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"page_snippet": "Ed Sheeran has now charted 14 No. 1 hits in his home country.Sheeran is now on par with both Cliff Richard and Westlife, as all three acts have charted 14 No. 1 singles in the U.K. Before this week, Sheeran was tied with Madonna, with 13 leaders each. 1 singles in the U.K. Before this week, Sheeran was tied with Madonna, with 13 leaders each. Ahead of this group when it comes to the most No. 1 hits in U.K. chart history are only two names. Elvis Presley continues to rule with 21 champions, and The Beatles come in second with 17 smashes. MORE FROM FORBESTaylor Swift Charts Four New Top 10 Hits SimultaneouslyBy Hugh McIntyre \u00b7 Amazingly, Sheeran required less than a decade to rack up his 14 No. Ed Sheeran returns to the top of the U.K. songs chart this week with his new single, \u201cEyes Closed.\u201d As he takes the highest rung once more, Sheeran adds another achievement to his already-impressive career and further cements his status as one of the most successful musicians in the history of his home country. Amazingly, Sheeran required less than a decade to rack up his 14 No. 1 hits. He first reached the top spot in 2014 with \u201cSing.\u201d Since then, he has become one of the most reliable producers of radio-ready productions in the business, and most of his proper singles\u2013especially those that introduce a new collection\u2013often climb to the summit\u2026if not debut there.",
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Ed Sheeran returns to the top of the U.K. songs chart this week with his new single, \u201cEyes Closed.\u201d As he takes the highest rung once more, Sheeran adds another achievement to his already-impressive career and further cements his status as one of the most successful musicians in the history of his home country.
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\u201cEyes Closed\u201d is Sheeran\u2019s fourteenth No. 1 single in the U.K. According to the Official Charts Company, with this new addition to his collection of chart-toppers, he is now the musical act with the third-most number one hits in U.K. chart history, though he\u2019s not alone in that position.
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Sheeran is now on par with both Cliff Richard and Westlife, as all three acts have charted 14 No. 1 singles in the U.K. Before this week, Sheeran was tied with Madonna, with 13 leaders each.
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Ahead of this group when it comes to the most No. 1 hits in U.K. chart history are only two names. Elvis Presley continues to rule with 21 champions, and The Beatles come in second with 17 smashes.
Amazingly, Sheeran required less than a decade to rack up his 14 No. 1 hits. He first reached the top spot in 2014 with \u201cSing.\u201d Since then, he has become one of the most reliable producers of radio-ready productions in the business, and most of his proper singles\u2013especially those that introduce a new collection\u2013often climb to the summit\u2026if not debut there.
In order to claim the No. 1 spot this week, Sheeran had to kick fellow pop star Miley Cyrus out of the penthouse. Cyrus had ruled for 10 weeks with her single \u201cFlowers,\u201d which has turned out to be one of the biggest songs in the world in 2023. Now, that cut dips slightly to No. 2.
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\u201cEyes Closed\u201d serves as the first single from Sheeran\u2019s forthcoming album, which he has titled -, which people can pronounce as Subtract. The full-length is due in early May, and fans are already excited to hear more from the chart-topping artist.
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"page_snippet": "Ed Sheeran (born February 17 1991) has become one of the most popular acts in UK chart history - and one that actually helped re-write chart rules. In 2017, all 16 tracks of his album Divide debuted inside the Top 40, necessitating a change that entries in the chart are now limited to three ...Ed Sheeran (born February 17 1991) has become one of the most popular acts in UK chart history - and one that actually helped re-write chart rules. In 2017, all 16 tracks of his album Divide debuted inside the Top 40, necessitating a change that entries in the chart are now limited to three per lead artist. ED SHEERAN songs and albums, peak chart positions, career stats, week-by-week chart runs and latest news. In December 2019 the Official Charts Company crowned Ed as the Official Number 1 Artist Of The Decade 2010-2019. 2021 was another particularly big year for Ed, who not only scored his fifth UK Number 1 album with = (Equals) but four Number 1 singles too - Bad Habits, Shivers, Merry Christmas with Elton John, and Sausage Rolls For Everyone with Ladbaby.",
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Ed Sheeran (born February 17 1991) has become one of the most popular acts in UK chart history - and one that actually helped re-write chart rules. In 2017, all 16 tracks of his album Divide debuted inside the Top 40, necessitating a change that entries in the chart are now limited to three per lead artist.
