Talk:List of songs which have spent the most weeks on the UK singles chart

Why has my article been put up for deletion. It is no different from all the other lists to do with British music statistics. I started at 40 weeks as not many uk singles reach this milestone; would it be better to put 52 weeks instead? This is no different from the Biggest selling British acts of all time list starting at 50 million sales, surely this and hundreds of other lists are meaninless then also? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vikingman69 (talk • contribs)

This page has been completely ruined. It has been HALF changed for some reason by some idiot. It is also now completely out of date as a lot of these singles have recharted many times since. This page should be taken off now. If this hadn't have been messed around with in the beginning I would have kept this current & also would have added a comprehensive list of most weeks on albums chart which has taken me years to collect the information & am now keeping to myself rather than sharing it with you wiki beaurocrats! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vikingman69 (talk • contribs) 19:21, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

I have now updated the list to include all charts up to and including 5th January 2013 - will now be updating on a regular basis 19:06, 31 December 2012 (UTC)PhilBugler

New Songs
Rather Be - Clean Bandit

Happy - Pharell Williams

New Songs within Top 15 (as of Jan. 1, 2015)
Pompeii by Bastille - 73 weeks

Counting Stars by OneRepublic - 62 weeks

New cut off at 50 weeks
50 weeks seems a good cut-off to me (but others may disagree so the others as listed today are included below - I have not checked through these). With constant digital availability there are a lot of songs notching up high totals and so 40-49 just doesn't seem as notable as previously. There were a lot of out of date figures and omissions in the top of the list and I think we stand a better chance of keeping it up to date down to 50. Btljs (talk) 22:14, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

