Mark's 100 Personal Chart Number Ones! (01-70done)

[Maximo Mark]

4 years and 7 weeks after first doing a personal chart I've finally reached 100 number ones! I shall go through all of them over the next few weeks days!

[Maximo Mark]

#1 Basement Jaxx 'Good Luck' (01-02-02-04-06-07-10-10-12-14-15-18-21-26-34-39) (16 weeks)



Released in the early part of 2004 when it was quiet it managed to keep off one of my favourite songs from 2003 off the top. That being 'Hey Ya!'. For the first three years of doing my chart I did it like the official chart where songs would chart high on their week of release. This was their first of two number ones and like most songs which I enjoy first time around this didn't perform so well on its summer re-release making #6.

Ranking all my number ones on how much I like them now this ranks #62!

[Maximo Mark]

#2 Franz Ferdinand 'Take Me Out' (01-01-02-02-01-02-02-03-04-05-06-09-13-17-20-25-31-40) (18 weeks)



www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_9GR9kdZ3o

This is the only song that's ever re-climbed to the top of my chart. It's not something I'm normally a fan of but I figured this was better than 'Last Train Home' and all other competition. This is their only number one single though they've hit the top 5 with almost every release.

I still love this song to this day. So much so that I think this is the 2nd best of all my number ones!

[Maximo Mark]

#3 Lost Prophets 'Last Train Home' (01-01-02-03-03-05-09-11-12-14-17-19-21-26-30) (15 weeks)



www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lL-I40d0uo

I'm not so much a fan of it now though I still think it's quite good. Just turning 15 at the time I was into teen angst-rock like a lot of people my age. Quite a few 2004 number ones wouldn't come close now...

(#86)

[Maximo Mark]

#4 Keane 'Somewhere Only We Know' (01-01-02-06-07-11-13-16-18-23-28-33) (12 weeks)



www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmXY2MSrguE

Not the type of song that would be likely to do quite as well now but I still think this is fairly decent and was a really promising song. Just a shame they never really lived up to that promise. Highly unlikely that they'd come ever close to the top again...

(#65)

[Maximo Mark]

#5 Blink-182 'I Miss You' (01-02-02-02-02-02-05-04-06-11-14-14-17-19-22-23-26-27-31-35-38) (21 weeks)



www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYEM68HIm0Y

Another song unlikely to get to number one now. Mainly due to the fact that I now hate them. Though I do still quite like this, as well as 'Adam's Song' which is really great. Judging by its chart run I must obviously have loved it at the time though.

(#78)

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#6 Jet 'Look What You've Done' (01-01-01-05-08-13-14-12-16-20-19-26-36-40) (14 weeks)



www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD1cxSE25ck

Now this definitely wouldn't be number one now! I guess this shows how much my tastes have changed I guess. It's still an alright song but I find them more than a little dull now, especially after their second album was released. I did really love 'Get Born' at the time though. This is their only number one, despite 'Are You Gonna Be My Girl?' being in my top 5 singles of 2004 it never made it due to being released in the same week as the second best song which spent 7 weeks at the top....

(#94)

[Maximo Mark]

#7 Basement Jaxx 'Plug It In' (01-01-04-05-04-09-12-12-16-15-16-18-23-25-29-34-34-36-38) (19 weeks)



www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyRfACGkDUw

The first act to get a second number one. It's the final (so far) too though pretty much everything they release charts. This has always been, and still is, one of my favourite Jaxx songs. Doesn't generally seem to be that popular though...

(#49)

[Maximo Mark]

#8 Wolfman ft Pete Doherty 'For Lovers' (01-01-02-04-04-05-09-11-11-14-18-22-22-26-33-37-34-40)



www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLY0eUtVlXo

Probably the most 'obscure' song so far. I do still quite like it as it shows a different side to Pete and is really rather quite lovely. But it's not that great. Pete Doherty is the only person to have number ones with 3 different acts, all of which were in 2004. This kept The Rasmus 'In The Shadows' and Franz Ferdinand 'Matinee' off the top spot. Infact its first week at number one was the first week since the opening week that the top 2 hadn't been number one singles!

(#83 - they're starting to get quite good now...)

[Maximo Mark]

#9 The Streets 'Fit But You Know It' (01-01-01-01-04-06-06-06-08-10-14-18-23-25-25-28-33-40) (18 weeks)



www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr4TpXqlPhI

4 weeks? Christ! Though to be fair I did (and still do) LOVE his debut album. I can only assume I was still caught up in it and thought this was good. All four singles off this album went top 10 and had decent chart runs though this (the worst) was the only one to mke it to the top. This kept three songs off the top spot; Ash 'Orpheus', Morrissey 'Irish Blood, English Heart', Keane 'Everybody's Changing' (all are better in retrospect...).

