Category: Did you know?

Following last week’s list of best-selling downloads in America here is a list of the fastest-selling albums in America based on pure sales during the first week of availability.

Up until the end of 2020, these are the top 25 best-selling paid downloads of all-time in America.

You might be interested to know that this Wednesday, 7th April, is national walking day. I hope you’ll be doing you bit. I will, I walk every day…..from the bedroom to the kitchen and then the office and various other rooms around the house. Anyway, there are 55 top 40 hits with Walking or Walkin’ in the title, how many of these do you remember?

Since the official album chart began back in 1956 there have been over 1200 number ones, but which artists have had the most? Well, 27 different acts have had seven or more chart-topping albums, here’s the list.

John Peel was a legend who I had the privilege of working with and, for a brief couple of week, shared an office and a thoroughly lovely man who was, in real life, just like he was on the radio.

Every Christmas from the mid-70s he broadcast a Festive 50 on his last night Radio 1 show. The list was compiled by hand by John from listeners’ favourite three songs of each year. This list is from 2000 which was billed as John Peel’s All-Time Festive 50.

Since the chart was extended to a top 75 in 1978 and up to the end of 2010, which is generally when the UK singles chart became irrelevant to anyone outside the music industry, there was  been 59 acts that have spent just one week at number 75 on the chart. Here is the list – how many names will you recognise?!