Artists celebrating a Number 1 on the Official UK Charts
Wolf Alice popped the champers when their album Blue Weekend became their first chart-topper in June 2021.
“Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to everyone who has been listening to Blue Weekend this week and thank you to everyone who helped make this record come to life," they said. We feel so lucky and we are so happy. Lots of love”.
Little Mix looking rather happy when Black Magic debuted at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart in July 2015.
"We’re super-duper excited to be Number 1 with Black Magic," they told us. "We never thought we’d see the day again. Thank you so much to the fans… you did this!"
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Sam Smith and his band celebrate Too Good At Goodbyes reaching Number 1 in September 2017 ahead of a London gig. "OFFICIALLY NUMBER 1 IN THE UK!!" He tweeted, adding: "Thank you all from the deepest part of my heart."
Justin Bieber and The Lewisham and Greenwich Choir handed each other their Number 1 Awards in 2016, after the choir knocked him off the top spot and claimed the Official Christmas Number 1 with A Bridge Over You.
Bieber, who was at the top of the chart with Love Yourself, encouraged his fans to support the campaign, which saw proceeds go to various NHS charities.
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The Foo Fighters celebrate Concrete and Gold becoming their fourth Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart in 2017. Doesn't Dave looked chuffed?
Surprising Pharrell Williams with three Number 1 Awards for Blurred Lines and Get Lucky (the best-selling singles of 2013) and Happy, the UK's top seller of 2014 and the most downloaded track ever.
"I would just like to say thank you, first and foremost, to the people, because the charts are determined by them," he said. "I have a lot to be thankful for because they’ve chosen these things and it’s resulted in Happy being what it’s become."
JLS keeping it on brand after a night out to celebrate their self-titled debut album debuting at Number 1 in November 2009. The group beat Robbie Williams and Snow Patrol to the top that week, shifting 240,000 copies.
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Mark Ronson looking pretty chuffed with his Number 1 Award for Uptown Funk, which stormed to the top of the Official Singles Chart in 2014.
"It's pretty much the coolest thing ever," he told us. "I also have to thank Phil Smeeze, Jeff Bhasker and the boy wonder Bruno Mars without whom there'd be no jam."
Mel & Kim crack open a bottle of bubbly to celebrate Respectable hitting Number 1 in March 1987. Producer Pete Waterman told us the song was inspired by him and the duo running out of money.
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Kylie Minogue handed seven Number 1 Awards for each of her chart-topping singles in the UK on Alan Carr's Chatty Man in June 2012.
Daft Punk landed a massive Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart in April 2013 with Get Lucky ft. Nile Rodgers and Pharrell Williams, scoring 155,00 sales in its opening week.
The French robots told us: "Lucky to have a #1!", while Nile said he was "so honoured and completely blown away. It's an amazing thing to have happen, really cool."
David Guetta with his Number 1 Award for Titanium ft. Sia. The track has gone on to sell 1.3 million copies in the UK alone.
"Working with pure talent is all I crave," David said. "When Sia wrote Titanium on my beat and laid the vocal it was intended to be for another singer. But the emotion and quality couldn’t be beaten. To be Number 1 with her is a special moment.
“The song has been voted by ‘arms in the air’ wherever I play worldwide; it’s a genuine club anthem – and now top of the UK charts. Wow."
Hey baby! Remember when Austrian star DJ Otzi took the top spot in 2000 with this Eurodance banger? Here he is looking very proud with a framed Official Singles Chart Top 75 from that week.
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Dizzee Rascal honoured with five Official Number 1 Single Awards at London’s Commonwealth Club in 2012 for:
Dance Wiv Me (2008)
Bonkers (2009)
Holiday (2009)
Dirtee Disco (2010)
Shout (2010)He told us at the time: "To get to Number 1, everyone wants to get to Number 1. No matter who talks about ‘they don’t want to make music for the radio, they don’t care about being big’ and blah blah blah…Really, from being a kid, if you make music you think about being Number 1 in the charts. Everyone does. Even when I made underground music, I looked at the charts and thought ‘One day. One day. One Day’. It took a while, but I got there!"
Ellie Goulding presented with a Number 1 Award for her single Burn by Rita Ora, backstage at V Festival in August 2013.
"It means the world to me to be Number 1 at the moment," Ellie said. "It was always my dream to have a UK Number 1 single, and it's been a long time coming! Thank you to everyone who bought Burn and everyone who has supported me over the last three years."
Ant and Dec celebrate scoring their first ever Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart with Let's Get Ready To Rhumble, 19 years after it was released!