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In December 2019 the Official Charts Company crowned Ed as the Official Number 1 Artist Of The Decade 2010-2019. 2021 was another particularly big year for Ed, who not only scored his fifth UK Number 1 album with = (Equals) but four Number 1 singles too - Bad Habits, Shivers, Merry Christmas with Elton John, and Sausage Rolls For Everyone with Ladbaby.\u00a0
Ed Sheeran goes past Elvis Presley long standing record of most weeks on UK single charts.......
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I think the emphasis should be on ' single charts ' . I bet if you discount all the weeks album tracks spent on the charts he' d be nowhere near.
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Counting the weeks from every single from an Ed Sheeran specific album, Ed Sheeran has still beaten Elvis's record by 113 weeks.
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This wnkr has destroyed my beautiful chart. Also, the OCC has aided him with its draconian reconstruction of the top 100 along record company streaming lines. There is totally amazing music that struggles to make the top 100 because the digital market is so rigged to exclude the artists who make it. Please sort this out, OCC. Music is for everyone. Music is made for everyone. I always loved the charts but now I feel bereaved. Charts need to reflect everything. Downloads yes. But cut out the streaming. Please.
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the sales chart is a thing
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You said that you liked Ed Sheeran (with your favourite song being \u201cThinking Out Loud\u201d, like you said in a previous comment), yet you\u2019re calling him a wa**er and saying he \u201cruined\u201d the chart. Grow up and stop whinging.
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As Ed is credited for Peru, will the original without Ed still count towards the charting version?
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What's everyone's favourite Ed Sheeran track here?
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The one Sheeran track I really like is Thinking Out Loud. It's a proper tune. A truly great song.
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A few years back we arrived in our hotel in Leeds and we saw a lot of commotion. Asking what was happening, we were told that an Ed Sheeran concert was playing in Leeds. We did not hear of the name before, but yes, now he is one of our favs. Such a succcessful singer.
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"page_snippet": "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 ...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 and 12 January 2023, and \"Merry Christmas\" by Ed Sheeran and Elton John on the week ending 13 January 2022. 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. 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. 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\" in 2021. 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\" and \"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.",
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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.\n
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 \u2013 being part of a group does not count towards an individual's total).[1]\n
Simply playing or singing on a single without credit will not count, or the top positions would almost certainly belong to session musicians such as Clem Cattini who is reported to have played drums on over 40 number ones.[2]\n
The record for most non-consecutive weeks at number one is 18 by Frankie Laine's \"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.\n
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\" in 2021.\n
Below is a table of all singles that have spent 10 or more weeks at the top of the charts:\n
The single with the biggest climb to number one is \"Marvin Gaye\" by Charlie Puth featuring Meghan Trainor, which climbed from number 90 on the week ending 20 August 2015.[4]\n
The biggest climb to number one within the top 40 goes to \"So What\" by Pink, which climbed from number 38 on the week ending 11 October 2008.[5]\n
The biggest drop from number one within the top 100 is to number 97. \"Three Lions\" by Baddiel, 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.[6] 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 [7] and 12 January 2023,[8] and \"Merry Christmas\" by Ed Sheeran and Elton John on the week ending 13 January 2022.[9]\n
\"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.[10]\n
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.[11]\n
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.[12]\n
Since the inception of the UK Singles Chart in 1952 only six 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 and the Shadows' and 'The Shadows' have had back to back number ones on four occasions):\n
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.[14]\n
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The following have writing credits on at least 11 UK 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.\n
The Beatles had 11 consecutive number ones with official releases on Parlophone between 1963 (\"From Me to You\") and 1966 (\"Yellow Submarine\" / \"Eleanor Rigby\"), though releases of archive material from their previous record company also charted during this time.\n
