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On this page you can see the list of every UK Number 1 song in history, from the historic first ever Number 1 single - Al Martino's Here In My Heart in 1952, all the way through to this...
NME ' s co-founder Percy Dickins imitated the chart produced by American Billboard magazine and began to compile Britain's first hit parade in 1952. [1][3] For the first chart, Dickins telephoned a sample of around 20 shops asking for a list of the 10 best-selling songs.
No. [nb 1]ArtistSingleNme [nb 2](weeks At Number One)00 1900 2100 3100 41Graph showing number of UK number-one singles for each year since 1953. The 2011 figure is projected. Al Martino 's track "Here in My Heart" was the first single ever to top the UK Singles Chart, and the only single to reach number one during 1952.
Most consecutive number ones from chart debut. Spice Girls became the first British music act and girl group to have their first six singles reach number one on the UK singles chart between 1996 and 1997 with "Wannabe" in July 1996 to "Too Much" in December 1997.
- From Me To You (Number 1, May 1963) Only the third single ever released by the Fab Four, From Me To You was the one that started their chart domination; becoming the first Beatles song to top the Official Singles Chart in May 1963 where it stayed at Number 1 for seven consecutive weeks.
- She Loves You (Number 1, September 1963) The Beatles didn't have to wait long for their second chart-topper, grabbing it just four months after From Me To You in September 1963.
- I Want To Hold Your Hand (Number 1, December 1963) I Want To Hold Your Hand was originally blocked from Number 1 by She Loves You, but once it did get all the way to the top of the Official Singles Chart, it stayed there for five weeks and became the second best-selling song of the 1960s.
- Can't Buy Me Love (Number 1, April 1964) Can't Buy Me Love was taken from The Beatles' third studio album, A Hard Day's Night, a body of work that started a new phase in the band's career, as every single track on the record was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, under the moniker Lennon-McCartney, now looked on as perhaps the greatest songwriting partnership in the history of recorded music.
Young songwriters Wade Buff and Eugene Adkinson formed the group in desperation after their song It's Almost Tomorrow was repeatedly turned down by music publishers. The first number one hit to be written, produced and entirely performed by a single person was A Different Corner by George Michael.
In 2006, Crazy by Gnarls Barkley became the first song to go to number one based on downloads alone – around a year after digital sales were first included – while Ariana Grande’s 2014 hit...