49 weeks and below (unchecked) 12 Jan 2014

 * 2011 || LMFAO || "Sexy And I Know It" || 1 ||
 * 2011 || Rihanna and Calvin Harris || "We Found Love" || 1 ||
 * 2011 || Adele || "Set Fire to the Rain" || 11 ||
 * 2010 || Katy Perry || "Firework" || 3 ||
 * 2012 || Carly Rae Jepsen || "Call Me Maybe" || 1 ||
 * 2010 || Eminem featuring Rihanna || "Love the Way You Lie" || 2 ||
 * 2013 || Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell || "Blurred Lines"" || 1 ||
 * 2011 || Coldplay || "Paradise" || 1 ||
 * 1964 || Jim Reeves || "I Love You Because" || 5 ||
 * 2009 || Lady Gaga || "Bad Romance" || 1 ||
 * 2008 || Coldplay || "Viva La Vida" || 1 ||
 * 2005 || Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx || "Gold Digger" || 2 ||
 * 2011 || Christina Perri || "Jar of Hearts" || 4 ||
 * 1983 || Grandmaster Melle Mel || "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)" || 7 ||
 * 2010 || Bruno Mars || "Just The Way You Are" || 1 ||
 * 1975 || John Lennon || "Imagine" || 1 ||
 * 2011 || Ed Sheeran || "The A Team" || 3 ||
 * 2009 || Florence & the Machine || "You've Got The Love" || 5 ||
 * 2008 || Beyoncé || "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" || 7 ||
 * 2012 || Jay-Z and Kanye West || "Niggas in Paris" || 10 ||
 * 1961 || Chubby Checker || "Let's Twist Again" || 2 ||
 * 1981 || Soft Cell || "Tainted Love" || 1 ||
 * 2008 || Duffy || "Mercy" || 1 ||
 * 1970 || Free || "All Right Now" || 2 ||
 * 2013 || Daft Punk || "Get Lucky" || 1 ||
 * 2005 || Jay-Z / Linkin Park || "Numb/Encore" || 14 ||
 * 2008 || The Script || "The Man Who Can't Be Moved" || 2 ||
 * 1984 || Band Aid || "Do They Know It's Christmas?" || 1 ||
 * 2007 || Take That || "Shine" || 1 ||
 * 2007 || Timbaland featuring OneRepublic || "Apologize" || 3 ||
 * 2008 || Lady Gaga featuring Colby O'Donis || "Just Dance" || 1 ||
 * 2012 || Rihanna || "Diamonds" || 1 ||
 * 1994 || Mariah Carey || "All I Want For Christmas Is You" || 2 ||
 * 1973 || Wizzard || "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" || 4 ||
 * 1971 || Tony Christie || "(Is This The Way To) Amarillo?" || 1 ||
 * 2007 || Scouting For Girls || "She's So Lovely" || 7 ||
 * 2010 || Rihanna || "Only Girl (In The World)" || 1 ||
 * 2009 || Alicia Keys || "Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down" || 4 ||
 * 1959 || Wink Martindale || "Deck of Cards" || 5 ||
 * 2012 || Nicki Minaj || "Starships" || 2 ||
 * 2012 || fun. featuring Janelle Monae || "We Are Young || 1 ||
 * 1961 || Andy Stewart || "A Scottish Soldier" || 19 ||
 * 1973 || Dawn featuring Tony Orlando || "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" || 1 ||
 * 1978 || Boney M || "Rivers Of Babylon" / "Brown Girl in the Ring" || 1 ||
 * 2005 || James Blunt || "You're Beautiful" || 1 ||
 * 2006 || Mika || "Grace Kelly" || 1 ||
 * 2006 || Take That || "Patience" || 1 ||
 * 2007 || Mark Ronson / Amy Winehouse || "Valerie" || 2 || || 39
 * 2010 || Lady Gaga featuring Beyoncé || "Telephone" || 1 ||
 * 2013 || Katy Perry || "Roar" || 1 ||
 * 2005 || Bodyrockers || "I Like the Way" || 3 ||
 * 2008 || The Script || "The Man Who Can't Be Moved" || 2 ||
 * 1984 || Band Aid || "Do They Know It's Christmas?" || 1 ||
 * 2007 || Take That || "Shine" || 1 ||
 * 2007 || Timbaland featuring OneRepublic || "Apologize" || 3 ||
 * 2008 || Lady Gaga featuring Colby O'Donis || "Just Dance" || 1 ||
 * 2012 || Rihanna || "Diamonds" || 1 ||
 * 1994 || Mariah Carey || "All I Want For Christmas Is You" || 2 ||
 * 1973 || Wizzard || "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" || 4 ||
 * 1971 || Tony Christie || "(Is This The Way To) Amarillo?" || 1 ||
 * 2007 || Scouting For Girls || "She's So Lovely" || 7 ||
 * 2010 || Rihanna || "Only Girl (In The World)" || 1 ||
 * 2009 || Alicia Keys || "Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down" || 4 ||
 * 1959 || Wink Martindale || "Deck of Cards" || 5 ||
 * 2012 || Nicki Minaj || "Starships" || 2 ||
 * 2012 || fun. featuring Janelle Monae || "We Are Young || 1 ||
 * 1961 || Andy Stewart || "A Scottish Soldier" || 19 ||
 * 1973 || Dawn featuring Tony Orlando || "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" || 1 ||
 * 1978 || Boney M || "Rivers Of Babylon" / "Brown Girl in the Ring" || 1 ||
 * 2005 || James Blunt || "You're Beautiful" || 1 ||
 * 2006 || Mika || "Grace Kelly" || 1 ||
 * 2006 || Take That || "Patience" || 1 ||
 * 2007 || Mark Ronson / Amy Winehouse || "Valerie" || 2 || || 39
 * 2010 || Lady Gaga featuring Beyoncé || "Telephone" || 1 ||
 * 2013 || Katy Perry || "Roar" || 1 ||
 * 2005 || Bodyrockers || "I Like the Way" || 3 ||
 * 1959 || Wink Martindale || "Deck of Cards" || 5 ||
 * 2012 || Nicki Minaj || "Starships" || 2 ||
 * 2012 || fun. featuring Janelle Monae || "We Are Young || 1 ||
 * 1961 || Andy Stewart || "A Scottish Soldier" || 19 ||
 * 1973 || Dawn featuring Tony Orlando || "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" || 1 ||
 * 1978 || Boney M || "Rivers Of Babylon" / "Brown Girl in the Ring" || 1 ||
 * 2005 || James Blunt || "You're Beautiful" || 1 ||
 * 2006 || Mika || "Grace Kelly" || 1 ||
 * 2006 || Take That || "Patience" || 1 ||
 * 2007 || Mark Ronson / Amy Winehouse || "Valerie" || 2 || || 39
 * 2010 || Lady Gaga featuring Beyoncé || "Telephone" || 1 ||
 * 2013 || Katy Perry || "Roar" || 1 ||
 * 2005 || Bodyrockers || "I Like the Way" || 3 ||
 * 2006 || Mika || "Grace Kelly" || 1 ||
 * 2006 || Take That || "Patience" || 1 ||
 * 2007 || Mark Ronson / Amy Winehouse || "Valerie" || 2 || || 39
 * 2010 || Lady Gaga featuring Beyoncé || "Telephone" || 1 ||
 * 2013 || Katy Perry || "Roar" || 1 ||
 * 2005 || Bodyrockers || "I Like the Way" || 3 ||
 * 2010 || Lady Gaga featuring Beyoncé || "Telephone" || 1 ||
 * 2013 || Katy Perry || "Roar" || 1 ||
 * 2005 || Bodyrockers || "I Like the Way" || 3 ||
 * 2013 || Katy Perry || "Roar" || 1 ||
 * 2005 || Bodyrockers || "I Like the Way" || 3 ||
 * 2005 || Bodyrockers || "I Like the Way" || 3 ||