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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\" in December 1997.\n
Most songs to debut at Number 1 on the chart[edit]
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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.[17]\n
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\" in November 2023.\n
Elvis Presley has the longest time span 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\" in January 2005.\n
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\" in April 1978 and her second and most recent \"Running Up That Hill\" in June 2022.\n
Kate Bush has the longest gap between two number ones for a solo artist, with 44 years between her first \"Wuthering Heights\" in April 1978 and her second \"Running Up That Hill\" in June 2022.\n
The lowest weekly sale for a number one single is 17,694 copies held by Orson's \"No Tomorrow\" in 2006.[18]\n
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\" 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.\n
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\" 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.[19]\n
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Longest and shortest songs to reach number one[edit]
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In terms of a song's running length, \"All Around the World\" by 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.[20]\n
\"Sorry\" and \"Love Yourself\" (one week in November 2015); \"Love Yourself\" and \"Sorry\" (five non-consecutive weeks in December 2015 and January 2016)
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\" and \"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\".[22]\n
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The Chart Double: Simultaneously having number one on both the Singles Chart and Album Chart[edit]
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\" with Michael Ball reached number one on the week ending 30 April 2020.
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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.
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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.
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Helen Shapiro is the youngest female artist to reach number one. She was age 14 years, 323 days when \"You Don't Know\" first reached number one on the week ending 16 August 1961.
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).[24]\n
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.[25] Publicity had built up due to the televised talent contest Pop Idol with 8.7 million people phoning in to vote for the finalists.[26]\n
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 sold over 1.2 million copies to date.[27]\n
Artists with references have been updated as the original list was published by the Official Charts Company during 2012. This means that positions on this list may not be 100% accurately reflected as most of the artists are still active and releasing new singles. This includes all singles (solo, duets and as featuring artists) and in all formats (vinyl, cassette, CD, digital). All singles with collaborations are counted several times on the list.\n
Based on purchases alone, the record is held by Oasis with their 1995 single, \"Wonderwall\", with 1.55 million copies sold. The song spent a week at number two behind \"I Believe\" by Robson & Jerome. [39] Including streaming data, the record is held by \"Mr. Brightside\" by The Killers, which peaked at number 10 in 2004 and has been certified 9x Platinum for 5.4 million units.[40]\n
Based on purchases, the biggest selling single to peak at number three is New Order's \"Blue Monday\", which has sold over a million copies.[41] 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 release to peak at number three is Ed Sheeran's \"The A Team\", which has sold over 1,067,000 copies since its 2011 release.[42] 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\".[43] The biggest selling single not to reach the top 10 is \"A Thousand Years\" by Christina Perri with physical sales of 844,000 and a peak of number 11.[44]\n
\"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).[46]
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\", \"Sorry\" and \"What Do You Mean?\" charted at positions one, two and three simultaneously.[52]
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The first song to have four separate spells at number one with the same artist line-up was \"Three Lions\" by Baddiel & 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.[53]
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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.[54] 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.[55]
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On 29 July 2021 Little Mix became the first girl group in history to spend 100 weeks inside the UK singles chart Top 10.[56]
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.[57] 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.\n
On 22 June 2008, both songs in the top two were there on downloads alone:[58]\n
^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.\n
^\"Download chart waits for youth: while its beginnings may be modest, the new rundown has an important future ahead\". Music Week. 11 September 2004. ISSN0265-1548.\n
