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
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
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
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