(#97 - one of four number ones I would say I now 'don't like', thought it's the least bad of the four)

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#10 The Killers 'Mr Brightside' (01-01-01-01-01-01-01-03-04-03-03-06-08-09-12-13-17-19-21-23-24-28-31-32-31-33-36) (27 weeks)



www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnwLf88t_Wc

As you can probably tell from the chart run, I adored this! I still do, though not quite as much. By far my favourite song of theirs and the first of three number ones for them. Only one other song has spent as long at the top and only one other song has spent as long on the chart, which went two weeks longer.

One of the main disadvantages of doing your chart by the release schedule is sometimes deserving songs miss out on the top spot. This, along with the previously mentioned Jet song and 'Kiss Of Life' by Supergrass all came out in the same week but were all in my top 10 singles of 2004 and because I loved this so much they never managed to climb. It also held off 'Golden Touch' by Razorlight (also in my year end top 10) and 'Walk Idiot Walk' by The Hives.

(#05 - considering this is the weakest year for #1's 2 in the top 5 is pretty good...)

[Maximo Mark]

#11 Snow Patrol 'Spitting Games' (01-02-02-02-04-05-08-13-15-21-23-26-31-30-37) (15 weeks)



www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdiZKukSIGM

The song to finally knock 'Mr Brightside' off the top. It's certainly one of my favourite Snow Patrol songs. Deserving of the number one and should probably have held on for the three weeks it dropped down to #2.

(#72)

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#12 Ash 'Starcrossed' (01-01-01-03-04-05-11-11-18-22-24-28-27-35) (14 weeks)



www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdycqPkeov8

Hmmm, it's ok but they've had far better I think. A tad dull perhaps, looking back.

(#88)

[Maximo Mark]

#13 The Libertines 'Can't Stand Me Now' (01-01-01-02-03-07-07-09-11-11-16-22-22-23-26-27-33-34-38-36-34-36) (22 weeks)



www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2oTuxXjbO4

I really liked this at the time and have always loved them but recently I've gone off their second album a bit and don't find this song as good as I used to. It's still alright though and I'm sure it'll re-grow. It kept Kasabian 'LSF' and Lostprophets 'Last Summer' off the top!

(#79)

[Maximo Mark]

#14 The Killers 'All These Things That I've Done' (01-01-03-03-05-04-05-09-13-12-16-21-24-29-31-34-31-30-32-38) (20 weeks)



www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6ERe23kSBM

Another song I liked more at the time than I do now. It's ok but I was definitely caught up in Killers-fever for 6 months after Mr Brightside. I remember loving the album, too. I don't now, although it certainly does have its moments. This kept 'Cold Hard b****' by Jet off the top.

(#82)

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#15 Green Day 'American Idiot' (01-01-01-02-02-04-08-06-08-10-10-14-14-15-17-14-17-24-30-32-35-40) (22 weeks)



www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5mjN32G1iI

Another band whos hype I got caught up in at the time. They're ok but I can't listen to the album now. I still like this, but not so much. Prefer the other singles, apart from the God-awful '...September...' You can tell from the chart runs now that songs hardly moved around Christmas. In all its 3 weeks at the top Razorlight's 'Vice' was runner-up.

(#87)

[Maximo Mark]

#16 Jimmy Eat World 'Pain' (01-01-01-05-05-09-13-14-18-22-20-18-19-22-28-34-35-37) (18 weeks)



www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Eh5Ww01cg

Wow, I haven't listened to this for aaaaaaaaaaaaaages. I used to love a bit of JEW, this was never my favourite but they were released before this. I do think it's alright still, which surprised me a bit. Thought I'd have gone right off it. This kept the Zutons off with 'Don't Ever Think (Too Much)'.

(#89)

[Maximo Mark]

#17 Graham Coxon 'Freakin' Out' (01-01-03-03-03-07-07-07-06-08-11-17-23-24-25-29-32-37) (18 weeks)



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The first re-issue to make the top spot. I did love a bit of Coxon but this was the song that really got me into him. I do now wish that 'Spectacular' and 'Bittersweet Bundle...' had made it instead but he's still worthy of a number one. This kept Kings Of Leon's 'The Bucket' :cry: and Snow Patrol's 'How To Be Dead' off the top.

(#68)

I shall call it a night as I psyche myself up to reveal the next, excrutiatingly painful, number one. I tell you now, it makes 'Fit But You Know It' seem like a superb choice.

[musicfan2000]

lol i love reading how you regret your number 1 in hindsight.

lol i still like i miss you by blink 182, best song they did

[frag]

Great thread... for comparison: it only took me 153 weeks to get to 100 #1s (back in 2000, I was also following the trend of the actual chart by changing my #1 almost every week.
You said you've only had one song that has had two spells at #1. Only two of my first 100 #1s had two spells, but now that total's reached 10 out of 239.

I started my chart back in 1999 (three months before my 13th birthday), so the first few years are full of crappy pop #1s that I wouldn't listen to now.

Very good list so far, although I'm glad you don't like the Streets one anymore!