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List of artists who reached number one on the UK Singles Chart

Index List of artists who reached number one on the UK Singles Chart

This is a list of artists that have reached number-one on the UK Singles Chart as recorded by the Official Charts Company. [1]

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Akon

Aliaume Damala Badara Akon Thiam (born April 16, 1973), better known as Akon, is an American singer, songwriter, businessman, record producer and actor of Senegalese descent.

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Al Martino

Al Martino (born Jasper Cini; October 7, 1927 – October 13, 2009) was an American singer and actor.

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Althea & Donna

Althea & Donna were a Jamaican reggae vocal duo, consisting of Althea Rose Forrest and Donna Marie Reid.

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Amen Corner (band)

Amen Corner were a Welsh rock group, formed in late 1966 in Cardiff, Wales.

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Anita Ward

Anita Ward (born December 20, 1957) is an American singer and musician.

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Belinda Carlisle

Belinda Jo Carlisle (born August 17, 1958) is an American singer and songwriter.

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Bonnie Tyler

Bonnie Tyler (born Gaynor Hopkins; 8 June 1951) is a Welsh singer, known for her distinctive husky voice.

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Brian and Michael

Brian and Michael are a British music duo best known for their 1978 UK number one hit single, "Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs".

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Carl Douglas

Carlton George Douglas (born 10 May 1942), also known by his stage name Carl Douglas, is a Jamaican recording artist who rose to prominence with the 1974 single "Kung Fu Fighting".

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Cher Lloyd

Cher Lloyd (born 28 July 1993) is an English singer, songwriter, and model.

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Christie (band)

Christie is an English rock band that formed at the end of the 1960s.

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Christina Aguilera

Christina María Aguilera (born December 18, 1980) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality.

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Coldplay

Coldplay are a British rock band formed in 1996 by lead singer and pianist Chris Martin and lead guitarist Jonny Buckland at University College London (UCL).

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Craig Douglas

Craig Douglas (born Terence Perkins, 12 August 1941) is an English pop singer, who was popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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David Whitfield

David Whitfield (2 February 1925 – 16 January 1980) was a popular British male tenor vocalist from Hull.

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Dickie Valentine

Dickie Valentine (4 November 1929 – 6 May 1971) was an English pop singer in the 1950s.

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Duran Duran

Duran Duran are an English new wave and synthpop band formed in Birmingham in 1978.

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Eddie Calvert

Albert Edward "Eddie" Calvert (15 March 1922 – 7 August 1978) was an English trumpeter, who enjoyed his greatest successes in the 1950s.

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Eden Kane

Richard Graham Sarstedt (born 29 March 1940),Some sources, including his own website, give 1942; but other reliable sources such as Allmusic give 1940 and his younger brother Peter was born in 1941.

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Edison Lighthouse

Edison Lighthouse were an English pop band, formed in London in 1970.

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Emile Ford

Michael Emile Telford Miller (16 October 1937 – 11 April 2016), known professionally as Emile Ford, was a musician and singer born in Saint Lucia.

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Enya

Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin (anglicised as Enya Patricia Brennan; born 17 May 1961), known professionally as Enya, is an Irish singer, songwriter and musician.

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Fern Kinney

Fern Kinney (born Fern Kinney-Lewis), is an American R&B and disco singer, who is best remembered for her releases, "Groove Me" and "Together We Are Beautiful".

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Frankie Vaughan

Frankie Vaughan, CBE, DL (born Frank Ableson, 3 February 1928 – 17 September 1999) was an English singer of easy listening and traditional pop music, who recorded more than 80 singles in his lifetime.

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Gary Puckett & The Union Gap

Gary Puckett & the Union Gap (initially credited as The Union Gap featuring Gary Puckett) was an American pop rock group active in the late 1960s.

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George McCrae

George Warren McCrae, Jr. (born October 19, 1944) is an American soul and disco singer, most famous for his 1974 hit "Rock Your Baby".

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Gerry and the Pacemakers

Gerry and the Pacemakers is an English beat group prominent in the 1960s Merseybeat scene.

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Gilbert O'Sullivan

Gilbert O'Sullivan (born Raymond Edward O'Sullivan, 1 December 1946) is an Irish singer-songwriter, best known for his early 1970s hits "Alone Again (Naturally)", "Clair", and "Get Down".

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Helen Shapiro

Helen Kate Shapiro (born 28 September 1946) is an English pop singer, jazz singer and actress.

