 to 1960) and the [[Record Retailer]] chart from 1960 to 1969 as predecessors for the period prior to 11 February 1969, where multiples of competing charts coexisted side by side. For example, the BBC compiled its own chart based on an average of the music papers of the time; many songs announced as having reached number one on [[BBC]] Radio and ''[[Top of the Pops]]'' prior to 1969 may not be listed here as chart-toppers since they do not meet the legacy criteria of the Charts Company.

== Number one hits ==

===Most number ones===
{{see also|List of artists by number of UK Singles Chart number ones}}

The following is a list of all the acts who are on eight or more UK number one songs ''with an individual credit'' (meaning, the main artist or named separately as a featured artist – being part of a group does ''not'' count towards an individual's total).<ref name="everyhit1">{{cite web|url=http://www.everyhit.com/record1.html |title=Record-Breakers and Trivia |website=EveryHit.com |access-date=23 July 2016}}</ref>

Simply playing or singing on a single without credit will not count, or the top positions would almost certainly belong to [[session musician]]s such as [[Clem Cattini]] who is reported to have played drums on over 40 number ones.<ref>{{cite news|title = Clem Cattini, Britain's record chart topper, keeps that backbeat going strong at 72|url = https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/mar/28/clem-cattini-paul-weller-zeppelin|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|access-date = 21 May 2015|first = John|last = Wilson}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Total !! Artist
|-
||21 || [[Elvis Presley]]{{#tag:ref|This number is disputed by some chart historians, as it includes three songs that were number ones twice due to a re-issue campaign in early 2005, setting Presley's score at 18 number one hits.|group="Note"}}
|-
| 18 || [[The Beatles]]
|-
| rowspan=3| 14 || [[Cliff Richard]]
|-
| [[Westlife]]
|-
| [[Ed Sheeran]]
|-
| 13 || [[Madonna]]
|-
| 12 || [[Take That]]
|-
| rowspan=2| 11 || [[Calvin Harris]]
|-
|[[Eminem]]
|-
| 10 || [[Elton John]]
|}

===Most weeks at number one by artist===
{| class="wikitable"  style="text-align:center; width:30%;"
|-
! Rank
! Artist
! Weeks at No. 1
|-
| 1
| [[Elvis Presley]]
| 80
|-
| 2
| [[The Beatles]]
| 70
|-
| 3
| [[Ed Sheeran]]
| 61
|-
| 4
| [[Cliff Richard]]
| 46
|-
| 5
| [[Calvin Harris]]
| 39
|-
| 6
| [[Justin Bieber]]
| 38
|-
| 7
| [[Frankie Laine]] 
||32
|-
| rowspan="2"|8
| [[ABBA]]
| rowspan="2"| 31
|-
| [[Drake (musician)|Drake]]
|-
| rowspan="2"| 10
| [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]]
| rowspan="2"| 29
|-
| [[Take That]]
|}

===Most weeks at number one by single===
The record for most non-consecutive weeks at number one is 18 by [[Frankie Laine]]'s "[[I Believe (1953 song)|I Believe]]" in 1953. It spent nine weeks at number one, dropped down for a week, returned to number one for six weeks, dropped down for a further week and returned to number one for a third time for three weeks.

The longest unbroken run at number one is "[[(Everything I Do) I Do It for You]]" by [[Bryan Adams]], which spent 16 consecutive weeks in 1991.

[[Ed Sheeran]] is the only artist to ever have multiple songs spend 10 or more weeks at the top of the charts, achieving the feat with both "[[Shape of You]]" in 2017 and "[[Bad Habits (Ed Sheeran song)|Bad Habits]]" in 2021.

{| class="wikitable sortable"  style="text-align:center; width:70%;"
|-
! Weeks
! Artist
! Single
! Year
|-
| 18
| [[Frankie Laine]]
| "[[I Believe (1953 song)|I Believe]]"*
| 1953
|-
| 16
| [[Bryan Adams]]
| "[[(Everything I Do) I Do It for You]]"
| 1991
|-
|rowspan="2"|15
| [[Wet Wet Wet]]
| "[[Love Is All Around (Wet Wet Wet song)|Love Is All Around]]"
| 1994
|-
| [[Drake (rapper)|Drake]] {{small|(featuring [[Wizkid (musician)|Wizkid]] and [[Kyla (British singer)|Kyla]])}}
| "[[One Dance]]"
| 2016
|-
|rowspan="2"|14
| [[Queen (band)|Queen]]
| "[[Bohemian Rhapsody]]"*
| 1975–76 and 1991–92{{refn|group="Note"|The 1975–76 original release of "Bohemian Rhapsody" b/w "[[I'm in Love with My Car]]" spent 9 weeks atop the chart.<br />The 1991–92 re-release of "Bohemian Rhapsody" b/w "[[These Are the Days of Our Lives]]" spent 5 weeks atop the chart.}}
|-
| [[Ed Sheeran]]
| "[[Shape of You]]"*
| 2017
|-
| 13
| [[Alex Warren]] 
| "[[Ordinary (Alex Warren song)|Ordinary]]"*
| 2025
|-
|rowspan="4"|11
| [[Slim Whitman]]
| "[[Rose Marie (song)|Rose Marie]]"
| 1955
|-
| [[Luis Fonsi]] and [[Daddy Yankee]] {{small|(featuring [[Justin Bieber]])}}
| "[[Despacito]]"*
| 2017
|-
| [[Tones and I]] 
| "[[Dance Monkey]]"
| 2019
|-
| Ed Sheeran
| "[[Bad Habits (Ed Sheeran song)|Bad Habits]]"
| 2021
|}
''Note: Songs denoted with an asterisk (*) spent non-consecutive weeks at number one''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-songs-that-spent-the-longest-at-number-1__14522/ |title=The songs that spent the longest at Number 1 |publisher=[[Official Charts Company]] |date=4 August 2017 |access-date=11 November 2017}}</ref>

===Biggest climb to number one===
The single with the biggest climb to number one is "[[Marvin Gaye (song)|Marvin Gaye]]" by [[Charlie Puth]] featuring [[Meghan Trainor]], which climbed from number 90 on the week ending 20 August 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/20150814/7501/|title=Official Singles Chart Top 100|publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]|date=14 August 2015|access-date=26 March 2023}}</ref>

The biggest climb to number one within the top 40 goes to "[[So What (Pink song)|So What]]" by [[Pink (singer)|Pink]], which climbed from number 38 on the week ending 11 October 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/20081005/7501/|title=Official Singles Chart Top 100|publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]|date=5 October 2008|access-date=26 March 2023}}</ref>

===Biggest drop from number one===
The biggest drop from number one within the top 100 is to number 97. "[[Three Lions (song)|Three Lions]]" by [[David Baddiel|Baddiel]], [[Frank Skinner|Skinner]] and [[The Lightning Seeds]] returned to number one for a third non-consecutive week on the week ending 19 July 2018, but in the following week it experienced a large drop after England's loss at the semifinals of the [[2018 FIFA World Cup]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/20180720/7501/ |title=Official Singles Chart Top 100|publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]|date=20 July 2018|access-date=27 March 2023}}</ref> However, two singles have since fallen completely out of the chart after a week at number one: "[[Last Christmas]]" by [[Wham!]] on the weeks ending 14 January 2021  <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/20210108/7501/|title=Official Singles Chart Top 100|publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]|date=8 January 2021|access-date=27 March 2023}}</ref> and 12 January 2023,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/20230106/7501/|title=Official Singles Chart Top 100|publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]|date=6 January 2023|access-date=27 March 2023}}</ref> and "[[Merry Christmas (song)|Merry Christmas]]" by [[Ed Sheeran]] and [[Elton John]] on the week ending 13 January 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/20220107/7501/|title=Official Singles Chart Top 100|publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]|date=7 January 2022|access-date=27 March 2023}}</ref>

===Longest climb to number one===
"[[All I Want for Christmas Is You]]" by [[Mariah Carey]] reached number one on its 104th non-consecutive week on the chart, debuting on the week ending 10 December 1994 and peaking on week ending 17 December 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/20201211/7501/|title=Official Singles Chart Top 100|publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]|date=11 December 2020|access-date=27 March 2023}}</ref>

The longest climb to number one in a consecutive chart run is 19 weeks, achieved by [[Ed Sheeran]]'s "[[Thinking Out Loud]]", which debuted on the week ending 5 July 2014 and peaked on the week ending 8 November 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/20141102/7501/|title=Official Singles Chart Top 100|publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]|date=2 November 2014|access-date=27 March 2023}}</ref>

In terms of overall surpassed time, the record is held by "[[Running Up That Hill]]" by [[Kate Bush]], which first charted on the week ending 17 August 1985 and reached number one on the week ending 23 June 2022, almost 37 years since its first appearance on the chart.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/20220617/7501/|title=Official Singles Chart Top 100|publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]|date=17 June 2022|access-date=27 March 2023}}</ref>

===Self-replacement at number one===
Since the inception of the UK Singles Chart in 1952 only seven acts have replaced themselves at the top of the UK charts with exactly the same billing (as opposed to featured credits or backing credits, for example '[[Cliff Richard|Cliff Richard and the Shadows]]' and '[[The Shadows]]' have had back to back number ones on four occasions):