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"page_snippet": "Ed Sheeran makes a triumphant return to the Official Singles Chart this week as his new single Bad Habits debuts at Number 1. The track racks up 92,000 chart sales this week, including 8.7 million streams, to earn Ed his 10th chart-topper.The track racks up 92,000 chart sales this week, including 8.7 million streams, to earn Ed his 10th chart-topper. The singer-songwriter becomes only the ninth act in Official Chart history to rack up 10 or more Number 1s. Ed joins Calvin Harris and Eminem, who are also on 10 UK Number 1 singles across their career so far - just ahead of them are Take That (12), Madonna (13), Cliff Richard and Westlife (14) and The Beatles (17) and Elvis (21). Ed joins Calvin Harris and Eminem, who are also on 10 UK Number 1 singles across their career so far - just ahead of them are Take That (12), Madonna (13), Cliff Richard and Westlife (14) and The Beatles (17) and Elvis (21). \u201cI want to say thank you so much to everyone that made this happen,\" Ed told OfficialCharts.com I\u2019ve been away for such a long time and I really, really don\u2019t take this for granted, this is an amazing thing. Thank you for making me feel the love. Hopefully next week it will be knocked off the Number 1 spot by 3 Lions because we\u2019re going to win the Euros. Plus there are new entries from Doja Cat, Tyler The Creator and Aitch on this week's Official Singles Chart Top 40. ... share:Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInShare on RedditShare via Email \u00b7 Ed Sheeran makes a triumphant return to the Official Singles Chart this week as his new single Bad Habits debuts at Number 1. Ed Sheeran just keeps getting bigger, will be interesting to hear the next track from him. ... Yeah, I hope that his next studio album is full of upbeat pop like this. :) ... So glad to see MANESKIN having another great week! Hopefully a number 1 single soon?",
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Ed Sheeran makes a triumphant return to the Official Singles Chart this week as his new single Bad Habits debuts at Number 1.
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The track racks up 92,000 chart sales this week, including 8.7 million streams, to earn Ed his 10th chart-topper.
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The singer-songwriter becomes only the ninth act in Official Chart history to rack up 10 or more Number 1s.\u00a0Ed joins Calvin Harris and Eminem, who are also on 10 UK Number 1 singles across their career so far - just ahead of them are Take That (12), Madonna (13), Cliff Richard and Westlife (14) and The Beatles (17) and Elvis (21).
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\u201cI want to say thank you so much to everyone that made this happen,\" Ed told OfficialCharts.com I\u2019ve been away for such a long time and I really, really don\u2019t take this for granted, this is an amazing thing. Thank you for making me feel the love. Hopefully next week it will be knocked off the Number 1 spot by 3 Lions because we\u2019re going to win the Euros. It\u2019s coming home!\u201d
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Bad Habits is the third single to debut at Number 1 this year, following Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s Drivers License in January and Lil Nas X\u2019s Montero (Call Me By Your Name) in April.
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Last week\u2019s Number 1, Good 4 U by Olivia Rodrigo, drops to Number 2, while M\u00e5neskin continue to climb the Top 10 with two songs: I Wanna Be Your Slave lifts from 6 to 5, and their cover of Beggin\u2019 climbs three places to 7.
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US singer/rapper Doja Cat also claims two new entries in this week\u2019s chart following the release of her new album Planet Her. The star\u2019s collaboration with The Weeknd You Right opens at 9, while Ain\u2019t S**t enters at 29, taking her total of UK Top 40s to nine.
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Meanwhile, Calvin Harris\u2019 By Your Side ft. Tom Grennan hops one place to Number 10, earning the producer his 27th Top 10 and Tom his third.
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There are big climbs this week for Becky Hill & David Guetta\u2019s Remember, up six places to 16, and as England prepare to take on Ukraine in the Euro 2020 quarter finals, 3 Lions zooms 12 places to 22.
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Further down, there are a flurry new entries in this week\u2019s Top 40: Tyler, The Creator\u2019s Wusyaname (25), Aitch\u2019s Leaning Curve (27), and Fredo\u2019s Talk Of The Town (34).
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Finally, three songs climb into the Top 40 for the first time: Black Magic by Dutch artist Jonasu vaults 37 places to 30, Tones & I\u2019s Fly Away is up nine spots to 33, and Marshmello and Jonas Brothers\u2019 Leave Before You Love Me climbs eight rungs to 35.
GRIFF dropping 54 places?! that can't be right!! how come?!
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am surprised to see MABEL dropping already this week! LET THEM KNOW is a great single!
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Come on MIMI WEBB: you can make it: so close to get her 1st top 10 this week but then GOOD WITHOUT dropped again! Love that single..
