Post by billcs on Jan 23, 2021 14:24:08 GMT -5
Even though this is not an accurate list of what I would say my favourite songs would be from my 23 years of chart-making, I decided to come up with a 'by the numbers' look at the #1 songs according to their time at number one and on the chart, as well as on my year end lists. Where there was a tie, I just picked the song I like best. It's an interesting list; some songs you won't know and some aren't even available anymore since they were either independently released or free downloads at the time that never commercially released (I still have my mp3's of those ones though!). Simon Curtis' "8bit Heart" is the only song to reach #1 twice - in 2010 and 2016 - the second time in a redux version. It gets credit for both #1 runs as one entry.
01 DARREN HAYES Step Into The Light 2007
02 REMY SHAND Take A Message 2002
03 JEFF BUCKLEY Everybody Here Wants You 1998
04 LIFEHOUSE Hanging By A Moment 2001
05 BRANDYN BURNETTE I Wanna Be (Free) 2015
06 ILLENIUM & JON BELLION Good Things Fall Apart 2019
07 DARREN HAYES How To Build A Time Machine 2007
08 DANIEL BEDINGFIELD Gotta Get Thru This (D'n'D Radio Edit) 2002
09 INXS Pretty Vegas 2005
10 soulDECISION Faded 2000
11 SIMON CURTIS Beat Drop 2010
12 DIDO Here With Me 2000
13 ERIC SAADE Popular 2011
14 LADY GAGA & ARIANA GRANDE Rain On Me 2020
15 JON McLAUGHLIN Beating My Heart 2008
16 MIGUEL Pineapple Skies 2018
17 ROBBIE WILLIAMS Millennium 1999
18 PET SHOP BOYS Vocal 2013
19 BRIGHT LIGHT BRIGHT LIGHT New York Pretty 2017
20 SAM TAYLOR Run Away 2009
21 BRANDON SKEIE So Bad (EDWYNN x TIKAL & Spirix Remix) 2016
22 RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Foolish Love 1998
23 BRIGHT LIGHT BRIGHT LIGHT Love Part II 2010
24 BT Simply Being Loved (Somnambulist) 2003
25 SIMON CURTIS Flesh 2011
26 THE CHAINSMOKERS & COLDPLAY Something Just Like This 2017
27 CHRIS WALLACE Remember When (Push Rewind) 2012
28 KADEN Black Light (Stormby's Mix) 2013
29 THE HIM featuring PARSON JAMES Broken Love 2018
30 EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL with DEEP DISH The Future Of The Future (Stay Gold) 1999
31 DAN BLACK Symphonies 2009
32 ADELE Hello 2015
33 BRIGHT LIGHT BRIGHT LIGHT An Open Heart 2013
34 RUNE RK & DATABOY Memorize Me 2012
35 TYLER HILTON The Letter Song 2005
36 SIMON CURTIS 8-Bit Heart 2010 and 2016
37 A-TRAK featuring TODD TERRY DJ's Gotta Dance More 2018
38 KAZAKY featuring GASPAR Push 2019
39 PENGUIN PRISON Golden Train/Workin' Day And Night 2011
40 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE FutureSex/LoveSound 2006
41 SIMON CURTIS Delusional 2010
42 BRANDYN BURNETTE Sleeve 2015
43 BRIGHT LIGHT BRIGHT LIGHT Waiting For The Feeling 2012
44 JAKE Let Me Know 2000
45 MECK featuring LEO SAYER Thunder In My Heart Again (Miami Calling Mix) 2006
46 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE SexyBack 2006
47 SAM SMITH Stay With Me 2014
48 JASON MRAZ The Remedy (I Won't Worry) 2003
49 MAROON 5 This Love 2004
50 GIGI D'AGOSTINO I'll Fly With You (L'Amour Toujours) 2001
51 JOEL CORRY & MNEK Head & Heart 2020
52 DZEKO & TORRES AND HELLBERG Care For Me 2016
53 GEORGE MICHAEL Amazing 2004
