The Top10 of the All-time Greats

LONDON, UK (Guinness website) - Robbie Williams is the music world's biggest winner of 2003, according to a new list of the all-time greats. He has leapfrogged acts such as T Rex and Abba thanks to hits such as Come Undone and Something Beautiful in the past year.
He is now at 46th in the Top 100.

The list, compiled by British hit singles experts, is based on the number of weeks spent on the chart and is again topped by Elvis Presley.

Although much of the list - compiled from data since the chart began in 1952 - remains unchanged, Williams saw the most dramatic climb, rocketing up 20 places.
Names which slipped out of the top 100 this year include Buddy Holly and Yorkshire-born tenor David Whitfield who, although unknown to the pop generation, scored two chart-toppers in the 1950s.

The chart will appear in the 17th edition of the book of British Hit Singles, published by Guinness, next year.

The full Top 10 (w: weeks, woc: weeks on chart):

No (W) Artist (WOC)
1 (1) Elvis Presley (1193)
2 (2) Cliff Richard (1152)
3 (3) The Shadows (771)
4 (4) Elton John (623)
5 (5) Madonna (606)
6 (6) Diana Ross (560)
7 (7) Michael Jackson (509)
8 (8) Rod Stewart (477)
9 (9) Beatles (456)
10 (10) David Bowie (452)