Irish Number Ones

A person playing a guitar

And next in 1972, our final chart-topping single from the greatest pop star of them all: irishnumberones.com

A man holding wads of cash, sitting with two other people

Duck, it's our next chart-topping single of 2018, coming soon on Irish Number Ones irishnumberones.com

Dua Lipa – ‘IDGAF’ 26 January 2018 I feel defeated. ‘IDGAF’ must be one of the dullest tracks ever to top the charts. From its lack of a tune to its lack of a hook, the whole thing is resolutely dour and …

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26 January 2018
Dua Lipa - 'IDGAF': Nominative determinism irishnumberones.com/2026/03/04/d...

YouTube video by disiz - Topic melodrama

🥐 In France, it's now 20 consecutive weeks at number one - since mid-October 2025 - for the synthpop 'Melodrama' by erstwhile rapper Disiz (formerly Disiz la Peste) and Theodora. See what you think: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2tK...

Screenshot of charts of Canada, Australia and Aotearoa - New Zealand 🍁 https://www.billboard.com/charts/canadian-hot-100/ 🪃 https://www.aria.com.au/charts/singles-chart/2026-03-02 🥝 https://aotearoamusiccharts.co.nz/charts/singles

🌏 In nicer world news, 'Man I Need' by Olivia Dean holds on to the number one spot this week in Canada, Australia and Aotearoa - New Zealand

Data:
🍁 www.billboard.com/charts/canad...
🪃 www.aria.com.au/charts/singl...
🥝 aotearoamusiccharts.co.nz/charts/singles

Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas’ Two-Steps Back to No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100 Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” rebounds for a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

🗽 In other news from America, 'Choosin' Texas' by country singer Ella Langley has displaced Taylor Swift's 'Opalite' to return for a second week as the US number one: www.billboard.com/lists/ella-l...

What's fool: Bending spoons
What's cool: Playing chart hits on face (own) with spoons

I read about people with skills like this and I feel I have wasted my life.

YouTube video by giacomo cottone Hot Butter - Popcorn - 1972

If 'Virginia Plain' and 'All The Young Dudes' weirded you out in September 1972, also in the Irish charts that month was 'Popcorn' by Hot Butter. You know this one: youtu.be/rSxsKtuUVx8?...

YouTube video by Bryan Ferry Roxy Music - Virginia Plain - Top Of The Pops - 24th August 1972

Another glam masterpiece, new in the Irish charts in September 1972, along with an iconic TOTP appearance. God, Roxy were fab: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BonW...

YouTube video by Richard Weaver Films Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes

Slade were at number one with 'Mama Weer All Crazee Now', and the Irish charts also had some other big beasts of glam in September 1972. Top ten in Ireland that month, boogaloo dudes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Iqi...

Slade – ‘Mama Weer All Crazee Now’ 21 September 1972 If Slade are the Oasis of glam, then with ‘Mama Weer All Crazee Now’ they seem to be getting their Be Here Now era in early. The substance of choice here, as per the l…

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Slade - 'Mama Weer All Crazee Now': Teedeeus irishnumberones.com/2026/03/02/s...

YouTube video by Mitski - Topic In a Lake

💿 Cool New Music On Irish Number Ones: An Occasional Series 💿

The new Mitski album: catchy, dreamy indie pop for catchy, dreamy indie kids www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7Hv...

Collage of record covers

'Informer' by Snow: different times. Check out all of Ireland's chart-topping singles from 1993 at Irish Number Ones: irishnumberones.com/by-date/#1993

Ireland's top ten singles this week in February 1993. Source: https://www.ukmix.org/forum/chart-discussion/chart-analysis/31388-irish-charts-1991-to-1993?p=958834#post958834

Deep: Ireland's top ten singles this week in February 1993. Source: www.ukmix.org/forum/chart-...

YouTube video by neilyoungchannel Neil Young - Harvest Moon [Official Music Video]

Also new in the Irish top thirty this week in February 1993, and also on a Duran-style unexpected comeback at the time: Neil Young with the title track from Harvest Moon www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Mt...