54 SNOW PATROL featuring MARTHA WAINWRIGHT Set The Fire To The Third Bar 2006
55 M-22 White Lies 2019
56 YEARS & YEARS Shine 2015
57 SAM SMITH Money On My Mind 2014
58 SHAPESHIFTERS Lola's Theme 2004
59 RICKY MARTIN Livin' La Vida Loca 1999
60 PENGUIN PRISON The Worse It Gets 2010
61 FREEMASONS featuring AMANDA WILSON Watchin' 2006
62 MERCER featuring RON CARROLL Satisfy 2018
63 RO DANISHEI featuring SIMON CURTIS Wicked Baby 2011
64 BT featuring ROSE McGOWAN Superfabulous 2003
65 GRAMATIK F/ LEO NAPIER Native Son Prequel (Jenaux Remix) 2016
66 LAUV & TROYE SIVAN i'm so tired… 2019
67 ROYKSOPP featuring ROBYN The Girl And The Robot 2009
68 CASSIUS with STEVE EDWARDS The Sound Of Violence 2003
69 SANTANA featuring ROB THOMAS Smooth 1999
70 RIVER TIBER Someday 2012
71 COREY NILES featuring ALEX LACASSE Chasing Stars 2015
72 DYRISK featuring NIK ERNST Smile 2018
73 SAM SMITH I'm Not The Only One 2014
74 DAVID USHER Black Black Heart 2001
75 JESSIE WARE Say You Love Me 2014
76 TROYE SIVAN My My My! 2018
77 JIMMY EAT WORLD The Middle 2002
78 KAISER CHIEFS Ruby 2007
79 ERIC SAADE featuring DEV Hotter Than Fire 2012
80 ROB THOMAS This Is How A Heart Breaks 2005
81 SUGAR RAY Every Morning 1999
82 YEARS & YEARS King 2015
83 JESSE McCARTNEY Relapse 2008
84 LIFEHOUSE Spin 2002
85 HARRY STYLES Lights Up 2019
86 JEWEL Serve The Ego (Gabriel & Dresden Club Remix) 2002
87 MATTHEW KOMA Parachute 2013
88 THE WEEKND featuring DAFT PUNK Starboy 2016
89 FASTBALL The Way 1998
90 JOEE Angel 1998
91 STEVE VOID featuring ANDY MARSH Closure 2019
92 LATCHMERE Need Your Heart 2017
93 WHETHAN featuring GRANDSON All In My Head 2020
94 ARMAND VAN HELDEN My My My 2005
95 KWIK FIKS & BONGIOVANNI Lifted 2013
96 PINK There You Go 2000
97 KIESZA featuring PHILIPPE SLY Phantom Of The Dance Floor 2018
98 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Rock Your Body 2003
99 MITCHELL HUNTER They Might Say 2004
100 DAVID GUETTA featuring J.D. DAVIS The World Is Mine 2005
01 DARREN HAYES Step Into The Light 2007
02 REMY SHAND Take A Message 2002
03 JEFF BUCKLEY Everybody Here Wants You 1998
04 LIFEHOUSE Hanging By A Moment 2001
05 BRANDYN BURNETTE I Wanna Be (Free) 2015
06 ILLENIUM & JON BELLION Good Things Fall Apart 2019
07 DARREN HAYES How To Build A Time Machine 2007
08 DANIEL BEDINGFIELD Gotta Get Thru This (D'n'D Radio Edit) 2002
09 INXS Pretty Vegas 2005
10 soulDECISION Faded 2000
11 SIMON CURTIS Beat Drop 2010
12 DIDO Here With Me 2000
13 ERIC SAADE Popular 2011
14 LADY GAGA & ARIANA GRANDE Rain On Me 2020
15 JON McLAUGHLIN Beating My Heart 2008
16 MIGUEL Pineapple Skies 2018
17 ROBBIE WILLIAMS Millennium 1999
18 PET SHOP BOYS Vocal 2013
19 BRIGHT LIGHT BRIGHT LIGHT New York Pretty 2017
20 SAM TAYLOR Run Away 2009
21 BRANDON SKEIE So Bad (EDWYNN x TIKAL & Spirix Remix) 2016
22 RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Foolish Love 1998
23 BRIGHT LIGHT BRIGHT LIGHT Love Part II 2010
24 BT Simply Being Loved (Somnambulist) 2003
25 SIMON CURTIS Flesh 2011
26 THE CHAINSMOKERS & COLDPLAY Something Just Like This 2017
27 CHRIS WALLACE Remember When (Push Rewind) 2012
28 KADEN Black Light (Stormby's Mix) 2013
