List Of Number-one Singles In 2007 (New Zealand)
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Recording Industry Association of New Zealand Recorded Music NZ (formerly the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ)) is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell recorded music in New Zealand. Membership of Recorded Mus ...
(RIANZ) compiles the top forty
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each week. Sales of songs determined 75% of the sorting information, and
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figures were responsible for 25%. From 18 April 2004 to 29 May 2007 the sales/radio airplay split was 50:50.
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of songs were included from 29 May 2007. The reporting period is from Monday to Sunday, with the week's chart published the next Monday. Before 18 April 2004, the chart week was from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart published on Sunday. Afterwards, the chart week was from Monday to Sunday, with the charts published on Monday. This meant there was a one-day charting period for 18 April 2004, with the next chart published on 19 April 2004. As a result,
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spent three weeks and one day at number one with " Yeah!" instead of four complete weeks. A total of 170 singles topped the chart in the 2000s, including 23 by New Zealand artists. Twenty artists had three or more number-one singles; the most successful was
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, whose seven number-ones totalled twenty-three weeks on top of the chart.
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each had five of their singles go to number one. Scribe's
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" spent the longest at number one, with twelve weeks. This is the most weeks at number one ever by a New Zealander, and the second most for any song, after
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each had eleven weeks at the top spot. "Brother" broke the record for the longest consecutive number-one reign by a New Zealand artist, previously set by " Sailing Away" by All of Us in
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at the top of the chart, and became the 500th number-one single in the RIANZ New Zealand Singles Chart's history. The source for this decade is the
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chart, the chart history of which can be found on the Recorded Music NZ website or Charts.nz. : – Number-one single of the yearAnnual charts are sourced from the RIANZ website:
"Annual Top 50 Singles Chart 2010"
: – Song of New Zealand originWhether or not a song is of New Zealand origin is determined by the RMNZ : – Number-one single of the year, of New Zealand origin * ← 1990s *
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Artists with the most number-one songs

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Most weeks at number-one


See also

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New Zealand Top 50 Singles of 2000 New is an adjective referring to something recently made, discovered, or created. New or NEW may refer to: Music * New, singer of K-pop group The Boyz (South Korean band), The Boyz Albums and EPs * New (album), ''New'' (album), by Paul McCartn ...
* New Zealand Top 50 Singles of 2001 * New Zealand Top 50 Singles of 2002 * New Zealand Top 50 Singles of 2003 * New Zealand Top 50 Singles of 2004 * New Zealand Top 50 Singles of 2005 *
New Zealand Top 50 Singles of 2006 This is a list of the Top 20 singles in 2006 in New Zealand, as listed by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ). Chart Songs in grey shading indicates a song of New Zealand origin. ;Key : – Song of New Zealand origin N ...
* New Zealand Top 50 Singles of 2007 *
New Zealand Top 50 Singles of 2008 This is a list of the top 50 singles in 2008 in New Zealand, as listed by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand Recorded Music NZ (formerly the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ)) is a non-profit trade associa ...
* New Zealand Top 50 Singles of 2009 *
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List of UK Singles Chart number ones of the 2000s The UK Singles Chart is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC) on behalf of the British record industry. In the 2000s the chart week ran from Sunday to Saturday, and the top 40 singles were revealed each Sunday on BBC Radio 1. Before the ...
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List of Billboard number-one singles This is a list of songs that have peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and the magazine's national singles charts that preceded it. Introduced in 1958, the Hot 100 is the pre-eminent single (music), singles chart i ...


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