* [[The Beatles]] — "[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]" replaced "[[She Loves You]]" (14 December 1963)
* [[John Lennon]] — "[[Woman (John Lennon song)|Woman]]" replaced "[[Imagine (John Lennon song)|Imagine]]" (7 February 1981)
* [[Elvis Presley]] — "[[One Night (Elvis Presley song)|One Night" / "I Got Stung]]" replaced "[[Jailhouse Rock (song)|Jailhouse Rock]]" (22 January 2005)
* [[Justin Bieber]] — "[[Love Yourself]]" replaced "[[Sorry (Justin Bieber song)|Sorry]]" (10 December 2015)
* [[Ariana Grande]] — "[[Break Up with Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored]]" replaced "[[7 Rings]]" (21 February 2019); "7 Rings" replaced "Break Up with Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored" (28 February 2019)
* [[Ed Sheeran]] — "[[Shivers (Ed Sheeran song)|Shivers]]" replaced "[[Bad Habits (Ed Sheeran song)|Bad Habits]]" (23 September 2021)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/artists-who-replaced-themselves-at-number-1-on-the-official-uk-singles-chart__34061/ |title=Artists who replaced themselves at Number 1 on the Official UK Singles Chart |publisher=[[Official Charts Company]] |date=24 December 2021 |access-date=24 December 2021}}</ref>
* [[Sabrina Carpenter]] — "[[Espresso (song)|Espresso]]" replaced "[[Please Please Please (Sabrina Carpenter song)|Please Please Please]]" (18 July 2024); "Please Please Please" replaced "Espresso" (1 August 2024)

In addition, Ariana Grande is the first female artist to replace herself, and the first artist to replace herself at Number 1 for two consecutive weeks.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/ariana-grande-replaces-herself-at-number-1-for-a-second-time-on-the-official-singles-chart__25630/ |title=Ariana Grande replaces herself at Number 1 for a second time on the Official Singles Chart |publisher=[[Official Charts Company]] |date=22 February 2019 |access-date=22 February 2019}}</ref>

===Songwriters with the most number one singles===

Double A-sides and EPs count as one single rather than separate songs, and songs that have been number one for multiple artists are included as separate singles.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Number of singles
!Songwriter
!Weeks at number one
|-
|{{center|31}}
|[[John Lennon]]
|{{center|105}}
|-
|{{center|30}}
|[[Paul McCartney]]
|{{center|110}}
|-
|{{center|21}}
|[[Max Martin]]
|{{center|52}}
|-
|{{center|19}}
|[[Ed Sheeran]]
|{{center|76}}
|-
|{{center|17}}
|[[Steve Mac]]
|{{center|49}}
|-
|rowspan="3"|{{center|14}}
|[[Calvin Harris]]
|{{center|42}}
|-
|[[Dr. Luke]]
|{{center|25}}
|-
|[[Wayne Hector]]
|{{center|19}}
|-
|rowspan="4"|{{center|13}}
|[[Benny Andersson]]
|rowspan="2"|{{center|46}}
|-
|[[Björn Ulvaeus]]
|-
|[[Madonna]]
|{{center|29}}
|-
|[[Gary Barlow]]
|{{center|28}}
|}

=== Most consecutive number ones ===

[[The Beatles]] had 11 consecutive number ones with official releases on [[Parlophone]] between 1963 ("[[From Me to You]]") and 1966 ("[[Yellow Submarine (song)|Yellow Submarine]]" / "[[Eleanor Rigby]]"), though releases of archive material from their previous record company also charted during this time.

Even including the archive releases, they still have the most consecutive number ones with 7, from "[[A Hard Day's Night (song)|A Hard Day's Night]]" in 1964 up to "[[Yellow Submarine (song)|Yellow Submarine]]" / " [[Eleanor Rigby]]" in 1966. They share this record with [[Westlife]], who achieved this from their 1999 debut "[[Swear It Again]]" up to 2000's "[[My Love (Westlife song)|My Love]]".<ref name="Inc 2000">{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0BAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA124|title=Found the 'love' of a Westlife time|magazine=Billboard |date=2000}}</ref>

===Most consecutive number ones from chart debut===
[[Spice Girls]] became the first British music act and girl group to have their first six singles reach number one on the UK singles chart between 1996 and 1997 with "[[Wannabe]]" in July 1996 to "[[Too Much (Spice Girls song)|Too Much]]" in December 1997.

[[Westlife]] became the first music act to have their first seven singles ("[[Swear It Again]]", "[[If I Let You Go]]", "[[Flying Without Wings]]", "[[I Have a Dream (song)|I Have a Dream]] / "[[Seasons in the Sun]]", "[[Fool Again]]", "[[Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)|Against All Odds]]" and "[[My Love (Westlife song)|My Love]]") to reach number one from 1999 to 2000.<ref name="Virgin 2010">{{cite book|title=British Hit Singles|date=4 November 2010|publisher=Virgin Books}}</ref> It took Westlife just over 18 months to achieve their first seven number ones, faster than any other music act.

===Most songs to debut at number 1 on the chart===

Acts with the most songs to debut at number 1 on the Official Singles Chart. Westlife claim the most number 1 debuts on the Official Singles Chart, with all 14 of their chart-toppers landing there in their first week.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/acts-with-most-songs-to-debut-at-number-1-on-the-official-singles-chart__31500/|first=Rob|last=Copsey|date=30 October 2020|title=Acts with most songs to debut at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart|website=[[OfficialCharts.com]]}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Total !! Artist
|-
||14 || [[Westlife]]
|-
| 10 || [[Take That]]
|-
| 9 || [[Eminem]]
|-
| rowspan=3| 8 || [[Spice Girls]]
|-
| [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]]
|-
| [[Ed Sheeran]]
|-
| rowspan=7| 7 || [[McFly]]
|-
| [[Robbie Williams]]
|-
| [[Calvin Harris]]
|-
| [[Tinie Tempah]]
|-
| [[Ariana Grande]]
|-
| [[Sam Smith]]
|}

===Most number-one singles from one album ===

The following artists have had at least 3 number-one singles in the UK with a single album. No soundtracks have had 4 number-one singles as of today. [[Lady Gaga]]'s ''[[The Fame]]'' and ''[[The Fame Monster]]'' are considered to be one album by the [[Official Charts Company]]. [[George Michael]] is credited as a sole singer for some number-one songs that are tracks on [[Wham!]] albums. Although "[[Merry Christmas (song)|Merry Christmas]]" by [[Ed Sheeran]] and [[Elton John]] was a number-one single on a Christmas edition of Sheeran's album ''[[= (album)|=]]'', the special edition was later removed from stores, and the song is now listed as a single from John's album ''[[The Lockdown Sessions (Elton John album)|The Lockdown Sessions]]'', therefore removing the third number-one single credit from Sheeran's album.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Total !! Artists !! Albums !! Years
|-
|{{center|5}}
|[[Westlife]]
|''[[Westlife (album)|Westlife]]'' 
| {{center|1999–2000}}
|-
|rowspan=5 style="text-align:center;" |4
|[[Take That]]
|''[[Everything Changes (Take That album)|Everything Changes]]''
| {{center|1993–1994}}
|-
|[[Spice Girls]]
|''[[Spice (album)|Spice]]''
| {{center|1996–1997}}
|-
|[[B*Witched]]
|''[[B*Witched (album)|B*Witched]]''
| {{center|1998–1999}}
|-
|[[Dizzee Rascal]]
|''[[Tongue n' Cheek]]''
| {{center|2008–2010}}
|-
|[[Lady Gaga]]
|''[[The Fame |The Fame/The Fame Monster]]''
| {{center|2009–2010}}
|-
|rowspan=22 style="text-align:center;" |3
|[[Wham!]]
|''[[Make It Big]]''
| {{center|1984}}
|-
|[[Frankie Goes to Hollywood]]
|''[[Welcome to the Pleasuredome]]''
| {{center|1984}}
|-
|[[Madonna]]
|''[[True Blue (Madonna album)|True Blue]]'' 
| {{center|1986–1987}}
|-
|Take That
|''[[Nobody Else]]''
| {{center|1994–1995}}
|-
|[[Aqua (band)|Aqua]]
|''[[Aquarium (Aqua album)|Aquarium]]''
| {{center|1997–1998}}
|-
|Spice Girls
|''[[Spiceworld (album)|Spiceworld]]''
| {{center|1997–1998}}
|-
|[[All Saints (group)|All Saints]]
|''[[All Saints (All Saints album)|All Saints]]''
| {{center|1998}}
|-
|[[S Club 7]]
|''[[Sunshine (S Club 7 album)|Sunshine]]''
| {{center|2000–2001}}
|-
|[[McFly]]
|''[[Motion in the Ocean]]''
| {{center|2006–2007}}
|-
|[[Leona Lewis]]
|''[[Spirit (Leona Lewis album)|Spirit]]''
| {{center|2006–2008}}
|-
|[[Black Eyed Peas]]
|''[[The E.N.D.]]''
| {{center|2009}}
|-
|[[Alexandra Burke]]
|''[[Overcome (Alexandra Burke album)|Overcome]]''
| {{center|2008–2010}}
|-
|[[Bruno Mars]]
|''[[Doo-Wops & Hooligans]]''
| {{center|2010–2011}}
|-
|[[Calvin Harris]]
|''[[Motion (Calvin Harris album)|Motion]]''
| {{center|2013–2014}}
|-
|[[Sam Smith]]
|''[[In the Lonely Hour]]''
| {{center|2014–2015}}
|-
|[[Justin Bieber]]
|''[[Purpose (Justin Bieber album)|Purpose]]''
| {{center|2015}}
|-
|[[Drake (musician)|Drake]]
|''[[Scorpion (Drake album)|Scorpion]]''
| {{center|2018}}
|-
|[[Ariana Grande]]
|''[[Thank U, Next]]''
| {{center|2018–2019}}
|-
|[[Ed Sheeran]]
|''[[No.6 Collaborations Project]]''
| {{center|2019}}
|-
|Wham!
|''[[The Final (album)|The Final]]''
| {{center|1985–1986; 2021}}
|-
|[[Lewis Capaldi]]
|''[[Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent]]''
| {{center|2022–2023}}
|-
|[[Sabrina Carpenter]]
|''[[Short n' Sweet]]''
| {{center|2024}}
|}

