Zappa's " Bobby Brown (Goes Down)" was a smash hit in Europe despite its sexually explicit storyline, and Valley Girl was a Top 40 hit in the US, while his " Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" and " Dancin' Fool" also reached the top 100 in his native United States. However, by the time of the Hit Entertainment and Virgin chart books (and also reflected in the information held by the Official Charts site) [210] [211] [212] [213] [214] featured artists had been given equal status as the main recording act (so that Ed Sheeran has 10 number ones with "River" by Eminem being part of that total, [215] and Sheeran's discography being responsible for number ones by Stormzy and Khalid where they feature as guest acts), [216] [217] with any hits added to the featured artists discography if they had already had been a lead artist or had amassed enough hits as a featured artist to be listed separately. Eliza Rose's follow-up single "Better Love" [104] [105] was also released via a singles deal with Warner, but after the single failed to reach the heights "B. That he managed to compress into four breathtakingly over-the-top minutes what Forman took three hours to achieve is not to be sniffed at. In 1993, " Mr Blobby" became the second novelty song to reach the coveted Christmas number one slot in the UK, following Benny Hill's 1971 chart-topper " Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)".

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The Official Chart Rules are, in relation to the three-track rule: "A maximum of three singles within the Top 100 by the same artist will be chart eligible.The term arose in Tin Pan Alley to describe one of the major divisions of popular music; the other two divisions were ballads and dance music. TV fans may also know 500 Miles as the track that’s stuck on a loop in the tape player of Marshall’s car on How I Met Your Mother. The record also featured the uncredited St Winifred's School Choir, who promoted the record on Top of the Pops with the new duo of Coleman and Parrott [43] (who continued to be billed as Brian after their number one success). The entry date is when the single appeared in the top 10 for the first time (week ending, as published by the Official Charts Company, which is six days after the chart is announced). The great British public voted with their wallets and put Neil Morrissey’s Bob in the top spot – history will probably show they were right.

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Bonus trivia: The song was the biggest selling number 1 of 2007 up to that point and its sales doubled those of the official Comic Relief single, a cover of Walk This Way by Girls Aloud vs. In addition to these records, a single was released by NHS Voices in 2018 with the record company credit going to the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir. A 1940s novelty song was Spike Jones' 1942 " Der Fuehrer's Face", which included raspberries in its chorus.