List of UK top 10 singles in 2016
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| Charts 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 2015, 2016, 2017 |
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| Top 10 singles 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 |
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The UK Singles Chart is one of many music charts compiled by the Official Charts Company that calculates the best-selling singles of the week in the United Kingdom. Since 2004 the chart has been based on the sales of both physical singles and digital downloads, with airplay figures excluded from the official chart. Since 2004 the chart has been based on the sales of both physical singles and digital downloads, with airplay figures excluded from the official chart. From 6 July 2014, streaming figures became incorporated into the singles chart which means that a song will count as a sale, if streamed 100 times. This list shows singles that peaked in the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart during 2016, as well as songs which peaked in 2015 and 2017 but were in the top 10 in 2016. The entry date is when the song appeared in the top 10 for the first time.
Seventy-five songs were in the top ten in 2016. Nine singles from 2015 remained in the top 10 for several weeks at the beginning of the year. History by British group One Direction, was the only song from 2015 to reach its peak in 2016, reaching number six on 21 January 2016 having entered the top 10 on 31 December 2015. Twenty-three artists scored multiple entries in the top 10 in 2016.
The song One Dance spent a total of 15 consecutive weeks at number 1 making it the longest running number-one of the digital music era, breaking the record previous held by Rihanna and Jay-Z in 2007 with Umbrella which spent a total of 10 consecutive weeks at number-one.
"Love Yourself" by Canadian singer Justin Bieber returned to number-one for the first three weeks of 2016, giving the song a total of six weeks on top of the chart. The song had vacated the top spot for one week as the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir secured the 2015 Christmas number-one with "A Bridge Over You". The first new number-one single of the year was "Stitches" by his fellow countryman Shawn Mendes. Overall, eleven different songs peaked at number-one in 2016, with Justin Bieber (2) having the most songs hit that position.
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