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UK charts

June 2024

  • Shaad D'Souza

    Taylor Swift may have captured the charts, but Charli XCX captured the zeitgeist

    Shaad D'Souza
  • Eminem performing this week at the Michigan Central Station opening concert, Detroit.

    Guess who’s back? How Eminem is storming to the top of the charts again

May 2024

  • The Killers’ Brandon Flowers performing at Glastonbury festival in 2019.

    The Killers’ Mr Brightside becomes biggest song to never reach UK No 1

    Band overtake Oasis’s Wonderwall and celebrate how the much-chanted chart staple ‘has been completely embraced by the British public’

April 2024

  • Taylor Swift at the 2024 Grammy awards.

    Taylor Swift equals Madonna’s record of 12 UK No 1 albums

    Swift now has joint highest number of chart-toppers for a female artist, as The Tortured Poets Department earns biggest opening week in seven years

February 2024

  • Beyoncé at New York fashion week.

    Beyoncé has first UK No 1 in 14 years with Texas Hold ’Em

    Singer last topped the UK singles chart in 2010 with Lady Gaga duet Telephone

January 2024

  • Sophie Ellis-Bextor performing on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury, 25 June 2023.

    ‘It’s all magic’: Sophie Ellis-Bextor back at No 2 after 20 years with Murder on the Dancefloor

  • Future norm? (L-R) Doja Cat, Billie Eilish and Miley Cyrus.

    Female pop stars celebrate record-breaking year on UK singles chart

December 2023

  • Bing Crosby; Gary Joules and Michael Andrews; Slade; Rage Against the Machine; Wings

    2023 Christmas puzzles special
    Who is the only person to sing their own name in Do They Know It’s Christmas? Try our 2023 festive No 1s quiz

  • A vinyl edition of Wham’s Last Christmas, which is 2023’s Christmas No 1.

    Wham!’s Last Christmas finally reaches Christmas No 1, 39 years after release

  • ‘She’ll look great on TV’ … soloist Dawn Ralph and the St Winifred’s choir at the BBC.

    How we made
    ‘One kid barfed on my feet’: how There’s No One Quite Like Grandma became a Christmas No 1

  • Barbara Ellen

    Tatty, naff and cheesy: why can’t Britain have a decent Christmas No 1?

    Barbara Ellen

November 2023

  • Female doctor applying hearing aid to senior man's ear

    Brief letters
    Not a penny to pay for better hearing

    Letters: Hearing aids | British pop bangers | Identifying ministers | Murder in Midsomer | Plant life
  • The Beatles in 1967 at the launch of the album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

    The Beatles set record 54-year gap between No 1 singles as Now and Then tops UK chart

    Paul McCartney says success of band’s ‘final’ song together has ‘blown my socks off’, as it becomes the fastest-selling vinyl single this century
  • Mariah Carey and George Michael of Wham!, who have each returned to the charts this week.

    Christmas arrives in UK charts earlier than ever with entries for Wham! and Mariah Carey

    Christmas classics enter at No 37 and No 40 respectively, ahead of increasing ubiquity over the festive season

October 2023

  • Mitski performing at the Union Chapel, London, 11 October 2023.

    Mitski: how the US songwriter scored the year’s quietest global chart smash

    An outlier amid pop stars and club bangers, My Love Mine All Mine is getting millions of streams a day. Its singer is reaching new fans – and repairing her relationship with old ones

May 2023

  • Kylie Minogue

    Kylie Minogue ‘bursting with joy’ as new single Padam Padam soars up charts

    Track shunned by BBC Radio 1 and Capital when released finds singer a new audience via social media
  • Käärijä of Finland performing at the Eurovision song contest – he reaches No 6 in this week’s chart.

    Cha cha cha! Eurovision stars dominate UK Top 10 after record-breaking final

    Winning singer Loreen reaches No 2 and fan favourite Käärijä earns first ever Finnish-language hit in the UK
  • Enter Shikari

    ‘It’s not a pop-the-champagne moment any more’: is the UK album chart broken?

    Artists are hitting No 1, then dropping out of the Top 100 the following week. Industry figures ponder whether the chart is still a barometer of taste – or just a marketing ploy

February 2023

  • Eminem pictured in 2013.

    Still Shady: how did Eminem’s 2005 greatest hits become last year’s biggest rap album?

    Released in 2005, Curtain Call: The Hits has spent 552 weeks in the UK album charts. Are young fans thrilling to his outrageous lyrics – or is the truth more prosaic?

January 2023

  • Top of the pops … (L-R) Cat Burns, Kate Bush and Harry Styles.

    UK artists dominate Top 10 singles of 2022 for first time since records began

    A clean sweep led by Harry Styles was an ‘astonishing’ high note for the music industry – but the domination of older songs reflected the impact of streaming
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