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News and Charts
The UK Charts Archive Wiki
The UK Charts Archive Wiki was founded by user Havemeforty to store chart archives for UK singles and albums sales compiled by the Official Charts Company. You can find peak positions, weekly charts and artist singles and albums stats. The wiki also contains data from other music related charts, Fun and Games, plus much more. We only currently have 4 regular editors, but you can help us spread the word about it to others who have interest in the charts, including use of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter!
Top 200 Chart Runs
Admin NicholasBBQ32 has discovered a thread on the UKMix Forum called Chart Histories, a thread where logged on users can request top 200 chart runs for artists by user Hanboo. We can now use this source to build our chart database even further. You can request missing or outdated chart stats for singles, albums and more in the forum.
Upcoming Song Picks From Our Admins
Upcoming song picks from Hotchoc26.
- Curious - Ray Foxx ft. Rachel K Collier
- Flute - New World Sound & Thomas Newson ft. Lethal Bizzle
Upcoming song picks from Taylor jago 16.06
- Love Me Harder - Ariana Grande featuring The Weeknd
- These Days - Take That
- You're Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile - Sia
- Yours - Ella Henderson
- What Can I Do? - SecondCity featuring Ali Love
Upcoming song picks from NicholasBBQ32
- Hudson Taylor - Chasing Rubies
- Duke Dumont - Won't Look Back
- Shift K3Y - I Know
Terminology
What does 'dropout' and 're-entry' mean? See the Terminology page for the definitions!
Top 10 Singles Last Year (11/05/2013)
- (1) Get Lucky - Daft. Punk ft. Pharrell Williams
- (2) Waiting All Night - Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre
- (5) Can't Hold Us - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Ray Dalton
- (11) Let Her Go - Passenger
- (4) I Need Your Love - Calvin Harris ft. Ellie Goulding
- (21) Play Hard - David Guetta ft. Ne-Yo & Akon
- (3) #thatPOWER - will.i.am ft. Justin Bieber
- (7) Just Give Me A Reason - P!nk ft. Nate Ruess
- (6) Need U (100%) - Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E
- (NEW) You & Me - Disclosure ft. Eliza Doolittle
Top 10 Singles Ten Years Ago (08/05/2004)
- (1) F*ck It (I Don't Want You Back - Eamon
- (NEW) Air Hostess - Busted
- (2) My Band - D12
- (NEW) Fit But You Know It - The Streets
- (4) Left Outside Alone - Anastacia
- (5) In The Shadows - Rasmus
- (3) This Love - Maroon 5
- (6) Yeah - Usher ft. Lil' Jon & Ludacris
- (NEW) Solitary Man - H.I.M.
- (NEW) Sunny - The Boogie Pimps
Top 10 Singles 50 Years Ago (09/05/1964)
- (2) Don't Throw Your Love Away - The Searchers
- (3) I Believe - The Bachelors
- (5) My Boy Lollipop - Millie
- (1) A World Without Love - Peter And Gordon
- (12) Juliet - The Four Pennies
- (7) Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying - Gerry And The Pacemakers
- (4) Can't By Me Love - The Beatles
- (8) Move Over Darling - Doris Day
- (15) Walk On By - Dionnie Warwick
- (6) I Love You Because - Jim Reeves
Completion Stats
4,275 of 5,317 Incomplete articles
72 of 5,317 Very incomplete articles (Help Out)
Artist Stats pages: 1,471 (All pages in the Chart Stats category are counted)
UK Singles and Album charts: 3,292 (All pages in the Charts category are counted)
Weekly Schedule
- UK Singles & Album Chart Top 100: Sundays at 4:00PM to 7:00PM (Top 100 is not published until 7:00)
- The Official Charts Company begins counting the sales at 12:01 on Sunday.
- UK Singles Chart Update/Midweek Chart: Wednesdays from 4:00-6:00PM on the BBC website
- 4music.com's Fresh Music Top 20: Thursdays (usually)
Significant Dates
- 1st January 1940: The first Missing Charts UK singles chart is created
- 15th November 1952: The first ever UK singles chart is created
- November 1958: The first ever UK albums chart is created
- 11th February 1969: The The Official Charts Company is born
- March 2004: The Chart Archive site is created by Mazilladon
- 15th November 2012: Chart Archive is closed down for breach of the Official Charts Company's database rights
- 17th November 2012: The last chart week to be published on Chart Archive.
