DIANA ROSS

Diana Ross is an American singer, actress, and record producer, born Diane Ernestine Ross on March 26, 1944, and raised in Detroit, Michigan. Diana Ross first came to prominence as lead singer of The Supremes, who became Motown’s most successful act during the 1960s, and the most successful all-female act in US chart history, with a then-record breaking twelve Number 1 singles on the Billboard chart. The Supremes also scored Motown’s first UK Number 1 in 1964 with Baby Love. Diana Ross left the group in 1969 to launch a solo career, issuing her self-titled debut album the following year, and built up a string of hits such as Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, I’m Still Waiting and Touch Me In The Morning. Ross launched an acting career in the early seventies with notable roles in Mahogany, The Wiz, earning an Academy Award nomination for her role in the Billie Holliday biopic Lady Sings The Blues. Diana Ross has worked with Marvin Gaye, Westlife, the Bee Gees (the UK Number 1 Chain Reaction in 1986), Chic, Michael Jackson (she’s basically responsible for spotting a young Jackson 5 and bringing them to the attention of Motown) and Lionel Richie, with whom she scored an international hit with the duet Endless Love in 1981. Diana Ross has not one, but two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was named the top female entertainer of the century by Billboard for having more hits than any other female artist. In 2019, Diana's most streamed song was named as I'm Coming Out, the Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards-produced single from her 1980 Diana album. Image: Shutterstock

DIANA ROSS Songs stats

UK No1s: 2
UK Top 10s: 21
UK Top 40s: 58
UK Top 75s: 78
Weeks at No1: 7
Weeks in the Top 10: 82
Weeks in the Top 40: 378
Weeks in the Top 75: 569

DIANA ROSS Albums stats

UK No1s: 3
UK Top 10s: 14
UK Top 40s: 40
UK Top 75s: 54
Weeks at No1: 13
Weeks in the Top 10: 89
Weeks in the Top 40: 390
Weeks in the Top 75: 634

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Colin Greenwood

4th July 2022

where is the 1980 album Diana. think it got to number 2 in album chart.

Velvet Android

18th August 2023

It's been wrongly merged into the entry for the album of the same name from 1971. So its chart weeks (where it apparently peaked at no.12) are hidden within that earlier album's 'run'. And to add insult to injury, the alleged album cover shown is actually one of Lionel Richie's.

Someone pointed out the listing error in the comments here as long ago as 2015, so it looks like it's not getting corrected any time soon...

Peter Joseph Mountford

16th June 2022

Where is 1980s Diana here..?
Her biggest selling UK solo album!

Velvet Android

18th August 2023

It's been (wrongly) merged into the entry for the earlier album of the same name from 1971. So its chart weeks are hidden within that album's 'run' – which is only obvious if you click the button to expand its information. People have been pointing out the error at intervals for eight years now however, so it appears OCC either don't read the comments or don't care.

Moutton Noir

9th December 2021

Her 1980 album DIANA produced by CHIC is missing from this list

Matell

13th November 2021

THE "THANK YOU" ALBUM BY, @DIANAROSS DEBUTS AT #7 ON THE UK OFFICIAL 🇬🇧 CHARTS. THANK YOU FOR CO-WRITING THESE SONGS.

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addickted2hcharlton

15th November 2021

Yeah she n arf doin well with the new album on ere thank you good to see er back in the charts igh up n all less juss ope she stays in there cos we need more singers like Diana not all them autotune ones wot we get nahadays.

Kevin Pugh

1st July 2017

Thankyou for this brilliant update on Diana's release, also Diana holds the record for having a single chart every year every year for 33 years starting with the supremes in 1967 - 1996. A record that I can't see being beaten in our life time,proving that Diana is the Boss and will forever remain Supreme

Blank

2nd March 2022

Didn't Elton John match it? Or come close 1970-2000...

Kevin Pugh

2nd March 2022

Hi David I don’t believe he had a run of that many consecutive years charting but he probably has come close

Blank

3rd March 2022

Just looked it up. 2000 was the only year he missed a new hit on the singles chart from 1971-2005. He'd been on the album chart every year from 1970-2006. The only years he's not been on either chart since 1970 are 2008 and 2011. Guinness Hit Singles said he once held the record for most consecutive hit years. They could be wrong - it could be Diana. Her first failed to chart with a new hit year was 1997. Even then, a late 1996 hit hungover into the new year, so she was still on chart that year and had a new hit album in 1998 and 1999. Like Elton, 2000 was another year without a new hit - but for her was both charts, not just singles.

Blank

3rd March 2022

I don't think anyone else comes close on singles, but Daniel O'Donnell it still increasing his record on albums. He's had a new hit every year since 1988 and counting.

Velvet Android

4th July 2022

The Guinness British Hit Singles books did indeed used to credit Elton with the record for most consecutive years with charting singles, which eventually spanned 1971-1999.

At the time though they drew a distinction between Diana’s solo singles and the later Supremes hits on which she was also billed by name – i.e. for the longest time her artist entry only began in 1970 with Ain't No Mountain High Enough etc. This was, I guess, carried over from an editorial decision made in the earliest editions of the book and maintained, perhaps unthinkingly, across more than 20 years.

Around the 13th or 14th edition just after the turn of the millennium this was altered, however – after it presumably belatedly struck the latterday editors that other acts have all their credited chart appearances (including guest and 'ft' credits) appear under their own main entry in the book. So for consistency's sake all the songs under the Supremes entry credited as ‘Diana Ross and the Supremes' were now duplicated under the ‘Diana Ross’ entry too. Which, I think, retroactively hands her the record back, given that it extends 'her' string of hitmaking years back to 1967.

Dan

2nd June 2016

Hi. The "Diana Ross" albums that made the charts in 1970 and 1976 are 2 different albums with the same title. The same applies with the "Diana" albums that charted in 1971 and 1980. Her 1970 solo debut entitled "Diana Ross" charted at #14 and spent 5 weeks on the charts. Her 1976 release with the same title reached #4 and spent 26 weeks on the chart. You have incorrectly listed them here as the same album. Same with "Diana", a TV soundtrack LP which reached #43 in 1971 and spent just one week on the chart, you have added the chart weeks from her 1980 album also entitled "Diana" (produced by chic and including her 1980 hits "Upside Down", "I'm Coming Out" and "My Old Piano") to it's total when they should be listed as separate albums. As it stands the information here is incorrect and these errors should be rectified for the sake of accuracy

Dan

8th March 2015

Diana Ross - Diana Ross album 1970 did not reach #4. It reached #14 and according to all other recorded information charted for just 5 weeks. Also the album titled "Diana" released in 1971 according to this listing, shows the chart stats for her 1980 chic album (Upside down, I'm coming out), which is missing from this list. There was an album titled "Diana!" released in 1971, but this was a TV soundtrack that did not do nearly as well. Please check your facts and amend this listing. Great information otherwise, love the info on singles that charted below #75. Most of this was previously unavailable.