List of number one hits in Ireland

The number one hits on the Irish music charts are determined weekly. The benchmark are the sales figures for singles and albums as sound carriers or downloads and, since 2014, music streaming as well .

Records in the singles charts

Artist with the most number one hits
The Irish rock band U2 has the most number one hits in the Irish singles charts with 19 number one hits to date .

Artists with the most hits Cliff Richard and Elvis Presley
share first place with 70 hits each in the top 30.

Long-running
The single, One Day at a Time , released in 1977 by Irish singer Gloria and her band Mississippi , stayed in the Top 30 for 90 weeks. It is a cover version . The original was interpreted by the American country singer Marilyn Sellars and was released in 1974.

German artist with number one hits

This article or paragraph presents the situation in Germany . Help us to describe the situation in other countries.

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Singles (20)

Albums (1)

Boney M. - Belfast , 1977, 1 week Boney M. - Rivers of Babylon , 1978, 5 weeks Boney M. - Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord , 1978, 7 weeks Goombay Dance Band - Seven Tears , 1982, 3 weeks Nicole - A Little Peace , 1982, 5 weeks Nena - 99 Red Balloons , 1984, 4 weeks Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F , 1985, 1 week Enigma - Sadness Part I , 1991, 1 week SNAP! - Rhythm Is a Dancer , 1992, 8 weeks Enigma - All for Love , 1994, 1 week Fools Garden - Lemon Tree , 1996, 1 ​​week No Mercy - Where Do You Go? , 1997, 1 week Sash! - Encore Une Fois , 1997, 1 week ATB - 9pm (Till I Come) , 1999, 4 weeks Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of ...) , 1999, 3 weeks Scooter - Ramp! The Logical Song , 2002, 1 week Cascada - Everytime We Touch , 2006, 6 weeks Milky Chance - Stolen Dance , 2014, 2 weeks Lilly Wood & the Prick & Robin Schulz - Prayer in C (Robin Schulz Remix) , 2014, 3 weeks Omi / Felix Jaehn - Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix) , 2015, 5 weeks

Cascada - Everytime We Touch , 2007, 5 weeks

German-language number one hits by non-German artists

Singles (1)
Falco - Rock Me Amadeus , 1986, 1 week

"Long-running"

The following statistics list artists and titles who have been at the top of the official Irish charts for a very long period of time or who have been number one on the Irish charts for at least 10 weeks.

18 weeks

• Bill Whelan - Riverdance (May 5 - September 8, 1994)

15 weeks

• Luis Fonsi feat. Daddy Yankee - Despacito (May 6 - August 18, 2017)

14 weeks

• Ed Sheeran - Shape of You (January 14 - March 10, March 25 - May 5, 2017)

1 - 3 weeks

• Irish National Football Team - Put 'Em Under Pressure (31 May - 29 August 1990)

12 weeks

• Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (December 18, 1975 - January 30, 1976, December 19, 1991 - January 29, 1992)
• The Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling (July 16 - August 26, September 3 - October 14, 2009)
• Pharrell Williams - Happy (January 2 - February 19, March 6 - March 19, April 3 - April 23, 2014)

11 weeks

• Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (July 4 - September 11, October 10 - October 16, 1991)
• Drake feat. WizKid & Kyla - One Dance (May 6 - May 12, May 20 - July 28, 2016)

10 weeks

• Wings - Mull of Kintyre (December 10, 1977 - February 17, 1978)
• Mark McCabe - Maniac 2000 (March 4 - May 12, 2000)
• Drake - God's Plan (February 3 - April 12, 2018)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Facts & Figures - Artists with Most No.1s. ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) irishcharts.ie, accessed on April 27, 2019 (English).
2. ↑ http://www.irishcharts.ie/facts/most_hits.htm
3. ↑ http://www.irishcharts.ie/facts/longest_in_chart.htm

Web links

• Archives of the Irish Singles Chart since 1962
• The current Irish charts
• All # 1 hits since 2003
• All # 1 albums since 2003