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Fly away by TONES & I is climbing again this week: finally she gets a second top 40: about time: she really deserves it!
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and the queen DOJA CAT is having another top 10 this week! OMG, so happy and excited to see her having so much success this year and do hope she will duet with LIZZO soon!
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and Tom Brennan did it again! A third Top 10 this year! So pleased but wish his 2nd album has more success!!
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So glad to see MANESKIN having another great week! Hopefully a number 1 single soon? Really hope so!
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Did Ed Sheeran kill the UK Singles Chart \u2013 or was it dead already?
The Official UK Charts has seen it all, from Wet Wet Wet and Crazy Frog to Ultravox and total Ed Sheeran dominance. As it turns 70, Nick Duerden reflects on how it\u2019s changed since its launch, and speaks to experts about where it can go from here
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In March 2017, something seismic happened to the UK singles chart: Ed Sheeran almost killed it. Let\u2019s be generous here and presume that he didn\u2019t actually mean to, but his actions rendered it, in a stroke, redundant in a way it hadn\u2019t been in its previous 65 years.
Sheeran, the biggest pop star on the planet, had just released his third album, \u00f7 (Divide). By this point, more people were streaming music than buying it and Sheeran\u2019s fans listened to the songs from \u00f7 over and over again, more so than they did any other songs during the next seven days. In the digital era, each click counted for another \u201csale\u201d.
Consequently, the week of 8 March 2017, Sheeran dominated. While \u00f7 was comfortably settled at the top of the albums chart, its individual tracks punctured the singles chart like acne scars on a peachy cheek. He was at No 1 with \u201cShape of You\u201d; No 2 with \u201cCastle on the Hill\u201d. He took No 3 with \u201cGalway Girl\u201d; No 4 with \u201cPerfect\u201d. He was not at No 5, which was instead occupied by The Chainsmokers and Coldplay with \u201cSomething Just Like This\u201d. But he was at No 6, and No 7, No 8, No 9 and No 10. In total, Sheeran had 16 songs inside the Official UK Chart\u2019s top 40, a feat that had never been achieved before.
James Masterton remembers that week well. How could he not? For the past three decades, he has run his Chart Watch UK page \u2013 initially in print, now online \u2013 which takes an in-depth look at each week\u2019s top 40 and analyses it accordingly. For Masterton, that particular week was historic. \u201cEd Sheeran\u2019s exploits \u2013 that he was able to take advantage of the rules that were in place at the time, where any song that was streamed enough was eligible for chart placing \u2013 changed everything,\u201d he says.
This really was the fault of streaming rather than any one artist. A similar event had happened before, in 2009 following Michael Jackson\u2019s death, when fans responded to his passing by streaming his songs, thereby pushing much of his back catalogue up the charts. \u201cBut,\u201d Masterton points out, \u201cnot to this extent. It was always possible that one artist could entirely dominate, but nobody did, until Sheeran came along.\u201d
The top 40 had once been wild and diverse, a place where Mr Blobby could nestle alongside, say, Iron Maiden, and Clive Dunn from Dad\u2019s Army could battle it out for pole position with Jimi Hendrix\u2019s \u201cVoodoo Chile\u201d. It could be eclectic to the point of absurdity, the nation\u2019s undisciplined taste laid bare in all its doggedly unembarrassed splendour. Sheeran\u2019s assault looked like it might threaten that diversity for good.
Mercifully, the rules were quickly changed to stop such a monopoly from happening again, and today no artist can have more than three songs from one album in the charts. \u201cIt\u2019s to level the playing field,\u201d Masterton says. But the charts were forever changed \u2013 the same as always yet fundamentally altered.
