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In March 2007, Media Traffic ranked " Candle In The Wind 1997 " as the most successful song in music history.

Starting in 1999, the first song to reach number one was " Believe " by Cher . As of June 16, 2007, the United World Chart has had 108 number one hits.

Media Traffic began displaying charts that traced back to 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago.



COUNTRIES

Media Traffic consults the charts of various countries, namely:


NUMBER ONE SINGLES

See Also: List of number-one hits (World)




NUMBER ONE ALBUMS

See Also: Number-one albums on the United World Chart




RECORDS: ALBUMS


# The Eagles - Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 (1976)
# Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
# Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)
# Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (1977)
# The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
# AC/DC - Back In Black (1980)
# Soundtrack - Saturday Night Fever (1978)
# Shania Twain - Come On Over (1997)
# Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill (1995)
# The Eagles - Hotel California (1976)
# Soundtrack - (1992)
# The Beatles - Abbey Road (1969)
# Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell (1978)
# Celine Dion - Falling Into You (1996)
# The Beatles - 1 (2000)
# Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (1997)
# Mariah Carey - Music Box (1993)

  • Artists who have simultaneously occupied the top two positions at the album chart

  • --- Ayumi Hamasaki is the only solo artist to simultaneously hold both the #1 and #2 positions at the album chart.


  • --March 17, 2007:

  • :# Ayumi Hamasaki  – " A Best 2 -White- "

:# Ayumi Hamasaki  – " A Best 2 -Black- "

  • Orange Range is the only band to simultaneously hold both the #1 and #2 positions at the album chart.

  • ---August 11, 2007:

  • :# Orange Range  – "Range"

:# Orange Range  – "Orange"


Additional Records

  • Norah Jones' debut album "Come Away with Me" is the most successful album on the chart with 18,734,000 points.

  • Both Dido and Evanescence hold the record for most weeks at #1, with "Life for Rent" and "Fallen."

  • Norah Jones also holds the record for having an album stay the longest on the top ten, her debut album "Come Away with Me" stayed there for 61 weeks.

  • Norah Jones also holds the record for having an album stay the longest on the top forty, "Come Away with Me" stayed there for 114 weeks.

  • Norah Jones also holds the record for selling the most album units in a week, her album "Feels Like Home" sold 1,920,000 in its debut week.

  • Ayumi Hamasaki 's Greatest Hits albums A Best 2 White/Black made sure that it was the first time in the United World Chart's history that a solo female artist could top the chart with 2 albums landing at #1 and #2 at the same time.



RECORDS: SINGLES


Most Successful Artists

#Madonna (Warner Bros)
#Britney Spears(Jive Records)
#Eminem (Aftermath/Interscope)
#Shakira (Epic)
#Christina Aguilera (RCA)


Artists with the most number-one hits in the UWC history

# Madonna (12)
# Cher (8) (6 as Cher and 2 as Sonny & Cher )
# Britney Spears (7)
# Beyoncé (6) (4 as part of Destiny's Child)
# Christina Aguilera (5)
# Jennifer Lopez (5)


Artists with most weeks at #1

#74 weeks - Madonna (with 12 Number One Singles)
#60 weeks - Cher (with 8 Number One Singles, 2 as part of Sonny & Cher
#39 weeks - Beyoncé (with 6 Number One Singles, 4 as part of Destiny's Child )
#28 weeks - Britney Spears (with 7 Number One Singles)
#28 weeks - Shakira (with 2 Number One Singles)
#26 weeks - Celine Dion (with 4 Number One Singles)8
#25 weeks - Backstreet Boys (With 2 number one singles)


Artists with the most number-two hits



Most number one singles in the 1960s

# The Beatles (3)
# Sonny & Cher (2)


Most number one singles in the 1970s

:1. Cher (3)
:2. ABBA (2)
:2. The Eagles (2)


Most Number-One Singles in the 1980s

:1. Madonna (4)
:2. George Michael (2)
:3. Michael Jackson (1)
:3. Cher (1)
:3. Whitney Houston (1)


