The Platinum 300 - Best of Chart

As promised, it's time to do a recap and look at the best songs that took part of the 300 weeks of The Platinum Chart. It's sort of a celebration... The songs are ordered with the most weeks spent at number one, and most week charted... Oh, and speaking of celebrations, today it's our 100th post! :D

PS. YEAR ARTIST - Song
01 2001 Kylie Minogue – Can't Get You Out Of My Head

02 2004 Maroon 5 – This Love
03 2006 Shakira Ft. Wyclef Jean – Hips Don't Lie
04 2001 Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya & Pink -
Lady Marmalade
05 2004 Kelis – Trick Me
06 2002 Shakira – Whenever, Wherever
07 2005 The Pussycat Dolls Ft. Busta Rhymes – Don't Cha
08 2005 Madonna – Hung Up
09 2003 Beyoncé Ft. Jay Z – Crazy In Love
10 2002 Christina Aguilera Ft. Redman – Dirrty
11 2003 Kylie Minogue – Slow
12 2006 Justin Timberlake – SexyBack
13 2003 Jennifer Lopez Ft. Styles P and Jadakiss – Jenny From The Block
14 2002 Sugababes – Freak Like Me
15 2002 Aaliyah – More Than a Woman
16 2007 Nelly Furtado – All Good Things (Come To An End)
17 2004 O-Zone – Dragostea Din Teï
18 2006 Madonna – Sorry
19 2005 Jennifer Lopez – Get Right
20 2005 Green Day – Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
21 2006 Nelly Furtado – Maneater
22 2001 Alicia Keys – Fallin'
23 2001 Destiny's Child – Bootylicious
24 2006 Justin Timberlake Ft. T.I. – My Love
25 2002 Kylie Minogue – Love at First Sight
26 2006 Beyoncé Ft. Slim Thug & Bun B – Check On It
27 2003 50 Cent – In Da Club
28 2006 The Pussycat Dolls – Stickwitu
29 2005 Mario – Let Me Love You
30 2004 Eamon – Fuck It (I Don't Want U Back)
31 2004 Destiny's Child – Lose My Breath
32 2002 Beyoncé – Work It Out
33 2007 Eric Prydz vs. Floyd – Proper Education
34 2004 Britney Spears Ft. Madonna – Me Against The Music
35 2004 Yellowcard – Ocean Avenue
36 2004 Usher Ft. Lil' Jon & Ludacris – Yeah !
37 2006 The Pussycat Dolls Ft. Snoop Dogg – Buttons
38 2006 Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
39 2005 Shakira Ft. Alejandro Sanz – La Tortura
40 2001 Britney Spears – I'm a Slave 4 U
41 2006 Nelly Furtado Ft. Timbaland – Promiscuous
42 2005 Kelly Clarkson – Since U Been Gone
43 2004 Black Eyed Peas – Let's Get It Started
44 2006 Rihanna – S.O.S. (Rescue Me)
45 2004 Maroon 5 – She Will Be Loved
46 2005 Mariah Carey – We Belong Together
47 2005 James Blunt – You're Beautiful
48 2006 Beyoncé Ft. Jay Z – Déjà Vu
49 2003 Christina Aguilera – Beautiful
50 2004 Britney Spears – Toxic
51 2004 Black Eyed Peas – Shut Up
52 2006 Scissor Sisters – I Don't Feel Like Dancin'
53 2006 Rihanna – Unfaithful
54 2006 Beyoncé – Irreplaceable
55 2004 Mario Winans Ft. Enya & P. Diddy – I Don't Wanna Know
56 2005 Black Eyed Peas – Don't Phunk With My Heart
57 2004 Eric Prydz – Call On Me
58 2003 Justin Timberlake – Cry me a River
59 2003 Beyoncé Ft. Sean Paul – Baby Boy
60 2002 Sugababes – Round Round
61 2005 Eminem – Like Toy Soldiers
62 2003 Justin Timberlake – Rock Your Body
63 2003 Dannii Minogue – I Begin To Wonder
64 2001 Jennifer Lopez – Play
65 2003 Dido – White Flag
66 2001 Eve Ft. Gwen Stefani – Let Me Blow Ya Mind
67 2001 Janet Jackson – Someone To Call My Lover
68 2002 Britney Spears – Overprotected
69 2002 Jennifer Lopez Ft. Ja Rule – Ain't It Funny (Murder Remix)
70 2003 Christina Aguilera Ft. Lil' Kim – Can't Hold Us Down
71 2006 Mattafix – Big City Life
72 2002 Britney Spears Ft. Pharrell – Boys
73 2001 Brandy Ft. Ray J – Another Day In Paradise
74 2003 Madonna – American Life
75 2002 Jennifer Lopez – I'm Real
76 2002 Britney Spears – I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman
77 2002 Janet Jackson Ft. Missy Elliott & Carly Simon – Son of a Gun
78 2003 Jennifer Lopez Ft. LL Cool J – All I Have
79 2004 Hilary Duff – So Yesterday
80 2005 Gwen Stefani – Hollaback Girl
81 2002 No Doubt Ft. Bounty Killer – Hey Baby
82 2005 Bob Sinclar Ft. Gary Pine – Love Generation
83 2006 Sean Paul – Temperature
84 2005 Black Eyed Peas – My Humps
85 2004 Jamelia – Superstar
86 2004 Natasha Bedingfield – These Words
87 2002 Pink – Get the Party Started
88 2006 The Pussycat Dolls Ft. Will.I.Am – Beep
89 2005 Sugababes – Push The Button
90 2002 Avril Lavigne – Complicated
91 2002 Anastacia – One Day In Your Life
92 2003 Black Eyed Peas – Where Is The Love?
93 2002 Nelly Ft. Kelly Rowland – Dilemma
94 2006 Pink – Stupid Girls
95 2006 Christina Aguilera – Ain't No Other Man
96 2005 Gwen Stefani – What You Waiting For?
97 2004 No Doubt – It's My Life
98 2006 Ne-Yo – So Sick
99 2003 Blu Cantrell Ft. Sean Paul - Breathe
100 2001 Destiny's Child – Survivor

