"first seven singles (""Swear It Again"", ""If I Let You Go"", ""Flying Without Wings"", ""I Have a Dream / Seasons in the Sun"", ""Fool Again"", ""Against All Odds"" & ""My Love"") to reach number one from 1999 to 2000. With this, Westlife broke an unexpected record of the most consecutive number-one singles in the UK, having their first seven singles debut at the top and became the fastest number one music act beating Elvis Presley's previous record of three years versus 23 months of Westlife getting each its first seven number-one singles and second music act to have the longest"
"the chart as a lead artist since ""Like Toy Soldiers"" in 2005. Eminem however was featured on Akon's chart topping single ""Smack That"" in 2006. As for Rihanna, the chart topper placed her with Elvis Presley and The Beatles in the chart's history, as just one of three acts to have scored seven number ones in Britain over seven consecutive years. The song was commercially successful around Europe, reaching the top of the charts in 8 countries and entered the top 10 in every territory it charted in. In Asia and Oceania, the single was a huge hit reaching the"
"chart. The White Stripes reached #2 with their single ""Icky Thump"". The 7"" format of the single went on to become the UK's biggest selling 7"" single in twenty years, which was partly due to a tie in with XL Records and NME (who had given away a free foldout 7"" of new song ""Rag and Bone"", with space to include the ""Icky Thump"" 7""). The Traveling Wilburys went to #1 for the first time with ""The Traveling Wilburys Collection"", followed by The White Stripes with their sixth album ""Icky Thump"". Britain's most successful girl group the Spice Girls reformed"
"knocked off by the band's second album, ""With the Beatles"", which was itself at the summit for 21 weeks. This means The Beatles were at number one for 51 consecutive weeks in all - a total not bettered by any other artist. Lists of UK Albums Chart number ones This is a list of the number one hits in the UK Albums Chart, from its inception in 1956 to the present. The sources are the ""Record Mirror"" chart from 1956 to the end of 1958, the ""Melody Maker"" chart from November 1958 to March 1960, the ""Record Retailer"" chart from"
"the Hot 100 during each of the seven consecutive years starting with 1964, continued until they broke up in 1970. One week after the Beatles entered the Hot 100 for the first time, Dusty Springfield, having launched a solo career after her participation in the Springfields, became the next British act to reach the Hot 100, peaking at number 12 with ""I Only Want to Be with You"". During the next three years, many more British acts with a chart-topping US single would appear. As 1965 approached, another wave of British Invasion artists emerged which usually consisted of groups playing"
"for nine consecutive weeks with their 15th No. 1 album were The Beatles with their latest greatest hits release ""1"", the Christmas number-one album of 2000. The album comprised all their UK and US No. 1 singles, totalling to 27 different singles. It became the fastest selling album of all time across the world and also in the UK, and also debuted at No. 1 in various countries, including the UK, despite the fact that they had not played together for over 30 years. It eventually went on to sell 2.1 million copies in Britain, becoming one of the top"
"various artists. The most successful artists in the charts depend on the criteria used. As of February 2016, Queen albums have spent more time on the British album charts than any other musical act, followed by The Beatles, Elvis Presley, U2 and ABBA. By most weeks at number one, The Beatles lead with a total of 174 weeks, and the most number one albums of all with 15. The male solo artist with the most weeks at number one is Presley with a total of 66 weeks. Presley also holds the record for the most number one albums by a"
"release of ""The Beatles"". The album debuted at number 1 in the UK on 7 December 1968. It spent seven weeks at the top of the UK charts (including the entire competitive Christmas season), until it was replaced by the Seekers' ""Best of the Seekers"" on 25 January 1969, dropping to number 2. However, the album returned to the top spot the following week, spending an eighth and final week at number 1. The album was still high in the charts when the Beatles' follow-up album, ""Yellow Submarine"", was released, which reached number 3. In all, ""The Beatles"" spent 22"
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released on 26 May 1967 in the United Kingdom and 2 June 1967 in the United States, it spent 27 weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart and 15 weeks at number one in the US. It was lauded by critics for its innovations in production, songwriting and graphic design, for bridging a cultural divide between popular music and high art, and for providing a musical representation of its generation and the contemporary counterculture."