29 THE HIM featuring PARSON JAMES Broken Love 2018
30 EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL with DEEP DISH The Future Of The Future (Stay Gold) 1999
31 DAN BLACK Symphonies 2009
32 ADELE Hello 2015
33 BRIGHT LIGHT BRIGHT LIGHT An Open Heart 2013
34 RUNE RK & DATABOY Memorize Me 2012
35 TYLER HILTON The Letter Song 2005
36 SIMON CURTIS 8-Bit Heart 2010 and 2016
37 A-TRAK featuring TODD TERRY DJ's Gotta Dance More 2018
38 KAZAKY featuring GASPAR Push 2019
39 PENGUIN PRISON Golden Train/Workin' Day And Night 2011
40 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE FutureSex/LoveSound 2006
41 SIMON CURTIS Delusional 2010
42 BRANDYN BURNETTE Sleeve 2015
43 BRIGHT LIGHT BRIGHT LIGHT Waiting For The Feeling 2012
44 JAKE Let Me Know 2000
45 MECK featuring LEO SAYER Thunder In My Heart Again (Miami Calling Mix) 2006
46 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE SexyBack 2006
47 SAM SMITH Stay With Me 2014
48 JASON MRAZ The Remedy (I Won't Worry) 2003
49 MAROON 5 This Love 2004
50 GIGI D'AGOSTINO I'll Fly With You (L'Amour Toujours) 2001
51 JOEL CORRY & MNEK Head & Heart 2020
52 DZEKO & TORRES AND HELLBERG Care For Me 2016
53 GEORGE MICHAEL Amazing 2004
54 SNOW PATROL featuring MARTHA WAINWRIGHT Set The Fire To The Third Bar 2006
55 M-22 White Lies 2019
56 YEARS & YEARS Shine 2015
57 SAM SMITH Money On My Mind 2014
58 SHAPESHIFTERS Lola's Theme 2004
59 RICKY MARTIN Livin' La Vida Loca 1999
60 PENGUIN PRISON The Worse It Gets 2010
61 FREEMASONS featuring AMANDA WILSON Watchin' 2006
62 MERCER featuring RON CARROLL Satisfy 2018
63 RO DANISHEI featuring SIMON CURTIS Wicked Baby 2011
64 BT featuring ROSE McGOWAN Superfabulous 2003
65 GRAMATIK F/ LEO NAPIER Native Son Prequel (Jenaux Remix) 2016
66 LAUV & TROYE SIVAN i'm so tired… 2019
67 ROYKSOPP featuring ROBYN The Girl And The Robot 2009
68 CASSIUS with STEVE EDWARDS The Sound Of Violence 2003
69 SANTANA featuring ROB THOMAS Smooth 1999
70 RIVER TIBER Someday 2012
71 COREY NILES featuring ALEX LACASSE Chasing Stars 2015
72 DYRISK featuring NIK ERNST Smile 2018
73 SAM SMITH I'm Not The Only One 2014
74 DAVID USHER Black Black Heart 2001
75 JESSIE WARE Say You Love Me 2014
76 TROYE SIVAN My My My! 2018
77 JIMMY EAT WORLD The Middle 2002
78 KAISER CHIEFS Ruby 2007
79 ERIC SAADE featuring DEV Hotter Than Fire 2012
80 ROB THOMAS This Is How A Heart Breaks 2005
81 SUGAR RAY Every Morning 1999
82 YEARS & YEARS King 2015
83 JESSE McCARTNEY Relapse 2008
84 LIFEHOUSE Spin 2002
85 HARRY STYLES Lights Up 2019
86 JEWEL Serve The Ego (Gabriel & Dresden Club Remix) 2002
87 MATTHEW KOMA Parachute 2013
88 THE WEEKND featuring DAFT PUNK Starboy 2016
89 FASTBALL The Way 1998
90 JOEE Angel 1998
91 STEVE VOID featuring ANDY MARSH Closure 2019
92 LATCHMERE Need Your Heart 2017
93 WHETHAN featuring GRANDSON All In My Head 2020
94 ARMAND VAN HELDEN My My My 2005
95 KWIK FIKS & BONGIOVANNI Lifted 2013
96 PINK There You Go 2000
97 KIESZA featuring PHILIPPE SLY Phantom Of The Dance Floor 2018
98 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Rock Your Body 2003
99 MITCHELL HUNTER They Might Say 2004
100 DAVID GUETTA featuring J.D. DAVIS The World Is Mine 2005