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• Emma Bunton's "What Took You So Long ?" is the most successful single by a former Spice Girl suprassing Geri Halliwell's number 3 hit "It's Raining Men".
• The artist with the most number 1 songs is Jennifer Lopez with 9 out of 13 singles charted...
• Destiny's Child's "Survivor" was The Platinum Chart's first number 1 song ever...
• To date, there has been 160 number one songs...
• The only siblings to both have a number 1 song on their own are the Minogue sisters. While Kylie scored 4 number ones so far, sister Dannii reached the top spot in 2003 with "I Begin To Wonder". The only siblings to have the same number 1 are Brandy and her brother Ray J with their collaboration "Another Day In Paradise".
• Madonna's "Hung Up" scored the highest jump to number 1 ever, climbing from number 8.
• The only artists to have two consecutives number 1 singles so far are Will.I.Am with the Black Eyed Peas' "Pump It" and his collaboration with The Pussycat Dolls, "Beep"; and R'n'B singer Mya with her own single "Free" and the burlesque "Lady Marmalade" collaboration.
• O-Zone are the most successful one hit wonders to date.
• Eric Prydz proved to be the most successful DJ with two number one singles.
• Sertab Erener is the best Eurovision artist so far peaking at number 1. Finnish monster rockers Lordi come second with a number 13 hit.
• The most successful collaboration is Shakira and Wyclef Jean's "Hips Don't Lie", knocking down 2001's burlesque hit "Lady Marmalade".
• Kylie's champion song "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" spent the most weeks on the chart with a total of 28, closely followed by Maroon 5's "This Love" with 27 weeks on the chart.
• The Sugababes' "Freak Like Me" is the most succesful British single so far.
• Sean Paul has a total of 3 number one singles. Only "Temperature" comes from his own repertoire.
• Beyoncé and Jay-Z are the only couple to reach the top spot ever. So far, they've done it three times together.
• Ne-Yo only scored a number 1 hit of his own, although he has writing credits on Mario's "Let me Love You" and Beyoncé's "Irreplaceable".
• Alicia Keys has the most successful debut single with her 2001 number one "Fallin'".
• Kelly Clarkson is the most successful manufatured pop star with her hit single "Since U Been Gone" spending two weeks at number 1.

Sunday, March 04, 2007