Chart Performance
The song entered the charts at number one in the United Kingdom on 26 April 2009 (for the week ending date 2 May 2009), selling 87,000 copies in its first week and beating competition from La Roux's "In for the Kill" with over 20,000 copies, according to the All Around The World website. The song spent three weeks at #1 before dropping to #2 in its fourth week, replaced at number one by "Boom Boom Pow" by The Black Eyed Peas. "Number 1" spent eighteen consecutive weeks in the top 40, and 38 weeks in the top 100. On BBC Radio 1's Chart Show, it was revealed that the track was the first song with the words "number one" in its title ever to reach number one on both the British and Irish charts - and, in turn, anywhere in the world. In Ireland, the song entered at number eight before rising to the top the following week. The song spent five weeks at the top.
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