Elvis how many uk number ones

For more than fifty years sales of singles have been measured on a weekly basis and ranked in a chart. The week's best-selling single takes the number one position for that week. So who has had the most number ones?

For 25 years The Beatles and Elvis Presley matched each other with 18 number one records apiece. However, in Elvis earned a posthumous number one when his hit 'Jailhouse Rock' was re-released. Since then two more Elvis singles have gone to the top of the charts bringing his total to 21 number ones! Madonna and The Shadows. Take That. British pop group that was active between to and reunited in Robbie Williams returned only in topped the UK charts with 11 singles, mainly during the s.

Once Robbie departed, the remaining quartet landed another four without him, and when Jason moved on, the final trio of Mark, Howard, and Gary, topped the chart with These Days, their most recent, in Eminem collected his 10th Number 1 in January with Godzilla ft. Of the three, Rihanna is still releasing and stands a good chance of breaking double-digits. ABBA and Spice Girls then hold records as the mixed group and girl band with the most chart toppers respectively.

View privacy policy. The Beatles 17 The most successful band on the countdown, and the most decorated British act, The Beatles scored 17 Number 1s, with the first 10 being consecutive.

With four no. This was Elvis back to his original musical roots where he had heard Gospel music in black churches in the s.

The year began with Elvis' Blue Hawaii at the top, his 6th no. Blue Hawaii spent 18 weeks at no. Elvis plays Chad Gates, an ex GI from Hawaii and wants nothing more than to hang out with his friends and girlfriend on the beaches even though his father wants him to begin work at The Great Southern Hawaiian Fruit Company.

By the end of June, he had his 7th no. The number one single She's Not You was not included. Suspicion , a track that would have to wait a further 14 years to receive a release on single was a highlight.

It had been three years since Elvis Presley had enjoyed a top 10 album and seven years since his last no. Now riding a new popularity, it was finally released and would have topped the charts had it not been for the budget priced Jim Reeves 'According To My Heart' album.

The album ended with one of his biggest hits for five years, the no. Elvis Presley: On Stage was a live album of recordings made at the International Hotel in Las Vegas in February featuring mostly cover versions of recent hits, Release Me, Sweet Caroline and Proud Mary , as well as live versions of his own hits Suspicious Minds and In The Ghetto and it did also introduce his own The Wonder Of You which as a live recording was a number one single for 6 weeks in the summer.

An album that was promoted well was the Elvis Presley double album, 40 Greatest Hits on the Arcade label. Despite ending the year as the fourth best selling album , it did not chart at all in in the main album charts, a victim of the ban on compilations and albums advertised on TV from entering the charts. In retrospect, it appears this ban was aimed mostly at the specialist record companies, K Tel, Ronco and Arcade who compiled albums with assorted themes, mostly compilations of various artists and advertised them on TV for a short while, but also some single artists greatest hits.

And here was an album by Elvis Presley, one of the world's top artists, selling well enough to be no. Indeed during December when the album was at its peak, and would have been the number one album throughout the Christmas period.