Several articles published today have mentioned how Vance Joy has just achieved the longest run on the Australian Singles chart with his first entry “Riptide”, which this week notched up its 107th consecutive week on the charts.
So I have decided to expand that list so you can see what else has spent a long time upon the ARIA and Aussie charts. And you’ll notice a pattern in 90% of the songs below, they are all from the past ten years or less, and that’s simply thanks to downloads, which started to be incorporated into the mainstreams charts in April 2006 and quickly took over as the main form of music purchasing.
OVERALL LONGEST (Singles)
1 – Riptide – Vance Joy (107 weeks, as of this week*) (2012)
2 – Poker Face – Lady Gaga (106a weeks) (2008)
3 – I Gotta Feeling – Black Eyed Peas (105a weeks) (2009)
4 – Single Ladies – Beyonce (98a weeks) (2008)
5 – Titanium – David Guetta feat Sia (92a weeks) (2012 weeks)
6 – Firework – Katy Perry (91a weeks) (2010)
7 – Just Dance – Lady Gaga (89a weeks) (2008)
= – Party Rock Anthem – LMFAO (89a weeks) (2011)
8 – Somebody That I Used to Know – Gotye feat Kimbra (88 weeks) (2011)
9 – Hot N’ Cold – Katy Perry (81a weeks) (2008)
= – Love the Way You Lie – Eminem & Rihanna (81a weeks) (2010)
= – Dynamite – Taio Cruz (81 weeks) (2010)
10– SexyBack – Justin Timberlake (79 weeks) (2006)
= – Just the Way You Are – Bruno Mars (79a weeks) (2010)
11 – Roar – Katy Perry (77a weeks) (2013)
12 – My People – The Presets (76 weeks) (2007)
= – Rolling in the Deep – Adele (76 weeks) (2011)
= – All of Me – John Legend (76 weeks*) (2013/14)
13 – Sexy and I Know it – LMFAO (75a weeks) (2011)
14 – Happy – Pharrell Williams (74 weeks*) (2014)
= – Into the Flame (EP feat ‘Brother’) – Matt Corby (74a weeks) (2011)
= – Tik Tok – Ke$ha (74a weeks) (2009)
15- Love Story – Taylor Swift (73a weeks) (2008)
= – I Love it – Sneaky Sound System (73 weeks) (2006)
= – A Thousand Years – Christina Perri (73 weeks) (2011)
= – Viva la Vida- Coldplay (73a weeks) (2008)
I have also provided a list of the longest singles chart runs for Australian acts, with a big gap between #1 and #2, although No.2 is more as guest vocalist on an overseas dance track, the track “Titanium” by Sia and Mr Guetta have four runs in the Top 100, initially spending only 39 weeks in the Top 100 before coming back for a further 50 weeks and then two more single week entries when the song was covered during reality singing shows. Gotye notched up his 88 weeks between July 2011 and April 2013 and was a massive hit overseas almost a year later.
OVERALL LONGEST – Australian only acts
1 – Riptide – Vance Joy (107 weeks*) (2012)
2 – Titanium – David Guetta feat Sia (92a weeks) (2011)
3 – Somebody That I Used to Know – Gotye feat Kimbra (88 weeks) (2012)
4– My People – The Presets (76 weeks) (2007)
5 – Into the Flame (EP feat ‘Brother’) – Matt Corby (74a weeks) (2011)
6– I Love it – Sneaky Sound System (73 weeks) (2006)
7– Straight Lines – Silverchair (72 weeks)
8 – Big Jet Plane – Angus & Julia Stone (70a weeks) (2010)
9– Flaunt it – TV Rock & Seany B (68 weeks) (2006)
= – Black Fingernails Red Wine – Eskimo Joe (68 weeks) (2006)
= – Second Solution / Prisoner of Society – The Living End (68 weeks) (1997)
10 – Don’t Hold Back – Potbelleez (65 weeks) (2007)
11 – Sweet Disposition – The Temper Trap (64a weeks) (2009)
12 – Walking on a Dream – Empire of the Sun (63a weeks) (2008)
13– Joker & the Thief – Wolfmother (62a weeks) (2006)
14– Chandelier – Sia (60 weeks*) (2014)
= – One Crowded Hour – Augie March (60 weeks) (2006)
15 – UFO – Sneaky Sound System (58a weeks) (2007)
16– Geronimo – Sheppard (55 weeks, just fell out three weeks ago) (2014)
17 – Plans – Birds of Tokyo (53a weeks) (2010)
= – This Heart Attack – Faker (53 weeks) (2007)
* = still charting, a = accumulated weeks in the chart.
Written, Compiled and Researched by Gavin Ryan (with help from Matt Ryan).