Later this year, the Official UK Charts celebrates its 70th anniversary. Its birthday is significant. Over its lifetime, the chart has taken both the country\u2019s cultural pulse and set its agenda. What was in the top 40 mattered, and was often important above and beyond the music it contained, offering up a portrait of our fads and fashion, our fleeting obsessions, and giving us a lingering obsession for statistics. It was a haven for anoraks too; pub quizzes would have been poorer without it. The 1981 Christmas No 1? The Human League\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t You Want Me\u201d. The novelty song that held Ultravox\u2019s epic \u201cVienna\u201d from the No 1 spot a year before? Joe Dolce\u2019s \u201cShaddup You Face\u201d. The biggest-selling physical single of all time? Elton John\u2019s \u201cCandle in the Wind 1997\u201d, with almost five million sales. (Ed Sheeran\u2019s \u201cShape of You\u201d is the most streamed, with 300 million.)
The chart helped showcase all sorts of impressive, and dubious, talent: Crazy Frog, for one, the animated Swedish nightmare that turned a ringtone into a hit single in 2003; or Ren\u00e9e and Renato, the 1982 Italian/British duo who in part answered the question: what if Pavarotti had lived in the West Midlands? In the mid-Nineties, it even impinged upon politics. After the Britpop \u201cwars\u201d of 1995 saw Blur and Oasis going head to head for the No 1 spot \u2013 and making headline news \u2013 The Labour Party took note. When they came to power two years later, the new residents of No 10 invited representatives of both bands to a champagne-fuelled photo opportunity. (Noel Gallagher accepted; Damon Albarn didn\u2019t.)
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If the weekly rundown was essentially a blank canvas across which our erratic tastes were brazenly displayed, it has nevertheless been historically skewed towards male artists more than female. Few dominated the charts during the Eighties more than Madonna did, while Whitney Houston\u2019s version of Dolly Parton\u2019s \u201cI Will Always Love You\u201d is still one of the biggest-selling singles of all time. Today, there is no one more popular than Adele. But as late as 2018, there were still three times as many men in the top 100 as there were women. If the picture is slowly changing with the continued rise of superstars like Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande (in 2018, Grande became the first female artist in UK singles chart history to replace herself at No 1) it nevertheless remains an uneven playing field. According to Sarah Stennett, manager of Rita Ora, speaking to the BBC in 2019: \u201cThe gap that exists is not acceptable. I do not believe the consumer says, \u2018I want to listen to more men than women.\u2019 It\u2019s the choice they\u2019re given.\u201d
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The UK singles chart was born within the pages of the music weekly NME on 14 November 1952. Initially, it was restricted to just the top 12. (Pub quizzers will tell you that the first No 1 was Al Martino\u2019s \u201cHere in My Heart\u201d.) Providing music with this new competitive element \u2013 who was best, who was climbing fastest, who got to No 1 \u2013 proved an immediate hit. People were hooked. Over time, it grew into a top 30, and later the top 40. Within a few years, the industry realised just how handy a barometer of collective taste this was and created its own Record Retailer chart, which instantly became the UK\u2019s official \u2013 and around which BBC Radio 1 and, later, Top of the Pops based its format.
In the Sixties (and still to this day), the chart show aired on a Sunday evening between five and seven o\u2019clock. For those who couldn\u2019t wait quite so long for the big reveal, there was a telephone service that provided midweek positions. If you\u2019d a pen handy, you could take notes.
The DJ Paul Gambaccini, who has hosted various chart rundowns on various radio stations in the UK since the Seventies, confirms that the man who presided over the weekly rundown wielded considerable power. (And it was invariably a man, until Fearne Cotton became its first female presenter in 2007.)
\u201cIn the late Sixties and early Seventies, 20 million people would tune in,\u201d Gambaccini says. \u201cYou\u2019re thinking that that was impossible. Twenty million? But it wasn\u2019t.\u201d
He explains that, back then, television networks were required to run a certain amount of religious programmes per week, and that both the BBC and ITV decided this might as well be on a Sunday, as people associated religion with Sundays. \u201cAnd, with no intention of insulting any religion,\u201d he says, \u201cyou nonetheless realised that millions were tuning into [the DJ] Alan Freeman instead and listening to the charts.\u201d
In America, radio DJs were routinely bribed into playlisting singles to help nudge them up the chart in so-called \u201cpayola scandals\u201d.
