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Read about each song that topped the charts in Ireland at irishnumberones.com Every Friday: the new Irish charts and 'Mr Brightside'-Watch! Also on Instagram, Threads, Mastodon Written & posted by @aidancurran17.bsky.social #SpéirGhorm

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 31m

Aw-rait! Number one in Ireland this week in October 1988: U2 with 'Desire' irishnumberones.com/2022/03/30/u...

U2 – ‘Desire’

24 September 1988 Dunk a-dunk a-dunk, a-dunk-dunk! That’s the Bo Diddley beat, a staple of rock music since the man himself popularised it in the ’50s, and a proven crowd-pleaser. For e…

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 7m

U2's 21 number one singles in Ireland: seven in the '80s, seven in the '90s, and seven in the '00s. None since 2009: irishnumberones.com/tag/u2/

Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 15m

From the Rattle And Hum movie, here's that key scene where U2 visit Graceland: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAru...

Spinal Tap visits Elvis' grave.

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 31m

Aw-rait! Number one in Ireland this week in October 1988: U2 with 'Desire' irishnumberones.com/2022/03/30/u...

U2 – ‘Desire’

24 September 1988 Dunk a-dunk a-dunk, a-dunk-dunk! That’s the Bo Diddley beat, a staple of rock music since the man himself popularised it in the ’50s, and a proven crowd-pleaser. For e…

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 15h

Cross-channel, the same three tracks as in Ireland have gone straight in at the top for Taylor Swift, meaning 'The Fate Of Ophelia' is the new UK no. 1 www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/t...

Taylor Swift lands the biggest opening week of her career in the UK with The Life Of A Showgirl

All hail Taylor Swift, queen of...well...everything, according to Official Charts data this week.

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 16h

The life of a showguy. This week's 'Mr Brightside'-Watch:

🔽 DOWN one place to no. 87
🔽 379 weeks in total on the Irish charts
🔽 NEVER a no. 1 in Ireland
🔽 NEVER even in the Irish top 40

Chart data: IRMA www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdG...

The Killers - Mr. Brightside (Official Music Video)

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 16h

The life of a showgirl. Ireland's top ten singles this week: www.irma.ie#chartTab1

Ireland's top ten singles this week: https://www.irma.ie/#chartTab1

Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 16h

'The Fate Of Ophelia' is Taylor Swift's fourth no. 1 single in Ireland. Only one behind Dustin now!

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 17h

☘️ This week's Irish singles chart! 💿
As expected, a clean sweep of the top three for Taylor Swift:
1️⃣ 'The Fate Of Ophelia' www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko70...
2️⃣ 'Opalite'
3️⃣ 'Elizabeth Taylor'

I pause to note these are tracks 1, 3 and 2 on the album. Chart data: www.officialcharts.com/charts/irish...

Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia (Official Music Video)

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 1d

Dr Alban, also from Nigeria but based in Sweden for his music career, only reached no. 2 in Ireland in 1992 with his biggest hit, 'It's My Life': www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW0V...

Dr.Alban - It's My Life (Official HD Video)

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 1d

Wizkid, by featuring on 'One Dance' with Drake and Kyla in 2016, was the first act from Nigeria to have a no. 1 single in Ireland. Here's a 2020 track from him with another Nigerian act and future Drake collaborator, Tems: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jipQ...

Wizkid - Essence (Official Video) ft. Tems

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 1d

Drake is the latest in a short line of rappers from Toronto to top the Irish singles charts, going back as far as... irishnumberones.com/2022/06/04/s...

Snow – ‘Informer’

25 April 1993 Here we are again: a white chart-topper, wearing his whiteness as a badge of identity, peddling a watered-down and infantile facsimile of music of Black origins. Darrin O’Brien …

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 1d

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6 May 2016
Drake ft. WizKid and Kyla - 'One Dance': The Ed Sheeran of rap irishnumberones.com/2025/10/09/d...

