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The following is a list of songs that have charted for 100 weeks or more in total on the UK singles chart top 100, according to the Official Charts Company (OCC).[1] The chart here is as recorded by the OCC, i.e. usually a Top 50 from 1960 to 1978, Top 75 from then until 1982, and Top 100 from 1983 onwards. In the pre-digital age, records with re-recorded vocals (for example, live versions) and remixes released with substantially different catalogue numbers did not count towards the total and were seen as new hits (see "Blue Monday" as an example). In the digital age, if versions of a record are substantially the same tune, whether the release is remixed, live or re-recorded, they are combined under one chart entry, unless the record company has requested a version to be listed as a separate entry.[2][3]

With over 400 weeks in the chart, "Mr Brightside"[4] by the Killers has had more weeks in the Top 100 than any other single in over 70 years of chart data,[5] and is also now in first place in the Top 75 long runners list (as previously used in The Guinness Book Of Hit Singles). "Someone You Loved" by Lewis Capaldi currently leads this list, with the song having been in the Top 75 for a few months longer than the records in the runners up position. "Last Christmas" has spent the most weeks in the Top 3. "All I Want for Christmas Is You" has spent the most weeks in the Top 10 and Top 40. When only a Top 50 was compiled, Frank Sinatra's "My Way" set a record which still stands: 122 weeks in the Top 50 between April 1969 and January 1972. It also held the record for most weeks in the top 40 with 75, until The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" achieved its 76th week in the region in 2021 and most weeks in the top 75 with 124, which was surpassed by Ed Sheeran's "Perfect" in 2021.

The longest unbroken run in the Top 100 is 105 weeks for “Blinding Lights” by The Weeknd, which also holds the longest consecutive run in the top 75 (103 weeks). Engelbert Humperdinck's "Release Me" held the record run in the Top 50, at 56 weeks, for over 40 years[6] until beaten by "All of Me" by John Legend with 58 consecutive weeks in the top 50 (since passed by "Thinking Out Loud" with 63 weeks). The song with the most weeks at No. 1 is "I Believe" by Frankie Laine which stayed in the Top 10 for 35 weeks, 18 of them at No. 1 and a further seven at No. 2. Also noteworthy is "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets, the only song released in the 1950s to appear in the lists, which achieved 36 of its weeks when only a Top 20 or Top 30 were published.

In the pre-digital era, Christmas-themed songs were often re-released in different years and several have continued to chart each year from the mid-noughties onwards. "Merry Xmas Everybody" by Slade has had 27 chart runs in 30 different years (1973–74, 1980–87, 1989–90 and 2006–23), while "Fairytale of New York" by the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl has reached the Top 10 ten times and spent a record 70 weeks in the Top 20 and 84 weeks in the Top 40. In a similar but more modest way, since 2007, "Thriller" by Michael Jackson[7] and "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Jr.[8] have charted at Halloween in fifteen and thirteen years, respectively.

The numbers shown are up to the chart for week ending 18 May 2023.

Songs with 20 or more weeks in the Top 10

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29 songs have spent 20 or more weeks in the Top 10 of the UK Charts. "All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey holds the record for the most weeks in the Top 10 history with 44 weeks. "Last Christmas" by Wham! holds the record for the most weeks in the top 10 by a British act with 41 weeks. "I Believe" by Frankie Laine holds the record for the most consecutive weeks in the top 10 with 35 weeks. "Fairytale of New York" by The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl holds the record for the most weeks in the Top 10 without reaching number one with 33 weeks.

