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 ELVIS IS ENGLAND'S KING OF CHARTS LONDON (AP) -- Elvis Presley is the all-time singles king in Britain, nearly a half-century after he first crashed into the pop chart here, according to a new list recently published.
At No. 2 is Cliff Richard with 1,152 weeks in the charts, followed by The Shadows at 771 weeks. The rest of the top 10 are: Elton John, Madonna, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Rod Stewart, the Beatles and David Bowie. The singles chart in Britain has varied in length over the
years. When Presley appeared for the first time in 1956 with "Heartbreak Hotel,"
the British chart listed 30 records. In 1978, the year after Presley died, the chart
stabilized at its present length of the top 75 singles.
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Presley has appeared on 1,193 of the weekly charts since 1952, when British
Hit Singles, a book published by Guinness World Records, began keeping records.
