Since December 2015 when a download-only chart came into being, 63 songs made the download-only chart which were based purely on paid-for sales therefore not taking into account streaming which distorts the figures. This is a list of song that would have made the national top 40 upto the beginning of March this year.

Artist	Title	Year	Download Chart position
Mo	Unsteady	2017	19
Everly Pregnant Brothers	Chip Pan	2016	21
DJ Kenno	Will Grigg’s On Fire	2016	22
Friends Of Jo Cox feat MP4, Steve Harley, Ricky Wilson, David Gray & KT Tunstall	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	2016	24
The Collapsable Hearts Club feat Jim Bianco & Petra Haden	Easy Street	2016	25
Ralph McTell feat The Crisis Choir with guest vocal Annie Lennox	Streets Of London	2017	27
Dan & Phil	The Internet Is Here	2016	28
Hoseah Partsch	Paper Planes	2018	28
Jack Savoretti	Catapult	2016	29
Emeli Sandé	Breathing Underwater	2016	29
Kamaliya	Wild Child	2017	29
Calum Scott	Rhythm Inside	2016	30
Kamaliya feat Anne Judith Strokke Wik	Legend – Funk-Device Remix)	2017	30
Big Boi feat LunchMoney Lewis	All Night	2017	30
Marcus Butler feat Conor Maynard	I’m Famous	2016	31
Joe and Jake	You’re Not Alone	2016	31
Chase & Status feat George The Poet	Spoken Word	2016	31
Anton Powers & Pixie Lott	Baby	2017	31
Salvador Sobral	Amar Pelos Dois	2017	31
Paloma Faith	‘Til I’m Done	2018	31
London Hospices Choir and Paul Carrack	The Living Years	2016	32
David Bowie	No Plan	2017	32
Corinne Bailey Rae	The Scientist	2017	32
Chris Brown	Privacy	2017	32
Michael Bublé	Nobody But Me	2016	33
Nick Jonas & Nicki Minaj	Bom Bidi Bom	2017	34
George Michael feat Nile Rodgers	Fantasy	2017	34
Kamaliya	Who’s Gonna Love You Tonight	2017	34
Zedd & Ke$ha	True Colors	2016	35
Bon Jovi	This House Is Not For Sale	2016	35
Honey G	The Honey G Show	2017	35
James Blunt	Bartender	2017	35
Miley Cyrus	Inspired	2017	35
Panic! At The Disco	Bohemian Rhapsody	2016	36
Blanche	City Lights	2017	36
Kamaliya	Aphrodite	2017	36
Prettymuch feat French Montana	No More	2017	36
Crowded House	Help Is Coming	2015	37
Walking On Cars	Speeding Cars	2016	37
Kaleo	Way Down We Go	2016	37
Lethal Bizzle	Wobble	2016	37
Kato & Sigala feat Hailee Steinfeld	Show You Love	2017	37
LP	Lost On You	2017	37
Chris Brown	Fine By Me	2015	38
Alicia Keys	In Common	2016	38
Mollie King	Back To You	2016	38
Kings Of Leon	Walls	2016	38
HiFi Sean feat Crystal Waters	Testify	2017	38
Catfish & The Bottlemen	Soundcheck	2016	39
Sam Smith	How Will I Know	2016	39
Professor Green	One Eye On The Door	2016	39
Elbow	Magnificent (She Says)	2017	39
Just Us	Cloudbusting	2017	39
JP. Cooper	Passport Home	2017	39
London Grammar	Oh Woman Oh Man	2017	39
Matoma & The Vamps	Staying Up	2017	39
Led Zeppelin	Immigrant Song	2017	39
Stereophonics	Caught By The Wind	2017	39
Ziv Zaifman, Hugh Jackman & Michelle Williams	A Million Dreams	2018	39
Rick Astley	Keep Singing	2016	40
Green Day	Bang Bang	2016	40
Rag’n’bone Man	Grace	2017	40
Sean Paul feat Migos	Body	2017	40

 

 

Discounting all compilations and artist collectives ie 20 Greatest Hits or 40 Golden Greats etc, there are 45 albums that have topped the UK album chart with a number in the title, here is the list : –