Song Artist Year first
entered chart 		Chart
peak 		Total weeks
in top 10 		Consecutive
weeks 		Reference
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" Mariah Carey 1994 1 44 5 [9]
"Last Christmas" Wham! 1984 1 41 7 [10]
"As It Was" Harry Styles 2022 1 37 18 [11]
"I Believe" Frankie Laine 1953 1 35 35 [12]
"Fairytale of New York" The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl 1987 2 33 5 [13]
"Someone You Loved" Lewis Capaldi 2018 1 31 20 [14]
"Cruel Summer" Taylor Swift 2019 2 29 13 [15]
"Secret Love" Doris Day 1954 1 27 27 [16]
"Calm Down" Rema 2022 3 27 25 [17]
"Don't Start Now" Dua Lipa 2019 2 25 18 [18]
"Stick Season" Noah Kahan 2023 1 24 23 [19]
"The Happy Wanderer" Obernkirchen Children's Choir 1954 2 24 22 [20]
"Terry's Theme from Limelight" Frank Chacksfield 1953 2 23 23 [21]
"One Dance" Drake featuring Wizkid and Kyla 2016 1 23 23 [22]
"Espresso" Sabrina Carpenter 2024 1 23 16 [23]
"Because You're Mine" Mario Lanza 1952 3 22 22 [24]
"What Do You Mean?" Justin Bieber 2015 1 22 22 [25]
"Shape of You" Ed Sheeran 2017 1 22 22 [26]
"Bad Habits" Ed Sheeran 2021 1 22 22 [26]
"Peru" Fireboy DML and Ed Sheeran 2021 2 22 22 [26]
"Blinding Lights" The Weeknd 2019 1 22 21 [27]
"The Song from Moulin Rouge" Mantovani 1953 1 22 21 [28]
"Prada" Cassö, Raye and D-Block Europe 2023 2 22 14 [29]
"Relax" Frankie Goes to Hollywood 1983 1 22 10 [30]
"She Loves You" The Beatles 1963 1 21 21 [31]
"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" Bryan Adams 1991 1 21 21 [32]
"Austin" Dasha (singer) 2024 5 21 21 [33]
"Oh Mein Papa" Eddie Calvert 1953 1 20 20 [34]
"Little Things Mean a Lot" Kitty Kallen 1954 1 20 20 [35]
"Love Is All Around" Wet Wet Wet 1994 1 20 20 [36]
"Happy" Pharrell Williams 2013 1 20 20 [37]
"Thinking Out Loud" Ed Sheeran 2014 1 20 20 [26]
"Cara Mia" David Whitfield with Mantovani and His Orchestra 1954 1 20 19 [38]
"Rock Around the Clock" Bill Haley and His Comets 1955 1 20 15 [39]
"Greedy" Tate McRae 2023 3 20 11 [40]

Songs with 50 or more weeks in the Top 40

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The Top 40 chart has been broadcast weekly on BBC Radio 1 (currently as The Official Chart) since 12 November 1978 and is often referred to as 'the charts'. Appearing in the Top 40 can greatly increase a song's exposure on television and radio. "All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey holds the record for the most weeks in the Top 40 history with 87 weeks. In June 2015, "Thinking Out Loud" by Ed Sheeran became the first (and so far only) single to stay in the Top 40 for 52 consecutive weeks – equivalent to one year,[41] having spent a record-breaking 18 weeks in the chart before reaching No. 1.[42]

Song Artist Year first
entered chart 		Chart
peak 		Total weeks
in top 40 		Consecutive
weeks 		Reference
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" Mariah Carey 1994 1 95* 7 [9]
"Fairytale of New York" The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl 1987 2 89 8 [13]
"Last Christmas" Wham! 1984 1 83 11 [10]
"My Way" Frank Sinatra 1969 5 75 16 [43]
"Heat Waves" Glass Animals 2020 5 73 30 [44][45][46]
"Blinding Lights" The Weeknd 2019 1 70 48 [27]
"Someone You Loved" Lewis Capaldi 2018 1 69 49 [14]
"As It Was" Harry Styles 2022 1 65 33 [47]
"Thinking Out Loud" Ed Sheeran 2014 1 56 54 [26]
"All of Me" John Legend 2014 2 54 44 [48]
"Stick Season" Noah Kahan 2022 1 54* 49 [49]
"Do They Know It's Christmas?" Band Aid 1984 1 53 11 [50]
"Dance Monkey" Tones and I 2019 1 52 50 [51]
"Stranger on the Shore" Acker Bilk 1961 2 52 45 [52]
"Bad Habits" Ed Sheeran 2021 1 52 29 [26]
"Merry Xmas Everybody" Slade 1973 1 52 9 [53]
"Happy" Pharrell Williams 2013 1 50 49 [37]

