Talk:UK Singles Chart records

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"and with single sales declining year-on-year, things will probably never go back the way things were in the charts for singles to still clock up such high sales." This seems akin to being in the midst of a recession and claiming that "things will probably never be as good as they once were". It may prove to be true, but this statement seems exactly the kind that will end up being referred to in hindsight over how silly it was. Just because there is a downward trend for several years does not mean that trend will continue ad infinitum. It's likely that in somewhere between here and the end of the universe (unless that end was remarkably soon), sales will recover enough to be able to be able to beat these records. -Nichlemn

Someone out there got Elvis's death month wrong. He died in August 1977. Who could make such a stupid mistake?

Even though reissues have helped bring Elvis' total to 21, should reissues really be included in this list (as the Guinness World Records credits him with 18 number ones)? - Dbone828

• Apparently the policy of the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles is to regard the re-issues as new number ones because they were separate releases. On the other hand, if a single gets released twice and makes the top 75 both times this only counts as one top 75 hit. This seems a bit inconsistent to me. MFlet1 12:38, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
  • What you state is incorrect, the Guinness Books regard all re-issues (i.e. when the record is given a completely new release with a new catalogue number, often months or years after the original release) as new hits, but re-entries (i.e. when the single drops off the chart for a short while but then comes back on, still in the same release with the same catalogue number) don't count as new hits ChrisTheDude 09:22, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 Sources? 2 Off topic/Need of tightening 3 Another sub-section? 4 List of best selling singles (UK)

[edit] Sources?

Where are all the links to sources for all of the information given in the article? Due to their absence the article unfortunately falls well below Wikipedia standards, which is a shame as the topic is an interesting one. 89.234.101.199 12:11, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Off topic/Need of tightening

This is about the UK charts, yet specifies facts on worldwide sales throughout. Not appropriate. Asmentioned above, it specifies many facts and references none. This requires major cleanup work Maggott2000 23:53, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Agreed - article needs a top to bottom reworking. Too much of it is written in a breathless "Nobody thought this record could be beaten, until it was!" style of copywriting that is best left to Teen Beat magazine. RoyBatty42 (talk) 19:34, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Another sub-section?

What about another sub-section for Artists with the most singles competing with each other on the Top 5 (or on the Top 10). Wouldn't that be another to feature The Beatles prominently at the top? --Tlatosmd 22:13, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of best selling singles (UK)

The above list clearly existed at one point, being linked to in the 'Biggest selling single' section, but it's now been deleted and i can't find it. If it's been moved can someone update the link from this article, if not, why was it deleted?! The only similar list is the List of best-selling singles by year (UK) which isn't quite the same (for my purposes...). extraordinary (talk) 14:25, 3 January 2008 (UTC)