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

The following is a list of songs that have charted for 100 weeks or more in total on the UK Singles Chart Top 100, according to the Official Charts Company (OCC).[1] The chart here is as recorded by the OCC, i.e. usually a Top 50 from 1960 to 1978, Top 75 from then until 1982, and Top 100 from 1983 onwards. In the pre-digital age, records with re-recorded vocals (for example, live versions) and Remixes released with substantially different catalogue numbers did not count towards the total and were seen as new hits (see "Blue Monday" as an example). In the digital age, if versions of a record are substantially the same tune, whether the release is remixed, live or re-recorded, they are combined under one chart entry, unless the record company has requested a version to be listed as a separate entry.[2][3]

With over 380 weeks in the chart, "Mr Brightside"[4] by the Killers has had more weeks in the Top 100 than any other single in over 70 years of chart data,[5] and is also now in second place in the Top 75 long runners list (as previously used in The Guinness Book Of Hit Singles). "Someone You Loved" by Lewis Capaldi currently leads this list, with the song having been in the Top 75 for a few months longer than the records in the runners up position. All I Want for Christmas Is You has spent the most weeks in the Top 10 and Top 40. When only a Top 50 was compiled, Frank Sinatra's "My Way" set a record which still stands: 122 weeks in the Top 50 between April 1969 and January 1972. It also held the record for most weeks in the top 40 with 75, until The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" achieved its 76th week in the region in 2021 and most weeks in the top 75 with 124, which was surpassed by Ed Sheeran's "Perfect" in 2021.

The longest unbroken run in the Top 100 is 105 weeks for “Blinding Lights” by The Weeknd, which also holds the longest consecutive run in the top 75 (103 weeks). Engelbert Humperdinck's "Release Me" held the record run in the Top 50, at 56 weeks, for over 40 years[6] until beaten by "All of Me" by John Legend with 58 consecutive weeks in the top 50 (since passed by "Thinking Out Loud" with 63 weeks). The song with the most weeks at No. 1 is "I Believe" by Frankie Laine which stayed in the Top 10 for 35 weeks, 18 of them at No. 1 and a further seven at No. 2. Also noteworthy is "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets, the only song released in the 1950s to appear in the lists, which achieved 36 of its weeks when only a Top 20 or Top 30 were published.

In the pre-digital era, Christmas-themed songs were often re-released in different years and several have continued to chart each year from the mid-noughties onwards. "Merry Xmas Everybody" by Slade has had 27 chart runs in 30 different years (1973–74, 1980–87, 1989–90 and 2006–23), while "Fairytale of New York" by the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl has reached the Top 10 ten times and spent a record 70 weeks in the Top 20 and 84 weeks in the Top 40. In a similar but more modest way, since 2007, "Thriller" by Michael Jackson[7] and "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Jr.[8] have charted at Halloween in fifteen and thirteen years, respectively.

The numbers shown are up to the chart for week ending 11 May 2023.

Songs with 20 or more weeks in the Top 10 Edit

29 songs have spent 20 or more weeks in the Top 10 of the UK Charts. "All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey holds the record for the most weeks in the Top 10 history with 39 weeks."Last Christmas" by Wham! previously held the record for the most weeks in the top 10 by a British act with 37 weeks until it was overtaken by Harry Styles' "As It Was" in 2023;[9] it now ranks third for the most weeks in the Top 10 in history, behind only the Carey and Styles songs. However, "I Believe" by Frankie Laine still holds the record for the most consecutive weeks in the top 10 with 35 weeks. "Fairytale of New York" by The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl holds the record for the most weeks in the Top 10 without reaching number one with 29 weeks.

Song Artist Year first
entered chart
Chart
peak
Total weeks
in top 10
Consecutive
weeks
Reference
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" Mariah Carey 1994 1 39 5 [10]
"As It Was" Harry Styles 2022 1 37 18 [11]
"Last Christmas" Wham! 1984 1 36 7 [12]
"I Believe" Frankie Laine 1953 1 35 35 [13]
"Someone You Loved" Lewis Capaldi 2018 1 31 20 [14]
"Fairytale of New York" The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl 1987 2 29 5 [15]
"Secret Love" Doris Day 1954 1 27 27 [16]
"Calm Down" Rema 2022 3 27 25 [17]
"Don't Start Now" Dua Lipa 2019 2 25 18 [18]
"The Happy Wanderer" Obernkirchen Children's Choir 1954 2 24 22 [19]
"Terry's Theme from Limelight" Frank Chacksfield 1953 2 23 23 [20]
"One Dance" Drake featuring Wizkid and Kyla 2016 1 23 23 [21]
"Because You're Mine" Mario Lanza 1952 3 22 22 [22]
"What Do You Mean?" Justin Bieber 2015 1 22 22 [23]
"Shape of You" Ed Sheeran 2017 1 22 22 [24]
"Bad Habits" Ed Sheeran 2021 1 22 22 [24]
"Peru" Fireboy DML and Ed Sheeran 2021 2 22 22 [24]
"Blinding Lights" The Weeknd 2019 1 22 21 [25]
"The Song from Moulin Rouge" Mantovani 1953 1 22 21 [26]
"Relax" Frankie Goes to Hollywood 1983 1 22 10 [27]
"She Loves You" The Beatles 1963 1 21 21 [28]
"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" Bryan Adams 1991 1 21 21 [29]
"Oh Mein Papa" Eddie Calvert 1953 1 20 20 [30]
"Little Things Mean a Lot" Kitty Kallen 1954 1 20 20 [31]
"Love Is All Around" Wet Wet Wet 1994 1 20 20 [32]
"Happy" Pharrell Williams 2013 1 20 20 [33]
"Thinking Out Loud" Ed Sheeran 2014 1 20 20 [24]
"Cara Mia" David Whitfield with Mantovani and His Orchestra 1954 1 20 19 [34]
"Rock Around the Clock" Bill Haley and His Comets 1955 1 20 15 [35]

