179 singles have reached 1 million sales, the biggest of them all being Sir Elton John’s Something About The Way You Look Tonight / Candle In The Wind 1997 on 4.94 million sales.In 2022 it takes on average just under 7 million streams to land a UK Number 1 single (6.82 million).1,404 singles have reached the Official Number 1 spot, from Al Martino’s Here In My Heart, to reigning chart topper Taylor Swift’s Anti-Hero which has so far reigned for three consecutive weeks, with a fourth incoming.A total of 4.55 billion singles, 683 billion audio streams and 128 billion video streams (811 billion total streams) have been consumed in the UK.New data released today by the Official Charts Company can reveal that: It is now a vast and sophisticated weekly operation polling thousands of physical retailers, digital download stores and streaming platforms daily, with the Official Chart as we know it today continuing to be broadcast on BBC Radio 1. In the decades since that first chart was published, the Official Singles Chart has become an institution – chronicling the musical tastes and cultural moments in Britain every week.
It was on Friday Novemthat the very first UK singles chart was published in the New Musical Express, the results of a rudimentary survey of 20 record shops by the music paper’s advertising manager Percy Dickins. The Official Singles Chart marks its 70 th birthday today (Novem) by unveiling a new all-time statistical survey, based on Official Charts Company data, spanning seven decades of the UK’s favourite music.
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