Category: Did you know?

Since the UK album chart started, there have been 20 chart-topping albums that have spent five weeks or less on the chart. Here’s the list.

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Last month the PPL revealed the 40 most played songs on UK radio over the last 10 years, I’ve added in the year the song first charted and its total weeks on the UK singles chart.

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This year saw The Weeknd return to number one twice with the same song, so it got me thinking of how many other number one hits have been dethroned and returned to the top more than once. Well not many as you will see.

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A couple of weeks ago the Official Charts Company released a list of the biggest vinyl albums of 2020 so far. Note, they didn’t call it the biggest sellers. Here is the top 20 and note the limited amount of new material.

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Up until the end of 2019, 30 songs have made the UK singles chart and spent only one week on the chart. Yes, one week inside the top 20 and then gone. Here’s the list;

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Here is a list of 40 radio stations and the first songs they played when they launched. Some have changed names, some swallowed up by other stations and some no longer exist. Most of them  had the freedom to play a decent variety of music unlike now where you’re almost guaranteed to hear the same 100 songs all day long in a different order.

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