===Longest span of number one singles===

[[The Beatles]] have the longest time span of number one singles with 60 years between their first, "[[From Me to You]]" in May 1963, and their last, "[[Now and Then (Beatles song)|Now and Then]]" in November 2023.

[[Elvis Presley]] has the longest timespan of number one singles for a solo artist, with over 47 years between his first number one "[[All Shook Up]]" in June 1957 and his most recent, the reissue of "[[It's Now or Never (song)|It's Now or Never]]" in January 2005.

[[Kate Bush]] has the longest time span of number one singles for a female artist, with 44 years between her first number one "[[Wuthering Heights (song)|Wuthering Heights]]" in April 1978 and her second and most recent "[[Running Up That Hill]]" in June 2022.

===Longest gap between two number one singles===

[[The Beatles]] have the longest gap between two number ones, with 54 years between "[[The Ballad of John and Yoko]]" in June 1969 and "[[Now and Then (Beatles song)|Now and Then]]" in November 2023.

[[Kate Bush]] has the longest gap between two number ones for a solo artist, with 44 years between her first "[[Wuthering Heights (song)|Wuthering Heights]]" in April 1978 and her second "[[Running Up That Hill]]" in June 2022.

[[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]] has the longest gap between two number ones for a male artist, with over 42 years between "[[Green, Green Grass of Home]]" in December 1966 and his featured appearance on  "[[Islands in the Stream (song)#Comic Relief version|(Barry) Islands in the Stream]]" in March 2009.

===Lowest selling number one===
The lowest weekly sale for a number one single is 17,694 copies held by [[Orson (band)|Orson]]'s "[[No Tomorrow (Orson song)|No Tomorrow]]" in 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.masterton.co.uk/2013/04/hey-what-does-it-take/|first=James|last=Masterton|date=13 April 2013|title=Hey, What Does It Take}}</ref>

The addition of downloads to the UK charts meant that singles could reach number one with no physical copy being released. The first single to achieve this was [[Gnarls Barkley]]'s "[[Crazy (Gnarls Barkley song)|Crazy]]" in early 2006. Since 2014, audio streaming has been included in the calculation of chart position, so it is now possible for a single to reach number one without selling any copies (if it were only available on streaming services). In the week ending 24 September 2015, "[[What Do You Mean?]]" by [[Justin Bieber]] became the first number one with over half of its chart sales made up of streaming points, with sales of 30,000 and 36,000 points from 3.6 million streams.

Since the incorporation of streaming into the singles chart, the Official Charts Company have continued to compile a sales only chart. In week ending 27 April 2017 "[[Sign of the Times (Harry Styles song)|Sign of the Times]]" by [[Harry Styles]] became the first number one in the sales-only chart to sell less than "No Tomorrow" by Orson, with 16,686 copies.<ref name="sales 21 April 2017">{{cite news |url=http://www.musicweek.com/analysis/read/official-charts-analysis-ed-sheeran-topples-harry-styles-to-reclaim-singles-top-spot/068226 |title=Official Charts Analysis: Ed Sheeran topples Harry Styles to reclaim singles top spot |first= Alan|last= Jones |date=21 April 2017 |work=Music Week }}</ref>

===Longest and shortest songs to reach number one===
In terms of a song's running length, "[[All Around the World (Oasis song)|All Around the World]]" by [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]] (1998) at 9 minutes and 38 seconds is the longest song to reach No.1. "[[What Do You Want?]]" by [[Adam Faith]] at 1 minute 35 seconds (1959) is the shortest.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3jNiNNq3CE|title=Adam Faith - What do You want? (78rpm - 1959)|publisher=YouTube|access-date=23 February 2016|archive-date=7 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407130129/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3jNiNNq3CE}}</ref>

===Instrumental number ones===
{{see also|List of instrumental number ones on the UK singles chart}}

===Posthumous number ones===
{{see also|List of posthumous number ones on the UK singles chart}}

===Non-English language number ones===
* "[[Je t'aime... moi non plus]]" – [[Serge Gainsbourg]] and [[Jane Birkin]] (French – 11 October 1969 for one week)
* "[[Chanson D'Amour]]" – [[The Manhattan Transfer]] (French/English – 12 March 1977 for three weeks)
* "[[Begin the Beguine|Begin the Beguine (Volver a Empezar)]]" – [[Julio Iglesias]] (Spanish/English – 5 December 1981 for one week)
* "[[Rock Me Amadeus]]" – [[Falco (musician)|Falco]] (German/English – 10 May 1986 for one week)
* "[[La Bamba (song)|La Bamba]]" – [[Los Lobos]] (Spanish – 1 August 1987 for two weeks)
* "[[Sadeness (Part I)|Sadness (Part I)]]" – [[Enigma (German band)|Enigma]] (French/Latin/English – 19 January 1991 for one week)
* "[[The Ketchup Song (Aserejé)]]" – [[Las Ketchup]] (Spanish/English – 19 October 2002 for one week)
* "[[We No Speak Americano]]" – [[Yolanda Be Cool]] and [[DCUP]] (Neapolitan/English – 31 July 2010 for one week)
* "[[Loca People]]" - [[Sak Noel]] (Spanish/English - 2 October 2011 for one week)
* "[[Gangnam Style]]" – [[Psy]] (Korean/English – 6 October 2012 for one week)
* "[[Despacito]]" – [[Luis Fonsi]] and [[Daddy Yankee]] featuring [[Justin Bieber]] (Spanish/English – 18 May 2017 for eleven non-consecutive weeks)
Source:<ref>{{cite web|last=Myers |first=Justin |url=http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/foreign-language-songs-that-got-to-number-1__19039/ |title=Foreign language songs that got to Number 1 |publisher=[[Official Charts Company]] |date=13 May 2017 |access-date=4 June 2017}}</ref>

