Please select an era from below: 14 No.1 hits, 11 No.2 hits, 8 No.3 hits, 6 No.4 hits 40 Top 5 hits, 68 Top 10 hits, 97 Top 20 hits, 124 Top 40 hits NB: Two Cliff chart single hits were actually the same record! 1) "Never mind" a chart hit in it's own right (1959, No.21) was the B-side of "Mean streak" (1959, No.10). Columbia DB4290. 2) "Dynamite a chart hit in it's own right (1959, No.16) was the B-side of "Travellin' light" (1959, No.1). Columbia DB4351. CLIFF'S CHART-TOPPING SINGLES Living Doll 1959 (6 weeks) Travellin' Light 1959 (5 weeks) Please Don't Tease 1960 (2 weeks) I Love You 1960 (2 weeks) The Young Ones 1962 (6 weeks) The Next Time/Bachelor Boy 1963 (3 weeks) Summer Holiday 1963 (3 weeks) The Minute You're Gone 1965 (1 week) Congratulations 1968 (2 weeks) We Don't Talk Anymore 1979 (4 weeks) Living Doll 1986 (3 weeks) Mistletoe And Wine 1988 (4 weeks) Saviour's Day 1990 (1 week) The Millennium Prayer 1999 (3 weeks) Cliff's 14 chart-topping singles have spent 45 weeks at No.1 in total. This is third only to: Elvis Presley (80 weeks) and The Beatles (69 weeks). CLIFF RICHARD - THE RECORD BREAKER Highest UK singles sales. Cliff Richard has sold more singles in the UK than any other artist, reaching career sales of more than 21.35million. That is more than Elvis Presley with 20.84m, The Beatles 20.80m, Madonna with 17.00m, Elton John with 14.72m, Michael Jackson with 14.03m, Queen with 11.90m, Abba with 10.04m, Paul McCartney with 9.91m and David Bowie with 9.91m. Most UK number one singles by a UK soloist. Cliff's first number one single Living doll in 1959 was the first of 14 chart-toppers, the most by any UK solo artist and second only among all solo artists to Elvis Presley who has scored a record-breaking 21 number ones to his name. Among UK artists Cliff appears on more number one singles outside the members of The Bealtes than any other act with his tally comprising his own 14 number one singles plus the multi-artist Band Aid 11 whose "Do they know its Christmas" topped the 1989 Christmas chart. He had topped the chart the previous Christmas with Mistletoe and wine and did so again in 1990 with Saviour's day, giving him a consecutive hat-trick of festive chart-toppers. Only artist to have number one singles in five decades. Cliff holds the record - which is extremely unlikely to ever be matched or beaten - of being the only artist to achieve UK number one singles in five separate decades. He claimed two number one singles in the Fifties, starting with Living doll, seven in the Sixties, beginning with Please don't tease in 1960 and ending with Congratulations in 1968, one in the Seventies - We don't talk anymore - two in the Eighties and two in the Nineties, the most recent being The Millennium Prayer, his only UK chart-topper not to have been released through EMI. It came out on the Chrysalis Group's Papilion label and reached number one in December 1999 but failed to secure him a sixth decade as a chart-topper by remaining at the top into the 2000s as Westlife's "I have a dream/Seasons in the sun" overtook it on the way to that year's Christmas number one. Most UK Top 10 singles by a UK act. Cliff has 67 Top 10 hits to his name, beginning with Move it in 1958 and most recently with Thank you for a life time, which peaked at number three. This is more than any other UK act with his nearest rival Paul McCartney claiming 53 Top 10 hits all across his Beatles, solo and Wings output. Sir Cliff is now nine hits behind the overall all-time Top 10 champion Elvis Presley. Longest span of number-one hits by a UK artist. Sir Cliff's span of number one hits of 40 years, four months and 15 days - from Living doll in August 1959 to The Millennium Prayer in December 1999 - is the longest by any UK artist and on the all-comers list is only beaten by Elvis Presley, whose own run of number one hits span more than 47 years. Most UK Top 40 hits. Sir Cliff has had more UK Top 40 hit singles than any other act in history with his total of 124 hits stretching through every single year since his chart debut in 1958, apart from 1975, the year before his commercial comeback with the "I'm nearly famous" album and Devil woman hit single, which also became his long-awaited US breakthrough hit when it reached number six on the Billboard Hot 100. It was certified Gold there for 1m sales, his only certification in the States. His tally of 135 Top 75 hits is also a record. He scored his 100th hit in June 1989 with The best of me, penned by David Foster, Richard Marx and Jeremy Lubbock, which debuted and peaked at two behind Jason Donovan's "Sealed with a kiss". To mark this landmark achievement, "The best of me" included his first hit "Move it" as one of its B-sides. First UK act to debut at number one. Cliff's 1962 chart-topping single The young ones, recorded with The Shadows, was the first release by a UK artist to enter the UK singles chart at number one. It was also his longest-running number one, spending six weeks at the top, and his biggest UK seller with sales reaching 1.05m. However, his worldwide top seller is We don't talk anymore, which has sold more tham 5m units globally and was one of three of his singles to make the US Top 10. Most consecutive Top 40 hits by a male solo artist. Cliff had an uninterrupted run of 23 Top 10 hits from 1960s A voice in the wilderness, which peaked at number two, to 1965s chart-topping The minute you're gone, the most by any male solo artist. Most weeks at number two. As well as placing 14 UK number one singles, Cliff has also reached number two 11 times, beginning with first hit Move it in 1958. This is the highest tally by any British act, while his 23 weeks in runners-up position is more than any other artist. The first act to reach number one with two versions of the same song. Having topped the chart in 1959 with Lionel Bart's Living doll with The Shadows (then known as The Drifters), Cliff returned to number one with the song in 1986, this time with The Young Ones featuring Shadows guitarist Hank Marvin.