SONGS WITH STAYING POWER
MARION McMULLEN looks at 10 record-breaking records
1 Mr Brightside by The Killers has set a new UK singles chart record after spending 260 non-consecutive weeks in the top 100.
The indie-pop anthem was released in 2004 and has now spent a total of five years in the Official Charts Company rankings. It has also been streamed
65.2 million times in the last 12 months alone.
2 Snow Patrol’s Chasing Cars has spent the second most weeks in the top 100 with 166. The track is from their 2006 album Eyes Open and was the last song to be performed live on Top Of The Pops.
3 Ed Sheeran’s Christmas number one Perfect is in at third with 165 weeks in the UK charts. The accompanying snow scene music video was shot on the ski slops of Hintertux in Austria. The British singersongwriter, who turned 30 in February, was estimated to be worth £200m last year.
4 Frank Sinatra’s signature song My Way is fourth with 133 chart weeks. The music comes from a French song called Comme d’habitude and Canadian-born singersongwriter Paul Anka wrote the English lyrics.
5 Kings Of Leon’s 2008 charttopper Sex On Fire is fifth with 124 weeks in the UK charts. Singersongwriter Caleb Followill (right) said of the record: “People were tired of hearing about the war and politics and Sex On Fire is a song about sex and young kids.”
6 Ed Sheeran makes a reappearance at number six with Thinking Out Loud, which has spent 119 weeks in the music charts. He wrote the romantic song in his kitchen with fellow singersongwriter Amy Wadge and has performed it on The X Factor and the 2015 Grammy Awards accompanied by Herbie Hancock, John Mayer and Questlove on drums.
7 Australian singer Sia’s 2014 record Chandelier is seventh with 114 chart weeks. The track is from her album 1000 Forms Of Fear and the video has been viewed more than two billion times on YouTube. Sia’s other famous hits include Titanium with David Guetta and Wild Ones with Flo Rider.
8 Lewis Capaldi’s Someone You Loved has so far enjoyed 113 chart weeks. It took the Scottish singer six months to write the song and his second cousin, actor Peter Capaldi, appeared in the original music video. The track features on the album Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent and the 24-year-old has said of the song’s success: “I felt it was happening to someone else and I was just watching.”
9 The ninth slot goes to the Black Eyed Peas and their 2009 hit I Gottta Feeling. The Grammywinning club favourite has enjoyed 109 weeks in the UK charts and was also the first single to be downloaded more than a million times in Britain.
10 Imagine Dragons are at number 10 with Radioactive, which was released in 2012 and has spent 107 weeks in the charts. It was the opening track on their debut album Night Visions and ended up reaching the top 10 in a dozen countries.
The band issued a remix of the track in 2014 with guest vocals from rapper Kendrick Lamar.