List of UK top-ten singles in 2020
The UK Singles Chart is one of many music charts compiled by the Official Charts Company that calculates the best-selling singles of the week in the United Kingdom. Since 2004 the chart has been based on the sales of both physical singles and digital downloads, with airplay figures excluded from the official chart. Since 2014, the singles chart has been based on both sales and streaming, with the ratio altered in 2017 to 150:1 streams and only three singles by the same artist eligible for the chart. From July 2018, video streams from YouTube Music and Spotify among others began to be counted for the Official Charts. This list shows singles that peaked in the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart during 2020, as well as singles which peaked in 2019 but were in the top 10 in 2020. The entry date is when the song appeared in the top 10 for the first time.
Sixty-nine singles have been in the top 10 so far this year. Eleven singles from 2019 remained in the top 10 for several weeks at the beginning of the year. "All I Want for Christmas is You" by Mariah Carey, "Before You Go" by Lewis Capaldi, "Last Christmas" by Wham!, Own It by Stormzy featuring Ed Sheeran and Burna Boy, "River" by Ellie Goulding and "Roxanne" by Arizona Zervas were the singles from 2019 to reach their peak in 2020. Ten artists have scored multiple entries in the top ten in 2020. DaBaby, Doja Cat, Future, Megan Thee Stallion and Roddy Ricch are among the many artists who have achieved their first top 10 single in 2020.
The first number-one single of the year was "River" by Ellie Goulding. Overall, fourteen different songs have peaked at number-one so far in 2020, with fourteen unique artists hitting that position. An asterisk in the "Weeks in Top 10" column shows that the song is currently in the top 10.
Background
Multiple entries
Sixty-one singles have charted in the top 10 in 2020, with fifty-six singles reaching their peak this year.Sixteen artists have scored multiple entries in the top 10 in 2020, with Dua Lipa and AJ Tracey sharing the record for most hit singles this year with four, both including a feature on the charity single "Times Like These" with the Live Lounge Allstars.
Captain Tom Moore breaks records
The COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom led to several charity singles being released to raise money to support people fighting the disaster, among these Matt Lucas' "Thank You Baked Potato" and a new version of "We'll Meet Again" by Vera Lynn and Katherine Jenkins. Neither of these singles reached the official top 10, but one single did make a massive mark on the UK charts. Captain Tom Moore teamed up with Michael Ball and the NHS Voices of Hope Choir to cover "You'll Never Walk Alone", the single reaching the top spot on 25 March 2020. Captain Tom had already become a national hero, on top of his time serving the country in the Second World War, after raising more than £28 million for NHS Charities Together through walking 100 laps of his garden during the nationwide lockdown, ahead of his 100th birthday on 30 April. He was also awarded a Pride of Britain Award the day before he reached number-one.The single led the Official Chart Update but by 23 April, the day before the chart was revealed, its closest competitor - "Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd - was catching up. However The Weeknd publicly backed "You'll Never Walk Alone" for number-one, encouraging the public to buy and stream it instead of "Blinding Lights" to give the single a final boost.
Captain Tom became the oldest person to have a number-one single on the UK Singles Chart in the sixty-eight years since it launched in 1952, at the age of 99 years and 11 months, while his co-performer Michael Ball also entered the record books as the eighth oldest. Moore will also be the first centenarian to celebrate a chart-topping single, as he is guaranteed to still be at number-one on his birthday. The song itself was the fastest selling single since LadBaby's "I Love Sausage Rolls" in 2019, scoring 80,000 downloads in a week.
"You'll Never Walk Alone" also joined a list of only two other songs which have reached number-one with four different versions - "Unchained Melody" and "Do They Know It's Christmas?" are the other songs which have topped the chart on 4 occasions under four separate iterations. Gerry and the Pacemakers", The Crowd and Robson & Jerome were the previous artists to reach number-one with this song. However it also joined a list of seven other singles to drop out of the top 10 straight from the top spot - the previous most recent addition was LadBaby's "I Love Sausage Rolls", the Christmas number-one for 2019. The reissued Elvis Presley singles "One Night"/"I Got Stung" and "It's Now or Never" from 2005 were the first tracks to achieve this feat, with McFly’s "Baby's Coming Back"/"Transylvania" from 2007, "A Bridge over You" by The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir, "Three Lions" by Baddiel, Skinner and The Lightning Seeds and LadBaby's "We Built This City" the other singles to hold this record.
Chart debuts
Thirty-one artists have achieved their first charting top 10 single in 2020, either as a lead or featured artist.The following table does not include acts who had previously charted as part of a group and secured their first top 10 solo single.
