List of artists who have spent the most weeks on the UK music charts

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This is a list of artists who have spent more than 1000 weeks on the UK Singles Chart and UK Albums Chart combined. Only 37 artists have achieved this milestone. It uses the methodology used to compile a top 500 list in the British Hit Singles & Albums books until 2005. Any album or single must be credited to the named artist and must appear in the top 75 singles or albums chart as recorded by the Official Charts Company. [1]

Ed Sheeran has the most weeks on the singles charts with 1508 weeks. Cliff Richard, Elvis Presley, Drake and Rihanna are the only other artists to achieve over 1000 weeks in the singles chart. Ed Sheeran has had the most weeks in the singles chart since 2000.

Queen have the most weeks on the albums chart with 1927 weeks followed by fifteen other artists with more than 1000 weeks, Ed Sheeran being the latest to pass this threshold in July 2021. David Bowie passed the 1000-week mark following his death in January 2016, when 16 of his albums entered or re-entered the top 75. [2] ABBA's 'Gold' became the first album to reach 1000 weeks on the top 100 UK albums chart in July 2021. Robbie Williams is the only artist to feature on the list twice: as a solo artist, and with Take That.

Figures are as of chart week 5-11 April 2024.

ArtistSingles chart
(weeks)
Albums chart
(weeks)
Combined (weeks)Ref
Flag of the United States.svg Elvis Presley 131116252936 [3]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Ed Sheeran 150813852893 [4]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Queen 46219512413 [5]
Flag of the United States.svg Michael Jackson 72116512372 [6]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg The Beatles 47217652237 [7]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Elton John 79913942193 [8]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Cliff Richard 11829232105 [9]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Oasis 42016412061 [10]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Fleetwood Mac 25917872046 [11]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg David Bowie 47615582034 [12]
Flag of the United States.svg Madonna 77011631933 [13]
Flag of the United States.svg Taylor Swift 63612871923 [14]
Flag of Sweden.svg ABBA 27314561729 [15]
Flag of the United States.svg Eminem 57011351705 [16]
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Drake 11505511701 [17]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Rod Stewart 47111891660 [18]
Flag of Barbados.svg Rihanna 11514771628 [19]
Flag of Ireland.svg U2 36411041468 [20]
Flag of the United States.svg Frank Sinatra 4609321392 [21]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg The Rolling Stones 3899271316 [22]
Flag of Jamaica.svg Bob Marley 19610771273 [23]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Coldplay 5716611232 [24]
Flag of the United States.svg Whitney Houston 3788421220 [25]
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg The Weeknd 6975121209 [26]
Flag of the United States.svg Diana Ross 5696341203 [27]
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Justin Bieber 9242781202 [28]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Adele 4717251196 [29]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Arctic Monkeys 1839981181 [30]
Flag of the United States.svg Simon & Garfunkel 8710921179 [31]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Take That 4177081125 [32]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Robbie Williams 4156551070 [33]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Dua Lipa 5964731069 [34]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Pink Floyd 579921049 [35]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Phil Collins 2517931044 [36]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Calvin Harris 8491841033 [37]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg George Michael 3097021011 [38]
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Kylie Minogue 5174911008 [39]

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