Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs which have spent the most weeks on the UK Singles Chart


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The result was no consensus. I see no likelihood of obtaining consensus here.  DGG ( talk ) 09:20, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

List of songs which have spent the most weeks on the UK Singles Chart

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I may live to regret this given how useful I found this article for compiling my website. However, I can't find any source which contains this information; only the individual artist totals. This leads me to believe this is original research. Laun chba  ller  21:17, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
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 * Comment: the various British Hit Singles books published by Guinness World Records up to 2006 contained these lists, updated with each edition. However, a decade has now passed since the last of these books was published, and the nature of this being a dynamic list means it's a nightmare to keep updated. Coupled with this is the fact that the advent of streaming has meant that songs generally spend far longer in the charts than they used to, and furthermore the OCC has since redefined the old chart positions from 76 to 100 as now qualifying as actual chart positions, when between 1978 and 1994 the BMRB and Gallup who used to compile the charts stated quite clearly at the time that these positions were indicative only and did not represent actual chart positions. So although sources do exist, they're not up to date and the goalposts have since been moved. Richard3120 (talk) 23:44, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Additional comment:, I'm not sure what you mean by not finding any source, only the artist totals – if you click on the reference for each song, it takes you to the artist page on the OCC website, and if you then scroll down the list of singles by that artist to find the relevant single, it displays the number of weeks on chart. So they are all there on the OCC page, but like I said, it requires someone to update this on a weekly basis. Richard3120 (talk) 22:04, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Sorry, that's what I meant by artist totals.-- Laun  chba  ller  22:13, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, but it also gives the individual total weeks on chart for each single by that artist as well – hence the references in the article to the artist's page on the OCC website. Richard3120 (talk) 22:20, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep: Not sure what grounds there are for deletion. It does take regular updating, as do all the chart related pages (artists who only had number 2s, number one singles on the wax cylinder chart etc.), but the songs' week by week records are permanently available on OCC and so, even if one user goes in once a year and updates it (as long as the 'as of date' messages are present), it is perfectly possible. For a while I updated all the sections each week, but lately have concentrated on the 70+ weeks in top 100 as a minimum due to life. The increased torpidity of the charts since streaming means I'd be happy to see adjustments to our cut-offs (we raised 40 weeks to 50 initially, but if consensus is to go for 60 or 70 - fine) I think the different sections (top 40, top 75, top 100) are relevant, as each has at some point defined 'The Chart' and (as says above, the lower positions have been redefined). Again, these are all explicitly stated in the OCC stats along with weeks at number 1, top 10 and top 20 - which I have summarised in the lede, to avoid too many tables. Unlike sales figures, which are notoriously difficult to pin down, chart figures are published every week and largely agreed on by all sources, at least for the last few decades. Btljs (talk) 07:12, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

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