Drake ft WizKid and Kyla – ‘One Dance’

6 May 2016 Entertaining as the Kendrick – Drake beef has been, I have one teensy reservation: it’s only Drake. Surely there a worthier foe for the lacerating rhymes of Pulitzer Prize la…

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 3d

Zero no. 1 singles in Ireland about Russia's greatest love machine:

A bearded man with his right hand raised

Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 3d

No. 1 singles in Ireland about, featuring or named after them:
3 - Jesus Christ
3 - Pope John Paul II
5 - Roy Keane

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 4d

Another Andrew Lloyd Webber concoction from the top of our charts. If you think the song is noxious schmaltz, wait 'til you see the video: irishnumberones.com/2022/03/05/c...

Cliff Richard and Sarah Brightman – ‘All I Ask Of You’

25 October 1986 During my Paris years I went to the Opera a couple of times, but I never saw any phantoms there. West End musicals: don’t trust them! If you’ve visited Paris you may hav…

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 4d

We have Andrew Lloyd Webber to thank for 'Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini', the song that knocked 'Put 'Em Under Pressure' off the Irish number one spot in 1990: irishnumberones.com/2022/04/28/b...

Bombalurina – ‘Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini’

30 August 1990 Bombalurina is the name of a feline in the musical Cats, and the ‘executive producer’ of this record is Cats composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who apparently wanted a number …

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 4d

Two versions of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Any Dream Will Do' have topped the Irish charts - by Irish singer Joe Cuddy in 1974 and then this one by Jason: irishnumberones.com/2022/05/08/j...

Jason Donovan – ‘Any Dream Will Do’

27 June 1991 What’s this, an ’80s revival already? Well, actually Jason was still having hits at the start of the ’90s – in fact, up to this point in mid-1991 he has more Ir…

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 4d

'I Don't Know How To Love Him' in December 1971 was our first of many number ones from Andrew Lloyd Webber. This from 1980 is sung by a Webb and written by a Webber, which implies the existence of a Webbest: irishnumberones.com/2022/01/02/m...

Marti Webb – ‘Take That Look Off Your Face’

27 March 1980 Our first power ballad, a genre that really took off in the ’80s and, like the poor or venereal disease, is still with us. This one, of the West End musical variant, is sung by …

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 4d

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9 December 1971
Tina and The Real McCoy – ‘I Don’t Know How To Love Him’: Jaysus irishnumberones.com/2025/10/06/t...

Tina and The Real McCoy – ‘I Don’t Know How To Love Him’

9 December 1971 This seems to be the first number one single anywhere for Andrew Lloyd Webber, although Jesus Christ Superstar had topped the US album charts the previous year. (Earlier in 1971, He…

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 4d

🗽 In other news from America, it's now eight weeks in total for 'Golden' from KPop Demon Hunters as the US no. 1 www.billboard.com/lists/huntr-...

HUNTR/X’s ‘Golden’ Is No. 1 on Hot 100 for Eighth Week, Tate McRae’s ‘Tit for Tat’ Debuts at No. 3

HUNTR/X’s "Golden" is No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for an eighth week.

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 5d

Jesus Christ! This Irish singer will be next in our chart-toppers of 1971 on Irish Number Ones irishnumberones.com

Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 5d

Duck! Coming next in Ireland's chart-topping singles of 2016 on Irish Number Ones... irishnumberones.com

Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 6d

No solo number one single in Ireland yet for Niall. Here's the best of his seven top ten hits so far: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G9L...

Niall Horan - Heaven (Official Video)

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 6d

Seven Irish chart-toppers with One Direction put Niall Horan one ahead of his fellow Mullingar native Joe Dolan as the Westmeath act with the most no. 1 singles in Ireland.

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 6d

The best pop single of the last 25 years, and some others too: check out all of Ireland's chart-toppers of 2012 on Irish Number Ones. Content warning: Ireland's Euro 2012 campaign irishnumberones.com/by-date/#2012