This would be a quiet week if it wasn’t for Justin Bieber.<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 MK featuring Chrystal – “Dior”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Two weeks. Here’s some chart trivia I skipped over last week: MK’s first credited top 40 hit was “Always”<\/a> in February 1995. Since he didn’t have an artist credit on the Storm Queen track that he remixed – which is fair enough, because it really was just a conventional remix – he had a wait of 30 years and 6 months from his first chart entry to his first number 1.<\/p>\n There are only three artists with longer gaps than that, and they all had slightly freak circumstances. The all time record holder is\u00a0Tony Christie at 34 years, but that’s on the strength of the charity reissue of his back catalogue track “Show Me The Way to Amarillo”. Number 2 is Ozzy Osbourne, if you measure from Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid” in 1970, rather than his own first solo credit in 1980. Oh, and the number 1 was his duet with daughter Kelly.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And number 3 is Michael Ball, who has co-credit with Captain Tom Moore and the NHS Voices of Care Choir on a Covid-era charity version of “You’ll Never Walk Alone”<\/a> which, shall we say, did not reach number 1 on purely musical criteria. While Michael Ball was a regular presence on the album charts (and still is), he hadn’t had a hit single since the 1990s.<\/p>\n So there are asterisks against all three of those. But not for MK – he just kept releasing records for 30 years with intermittent mainstream success and eventually had a number one single.<\/p>\n 4. Justin Bieber – “Daisies”<\/strong>
\n32. Justin Bieber – “Yukon”<\/strong><\/a>
\n33. Justin Bieber – “All I Can Take”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n