Since the chart began only 43 songs have spent 21 or more weeks on the listing without making the top 20 and this includes all chart runs. You’ll notice that 36 of them have been since 2000. Whatever your opinion of the music in the 21st Century,  is it a good or bad thing that songs that don’t reach the top 20 are spending longer on the chart? Here’s the list:

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Here is a list of the solo artists and one half of a duo who are 75 or older and still alive (at the time of going to press) who have also had a UK number one hit. I have included lead singers of groups where they get a primary billing ie Brian Poole & The Tremeloes. It was impossible to include all group members especially as there will be quite a number whose birth dates are unknown. On information available, the oldest living member of a group is Babs and Teddie Beverley from the Beverley Sisters who were both 91 last May. Research prevailing, the oldest living member of a number one group is Floyd Ashton from The Tams who has just turned 85.

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This week marks the 17th anniversary of 9/11 – the tragic days when everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news. Within hours of the tragedy Clear Channel who owned a majority of the radio stations around America issued a memo listing 165 songs that were deemed unsuitable and suggested they were NOT to be played but it was not a demand. Bizarrely, some versions of songs were banned and others weren’t eg. both Bob Dylan and Guns ‘N Roses’ version of Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door were banned, but Doctor My Eyes by Jackson Browne was banned yet the Jackson 5 version wasn’t and likewise for Alien Ant Farm’s version of Smooth Criminal which was barred but the Jacko version was ok. Anyway here is an alphabetical list.

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Time for an update of the acts with the most (credited) UK hit singles. This list includes any act 46 or more  UK hit singles of which they receive a named credit.

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Michael would have been 60 this week. As a member of the Jackson 5 & The Jacksons as well as solo artists he had 88 UK hit singles. He also had a few hits as an uncredited backing singer on hits including Stomp (Brothers Johnson), Somebody’s Watching Me (Rockwell) and I Need You (3T) and a number of his songs have been sampled by other acts including Right (SWV using Human Nature), Because Of You (Scanty Sandwich using Sho Be Doo Ba Day), I Got This Feeling (Baby Bumps using Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough), Letter 2 My Unborn (2Pac using Liberian Girl), Good Life (KanYe West using P.Y.T. Pretty Young Thing) and Easy Love (Sigala’s 2015 number one using ABC) to name a few.

Here is his full UK discography. Interesting that his first and last hits (to date) were both number two’s.

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