United World Chart
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The United World Chart is a worldwide chart issued every week by Media Traffic, using both sales (digital and physical) and airplay to determine the most popular albums and singles in "the world". The United World Chart uses the same system as the Billboard Hot 100 in which the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday meanwhile the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday. The newest weekly chart is therefore issued every Thursday.
As of November 25, 2006 Media Traffic is displaying charts that traced back to 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago.
Since its start in 1999, the first song to reach number one was "Believe" by Cher. As of October 14, 2006, the United World chart has had 81 number one hits.
The current number-one single is "Irreplaceable" by Beyonce.
The current number-one album is Love by The Beatles.
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[edit] Countries
Media Traffic consults the charts of various countries, namely:
[edit] Number one tracks
[edit] 1966
| Artist | Song | Weeks at number one |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Beatles | Yellow Submarine | 7 | |
| Four Tops | Reach Out I'll Be There | 1 | |
| The Beatles | Yellow Submarine | 1 | Re-entry |
| Rolling Stones | Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby | 3 | |
| Beach Boys | Good Vibrations | 4 |
[edit] 1976
| Artist | Song | Weeks at number one |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elton John Kiki Dee |
Don't Go Breaking My Heart | 1 | |
| Rick Dees | Disco Duck | 2 | |
| Chicago | If You Leave Me Now | 8 |
[edit] 1986
| Artist | Song | Weeks at number one |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tina Turner | Typical Male | 1 | |
| Madonna | True Blue | 9 | |
| Bangles | Walk Like An Egyptian | 1 |
[edit] 1996
| Artist | Song | Weeks at number one |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los del Rio | Macarena | 16 | |
| Celine Dion | It's All Coming Back To Me Now | 1 | |
| Donna Lewis | I Love You Always Forever | 2 | |
| Toni Braxton | Un-Break My Heart | 4 |
[edit] 1997
| Artist | Song | Weeks at number one |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elton John | Candle in the Wind | 15 (14) | 14 wks in '97 + 1 wk in '98 = 15 total |
[edit] 1998
| Artist | Song | Weeks at number one |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elton John | Candle in the Wind | 15 (1) | 14 wks in '97 + 1 wk in '98 = 15 total |
| Janet Jackson | Together Again | 7 | |
| Celine Dion | My Heart Will Go On | 16 | Most successful single of 1998 |
| Brandy & Monica | The Boy Is Mine | 11 | |
| Aerosmith | I Don't Want to Miss a Thing | 11 | |
| Jennifer Paige | Crush | 2 | |
| Cher | Believe | 15 (5) | 5 wks in '98 + 10 wks in '99 = 15 total Most successful single of 1999 Most successful single in chart history |
[edit] 1999
| Artist | Song | Weeks at number one |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cher | Believe | 15 (10) | 5 wks in '98 + 10 wks in '99 = 15 total Most successful single of 1999 Most successful single in chart history , Most weeks at number one in 1999 |
| Britney Spears | ...Baby One More Time | 7 | |
| TLC | No Scrubs | 5 | |
| Backstreet Boys | I Want It That Way | 1 | |
| Ricky Martin | Livin' la Vida Loca | 1 | |
| Backstreet Boys | I Want It That Way | 1 | Re-entry |
| Ricky Martin | Livin' la Vida Loca | 1 | Re-entry |
| Backstreet Boys | I Want It That Way | 2 | Re-entry |
| Will Smith, Dru Hill, Kool Moe Dee |
Wild Wild West | 3 | |
| Jennifer Lopez | If You Had My Love | 4 | |
| Lou Bega | Mambo No. 5 | 6 | |
| Christina Aguilera | Genie in a Bottle | 7 | |
| Britney Spears | (You Drive Me) Crazy | 1 | |
| Jennifer Lopez | Waiting for Tonight | 2 | |
| Celine Dion | That's the Way It Is | 8 (1) | 1 wk in '99 + 7 wks in '00 = 8 total |
[edit] 2000
| Artist | Song | Weeks at number one |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Celine Dion | That's the Way It Is | 8 (7) | 1 wk in '99 + 7 wks in '00 = 8 total |
| Britney Spears | Born to Make You Happy | 1 | |
| Christina Aguilera | What a Girl Wants | 1 | |
| Backstreet Boys | Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely | 1 | |
| Madonna | American Pie | 8 | |
| Carlos Santana The Product G&B |
Maria Maria | 2 | |
