Summary of chart records are here.
- Most weeks on UK Singles Top 100 - Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars (Pk : 6) (160 weeks)
- Most consecutive weeks on UK Singles Top 100 ever: Bastille - Pompeii (90 consecutive weeks)
- Most weeks on UK Singles Top 100 without reaching Top 10: Imagine Dragons - Radioactive (Pk: 12) (92 weeks)
- Most weeks on UK Singles Top 100 without reaching Top 20: Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man (Pk: 24) (51 weeks)
- Most weeks on UK Singles Top 100 without reaching Top 40: 45 King - The King Is Here/The 900 Number (Pk : 60) (32 weeks)
- Most weeks on UK Singles Top 100 without reaching Top 75: Fantastique - Mama Told Me (Pk: 84) (13 weeks)
- Most weeks on UK Singles Top 100 without reaching Top 85: The Cocteau Twins - Sunburst And Sunblind (Pk: 86) (7 weeks)
- Most weeks at number one: Frankie Laine - I Believe (18) (non-consecutive)
- Most consecutive weeks at number 1: Bryan Adams - Everything I Do (I Do It For You) (16)
- Most weeks on UK Singles Top 100 by a number one single: Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire (124 weeks)
- Fewest weeks on UK Singles Top 100 by a number one single: Gareth Malone's All Star Choir - Wake Me Up (3 weeks)
- Fewest weeks on UK Singles Top 100 by a number one who was number 1 two weeks: X Factor Finalists 2010 - Heroes (7 weeks)
- Fewest weeks on UK Singles Top 100 which was number one for three weeks: Band Aid II - Do They Know It's Christmas (1989) (6 weeks)
- Biggest jump to number one: Labrinth ft. Emeli Sandé - Beneath Your Beautiful (85 to 1)
- Biggest jump from 100: Keane - Somewhere Only We Know (100 to 26) [2014]
- Biggest jump in top 100: Glee Cast - Don't Stop Believin' (99 to 5)
- Biggest jump in top 200: Jess Glyne - Right Here (200 to 6)
- Biggest fall from number one:McFly - Baby's Coming Back & Elvis Presley - One Night (both 1 to 20)
- Biggest fall to 100: Elvis Presley - Wear My Ring Around Your Neck (16 to 100)
- Biggest fall ever: Wet Wet Wet - Weightless (10 to 98)
- Highest dropout ever: [4] Alex Day - Forever Yours (31/12/2011) (fell to 112)
- Highest dropout for a number one: [5] Gnarls Barkley - Crazy (2006)
- Most top 200 re-entries for a single:
- Most top 100 re-entries for a single:
- Most top 40 re-entries for a single:
- Most top 10 re-entries for a single:
- Artist with most number ones: Elvis Presley (21 number ones)
- Artist with most Top 10 singles from a single album: Calvin Harris - 18 Months (9 singles)
- Album with most weeks on Top 100, Top 40 and Top 10: Emeli Sandé : Stats - Our Version Of Events (x weeks)
- Fewest weeks between an artist's number 1:
- Artists who knocked themselves off Number 1:
- Elvis Presley: One Night/I Got Stung {2005} knocked Jailhouse Rock {2005} off Number 1
- The Beatles:
- Mike Oldfield: Hergest Ridge (1974) was knocked off by Tubular Bells (1973) in October 1974
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- Beautiful - Mariah Carey ft. Miguel (Peak: 22) (Weeks on top 100: ) (Weeks on 21-30: )