The first British singles chart was published in the November
14, 1952 edition of the New Musical Express. It was at first
little more than a gimmick... Read
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Join us in a magical adventure into the world of
the Singles Charts. The records we used to sit and
listen to every Sunday night, trying desparately to
tape our favourite songs without getting the DJ's voice
over the start and end of each track!
One of the most important records of acheivement over
the years has been which band or artist could obtain the highest
number of UK No. 1 hit singles... Read
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But we're not just listing the No 1s (although we're
doing that as well as you can see by picking any year
to the right of this page). There's also loads of other
useless information about the UK singles charts for
your reading pleasure. As you can see, we're answering
all the burning questions on the nations lips here...
Another important record is how many weeks a record can stay
at the top of the UK charts in a consecutive run, which is
one of the tough records... Read
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...with answers to all the questions you could ever
ask about the UK singles charts...
The biggest selling singles tend to be charity
singles. As such, they don't give
away a great deal about what the public consider to be the
best songs... Read
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...OK, and probably quite a few you'd never even thought
of. But hey, we're proud to wear our anoraks over here
at WWWK, and we don't care who knows about it!
Al Martino scored the first No.1 hit, meaning
he was the first act to have his first single reach No.1. Eddie
Calvert took "Oh Mein Papa" to the top in 1954... Read
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We hope you enjoy your journey into the history of the
UK Singles charts, and don't forget to bookmark us (CTRL
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