So who last year had the biggest selling single? Well, here is the Top 20 best sellers

01 – Lady Gaga – Poker Face
02 – Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling
03 – Lady Gaga & Colby O’Donis – Just Dance
04 – Cheryl Cole – Fight For This Love
05 – Joe McElderry – The Climb
06 – La Roux – In For The Kill
07 – Black Eyed Peas – Boom Boom Pow
08 – Rage Against The Machine – Killing In The Name
09 – Alexandra Burke & Flo Rida – Bad Boys
10 – Black Eyed Peas – Meet Me Halfway
11 – Tinchy Stryder & N-Dubz – Number One
12 – David Guetta & Akon – Sexy Chick
13 – Kings Of Leon – Use Somebody
14 – Lily Allen – The Fear
15 – Dizzee Rascal – Bonkers
16 – JLS – Beat Again
17 – Lady Gaga – Bad Romance
18 – Kings Of Leon – Sex On Fire
19 – James Morrison & Nelly Furtado – Broken Strings
20 – David Guetta & Kelly Rowland – When Love Takes Over

It’s no suprpise that Lady Gaga has 3 of the Top 20 best sellers of the year but BIG Kudos has to go to The Black Eyed Peas, all 3 of their songs released this year have ended up in the Top 10. Look out for both of them winning awards galore at this year’s Music Ceremonies.

Over the past 5 day’s, Digital Spy have announced their Top 50 Songs of 2009. And here is the list in full.

01 – Lady Gaga – Poker Face
02 – La Roux – In For The Kill
03 – Jay Z & Alicia Keys – Empire State Of Mind
04 – Shakira – She Wolf
05 – Lady Gaga – Paparazzi
06 – Bat For Lashes – Daniel
07 – Rihanna – Russian Roulette
08 – Lady Gaga – Bad Romance
09 – Alexandra Burke & Flo Rida – Bad Boys
10 – Tinchy Stryder & N-Dubz – Number One
11 – Little Boots – Remedy
12 – La Roux – Bulletproof
13 – Robbie Williams – Bodies
14 – Beyonce – Sweet Dreams
15 – Lady Gaga & Colby O’Donis – Just Dance
16 – Alphabeat – The Spell
17 – Dizzee Rascal – Bonkers
18 – The Noisettes – Don’t Upset The Rhythm (Go Baby Go)
19 – JLS – Beat Again
20 – Girls Aloud – Untouchable
21 – Freemasons & Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Heartbreak (Make Me A Dancer)
22 – Jordin Sparkes – Battlefield
23 – Florence & The Machine – Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)
24 – Lily Allen – The Fear
25 – V V Brown – Shark In The Water
26 – Cheryl Cole & Will I Am 0 3 Words
27 – Calvin Harris – I’m Not Alone
28 – Arctic Monkeys – Crying Lightning
29 – Mini Viva – I Left My Heart In Tokyo
30 – The Veronicas – Untouched
31 – Miley Cyrus – Party In The U.S.A.
32 – David Guetta & Kelly Rowland – When Love Takes Over
33 – Beyonce – Halo
34 – The Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero
35 – Partick Wolf – Hard Times
36 – Ellie Goulding – Under The Sheets
37 – Muse – Uprising
38 – Chipmunk – Diamond Rings
39 – Marina & The Diamonds – Mowgli’s Road
40 – Empire Of The Sun – Walking On A Dream
41 – Pet Shop Boys – Love etc
42 – Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling
43 – Ke$ha – Tik Tok
44 – Eva Simmons – Silly Boy
45 – Britney Spears – 3
46 – Kasabian – Fire
47 – Cascada – Evacuate The Dancefloor
48 – Bananarama – Love Comes
49 – White Lies – Farewell To The Fairground
50 – Dolly Rockers – Je Suis Une Dolly

It’s no surprise that Lady Gaga has 4 of her songs in the Top 50. It’s definitely been “her Year” to rise to stardom. I’m quite shocked at the lower placing of the Black Eyed Peas’s smash hit “I Gotta Feeling”. I would have placed that higher than the lonely depths of number 42.

Let me know what you think of this chart, what songs were missed and are there any shocks to this?

It’s that time of year where we get to find out what the most listened to song of the year is (BTW – It’s Gabriella Cilmi and “Sweet About Me”) and who has the best selling song and album of the year. Last.fm on the other hand have produced a chart which involves “Scrobbled” tracks. For those who don’t know about scrobbling, it’s last.fm way of telling the music industry how many times a song has been played.

Their Top 40 is as follows:

01 – Lady Gaga
02 – The Killers
03 – Lily Allen
04 – The Prodigy
05 – Franz Ferdinand
06 – Beyonce
07 – Animal Collective
08 – Green Day
09 – The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s
10 – Kanye West
11 – Britney Spears
12 – Fall Out Boy
13 – Taylor Swift
14 – Muse
15 – Black Eyed Peas
16 – Phoenix
17 – Paramore
18 – Kelly Clarkson
19 – Placebo
20 – La Roux
21 – Grizzly Bear
22 – Arctic Monkeys
23 – A Day To Remember
24 – Royksopp
25 – Passion Pitt
26 – Bat For Lashes
27 – The All-American Rejects
28 – Nickelback
29 – Guns ‘n’ Roses
30 – U2
31 – Depeche Mode
32 – Fever Ray
33 – Eminem
34 – The XX
35 – Metric
36 – The Fray
37 – Regina Spektor
38 – Kasabian
39 – Florence & The Machine
40 – Little Boots

The information can be found on the last.fm website.  If you want to join you can register for free, download the scrobbling program and start adding to the 2010 list.  And if you want to add me as a friend there, then look for my username Misterbump1975.

