The songs that spent the longest at Number 1 Official Singles Chart

However as spectacular as most of these artists’ chart-topping stints are, they’ve nonetheless a strategy to go earlier than they match the mammoth reigns of those huge hits. We check out the tracks to have spent ten weeks or extra on the prime.

Frankie Laine – I Consider (18 weeks)

American crooner Frankie scored his first ever UK Number one in April 1953, simply after his fortieth birthday and appeared reluctant to let go. Not content material with notching up 9 weeks on the summit, after every week at Quantity 2, he went again as much as spend an additional six on the prime. Nevertheless it wasn’t over but. Well-known composer Mantovani then claimed the Number one spot, earlier than Frankie gave him a nudge and racked up an extra three weeks. Solely 5 songs in historical past have scored three separate stints on the prime!

These of you with a calculator helpful may have labored out that provides as much as a whopping 18 weeks. That is like, over 4 months. The tune went to Number one once more in 1995, however this time for Robson & Jerome, and bought over 1,000,000. Frankie’s is the longest reign – though it isn’t consecutive in fact. That honour goes to…

Bryan Adams – (Every thing I Do) I Do It For You (16 weeks)

1991. The climate was fairly uninteresting for a lot of the yr, and should you weren’t a fan of Bryan Adams‘ huge Number one, listening to the radio wasn’t prone to brighten your day. Due to the success of then-box workplace darling Kevin Costner’s progressive Hollywood retelling of Robin Hood (full with soft-metal blow-dry and Californian accent) this ballad was inescapable.

Taking its pew at Number one in July and sitting tight till the tip of October, Bryan’s love theme from the film notched up an unbelievable 16 straight weeks on the summit. Because the UK frantically tried to search out out who was nonetheless shopping for the tune and understanding find out how to cease them, alongside got here U2 to avoid wasting the day – you do not typically hear that today, do you? The Fly changed Bryan at number one and order was restored.

Moist Moist Moist – Love Is All Round (15 weeks)

One other theme from a romantic film, the Scottish quartet scored a 3rd Number one with this cowl of a Troggs hit from the Sixties. Taken from 4 Weddings and a Funeral, even the band themselves have been sick of listening to it throughout summer season 1994.

After 15 consecutive weeks, the Wets determined to pour chilly water on the tune’s hovering success and DELETED it (within the previous days, you might halt manufacturing of a single – it was completely regular to do that to encourage folks to purchase the album it was taken from).

Drake – One Dance (15 weeks)

It has been a very long time since we had a mammoth run at Number one, is not it? However here is Drake with a whopping fifteen weeks on the prime with One Dance that includes Wizkid and Kyla. Drake’s prolonged reign means he scored the longest operating Number one of the digital age, since 2004, when authorized obtain companies launched within the UK. Nevertheless, after 15 weeks of supremacy, Drizzy was ousted by Main Lazer, Justin Bieber and MØ and tumbled to Quantity 5.

Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (14 weeks)

Queen’s signature hit has fairly a couple of chart feats underneath its belt. Not solely is it the one tune to be Christmas Number one twice, but it surely’s a million-seller in addition. On its unique run, the only spent 9 weeks lolling about at Number one. It was, apparently, knocked off by one other tune containing the lyric “mamma mia” – Abba’s basic, erm, Mamma Mia.

Legendary Freddie Mercury finds a very bitter cola bottle in his bag of Tangfastics.

After lead singer Freddie Mercury’s dying in 1991, there was a frenzy for something Queen-related, and the principle benefactor was Bohemian Rhapsody, which was rereleased and hit the highest for 5 weeks. That provides the tune a grand whole of 14 weeks at Number one. Bismillah, no! It could not let it go!

Ed Sheeran – Form Of You (14 weeks)

Bringing issues proper updated, the lead single from Ed’s gross sales powerhouse third album ÷ has notched up 14 weeks at the top of the Official Singles Chart. His greatest rival for many of his run was himself – Fortress on the Hill, How Would You Really feel (Paean) and Galway Woman all battled to nudge Form Of You off Number one. Finally, Harry Kinds’ Signal Of The Instances *simply* squeezed Ed off of his throne, ending his consecutive run of 13 weeks BUT he returned the next week, and clocked up a 14th.

Slim Whitman – Rose Marie (11 weeks)

This tune’s origins date from earlier than the Official Singles Chart even began, approach again in 1924, however when American nation singer Slim received his fingers on it in 1955, it was a solid-gold smash.