Artist	Title	Year
Cliff Richard and The Shadows	I’m 21 Today	1961
Rolling Stones	Rolling Stones Number 2	1965
Scott Walker	Scott 2	1968
Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin 3	1970
Led Zeppelin	Four Symbols (Led Zeppelin 4)	1971
Sky	Sky 2	1980
Star Sound	Stars On 45	1981
Status Quo	1982	1982
Soul Ii Soul	Vol Ii – 1990 A New Decade	1990
George Michael	Listen Without Prejudice Volume 1	1990
Carter-The Unstoppable Sex Machine	1992 – The Love Album	1992
Carreras Domingo Pavarotti with Tibor Mehta	The 3 Tenors in Concert 1994	1994
Michael Jackson	History – Past, Present and Future, Book 1	1995
Ash	1977	1996
Bryan Adams	18 Til I Die	1996
Garbage	Version 2.0	1998
Blur	13	1999
S Club 7	7	2000
Usher	8701	2001
Moby	18	2002
Massive Attack	100th Window	2003
D12	D12 World	2004
McFly	Room on the 3rd Floor	2004
G4	G4	2005
Adele	19	2008
Paul Weller	22 Dreams	2008
Green Day	21st Century Breakdown	2009
Cheryl Cole	3 Words	2009
Glee	Glee – The Music – Season One Volume 1	2010
AC/DC	Marvel Studios – Iron Man 2	2010
Adele	21	2011
Beyoncé	4	2011
Muse	The 2nd Law	2012
Calvin Harris	18 Months	2012
Justin Timberlake	The 20/20 Experience	2013
Black Sabbath	13	2013
The 1975	The 1975	2013
Eminem	The Marshall Mathers LP 2	2013
Kasabian	48:13:00	2014
Taylor Swift	1989	2014
Will Young	85% Proof	2015
Faithless	Faithless 2.0	2015
Adele	25	2015
Rick Astley	50	2016
Olly Murs	24 Hrs	2016

 

Just a random idea this week, ever wondered how many number one albums there have been in the UK with an ‘X’ in the title? No. I’m not surprised, well just in case you’re interested, here are the 26 that have achieved the feat!

Artist	Title	Year
Freddy Cannon	The Explosive! Freddy Cannon	1960
The Who	Who’s Next	1971
Rolling Stones	Exile on Main Street	1972
Sex Pistols	Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols	1977
ABC	The Lexicon of Love	1982
Prince	Lovesexy	1988
Enigma	MCMXC A.D.	1990
Mariah Carey	Music Box	1993
Morrissey	Vauxhall and I	1994
The Bluetones	Expecting To Fly	1996
Michael Jackson	Blood on the Dance Floor – History in the Mix	1997
Robbie Williams	I’ve Been Expecting You	1998
Stereophonics	Language. Sex. Violence. Other?	2005
Coldplay	X&Y	2005
Justin Timberlake	Futuresex/Lovesounds	2006
Robbie Williams	Rudebox	2006
Coldplay	Mylo Xyloto	2011
The XX	Coexist	2006
Bruno Mars	Unorthodox Jukebox	2012
David Bowie	The Next Day	2013
Justin Timberlake	The 20/20 Experience	2013
Michael Jackson	Xscape	2014
Ed Sheeran	X	2014
Last Shadow Puppets	Everything You’ve Come to Expect	2016
PJ Harvey	The Hope Six Demolition Project	2016

The French singles chart began in October 1955 and up until the end of February this year there had been 822 number ones. Of those 822, exactly 100 have also been UK number ones, but there’s a distinct lack of Beatles, Rolling Stones and Elvis Presley. The only French Beatles and Rolling Stones number ones were Michelle and Angie which both failed to make number one here. There’s only one Elvis track which topped both charts. I think it makes for an interesting list.

