| Artist | No of Hits | New Hits | |
| 1 | Elvis Presley | 124 | |
| = | Cliff Richard | 124 | |
| 3 | Elton John | 69 | |
| 4 | Madonna | 67 | |
| 5 | David Bowie | 58 | Where Are We Now |
| = | Status Quo | 57 | |
| 7 | Queen | 53 | |
| 8 | Michael Jackson | 50 | |
| 9 | Kylie Minogue | 48 | |
| 10 | Paul McCartney | 47 | |
| 11 | Rod Stewart | 45 | |
| 12 | Pet Shop Boys | 44 | |
| 13 | Diana Ross | 43 | |
| = | Rolling Stones | 43 | |
| = | Depeche Mode | 43 | |
| 16 | Stevie Wonder | 41 | |
| = | U2 | 41 | |
| 18 | UB40 | 40 | |
| 19 | Mariah Carey | 39 | Beautiful |
| = | Jay-Z | 39 | Holy Grail, Drunk In Love |
| 21 | Prince | 38 | |
| = | Rihanna | 38 | The Monster, Right Now |
| 23 | Janet Jackson | 37 | |
| = | Bon Jovi | 37 | Because We Can |
| = | R Kelly | 37 | Do What U Want, PYD |
| 26 | Tom Jones | 36 | |
| = | George Michael | 36 | |
| 28 | Erasure | 34 | |
| = | Manic Street Preachers | 34 | |
| = | Robbie Williams | 34 | Goin Crazy, Go Gentle |
| 31 | Frank Sinatra | 33 | |
| = | Shakin Stevens | 33 | |
| = | Morrissey | 33 | |
| 34 | Iron Maiden | 32 | |
| = | Simply Red | 32 | |
| = | Whitney Houston | 32 | |
| 37 | Roy Orbison | 31 | |
| = | Bee Gees | 31 | |
| = | REM | 31 | |
| = | Eminem | 31 | My Life, Bezerk, Rap God, Survival, The Monster |
| 40 | Lonnie Donegan | 30 | |
| = | Beatles | 30 | |
| = | Tina Turner | 30 | |
| = | Duran Duran | 30 | |
| = | Paul Weller | 30 | |
| = | Mary J Blige | 30 | |
| = | Glee Cast | 30 | |
| = | Kanye West | 30 | Black Skinhead |
Eminem and Rihanna collaborated on the number one "The Monster" bringing both their total of number ones to 7. Britney Spears scored her 6th number one:
| Artist | No of #1s | New #1s | |
| 1 | Elvis Presley | 21 | |
| 2 | Beatles | 17 | |
| 3 | Cliff Richard | 14 | |
| = | Westlife | 14 | |
| 5 | Madonna | 13 | |
| 6 | Take That | 11 | |
| 7 | Abba | 9 | |
| = | Spice Girls | 9 | |
| 9 | Rolling Stones | 8 | |
| = | Oasis | 8 | |
| = | Eminem | 8 | The Monster |
| = | Rihanna | 8 | The Monster |
| 11 | George Michael | 7 | |
| = | Michael Jackson | 7 | |
| = | Kylie Minogue | 7 | |
| = | U2 | 7 | |
| = | Elton John | 7 | |
| = | McFly | 7 | |
| = | Robbie Williams | 7 | |
| 20 | Slade | 6 | |
| = | Rod Stewart | 6 | |
| = | Boyzone | 6 | |
| = | Blondie | 6 | |
| = | Queen | 6 | |
| = | Sugababes | 6 | |
| = | Britney Spears | 6 | Scream & Shout |
Kanye West remains the act with the most consecutive years of Top 40 hits. It would be the final year for Leona Lewis in the Top 40 with her final hit being "One More Sleep":
| Artist | Hits Every Year Since | |
| 1 | Kanye West | 2004 |
| 2 | Rihanna | 2005 |
| 3 | Chris Brown | 2006 |
| = | Leona Lewis | 2006 |
| = | Ne-Yo | 2006 |
| 6 | Calvin Harris | 2007 |
Leona Lewis wasn't the only X Factor contestant who's Top 40 career ended in 2013. Series 5 contestants JLS called it a day with their final hit being "Billion Lights". Series 7 winner Matt Cardle had his final hit which was a collaboration with Mel C and also was the final Top 40 for any of the Spice Girls. The runner up of series 7, Rebecca Ferguson, also had her final hit with "I Hope".
Two of the series 8 contestants finished their Top 40 career with Drum & Bass tunes, Amelia Lily with the appropriately titled "Party Over" and Misha B with "Here's to Everything (Ooh La La)". Series 9 contestant Lucy Spraggan had her final hit with "Lighthouse".
This meant the earliest X Factor contestant to still have an active Top 40 career by the end of the year was series 6 contestant Olly Murs with his biggest hit of the year being "Dear Darlin" which made number five.
Series 7 contestants One Direction scored their third number one in as many years with "One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks)". After a promising start to their careers, series 8 winners Little Mix only managed one top ten hit out of their four singles in 2013 with "Move" which made number three.
The winner from the previous series, James Arthur, scored a number two with his second hit "You're Nobody 'til Somebody Loves You" but failed to reach the top ten with his third, "Recovery". We had the debut from fellow contestants of that series, the boyband Union J who debuted with "Carry You" and followed up with "Beautiful Life".
After 2 years of charity records making Christmas number one it was back to the X Factor winner in 2013 with Sam Bailey - "Skyscraper". There was an anti X Factor campaign to get "Highway to Hell" by AC/DC to Christmas number one which gave AC/DC their first ever Top 10 hit which made number four. They had previously held the record for most hits without a Top 10 with that honour now going to Super Furry Animals.