Btljs (talk) 22:14, 12 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Checked all these and added to top 100 where relevant. Btljs (talk) 08:35, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Bastille
Does Pompeii by Bastille count? It's listed as 58 weeks now on the Official UK Charts site. 86.9.138.142 (talk) 13:59, 14 June 2014 (UTC) It's on the page by now,will recheck weeks on chart as it's less than 58 weeks even though the post is six years old. I have rechecked the weeks it's way more weeks as I originally thought. DanTheMusicMan2 talk) 12:12, 18 September 2020

about references in the table
I also took out all the references from the table. The only reference needed is the http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/artist_name/ as this needs checking regularly to update the figures e.g. after each Christmas. Btljs (talk) 22:18, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

to look out for
Wizzard 49 weeks - next Xmas Btljs (talk) 23:06, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

Proposal to scrap top 75 section
Much as it pains me, having put a bit of time into it, I propose we should scrap the top 75 section as the OCC now list top 100s back to 1983. This means that there is only a period of 5 years when there actually was only a top 75. In terms of sources, it's rare for anybody to specify what they mean by 'in the chart' and the top 40 is as common as 'whatever chart was available at the time'. I see nothing special about the top 75 now any more than top 10, 40 or 50. If you take something like "My Way" it originally charted in a top 50 (mostly) and then later in a top 100. It seems entirely artificial to give a statistic about top 75. Btljs (talk) 07:45, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I've gone the other way and included the top 40 as this is what people listen to and is synonymous with 'the charts' to many. So the reasoning is that the OCC do a top 100, Music Week do top 75 and Radio 1 does top 40. Should cover all bases. Could do with some references though. Btljs (talk) 08:55, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

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"I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" - Weeks on chart
The original version (credited to Wizzard featuring vocal backing by The Suedettes plus The Stockland Green Bilateral School First Year Choir with additional noises by Miss Snob and Class 3C' spent 9 wks in the charts from 08.12.1973.

Then the mastertapes were lost in the late 1970s and so the record had to be re-recorded again with children from Kempsey Primary School pretending to be the kids from the 1973 school (the record was actually more like a Roy Wood solo record with Wood playing every instrument)

That recording was released in 1981 and got to No. 23 in 1984 on the Top 100 chart for 8 weeks. However it is listed twice as there was an additional extended 12-inch version issued in 1984, so I am guessing it got listed twice by the OCC as they were now using the slightly different catalogue number from that additional release from that point (and I am not going to spend the rest of the day getting out the old Guinness Book of British Hit Singles to find that information).

Also on the chart of 02 December 1984 - 08 December 1984 "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" is new at number 86 credited to ROY WOOD AND WIZZARD but doesn't state which label its on. It could be an Old Gold release but more likely it's the one with the 'Dennis the Menace' single cover (Harvest Records ‎– HAR 5173) as that only has Roy Wood's name on the front.

Then on the chart of 09 December 1984 - 15 December 1984, "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" is new at number 50 credited to WIZZARD with the 'Dennis the Menace' gone from the chart. As Gallup would have been using EPOS at that time, it could be that they were already combining records...with a few true copies hanging about from the 1970s getting a couple of sales but most being the fake 1980s recording with the same cat. no.

Then in the internet-era (on 08.12.2007) "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" charted for the first time as a download, which will be the 1980s recording as EMI didn't have the 1970s mastertapes in the archive when they put it out on iTunes and if they did all versions would no doubt be combined in 2020 like LEVITATING by DUA LIPA (on the chart of 11 December 2020 - 17 December 2020 it was one place below "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" at number 20) which gets a lot of points put into its sales total thanks to the version with DaBaby (uncredited in the UK). The 2007 entry has 55 weeks on the Top 75 as of 11 December 2020 - 17 December 2020, and 60 weeks in the Top 100.

The Official Charts Company have "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" as four different hits when it should only be two (1973 and the 1981-2020 version) if by rules set out in the The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles state that a re-recording is only a new hit with a different vocal track mean that (excluding the non-hit number 86 track for a moment) "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" gets 9 weeks in the chart for 1973 and 68 weeks for the 1981 version still charting in 2020. However that rises to 80 weeks in the top 100 since the 1970s by using 2020's chart combining methodology whereby you have to ask the OCC to list it separately like the two versions of "Lay Me Down" by Sam Smith and maybe "Holy" by Justin Bieber in a few days when the NHS version comes out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.154.170.74 (talk) 13:23, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
 * P.S. If you have an old copy of The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles, it will have the catalogue numbers for all the chart hits. Its likely that the original version from 1973 and the re-recorded version from the 1980s have the same label (Harvest Records) and catalogue number, especially if Roy's sound-a-like version was pretending to be the 1973 version when it was put out in the 1980s. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.154.170.74 (talk) 16:25, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

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