Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“Cher also holds the record for the biggest gap between No1 singles, from I Got You Babe in August 1965 until The Shoop Shoop Song in May 1991, almost 26 years. I have a feeling she also holds the record for the longest span from first to last No1 hit, from I Got You Babe to Believe in December 1998, a span of more than 33 years.
52 is very young really to be a mature chart topper. It's a full 40 years younger than Vera Lynn who was 92 when No1 in the album chart in 2009.
So Cher is quite a record breaker all round, but I'm sure with people in their fifties and sixties getting younger all the time we will get men and women hitting the top spot at some point who beat Cher, who back in the 1980's looked a washed up singer from the past unlikely to have any more chart action, yet had a string of hits more prolific than previously after the late 80's, and two million selling, long running No1 hits. You can never tell what is around the corner.”
For a woman, I think so - but Tom Jones' gap is bigger between The Green Green Grass of Home in 1966 and Islands in the Stream in 2009...
I'd like to think that Cher's age record could be broken, but, I feel it is impossible now. The way the charts are formed with stream plays and the sexist, ageist radio broadcasters I think this record will hold. I adore them both but madonna and kylie have no chance and in 30 years, I don't see Rihanna, Katy perry, Taylor swift or any current 'young' female artist still hitting the top. It's just the way things r now