"have their first 6 singles enter at No. 1 and finally ""My Love"" made them the first act to have their first 7 singles make No. 1, have their first 7 singles enter at No. 1 and also equal the Beatles's record of 7 consecutive No. 1 singles. Their run was broken when their Christmas release ""What Makes A Man"" only made #2. Their 2nd album, ""Coast To Coast"" became their first No. 1 on the UK albums chart. Girl groups were slightly more successful than the previous year, but still failed to have the impact they made in the"
"""The X Factor""'s 2006 runner-up, Ray Quinn, is the only solo artist to top the album chart without ever releasing a single, though Led Zeppelin achieved eight consecutive number-one albums from 1970 to 1979 without releasing a single in the UK until 1997. The Rolling Stones have reached number one in the album chart with new studio albums during five different decades (1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2010s). In the 2000s, they failed by the narrowest of margins to reach the top in 2005 with ""A Bigger Bang"", which was the best-selling album of the week in ""Britain"" but was"
"group should have released a single album instead. Nonetheless, ""The Beatles"" reached No. 1 on the charts in both the United Kingdom and the United States, and has since been viewed by some critics as one of the greatest albums of all time. By 1968, the Beatles had achieved commercial and critical success. The group's mid-1967 release, ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"", was number one in the UK for 27 weeks, through to the start of February 1968, having sold 250,000 copies in the first week after release. ""Time"" magazine declared that ""Sgt. Pepper's"" constituted a ""historic departure in"
"ever since, especially with Valentine. ""House of the Rising Sun"" was a trans-Atlantic hit: after reaching the top of the UK pop singles chart in July 1964, it topped the U.S. pop singles chart two months later, on September 5, 1964, where it stayed for three weeks, and became the first British Invasion number one unconnected with The Beatles. It was the group's breakthrough hit in both countries and became their signature song. The song was also a hit in a number of other countries, including Ireland, where it reached No. 10 and dropped off the charts one week later."
"7× platinum in the US alone. In the UK, the album reached number 1 for 17 (non-consecutive) weeks. Richard gave the album this title because he doesn't like the term ""greatest hits"" because he felt it was ""an overused thing"". He continues: Notes The Singles: 1969–1973 The Singles: 1969–1973 is an album by the brother/sister pop duo the Carpenters. A greatest hits collection, it topped the charts in the United States and the United Kingdom and became one of the best-selling albums of the 1970s. Features of this compilation include a newly recorded version of ""Top of the World"", ""Ticket"
"voted the band number one for the most inspired comeback of the year. Current members Former members Line-ups Timeline In the UK, the band has sold a certified 520,000 albums and 1.8 million singles. Slade Slade are an English rock band from Wolverhampton. They rose to prominence during the glam rock era in the early 1970s, achieving 17 consecutive top 20 hits and six number ones on the UK Singles Chart. The ""British Hit Singles & Albums"" names them as the most successful British group of the 1970s based on sales of singles. They were the first act to have"
"solo artist (13) and most top ten albums by any artist (53). Madonna has the most number one albums (12) by a female artist in the UK, though this includes the ""Evita"" film soundtrack which was a cast recording and not strictly a Madonna album. Adele is the female solo artist with the most weeks at number one, with a total of 37 weeks. Queen's ""Greatest Hits"" is the best-selling album in UK chart history with 6 million copies sold as of February 2014. Previous first-place holder The Beatles' ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" is now in third-place after"
"under drainpipe trousers. Cultural impact of the Beatles The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential act of the rock era. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity first emerged as ""Beatlemania"", but as the group's music grew in sophistication, led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, the band were integral to pop music's evolution into an art form and to the development of the counterculture of the 1960s. The Beatles' continued commercial and critical"