| Britney Spears | Oops!... I Did It Again | 9 | |
| Bon Jovi | It's My Life | 5 | |
| The Corrs | Breathless | 1 | |
| Madonna | Music | 12 | Most successful single of 2000, Most weeks at number one in 2000 |
| Backstreet Boys | Shape of My Heart | 6 (5) | 5 wks in '00 + 1 wk in '01 = 6 total |
[edit] 2001
| Artist | Song | Weeks at number one |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Backstreet Boys | Shape of My Heart | 6 (1) | 5 wks in '00 + 1 wk in '01 = 6 total |
| Destiny's Child | Independent Women Part I | 5 | |
| Madonna | Don't Tell Me | 2 | |
| Jennifer Lopez | Love Don't Cost a Thing | 7 | |
| Ricky Martin, Christina Aguilera |
Nobody Wants to Be Lonely | 1 | |
| Shaggy | It Wasn't Me | 4 | Most successful single of 2001 |
| Janet Jackson | All for You | 4 | |
| Destiny's Child | Survivor | 5 | |
| Christina Aguilera, P!nk, Lil' Kim, Mýa |
Lady Marmalade | 9 | Most weeks at number one in 2001 |
| Janet Jackson | Someone to Call My Lover | 1 | |
| Destiny's Child | Bootylicious | 1 | |
| Jennifer Lopez | Ain't It Funny | 3 | |
| Kylie Minogue | Can't Get You out of My Head | 2 | |
| Michael Jackson | You Rock My World | 2 | |
| Kylie Minogue | Can't Get You out of My Head | 6 | Re-entry |
| Enrique Iglesias | Hero | 5 (1) | 1 wk in '01 + 4 wks in '02 = 5 total |
[edit] 2002
| Artist | Song | Weeks at number one |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enrique Iglesias | Hero | 5 (4) | 1 wk in '01 + 4 wks in '02 = 5 total |
| P!nk | Get the Party Started | 5 | |
| Shakira | Whenever, Wherever | 12 | Most successful single of 2002, Most weeks at number one in 2002 |
| Celine Dion | A New Day Has Come | 1 | |
| P!nk | Don't Let Me Get Me | 1 | |
| Eminem | Without Me | 11 | Single with the highest debut on chart |
| Elvis Presley | A Little Less Conversation | 3 | |
| Avril Lavigne | Complicated | 5 | |
| Las Ketchup | The Ketchup Song | 7 | |
| Madonna | Die Another Day | 4 (3) | 3 wks in '02 + 1 wk in '03 = 4 total |
[edit] 2003
| Artist | Song | Weeks at number one |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madonna | Die Another Day | 4 (1) | 3 wks in '02 + 1 wk in '03 = 4 total |
| Eminem | Lose Yourself | 3 | |
| Robbie Williams | Feel | 5 | |
| Christina Aguilera | Beautiful | 6 | |
| Avril Lavigne | I'm with You | 1 | |
| 50 Cent | In Da Club | 4 | |
| Madonna | American Life | 4 | |
| Evanescence | Bring Me to Life | 7 | Most successful single of 2003 |
| Beyoncé | Crazy in Love | 8 | Most weeks at number one in 2003 |
| Black Eyed Peas, Justin Timberlake |
Where Is the Love? | 4 | |
| Dido | White Flag | 6 | |
| Britney Spears, Madonna |
Me Against the Music | 4 (3) | 3 wks in '03 + 1 wk in '04 = 4 total |
[edit] 2004
| Artist | Song | Weeks at number one |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Britney Spears, Madonna |
Me Against the Music | 4 (1) | 3 wks in '03 + 1 wk in '04 = 4 total |
| Outkast | Hey Ya! | 10 | |
| Britney Spears | Toxic | 5 | |
| Usher, Lil Jon, Ludacris |
Yeah! | 8 | |
| Mario Winans, P. Diddy |
I Don't Wanna Know | 4 | |
| Britney Spears | Everytime | 1 | |
| Maroon 5 | This Love | 10 | Most successful single of 2004, Most weeks at number one in 2004 |
| Nelly, Jaheim |
My Place | 4 | |
| Maroon 5 | She Will Be Loved | 3 | |
| Destiny's Child | Lose My Breath | 11 (7) | 7 wks in '04 + 4 wk in '05 = 11 total |
[edit] 2005
| Artist | Song | Weeks at number one |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Destiny's Child | Lose My Breath | 11 (4) | 7 wks in '04 + 4 wk in '05 = 11 total |
| Green Day | Boulevard of Broken Dreams | 5 | Most successful single of 2005 |
| Jennifer Lopez | Get Right | 2 | |
| Green Day | Boulevard of Broken Dreams | 2 | Re-entry |
| Mario | Let Me Love You | 3 | |
| 50 Cent | Candy Shop | 5 | |
| Black Eyed Peas | Don't Phunk with My Heart | 11 | Most weeks at number one in 2005 |
| Mariah Carey | We Belong Together | 5 | |
| Pussycat Dolls | Don't Cha | 1 | |
| Black Eyed Peas | Don't Lie | 1 | |
| Pussycat Dolls | Don't Cha | 5 | Re-entry |
| Robbie Williams | Tripping | 2 | |
| Madonna | Hung Up | 15 (6) | 6 wks in '05 + 9 wks in '06 = 15 total Single with most points in a week |
[edit] 2006
| Artist | Song | Weeks at number one |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madonna | Hung Up | 15 (9) | 6 wks in '05 + 9 wks in '06 = 15 total Single with most points in a week |