===Songs that were number one for multiple artists===
*"[[I Believe (Frankie Laine song)|I Believe]]" – [[Frankie Laine]] (1953) and [[Robson & Jerome]] (1995)
*"[[Answer Me]]" – [[David Whitfield]] and [[Frankie Laine]] (both 1953)
*"[[This Ole House]]" – [[Rosemary Clooney]] (1954) and [[Shakin' Stevens]] (1981)
*"[[Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White)]]" – [[Pérez Prado]] and [[Eddie Calvert]] (both 1955)
*"[[Unchained Melody]]" – [[Jimmy Young (broadcaster)|Jimmy Young]] (1955), [[The Righteous Brothers]] (1990), [[Robson & Jerome]] (1995) and [[Gareth Gates]] (2002)
*"[[Singing the Blues]]" – [[Guy Mitchell]] and [[Tommy Steele]] (both 1957)
*"[[Young Love (1956 song)|Young Love]]" – [[Tab Hunter]] (1957) and [[Donny Osmond]] (1973)
*"[[Mary's Boy Child]]" – [[Harry Belafonte]] (1957) and [[Boney M.]] (1978)
*"[[Living Doll (song)|Living Doll]]" – [[Cliff Richard]] (1959 with [[The Shadows]], 1986 with [[The Young Ones (TV series)|The Young Ones]]) 
*"[[Can't Help Falling in Love]]" – [[Elvis Presley]] (1962) and [[UB40]] (1993)
*"[[You'll Never Walk Alone]]" – [[Gerry and the Pacemakers]] (1963), [[The Crowd (band)|The Crowd]] (1985), [[Robson & Jerome]] (1996) and [[Michael Ball]] with [[Captain Tom Moore]] (2020)
*"[[I Got You Babe]]" – [[Sonny & Cher]] (1965) and [[UB40]] with [[Chrissie Hynde]] (1985)
*"[[Somethin' Stupid]]" – [[Frank Sinatra]] with [[Nancy Sinatra]] (1967) and [[Robbie Williams]] with [[Nicole Kidman]] (2001)
*"[[What a Wonderful World]]" – [[Louis Armstrong]] (1968) and [[Katie Melua]] with [[Eva Cassidy]] (2007)
*"[[Baby, Come Back (The Equals song)|Baby Come Back]]" – [[The Equals]] (1968) and [[Pato Banton]] (1994)
*"[[With a Little Help from My Friends]]" – [[Joe Cocker]] (1968), [[Wet Wet Wet]] (1988) and [[Sam & Mark]] (2004)
*"[[Dizzy (Tommy Roe song)|Dizzy]]" – [[Tommy Roe]] (1969) and [[Vic Reeves]] with [[The Wonder Stuff]] (1991)
*"[[Bridge over Troubled Water (song)|Bridge over Troubled Water]]" – [[Simon & Garfunkel]] (1970) and [[Artists for Grenfell]] (2017)
*"[[Spirit in the Sky]]" – [[Norman Greenbaum]] (1970), [[Doctor and the Medics]] (1986) and [[Gareth Gates]] (2003)
*"[[Without You (Badfinger song)|Without You]]" – [[Harry Nilsson|Nilsson]] (1972) and [[Mariah Carey]] (1994)
*"[[Seasons in the Sun]]" – [[Terry Jacks]] (1974) and [[Westlife]] (1999)
*"[[Everything I Own]]" – [[Ken Boothe]] (1974) and [[Boy George]] (1987)
*"[[Barbados (Typically Tropical song)|Barbados]]" – [[Typically Tropical]] (1975) and [[Vengaboys]] (1999, as "[[We're Going to Ibiza]]") 
*"[[Tragedy (Bee Gees song)|Tragedy]]" – [[Bee Gees]] (1979) and [[Steps (group)|Steps]] (1999)
*"[[The Tide Is High]]" – [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]] (1980) and [[Atomic Kitten]] (2002)
*"[[Uptown Girl]]" – [[Billy Joel]] (1983) and [[Westlife]] (2001)
*"[[The Power of Love (Frankie Goes to Hollywood song)|The Power of Love]]" – [[Frankie Goes to Hollywood]] (1984) and [[Gabrielle Aplin]] (2012)
*"[[Do They Know It's Christmas?]]" – [[Band Aid (band)|Band Aid]] (1984), [[Band Aid II]] (1989), [[Band Aid 20]] (2004), [[Band Aid 30]] (2014) and [[LadBaby]] (2022, as "Food Aid")
*"[[When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going (song)|When the Going Gets Tough]]" – [[Billy Ocean]] (1986) and [[Boyzone]] (1999)
*"[[He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother]]" – [[The Hollies]] (1988) and [[The Justice Collective]] (2012)
*"[[Eternal Flame (song)|Eternal Flame]]" – [[The Bangles]] (1989) and [[Atomic Kitten]] (2001)
*"[[You Are Not Alone]]" – [[Michael Jackson]] (1995) and [[The X Factor (British series 6)|''The X Factor'' Finalists 2009]] (2009)
*"[[Lady Marmalade]]" – [[All Saints (group)|All Saints]] (1998) and [[Christina Aguilera]], [[Lil' Kim]], [[Mya (singer)|Mya]] and [[Pink (singer)|Pink]] (2001)
*"[[Mambo No. 5]]" – [[Lou Bega]] (1999) and [[Bob the Builder]] (2001)
*"[[Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)|Against All Odds]]" – [[Mariah Carey]] with [[Westlife]] (2000) and [[Steve Brookstein]] (2005)
*"[[Fuck It (I Don't Want You Back)]]" – [[Eamon (singer)|Eamon]] and [[Frankee]] (both 2004, Frankee's version titled "[[F.U.R.B. (Fuck You Right Back)]]") 
*"[[Wake Me Up (Avicii song)|Wake Me Up!]]" – [[Avicii]] (2013) and [[Gareth Malone|Gareth Malone's All Star Choir]] (2014)
*"[[Merry Christmas (song)|Merry Christmas]]" – [[Ed Sheeran]] with [[Elton John]] and [[LadBaby]] featuring [[Ed Sheeran]] and [[Elton John]] (both 2021, LadBaby's version titled "[[Sausage Rolls for Everyone]]")

===Acts to occupy the top two===
*[[The Beatles]]
**"[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]" and "[[She Loves You]]" (three weeks in December 1963)
**"[[Hello, Goodbye]]" and "[[Magical Mystery Tour (song)|Magical Mystery Tour]]" (three weeks in December 1967)
*[[John Travolta]] — "[[Summer Nights (Grease song)|Summer Nights]]" (with [[Olivia Newton-John]]) and "[[Sandy (Grease song)|Sandy]]" (one week in November 1978)
*[[John Lennon]] — "[[Imagine (John Lennon song)|Imagine]]" and "[[Happy Xmas (War Is Over)]]"; "[[Woman (John Lennon song)|Woman]]" (both January 1981)
*[[Frankie Goes to Hollywood]] — "[[Two Tribes]]" and "[[Relax (Frankie Goes to Hollywood song)|Relax]]" (two weeks in July 1984)
*[[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]] — "[[Into the Groove]]" and "[[Holiday (Madonna song)|Holiday]]" (one week in August 1985)
*[[Justin Bieber]]
**"[[Sorry (Justin Bieber song)|Sorry]]" and "[[Love Yourself (song)|Love Yourself]]" (one week in November 2015); "Love Yourself" and "Sorry" (five non-consecutive weeks in December 2015 and January 2016)
**"[[Cold Water (song)|Cold Water]]" (with [[MØ]] & [[Major Lazer]]) and "[[Let Me Love You (DJ Snake song)|Let Me Love You]]"  (with [[DJ Snake]]) (three weeks in August 2016)
**"[[Despacito]]" (with [[Luis Fonsi]] & [[Daddy Yankee]]) and "[[I'm the One (DJ Khaled song)|I'm the One]]" (with [[DJ Khaled]], [[Lil Wayne]], [[Quavo]] & [[Chance the Rapper]]) (four weeks in May and June 2017)
*[[Ed Sheeran]]
**"[[Shape of You]]" and "[[Castle on the Hill]]" (five weeks in January and February 2017); "[[How Would You Feel (Paean)]]" (one week in February 2017); "[[Galway Girl (Ed Sheeran song)|Galway Girl]]" (five weeks in March and April 2017)
**"[[Perfect (Ed Sheeran song)|Perfect]]" and "[[River (Eminem song)|River]]" (with [[Eminem]]) (three non-consecutive weeks in December 2017 and January 2018)
**"[[Sausage Rolls for Everyone]]" (with [[LadBaby]] and [[Elton John]]) and "[[Merry Christmas (song)|Merry Christmas]]" (with Elton John) (one week in December 2021)
*[[Ariana Grande]] — "[[Break Up with Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored]]" and "[[7 Rings]]" (one week in February 2019); "7 Rings" and "Break Up with Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored" (one week in February 2019)
*[[Adele]] — "[[Easy on Me]]" and "[[Oh My God (Adele song)|Oh My God]]" (one week in December 2021)
*[[Elton John]] — "[[Sausage Rolls for Everyone]]" (with [[LadBaby]] and [[Ed Sheeran]]) and "[[Merry Christmas (song)|Merry Christmas]]" (with Ed Sheeran) (one week in December 2021)
*[[Harry Styles]] — "[[As It Was]]" and "[[Late Night Talking]]" (one week in May 2022)
*[[Taylor Swift]] — "[[Is It Over Now?]]" and "[[Now That We Don't Talk]]" (one week in November 2023)
*[[Sabrina Carpenter]] — "[[Please Please Please (Sabrina Carpenter song)|Please Please Please]]" and "[[Espresso (song)|Espresso]]" (three weeks in June and July 2024); "Espresso" and "Please Please Please" (two weeks in July 2024); "[[Taste (Sabrina Carpenter song)|Taste]]" and "Please Please Please" (two weeks in September 2024); "Taste" and "Espresso" (one week in September 2024)
In addition, in the final week that Justin Bieber was at No. 1 and No. 2 with "Love Yourself" and "Sorry", "[[What Do You Mean]]" was at No. 3. For the first three weeks that Ed Sheeran was at No. 1 and No. 2 with "Shape of You" and "Galway Girl", "Castle on the Hill" was at No. 3, and for the first of these three weeks Sheeran's "Perfect", [[New Man (Ed Sheeran song)|"New Man"]] and [[Happier (Ed Sheeran song)|"Happier"]] were at No. 4, No. 5 and No. 6 respectively, prompting a change in chart rules so that only 3 of an artist's songs can appear in the chart at one time. When Harry Styles occupied the top two he was also at No. 3 with "[[Music for a Sushi Restaurant]]". In the first two weeks Sabrina Carpenter occupied the top two in September, she was also at No. 3 with "Espresso", making her the first female artist to occupy the entire top 3.<ref name="athhn1a2">{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/acts-that-have-held-number-1-and-2-on-the-official-singles-chart__17787/|title=Acts that have held number 1 and 2 on the Official Singles Chart|publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]|access-date=6 April 2018}}</ref>

===The chart double: Simultaneously having number one on both the singles chart and album chart===
{{see also|List of artists who have achieved simultaneous number-one UK single and album}}

===Age records===
*[[Captain Tom Moore]] is the oldest artist to reach number one. He was exactly 100 years old when his rendition of "[[You'll Never Walk Alone#Michael Ball & Captain Tom Moore version|You'll Never Walk Alone]]" with [[Michael Ball]] reached number one on the week ending 30 April 2020.
*[[Kate Bush]] is the oldest female artist to reach number one. She was age 63 years, 343 days when her 1985 single "[[Running Up That Hill]]" spent its third and final week at number one on the week ending 7 July 2022.
*[[Jimmy Osmond]] is the youngest artist to reach number one. He was age 9 years, 252 days when "[[Long Haired Lover from Liverpool]]" first reached number one on the week ending 23 December 1972.
*[[Helen Shapiro]] is the youngest female artist to reach number one. She was age 14 years, 323 days when "[[You Don't Know (Helen Shapiro song)|You Don't Know]]" first reached number one on the week ending 16 August 1961.