Number	Artist	Title	Year	Weeks at number one
1	Doris Day	Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Será Será)	1957	12
2	Kalin Twins	When	1958	18
3	Tornados	Telstar	1963	1
4	Elvis Presley	(You’re the) Devil in Disguise	1963	1
5	Procol Harum	A Whiter Shade of Pale	1967	9
6	Beatles	All You Need Is Love	1967	1
7	Mary Hopkin	Those Were the Days	1968	5
8	Beatles	Hey Jude	1968	4
9	Mungo Jerry	In the Summertime	1970	5
10	George Harrison	My Sweet Lord	1971	9
11	Abba	Waterloo	1974	5
12	Brotherhood of Man	Save Your Kisses for Me	1976	5
13	Boney M	Rivers of Babylon	1978	4
14	John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John	You’re the One That I Want	1978	15
15	Village People	Y.M.C.A.	1979	4
16	Bee Gees	Tragedy	1979	4
17	The Buggles	Video Killed the Radio Star	1979/80	12
18	Pink Floyd	Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)	1980	4
19	Barbra Streisand	Woman in Love	1980/81	8
20	Culture Club	Do You Really Want to Hurt Me	1983	4
21	Michael Jackson	Billie Jean	1983	3
22	David Bowie	Let’s Dance	1983	1
23	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	Relax	1984	9
24	Stevie Wonder	I Just Called to Say I Love You	1984	2
25	USA for Africa	We Are the World	1985	3
26	Europe	The Final Countdown	1986	8
27	Madonna	La Isla Bonita	1987	3
28	Los Lobos	La Bamba	1987	11
29	Glenn Medeiros	Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love for You	1988	8
30	Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers	Swing the Mood	1989	5
31	Elton John	Sacrifice	1990	3
32	Enigma	Sadeness (Part I)	1991	5
33	Bryan Adams	(Everything I Do) I Do It for You	1991	8
34	Michael Jackson	Black or White	1992	2
35	George Michael & Elton John	Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me	1992	7
36	Snap!	Rhythm Is a Dancer	1992	6
37	Whitney Houston	I Will Always Love You	1993	8
38	2 Unlimited	No Limit	1993	4
39	Freddie Mercury	Living on My Own	1993/94	15
40	Michael Jackson	You Are Not Alone	1995	2
41	Coolio feat L.V.	Gangsta’s Paradise	1995	13
42	Babylon Zoo	Spaceman	1996	1
43	Fugees	Killing Me Softly	1996	5
44	Spice Girls	Wannabe	1996	3
45	Will Smith	Men in Black	1997	3
46	Elton John	Candle in the Wind 1997	1997	6
47	Céline Dion	My Heart Will Go On	1998	6
48	Cher	Believe	1999	1
49	Britney Spears	…Baby One More Time	1999	2
50	Eiffel 65	Blue (Da Ba Dee)	1999	3
51	Lou Bega	Mambo No. 5	1999/2000	20
52	Shaggy feat Rikrok	It Wasn’t Me	2001	10
53	Geri Halliwell	It’s Raining Men	2001	5
54	Kylie Minogue	Can’t Get You Out of My Head	2001	1
55	Las Ketchup	The Ketchup Song (Asereje)	2002	11
56	Usher feat Lil Jon and Ludacris	Yeah!	2004	1
57	Eric Prydz	Call on Me	2005	3
58	Crazy Frog	Axel F	2005	14
59	James Blunt	You’re Beautiful	2005	8
60	Madonna	Hung Up	2005/2006	16
61	Shakira feat Wyclef Jean	Hips Don’t Lie	2006	8
62	Gnarls Barkley	Crazy	2006	10
63	Leona Lewis	Bleeding Love	2008	1
64	Madonna & Justin Timberlake	4 Minutes	2008	5
65	Duffy	Mercy	2008	2
66	Estelle & Kanye West	American Boy	2008	9
67	Katy Perry	I Kissed a Girl	2008	1
68	Lady Gaga	Poker Face	2009	7
69	Black Eyed Peas	Boom Boom Pow	2009	2
70	David Guetta feat Akon	Sexy Bitch/Chick	2009	10
71	Lady Gaga	Bad Romance	2010	1
72	Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP	We No Speak Americano	2010	1
73	Rihanna	Only Girl (In the World)	2010	2
74	Black Eyed Peas	The Time (Dirty Bit)	2010	6
75	Jessie J feat B.o.B.	Price Tag	2011	1
76	LMFAO feat Lauren Bennett & GoonRock	Party Rock Anthem	2011	9
77	Rihanna feat Calvin Harris	We Found Love	2011	5
78	Adele	Someone Like You	2011	4
79	Gotye feat Kimbra	Somebody That I Used to Know	2012	9
80	Carly Rae Jepsen	Call Me Maybe	2012	11
81	Rihanna	Diamonds	2012	3
82	PSY	Gangnam Style	2012	6
83	will.i.am feat Britney Spears	Scream & Shout	2013	1
84	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat Wanz	Thrift Shop	2013	8
85	Daft Punk feat Pharrell Williams	Get Lucky	2013	8
86	Robin Thicke feat T.I. & Pharrell	Blurred Lines	2013	6
87	Avicii	Wake Me Up	2013	2
88	Eminem feat Rihanna	The Monster	2013	3
89	Pharrell Williams	Happy	2013	22
90	Lilly Wood & Robin Schulz	Prayer in C	2014	15
91	Mark Ronson feat Bruno Mars	Uptown Funk	2014/2015	11
92	Omi	Cheerleader	2015	10
93	One Direction	Drag Me Down	2015	1
94	Adele	Hello	2015	11
95	Kungs vs. Cookin’ on 3 Burners	This Girl	2016	2
96	Drake feat Wizkid and Kyla	One Dance	2016	18
97	Ed Sheeran	Shape of You	2017	15
98	Luis Fonsi feat Daddy Yankee	Despacito	2017	19
99	Ed Sheeran	Perfect	2017/2018	6
100	Camila Cabello feat Young Thug	Havana	2018	2

Isaac Hayes was the first musical black artist to win an Oscar.

Joe Jackson’s 1983 hit Breaking Us in Two was based on Badfinger’s 1972 hit Day After Day.

The first example of sampling on a UK chart hit was in December 1975 when club DJ Chris Hill used bits of other hits in his track Renta Santa.

Olivia Newton-John’s maternal grandfather, Max Born, won the Nobel Prize in atomic physics.

The brassy intro on Brian & Michael’s Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs is ‘borrowed’ from a classical piece called Punchinello by William Rimmer.

The Crazy Frog was created in 1997 by a Swedish actor and playwright called Erik Wernquist.

Justin Bieber’s middle name is Drew.

The Manic Street Preachers were formed in 1986 and were originally called Betty Blue.

In an attempt to stop Ozzy Osbourne drinking, his wife, Sharon, once confiscated all his clothes. That plan didn’t work as Ozzy just donned one of her dresses before heading out.

In 1991, Janet Jackson signed a contract with Virgin Records which, at, $32 million, was the largest recording contract in history at the time.