| Madonna | Sorry | 7 | |
| P!nk | Stupid Girls | 2 | |
| Rihanna | SOS | 2 | |
| Shakira | Hips Don't Lie | 16 | Most weeks at number one in 2006, Most weeks at number one in chart history. |
| Justin Timberlake | SexyBack | 10 | |
| Justin Timberlake | My Love | 3 | |
| Beyoncé | Irreplaceable | 1 |
[edit] Number one albums
[edit] 2002
| Artist | Album | Weeks at number one |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hot Chili Peppers | By the Way | 4 | |
| Eminem | The Eminem Show | 8 | Most successful album of 2002 |
| Coldplay | A Rush of Blood to the Head | 2 | |
| Eminem | The Eminem Show | 1 | Re-entry |
| Elvis Presley | 30 Number 1 Hits | 5 | |
| Nirvana | Nirvana (Best of) | 1 | |
| U2 | The Best of 1990-2000 | 2 | |
| Shania Twain | Up! | 6 (4) | 4 wks in '02 + 2 wks in '03 = 6 total |
[edit] 2003
| Artist | Album | Weeks at number one |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shania Twain | Up! | 6 (2) | 4 wks in '02 + 2 wks in '03 = 6 total |
| Avril Lavigne | Let Go | 6 | |
| Massive Attack | 100th Window | 1 | |
| Avril Lavigne | Let Go | 1 | Re-entry |
| Norah Jones | Come Away with Me | 4 | Most successful album of 2003 Most successful album in chart history |
| Linkin Park | Meteora | 4 | |
| Madonna | American Life | 2 | |
| Norah Jones | Come Away with Me | 1 | Re-entry |
| Marylin Manson | The Golden Age of Grotesque | 1 | |
| Evanescence | Fallen | 2 | |
| Metallica | St. Anger | 5 | |
| Evanescence | Fallen | 1 | Re-entry |
| Beyoncé | Dangerously in Love | 2 | |
| Evanescence | Fallen | 6 | Re-entry |
| Iron Maiden | Dance of Death | 1 | |
| DMX | Grand Champ | 1 | |
| Limp Bizkit | Results May Vary | 1 | |
| Dido | Life for Rent | 4 | |
| R.E.M. | In Time (The Best of 1988-2003) | 1 | |
| Dido | Life for Rent | 2 | Re-entry |
| Britney Spears | In the Zone | 2 | |
| Alicia Keys | The Diary of Alicia Keys | 1 | |
| Dido | Life for Rent | 3 (1) | Re-entry 1 wk in '03 + 2 wks in '04 = 3 total |
[edit] 2004
[edit] 2005
[edit] 2006
[edit] Records: singles
- Cher's single "Believe" is the most successful track on the chart with 10,455,000 points, which is also the best-selling single ever by a female artist and the best-selling single of all time since the chart's start.
- Shakira hold the record for the song with most weeks & consecutive weeks at #1 with "Hips Don't Lie,charting for 16 weeks.
- Madonna holds the record for the artist with most weeks at #1 with 66 weeks.
- Madonna holds the record for the artist with most consecutive weeks at #1 with 22 weeks, "Hung Up" for 15 weeks, "Sorry" for 7 weeks.
- Madonna's "Hung Up" holds the record for receiving the most points, 548,000, in one week.
- Madonna holds the record for most #1's, with 8 in total (American Pie, Music, Don't Tell Me, Die Another Day, American Life, Me Agaisnt the Music, Hung Up, Sorry) and Britney Spears having 7 (...Baby One More Time, (You Drive Me) Crazy, Born to Make You Happy, Oops!... I Did It Again, Me Against the Music, Toxic, Everytime).
- Madonna and Justin Timberlake are the only artists to hold onto both the #1 and #2 positions (Madonna with Sorry and Hung Up; Timberlake with My Love and SexyBack).
- Madonna and Justin Timberlake are also the only artists to replace themselves at #1 (Madonna's Sorry replaced Hung Up; Timberlake's My Love replaced SexyBack).
- James Blunt holds the record for having his single "You're Beautiful" in the top ten for 37 weeks.
- Daniel Powter holds the record for having his single "Bad Day" in the top forty for 54 weeks.
- Eminem's "Without Me" became a record breaker as well when it debuted at number 2 on the chart, making it the highest debut on the chart since its start.
[edit] Records: albums
- Norah Jones' debut album "Come Away with Me" is the most successful album on the chart with 18,734,000 points.
- Both Dido and Evanescence hold the record for most weeks at #1, with "Life for Rent" and "Fallen."
- Norah Jones also holds the record for having an album stay the longest on the top ten, her debut album "Come Away with Me" stayed there for 61 weeks.
- Norah Jones also holds the record for having an album stay the longest on the top forty, "Come Away with Me" stayed there for 114 weeks.
- Norah Jones also holds the record for selling the most album units in a week, her album "Feels Like Home" sold 1,920,000 in its debut week.
