The UK Singles Chart is a record chart compiled by The Official Charts Company (OCC) on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, and the top 40 singles are revealed each Sunday on BBC Radio 1. The chart, however, does not factor airplay into its rankings. Before the advent of music downloads, it was based entirely on sales of physical singles from retail outlets, but since 2005 downloads have been included in the chart formulation.

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  • The UK Singles Chart is a record chart compiled by The Official Charts Company (OCC) on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, and the top 40 singles are revealed each Sunday on BBC Radio 1. The chart, however, does not factor airplay into its rankings. Before the advent of music downloads, it was based entirely on sales of physical singles from retail outlets, but since 2005 downloads have been included in the chart formulation. During the 2000s, 267 singles have reached the number-one position on the chart, as of 13 September 2009. Over this period, Westlife have been the most successful group at reaching the top spot, with 11 number-one singles. Rihanna and Jay-Z's song "Umbrella" spent 10 weeks at number one in 2007, the longest spell at the top of the charts since Wet Wet Wet's 1994 hit "Love Is All Around", which topped the charts for 15 weeks. The Internet allowed music to be heard by vast numbers of people on social networking sites such as YouTube and MySpace; it also increased piracy. This and the introduction of the UK Download Chart in 2004 led to a decrease in record sales and a reduction in the number of copies sold of a number-one record on the singles chart. Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" became the first song to reach the top of the charts based on downloads alone in 2006, remaining at number one for nine consecutive weeks. Physical single sales had been falling for more than a decade but digital single sales finally turned the trend around in 2008 with combined physical and digital single sales growing 33% over the previous year. Lily Allen made herself known on the Internet through her MySpace page, and following this exposure, sales of her debut single "Smile" peaked at number one. Reality television shows produced several successful artists during the decade. Hear’Say won the original series of Popstars in 2000 and topped the charts with their debut single "Pure and Simple". A trend developed as this feat was replicated by Pop Idol winners Will Young (2002) and Michelle McManus (2003), and runner-up Gareth Gates; 2002 Fame Academy winner David Sneddon, and the winner of the first series of The X Factor, Steve Brookstein, in 2005. Reality television winners did especially well during the Christmas season; every Christmas number one from 2005 to 2008 came from an X Factor winner. Shayne Ward reached number one in 2005 with "That's My Goal", and he was followed by Leona Lewis, Leon Jackson and Alexandra Burke. Girls Aloud, the Popstars: The Rivals winners, also had the Christmas number one in 2002 with "Sound of the Underground. " The first number one of the decade, the double-A side "I Have a Dream" / "Seasons in the Sun" by Westlife, was a holdover from the end of 1999. Taio Cruz's "Break Your Heart" is number-one as of 20 September 2009.
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  • The UK Singles Chart is a record chart compiled by The Official Charts Company (OCC) on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, and the top 40 singles are revealed each Sunday on BBC Radio 1. The chart, however, does not factor airplay into its rankings. Before the advent of music downloads, it was based entirely on sales of physical singles from retail outlets, but since 2005 downloads have been included in the chart formulation.
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  • List of number-one singles from the 2000s (UK)
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