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Hoots Mon

"Hoots Mon" is a song written by Harry Robinson, and performed by Lord Rockingham's XI.

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Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in Leyton, East London, in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris.

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Jackie Trent

Jackie Trent (born Yvonne Burgess, 6 September 1940 – 21 March 2015) was an English singer-songwriter and actress.

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Jane Morgan

Jane Morgan (born Florence Catherine Currier; May 3, 1924) is an American singer.

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Jodie Connor

Jodie Melanie Connor (born 8 May 1981) is an English recording artist, lyricist and goodwill ambassador.

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John Leyton

John Dudley Leyton (born 17 February 1936 in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex) is an English actor and singer.

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Johnny Preston

Johnny Preston (August 18, 1939 – March 4, 2011) was an American pop singer, who is best known for his international number one hit in 1960, "Running Bear".

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Kelly Clarkson

Kelly Brianne Clarkson (born April 24, 1982) is an American singer and songwriter.

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Kelly Marie

Kelly Marie (born Jacqueline McKinnon, 16 October 1957) is a Scottish disco singer, best known for "Feels Like I'm in Love", a #1 hit in the UK in 1980.

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Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, (born 28 May 1968) is an Australian-British singer and actress.

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Lena Martell

Lena Martell (born Helen Thomson; 15 May 1940, Possilpark, Glasgow) is a Scottish singer, who had a number one UK single with "One Day at a Time" in 1979.

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Lenny Kravitz

Leonard Albert Kravitz (born May 26, 1964) is an American singer, songwriter, actor and record producer.

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Leon Jackson

Leon Jackson (born 30 December 1988) is a Scottish singer.

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Leona Lewis

Leona Louise Lewis (born 3 April 1985) is a British singer, songwriter and animal welfare campaigner.

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Lieutenant Pigeon

Lieutenant Pigeon are an English novelty musical group popular in the early 1970s, originating from Coventry.

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List of artists by number of UK Singles Chart number ones

This is a list of artists and the titles of their number-one singles in order of total number-one singles in the UK Singles Chart since it began in 1952.

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List of artists who reached number one in Ireland

This is an incomplete list of recording artists who have reached number one on the singles chart in Ireland.

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List of artists who reached number one in the United States

This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on Billboard magazine's weekly pop singles chart(s).

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List of awards and nominations received by Westlife

This is a comprehensive list of awards which Westlife has won or was nominated for since 1998.

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List of Madonna records and achievements

American singer Madonna, throughout her career, spanning three decades, has obtained a remarkable series of statistical achievements, setting and breaking several world records with her participation in entrepreneurial activities, of acting and her performance in the musical scene for her videos, singles, albums, and tours.

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List of songs recorded by Westlife

Westlife songlist covers the band's original, remake, and remixed songs.

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Lita Roza

Lita Roza (14 March 1926 – 14 August 2008) was an English singer whose 1953 hit record "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?" made her the first British solo singer to top the UK Singles Chart.

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Livin' Joy

Livin' Joy was an Italian Eurodance group who released two successful hits during the mid-1990s, "Dreamer" and "Don't Stop Movin'".

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Lord Rockingham's XI

Lord Rockingham's XI was a group of British session musicians, led by Harry Robinson (1932–1996), who had a No. 1 hit on the UK Singles Chart in 1958 with "Hoots Mon".

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Maroon 5

Maroon 5 is an American pop rock band from Los Angeles, California.

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Michael Holliday

Norman Alexander Milne, known professionally as Michael Holliday (26 November 1924 – 29 October 1963) was a British crooner popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Mike Sarne

Michael Sarne (born 6 August 1940) is a British actor, writer, producer and director, who also had a brief career as pop singer Mike Sarne.

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Nicole Scherzinger

Nicole Scherzinger (born Nicole Prescovia Elikolani Valiente; June 29, 1978) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, dancer and television personality.

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One Direction

One Direction are an English-Irish pop boy band based in London, composed of Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, and, until his departure from the band in 2015, Zayn Malik.

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Paul Hardcastle

Paul Louis Hardcastle is a British composer, musician, producer, songwriter, radio presenter, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Peter Sarstedt

Peter Eardley Sarstedt (10 December 1941 – 8 January 2017), briefly billed early in his career as Peter Lincoln, was a British singer, instrumentalist and award-winning songwriter.

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Phyllis Nelson

Phyllis Nelson (October 3, 1950 – January 12, 1998) was an American singer, most famous for her 1985 song, "Move Closer", which topped the charts in the United Kingdom.