Rival show The Voice had it's first contestant to score a Top 10 hit, with runner up Leah McFall making number 8 with "I Will Survive". She followed this up with "Killing Me Softly". Series winner Andrea Begley did make the Top 40 but only managed number 30 with "My Immortal". Tyler James from the first series had a hit with "Worry About You". This would be the last we'd see of all 3 contestants.
The success story of the year from a chart perspective was a 40 year old Pharrell Williams. Prior to 2013 he'd only had one Top 40 hit in the previous 7 years. He came back with the number one single "Get Lucky" in collaboration with Daft Punk who themselves hadn't had a Top 40 hit for 8 years. He then had another number one with Robin Thicke, who's only previous Top 40 effort had come 6 years prior, and TI.
The number 19 "Get Like Me" in collaboration with Nelly and Nicki Minaj followed, but then he ended the year clearly delighted at his renewed success with the hit "Happy" which reached number one at the very end of the year and would return to number one twice in 2014.
The most successful Girl Group of the year were The Saturdays who finally scored their first number one, 5 years after their debut with "What About Us" which featured Sean Paul. They also had a number 5 with "Disco Love" and a number 14 with "Gentleman".
The other non X Factor Girl Groups in the charts in 2013 were Stooshe with "Slip" and newcomers Neon Jungle with "Trouble". Both songs made number 12 and it was the end for Stooshe but Neon Jungle would be back.
Boyband wise outside of X Factor it was a case of out of the old and in with the new. Boyzone had their final hit with "Love Will Save the Day", McFly had their final hit with "Love Is On the Radio" and the Wanted had their final hit with "Show Me Love (America)".
That said, the new boybands didn't have much impact on the charts with newcomers Reconnected making numbers 32 and 33 with their hits "One in a Million" and "Time of our Lives" and Mad reaching number 37 with their debut hit "Toyboy". That would be the last we'd see of Reconnected but Mad would be back.
Electropop was still the big genre of music in the charts in 2013, though there was less of it that there was in 2012. There isn't an awful lot to say about Electropop other than it being the same as it ever was but there were other genres making an impact though.
Early on in the year we had the number one debut from rap duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with "Thrift Shop". They follow this up with the hits "Can't Hold Us" and "Same Love". There was also come novelty rap music returning to the charts with PJ and Duncan making number one with "Let's Get Ready to Rhumble" 19 years after it charted the first time follow Ant (PJ) and Dec (Duncan) performing it on their Saturday Night Takeaway show.
There was an increase in R&B hits in the charts in 2013, but this was mainly due to Justin Bieber releasing an R&B album which produced 10 singles. However the highest charting of these, "Heartbreaker", only made number 14. We did have an R&B number one from another Justin which was "Mirrors" by Justin Timberlake.
Ed Sheeran brought his total Top 40 singles count to double figures in 2013 with "Everything Has Changed" in collaboration with Taylor Swift and "I See Fire".
We had a Folk inspired number one from OneRepublic in 2013 with "Counting Stars" which was just their fourth Top 40 hit having debuted in 2007.
Folk was also influencing EDM music with Avicii scoring a number one with "Wake Me Up". This was his second number one of the year, his first being "I Could Be the One" in collaboration with debutant Nicky Romero, who followed this up with "Like Home" which was in collaboration with Australian DJ duo Nervo.
Calvin Harris scored a number one with "Under Control" in collaboration with Alesso and Hurts and also had hits with "Thinking About You" in collaboration with Ayah Marar and "I Need Your Love" in collaboration with Ellie Goulding. It was a relatively quiet year for David Guetta who just had one hit earlier on in the year with "Just One Last Time" in collaboration with Taped Rai.
We had the chart debut of Martin Garrix who scored a number one with "Animals". At the time of writing this is the last time we've had an instrumental hit at number one.
After the big Drum & Bass revival of 2012 we had even more Drum & Bass hits in 2013 making it the year with the most Drum & Bass hits to date. We had a Drum & Bass number one as well with "Waiting All Night" by Rudimental ft Ella Eyre. A notable Drum & Bass act making their debut in 2013 was Wilkinson with "Afterglow".
We also had a mini revival in the charts from Breakbeat from Chase & Status and Naughty Boy plus the number one "Love Me Again" by John Newman which was a Breakbeat/Soul crossover hit. UK Garage also had a mini revival with "You & Me" by Disclosure ft Eliza Doolittle and "Higher (Free)" by All About She.
Dubstep was finished from a chart perspective with no records in 2013 coming under that genre. We did however see the rise of Deep House. This isn't the same as Deep House in years gone by but was used to describe more mellow bassline driven music.
We had two Deep House number ones which were "Need U (100%)" by Duke Dumont ft AME and "Look Right Through" by Storm Queen. Other acts in this genre to have hits included Breach, Ben Pearce, Chris Malinchak and Disclosure.
There was also the first example of Tropical House music in the charts which was "Sonnentanz (Sun Don't Shine)" by Klangkarussell ft Will Heard. Tropical House is considered to be a sub genre of Deep House.
As well as Daft Punk there was another name from yesteryear in the Dance music world making a comeback. Fatboy Slim returned to the charts with "Eat Sleep Rave Repeat" which featured Beardyman and Rivastarr.
To summarise 2013, as mentioned Electropop is still the dominant music in terms of quantity but at the top of the charts we are seeing more variety than recent years. With EDM it isn't just the generic electronic driven music we are seeing, there are revivals of older music forms and the Deep/Tropical House emerging. We are seeing Rap, R&B, Folk and more general Pop music at the top as well, maybe the record buying public are getting fed up of the same Electropop music and want more variety. Will this be reflected in the charts in 2014?
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