"finally pieced together from rare archive materials for the 2007 BBC book ""The Peel Sessions"". The following years returned to a listener poll and listed mostly contemporary songs - ""Anarchy in the UK"" by the Sex Pistols topped three consecutive charts from 1978 and came second in the 1981. This marked a period of domination of the upper reaches of the chart by punk artists as the genre was embraced by Peel and his listeners, though other genres were represented further down the list, and the continuing presence in the list of ""Stairway to Heaven"" until 1979 showed that the"
"and 1969, the group spent more weeks in the UK Singles Chart than the Beatles and made the odd tour 'down under' to Australia and New Zealand, where they had also experienced some marked chart success during this period. They also scored a Number One hit in the UK Singles Chart in 1968 with ""The Legend of Xanadu"". The combined sales figures were in excess of one million copies. Their other top 10 UK hits included ""Hideaway"", ""Hold Tight!"", ""Bend It!"", ""Save Me!"", ""Touch Me, Touch Me"", ""Okay!"", ""Zabadak!"" and ""Last Night in Soho"". ""Bend It!"" was a big hit"
"British groups based their sound on what they'd simply read or heard about psychedelic music. Compared with American psychedelia, British psychedelic music was often more arty in its experimentation, and it tended to stick within pop song structures. In February 1967, the Beatles released the double A-side single ""Strawberry Fields Forever"" / ""Penny Lane"", which Ian MacDonald says launched both the ""English pop-pastoral mood"" typified by bands such as Pink Floyd, Family, Traffic and Fairport Convention, and English psychedelia's LSD-inspired preoccupation with ""nostalgia for the innocent vision of a child"". According to Simonelli, the Beatles' single heralded the group's brand"
"with 11 songs topping the chart, just ahead of 1956, 1962 and 1992, with 12. The act that has achieved the most number ones is American entertainer Elvis Presley, who has topped the chart 21 times – Presley's second number one, ""Jailhouse Rock"" was the first single ever to debut at the top of the chart. The most successful band are The Beatles, who have achieved 17 number ones on the chart. The Beatles' first chart-topper, ""From Me to You"", reached number one in May 1963. In the 1970s the required number of sales needed to top the chart was"
"Again"", ""My Love"", ""What Makes a Man"", ""Uptown Girl"", ""When You're Looking Like That"", ""Queen of My Heart"", ""Unbreakable"", ""Mandy"", ""Hey Whatever"", ""You Raise Me Up"", ""Bop Bop Baby"", ""The Rose"", and ""World of Our Own"". They are holders of the following ""Guinness World Records"": first to achieve seven consecutive number one singles in the UK, most public appearances in 36 hours by a pop group, most singles to debut at number one on the UK chart and top selling album group in the United Kingdom in the 21st century. Based on BPI certifications, the group have sold 11.1 +"
"reached number one in the UK Singles Chart, the latter recorded instead of the Beatles' ""Hello Little Girl"". ""You'll Never Walk Alone"" had been a favourite of Marsden's since seeing ""Carousel"" growing up. It quickly became the signature tune of Liverpool Football Club and, later, other sports teams around the world. The song remains a football anthem. The group narrowly missed a fourth consecutive number one when ""I'm the One"" was kept off the top spot for two weeks in February 1964 by fellow Liverpudlians' The Searchers ""Needles and Pins"". Despite this early success, Gerry and the Pacemakers never had"
"music industry. The remaining members of Queen form the Mercury Phoenix Trust and the following year, a tribute concert is staged in Wembley Stadium. A sell-out crowd in attendance witness the three surviving members reuniting to play along with performances by the likes of David Bowie, Elton John, Guns N' Roses, Def Leppard, Metallica, Annie Lennox, and George Michael. Queen's ""Bohemian Rhapsody"" goes to number one for the second time in the U.K., which is one of the few times a single has gone to number one in the same version more than once (another example is Chubby Checkers' ""The"
"Bee Gees, a group near the top of the all-time top-sellers list. When the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997, their citation read ""Only Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney have outsold the Bee Gees"". The trio's contribution to ""Saturday Night Fever"" pushed the film's soundtrack past the 40 million mark in sales. It reigned as the top-selling album until Michael Jackson's ""Thriller"". They are the only group in pop history to write, produce and record six straight No.1 hits. They have 16 Grammy nominations and nine Grammy"