Songs with 50 or more weeks in the Top 40 Edit

The Top 40 chart has been broadcast weekly on BBC Radio 1 (currently as The Official Chart) since 12th November 1978 and is often referred to as 'the charts'. Appearing in the Top 40 can greatly increase a song's exposure on television and radio. "All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey holds the record for the most weeks in the Top 40 history with 86 weeks. In June 2015, "Thinking Out Loud" by Ed Sheeran became the first (and so far only) single to stay in the Top 40 for 52 consecutive weeks - equivalent to one year,[36] having spent a record-breaking 18 weeks in the chart before reaching No. 1.[37]

Song Artist Year first
entered chart
Chart
peak
Total weeks
in top 40
Consecutive
weeks
Reference
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" Mariah Carey 1994 1 86 7 [10]
"Fairytale of New York" The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl 1987 2 84 8 [15]
"My Way" Frank Sinatra 1969 5 75 16 [38]
"Last Christmas" Wham! 1984 1 75 11 [12]
"Heat Waves" Glass Animals 2020 5 73 30 [39][40][41]
"Blinding Lights" The Weeknd 2019 1 70 48 [25]
"Someone You Loved" Lewis Capaldi 2018 1 69 49 [14]
"As It Was" Harry Styles 2022 1 59 18 [9]
"Thinking Out Loud" Ed Sheeran 2014 1 56* 54 [24]
"All of Me" John Legend 2014 2 54* 44 [42]
"Do They Know It's Christmas?" Band Aid 1984 1 53 11 [43]
"Dance Monkey" Tones and I 2019 1 52 50 [44]
"Stranger on the Shore" Acker Bilk 1961 2 52 45 [45]
"Bad Habits" Ed Sheeran 2021 1 52 29 [24]
"Merry Xmas Everybody" Slade 1973 1 52 9 [46]
"Happy" Pharrell Williams 2013 1 50 49 [33]

* includes 5-day 'week' ending 9 July 2015, when the chart week changed from Sunday-Saturday to Friday-Thursday.

Songs with 50 or more weeks in the Top 75 Edit

The Top 75 was published each week by Music Week magazine until March 2021 (when it became a monthly publication),[47] with records reaching the top 75 described as hits (as in the case of The Virgin/Guinness Book of British Hit Singles). Since March 2021, the Official Charts Company have compiled a monthly Top 75 chart countdown for the publication. In regards to the weekly chart, the longest continuous run in the Top 75 is 103 weeks for "Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd (December 2019 to November 2021). In 2014, "Happy" by Pharrell Williams and "Let It Go" by Idina Menzel became the first singles ever to stay in the Top 75 for a whole calendar year, since also achieved by "Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd in 2020. Frank Sinatra's "My Way" held the record for most weeks in the top 75 for nearly 50 years until it was broken by "Perfect" in 2021. This was then overtaken by Lewis Capaldi in 2023, with "Mr. Brightside" joining it in second place on 6 October 2023.[48]