The song hit the top spot after the duo performed it on Saturday Night Takeaway.
Winner of the BBC's first series of Fame Academy David Sneddon tucks into a giant cake to celebrate his debut single, Strop Living The Lie, reaching Number 1 on the Official Chart in January 2003.
View David Sneddon's complete Official Chart history.
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The 1975 celebrate landing their second Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart in 2016 with their second record I Like It When You Sleep...
"We’re very very humbled by it," they told OfficialCharts.com. "We’re finding it a bit surreal and weird, we didn’t expect it to go to Number 1, we’re up against people like Adele, so we’re really really proud. And you get a trophy now, so we feel like we’ve actually won something too!"
Westlife give us the finger (the Number 1 finger, that is) after scoring their fourth Number 1 album with Turnaround in 2003. The record includes the chart-topping single Mandy.
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Englebert Humperdinck was handed two Number 1 Awards ahead of his performance at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2012, for chart-toppers Release Me and The Last Waltz - both released in 1967.
“I'm very proud that people have supported me and bought my music,” he told us. ”I’ve sold about 150 million albums, so it’s been a good life and a good journey. Let’s hope we carry it on for a little bit longer.”
Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Holly Johnson receives a plaque from the BPI in 1984 for his Number 1 single Relax, which spent five weeks at Number 1 and sold over 500,000 copies that year.
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Psy became the first South Korean to score a Number 1 on the Official UK Charts back in November 2012 with his viral smash Gangnam Style.
"I was shocked," he told Official Chart host Scott Mills. "I didn't believe it, because I don't believe online. So it was only when I came here and experienced it with my own eyes that I believed it."
Ed Sheeran accepting our first ever Official Charts Number 1 Album Award for his second album X in 2015. Ed was presented the award at Wembley Stadium ahead of his run of sold out shows.
Stockport band Blossoms went straight in at Number 1 with their self-titled debut album in August 2016.
"We're absolutely made up that the album has gone to Number 1," They told us. "From the scaffolding yard to the top of the charts, who'd have thought it? Viva Stockport!"
Ed Sheeran took the top spot in November 2014, setting a record for the longest climb to Number 1 from inside the Top 40, taking 19 weeks to reach the summit.
Ed told us: "I’m not used to having Number 1 singles and this is my favourite song on the album, my favourite song I’ve written, so I’m really proud it’s getting this recognition." How times have changed!
McFly were honoured with seven Number 1 Awards on BBC's The One Show in 2012 in recognition of each of their chart-topping singles.
Wham! Outside BBC Television Centre in London celebrating Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go reaching Number 1 on the Official Chart in 1984.
See where all of Wham's singles and albums charted in the UK.
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Hearsay, the winners of ITV's Popstars, celebrate their debut single charging to Number 1 on the Official Chart, setting a record for the fastest-selling debut single of all time.
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Zayn Malik keeping it cool after his debut solo single Pillowtalk entered straight in at Number 1 in February 2016. His album, Mind Of Mine, followed suit shortly after.
Noel Gallagher looking quietly smug with his third consecutive Number 1 album with his High Flying Birds band, called Who Built The Moon?.
"I’d like to say thanks for giving it a chance," Noel told OfficialCharts.com. "I was convinced from the outset that the people who bought it would love it – not like it, they’d love it – and that seems to be the case." Fair play.
Liam Gallagher proudly poses for a selfie after landing his first Number 1 solo album in 2017 with As You Were, setting a new vinyl record in the process.
He told us: "I wanna thank everyone who bought it. I'd like to thank everyone who helped make it. As You Were.”
Kasabian's For Crying Out Loud earned them a fifth Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart in May 2017.
Serge Pizzorno thanked the fans in a message to OfficialCharts.com: "It’s absolutely incredible to have 5 Number 1 albums in a row. Thanks to everyone who has supported us. We can’t wait to play the new tracks on the road this summer."
Green Day look unsure of what to do with themselves when they hit Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart in October 2016 with Radio Revolution. It was the band's third chart-topping collection following American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown.
They said: "The UK has always been a huge part of our story and to have a chart-topping album at this stage of our career is especially gratifying".
Sir Cliff Richard celebrating 1979 single We Don't Talk Anymore becoming his first Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart in 11 years.
See where all of Cliff Richard's singles and albums landed on the Official UK Charts here.
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Olivia Rodrigo became the the youngest artist ever to pul off the rare Official UK Chart Double in May 2021 with her debut album Sour and single Good 4 U.