Kodiak Charts Achievements And Milestones

This is a comprehensive listing that highlights **significant achievements and milestones** based upon the Kodiak Charts. This list spans the period from the issue dated July 28, 2018 to present.

## Year End Achievements

### Most songs in the Year End chart

 13
 10
 8
 7
 The Roots

### Most songs in a single year

 Graveyard
 7
 The Offspring

## Songs Milestones

### Most total weeks at the top 10

Songs in italic are songs that never topped the charts.

### Biggest jump to number one

* **30-1 - Horisont - "Road to Cairo" (December 21, 2019)**
* 17-1 - Lil Nas X - "Bring U Down" (February 15, 2020)
* 14-1 - Corinne Bailey Rae - "Put Your Records On" (November 30, 2019)
* 13-1 - Jake Isaac - "Waiting Here" (August 1, 2020)
* 11-1 - Linkin Park - "In the End" (May 27, 2023)

### Biggest jump on the charts

* **47-8 (39 positions) - Rush - "Dreamline" (September 7, 2019)**
* 49-10 (39 positions) - Juçara Marçal - "Crash" (October 16, 2021)
* 36-4 (32 positions) - Jordan Mackampa - "Parachutes" (November 14, 2020)
* 30-1 (29 positions) - Horisont - "Road to Cairo" (December 21, 2019)
* 31-3 (28 positions) - Crizin da Z.O. - "Www" (July 30, 2022)

### Longest climbs to number one

* **34th week - The Vintage Caravan - "Hell"**
* 28th week - Hooverphonic - "Eden"
* 28th week - Portishead - "Glory Box"
* 24th week - Elza Soares - "A Mulher do Fim do Mundo"
* 22nd week - Portishead - "Biscuit"
* 21st week - Charlie Brown Jr. - "Falar, Falar"

### Biggest drop from number one

* **1-7 - Lizzo - "Bloodlines"**
* **1-7 - Jake Bugg - "The Love We're Hoping For"**
* 1-6 - Dead Meadow - "What Needs Must Be"
* 1-6 - Finger Eleven - "Paralyzer"
* 1-6 - Horisont - "Road To Cairo" (2nd drop)
* 1-6 - Spacehog - "In the Meantime"

### Biggest drops off the Grand 50

* **From #23 - Weezer - "Screens" (July 17, 2021)**
* From #25 - Beastie Boys - "Intergalactic" (July 17, 2021)
* From #26 - Grande Royale - "Cogitator" (January 25, 2020)
* From #27 - Rihanna ft. Jeezy - "Hard" (January 9, 2021)

### Foreign language number-one songs (excluding Portuguese)

* "宗教" [Shūkyō] - Sheena Ringo - 3 weeks (Feburary 26, 2022 - March 12, 2022) - **Japanese**
* "Sni Bong" - Dengue Fever - 3 weeks (July 1, 2023 - July 15, 2023) - **Khmer**
* "Crx" - Casino Royale - 2 weeks (September 16 - September 23, 2023) - **Italian**
* "Solidarité" - Toumani Diabaté, Sidiki Diabaté, -M- & Fatoumata Diawara - 3 weeks (October 7 - October 21, 2023) - **French, Arabic, Hindi and Chinese** [1]
* "Devil Mood" - Smoke City - 4 weeks (October 28 - November 18, 2023) - **French** [1]

[1] = Contains lyrics both in English and Portuguese as well.

### Instrumental number-one songs

* "First Responders" - Dinner Party - 3 weeks (April 10, 2021 - April 24, 2021)
* "Hey Saturday Sun" - Boards of Canada - 2 weeks (November 5, 2022 - November 12, 2022)

### Most weeks at number one in the songs of the week charts

 3
 Jake Bugg
 Rush
 System Of A Down

## Artist Achievements

### Most cumulative weeks at number one in the Grand 50 Songs

 9
 8
 7
 6
 5
 M.I.A.

### Full dominance weeks

Full dominance weeks are weeks where an artist topped all the charts simultaneously (Excluding Mainstream and Current charts)

 November 9, 2019
 November 23, 2019
 June 27, 2020

#### Near full dominance weeks

Near full dominance weeks happen when an artist tops three out of the four charts and in this fourth chart it lands at number two. This only happened twice.

