Israeli Chart Records 1961–1997 — most #1s, longest runs, top artists

The records below are calculated from every weekly chart in the archive (1,551 charts, 7,639 entries). Ties are listed oldest first.

Most weeks at #1 — songs

#	Song	Artist	Wks at #1	Wks on chart
1	Let It Be	The Beatles	11	16
2	Stayin' Alive	The Bee Gees	11	26
3	Woman in Love	Barbra Streisand	10	19
4	Venus	Shocking Blue	9	14
5	Xanadu	Olivia Newton-John & ELO	8	18
6	Come Undone	Duran Duran	8	29
7	My Sweet Lord	George Harrison	7	18
8	Popcorn	Hot Butter	7	17
9	Ma Baker	Boney M.	7	15
10	Tragedy	The Bee Gees	7	19
11	Last Train to London	ELO	6	16
12	Go West	Pet Shop Boys	6	20
13	The Ballad of John and Yoko	The Beatles	5	10
14	Pamela	Boaz Sharabi	5	15
15	Clair	Gilbert O'Sullivan	5	15
16	Hotel California	Eagles	5	17
17	Mull of Kintyre	Wings	5	15
18	The Logical Song	Supertramp	5	21
19	Sealed with a Kiss	Jason Donovan	5	10
20	(Everything I Do) I Do It for You	Bryan Adams	5	15

Longest chart runs — songs

#	Song	Artist	Weeks	Peak
1	Come Undone	Duran Duran	29	1
2	Stayin' Alive	The Bee Gees	26	1
3	More Than Words	Extreme	26	1
4	Heart of Gold	Neil Young	21	1
5	The Logical Song	Supertramp	21	1
6	Rocket Man	Elton John	20	3
7	Too Much Heaven	The Bee Gees	20	1
8	Go West	Pet Shop Boys	20	1
9	Children	Robert Miles	20	1
10	My Life	Billy Joel	19	1
11	Tragedy	The Bee Gees	19	1
12	Woman in Love	Barbra Streisand	19	1
13	My Sweet Lord	George Harrison	18	1
14	Fin de semana	Los Diablos	18	1
15	Me and Mrs. Jones	Billy Paul	18	2
16	Xanadu	Olivia Newton-John & ELO	18	1
17	Hey Down Below	Kobi Recht and Kobi Asherat	17	1
18	Mother of Mine	Neil Reed	17	1
19	Help (Get Me Some Help)	Tony Ronald	17	1
20	Mother and Child Reunion	Paul Simon	17	1

Most #1 singles — artists

#	Artist	#1 singles	Entries
1	Cliff Richard	17	58
2	Pet Shop Boys	16	34
3	Elvis Presley	14	40
4	The Beatles	14	29
5	Madonna	12	46
6	The Shadows	11	31
7	Elton John	10	52
8	ABBA	9	22
9	Queen	9	32
10	East 17	8	16
11	ELO	8	24
12	Michael Jackson	8	42
13	David Bowie	7	26
14	Duran Duran	7	23
15	Erasure	7	25
16	Kylie Minogue	7	23
17	Paul McCartney	7	20
18	Rod Stewart	7	33
19	Wings	7	21
20	Mariah Carey	6	19

Most chart entries — artists

#	Artist	Entries	#1 singles
1	Cliff Richard	58	17
2	Elton John	52	10
3	Madonna	46	12
4	Michael Jackson	42	8
5	Elvis Presley	40	14
6	Pet Shop Boys	34	16
7	Rod Stewart	33	7
8	Queen	32	9
9	The Shadows	31	11
10	Prince	30	1
11	Status Quo	29	1
12	The Beatles	29	14
13	David Bowie	26	7
14	Donna Summer	26	5
15	Janet Jackson	26	0
16	Stevie Wonder	26	6
17	Depeche Mode	25	1
18	Erasure	25	7
19	ELO	24	8
20	Olivia Newton-John	24	4

Most total weeks on chart — artists

#	Artist	Weeks	Entries
1	Elton John	416	52
2	Cliff Richard	382	58
3	Michael Jackson	289	42
4	Madonna	279	46
5	Pet Shop Boys	267	34
6	Rod Stewart	262	33
7	ELO	259	24
8	Queen	254	32
9	Elvis Presley	249	40
10	ABBA	238	22
11	The Beatles	219	29
12	The Bee Gees	219	22
13	Donna Summer	216	26
14	Wings	210	21
15	Duran Duran	201	23
16	Stevie Wonder	199	26
17	The Shadows	198	31
18	David Bowie	184	26
19	Olivia Newton-John	174	24
20	Depeche Mode	158	25

Songs that entered the chart at #1

41 songs went straight in at the top: Runaway (Del Shannon, 1961); Johnny Remember Me (John Leyton, 1961); The Time in Between (Cliff Richard and the Shadows, 1965); Wind Me Up (Let Me Go) (Cliff Richard, 1965); Zingara (Bobby Solo, 1969); The Edge of Heaven (Wham!, 1986); It's a Sin (Pet Shop Boys, 1987); Got My Mind Set on You (George Harrison, 1987); Yé ké yé ké (Mory Kanté, 1988); Touchy! (A-ha, 1988); Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart (Marc Almond and Gene Pitney, 1989); That's What I Like (Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers, 1989)….