== Most weeks ==
===Weeks on chart by single===
*Most weeks in the chart by a single: 
**Top 100: "[[Mr. Brightside]]" by [[The Killers]] (463 weeks)
**Top 75: "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers (204 weeks)
**Top 40: "[[All I Want for Christmas Is You]]" by [[Mariah Carey]] (101 weeks)<br />
***Excluding Christmas songs: "[[My Way]]" by [[Frank Sinatra]] (75 weeks)
**Top 20: "[[Fairytale of New York]]" by [[The Pogues]] featuring [[Kirsty MacColl]] (79 weeks)<br />
***Excluding Christmas songs: "[[As It Was]]" by [[Harry Styles]] (44 weeks)
**Top 10: "All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey (49 weeks)<br />
***Excluding Christmas songs: "As It Was" by Harry Styles (37 weeks)

*Longest consecutive run in the chart by a single:
**Top 100: "[[Blinding Lights]]" by [[The Weeknd]] (105 weeks) <br />
**Top 75: "Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd (103 weeks) <br />
**Top 40: "[[Thinking Out Loud]]" by [[Ed Sheeran]] (54 weeks)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/ed-sheeran-s-thinking-out-loud-becomes-first-single-ever-to-spend-one-year-inside-the-top-40__9885/|title=Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud becomes first single ever to spend one year inside the Top 40|last=Copsey|first=Rob|date=22 June 2015|publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]|access-date=22 June 2015}}</ref><br />
**Top 20: "[[Stranger on the Shore]]" by [[Acker Bilk]] (37 weeks) <br/>
**Top 10: "[[I Believe (Frankie Laine song)|I Believe]]" by [[Frankie Laine]] (35 weeks)

== Sales ==
===Fastest selling singles===
The fastest selling single in chart history is "[[Candle in the Wind 1997]]" by Elton John, which sold 1.55 million copies in its first week (it sold 658,000 on the first day of release, 13 September 1997).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-11-14/60-years-of-singles-charts-in-numbers|title=60 years of singles charts... in numbers|last=Walker-Arnott|first=Ellie|date=14 November 2012|work=[[Radio Times]]|publisher=[[Immediate Media Company]]|access-date=13 October 2015}}</ref>

The fastest selling debut single is "[[Anything Is Possible/Evergreen]]" by [[Will Young]], which sold 1.11 million copies in its first week on sale.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/mar/04/broadcasting.uknews|title=Pop Idol Will faces Top of the Pops ban|last=Wells|first=Matt|date=4 March 2002|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=13 October 2015}}</ref> Publicity had built up due to the televised talent contest ''[[Pop Idol]]'' with 8.7 million people phoning in to vote for the finalists.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1813636.stm|title=Pop Idol's career hots up|date=11 February 2002|work=[[BBC News]]|publisher=BBC|access-date=13 October 2015}}</ref>

The fastest selling single by a girl group is the Spice Girls' "[[2 Become 1]]", which sold over 462,000 copies during its first week on sale and over 763,000 copies in a fortnight. In total, the single has sold over 1.2 million copies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/classic-christmas-number-1s-spice-girls-2-become-1__17230/
|title=Classic Christmas Number Ones|last=Myers|first=Justin|date=14 December 2017|work=[[Official Charts]]|publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]|access-date=27 December 2017}}</ref>

== Outside number one ==

===Artists with the most number 2 singles===

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Number
! Artist
! Number one singles
|-
|17
| [[Elvis Presley]]
|align=center|21
|-
|12
| [[Madonna]]
|align=center|13
|-
|rowspan="2" style="text align=center;" |11
| [[Kylie Minogue]]
|align=center|7
|-
| [[Cliff Richard]]
|align=center|14
|-
|9
|[[Rihanna]]
|align=center|9
|-
|8
|[[Michael Jackson]]
|align=center|7
|-
|rowspan="3" style="text align:center;" |7
|[[Justin Timberlake]]
|align=center|4
|-
|[[Calvin Harris]]
|align=center|11
|-
|[[Ed Sheeran]]
|align=center|14
|-
|rowspan="5" style="text align:center;" |6
| [[Queen (band)|Queen]]
|align=center|6
|-
|[[Boyzone]]
|align=center|6
|-
|[[Oasis (band)|Oasis]]
|align=center|8
|-
|[[Robbie Williams]]
|align=center|7
|-
|[[Justin Bieber]]
|align=center|7
|}

===Songs with the most weeks at number two===
The following songs have all spent at least six weeks at number two without going higher on the chart:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Number of <br /> weeks
! Single
! Artist
! Year
! Held off number 1 by
|-
|align=center|8
|"[[Eternally (Charles Chaplin song)|Terry's Theme from ''Limelight'']]"
| [[Frank Chacksfield]]
|align=center|1953
| "[[I Believe (Frankie Laine song)|I Believe]]" – [[Frankie Laine]]
|-
|rowspan=5 style="text-align:center;" |7
| "[[Love Letters in the Sand]]"
| [[Pat Boone]]
|align=center|1957
| "[[All Shook Up]]" – [[Elvis Presley]]; "[[Diana (Paul Anka song)|Diana]]" – [[Paul Anka]]
|-
| "[[I Swear]]"
| [[All-4-One]]
|align=center|1994
| "[[Love Is All Around#Wet Wet Wet version|Love Is All Around]]" – [[Wet Wet Wet]]
|-
| "[[Moves Like Jagger]]"
| [[Maroon 5]] featuring [[Christina Aguilera]]
|align=center|2011
| "[[Stay Awake (Example song)|Stay Awake]]" – [[Example (musician)|Example]]; "[[All About Tonight (Pixie Lott song)|All About Tonight]]" – [[Pixie Lott]]; "[[What Makes You Beautiful]]" – [[One Direction]]; "[[No Regrets (Dappy song)|No Regrets]]" – [[Dappy]]; "[[Loca People]]" – [[Sak Noel]]; "[[We Found Love]]" – [[Rihanna]] featuring [[Calvin Harris]]
|-
| "[[Murder on the Dancefloor]]"
| [[Sophie Ellis-Bextor]]
|align=center|2001–02; 2024
|"[[Gotta Get Thru This (song)|Gotta Get Thru This]]" – [[Daniel Bedingfield]]; "[[Stick Season (song)|Stick Season]]" – [[Noah Kahan]] 
|-
| "[[Apt. (song)|Apt.]]"
| [[Rosé (singer)|Rosé]] and [[Bruno Mars]]
|align=center|2024–25
|"[[Sailor Song (song)|Sailor Song]]" - [[Gigi Perez]]; "[[That's So True]]" – [[Gracie Abrams]]; "[[Messy (Lola Young song)|Messy]]" – [[Lola Young (singer)|Lola Young]]
|-
|rowspan=10 style="text-align:center;" |6
| "[[Blowing Wild]]"
| [[Frankie Laine]]
|align=center|1954
| "[[O mein Papa|Oh Mein Papa]]" – [[Eddie Calvert]]
|-
| "[[Are You Sure? (The Allisons song)|Are You Sure?]]"
| [[The Allisons]]
|align=center|1961
| "[[Walk Right Back]]" / "[[Ebony Eyes (John D. Loudermilk song)|Ebony Eyes]]" – [[The Everly Brothers]]; "[[Wooden Heart]]" – [[Elvis Presley]]
|-
| "[[Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town]]"
| [[Kenny Rogers and The First Edition]]
|align=center|1969–70
| "[[Sugar, Sugar]]" – [[The Archies]]; "[[Two Little Boys]]" – [[Rolf Harris]]
|-
| "[[The Floral Dance]]"
| [[Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band]]
|align=center|1977–78
| "[[Mull of Kintyre (song)|Mull of Kintyre]]" / "[[Girls' School (song)|Girls' School]]" – [[Paul McCartney and Wings|Wings]]
|-
| "[[The Smurfs music|The Smurf Song]]"
| [[Pierre Kartner|Father Abraham]] and [[The Smurfs]]
|align=center|1978
| "[[You're the One That I Want]]" – [[John Travolta]] and [[Olivia Newton-John]]
|-
| "[[I'm Too Sexy]]"
| [[Right Said Fred]]
|align=center|1991
| "[[(Everything I Do) I Do It for You]]" – [[Bryan Adams]]
|-
| "[[Let Me Love You (DJ Snake song)|Let Me Love You]]"
| [[DJ Snake]] featuring [[Justin Bieber]]
|align=center|2016
| "[[Cold Water (song)|Cold Water]]" – [[Major Lazer]] featuring [[Justin Bieber]] and [[MØ]]; "[[Closer (The Chainsmokers song)|Closer]]" – [[The Chainsmokers]] featuring [[Halsey (singer)|Halsey]]
|-
| "[[Stay (The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber song)|Stay]]"
| [[The Kid Laroi]] and [[Justin Bieber]]
|align=center|2021
| "[[Bad Habits (Ed Sheeran song)|Bad Habits]]" – [[Ed Sheeran]]
|-
| "[[Peru (song)|Peru]]"
| [[Fireboy DML]] and [[Ed Sheeran]]
|align=center|2022
| "[[We Don't Talk About Bruno]]" – [[Carolina Gaitán]], [[Mauro Castillo]], [[Adassa]], [[Rhenzy Feliz]], [[Diane Guerrero]] and [[Stephanie Beatriz]]; "[[Starlight (Dave song)|Starlight]]" – [[Dave (rapper)|Dave]]
|-
| "[[Good Luck, Babe!]]"
| [[Chappell Roan]]
|align=center|2024
|"[[Please Please Please (Sabrina Carpenter song)|Please Please Please]]" – [[Sabrina Carpenter]]; "[[Backbone (Chase & Status and Stormzy song)|Backbone]]" – [[Chase & Status]] and [[Stormzy]]; "[[Taste (Sabrina Carpenter song)|Taste]]" – [[Sabrina Carpenter]] 
|}