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Pussycat (band)

Pussycat was a Dutch country and pop group led by the three Kowalczyk sisters: Toni, Betty and Marianne.

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Ricky Valance

Ricky Valance (born 10 April 1939) is a Welsh singer.

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Ronnie Hilton

Ronnie Hilton (26 January 1926 – 21 February 2001) was an English singer and radio presenter.

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Ruby Murray

Ruby Florence Murray (29 March 1935 – 17 December 1996) was a Northern Irish singer and actress, who was one of the most popular singers in the British Isles in the 1950s.

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Sandie Shaw

Sandie Shaw, MBE (born Sandra Ann Goodrich; 26 February 1947) is an English singer.

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Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel are an English glam rock band from the early 1970s.

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The Equals

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The Four Pennies

The Four Pennies were an English, 1960s pop group, most notable for their 1964 UK chart-topping song "Juliet".

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The Honeycombs

The Honeycombs were an English beat/pop group, founded in 1963 in North London, best known for their chart-topping 1964 hit, the million selling "Have I the Right?" The band was also notable for having Honey Lantree on drums, one of the few female drummers in bands at that time.

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The Real Thing (UK band)

The Real Thing are a British soul group formed in the 1970s.

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The Rubettes

The Rubettes were an English pop band put together by musician John Richardson in 1974 after the release of "Sugar Baby Love", a recording assembled of studio session musicians in 1973 by the songwriting team of Wayne Bickerton, then the head of A&R at Polydor Records, and his co-songwriter, Tony Waddington, after their doo-wop and 1950s American pop-influenced songs had been rejected by a number of existing acts.

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The Saturdays

The Saturdays are a British-Irish girl group based in London, England.

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The Stargazers (1940s–50s group)

The Stargazers were a British vocal group, jointly founded in 1949 by Cliff Adams and Ronnie Milne.

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The Stylistics

The Stylistics are a Philadelphia soul group that achieved its greatest chart success in the 1970s.

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The Tams

The Tams are an American vocal group from Atlanta, Georgia, who enjoyed their greatest chart success in the 1960s, the 1970s, and the 1980s.

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The Three Degrees

The Three Degrees is an American female vocal group, which was originally formed in 1963 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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The Tymes

The Tymes are an American soul vocal group, who enjoyed equal success in the United Kingdom and in their homeland.

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The Walker Brothers

The Walker Brothers were an American pop group of the 1960s and 1970s that included Scott Engel (eventually known professionally as Scott Walker), John Walker (born John Maus, but using the name Walker since his teens) and Gary Leeds (eventually known as Gary Walker).

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Thunderclap Newman

Thunderclap Newman was a British rock band that Pete Townshend of the Who and Kit Lambert formed in 1969 in a bid to showcase the talents of John "Speedy" Keen, Jimmy McCulloch, and Andy "Thunderclap" Newman.

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Tinchy Stryder

Kwasi Danquah, better known by his stage name Tinchy Stryder (born 14 September 1987) and also as The Star in the Hood, is a Ghanaian-British rapper, singer, entrepreneur and investor.

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Tommy Edwards

Thomas J. Edwards (February 17, 1922 – October 22, 1969) was an American singer and songwriter.

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Tommy Roe

Thomas David "Tommy" Roe (born May 9, 1942)) is an American pop music singer-songwriter. Best-remembered for his hits "Sheila" (1962) and "Dizzy" (1969), Roe was "widely perceived as one of the archetypal bubblegum artists of the late 1960s, but cut some pretty decent rockers along the way, especially early in his career,” wrote the Allmusic journalist Bill Dahl.

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Toni Willé

Toni Willé (full name Antonia Johanna Cornelia Kowalczyk; born 26 June 1953) is a Dutch country pop artist who was lead vocalist of the band, Pussycat.

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Typically Tropical

Typically Tropical were a British band, best known for their 1975 number one hit record "Barbados".

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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies

The UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) is a school of University College London (UCL) specialised in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, Russia and Eurasia.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Unit 4 + 2

Unit 4 + 2 were a British pop band, who had a number one hit in the UK Singles Chart in 1965 with the song "Concrete and Clay".

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Westlife

Westlife were an Irish pop vocal group, formed in Dublin in 1998 and disbanded in 2012.

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Westlife discography

Irish pop vocal group Westlife has released ten studio albums, three box sets, thirty-two singles, fifteen promotional singles, six compilation albums and forty-four music videos..

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artists_who_reached_number_one_on_the_UK_Singles_Chart

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