Topping the chart for 11 weeks, the tune’s document reign was unbroken till Bryan Adams and Robin Hood got here alongside and, nicely, everyone knows how that one went.

Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee ft. Justin Bieber – Despacito (11 weeks)

Just like the longest reigning Number one single of all-time, Despacito spent three totally different stints at Number one within the UK. The overseas language observe to spent the longest on the prime too, Despacito hung round for 11 non-consecutive weeks.

Tones and I – Dance Monkey (11 weeks)

The Australian singer-songwriter‘s viral hit definitely took its time attending to the highest spot, with an eight-week climb. As soon as there, nonetheless, Tones and I made herself at home, notching up her eleventh week at Number one in December 2019, leapfrogging Rihanna and Whitney for longest operating Number one tune by a feminine lead artist. Not dangerous for a tune that took her half an hour to jot down!

Ed Sheeran – Dangerous Habits (11 weeks)

This spectacular 2021 stint means Ed grew to become the primary artist to log two singles which have topped the Official Singles Chart for 10 weeks or extra. Dangerous Habits is that tune, with synth-pop sonics that make it a marked departure from his earlier materials.

Dave & Central Cee – Sprinter (10 weeks)

The long-awaited team-up from two of the UK’s most gifted MCs was a second value ready for. Buying and selling bars like they’re taking part in a prime trumps of who can get the funniest line, Santan and Cench’s smash has turn out to be the longest-running UK rap Number one single within the historical past of the Official Chart.

Not solely that, it reached this milestone as the primary UK rap tune to spend 10 weeks at Number one on the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of hip-hop as a style. Name that future.

Miley Cyrus – Flowers (10 weeks)

The disco-tinged lead single from Miley’s eighth studio album Countless Summer season Trip, Flowers racked up a powerful ten weeks on the prime in 2023. Previous to that, Miley had loved a Number one single with 2014’s Wrecking Ball; although that stayed on the summit for only one week.

What’s extra, Flowers additionally noticed Miley do the Official Chart Double for the second time in her profession; with its guardian LP concurrently reigning atop the Official Albums Chart.

Harry Kinds – As It Was (10 weeks)

Harry’s cheerful return to music in 2022 – and lead single from chart-topping album Harry’s Home – is his second Number one within the UK and the most recent observe to land on this moderately unique listing, to this point racking up ten consecutive weeks on the prime.

David Whitfield – Cara Mia (10 weeks)

Hull-born David had already scored a Number one with Reply Me in 1953 earlier than he actually struck gold with Cara Mia, ably assisted by composer Mantovani and his orchestra. 10 weeks on the prime for this one in 1954 till Kitty Kallen’s Little Issues Imply A Lot bumped it off.

Whitney Houston – I Will All the time Love You (10 weeks)

And I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I’ll always remember this tune in a rush – thanks partially to its 10-week tenure at Number one on the tail-end of 1992 and into 1993. Taken from one other Kevin Costner film The Bodyguard – trace to popstars: in order for you a million-seller and to spend ages at Number one, get yourself on a soundtrack – this tune began out in very totally different type as a rustic and western ballad written and carried out by queen Dolly Parton herself.

Dolly stated she beloved Whitney’s million-selling model – let’s hope she handled herself and acquired one thing good with the cash.

Rihanna ft. Jay-Z – Umbrella (10 weeks)

One other summer season, one other lengthy stretch at Number one. Brits are famed for his or her sense of humour, and we’re positive it is no coincidence that RiRi scored her first Number one, a tribute to all issues waterproof, throughout one of many grimmest, wettest summers the UK has ever seen.

The tune definitely made a splash – 10 of 2007’s chart weeks noticed Rihanna giving us all some shelter on the prime, till she was lastly dried off by Timbaland’s The Method I Are.

Oh, and should you’re , and we’re positive you’re, listed below are the songs which have racked up 9 weeks at Number one:

Al Martino – Right here In My Coronary heart (1952) – was additionally the primary ever Number one single!
Eddie Calvert – Oh Mein Papa (1954)
Doris Day – Secret Love (1954)
Paul Anka – Diana (1957)
Wings – Mull Of Kintyre / Women’ College (1977)
John Travolta & Olivia Newton John  – You are The One That I Need (1978)
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Two Tribes (1984)
Gnarls Barkley – Loopy (2006)
Clear Bandit – Rockabye (2016)
Drake – God’s Plan (2018)
Olivia Rodrigo – Drivers License (2021)