Most Number-One Singles in the 1990s

:1. Cher (2)
:1. Britney Spears (2)
:1. Celine Dion (2)
:1. Christina Aguilera (2)
:1. Backstreet Boys (2)


Most Number-One Singles in the 2000s

:1. Madonna (8)
:2. Britney Spears (5)
:3. Destiny's Child (4)
:3. Pink (4)


Artists ever to have a number one-single in different decades

#Cher - 4 decades (2 in the 1960s, 3 in the 1970s, 1 in the 1980s, 2 in the 1990s)
#Madonna - 3 decades (4 in the 1980s, 1 in the 1990s and 8 in the 2000s)


All Time Charts (Singles)

# Candle In The Wind 1997 - Elton John
# White Christmas - Bing Crosby
# Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
# I Want To Hold Your Hand - The Beatles
# Hey Jude - The Beatles
# I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
# (Everything I Do) I Do It For You - Bryan Adams
# We Are The World - USA For Africa
# (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
# Y.M.C.A. - Village People


Top 15 most successful tracks (1998-2007)

#Cher - Believe (10.455.000 points)
#Shakira & Wyclef Jean- " Hips Don't Lie " (9.845.000 points)
# James Blunt - " You're Beautiful " (9.469.000 points)
#Madonna - " Hung Up " (8.698.000 points)
#Britney Spears - " ...Baby One More Time " (8.654.000 points)
#Shakira - " Whenever, Wherever " (8.541.000 points)
# Gnarls Barkley - " Crazy " (8.301.000 points)
# Lou Bega - " Mambo No.5 " (8.262.000 ponits)
# Kylie Minogue - " Can't Get You Out Of My Head " (7.964.000 points)
# Maroon 5 - " This Love " (7.791.000 points)
#Madonna - " Music " (7.414.000 points)
# Christina Aguilera - " Genie In A Bottle " (7.397.000 points)
# Nelly Furtado - " Say It Right " (7.331.000 points)1
# Santana & Rob Thomas - " Smooth " (7.031.000 points)
# Las Ketchup - Asereje (The Ketchup Song) " (6.953.000 points)

  • 1 - Still active on the chart.

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Most time spent at the number one spot by a song










Most time spent at the number-one spot by an artist in a year

  • 20 Weeks

  • ---Madonna — " American Pie "(8 Weeks) and "Music" in 2000(12 weeks).


  • 16 Weeks

  • ---Los del Río — "Macarena" in 1996.

  • ---Celine Dion — "My Heart Will Go On" in 1998.

  • ---Madonna — "Hung Up" (9 Weeks) and " Sorry "(7 Weeks) in 2006.

  • ---Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean — "Hips Don't Lie" (16 Weeks) in 2006.


  • 14 Weeks

  • ---Elton John - " Candle In The Wind 1997" in 1997


  • 13 Weeks

  • ---Justin Timberlake - "Sexy Back" (10 Weeks) and "My Love" (3 Weeks) in 2006

  • ---Maroon 5 - "This Love" (10 Weeks) and "She Will Be Loved" (3 Weeks) in 2004


  • 12 Weeks

  • ---Shakira - "Whenever, Wherever" in 2002

  • ---Black Eyed Peas - "Don't Phunk With My Heart" (11 Weeks) and "Don't Lie" (1 Week) in 2005


  • 11 Weeks

  • ---Brandy & Monica - "The Boy Is Mine" (11 Weeks) in 1998

  • ---Jennifer Lopez - "Love Don't Cost A Thing" (8 Weeks) and "Ain't It Funny"(3 Weeks)

  • --- Eminem - Without Me in 2002


  • 10 Weeks

  • ---Britney Spears - "Born To Make You Happy" (1 Week) and "Oops!...I Did It Again" (9 Weeks) in 2000

  • ---Rihanna - "Umbrella" (10 Weeks) in 2007



Artist with most consecutive weeks at #1

  • 22 weeks

  • ---Madonna ( 2005 - 2006 ) — With "Hung Up" and "Sorry"


  • 16 Weeks

  • ---Los del Río ( 1996 ) — With "Macarena"