Song Artist Year first
entered chart
Chart
peak
Total weeks
in top 75
Consecutive
weeks
Reference
"Someone You Loved" Lewis Capaldi 2018 1 145 99 [14]
"Perfect" Ed Sheeran 2017 1 130 62 [24]
"Mr. Brightside" The Killers 2004 10 130 29 [49]
"My Way" Frank Sinatra 1969 5 124 42 [38]
"Chasing Cars" Snow Patrol 2006 6 111 48 [50]
"Heat Waves" Glass Animals 2020 5 107 68 [51]
"Fairytale of New York" The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl 1987 2 107 9 [15]
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" Mariah Carey 1994 1 107 8 [10]
"Blinding Lights" The Weeknd 2019 1 106 103 [25]
"Last Christmas" Wham! 1984 1 105 13 [12]
"Merry Xmas Everybody" Slade 1973 1 100 9 [46]
"Shotgun" George Ezra 2018 1 91 80 [52]
"Thinking Out Loud" Ed Sheeran 2014 1 91* 73 [24]
"Sex on Fire" Kings of Leon 2008 1 90 42 [53]
"Do They Know It's Christmas?" Band Aid 1984 1 88 13 [43]
"Dance Monkey" Tones and I 2019 1 83 67 [44]
"I Gotta Feeling" The Black Eyed Peas 2009 1 78 63 [54]
"Rather Be" Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne 2014 1 78* 73 [55]
"Merry Christmas Everyone" Shakin' Stevens 1985 1 78 8 [56]
"Use Somebody" Kings of Leon 2008 2 77 40 [53]
"Shape of You" Ed Sheeran 2017 1 75 70 [24]
"All of Me" John Legend 2014 2 75* 68 [42]
"Rule the World" Take That 2007 2 75 30 [57]
"Happy" Pharrell Williams 2013 1 74* 70 [33]
"Chandelier" Sia 2014 6 74* 53 [58]
"Pompeii" Bastille 2013 2 73 30 [59]
"Someone like You" Adele 2011 1 72 61 [60]
"I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" Wizzard[40] 2007 10 69[a] 6 [61]
"Amazing Grace" Judy Collins 1970 5 67 32 [62]
"Don't Stop Believin'" Journey 1982 6 66 48 [63]
"Poker Face" Lady Gaga 2009 1 66 46 [64]
"Take Me to Church" Hozier 2014 2 66* 63 [65]
"I'm Yours" Jason Mraz 2008 11 65 47 [66]
"Photograph" Ed Sheeran 2014 15 65* 45 [24]
"This Is Me" Keala Settle and The Greatest Showman Ensemble 2018 3 65 65 [67]
"Head & Heart" Joel Corry featuring MNEK 2020 1 64 62 [68][69]
"Counting Stars" OneRepublic 2013 1 64 59 [70]
"Shallow" Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper 2018 1 64 39 [64]
"As It Was" Harry Styles 2022 1 68 37 [9]
"Let It Go" Idina Menzel 2013 11 63 63 [71]
"Riptide" Vance Joy 2014 10 62* 21 [72]
"Titanium" David Guetta featuring Sia 2011 1 61 32 [73]
"Wake Me Up" Avicii 2013 1 61 57 [74]
"Budapest" George Ezra 2014 3 61* 52 [52]
"Uptown Funk" Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars 2014 1 61 49 [75]
"Bad Guy" Billie Eilish 2019 2 61 37 [76]
"Driving Home for Christmas" Chris Rea 1988 10 61[b] 6 [77]
"Radioactive" Imagine Dragons 2012 12 60 44 [78]
"Before You Go" Lewis Capaldi 2019 1 60 50 [14]
"Relax" Frankie Goes to Hollywood 1983 1 59 48 [27]
"Rehab" Amy Winehouse 2006 7 59 34 [79]
"Party Rock Anthem" LMFAO featuring Lauren Bennett & GoonRock 2011 1 59 34 [80]
"Lean On" Major Lazer & DJ Snake featuring 2015 2 59* 57 [81]
"Calm Down" Rema 2022 3 59 59 [17]
"Stay with Me" Sam Smith 2014 1 58 58 [82]
"Rock Around the Clock" Bill Haley and His Comets 1955 1 57 17 [35]
"Release Me" Engelbert Humperdinck 1967 1 57 56 [83]
"Pass Out" Tinie Tempah 2010 1 57 39 [84]
"Rolling in the Deep" Adele 2011 2 56 43 [60]
"I See Fire" Ed Sheeran 2013 13 56 25 [24]
"Hold Back the River" James Bay 2014 2 56* 45 [85]
"Sorry" Justin Bieber 2015 1 56 55 [23]
"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" Brenda Lee 1962 4 56 7 [86]
"Stranger on the Shore" Acker Bilk 1961 2 55 55 [45]
"Make You Feel My Love" Adele 2008 4 55 34 [60]
"Low" Flo Rida featuring T-Pain 2008 2 55 38 [87]
"Can't Stop the Feeling!" Justin Timberlake 2016 2 55 45 [88]
"Price Tag" Jessie J featuring B.o.B. 2011 1 54 36 [89]
"Let Her Go" Passenger 2013 2 54 51 [90]
"Sunflower" Post Malone featuring Swae Lee 2018 3 54 36 [91]
"Insomnia" Faithless 1995 3 53 19 [92]
"How to Save a Life" The Fray 2007 4 53 39 [93]
"Somebody That I Used to Know" Gotye featuring Kimbra 2012 1 53 45 [94]
"Stitches" Shawn Mendes 2015 1 53 51 [95]
"Gold Digger" Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx 2005 2 52 37 [96]
"Moves Like Jagger" Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera 2011 2 52 52 [97]
"Leave a Light On" Tom Walker 2018 7 52 18 [98]
"Whatever" Oasis 1994 3 51 15 [99]
"Umbrella" Rihanna featuring Jay-Z 2007 1 51 47 [100]
"Viva la Vida" Coldplay 2008 1 51 41 [101]
"Paradise" Coldplay 2011 1 51 40 [101]
"Gangnam Style" Psy 2012 1 51 49 [102]
"Where Are Ü Now" Skrillex and Diplo featuring Justin Bieber 2015 1 51* 51 [103]
"Cheap Thrills" Sia 2016 2 51 51 [58]
"New Rules" Dua Lipa 2017 1 51 48 [18]
"Feel It Still" Portugal. The Man 2017 3 51 31 [104]
"Blue Monday" New Order 1983 3 50 17 [105]
"Rockstar" Nickelback 2007 2 50 50 [106]
"What Makes You Beautiful" One Direction 2011 1 50 35 [107]
"A Thousand Years" Christina Perri 2011 11 50 17 [108]
"Ho Hey" Lumineers 2012 8 50 48 [109]
"Feel the Love" Rudimental featuring John Newman 2012 1 50 26 [110]

† some or all weeks in charts when only the Top 50 is compiled.

‡ some weeks in charts when only Top 30 or less is compiled.

* includes five-day 'week' ending 9 July 2015 when the chart week changed from Sunday-Saturday to Friday-Thursday.

Songs with 100 or more weeks in the Top 100 Edit

The Top 100 is published each week by the Official Charts Company. 26 songs have reached 100 or more weeks in the Top 100. The longest continuous run in the Top 100 is 105 weeks for “Blinding Lights” by The Weeknd.