- 29th March 2014: The Chart Archive website was set to expire, however it is still there.
See UK Chart History for more historical chart date.
Milestones for this wiki
- 5th October 2012 at 18:16: The UK Charts Archive Wiki is created by Havemeforty
- 12th October 2012: Admin The Bad Ice Creams joins the wiki
- 16th November 2012: Admin Hotchoc26 joins the wiki
- 6th December 2012: Admin Tryanthon joins the wiki
- 13th February 2013: The UK Charts Archive is 100 days old
- 23 February 2013: Admin NicholasBBQ32 joins the wiki
- 18 March 2013: Admin Taylor jago 16.06 joins the wiki
- 12 April 2013: First game of Chart Predictions by admin Taylor jago 16.06
- June/July 2013: The UK Charts Archive Wiki reaches 10,000 edits
- Between April and May 2013: The UK Charts Archive Wiki reaches 500 articles
- 18th July 2013: The UK Charts Archive Wiki reaches 1,000 articles
- 1st August 2013: The UK Charts Archive Wiki is 300 days old
- 2nd October 2013: The UK Charts Archive Wiki reaches 1,500 pages
- 5th October 2013: The UK Charts Archive Wiki is one year old
- 25th October 2013: The UK Charts Archive Wiki reaches 2000 articles
- 16/11/2013: The UK Charts Archive Wiki completes 52% of 1952-2013 chart weeks and reaches 3000 articles.
- 16/11/2013 at 18:44: Admin Hotchoc26 is first to reach 10,000 UK Charts Archive Wiki edits
- 20/12/2013: The UK Charts Archive Wiki reaches 4000 articles
See more stats at Wikia Statistics
Chart Records
- Most consecutive weeks on UK Singles Top 100 ever: Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire (89 consecutive 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)
- Biggest climb ever: Glee Cast - Don't Stop Believin' (99 to 5)
- Biggest fall ever: Wet Wet Wet - Weightless (10 to 98)
- Highest dropout ever: 4. Alex Day - Forever Yours (31/12/2011) (fell to 112)
- Artist with most number ones: Elvis Presley (21 number ones)
See the Chart Records page for more records and stats
Chart Data Sources
If you have come across another reliable chart source, please tell us in the forum.
- Chart Archive: A once popular UK Singles and Album chart archive created by Mazilladon in 2004, where in November 2012 was taken down after OCC claimed it abused their database rights. The data for chsrt weeks from 1952- 17/11/2012 can still be accessed until March 29th 2014 (see how)
- Official Charts Company: Official weekly singles and album charts
- aCharts (UK Singles/Albums Top 75): Top 75 weekly charts, including peak data for each single/album
- Zobbel: New entry updates (including new and re-entries for the Top 101-200), as well as top 200 artist stats data for specific years in 1990s-2000s
- The Official Top 40 Singles Chart on BBC Radio 1 (including the Midweek Chart/Chart Update)
- Polyhex UK Singles Top 75 Chart Runs Artist single chart runs for Top 75 only
- Chartwatch: Includes free PDFs for Top 200/250 charts from 1995-2011 (exc. 1996-1998)
- UK Charts Plus: Paid subscription service for Top 200 single and album data
- 4music.com's Fresh Music Top 20: Fresh music tracks compiled by 4music.com
- UKMIX Chart Histories thread: Top 200 chart runs for UK Singles uploaded by user Hanboo on request (request here)
Note: There also are many other chart sources on the web and in books. If you come across any new reliable sources, let us know in the forum!
Chart Week Sources
- 1952-1958: Yuku forum provided by user Vicky Williams
- 04/01/1958-02/01/1960: Invisionfree.comforum
- 1952-17/11/2012: Chart Archive until March 29th 2014 (see how)
- Oct 2012-present: The UK Charts Archive Wiki
Featured Single
See the older featured singles in the archive!
See a list of featured singles available in the Featured Singles category!
When Can I See You Again by Owl City
When Can I See You Again was a track used in the Disney animated film Wreck-It Ralph. It was not released in the UK and therefore was inellegible to chart on the UK Top 100.
Want one of your chosen singles here? Post it in the forum and it may be put in the selected list of Single Templates!
Note: Do not attempt to add singles yourself, unless you are an admin or are experienced enough in how the code works. See the link above for instructions. Apply in the forum for a chance to see your chosen single here!
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