Songs with 60 or more weeks in the Top 75

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The Top 75 was published each week by Music Week magazine until March 2021 (when it became a monthly publication),[54] with records reaching the top 75 described as hits (as in the case of The Virgin/Guinness Book of British Hit Singles). Since March 2021, the Official Charts Company have compiled a monthly Top 75 chart countdown for the publication. In regards to the weekly chart, the longest continuous run in the Top 75 is 103 weeks for "Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd (December 2019 to November 2021). In 2014, "Happy" by Pharrell Williams and "Let It Go" by Idina Menzel became the first singles ever to stay in the Top 75 for a whole calendar year, since also achieved by “Blinding Lights” in 2020. Frank Sinatra's "My Way" held the record for most weeks in the top 75 for nearly 50 years until it was broken by "Perfect" in 2021. [4]

Song Artist Year first
entered chart 		Chart
peak 		Total weeks
in top 75 		Consecutive
weeks 		Reference
"Mr. Brightside" The Killers 2004 10 180* 29 [55]
"Someone You Loved" Lewis Capaldi 2018 1 151 99 [14]
"Perfect" Ed Sheeran 2017 1 130 62 [26]
"My Way" Frank Sinatra 1969 5 124 42 [43]
"Heat Waves" Glass Animals 2020 5 117 68 [56]
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" Mariah Carey 1994 1 117* 8 [9]
"Fairytale of New York" The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl 1987 2 113 9 [13]
"Chasing Cars" Snow Patrol 2006 6 111 48 [57]
"Blinding Lights" The Weeknd 2019 1 106 103 [27]
"Merry Xmas Everybody" Slade 1973 1 100† 9 [53]
"Last Christmas" Wham! 1984 1 91* 13 [10]
"Shotgun" George Ezra 2018 1 91 80 [58]
"Thinking Out Loud" Ed Sheeran 2014 1 91 73 [26]
"As It Was" Harry Styles 2022 1 91 45 [11]
"Sex on Fire" Kings of Leon 2008 1 90 42 [59]
"Do They Know It's Christmas?" Band Aid 1984 1 88 13 [50]
"Riptide" Vance Joy 2013 10 84* 21 [60]
"Dance Monkey" Tones and I 2019 1 83 67 [51]
"I Gotta Feeling" The Black Eyed Peas 2009 1 78 63 [61]
"Rather Be" Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne 2014 1 78 73 [62]
"Merry Christmas Everyone" Shakin' Stevens 1985 1 78 8 [63]
"Use Somebody" Kings of Leon 2008 2 77 40 [59]
"Shape of You" Ed Sheeran 2017 1 75 70 [26]
"All of Me" John Legend 2014 2 75 68 [48]
"Rule the World" Take That 2007 2 75 30 [64]
"Happy" Pharrell Williams 2013 1 74 70 [37]
"Chandelier" Sia 2014 6 74 53 [65]
"Pompeii" Bastille 2013 2 73 30 [66]
"Someone like You" Adele 2011 1 72 61 [67]
"Another Love" Tom Odell 2012 10 70 19 [68]
"I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" Wizzard[45] 2007 10 69[a] 6 [69]
"Amazing Grace" Judy Collins 1970 5 67† 32 [70]
"Don't Stop Believin'" Journey 1982 6 66 48 [71]
"Poker Face" Lady Gaga 2009 1 66 46 [72]
"Take Me to Church" Hozier 2014 2 66 63 [73]
"Cruel Summer" Taylor Swift 2019 2 66* 24 [74]
"I'm Yours" Jason Mraz 2008 11 65 47 [75]
"Photograph" Ed Sheeran 2014 15 65 45 [26]
"This Is Me" Keala Settle and The Greatest Showman Ensemble 2018 3 65 65 [76]
"Calm Down" Rema 2022 3 64 64 [17]
"Head & Heart" Joel Corry featuring MNEK 2020 1 64 62 [77][78]
"Counting Stars" OneRepublic 2013 1 64 59 [79]
"Shallow" Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper 2018 1 64 39 [72]
"Let It Go" Idina Menzel 2013 11 63 63 [80]
"The Man Who Can't Be Moved" The Script 2008 2 63 30 [81]
"Titanium" David Guetta featuring Sia 2011 1 61 32 [82]
"Wake Me Up" Avicii 2013 1 61 57 [83]
"Budapest" George Ezra 2014 3 61 52 [58]
"Uptown Funk" Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars 2014 1 61 49 [84]
"Bad Guy" Billie Eilish 2019 2 61 37 [85]
"Driving Home for Christmas" Chris Rea 1988 10 61[b] 6 [86]
"Radioactive" Imagine Dragons 2012 12 60 44 [87]
"Before You Go" Lewis Capaldi 2019 1 60 50 [14]

