Most cumulative weeks on the UK Official Singles Chart (one song)

“Mr Brightside” by The Killers (USA) had logged 475 weeks on the UK Official Singles Chart as of 25 September 2025. Incredibly, across 61 separate chart runs since it debuted at its peak position of No.10 on 5 June 2004, the first single from the Las Vegas quartet’s debut album Hot Fuss has spent just one week – its opening week – in the Top 20 and seven weeks in the Top 40.

The song’s enduring popularity on streaming services has kept “Mr Brightside” in the lower reaches of the weekly countdown over the past 21 years, and in May 2024 the Official UK Charts Company revealed that it had become the UK’s biggest single never to have reached No.1, having amassed 5.57 million combined units (1.066 million sales and 530.34 million streams).

Previous record holders “My Way” (Frank Sinatra, 1969; now the 14th-longest UK chart runner) and “Chasing Cars” (Snow Patrol, 2006; the fifth most enduring UK hit) had stalled at 133 and 166 Top 100 weeks, respectively, as of 25 September 2025. As of the same date, Lewis Capaldi’s “Someone You Loved” (2019; 250 weeks) had cemented its place at No.2 behind “Mr Brightside”, with Ed Sheeran’s “Perfect” (2017; 191 weeks) clinging on to third spot ahead of “Iris” by The Goo Goo Dolls (184 weeks).