And there it stayed. For better or for worse, in sickness and in health, through sunshine and rain, Bryan Adams' emotional power ballad reigned over the UK charts for four straight months. The song, which was written in just 45 minutes especially for the iconic Kevin Costner-starring Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, is one of the most successful singles in UK chart history. In Canadian rapper and singer Drake managed 15 weeks on the trot with One Dance ft. Wizkid and Kyla, and Wet Wet Wet, who in spent 15 straight weeks at Number 1 with Love Is All Around, until they literally stopped production of the song to give everyone a break.
Even in , nine people have picked up a physical copy of the song! To date it's clocked up over 55 million streams in the UK since chart records began — including 10 million in the first six months of alone.
Unsurprisingly, the track was the best-seller of earning 1. Ten years after its success frontman Marti Pellow said of the track: "We did everybody's head in in the summer of I still think it's a brilliant record. Its strength is its sheer simplicity. Any band would give their eye teeth to have a hit record like that. I'm very proud of it. Yet another movie soundtrack in the nineties managed to stay at number one for a long period, but this time it was Whitney Houston for 10 weeks. It became the most successful song ever recorded by a female solo artist.
The only other song to have peaked for ten weeks in a row was in with David Whitfield's 'Cara Mia'. There have been a lot of singles managing to peak at nine consecutive weeks at number one, but Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is worth a special note for topping the charts for nine weeks in - then scoring another five weeks in a row when the same version was re-released in The song also made another record as it was the first song to have made Christmas number one twice with the same version.
On its second release in the nineties, ironically it was Whitney's 'I Will Always Love You' that knocked it off the number one spot and began its long run at the top. Frankie Laine's version of 'I Believe' may not hold the record for the most consecutive weeks at number one, but it does hold the record for the largest number of weeks.
The song, which has since been covered by Elvis Presley and LeAnn Rimes, was number one for a total of 18 weeks. The song initially stayed on top for nine weeks, it later reached number one again for another six weeks then came in for a third time for three more weeks.
It was much more common for singles to move up and down like this when the charts first started. Slim Whitman's rendition of 'Rose Marie' in was to hold the record for the longest running single, that was until Bryan Adams released the current record holder in - an astonishing 36 years later.
Although it has been rare more recently for artists to have a single at number one for long stretches of time, there is one recent song that has equalled Rihanna so far. When Gnarls Barkley released hit 'Crazy' it was the first time a single had dominated the charts for a long time. It also scored the first record for reaching number one on download sales alone, with people buying the leaked track months before its actual release date last year.
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