| Artist | Number of top 10s | First entry | Chart position | Other entries |
| Roddy Ricch | 3 | "The Box" | 2 | "Rockstar", "The Woo" |
| Endor | 1 | "Pump It Up" | 8 | — |
| Future | 1 | "Life Is Good" | 3 | — |
| DigDat | 1 | "Ei8ht Mile" | 9 | — |
| Saint Jhn | 1 | "Roses" | 1 | — |
| Doja Cat | 1 | "Say So" | 2 | — |
| Tay Keith | 1 | "Rain" | 3 | — |
| Powfu | 1 | "Death Bed " | 4 | — |
| beabadoobee | 1 | "Death Bed " | 4 | — |
| Lil Mosey | 1 | "Blueberry Faygo" | 9 | — |
| Captain Tom Moore | 1 | "You'll Never Walk Alone" | 1 | — |
| NHS Voices of Care Choir | 1 | "You'll Never Walk Alone" | 1 | — |
| Live Lounge Allstars | 1 | "Times Like These" | 1 | — |
| Celeste | 1 | "Times Like These" | 1 | — |
| Grace Carter | 1 | "Times Like These" | 1 | — |
| Royal Blood | 1 | "Times Like These" | 1 | — |
| Sam Fender | 1 | "Times Like These" | 1 | — |
| Yungblud | 1 | "Times Like These" | 1 | — |
| Swarmz | 1 | "Houdini" | 6 | — |
| Megan Thee Stallion | 1 | "Savage" | 3 | — |
| DaBaby | 1 | "Rockstar" | 1 | — |
| S1mba | 1 | "Rover" | 3 | — |
| DTG | 1 | "Rover" | 3 | — |
| Giveon | 1 | "Chicago Freestyle" | 10 | — |
| Topic | 1 | "Breaking Me" | 3 | — |
| A7S | 1 | "Breaking Me" | 3 | — |
| Dutchavelli | 1 | "I Dunno" | 7 | — |
| 220 Kid | 1 | "Don't Need Love" | 9 | — |
| Gracey | 1 | "Don't Need Love" | 9 | — |
| Jawsh 685 | 1 | "Savage Love " | 1 | — |
| Pop Smoke | 1 | "The Woo" | 9 | — |
| Nathan Dawe | 1 | "Lighter" | 4 | — |
| Bon Iver | 1 | "Exile" | 8 | — |
;Notes
The line-up of Live Lounge Allstars featured a selection of artists who had previously had a top-ten single as part of a group but did not have a solo credit to their name. This includes Ben Johnston, James Johnston and Simon Neil, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins and Luke Hemmings. Ben Thatcher and Mike Kerr, who make up the band Royal Blood, were also debutants to the upper-reaches of the chart, as Royal Blood's highest placing to date was "Figure It Out" which reached number 43 in 2014. Fraser T. Smith had also worked on numerous top 10 singles for different artists, including "Broken Strings" by James Morrison and Nelly Furtado, but this is the first single where he is individually credited.
Songs from films
Original songs from various films entered the top 10 throughout the year. These included "No Time to Die".Charity singles
A number of singles recorded for charity reached the top ten in the charts in 2020. Captain Tom Moore joined forces with Michael Ball and the NHS Voices of Care Choir to raise funds to support the NHS during the Covid-19 crisis. Their cover of "You'll Never Walk Alone" reached the top of the charts on the week ending 30 April 2020.BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge organised a supergroup named Live Lounge Allstars to record "Times Like These" during the Coronavirus crisis, with the contributors including Rita Ora, Ellie Goulding, Chris Martin, Dua Lipa and Rag'n'Bone Man" all singing their own parts from their homes due to social distancing. The single entered the chart at number 5 on the 24 April 2020, less than 12 hours after release. The following week, it reached number-one, becoming the first song produced by BBC Radio 1 to top the chart, and the first BBC release to peak at number-one since "Perfect Day" in 1997.
Top-ten singles
;KeyEntries by artist
The following table shows artists who have achieved two or more top 10 entries in 2020, including singles that reached their peak in 2019. The figures include both main artists and featured artists, while appearances on ensemble charity records are also counted for each artist. The total number of weeks an artist spent in the top ten in 2020 is also shown.| Entries | Artist | Country of origin | Weeks | Singles |
| 5 | Drake | 21* | "Chicago Freestyle", "Life is Good", "Toosie Slide", "Greece", "Only You Freestyle" | |
| 4 | Dua Lipa | 19 | "Don't Start Now", "Physical", "Break My Heart", "Times Like These" | |
| 4 | AJ Tracey | 18* | "Dinner Guest", "Rain", "Times Like These", "West Ten" | |
| 3 | Mabel | 9* | "Boyfriend", "Times Like These", "West Ten" | |
| 3 | Justin Bieber | 11 | "Yummy", "Intentions", "Stuck with U" | |
| 3 | Taylor Swift | 1* | "Cardigan", "Exile", "The 1" | |
| 3 | Roddy Ricch | 24* | "Rockstar", "The Box", "The Woo" | |
| 2 | Billie Eilish | 8 | "Everything I Wanted", "No Time to Die" | |
| 2 | Lady Gaga | 10 | "Stupid Love", "Rain on Me" | |
| 2 | Ariana Grande | 12 | "Stuck with U", "Rain on Me" | |
| 2 | Juice Wrld | 7 | "Godzilla", "Come & Go" | |
| 2 | George Michael | 1 | "Last Christmas", "Do They Know It's Christmas?" | |
| 2 | Ellie Goulding | 4 | "River", "Times Like These" | |
| 2 | Joel Corry | 13* | "Lonely", "Head & Heart | |
| 2 | Aitch | 4 | "Ei8ht Mile", "Rain" | |
| 2 | Stormzy | 9 | "Own It", "I Dunno" | |
| 2 | Harry Styles | 11* | "Adore You", "Watermelon Sugar" | |
| 2 | Tion Wayne | 3 | "Houdini", "I Dunno" | |
| 2 | KSI | 2* | "Houdini", "Lighter" | |
| 2 | Lewis Capaldi | 11 | "Before You Go", "Someone You Loved" | |
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