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+2Elton John has had one song reach No. 1 on the Shazam Global Chart! Across 4 appearances in the Top 50, Elton John has spent a combined 587 days on the chart.
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The highest position a song reached on the Shazam Global Chart.
The total number of days a song spent in the Top 50 of the Shazam Global Chart. These days may have been non-consecutive.
The date a song first entered the Top 50 of the Shazam Global Chart.
Elton John & Dua Lipa
#1378Aug 17, 2021
"Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)" by Elton John & Dua Lipa hit No. 1 on the Shazam Global Chart! The track spent 16 day(s) in the top spot and a total of 378 day(s) in the Top 50 since its release.
Released
2021Days at No. 1
16 daysTotal Shazams
21M
Days in Top 50
378The total number of days a song spent in the Top 50 of the Shazam Global Chart. These days may have been non-consecutive.
Top 50 Debut
Aug 17, 2021"Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)" by Elton John & Dua Lipa hit No. 1 on the Shazam Global Chart! The track spent 16 day(s) in the top spot and a total of 378 day(s) in the Top 50 since its release.
Released
2021Days at No. 1
16 daysTotal Shazams
21M
Days in Top 50
378The total number of days a song spent in the Top 50 of the Shazam Global Chart. These days may have been non-consecutive.
Top 50 Debut
Aug 17, 2021
Ed Sheeran & Elton John
#8105Dec 5, 2021
"Merry Christmas" by Ed Sheeran & Elton John climbed to No. 8 on the Shazam Global Chart, spending 105 day(s) in the Top 50.
Released
2021Total Shazams
3M
Days in Top 50
105The total number of days a song spent in the Top 50 of the Shazam Global Chart. These days may have been non-consecutive.
Top 50 Debut
Dec 5, 2021"Merry Christmas" by Ed Sheeran & Elton John climbed to No. 8 on the Shazam Global Chart, spending 105 day(s) in the Top 50.
Released
2021Total Shazams
3M
Days in Top 50
105The total number of days a song spent in the Top 50 of the Shazam Global Chart. These days may have been non-consecutive.
Top 50 Debut
Dec 5, 2021
Elton John & Britney Spears
#1096Aug 28, 2022
"Hold Me Closer" by Elton John & Britney Spears peaked at No. 10 on the Shazam Global Chart, where the song spent a total of 96 day(s) in the Top 50.
Released
2022Total Shazams
5M
Days in Top 50
96The total number of days a song spent in the Top 50 of the Shazam Global Chart. These days may have been non-consecutive.
Top 50 Debut
Aug 28, 2022"Hold Me Closer" by Elton John & Britney Spears peaked at No. 10 on the Shazam Global Chart, where the song spent a total of 96 day(s) in the Top 50.
Released
2022Total Shazams
5M
Days in Top 50
96The total number of days a song spent in the Top 50 of the Shazam Global Chart. These days may have been non-consecutive.
Top 50 Debut
Aug 28, 2022
Elton John
#228May 17, 2026
"The Bitch Is Back" by Elton John achieved a peak position of No. 22 on the Shazam Global Chart and remained in the Top 50 for 8 day(s).
Released
1974Total Shazams
581K
Days in Top 50
8The total number of days a song spent in the Top 50 of the Shazam Global Chart. These days may have been non-consecutive.
Top 50 Debut
May 17, 2026"The Bitch Is Back" by Elton John achieved a peak position of No. 22 on the Shazam Global Chart and remained in the Top 50 for 8 day(s).
Released
1974Total Shazams
581K
Days in Top 50
8The total number of days a song spent in the Top 50 of the Shazam Global Chart. These days may have been non-consecutive.