On 4 February 2022, "Mr Brightside" became the first song to hit 300 weeks in the top 100.[111]

Song Artist Year first
entered chart
Chart
peak
Total weeks
in top 100
Consecutive
weeks
Reference
"Mr. Brightside" The Killers 2004 10 382 47 [49]
"Someone You Loved" Lewis Capaldi 2018 1 210 100 [14]
"Perfect" Ed Sheeran 2017 1 191 67 [24]
"Chasing Cars" Snow Patrol 2006 6 166 88 [50]
"Blinding Lights" The Weeknd 2019 1 144 105 [25]
"Shotgun" George Ezra 2018 1 134 87 [52]
"My Way" Frank Sinatra 1969 5 133 25 [38]
"Sex on Fire" Kings of Leon 2008 1 124 89 [53]
"Heat Waves" Glass Animals 2020 5 123 100 [112]
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" Mariah Carey 1994 1 123 8 [10]
"Fairytale of New York" The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl 1987 2 119 9 [15]
"Thinking Out Loud" Ed Sheeran 2014 1 119 95 [24]
"Dance Monkey" Tones and I 2019 1 116 71 [44]
"Shallow" Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper 2018 1 116 60 [64]
"Chandelier" Sia 2014 6 114* 72 [58]
"Merry Xmas Everybody" Slade 1973 1 114 9 [46]
"Last Christmas" Wham! 1984 1 113 13 [12]
"Whatever" Oasis 1994 3 112 32 [99]
"I Gotta Feeling" The Black Eyed Peas 2009 1 109 75 [54]
"Radioactive" Imagine Dragons 2012 12 107 51 [78]
"Save Your Tears" The Weeknd 2021 2 105 49 [25]
"Pompeii" Bastille 2013 2 103 92 [59]
"Use Somebody" Kings of Leon 2008 2 103 64 [53]
"Another Love" Tom Odell 2012 10 103 22 [113]
"Rule the World" Take That 2007 2 102 77 [57]
"Iris" Goo Goo Dolls 1998 3 101 25 [114]
"Riptide" Vance Joy 2013 10 112 49 [72]
"Viva la Vida" Coldplay 2008 1 100 50 [115]
"Bad Habits" Ed Sheeran 2021 1 100 49 [116]

† Some or all weeks in charts when only top 50 compiled.

‡ Some weeks in charts when only top 30 or less compiled.

* Includes five-day 'week' ending Thursday 9 July 2015 when the chart week changed from Sunday-Saturday to Friday-Thursday.

Notable singles Edit

"Blue Monday" Edit

New Order's "Blue Monday" includes the remixed version of the original, which was finally made available as a single for the first time in 1988 with almost the same catalogue number; sales for this shorter version and the original were combined, when calculating its chart position. The second remix, from 1995, charted for four weeks but is excluded from this list.[117]

"Merry Xmas Everybody" Edit

In addition to Slade's total of 114 weeks in the Top 100[40] for "Merry Xmas Everybody", they also had two remixes of the song, not counted because they were re-recorded with other artists. The first, from 1980, was credited to Slade and the Reading Choir; the second, from 1998, was credited to Slade vs. Flush,[118] which peaked at #30 and accumulated four weeks in the top 100.

"I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" Edit

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'[119] spent nine weeks in the charts in 1973-74. When the record was going to be re-released in the 1980s, it was found that the master tapes had been lost and so Roy Wood re-recorded a solo sound-a-like version with children from Kempsey Primary School in 1981 and this was released on Harvest Records, credited to Wizzard with the same catalogue number.[120]

This 1981 version was also re-issued in 1984 when it reached number 23 in the charts. However, the week before Wizzard charted at number 50 on the Top 75 of 09 - 15 December 1984, "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" appeared as a new entry at number 86 credited to Roy Wood and Wizzard. It was this record which re-charted with another week in 1985 and in 1986, giving "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" 11 weeks on the chart overall during the 1980s.[121][122][123][124] In the digital age of streaming and downloads (from 2007 to 2021), the 1981 version has spent 64 weeks in the charts credited simply to Wizzard[40] with the label rights being credited to EMI, making a total of 85 weeks in the Top 100 for the record overall.

In 1995, Wood recorded a live version and released it as a single on his own independent record label Woody Recordings.[125] Credited to Roy Wood Big Band, this live track charted at Number 59 in the UK Singles Chart and stayed in the Top 100 for 2 weeks.[126] Then in 2000, Wood re-recorded the song as part of a medley with The Wombles's song "Wombling Merry Christmas". This medley was released as "I Wish It Could Be a Wombling Christmas Everyday" and reached number 22 in the UK Singles Chart.[127]

"White Lines" Edit

Grandmaster Melle Mel's "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)" was remixed in 1994 and charted for an additional three weeks, making 46 in total in the top 75 (61 in the top 100 including one in 2004).[128] It was also re-recorded in 1995 by Duran Duran featuring Melle Mel and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and charted for another five weeks (not counted towards its total).[129]

"Three Lions" Edit

"Three Lions", recorded by Baddiel and Skinner and The Lightning Seeds, is not eligible for the above list for either version but has clocked up an impressive 57 weeks[130] on the UK Singles Chart Top 75 under the guise of "Three Lions" and "3 Lions '98" and 67 weeks in the Top 100.[131] It was originally released in 1996 as "Three Lions", then subsequently re-recorded with different lyrics in 1998 as "3 Lions '98", a version which was re-issued in 2002. Then in 2006, both recordings were re-issued on a Sony DualDisc as "Three Lions/Three Lions '98", with "Three Lions" charting again in 2010 due to downloads. In 2018, "Three Lions" reached No. 1 in the UK Chart for one week, due to England's success at the World Cup, with the 1998 version being combined under the original's sales total, and re-charted in 2021 due to the UEFA Euro 2020 Championship taking place.[132][133][134][135] Skinner, Baddiel and Broudie were also part of a version released in 2010 by The Squad, aptly called "Three Lions 2010"; this version tallied up a further six weeks in addition to the 67 weeks, but is seen as a separate recording act by the Official Charts Company.[136]