*Note: Some songs also spent at least six weeks at number two, but do not appear on this list as they have previously reached number one in the chart. The most recent example of this is [[Chappell Roan]]'s "[[Pink Pony Club]]", which would have also appeared on this list after spending eight weeks at number two – which would have tied it with "Terry's Theme from ''Limelight''" for having the most weeks at number two. It, however, spent two weeks at number one, thus excluding it from this list.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/20250530/7501/|title=Official Singles Chart Top 100 on 30 May 2025 {{!}} Official Charts |access-date=31 May 2025 |publisher=Official Charts Company}}</ref>

===Most top ten singles===

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Number of singles
! Artist
|-
| {{center|76}}
| [[Elvis Presley]]
|-
| {{center|68}}
| [[Cliff Richard]]
|-
| {{center|64}}
| [[Madonna]]
|-
| {{center|46}}
| [[Drake (musician)|Drake]]
|-
| {{center|44}}
| [[Michael Jackson]]
|-
| {{center|43}}
| [[Ed Sheeran]]
|-
| {{center|36}}
| [[Elton John]]
|-
| {{center|35}}
| [[Kylie Minogue]]
|-
| {{center|34}}
| [[Eminem]]
|-
| {{center|33}}
| [[U2]]
|}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/artists-with-the-most-top-10-singles-in-the-uk__25400/|title=Artists with the most Top 10 singles in the UK|publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]|date=17 September 2021|access-date=31 March 2023}}</ref>

===Acts to peak across the entire top ten===
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="12" | Acts who have peaked at every position in the Top 10<ref name="bingo">{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/official-charts-bingo-acts-who-have-peaked-at-every-position-in-the-top-10__23627/|title=Official Charts bingo: Acts who have peaked at every position in the Top 10|publisher=[[The Official Charts Company]]|access-date=6 May 2021}}</ref>
|-
! Artist
! No. 1
! No. 2
! No. 3
! No. 4
! No. 5
! No. 6
! No. 7
! No. 8
! No. 9
! No. 10
|-
! [[Lonnie Donegan]]
| "[[Cumberland Gap (folk song)|Cumberland Gap]]"
| "Lost John" / "[[Skewball|Stewball]]"
| "[[Tom Dooley (song)|Tom Dooley]]" 
| "Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O" 
| "[[Sloop John B|I Wanna Go Home (Wreck of the John B)]]" 
| "[[Grand Coulee Dam (song)|The Grand Coolie Dam]]"
| "Bring A Little Water Sylvie" / "Dead or Alive" 
| "[[Rock Island Line]]" / "[[John Henry (folklore)|John Henry]]" 
| "The Party's Over"
| "My Dixie Darling"
|-
! [[Elvis Presley]]
| "[[All Shook Up]]"
| "[[Heartbreak Hotel]]"
| "[[(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear]]"
| "[[A Big Hunk o' Love]]"
| "[[Until It's Time for You to Go]]"
| "[[Too Much (Elvis Presley song)|Too Much]]"
| "[[Santa Bring My Baby Back (To Me)]]"
| "[[Paralyzed (Elvis Presley song)|Paralyzed]]"
| "[[Blue Suede Shoes]]"
| "[[Kissin' Cousins (song)|Kissin' Cousins]]"
|-
! [[Madonna]]
| "[[Into the Groove]]"
| "[[Crazy for You (Madonna song)|Crazy for You]]"
| "[[Like a Virgin (song)|Like a Virgin]]"
| "[[Gambler (Madonna song)|Gambler]]"
| "[[Angel (Madonna song)|Angel]]"
| "[[Deeper and Deeper]]"
| "[[Rain (Madonna song)|Rain]]"
| "[[Human Nature (Madonna song)|Human Nature]]"
| "[[The Look of Love (Madonna song)|The Look of Love]]"
| "[[Bad Girl (Madonna song)|Bad Girl]]"
|-
! [[Mariah Carey]]
| "[[Without You (Badfinger song)|Without You]]"
| "[[I'll Be There (The Jackson 5 song)|I'll Be There]]"
| "[[Endless Love (song)|Endless Love]]"
| "[[Fantasy (Mariah Carey song)|Fantasy]]"
| "[[Heartbreaker (Mariah Carey song)|Heartbreaker]]"
| "[[One Sweet Day]]"
| "[[Hero (Mariah Carey song)|Hero]]"
| "[[Anytime You Need a Friend]]"
| "[[Vision of Love]]"
| "[[Thank God I Found You]]"
|-
! [[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]]
| "[[It's Not Unusual]]"
| "[[I'll Never Fall in Love Again (Lonnie Donegan song)|I'll Never Fall in Love Again]]"
| "[[Sex Bomb (song)|Sex Bomb]]"
| "[[Mama Told Me Not to Come]]"
| "[[Help Yourself (Tom Jones song)|Help Yourself]]"
| "[[The Young New Mexican Puppeteer]]"
| "[[Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings (song)|Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings]]"
| "[[Detroit City (song)|Detroit City]]"
| "[[Love Me Tonight (Tom Jones song)|Love Me Tonight]]"
| "[[Without Love (Clyde McPhatter song)|Without Love (There Is Nothing)]]"
|-
! [[Elton John]]
| "[[Don't Go Breaking My Heart]]"
| "[[Rocket Man (song)|Rocket Man]]"
| "[[Nikita (song)|Nikita]]"
| "[[Daniel (Elton John song)|Daniel]]"
| "[[Crocodile Rock]]"
| "[[Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (song)|Goodbye Yellow Brick Road]]"
| "[[Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting]]"
| "[[Blue Eyes (Elton John song)|Blue Eyes]]"
| "[[I Want Love]]"
| "[[Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds]]"
|-
! [[U2]]
| "[[Desire (U2 song)|Desire]]"
| "[[Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me]]"
| "[[Pride (In the Name of Love)]]"
| "[[With or Without You]]"
| "[[Walk On (U2 song)|Walk On]]"
| "[[The Unforgettable Fire (song)|The Unforgettable Fire]]"
| "[[One (U2 song)|One]]"
| "[[Even Better Than the Real Thing]]" (Remix)
| "[[Angel of Harlem]]"
| "[[New Year's Day (U2 song)|New Year's Day]]"
|-
! [[Cliff Richard]]
| "[[Living Doll (song)|Living Doll]]"
| "[[Move It]]"
| "[[Nine Times Out of Ten]]"
| "[[Gee Whizz It's You]]"
| "Santa's List"
| "[[I Could Easily Fall (In Love with You)]]"
| "[[High Class Baby]]"
| "[[I'm the Lonely One]]"
| "[[It's All Over (The Everly Brothers song)#Cliff Richard version|It's All Over]]"
| "[[Mean Streak (song)|Mean Streak]]"
|-
! [[Pink (singer)|Pink]]
| "[[Lady Marmalade#Moulin Rouge! version|Lady Marmalade]]"
| "[[Get the Party Started]]"
| "[[Feel Good Time]]"
| "[[Stupid Girls]]"
| "[[Most Girls (Pink song)|Most Girls]]"
| "[[There You Go]]"
| "[[Trouble (Pink song)|Trouble]]"
| "[[Try (Pink song)|Try]]"
| "[[You Make Me Sick]]"
| "[[U + Ur Hand]]"
|-
! [[Usher (musician)|Usher]]
| "[[You Make Me Wanna...]]"
| "[[Pop Ya Collar]]"
| "[[U Remind Me]]"
| "[[I Need a Girl (Part One)]]" / "[[U Don't Have to Call]]"
| "[[U Got It Bad]]"
| "[[Without You (David Guetta song)|Without You]]"
| "[[DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love]]"
| "[[I Don't Mind (Usher song)|I Don't Mind]]"
| "[[Caught Up (Usher song)|Caught Up]]"
| "[[Good Kisser]]"
|-
! [[Taylor Swift]]
| "[[Look What You Made Me Do]]"
| "[[Love Story (Taylor Swift song)|Love Story]]"
| "[[Me!]]"
| "[[We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together]]"
| "[[I Don't Wanna Live Forever]]"
| "[[Cardigan (song)|Cardigan]]"
| "[[Everything Has Changed]]"
| "[[Exile (Taylor Swift song)|Exile]]"
| "[[22 (Taylor Swift song)|22]]"
| "[[The 1]]"
|-
! [[Drake (musician)|Drake]]
| "[[What's My Name? (Rihanna song)|What's My Name?]]"
| "[[Work (Rihanna song)|Work]]"
| "[[Hotline Bling]]"
| "[[Hold On, We're Going Home]]"
| "[[Emotionless (Drake song)|Emotionless]]"
| "[[No Guidance]]"
| "[[Jimmy Cooks]]"
| "[[Greece (song)|Greece]]"
| "[[Take Care (song)|Take Care]]"
| "[[Fake Love (Drake song)|Fake Love]]"
|-
! [[Calvin Harris]] 
|"[[Dance wiv Me]]"
|"[[Bounce (Calvin Harris song)|Bounce]]"
|"[[The Girls (Calvin Harris song)|The Girls]]" 
|"[[I Need Your Love (Calvin Harris song)|I Need Your Love]]"
|"[[Drinking from the Bottle]]"
|"[[Outside (Calvin Harris song)|Outside]]" 
|"[[Blessings (Calvin Harris song) |Blessings]]"
|"[[Thinking About You (Calvin Harris song)|Thinking About You]]"
|"[[By Your Side (Calvin Harris song)|By Your Side]]"
|"[[Acceptable in the 80s]]"
|}

