Interesting Facts About Album and Singles Charts:

The original version of “Ain’t No Sunshine” by Bill Withers did not chart on the UK Singles Chart until 2009, 38 years after its release.

The Dark Side of the Moon was #1 for only one week on the Billboard album chart, although it remained on the chart for 741 weeks.

Frozen pizza is so popular in Norway that when a popular brand released a new jingle, it reached #1 on the Norwegian charts.

The Gnarls Barkley song ‘Crazy’ topped the UK charts for so long it was eventually pulled so people would “remember the song fondly and not get sick of it.”

Weird Al’s recent “Mandatory Fun” album was the first comedy album to ever debut at #1 on the Billboard charts and it was the first comedy album to top the charts in over 50 years.

In Australia, Weird Al’s “Eat It” reached number one on the music charts, while the original, “Beat It”, only peaked at number three.

The Go-Go’s were the first, and to date only, the all-female band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts.

“Thrift Shop” by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis was the first song since 1994 to reach No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart without the support of a major record label.

The song “Chocolate Salty Balls” from South Park reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Charts.

The song “Shaving Cream”, despite having been written and released in 1946, peaked at #30 on the Billboard charts in 1975 thanks to the Dr. Demento Show.

It was Freddie Mercury’s dying wish for “Bohemian Rhapsody” to be reissued in order to raise money for AIDS charities. When the song was re-released in late 1991, it topped the charts, staying at #1 for five weeks for the first time since its debut in 1975.

Britain got “Ding Dong the witch is dead” to number two in the charts after Margaret Thatcher Died.

In 2003 Dave Grohl was on the top of the Billboard Modern Rock chart for 17 of 18 successive weeks, as a member of three different groups.

In 2014, Taylor Swift accidentally released an 8-second track of white noise onto iTunes. It reached the top of the Canadian charts almost instantly.

The Sesame Street song “Rubber Duckie” sung by Ernie charted on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1970. The modest hit peaked at #16.