See also Edit

Notes Edit

  1. ^ This excludes versions of the same song, released in the physical era, which have the additional credit 'Vocal backing by The Suedettes, plus The Stockland Green Bilateral School first year choir. Additional noises Miss Snob and Class 3C'. The original 1973 version did 9 weeks on the chart peaking at number 4, whilst the re-recording in the 1980s spent 8 weeks on the chart, originally peaking at number 23.
  2. ^ This includes two weeks on the chart in December 1988 at number 61 and 53, when the record was actually the lead track on The Christmas EP alongside "Footsteps in the Snow", "Joys of Christmas" and "Smile"

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The following is a list of songs that have charted for 100 weeks or more in total on the UK Singles Chart Top 100 according to the Official Charts Company OCC 1 The chart here is as recorded by the OCC i e usually a Top 50 from 1960 to 1978 Top 75 from then until 1982 and Top 100 from 1983 onwards In the pre digital age records with re recorded vocals for example live versions and Remixes released with substantially different catalogue numbers did not count towards the total and were seen as new hits see Blue Monday as an example In the digital age if versions of a record are substantially the same tune whether the release is remixed live or re recorded they are combined under one chart entry unless the record company has requested a version to be listed as a separate entry 2 3 With over 380 weeks in the chart Mr Brightside 4 by the Killers has had more weeks in the Top 100 than any other single in over 70 years of chart data 5 and is also now in second place in the Top 75 long runners list as previously used in The Guinness Book Of Hit Singles Someone You Loved by Lewis Capaldi currently leads this list with the song having been in the Top 75 for a few months longer than the records in the runners up position All I Want for Christmas Is You has spent the most weeks in the Top 10 and Top 40 When only a Top 50 was compiled Frank Sinatra s My Way set a record which still stands 122 weeks in the Top 50 between April 1969 and January 1972 It also held the record for most weeks in the top 40 with 75 until The Pogues Fairytale of New York achieved its 76th week in the region in 2021 and most weeks in the top 75 with 124 which was surpassed by Ed Sheeran s Perfect in 2021 The longest unbroken run in the Top 100 is 105 weeks for Blinding Lights by The Weeknd which also holds the longest consecutive run in the top 75 103 weeks Engelbert Humperdinck s Release Me held the record run in the Top 50 at 56 weeks for over 40 years 6 until beaten by All of Me by John Legend with 58 consecutive weeks in the top 50 since passed by Thinking Out Loud with 63 weeks The song with the most weeks at No 1 is I Believe by Frankie Laine which stayed in the Top 10 for 35 weeks 18 of them at No 1 and a further seven at No 2 Also noteworthy is Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley amp His Comets the only song released in the 1950s to appear in the lists which achieved 36 of its weeks when only a Top 20 or Top 30 were published In the pre digital era Christmas themed songs were often re released in different years and several have continued to chart each year from the mid noughties onwards Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade has had 27 chart runs in 30 different years 1973 74 1980 87 1989 90 and 2006 23 while Fairytale of New York by the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl has reached the Top 10 ten times and spent a record 70 weeks in the Top 20 and 84 weeks in the Top 40 In a similar but more modest way since 2007 Thriller by Michael Jackson 7 and Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr 8 have charted at Halloween in fifteen and thirteen years respectively The numbers shown are up to the chart for week ending 11 May 2023 Contents 1 Songs with 20 or more weeks in the Top 10 2 Songs with 50 or more weeks in the Top 40 3 Songs with 50 or more weeks in the Top 75 4 Songs with 100 or more weeks in the Top 100 5 Notable singles 5 1 Blue Monday 5 2 Merry Xmas Everybody 5 3 I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday 5 4 White Lines 5 5 Three Lions 6 See also 7 Notes 8 References 9 External linksSongs with 20 or more weeks in the Top 10 Edit29 songs have spent 20 or more weeks in the Top 10 of the UK Charts All I Want for Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey holds the record for the most weeks in the Top 10 history with 39 weeks Last Christmas by Wham previously held the record for the most weeks in the top 10 by a British act with 37 weeks until it was overtaken by Harry Styles As It Was in 2023 9 it now ranks third for the most weeks in the Top 10 in history behind only the Carey and Styles songs However I Believe by Frankie Laine still holds the record for the most consecutive weeks in the top 10 with 35 weeks Fairytale of New York by The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl holds the record for the most weeks in the Top 10 without reaching number one with 29 weeks Song Artist Year firstentered chart Chartpeak Total weeksin top 10 Consecutiveweeks Reference All I Want for Christmas Is You Mariah