By decade of highest recorded position

The decade in which a name reached the best position it has ever held in a published list.

Restricted to names whose best position is inside the top 200 and which have at least three recorded years on each side of it. Without both, the highest point of a record is often just its first or last year — the edge of the available data rather than anything the data shows. Where a name held its best position in more than one year, the earliest is used.

1,808 records across 9 bands, ordered by highest recorded position.

• Highest recorded position in the 1940s

  Names whose best recorded position — inside the top 200, with at least three recorded years either side — falls between 1940 and 1949.

  49 names

• Highest recorded position in the 1950s

  Names whose best recorded position — inside the top 200, with at least three recorded years either side — falls between 1950 and 1959.

  169 names

• Highest recorded position in the 1960s

  Names whose best recorded position — inside the top 200, with at least three recorded years either side — falls between 1960 and 1969.

  196 names

• Highest recorded position in the 1970s

  Names whose best recorded position — inside the top 200, with at least three recorded years either side — falls between 1970 and 1979.

  187 names

• Highest recorded position in the 1980s

  Names whose best recorded position — inside the top 200, with at least three recorded years either side — falls between 1980 and 1989.

  183 names

• Highest recorded position in the 1990s

  Names whose best recorded position — inside the top 200, with at least three recorded years either side — falls between 1990 and 1999.

  235 names

• Highest recorded position in the 2000s

  Names whose best recorded position — inside the top 200, with at least three recorded years either side — falls between 2000 and 2009.

  337 names

• Highest recorded position in the 2010s

  Names whose best recorded position — inside the top 200, with at least three recorded years either side — falls between 2010 and 2019.

  305 names

• Highest recorded position in the 2020s

  Names whose best recorded position — inside the top 200, with at least three recorded years either side — falls between 2020 and 2029.

  147 names