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The Killers’ Mr Brightside becomes biggest song to never reach UK No 1
Band overtake Oasis’s Wonderwall and celebrate how the much-chanted chart staple ‘has been completely embraced by the British public’
The Killers’ Mr Brightside, already the longest-running Top 100 hit in UK chart history, has been named the biggest single not to reach UK No 1.
Currently in its 408th week in the chart at No 71 and still being streamed by the British public 1.8m times a week, Mr Brightside – which has become a much-chanted staple at boozy weddings, karaoke nights and cheesy club nights – has overtaken Oasis’s Wonderwall as the most successful single not to reach No 1, with 5.57m chart sales (including 1.066m actual sales and 530,340,000 streams).
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