Carey 1994 1 39 5 10 As It Was Harry Styles 2022 1 37 18 11 Last Christmas Wham 1984 1 36 7 12 I Believe Frankie Laine 1953 1 35 35 13 Someone You Loved Lewis Capaldi 2018 1 31 20 14 Fairytale of New York The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl 1987 2 29 5 15 Secret Love Doris Day 1954 1 27 27 16 Calm Down Rema 2022 3 27 25 17 Don t Start Now Dua Lipa 2019 2 25 18 18 The Happy Wanderer Obernkirchen Children s Choir 1954 2 24 22 19 Terry s Theme from Limelight Frank Chacksfield 1953 2 23 23 20 One Dance Drake featuring Wizkid and Kyla 2016 1 23 23 21 Because You re Mine Mario Lanza 1952 3 22 22 22 What Do You Mean Justin Bieber 2015 1 22 22 23 Shape of You Ed Sheeran 2017 1 22 22 24 Bad Habits Ed Sheeran 2021 1 22 22 24 Peru Fireboy DML and Ed Sheeran 2021 2 22 22 24 Blinding Lights The Weeknd 2019 1 22 21 25 The Song from Moulin Rouge Mantovani 1953 1 22 21 26 Relax Frankie Goes to Hollywood 1983 1 22 10 27 She Loves You The Beatles 1963 1 21 21 28 Everything I Do I Do It for You Bryan Adams 1991 1 21 21 29 Oh Mein Papa Eddie Calvert 1953 1 20 20 30 Little Things Mean a Lot Kitty Kallen 1954 1 20 20 31 Love Is All Around Wet Wet Wet 1994 1 20 20 32 Happy Pharrell Williams 2013 1 20 20 33 Thinking Out Loud Ed Sheeran 2014 1 20 20 24 Cara Mia David Whitfield with Mantovani and His Orchestra 1954 1 20 19 34 Rock Around the Clock Bill Haley and His Comets 1955 1 20 15 35 Songs with 50 or more weeks in the Top 40 EditThe Top 40 chart has been broadcast weekly on BBC Radio 1 currently as The Official Chart since 12th November 1978 and is often referred to as the charts Appearing in the Top 40 can greatly increase a song s exposure on television and radio All I Want for Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey holds the record for the most weeks in the Top 40 history with 86 weeks In June 2015 Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran became the first and so far only single to stay in the Top 40 for 52 consecutive weeks equivalent to one year 36 having spent a record breaking 18 weeks in the chart before reaching No 1 37 Song Artist Year firstentered chart Chartpeak Total weeksin top 40 Consecutiveweeks Reference All I Want for Christmas Is You Mariah Carey 1994 1 86 7 10 Fairytale of New York The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl 1987 2 84 8 15 My Way Frank Sinatra 1969 5 75 16 38 Last Christmas Wham 1984 1 75 11 12 Heat Waves Glass Animals 2020 5 73 30 39 40 41 Blinding Lights The Weeknd 2019 1 70 48 25 Someone You Loved Lewis Capaldi 2018 1 69 49 14 As It Was Harry Styles 2022 1 59 18 9 Thinking Out Loud Ed Sheeran 2014 1 56 54 24 All of Me John Legend 2014 2 54 44 42 Do They Know It s Christmas Band Aid 1984 1 53 11 43 Dance Monkey Tones and I 2019 1 52 50 44 Stranger on the Shore Acker Bilk 1961 2 52 45 45 Bad Habits Ed Sheeran 2021 1 52 29 24 Merry Xmas Everybody Slade 1973 1 52 9 46 Happy Pharrell Williams 2013 1 50 49 33 includes 5 day week ending 9 July 2015 when the chart week changed from Sunday Saturday to Friday Thursday Songs with 50 or more weeks in the Top 75 EditThe Top 75 was published each week by Music Week magazine until March 2021 when it became a monthly publication 47 with records reaching the top 75 described as hits as in the case of The Virgin Guinness Book of British Hit Singles Since March 2021 the Official Charts Company have compiled a monthly Top 75 chart countdown for the publication In regards to the weekly chart the longest continuous run in the Top 75 is 103 weeks for Blinding Lights by The Weeknd December 2019 to November 2021 In 2014 Happy by Pharrell Williams and Let It Go by Idina Menzel became the first singles ever to stay in the Top 75 for a whole calendar year since also achieved by Blinding Lights by The Weeknd in 2020 Frank Sinatra s My Way held the record for most weeks in the top 75 for nearly 50 years until it was broken by Perfect in 2021 This was then overtaken by Lewis Capaldi in 2023 with Mr Brightside joining it in second place on 6 October 2023 48 Song Artist Year firstentered chart Chartpeak Total weeksin top 75 Consecutiveweeks Reference Someone You Loved Lewis Capaldi 2018 1 145 99 14 Perfect Ed Sheeran 2017 1 130 62 24 Mr Brightside The Killers 2004 10 130 29 49 My Way Frank Sinatra 1969 5 124 42 38 Chasing Cars Snow Patrol 2006 6 111 48 50 Heat Waves Glass Animals 2020 5 107 68 51 Fairytale of New York The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl 1987 2 107 9 15 All I Want for Christmas Is You Mariah Carey 1994 1 107 8 10 Blinding Lights The Weeknd 2019 1 106 103 25 Last Christmas Wham 1984 1 105 13 12 Merry Xmas Everybody Slade 1973 1 100 9 46 Shotgun George Ezra 2018 1 91 80 52 Thinking Out Loud Ed Sheeran 2014 1 91 73 24 Sex on Fire Kings of Leon 2008 1 90 42 53 Do They Know It s Christmas Band Aid 1984 1 88 13 43 Dance Monkey Tones and I 2019 1 83 67 44 I Gotta Feeling The Black Eyed Peas 2009 1 78 63 54 Rather Be Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne 2014 1 78 73 55 Merry Christmas Everyone Shakin Stevens 1985 1 78 8 56 Use Somebody Kings of Leon 2008 2 77 40 53 Shape of You Ed Sheeran 2017 1 75 70 24 All of Me John Legend 2014 2 75 68 42 Rule the World Take That 2007 2 75 30 57 Happy Pharrell Williams 2013 1 74 70 33 