"the Beatles' recording was as follows: Weekly charts Year-end charts Ticket to Ride ""Ticket to Ride"" is a song by the English rock group the Beatles, written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney. Issued as a single in April 1965, it became the Beatles' seventh consecutive number 1 hit in the United Kingdom and their third consecutive number 1 hit in the United States, and similarly topped national charts in Canada, Australia and Ireland. The song was included on their 1965 album ""Help!"" Recorded at EMI Studios in London in February that year, the track marked a progression in"
"and their new music demonstrated a ""gendering"" of popular culture, with male reaction marginally more favourable than female, and women variously focusing on the ""weird"", ""ugly"" or aged appearance of the band members. In Britain, ""Strawberry Fields Forever"" / ""Penny Lane"" was the first Beatles single since ""Please Please Me"" in 1963 that failed to reach number 1 on ""Record Retailer""s chart (later the UK Singles Chart). The single was held at number 2 behind Engelbert Humperdinck's ""Release Me"", because, even though the Beatles' record sold considerably more, its double A-side status meant that the two sides were deemed to"
"eleven of their twelve studio albums released in the United Kingdom through to 1970 reached number one. The band's third single, ""From Me to You"", came out in April and was also a chart-topping hit, starting an almost unbroken string of seventeen British number-one singles for the Beatles, including all but one of the eighteen they released over the next six years. Issued in August, the band's fourth single, ""She Loves You"", achieved the fastest sales of any record in the UK up to that time, selling three-quarters of a million copies in under four weeks. It became their first"
"In 1999, they were ranked sixth in ""Forbes""' inaugural Celebrity 100 Power Ranking. They produced a total of nine number one singles in the UK—tied with ABBA behind Take That (eleven), The Shadows (twelve), Madonna (thirteen), Westlife (fourteen), Cliff Richard (fourteen), The Beatles (seventeen), and Elvis Presley (twenty-one). The group had three consecutive Christmas number-one singles in the UK (""2 Become 1"", 1996; ""Too Much"", 1997; ""Goodbye"", 1998); they only share this record with The Beatles. Their first single, ""Wannabe"", is the most successful song released by an all-female group. Debuting on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart at number"
"Slade Slade are an English rock band from Wolverhampton. They rose to prominence during the glam rock era in the early 1970s, achieving 17 consecutive top 20 hits and six number ones on the UK Singles Chart. The ""British Hit Singles & Albums"" names them as the most successful British group of the 1970s based on sales of singles. They were the first act to have three singles enter the charts at number one; all six of the band's chart-toppers were penned by Noddy Holder and Jim Lea. As of 2006, total UK sales stand at 6,520,171, and their best-selling"
"charts. In the United States for the years 1964 to 1966, the group achieved 12 number-one singles and nine number-one albums on the ""Billboard"" charts; by comparison, the Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys each had three chart-topping singles and one number-one album. In the US, in the case of singles for the decade, the Beatles headed Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Brenda Lee, the Supremes and the Beach Boys; in albums sales, they were followed by Presley, Sinatra, Herb Alpert, the Kingston Trio and Andy Williams. The Beach Boys, along with the Four Seasons, were the only two American pop"
"six made No. 1, three reached No. 2 and two peaked at #3. No other UK act of the period enjoyed such consistency in the UK Top 40 and this feat was the closest any group had come to matching the Beatles' 22 Top 10 records in a single decade (1960s). Slade sold more singles in the UK than any other group of the 1970s. In 1973 alone, ""Merry Xmas Everybody"" sold over one million copies globally, obtaining gold disc status. They toured Europe in 1973 and the US in 1974. Slade moved to the US in the mid-1970s, in"
"Gerry and the Pacemakers Gerry and the Pacemakers is an English beat group prominent in the 1960s Merseybeat scene. In common with the Beatles, they came from Liverpool, were managed by Brian Epstein, and were recorded by George Martin. They are most remembered for being the first act to reach number one in the UK Singles Chart with their first three single releases: ""How Do You Do It?"", ""I Like It"" and ""You'll Never Walk Alone"". This record was not equalled for 20 years, until the mid-1980s success of fellow Liverpool band Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Another of their most"