Everything was on a much smaller scale
Paul Gambaccini
\u201cBudgets for single releases would have $100-200,000 set aside for \u2018promotional expenses\u2019, which were things like drugs for the DJs,\u201d Gambaccini says. \u201cBut that never happened here, because everything was on a much smaller scale.\u201d Even without such tempting incentives, every UK DJ wanted to host the weekly countdown. \u201cWhy? Because they had such a huge listenership.\u201d
Those that did consequently became household names \u2013 Simon Bates, Bruno Brookes \u2013 in a way that more recent helmers \u2013 JK & Joel, Wes \u2013 never quite did. The former Radio 1 DJ Mark Goodier enjoyed two stints on it, the first between 1990-1992, and again in 1995-2002. Three million regularly tuned in (with another three million listening to other DJs on commercial chart stations). \u201cIt really did feel like a massive cultural event,\u201d Goodier says.
Mark Goodier was always good at investing the rundown with a palpable sense of drama; by the time he reached the top 10, fingernails were bitten down to the quick. \u201cI did tend to sound very excited, yes, and sometimes a bit over the top with it,\u201d he concedes. \u201cBut if you don\u2019t make the charts sound like there\u2019s some energy to it, then what\u2019s the point?\u201d
He had his patience tested during his tenure at least twice. The first time was in 1991, when Bryan Adams had the temerity to spend 16 weeks at No 1 with \u201cEverything I Do (I Do It for You)\u201d, and again in 1994 with Wet Wet Wet\u2019s \u201cLove Is All Around\u201d, for very nearly as long. \u201cPeople who worked in radio did get thoroughly sick of them, yes,\u201d he admits, \u201cbut the audience didn\u2019t, and neither, for one, did Bryan Adams. So you could never be cynical about it, never.\u201d
If you don\u2019t make the charts sound like there\u2019s some energy to it, then what\u2019s the point?
Mark Goodier
Over the years, however, national excitement has dwindled. Today, songs no longer steadily climb the chart, but rather debut high, then drop low, and then out altogether, removing the narrative arc entirely. The Christmas No 1 \u2013 traditionally the most important hit of the year \u2013 now has the tang of shoulder-shrugging foregone conclusion to it: for the past four years, LadBaby have dominated with their sausage roll-themed charity singles that raise money for good causes while insulting the sensibilities of anyone with functioning ears.
The way we listen to music and interact with it has fundamentally changed. We curate our own playlists on Spotify now, or else get our fix via YouTube or TikTok. There is no more midweek phone service, and though head-to-head battles may still occasionally occur, Huw Edwards doesn\u2019t report on them on the BBC News.
These days, the charts tend not to make headline news, unless of course Ed Sheeran is doing something contemptible to them, as he did back in 2017. Today\u2019s average listening figure for Radio 1\u2019s weekly chart show is 1.5 million, while Paul Gambaccini\u2019s nostalgia-drenched Pick of the Pops on Radio 2 on a Saturday afternoon rakes in 2.7 million. Mark Goodier, meantime, now hosts shows on Greatest Hits Radio, where they play all the old hits all the time, \u201cbecause that\u2019s what people seem to want\u201d.
But, he warns, let\u2019s not write an obituary on the top 40 just yet: \u201cIt does remain important to a great many people, and to the industry.\u201d
James Masterton concurs, but then he has a vested interest in its ongoing survival. \u201cThe charts will never be irrelevant,\u201d he insists. \u201cEven the coolest, hardest, most posturing drill or grime rapper is still absolutely thrilled when their song makes it into the top 20. Just check out their social media profiles. When they have a big hit, they celebrate wildly.\u201d
And that\u2019s what the chart always was, ultimately: a celebration. So while it may be quieter now, a shadow of its former self, then who, at 70, isn\u2019t? It lives on, a tirelessly dedicated shop window to what\u2019s up, what\u2019s down, and who, for the next seven days at least, is reigning supreme, top of the pops.
If Ed Sheeran can\u2019t kill it, perhaps nothing can.
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