A great song can take you back to a time ... for songs of years past. Before streaming, the charts were the arbiters of popular taste, with the luckiest few scoring a “number one” hit song.

One of the most successful British bands of all time is The Shadows, with six number one hits. Initially the backing band for Sir Cliff Richard, the group’s line-up changed over the years but ...

Madonna's scored 30 weeks at Number 1, and her longest run was 1990's hits retrospective The Immaculate Collection, one of the biggest selling albums of all time, which notched up nine straight weeks.