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Quiz: Test your UK singles chart knowledge

Cheryl Fernandez-Versini has become the first British solo female artist to have five number one UK singles – so which other UK chart trivia can you recall?
  
  


  1. With sales of 1.7m, what is the biggest UK single never to have reached number one?

    1. Wham! - Last Christmas

    2. Maroon 5 - Moves Like Jagger

    3. The Beatles - Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields

    4. Everything But The Girl - Missing

  2. Which album spawned a record four original UK number one hit singles?

    1. Oasis - What's The Story (Morning Glory)

    2. Spice Girls - Spice

    3. Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster

    4. Queen - A Night At The Opera

  3. Alex Day's 2012 single Forever Yours fell more places than any other UK top ten single. It entered at four, where did it chart next?

    1. 98

    2. 103

    3. 112

    4. 114

  4. Cheryl's previous band Girls Aloud scored how many number one hits?

    1. 4

    2. 5

    3. 6

    4. 7

  5. Three of these singles have reached the UK number one spot on three separate occasions. Which one hasn't?

    1. Frankie Laine – I Believe

    2. Guy Mitchell – Singing the Blues

    3. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

    4. Pharrell Williams - Happy

  6. How many Michael Jackson hits entered the charts following his death in 2009?

    1. 9

    2. 11

    3. 13

    4. 15

  7. Aaliyah's More Than A Woman was the only posthumous UK number one to be replaced by another - but which single?

    1. George Harrison - My Sweet Lord

    2. Tupac Shakur - Ghetto Gospel

    3. Notorious BIG - Nasty Girl

    4. Eva Cassidy feat Katie Melua – What a Wonderful World

  8. According to musicstats.wordpress.com, which year saw the most charting UK singles with 'love' in the title?

    1. 1966

    2. 1972

    3. 1988

    4. 1990

  9. Which one of the following pairs of musical siblings failed to both score solo number one singles?

    1. Eden Kane and Peter Sarstedt

    2. Donny Osmond and Little Jimmy Osmond

    3. Daniel and Natasha Bedingfield

    4. Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson

  10. Super Furry Animals' The Man Don't Give A Fuck contains more expletives than any other UK top 40 single. But how many is that?

    1. 39

    2. 49

    3. 54

    4. 59

Solutions

1:A, 2:B, 3:C, 4:A, 5:C, 6:C, 7:A, 8:D, 9:D, 10:B

Scores

  1. 0 and above.

    Oh dear, if your performance was a Girls Aloud solo career then you'd be more Kimberley than Cheryl

  2. 6 and above.

    You've probably not spent enough time memorising pointless UK chart facts

  3. 9 and above.

    Like Cheryl, you're top of the pops!

 

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