Longest stay on UK singles chart by a group

“Mr Brightside” by The Killers (USA) had amassed 416 weeks in the Top 100 of the UK’s Official Singles Chart as of 4 July 2024. Incredibly, across 60 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. Its enduring popularity on streaming services has kept “Mr Brightside” in the lower reaches of the weekly countdown over the past 20 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 holder “Chasing Cars” (Snow Patrol, 2006) – now the fourth most enduring UK hit – had stalled at 166 Top 100 weeks as of 4 July 2024.

Other long-running UK hits by bands include "Heat Waves" by Glass Animals (140 weeks), "Fairytale of New York" by The Pogues (feat. Kirsty MacColl) (131 weeks), "Sex on Fire" by Kings of Leon (127 weeks), "Iris" by The Goo Goo Dolls (126 weeks) and "Last Christmas" by Wham! (122 weeks).