Last night here in the UK, TV Station Channel 4 announced the results of a poll to find the best songs from the last 10 years as voted for by the public.

Here is the list of the Top 20 Greatest Songs from the 00′s

01 – Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars
02 – The Killers – Mr Brightside
03 – Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
04 – Kings Of Leon – Sex On Fire
05 – Amy Winehouse – Rehab
06 – Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
07 – Take That – Rule The World
08 – Beyonce – Crazy In Love
09 – Kylie Minogue – Can’t Get You Out Of My Head
10 – James Blunt – You’re Beautiful
11 – Outkast! – Hey Ya
12 – Scissor Sisters – I Don’t Feel Like Dancing
13 – Eminem – Stan
14 – Take That – Patience
15 – Duffy – Mercy
16 – Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
17 – Coldplay – Viva La Vida
18 – Mark Ronson & Amy Winehouse – Valerie
19 – Kaiser Chiefs – Ruby
20 – Will Young – Leave Right Now

Today another milestone in the UK Chart History took place when the 1100th Number One song was announced.  David Guetta & Kelly Rowland hit the top of the chart with the dance anthem “When Love Takes Over”.

Top 10 Best Selling songs of all time in the UK

Here is a list of the 10 biggest selling songs of all time in the UK. This chart information is supplied by the official charts company.

1 – Elton John – Candle In The Wind 97/Something About The Way You Look Tonight
2 – Band Aid – Do They Know It’s Christmas
3 – Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
4 – Wings – Mull Of Kintyre/Girls’s School
5 – Boney M – Rivers Of Babylon/Brown Girl In The Ring
6 – Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Relax
7 – The Beatles – She Loves You
8 – John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John – You’re The One That I Want
9 – Robson & Jerome – Unchained Melody/(There’ll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs Of Dover
10 – Boney M – Mary’s Boy Child (Oh My Lord)

The 1000th Number 1

To date (as I type this) there have been 1,094 UK Number 1 singles so we are fast approaching a new milestone in the UK Charts. But here is a list of other milestone songs ending with the 1000th UK Number 1, (date the song reached the top is in brackets).

The 1st number 1 was Al Martino – Here In My Heart (14 Nov 52)
The 100th number 1 was Anthony Newly – Do You Mind (28 Apr 60)
The 200th number 1 was The Beatles – Help (5 Aug 95)
The 300th number 1 was Dawn – Knock Three Times (15 May 71)
The 400th number 1 was Julie Covington – Don’t Cry For Me Argentina (12 Feb 77)
The 500th number 1 was Nicole – A Little Peace (15 May 82)
The 600th number 1 was T’Pau – China In Your Hand (14 Nov 87)
The 700th number 1 was Chaka Demus & Pliers – Twist And Shout (8 Jan 94)
The 800th number 1 was All Saints – Bootie Call (12 Sep 98)
The 900th number 1 was Aguilera/Pink/Lil Kim/Mya – Lady Marmalade (30 Jun 01)
The 1000th number 1 was Elvis Presley – One Night/I Got Stung (22 Jan 05)
The 1100th number 1 was David Guetta & Kelly Rowland – When Love Takes Over (21 Jun 09)

The Top 20 Acts Of All Time

Here is a definitive list of the 20 acts that have spent the longest time inside the chart (both with singles and albums). I will include the total weeks and then, in brackets, detail their length of time on the chart with their singles and then their length of time on the chart with their albums. (This list only contains information up to 31st December 2005)

1 – Elvis Presley – 120 albums (1299) – 154 singles (1279) Total Weeks 2578
2 – Cliff Richard – 58 albums (819) – 130 singles (1166) Total Weeks 1985
3 – Queen – 28 albums (1332) – 52 singles (423) Total Weeks 1755
4 – The Beatles – 49 albums (1293) – 32 singles (456) Total Weeks 1749
5 – Madonna – 16 albums (1038) – 62 singles (628) Total Weeks 1666
6 – Elton John – 41 albums (991) – 86 singles (652) Total Weeks1626
7 – The Shadows – 49 albums (812) – 63 singles (770) Total Weeks 1582
8 – Michael Jackson – 26 Albums (976) – 55 singles (515) Total Weeks 1491
9 – U2 – 18 albums (1165) – 41 singles (318) Total Weeks 1483
10 – David Bowie – 60 albums (1006) – 70 singles (454) Total Weeks 1460
11 – Rod Stewart – 35 albums (927) – 62 singles (477) Total Weeks 1404
12 – Frank Sinatra – 65 albums (892) – 38 singles (440) Total Weeks 1332
13 – Diana Ross – 53 albums (743) – 78 singles (562) Total Weeks 1305
14 – Dire Straits – 12 albums (1143) – 19 singles (119) Total Weeks 1262
15 – Simon & Garfunkel – 14 albums (1114) – 9 singles (87) Total Weeks 1201
16 – The Rolling Stones – 46 albums (805) – 52 singles (380) Total Weeks 1185
17 – ABBA – 16 albums (891) – 27 singles (255) Total Weeks 1146
18 – Fleetwood Mac – 20 albums (886) – 27 singles (223) Total Weeks 1109
19 – Phil Collins – 11 albums (846) – 34 singles (235) Total Weeks 1081
20 – Paul McCartney – 31 albums (573) – 55 singles (417) Total Weeks 990