Most simultaneous Top 10 debuts on the UK Official Singles Chart

On 16 March 2017, Ed Sheeran (UK) placed seven new entries in the UK Official Singles Chart Top 10 - all songs from his album ÷ (“Divide”): “Galway Girl” (No.2), “Perfect” (No.4), “New Man” (No.5), “Happier” (No.6), “Dive” (No.8), “Supermarket Flowers” (No.9) and “What Do I Know?” (No.10). Between 19 April 1997 and 3 September 2005, there were multiple weeks featuring seven simultaneous new entries – from seven different acts – in the UK Top 10.

Blur, Orbital, The Course, Shola Ama, Kavana, Suede and Texas all landed new hits in the Top 10 on 19 April 1997. Oasis, Rihanna, Simon Webbe, Black Eyed Peas, Girls Aloud, Kaiser Chiefs and The White Stripes did the same on 3 September 2005. Between times, the following charts also produced seven new Top 10 entries simultaneously: 19 July 1997, 28 November 1998, 6 March 1999, 11 March 2000, 15 April 2000, 15 July 2000, 19 January 2002, 28 September 2002, 27 September 2003, 16 October 2004, 13 November 2004, 29 January 2005, 5 February 2005, 5 March 2005 and 26 March 2005.

On 16 March 2017, Sheeran occupied nine of the Top 10 positions (with “Shape of You” at No.1 and “Castle on the Hill” at No.3) and 16 of the Top 20 (all 16 tracks from the deluxe edition of ÷), prompting the Official Charts Company to introduce a rule that permitted only three tracks from the same act to appear in the chart at the same time. This rule all-but consigned seven simultaneous Top 10 entries – let alone an elusive eight – to history.

On 11 January 2024, after the Christmas songs had left the chart, six tracks from outside the previous week’s Top 50, plus one re-entry from Sophie Ellis-Bextor, simultaneously reached the Top 10 – the only instance to date of seven "old" hits storming into the Top 10 in the same week.