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Singles
    Artists
  • Number 1s
    • Most Number 1s
    • Most weeks at Number 1
    • Most consecutive Number 1s
    • Longest span of Number 1 singles
    • First artist to enter at Number 1
    • First artist to enter at Number 1 with consecutive releases
    • First artist to enter at Number 1 with a hat-trick of releases
    • Most entries at Number 1
    • First entry at Number 1 by a debuting act
    • Most entries at Number 1 by a debuting act
    • First act to reach Number 1 with their first three releases
    • Fastest hat-trick of Number 1s
    • First artist to enter at number 1 with a hat-trick of consecutive releases
    • Self-Replacement At Number 1
    • Longest gap between Number 1s
    • Longest time to get to Number 1
    • Posthumous Number 1s
    • One-hit wonders
    • Most successful acts not to have a Number 1 single

  • Sales / Chart Performance
    • Biggest selling artist
    • Most Top 40 hits
    • Most weeks spent on the Top 40
    • Longest span of hits
    • Longest continuous run in the Top 40 by an artist
    • Most Top 40 hits in one year
    • Most simultaneous Top 40 hits
    • Most Top 10 hits
    • Most consecutive Top 10 hits
    • Most simultaneous Top 10 hits
    • Most hits without making the Top 10
    • Least successful Top 40 acts
    • Most near-misses
    • Most hits peaking at number two

  • Age
    • Youngest chart-topper
    • Youngest Top 40 act
    • Youngest performer to enter at Number 1
    • Oldest chart-topper
    • Oldest Top 40 artist
    • Most Disparately Aged Duo

  • Individual Hits
  • Sales
    • All-time best-selling singles (UK)
    • Fastest-selling singles
    • Lowest-selling Number 1
    • Biggest selling single not to top the chart
    • Global all-time Top 10 singles
    • - see also Million-Sellers

  • Number 1s
    • Most weeks at Number 1 by a record
    • Most consecutive weeks at Number 1 by a record
    • Longest time to get to Number 1 (and slowest climb)
    • Title with most weeks at Number 1
    • Topping the chart by different artists
    • Same version topping the chart more than once
    • First single to enter the chart at Number 1
    • First Number 1 by a British artist
    • Biggest jump to Number 1
    • Most successive weeks with a new Number 1
    • Most Number 1s in a calander year
    • Number 1 in most years
    • Lowest-selling Number 1
    • Shortest chart stay for a Number 1
    • Biggest fall from Number 1

  • Chart Performance
    • Longest time spent on the Top 40 by a track
    • Longest continuous run in the Top 40 by a track
    • Hit for most artists
    • Biggest jump
    • Shortest chart stay for a Number 1, 2, Top 10 hit
    • Biggest fall inside the Top 40
    • Greatest dropout of the Top 40
    • Most weeks on the Top 40 without making the Top 10
    • Nearest 'miss' (ie. not to make the Top 40)
    • Making the Top 40 without UK release

  • Miscellaneous
  • General Collection of Miscellany
    • Parents / offspring / siblings topping the chart
    • Most siblings in one group
    • Artist having hits as a solo, duo, trio, quartet, quintet etc
    • Longest hit single
    • Shortest hit single
    • Longest note held in a hit
    • Most repetitive hit
    • WORD records
      • Longest title
      • Shortest title
      • Most different letters in a title
      • Longest words in song titles
      • Longest words in song lyric?
      • Word featuring in most titles
      • Word starting most titles
      • Least letters making up a artist-title combination
      • Palindromic title by a palindromic artist
      • Vowel-free titles
      • Alphabetically first and last words in titles
      • Least different words used for multi-worded titles
      • Biggest name-droppers
    • Lyrical connections between successive Number 1s
    • Most popular title for a top 40 song
    • First self-penned Number 1
    • Eponymous Number 1s
    • Hits in most different languages
    • Most expletives
    • Biggest hit by a non-human artist
    • The weirdness of Blur's "Song 2"
    • Position-dodging
    • Most graceful retreat from Number 1
    • Most 'impressive' symmetrical chart career for a title
    • Artist 'lapping' himself
    • First chart 'Has-Been'
    • When Was The Last Time...?
      • ... there were no entries in the Top 10
      • ... a single climbed back up to Number 1
      • ... a single spent more than X weeks at Number 1
      • ... the Top 5 were all New Entries
      • ... the Top 5 were all non-movers
    • Most new entries in the Top 40
    • Most new entries in the Top 10
    • Number One quirks
Albums
  • Assorted album facts
    • Best-selling albums of all time (UK)
    • Album with most weeks at Number 1 (in total)
    • Album with most weeks at Number 1 (consecutive)
    • Longest stay in the chart by an album
    • Longest continuous stay by an artist
    • Artist with most Number 1 albums
    • Artist with most Top 10 albums
    • Artist with most Top 40 albums
    • Artist with most simultaneous Top 40 albums
    • Artist with most weeks at number 1 in the album chart
    • Artist with most weeks in the album Top 40
    • Oldest artist to top the album chart
    • First album to enter the chart at Number 1
    • Slowest climb to Number 1
    • Album one-hit wonders
    • Biggest jump to Number 1
    • Fastest selling album
    • Biggest climb within the album Top 40
    • Biggest fall within the album Top 40
    • Longest span of album chart-toppers
    • Longest span of hit albums
    • Youngest album chart-topper
    • Youngest Top 10 album act
    • Longest hit album title
    • Shortest Top 40 album title
    • Global all-time Top 10 albums


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