Will We Always Love It? Drake's 'One Dance' joins the most elite singles club
17 June 2016
One, 10-week-long Dance
Drake's done it - taken a UK funky sample all the way to number one in the Official Chart and kept it there for ten weeks.
One Dance has been at the top spot so long it's entered the most elite singles club - songs that have kept it up to double digits.
Rihanna's 'Umbrella' was the last song to do it
Drake's pal and frequent collaborator Rihanna was the last popstar to get a 10-week run at the top, taking 'Umbrella' there in 2007.
She's joint-sixth for the longest ever run at the top spot, joined by Whitney Houston with 'I Will Always Love You,' Dave Whitfield with 'Cara Mia' and now Drake's 'One Dance.'
'Umbrella' doing it in 2007 and 'One Dance' in 2016 mean that for the first time we've had a 10-week number one in two consecutive decades - previously they'd only happened in the 50s, 70s and 90s.
Jake Bugg might have dismissed the importance of getting an Official Charts number one (He said "anyone can get a number one album") but it's still pretty unusual to actually reach the top spot.
We're over halfway through 2016 and only six songs have reached the top - all of them male solo artists (Justin Bieber, Shawn Mendes, Zayn, Lukas Graham, Mike Posner and Drake) - that's almost half the number of people who'd had an Official Charts number one by this time last year, when 11 records had shared the top spot.