† some or all weeks in charts when only the Top 50 is compiled.

‡ some weeks in charts when only Top 30 or less is compiled.

Songs with 100 or more weeks in the Top 100

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The Top 100 is published each week by the Official Charts Company. 26 songs have reached 100 or more weeks in the Top 100. The longest continuous run in the Top 100 is 105 weeks for “Blinding Lights” by The Weeknd.

On 4 February 2022, "Mr Brightside" became the first song to hit 300 weeks in the top 100.[88] It has subsequently passed 400 weeks, spending all but the Christmas period in the Top 100 every year since 2021.

Song Artist Year first
entered chart 		Chart
peak 		Total weeks
in top 100 		Consecutive
weeks 		Reference
"Mr. Brightside" The Killers 2004 10 436* 48 [55]
"Someone You Loved" Lewis Capaldi 2018 1 239 100 [14]
"Perfect" Ed Sheeran 2017 1 191 67 [26]
"Chasing Cars" Snow Patrol 2006 6 166 88 [57]
"Riptide" Vance Joy 2013 10 156* 49 [60]
"Blinding Lights" The Weeknd 2019 1 144 105 [27]
"Iris" Goo Goo Dolls 1998 3 144* 25 [89]
"Shotgun" George Ezra 2018 1 134 87 [58]
"My Way" Frank Sinatra 1969 5 133 25 [43]
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" Mariah Carey 1994 1 133* 8 [9]
"Another Love" Tom Odell 2012 10 130* 22 [90]
"Sex on Fire" Kings of Leon 2008 1 128 89 [59]
"Viva la Vida" Coldplay 2008 1 127 50 [91]
"Fairytale of New York" The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl 1987 2 127* 9 [13]
"Heat Waves" Glass Animals 2020 5 124 100 [92]
"Last Christmas Wham! 1984 1 122 13 [10]
"Thinking Out Loud" Ed Sheeran 2014 1 119 95 [26]
"Dance Monkey" Tones and I 2019 1 116 71 [51]
"Shallow" Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper 2018 1 116 60 [72]
"Chandelier" Sia 2014 6 114 72 [65]
"Merry Xmas Everybody" Slade 1973 1 114 9 [53]
"Bad Habits" Ed Sheeran 2021 1 114 49 [93]
"Take Me to Church" Hozier 2014 2 113 85 [73]
"Whatever" Oasis 1994 3 112 32 [94]
"I Gotta Feeling" The Black Eyed Peas 2009 1 109 75 [61]
"Save Your Tears" The Weeknd 2021 2 108 49 [27]
"Radioactive" Imagine Dragons 2012 12 107 51 [87]
"Don't Stop Believin'" Journey 1981 1 107 88 [71]
"Pompeii" Bastille 2013 2 103 92 [66]
"Use Somebody" Kings of Leon 2008 2 103 64 [59]
"Rule the World" Take That 2007 2 102 77 [64]
"As It Was" Harry Styles 2022 1 102 88 [11]

† Some or all weeks in charts when only top 50 compiled.

‡ Some weeks in charts when only top 30 or less compiled.

