Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Sin�ad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
2. The Beautiful South - A Little Time
3. Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around
4. Soft Cell - Tainted Love
5. Robbie Williams - Rock DJ
6. The Human League - Don 't You Want Me
7. Kylie Minogue - Can 't Get You Out Of My Head
8. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes
9. The Police - Message In A Bottle
10. Madness - House Of Fun
11. Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
12. Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls Of Fire
13. Jackie Wilson - Reet Petite
14. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
15. The Kinks - You Really Got Me
16. U2 - Beautiful Day
17. Oasis - Some Might Say
18. The Steve Miller Band - The Joker
19. UB40 - Red Red Wine
20. Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
21. Dusty Springfield - You Don 't Have To Say You Love Me
22. John Lennon - Imagine

Disc 2:

1. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
2. Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
3. Rod Stewart - Maggie May
4. Elton John feat. Kiki Dee - Don�t Go Breaking My Heart
5. Bee Gees - Night Fever
6. Barry White - You�re The First, The Last, My Everything
7. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - The Tears Of A Clown
8. The Four Tops - Reach Out I�ll Be There
9. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
10. Buddy Holly - It Doesn�t Matter Anymore
11. The Supremes - Baby Love
12. Abba - Take A Chance On Me
13. Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
14. Cliff Richard And The Shadows - The Young Ones
15. Bill Haley & His Comets - (We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock
16. The Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody
17. Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends
18. The Animals - The House Of The Rising Sun
19. David Bowie - Space Oddity
20. Thunderclap Newman - Something In The Air
21. Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31193 in Music
• Released on: 2004-11-22
• Number of discs: 2

Customer Reviews

When picking an albums worth of No.1's - you could do worse!
This set represents a creditably even handed, 43 track sweep through five decades of chart toppers. The album does itself a favour by missing out any chart toppers from the last ten years that typify the 'straight-in-at-number-one with a fan base push then a plummet of 22 places on week two' pattern - caused by declining sales in the singles market. These are, at least, proper number ones in the traditional sense. Since the 1960's, when almost every Beatles single was an automatic chart topper, the best records by the greatest artists have rarely been number ones. With that fact in mind, you'd have to conclude that this album does largely represent the best that number one singles have had to offer; there's 'Good Vibrations',' Reach Out',' Maggie May',' Nothing Compares 2 U','Reet Petite' etc. - but no Beatles (permission is never granted to include their back catalogue on compilations), so you can't treat the album title as a gospel.