{| class="wikitable" |
! colspan="10" | Nine out of ten
|-
! No. 1
! No. 2
! No. 3
! No. 4
! No. 5
! No. 6
! No. 7
! No. 8
! No. 9
! No. 10
|-
|
*[[Bon Jovi]]<ref name="bj" group="nb">Bon Jovi band member [[Jon Bon Jovi]] did peak at No. 1 as part of the charity single [[Everybody Hurts (Helping Haiti song)|Everybody Hurts]] in 2010.</ref>
|
*[[UB40]]
*[[Celine Dion]]
*[[Cher]]
|
*[[Pet Shop Boys]]
|
*[[Frankie Laine]]
*[[The Rolling Stones]]
*[[David Bowie]]
*[[Iron Maiden]]
*[[Kanye West]]
|
*[[George Michael]]
*[[R. Kelly]]
*[[Coldplay]]
|
*[[Status Quo (band)|Status Quo]]
*[[Michael Jackson]]<ref name="mj" group="nb">[[Michael Jackson]] did peak at No. 6 as a fifth of [[The Jackson 5]].</ref>
*[[Whitney Houston]]
*[[The Saturdays]]<ref name="ts" group="nb">[[Frankie Bridge]] and [[Rochelle Humes]] of [[The Saturdays]] did peak at No. 6 as two-eighths of [[S Club 8]].</ref>
*[[Beyoncé]]<ref name="b" group="nb">[[Beyoncé]] did peak at No. 6 as a quarter of [[Destiny's Child]].</ref>
*[[Justin Bieber]]
|
*[[Eurythmics]]<ref name="e" group="nb">All nine of [[Eurythmics]]' top ten hits reached different peaks.</ref>
*[[Dua Lipa]]
|
*[[The Stylistics]]
*[[Girls Aloud]]<ref name="kw" group="nb">[[Kimberley Walsh]] of [[Girls Aloud]] did peak at No. 8 as a solo artist.</ref>
*[[Justin Timberlake]]
|
*[[The Beach Boys]]
*[[Rod Stewart]]
*[[Madness (band)|Madness]]
*[[Craig David]]
|
*[[Ed Sheeran]]
*[[Lady Gaga]]
|-
| colspan="11" | <references group="nb"/>
|}

===Biggest selling non-number one===

Based on purchases alone, the record is held by [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]] with their 1995 single "[[Wonderwall]]", with 1.55 million copies sold. The song  spent a week at number two behind "[[I Believe (Frankie Laine song)|I Believe]]" by [[Robson & Jerome]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-best-selling-singles-of-all-time-on-the-official-uk-chart__21298/|title=The best-selling singles of all time on the Official UK Chart|date=8 November 2023|publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]|access-date=9 November 2023}}</ref> Including streaming data, the record is held by "[[Mr. Brightside]]" by [[The Killers]], which peaked at number 10 in 2004 and has been certified 9× Platinum for 5.4 million units.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/8583-921-1|title=British singles certifications - Killers - Mr. Brightside|date=6 May 2022|publisher=[[British Phonographic Industry]]|access-date=9 April 2023}}</ref>

Based on purchases, the biggest selling single to peak at number three is [[New Order (band)|New Order]]'s "[[Blue Monday (New Order song)|Blue Monday]]", which has sold over a million copies.<ref name="never number 1">{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/features/the-million-selling-songs-that-never-made-it-to-number-1-3070/|title=The million-selling songs that never made it to Number 1|date=24 August 2014|publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]|access-date=12 December 2014}}</ref> However, it garnered its total sales via two further remixes of the track, meaning its one million sales are attributed over all three releases. The biggest selling individual release to peak at number three is [[Ed Sheeran]]'s "[[The A Team (Ed Sheeran song)|The A Team]]", which has sold over 1,067,000 copies since its 2011 release.<ref>{{cite periodical |url=http://www.musicweek.com/news/read/official-charts-analysis-sheeran-s-x-scores-12th-week-at-no-1-with-sales-of-211-168/060439|title=Official Charts Analysis: Sheeran's x scores 12th week at No.1 with sales of 211,168 |last=Jones|first=Alan|date=2 January 2015|periodical=[[Music Week]] |access-date=13 October 2015|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

The biggest selling single never to make the top 5 is "[[Chasing Cars]]" by [[Snow Patrol]], which peaked at number 6 and has sold more copies than "The A Team".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/official-biggest-selling-singles-of-the-decade-so-far-revealed__9873/|title=Official Biggest Selling Singles of the decade so far revealed|last=Moss|first=Liv|date=19 June 2015|publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]|access-date=13 October 2015}}</ref>

The biggest selling single not to reach the top 10 is "[[A Thousand Years (Christina Perri song)|A Thousand Years]]" by [[Christina Perri]]  with physical sales of 844,000 and a peak of number 11.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-uks-official-chart-millionaires-revealed__20459/|title=The UK's Official Chart 'millionaires' revealed|last=Copsey|first=Rob|date=19 September 2017|publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]|access-date=15 March 2023}}</ref> With streams included, this title goes to "[[Do I Wanna Know?]]" by [[Arctic Monkeys]], which peaked at number 11 in 2013 and has been certified 6× Platinum for 3.6 million units.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/12581-1053-1|title=British singles certifications - Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know|date=1 September 2023|publisher=[[British Phonographic Industry]]|access-date=18 August 2024}}</ref>

===Simultaneously charting songs and singles===
*"[[Unchained Melody]]" is the only song to have four versions by different artists charting in the Top 20 at the same time ([[Al Hibbler]], [[Les Baxter]], [[Jimmy Young (disc jockey)|Jimmy Young]] and [[Liberace]] in June 1955).<ref>{{cite book |title=The encyclopedia of singles |author=Philip Dodd |author2=Paul Du Noyer |year= 1999 |page=222 |isbn=0-7525-3337-1 }}</ref>
*"[[Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen song)|Hallelujah]]" charted in the same week in December 2008 with three artists ([[Alexandra Burke]] at No. 1, [[Jeff Buckley]] at No. 2, [[Leonard Cohen]] at No. 36). It is also the second time in UK single chart where different versions hold the top two spots (the first being [[Singing the Blues]]).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nme.com/news/alexandra-burke/41791|title=Alexandra Burke, Jeff Buckley storm Christmas charts with 'Hallelujah'|website=Nme.com|first=Adam |last=Bychawski |date= 21 December 2008 }}</ref>
*"[[Santa Claus is Coming to Town]]" charted for 3 different artists ([[The Jackson 5]] at No. 30, [[Bruce Springsteen]] at No. 48 and [[Michael Buble]] at No. 82) on 28 December 2018.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/20181228/7501/|title=Official Singles Chart Top 100 &#124; Official Charts Company|website=Officialcharts.com}}</ref> 
*"[[White Christmas (song)|White Christmas]]" also charted by three different artists ([[Bing Crosby]] at No. 31, [[Gwen Stefani]] at No. 62 and [[Glee Cast]] featuring [[Chris Colfer]] & [[Darren Criss]] at No. 98) on 28 December 2018.<ref name="auto"/>