Notable singles

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"Blue Monday"

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New Order's "Blue Monday" includes the remixed version of the original, which was finally made available as a single for the first time in 1988 with almost the same catalogue number; sales for this shorter version and the original were combined, when calculating its chart position. The second remix, from 1995, charted for four weeks but is excluded from this list.[95]

"Merry Xmas Everybody"

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In addition to Slade's total of 114 weeks in the Top 100[45] for "Merry Xmas Everybody", they also had two remixes of the song, not counted because they were re-recorded with other artists. The first, from 1980, was credited to Slade and the Reading Choir; the second, from 1998, was credited to Slade vs. Flush,[96] which peaked at #30 and accumulated four weeks in the top 100.

"I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday"

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The original version credited to Wizzard 'featuring vocal backing by The Suedettes plus The Stockland Green Bilateral School First Year Choir with additional noises by Miss Snob and Class 3C'[97] spent nine weeks in the charts in 1973–74. When the record was going to be re-released in the 1980s, it was found that the master tapes had been lost and so Roy Wood re-recorded a solo sound-a-like version with children from Kempsey Primary School in 1981 and this was released on Harvest Records, credited to Wizzard with the same catalogue number.[98]

This 1981 version was also re-issued in 1984 when it reached number 23 in the charts. However, the week before Wizzard charted at number 50 on the Top 75 of 09 – 15 December 1984, "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" appeared as a new entry at number 86 credited to Roy Wood and Wizzard. It was this record which re-charted with another week in 1985 and in 1986, giving "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" 11 weeks on the chart overall during the 1980s.[99][100][101][102] In the digital age of streaming and downloads (from 2007 to 2021), the 1981 version has spent 64 weeks in the charts credited simply to Wizzard[45] with the label rights being credited to EMI, making a total of 85 weeks in the Top 100 for the record overall.

In 1995, Wood recorded a live version and released it as a single on his own independent record label Woody Recordings.[103] Credited to Roy Wood Big Band, this live track charted at Number 59 in the UK Singles Chart and stayed in the Top 100 for 2 weeks.[104] Then in 2000, Wood re-recorded the song as part of a medley with The Wombles's song "Wombling Merry Christmas". This medley was released as "I Wish It Could Be a Wombling Christmas Everyday" and reached number 22 in the UK Singles Chart.[105]

"White Lines"

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Grandmaster Melle Mel's "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)" was remixed in 1994 and charted for an additional three weeks, making 46 in total in the top 75 (61 in the top 100 including one in 2004).[106] It was also re-recorded in 1995 by Duran Duran featuring Melle Mel and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and charted for another five weeks (not counted towards its total).[107]

"Three Lions"

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"Three Lions", recorded by Baddiel and Skinner and The Lightning Seeds, is not eligible for the above list for either version but has clocked up an impressive 57 weeks[108] on the UK Singles Chart Top 75 under the guise of "Three Lions" and "3 Lions '98" and 67 weeks in the Top 100.[109] It was originally released in 1996 as "Three Lions", then subsequently re-recorded with different lyrics in 1998 as "3 Lions '98", a version which was re-issued in 2002. Then in 2006, both recordings were re-issued on a Sony DualDisc as "Three Lions/Three Lions '98", with "Three Lions" charting again in 2010 due to downloads. In 2018, "Three Lions" reached No. 1 in the UK Chart for one week, due to England's success at the World Cup, with the 1998 version being combined under the original's sales total, and re-charted in 2021 due to the UEFA Euro 2020 Championship taking place.[110][111][112][113] Skinner, Baddiel and Broudie were also part of a version released in 2010 by The Squad, aptly called "Three Lions 2010"; this version tallied up a further six weeks in addition to the 67 weeks, but is seen as a separate recording act by the Official Charts Company.[114]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ This excludes versions of the same song, released in the physical era, which have the additional credit 'Vocal backing by The Suedettes, plus The Stockland Green Bilateral School first year choir. Additional noises Miss Snob and Class 3C'. The original 1973 version did 9 weeks on the chart peaking at number 4, whilst the re-recording in the 1980s spent 8 weeks on the chart, originally peaking at number 23.
  2. ^ This includes two weeks on the chart in December 1988 at number 61 and 53, when the record was actually the lead track on The Christmas EP alongside "Footsteps in the Snow", "Joys of Christmas" and "Smile"

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