Longest No.1 on the UK Official Singles Chart

Since the UK’s first singles chart was published in November 1952, the longest No.1 hit has been “All Around the World” by Oasis (UK), which clocked in at 9 minutes 38 seconds. The third single from Be Here Now – the fastest-selling album in UK chart history at the time (663,389 copies sold in the first three days, according to reports) – debuted at the top of the UK’s Official Singles Chart for the week ending 24 January 1998 and spent a total of 11 weeks in the Top 100.

The version of “All Around the World” released as a single was 18 seconds longer than the album version (9 min 20 sec). A 2-min 10-sec instrumental reprise of “All Around the World” can be heard at the end of Be Here Now.

“All Around the World” was the fourth of eight UK No.1 singles for Oasis, following “Some Might Say” (1995), “Don’t Look Back in Anger” (1996) and “D’You Know What I Mean?” (Be Here Now’s first chart-topper, in 1997), with “Go Let It Out” (2000), “The Hindu Times” (2002), “Lyla” (2005) and “The Importance of Being Idle” (2005) still to come.