### Most top 10 songs

1 = Lauryn Hill has four top 10 hits in her solo career and three more with the Fugees, which makes the artist itself have 7 top 10 songs, but it's not counted.

### Self replacements at number one

* **Kadavar:** "Doomsday Machine" -> "Thousand Miles Away From Home" (June 12, 2021)

### Top positions simultaneously occupied

* **Kadavar:** June 5, 2021

1. Doomsday Machine
2. Thousand Miles Away from Home

* **Juçara Marçal:** December 11, 2021

1. Crash
2. Vi de Relance a Coroa

### Posthumous number-ones

* Bon Scott and Malcolm Young (AC/DC) - "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" (July 27, 2019)
* Chris Cornell - "Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart" (March 21, 2020)
* Neil Peart (Rush) - "The Spirit of Radio" (August 22, 2020)
* Belchior - "Velha Roupa Colorida" (February 27, 2021)
* Chorão and Champignon (Charlie Brown Jr.) - "Falar, Falar" (March 20, 2021) and "Aquela Paz" (August 5, 2022)
* Elza Soares - "Não Tá Mais de Graça" (February 19, 2022)
* David Bowie - "Suffragette City" (May 14, 2022)
* Gavin Clark - "Broken" (March 4, 2023)
* Chester Bennington - "In the End" (May 27, 2023)
* Phil Lynott - "Bad Reputation" (August 19, 2023)

### Age records

* **Oldest artist to reach number one:** Elza Soares (91), with "Mulher do Fim do Mundo" (August 21, 2021)
* **Youngest artist to reach number one:** Lil Nas X (20), with "Bring U Down" (February 15, 2020)

### Artists with multiple number one songs per year

#### Grand 50 Songs

 2020
 2021
 2022
 2023

#### Hot 50 Songs of the Week

 2019
 2020
 2021
 2022
 2023

## Country Achievements

### Kodiak All Time Countries List

1. #1 hits in the main charts (10 points)
2. #1 hits in the songs of the week charts (5 points)
3. Weeks at #1 in the main charts (3 points)
4. Weeks at #1 in the songs of the week charts (1 point)
5. Top 10 hits in the main charts (2 points)
6. Top 10 hits in the songs of the week charts (2 = 1 point)
7. Peak position in the main charts (1 point for #50, 50 points for #1)
8. Peak position in the songs of the week charts (1 point for #49, 25 points for #1)

### Selected Charts Achievements

* "Thick as a Brick" by Jethro Tull is the longest song ever to chart, with 43 minutes and 50 seconds in length and peaking at #4.
* "Drawing Down the Moon" by Blood Ceremony is the only song in the history to surpass 100 weeks charting in the Grand 50 Songs, this together with being the second longest running number one song of the chart (6 weeks - only being surpassed by UNKLE's "Broken", at 7 weeks.) and the longest running top 10 hit (36 weeks), making the song the biggest hit in the history of the Kodiak Charts.
* Deltron 3030 and The Cardigans are the artists that had the highest number of simultaneous top 10 hits in the Grand 50 Songs chart, each of them having four: "3030", "Mastermind", "Positive Contact" and "Things You Can Do" in the week of December 19th, 2020 for Deltron 3030 and" Been It", "Erase/Rewind", "I Need Some Fine Wine and You, You Need to Be Nicer" and "Starter" in the weeks from October 15th to 22nd of 2022 for The Cardigans.
* In the week of December 10, 2022, Melt Yourself Down managed to get a total of 8 entries in the top 10 of the Songs of the Week Chart, including an All-Melt Yourself Down top 3. To this day, this is the largest amount of top 10 entries an artist had in in a single week.
* Elza Soares is the only artist in the chart's history to achieve number one songs both in life and posthumously, with "Mulher do Fim do Mundo" achieving number one while she was still alive and "Não Tá Mais de Graça" achieving number one four weeks after her death.
* "Solidarité" is the song that has the highest number of credited artists not only to reach number one, but also to enter the charts, it's credited to Toumani Diabaté, Sidiki Diabaté, -M- and Fatoumata Diawara in the charts, but aside from the four main artists, it also features Chacha, Ibrahim Maalouf, Nekfeu, Sanjay Khan, Santigold, Seu Jorge, Youssou N'Dour and Hiba Tawaji, which means the song has the participation of 12 artists in total, 4 main ones and 8 featured.