YouTube video by Suede HQ Suede - Animal Nitrate (Remastered Official HD Video)

Unleash the beast! New at a paltry no. 17 in the Irish charts this week in February 1993: band of the moment-slash-decade Suede with the scorching 'Animal Nitrate' www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7mE...

YouTube video by LennyKravitzVEVO Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way (Official Music Video)

Heading up the Irish charts this week in February 1993: 'Are You Gonna Go My Way' by Lenny Kravitz, who was a sort of '90s Bruno Mars. Cool video, though: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LhC...

YouTube video by DuranDuranVEVO Duran Duran - Ordinary World (Official Music Video)

Back. Back! BACK! from the Smash Hits "dumper" of pop and in the Irish top ten this week in February 1993: Duran and their epic 'Ordinary World'. [NB: Video has lighting effects] www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqIA...

YouTube video by whitneyhoustonVEVO Whitney Houston - I'm Every Woman (Official Video)

No, a young Whitney didn't sing on Chaka Khan's original 'I'm Every Woman'. Her own version, though, was in the Irish top five this week in February 1993: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7_s...

Leanne Moore – ‘On Wings’ 26 June 2008 ‘On Wings’ completes a remarkable two-part Irish chart statistic, 15 years after ‘This Time’ / ‘Life Without You’ also topped our charts. It means L…

Here's the second half: irishnumberones.com/2023/06/24/l...

Chris Moore – ‘This Time’ / ‘Life Without You’ 24 January 1993 Chris and Leanne Moore are so far the only mother and daughter to each have an Irish number one single. (Their closest challengers, Neneh Cherry and Mabel, have both only reached nu…

Knocked off Ireland's number one spot by 2 Unlimited's 'No Limit' this week in February 1993: the first half of a unique Irish chart achievement irishnumberones.com/2022/05/31/c...

YouTube video by 2 Unlimited Official 2 Unlimited - Get Ready For This (Official Music Video)

Y'all ready for this (being nostalgic about 2 Unlimited)? Their other big hit only reached no. 3 in Ireland in 1991, and I don't remember enjoying this so much then as I do now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPOm...

2 Unlimited – ‘Twilight Zone’ 23 January 1992 I’m a child of two-channel Ireland, and in January 1992 both those channels went on strike. The RTÉ industrial action lasted four weeks, during which time RTÉ 1 and the then-N…

No pasaran! 2 Unlimited's other number one in Ireland, although the data is cloudy because of the 1992 RTÉ strike: irishnumberones.com/2025/04/28/2...

2 Unlimited – ‘No Limit’ 28 February 1993 The original version has a rap. For the UK release that we also got in Ireland, maybe from self-consciousness about a non-native-speaker rapping in English, the producers took that…

No your limits. Number one in Ireland this week in February 1993: 2 Unlimited with 'No Limit' irishnumberones.com/2022/06/01/2...

Rising American star Bella Kay bags first-ever Top 10 with iloveitiloveitiloveit Where did this come from?   Rising American talent Bella Kay secures her first-ever Official Top 10 single with iloveitiloveitiloveit, with the track climbing an astonishing 22 places this week (4).

🇬🇧 In Britain, Sam Fender and Olivia Dean with 'Rein Me In' spend a second week as the UK number one, while Bella Kay makes a big climb up the charts: www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/r...

We don't know what's good for us.

YouTube video by TheKillersVEVO The Killers - Mr. Brightside (Official Music Video)

This week's 'Mr Brightside'-Watch:

🔽 DOWN five places to no. 65
🔽 394 weeks in total on the Irish charts
🔽 NEVER no. 1 in Ireland
🔽 NEVER even in the Irish top 40

Six weeks to go #MrBrightsideIreland400 Chart data: IRMA www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdG...

YouTube video by KateBushMusic Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights - Official Music Video - Version 2

Wily! Windy! More! A re-entry at no. 48 on this week's Irish charts, thanks to a low-profile movie of the same name and influence: perhaps the greatest number one single of them all www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk-4... Chart data: IRMA

Cover of Days Of Ash EP by U2

You begrudgers may want to know that none of the songs from U2's Days Of Ash EP, released last week, have got into the Irish top 100.