Chandelier Sia 2014 6 74 53 58 Pompeii Bastille 2013 2 73 30 59 Someone like You Adele 2011 1 72 61 60 I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday Wizzard 40 2007 10 69 a 6 61 Amazing Grace Judy Collins 1970 5 67 32 62 Don t Stop Believin Journey 1982 6 66 48 63 Poker Face Lady Gaga 2009 1 66 46 64 Take Me to Church Hozier 2014 2 66 63 65 I m Yours Jason Mraz 2008 11 65 47 66 Photograph Ed Sheeran 2014 15 65 45 24 This Is Me Keala Settle and The Greatest Showman Ensemble 2018 3 65 65 67 Head amp Heart Joel Corry featuring MNEK 2020 1 64 62 68 69 Counting Stars OneRepublic 2013 1 64 59 70 Shallow Lady Gaga amp Bradley Cooper 2018 1 64 39 64 As It Was Harry Styles 2022 1 68 37 9 Let It Go Idina Menzel 2013 11 63 63 71 Riptide Vance Joy 2014 10 62 21 72 Titanium David Guetta featuring Sia 2011 1 61 32 73 Wake Me Up Avicii 2013 1 61 57 74 Budapest George Ezra 2014 3 61 52 52 Uptown Funk Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars 2014 1 61 49 75 Bad Guy Billie Eilish 2019 2 61 37 76 Driving Home for Christmas Chris Rea 1988 10 61 b 6 77 Radioactive Imagine Dragons 2012 12 60 44 78 Before You Go Lewis Capaldi 2019 1 60 50 14 Relax Frankie Goes to Hollywood 1983 1 59 48 27 Rehab Amy Winehouse 2006 7 59 34 79 Party Rock Anthem LMFAO featuring Lauren Bennett amp GoonRock 2011 1 59 34 80 Lean On Major Lazer amp DJ Snake featuring MO 2015 2 59 57 81 Calm Down Rema 2022 3 59 59 17 Stay with Me Sam Smith 2014 1 58 58 82 Rock Around the Clock Bill Haley and His Comets 1955 1 57 17 35 Release Me Engelbert Humperdinck 1967 1 57 56 83 Pass Out Tinie Tempah 2010 1 57 39 84 Rolling in the Deep Adele 2011 2 56 43 60 I See Fire Ed Sheeran 2013 13 56 25 24 Hold Back the River James Bay 2014 2 56 45 85 Sorry Justin Bieber 2015 1 56 55 23 Rockin Around the Christmas Tree Brenda Lee 1962 4 56 7 86 Stranger on the Shore Acker Bilk 1961 2 55 55 45 Make You Feel My Love Adele 2008 4 55 34 60 Low Flo Rida featuring T Pain 2008 2 55 38 87 Can t Stop the Feeling Justin Timberlake 2016 2 55 45 88 Price Tag Jessie J featuring B o B 2011 1 54 36 89 Let Her Go Passenger 2013 2 54 51 90 Sunflower Post Malone featuring Swae Lee 2018 3 54 36 91 Insomnia Faithless 1995 3 53 19 92 How to Save a Life The Fray 2007 4 53 39 93 Somebody That I Used to Know Gotye featuring Kimbra 2012 1 53 45 94 Stitches Shawn Mendes 2015 1 53 51 95 Gold Digger Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx 2005 2 52 37 96 Moves Like Jagger Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera 2011 2 52 52 97 Leave a Light On Tom Walker 2018 7 52 18 98 Whatever Oasis 1994 3 51 15 99 Umbrella Rihanna featuring Jay Z 2007 1 51 47 100 Viva la Vida Coldplay 2008 1 51 41 101 Paradise Coldplay 2011 1 51 40 101 Gangnam Style Psy 2012 1 51 49 102 Where Are U Now Skrillex and Diplo featuring Justin Bieber 2015 1 51 51 103 Cheap Thrills Sia 2016 2 51 51 58 New Rules Dua Lipa 2017 1 51 48 18 Feel It Still Portugal The Man 2017 3 51 31 104 Blue Monday New Order 1983 3 50 17 105 Rockstar Nickelback 2007 2 50 50 106 What Makes You Beautiful One Direction 2011 1 50 35 107 A Thousand Years Christina Perri 2011 11 50 17 108 Ho Hey Lumineers 2012 8 50 48 109 Feel the Love Rudimental featuring John Newman 2012 1 50 26 110 some or all weeks in charts when only the Top 50 is compiled some weeks in charts when only Top 30 or less is compiled includes five day week ending 9 July 2015 when the chart week changed from Sunday Saturday to Friday Thursday Songs with 100 or more weeks in the Top 100 EditThe Top 100 is published each week by the Official Charts Company 26 songs have reached 100 or more weeks in the Top 100 The longest continuous run in the Top 100 is 105 weeks for Blinding Lights by The Weeknd On 4 February 2022 Mr Brightside became the first song to hit 300 weeks in the top 100 111 Song Artist Year firstentered chart Chartpeak Total weeksin top 100 Consecutiveweeks Reference Mr Brightside The Killers 2004 10 382 47 49 Someone You Loved Lewis Capaldi 2018 1 210 100 14 Perfect Ed Sheeran 2017 1 191 67 24 Chasing Cars Snow Patrol 2006 6 166 88 50 Blinding Lights The Weeknd 2019 1 144 105 25 Shotgun George Ezra 2018 1 134 87 52 My Way Frank Sinatra 1969 5 133 25 38 Sex on Fire Kings of Leon 2008 1 124 89 53 Heat Waves Glass Animals 2020 5 123 100 112 All I Want for Christmas Is You Mariah Carey 1994 1 123 8 10 Fairytale of New York The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl 1987 2 119 9 15 Thinking Out Loud Ed Sheeran 2014 1 119 95 24 Dance Monkey Tones and I 2019 1 116 71 44 Shallow Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper 2018 1 116 60 64 Chandelier Sia 2014 6 114 72 58 Merry Xmas Everybody Slade 1973 1 114 9 46 Last Christmas Wham 1984 1 113 13 12 Whatever Oasis 1994 3 112 32 99 I Gotta Feeling The Black Eyed Peas 2009 1 109 75 54 Radioactive Imagine Dragons 2012 12 107 51 78 Save Your Tears The Weeknd 2021 2 105 49 25 Pompeii Bastille 2013 2 103 92 59 Use Somebody Kings of Leon 2008 2 103 64 53 Another Love Tom Odell 2012 10 103 22 113 Rule the World Take That 2007 2 102 77 57 Iris Goo Goo Dolls 1998 3 101 25 114 Riptide Vance Joy 2013 10 112 49 72 Viva la Vida Coldplay 2008 1 100 50 115 Bad Habits Ed Sheeran 2021 1 100 49 116 Some or all weeks in charts when only top 50 compiled Some