===Most hits without reaching...===
*Most Number 2 hits without reaching Number 1: [[Sash!]] (5)
*Most Top 5 hits without reaching Number 1: [[Janet Jackson]] (9)
*Most Top 75 hits without reaching Number 1: [[Glee (TV series)|''Glee'' Cast]] (100)
*Most Top 75 hits without reaching the Top 10: [[The 1975]] (27){{#tag:ref|This record was previously held by D-Block Europe, who surrendered their claim to The 1975 by reaching No.6 with "Overseas", their 31st hit, with their run of 30 hits failing to reach the top 10, an all-time record.|group="Note"}}<ref>{{cite web|last=Jones |first=Alan |url=https://www.musicweek.com/analysis/read/charts-analysis-lf-system-feeling-good-at-singles-summit/086196 |title=Charts analysis: LF System feeling good at singles summit &#124; Analysis |publisher=Music Week |access-date=2022-07-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/27401/1975/|title=The 1975 &#124; full Official Chart History &#124; Official Charts Company|website=Officialcharts.com|access-date=18 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.musicweek.com/analysis/read/charts-analysis-adele-does-the-double-on-albums-and-singles-charts/084744|title = Charts analysis: Adele does the double on albums and singles charts &#124; Analysis &#124; Music Week}}</ref>
*Most Top 40 hits without reaching the Top 10: [[Super Furry Animals]] (19)
*Most Number 11 hits without reaching the Top 10: [[Lethal Bizzle]] (3)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-curse-of-number-11-big-songs-that-missed-the-top-10__16375/|title=The curse of Number 11: Big songs that missed the Top 10|website=Officialcharts.com}}</ref>
*Most Top 75 hits without reaching the Top 40: [[Gorky's Zygotic Mynci]] (8)

===Most top 10 hits without a number 1 single===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Total !! Artist
|-
| 18 || [[Bon Jovi]]
|-
| 17 || [[Janet Jackson]]
|-
| 15 || [[Nat King Cole]]
|-
| 14 || [[Depeche Mode]]
|-
| 14 || [[The Who]]
|-
| 14 || [[50 Cent]]
|-
| 13 || [[Texas (band)|Texas]]
|-
| 12 || [[Guns N' Roses]] 
|-
| 11 || [[Billy Fury]]
|-
| 11 || [[Tina Turner]]
|}

==Other records==
===First to...===
* On 8 January 2016 [[Justin Bieber]] became the first artist in history to hold the top three positions in the UK Official Singles Chart. He achieved this feat as "[[Love Yourself (Justin Bieber song)|Love Yourself]]", "[[Sorry (Justin Bieber song)|Sorry]]" and "[[What Do You Mean?]]" charted at positions one, two and three simultaneously.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/acts-that-have-held-number-1-and-2-at-the-same-time-on-the-official-singles-chart__17787/|title=Acts that have held Number 1 and 2 at the same time on the Official Singles Chart|first=Rob|last=Copsey|date=15 February 2019|publisher=Official Charts Company}}</ref>
* The first song to have four separate spells at number one with the same artist line-up was "[[Three Lions (song)|Three Lions]]" by [[David Baddiel|Baddiel]] & [[Frank Skinner|Skinner]] and [[The Lightning Seeds]]. The original 1996 version had two one-week stints in 1996, while the 1998 re-work had one three-week spell at the top. The [[2018 FIFA World Cup]] propelled it to a record-breaking fourth outing at the top in July 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/football-may-not-have-come-home-but-three-lions-has-on-the-uk-s-official-chart-and-it-s-broken-an-all-time-chart-record__23380/|title=Football may not have come home, but Three Lions has on the UK's Official Chart - and it's broken an all-time chart record|first=Rob|last=Copsey|date=13 July 2018|publisher=Official Charts Company}}</ref>
* The first week when all the Top 10 singles (actually Top 12) stayed at the previous week's positions (other than Xmas or other "frozen" charts) occurred on 7 June 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.musicweek.com/analysis/read/charts-analysis-first-ever-static-singles-top-10-in-chart-history/076429|title=Charts analysis: First ever static singles Top 10 in chart history &#124; Analysis|website=Musicweek.com}}</ref> This is only true of the combined sales and streaming chart; in the sales only chart, only the top two positions were static and there was a new entry.<ref>{{cite web|title=Official Singles Sales Chart Top 100 07 June 2019 - 13 June 2019|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-sales-chart/20190607/7509/|website=[[Official Charts Company]]|access-date=11 Feb 2021}}</ref>
* On 29 July 2021 [[Little Mix]] became the first girl group in history to spend 100 weeks inside the UK singles chart Top 10.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Little Mix make history as first girl group to claim 100 weeks in Top 10 |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/little-mix-make-history-as-first-girl-group-to-claim-100-weeks-in-uk-singles-chart-top-10__33680/ |access-date=2022-08-11 |website=www.officialcharts.com |language=en}}</ref>
* On 27 December 2019 [[Ellie Goulding]] reached no.1 on the singles chart with "[[River (Joni Mitchell song)#Ellie Goulding version|River]]", only available on [[Amazon Music]] the first to reach this position only available on one platform.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://musically.com/2020/01/06/ellie-gouldings-uk-number-one-was-powered-by-amazon/|title=Ellie Goulding's UK number one was powered by Amazon|first=Eamonn|last=Forde|date=6 January 2020|newspaper=Music Ally}}</ref>

===Downloads===
Downloads grew steadily in popularity after first being integrated into the chart in 2005. In early September 2004, the [[UK Official Download Chart]] was launched, and a new live recording of [[Westlife]]'s "[[Flying Without Wings]]" was the first number-one.<ref>{{cite journal|date=11 September 2004|title=Download chart waits for youth: while its beginnings may be modest, the new rundown has an important future ahead|journal=[[Music Week]]|issn=0265-1548}}</ref> The first number one to chart without ever receiving a UK physical release was [[Coldplay]]'s "[[Viva la Vida]]" in June 2008. As of 2012, very few songs are given a physical release, and almost the entire chart is released solely on digital download and, since 2014, streaming.

On 22 June 2008, both songs in the top two were there on downloads alone:<ref>{{cite web|title=Official Chart for the 22nd June 2008|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/20080622/7501/|website=[[Official Charts Company]]}}</ref>

# "[[Viva la Vida]]" by [[Coldplay]]
# "[[Closer (Ne-Yo song)|Closer]]" by [[Ne-Yo]]

On 31 August 2008, the top three were download-only at the time:<ref>{{cite web|title=Official Chart for the 31st August 2008|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/20080831/7501/|website=[[Official Charts Company]]}}</ref>

# "[[I Kissed a Girl]]" by [[Katy Perry]]
# "[[Pjanoo]]" by [[Eric Prydz]]
# "[[Disturbia (song)|Disturbia]]" by [[Rihanna]]

On 1 March 2009, the top four were all download-only:<ref>{{cite web|title=Official Chart for the 1st March 2009|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/20090301/7501/|website=[[Official Charts Company]]|access-date=8 March 2016}}</ref>

# "[[My Life Would Suck Without You]]" by [[Kelly Clarkson]]
# "[[Love Story (Taylor Swift song)|Love Story]]" by [[Taylor Swift]]
# "[[Poker Face (Lady Gaga song)|Poker Face]]" by [[Lady Gaga]]
# "[[Dead and Gone]]" by [[T.I.]] <small>(feat. [[Justin Timberlake]])</small>

By 13 February 2010, the whole top 9 consisted of download-only songs:<ref>{{cite web|title=Official Chart for the 13th of Feb 2010|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/20100207/7501/|website=[[Official Charts Company]]|access-date=8 March 2016}}</ref>

# "[[Fireflies (Owl City song)|Fireflies]]" by [[Owl City]]
# "[[Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby)]]" by [[Jedward]] <small>(feat. [[Vanilla Ice]])</small>
# "[[If We Ever Meet Again]]" by [[Timbaland]] <small>(feat. [[Katy Perry]])</small>
# "[[Don't Stop Believin' (Glee)|Don't Stop Believin']]" by [[Glee (TV series)|''Glee'' Cast]]
# "[[Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down]]" by [[Alicia Keys]]
# "[[Replay (Iyaz song)|Replay]]" by [[Iyaz]]
# "[[Starstrukk]]" by [[3OH!3]] <small>(feat. [[Katy Perry]])</small>
# "[[One Shot (JLS song)|One Shot]]" by [[JLS]]
# "[[Don't Stop Believin']]" by [[Journey (band)|Journey]]

==See also==
*[[List of songs which have spent the most weeks on the UK Singles Chart]]
*[[List of artists who reached number one on the UK Singles Chart]]

==Notes==
{{reflist|group=Note}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{UK Music Charts}}
{{Music of the United Kingdom}}

[[Category:British record charts]]
[[Category:Lists of record chart achievements|UK Singles Chart]]