Distinctive songs of the UK

Each country has certain songs that were hits in that one location but nowhere else. This page lists the biggest hit songs of the UK that failed to chart elsewhere. For the whole period (1960 to 2004) these are:

#	Artist	Song Title	Year	Region
1	Michelle Mcmanus	All This Time	2004	UK
1	Busted	Thunderbirds Are Go	2004	UK
1	Sam & Mark	With a Little Help From My Friends	2004	UK
1	Girls Aloud	I'll Stand By You	2004	UK
1	Busted	3AM	2004	UK
1	Ken Dodd	Tears	1965	UK
1	McFly	Obviously	2004	UK
1	Eric B & Rakim	I Know You Got Soul	1987	UK
1	Robson & Jerome	Unchained Melody	1995	UK
1	DJ Casper	Cha Cha Slide	2004	UK
1	McFly	Five Colours in Her Hair	2004	UK
1	Busted	Who's David?	2004	UK
13	Will Young	Anything is Possible	2002	UK
14	England Football World Cup Squad	Back Home	1970	UK
15	Charles Aznavour	She	1974	UK
16	Darius	Colourblind	2002	UK
17	Anthony Newley	Why?	1960	UK
18	Adam Faith	Poor Me	1960	UK
19	Three of A Kind	Babycakes	2004	UK
19	The Shapeshifters	Lola's Theme	2004	UK

This has also been calculated for each decade.

Distinct songs of the UK: 1960s

For the 1960s the most distinct songs were:

#	Artist	Song Title	Year	Region
1	Ken Dodd	Tears	1965	UK
2	Anthony Newley	Why?	1960	UK
3	Adam Faith	Poor Me	1960	UK
4	Bern Elliott & the Fenmen	Money	1963	UK
5	Jimmy Reed	Too Much	1963	UK
6	Des O'Connor	I Pretend	1968	UK
7	Leonard Cohen	Sisters of Mercy	1966	UK
8	The Bachelors	Charmaine	1963	UK
9	Temperance Seven	You're Driving Me Crazy	1961	UK
10	Rolf Harris	Two Little Boys	1969	UK
11	Captain Beefheart	Pachuco Cadaver	1969	UK
12	Donald Peers	Please Don't Go	1968	UK
13	Nina Simone	Ain't Got No - I Got Life	1968	UK
14	Country Joe & The Fish	Pat's Song	1967	UK
15	Jackie Trent	Where Are You Now (My Love)	1965	UK
15	Bob Dylan	It Takes a Lot to Laugh, it Takes a Train to Cry	1965	UK
17	Val Doonican	What Would I Be	1966	UK
18	The Mike Sammes Singers	Somewhere My Love	1966	UK
19	Billy Fury	When Will You Say I Love You?	1963	UK
20	Val Doonican	If the Whole World Stopped Loving	1967	UK

These were calculated for data version 2.3.39

Distinct songs of the UK: 1970s

For the 1970s the most distinct songs were:

#	Artist	Song Title	Year	Region
1	England Football World Cup Squad	Back Home	1970	UK
2	Charles Aznavour	She	1974	UK
3	Clive Dunn	Grandad	1970	UK
4	Rod Stewart	An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down	1970	UK
5	Don Covay	It's Better to Have (And Don't Need)	1974	UK
6	Ken Boothe	Everything I Own	1974	UK
7	Gang of Four	At Home He's a Tourist	1979	UK
8	David Essex	Gonna Make You a Star	1974	UK
9	Peters & Lee	Welcome Home	1973	UK
10	The Tams	Hey Girl Don't Bother Me	1971	UK
11	David Cassidy	Daydreamer	1973	UK
12	Magazine	Shot by Both Sides	1978	UK
13	Andy Williams	Can't Help Falling in Love	1970	UK
14	Neil Reid	Mother of Mine	1972	UK
15	Captain Beefheart	Big Eyed Beans from Venus	1972	UK
16	Sylvia Vrethammar	Y Viva Espana	1974	UK
17	David Bowie	Space Oddity (1975)	1975	UK
18	Jimi Hendrix	Voodoo Chile	1970	UK
19	The Quads	There Must Be Thousands	1979	UK
20	Tim Buckley	Song to the Siren	1970	UK

These were calculated for data version 2.3.39

Distinct songs of the UK: 1980s

For the 1980s the most distinct songs were:

#	Artist	Song Title	Year	Region
1	Eric B & Rakim	I Know You Got Soul	1987	UK
2	James	Sit Down	1989	UK
3	Jesus & Mary Chain	Never Understand	1985	UK
4	Carcass	Cadaveric Incubator of Endo Parasites	1988	UK
4	The Hollies	He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother (1988)	1988	UK
6	Ben E King	Stand By Me (1987)	1987	UK
7	Humanoid	Stakker Humanoid	1988	UK
8	Maloko	In the Midnight Hour	1989	UK
9	The Fall	Hit The North	1987	UK
10	Wet Wet Wet	With a Little Help From My Friends	1988	UK
10	Billy Bragg	She's Leaving Home	1988	UK
12	John Lennon	Imagine (1980)	1980	UK
12	Joy Division	Twenty Four Hours	1980	UK
12	Mash	Theme From 'MASH' (Suicide is Painless)	1980	UK
15	The Pixies	Wave of Mutilation	1989	UK
16	Nick Berry	Every Loser Wins	1986	UK
16	Culture	Capture Rasta	1986	UK
18	The Fall	The Man whose Head Expanded	1983	UK
19	Billy Bragg	Levi Stubb's Tears	1986	UK
20	The Birthday Party	Release the Bats	1981	UK

These were calculated for data version 2.3.39

Distinct songs of the UK: 1990s

For the 1990s the most distinct songs were:

#	Artist	Song Title	Year	Region
1	Robson & Jerome	Unchained Melody	1995	UK
2	Nirvana	Sliver	1990	UK
3	Would Be's	I'm Hardly Ever Wrong	1990	UK
3	Elton John	Sacrifice/Healing Hands	1990	UK
3	The Righteous Brothers	Unchained Melody (1990)	1990	UK
3	Englandneworder	World in Motion	1990	UK
7	The Bluebells	Young At Heart (1993)	1993	UK
7	New Decade	Statue of Gold	1993	UK
9	Dunblane	Throw These Guns Away	1996	UK
9	Dunblane	Knockin' On Heaven's Door	1996	UK
9	Boyzone	A Different Beat	1996	UK
9	Dick Dale	Nitrus	1996	UK
13	Dreadzone	Zion Youth	1995	UK
14	Cliff Richard	Saviour's Day	1990	UK
15	Sonic Youth	Sugar Kane	1993	UK
16	The Beautiful South	A Little Time	1990	UK
17	Steps	Heartbeat	1998	UK
18	Armand Van Helden & Duane Harden	U Don't Know Me	1999	UK
18	Westlife	Seasons in the Sun	1999	UK
18	Cay	Princes & Princesses	1999	UK

These were calculated for data version 2.3.39