weeks in charts when only top 30 or less compiled Includes five day week ending Thursday 9 July 2015 when the chart week changed from Sunday Saturday to Friday Thursday Notable singles Edit Blue Monday Edit New Order s Blue Monday includes the remixed version of the original which was finally made available as a single for the first time in 1988 with almost the same catalogue number sales for this shorter version and the original were combined when calculating its chart position The second remix from 1995 charted for four weeks but is excluded from this list 117 Merry Xmas Everybody Edit In addition to Slade s total of 114 weeks in the Top 100 40 for Merry Xmas Everybody they also had two remixes of the song not counted because they were re recorded with other artists The first from 1980 was credited to Slade and the Reading Choir the second from 1998 was credited to Slade vs Flush 118 which peaked at 30 and accumulated four weeks in the top 100 I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday Edit 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 119 spent nine weeks in the charts in 1973 74 When the record was going to be re released in the 1980s it was found that the master tapes had been lost and so Roy Wood re recorded a solo sound a like version with children from Kempsey Primary School in 1981 and this was released on Harvest Records credited to Wizzard with the same catalogue number 120 This 1981 version was also re issued in 1984 when it reached number 23 in the charts However the week before Wizzard charted at number 50 on the Top 75 of 09 15 December 1984 I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday appeared as a new entry at number 86 credited to Roy Wood and Wizzard It was this record which re charted with another week in 1985 and in 1986 giving I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday 11 weeks on the chart overall during the 1980s 121 122 123 124 In the digital age of streaming and downloads from 2007 to 2021 the 1981 version has spent 64 weeks in the charts credited simply to Wizzard 40 with the label rights being credited to EMI making a total of 85 weeks in the Top 100 for the record overall In 1995 Wood recorded a live version and released it as a single on his own independent record label Woody Recordings 125 Credited to Roy Wood Big Band this live track charted at Number 59 in the UK Singles Chart and stayed in the Top 100 for 2 weeks 126 Then in 2000 Wood re recorded the song as part of a medley with The Wombles s song Wombling Merry Christmas This medley was released as I Wish It Could Be a Wombling Christmas Everyday and reached number 22 in the UK Singles Chart 127 White Lines Edit Grandmaster Melle Mel s White Lines Don t Don t Do It was remixed in 1994 and charted for an additional three weeks making 46 in total in the top 75 61 in the top 100 including one in 2004 128 It was also re recorded in 1995 by Duran Duran featuring Melle Mel and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and charted for another five weeks not counted towards its total 129 Three Lions Edit Three Lions recorded by Baddiel and Skinner and The Lightning Seeds is not eligible for the above list for either version but has clocked up an impressive 57 weeks 130 on the UK Singles Chart Top 75 under the guise of Three Lions and 3 Lions 98 and 67 weeks in the Top 100 131 It was originally released in 1996 as Three Lions then subsequently re recorded with different lyrics in 1998 as 3 Lions 98 a version which was re issued in 2002 Then in 2006 both recordings were re issued on a Sony DualDisc as Three Lions Three Lions 98 with Three Lions charting again in 2010 due to downloads In 2018 Three Lions reached No 1 in the UK Chart for one week due to England s success at the World Cup with the 1998 version being combined under the original s sales total and re charted in 2021 due to the UEFA Euro 2020 Championship taking place 132 133 134 135 Skinner Baddiel and Broudie were also part of a version released in 2010 by The Squad aptly called Three Lions 2010 this version tallied up a further six weeks in addition to the 67 weeks but is seen as a separate recording act by the Official Charts Company 136 See also EditList of albums which have spent the most weeks on the UK Albums Chart List of artists who have spent the most weeks on the UK music chartsNotes Edit This excludes versions of the same song released in the physical era which have the additional credit Vocal backing by The Suedettes plus The Stockland Green Bilateral School first year choir Additional noises Miss Snob and Class 3C The original 1973 version did 9 weeks on the chart peaking at number 4 whilst the re recording in the 1980s spent 8 weeks on the chart originally peaking at number 23 This includes two weeks on the chart in December 1988 at number 61 and 53 when the record was actually the lead track on The Christmas EP alongside Footsteps in the Snow Joys of Christmas and Smile References Edit Use search button to find any song title or artist name Official Charts Company Getting into the charts Meeting the chart rules Official Charts https www officialcharts com media 657559 official uk singles chart rules jan 2020 pdf 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