  • ---Celine Dion ( 1998 ) — With "My Heart Will Go On"

  • ---Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean ( 2006 ) — With "Hips Don't Lie"


  • 15 Weeks

  • ---Elton John ( 1997 - 1998 ) — With "Candle in the Wind"

  • ---Cher ( 1998 - 1999 ) — With "Believe"


  • 14 Weeks

  • ---Toni Braxton ( 1996 - 1997 ) — With "Un-Break My Heart"


  • 13 Weeks

  • ---Justin Timberlake ( 2006 ) — With "Sexy Back" and "My Love"



Tracks with most weeks in the Top 10

#James Blunt - "You're Beautiful" (37 weeks)
#The Spice Girls - "Wannabe" (31 weeks)
#Nelly Furtado - "Say It Right" (29 Weeks)
#Cher - "Believe" (28 weeks, tie)
#Toni Braxton - "Un-Break My Heart" (28 weeks, tie)
#Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean - "Hips Don't Lie" (24 weeks)
#Britney Spears - "Baby One More Time" (21 weeks, tie)
#Gwen Stefani featuring Akon - "The Sweet Escape" (21 weeks, tie)
#Abba - "Knowing Me, Knowing You" (21 weeks)
#Abba - "Dancing Queen" (21 weeks)
#Chicago - "If You Leave Me Now" (20 weeks)


Tracks with most weeks in the Top 40

# Daniel Powter — " Bad Day " (54 weeks)
# James Blunt — " You're Beautiful " (52 weeks)
# The Rasmus — " In The Shadows " (47 weeks)
# The Fray - " How To Save A Life " (47 weeks)


Tracks with most points in a week

#Madonna - "Hung Up" (548,000 points (week 51/2005))
#Madonna - "Hung Up" (545,000 points (week 49/2005))
#Madonna - "Hung Up" (541.000 points (week 50/2005))


Artists with the most number-one hits in the same year







  • 2004

  • ---Britney Spears (Me Against The Music, Toxic , Everytime )

  • --- Maroon 5 (This Love, She Will Be Loved)



  • 2006

  • ---Madonna (Hung Up, Sorry)

  • ---Justin Timberlake (Sexy Back, My Love)



Artists with more than one single of the year

  • The Beatles are the artist (and group) with more than one single of the year on the year-end charts with 4: "I Want to Hold Your Hand", "Yellow Submarine", "Hey jude" and "Let It Be" in 1963, 1966, 1968 and 1970 respectively.

  • The male artist with more than one single of the year on the year-end charts is Elvis Presley with 2: "Hound Dog" and "It's Now Or Never" in 1956 and 1960 respectively.

  • The female artist with more than one single of the year on the year-end charts are Madonna and Shakira with 2: Madonna with "Like a Prayer" and "Music" in 1989 and 2000, and Shakira with "Whenever, Wherever" and "Hips Don't Lie" in 2002 and 2006 respectively.



Artists to replace themselves at the number-one spot

As rare as it is for an artist to earn two singles of the year, only two artists have had the distinction of replacing themselves at the number-one spot. Madonna first accomplished this in 2006 followed by Justin Timberlake in the same year.

  • Madonna: " Sorry " replaced " Hung Up " the week of March 11, 2006.

  • Justin Timberlake " My Love " replaced " SexyBack " the week of November 25, 2006.



Artists who have simultaneously occupied the top two positions at the track chart

  • The Beatles, Madonna and Justin Timberlake are the only artists to hold onto both the #1 and #2 positions.






Highest Debut

  • Michael Jackson's " Blood On The Dance Floor " and Eminem 's " Without Me " became record breakers when they debuted at number 2 on the chart, making them the highest debuts on the chart since its start.

  • Beyonce & Shakira 's " Beautiful Liar " debuted at number 8 on the chart, making it the highest debut for female artists on the chart.

  • Utada Hikaru 's '' Flavor Of Life '' debuted at number 11 on the chart, making it the highest debut for any Asian artist on the chart, as well the highest charting position on the chart for an Asian artist.



Artists who hit number one posthumously in the UWC



Artist with most number one singles



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