Top 50 Debut
May 17, 2026Elton John's Popular Music Videos
![Watch Guiding Light (Anniversary Edition) [feat. Ed Sheeran, Elton John & Keith Urban] music video by Foy Vance](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Video126/v4/d9/e5/26/d9e5265a-11fa-91ce-8dd3-672efed8d6a5/GB1302301083.sca1.jpg/575x575mv.webp "Watch Guiding Light (Anniversary Edition) [feat. Ed Sheeran, Elton John & Keith Urban] music video by Foy Vance")
![Watch I Can't Go On Living Without You (Arranged Band Version) [Lyric Video] music video by Elton John](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Video124/v4/1e/d8/10/1ed810c0-2609-377e-c422-d5b3ddd34636/20UMGIM86126.crop.jpg/575x575mv.webp "Watch I Can't Go On Living Without You (Arranged Band Version) [Lyric Video] music video by Elton John")
![Watch Watching The Planes Go By (Band Version) [Lyric Video] music video by Elton John](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Video124/v4/22/50/30/22503069-bbad-1a86-3614-7e9cb83093f2/20UMGIM93364.crop.jpg/575x575mv.webp "Watch Watching The Planes Go By (Band Version) [Lyric Video] music video by Elton John")
![Watch Here's To The Next Time (Piano/Tambourine Demo) [Lyric Video] music video by Elton John](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Video124/v4/91/87/f7/9187f7d2-bbce-2c7d-408d-6bb0a369566f/20UMGIM86125.crop.jpg/575x575mv.webp "Watch Here's To The Next Time (Piano/Tambourine Demo) [Lyric Video] music video by Elton John")
![Watch Sing Me No Sad Songs (Band Demo) [Lyric Video] music video by Elton John](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Video114/v4/e9/8c/c6/e98cc63e-2d83-e7f0-f913-f72c6d9834c0/20UMGIM78917.crop.jpg/575x575mv.webp "Watch Sing Me No Sad Songs (Band Demo) [Lyric Video] music video by Elton John")
![Watch I'm Still Standing (Remastered 2016) [Lyric Video] music video by Elton John](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Video123/v4/9d/45/41/9d454123-2b85-ef18-a1cb-4dca46c3a632/19UMGIM75759.crop.jpg/575x575mv.webp "Watch I'm Still Standing (Remastered 2016) [Lyric Video] music video by Elton John")
![Watch Tiny Dancer (Remastered 2016) [Lyric Video] music video by Elton John](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Video113/v4/a9/98/97/a9989768-26cf-7f89-e50b-cf10f6d0143c/19UMGIM75761.crop.jpg/575x575mv.webp "Watch Tiny Dancer (Remastered 2016) [Lyric Video] music video by Elton John")
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About Elton John
At the height of the fever dream that was Elton John’s life in the ’70s, the singer-songwriter had the optician Dennis Roberts design a pair of giant, sculptural glasses studded with 57 battery-powered lights in the shape of the name Elton—to the tune of about $5,000. Adjusted for inflation, you’re talking about something more like $25,000. But John had a show to put on, and wouldn’t that be something to talk about?
The excess was always apparent: the rhinestones, the costumery, the old Hollywood glamour retrofitted for a new, gender-bending world. But beneath the feathers, John’s music—written with the lyricist Bernie Taupin—was direct and unpretentious, the kind of rock ’n’ roll storytelling that met you where you were. Even if you didn’t know exactly what it meant—who is the dancer, and why are they so tiny?—the feeling was immediate, universal. By 1973’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, John said they were writing a couple of songs at breakfast and recording them before lunch. This was pop music, John argued: You weren’t supposed to think about it too much, and god help you if you did. And yet here we are, singing the songs five decades later.
Born Reginald Dwight in Pinner, England, in 1947, John took to the piano young, studying on a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music while obsessively listening to Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard. They were so physical, John marveled—they didn’t just play the piano, they beat it. He started playing in pubs at 15 and, around 20, met Taupin through a want ad in a music magazine.
There were good years and bad ones, highs and lows—that handful of Valium before jumping into the swimming pool in 1975, for example, or the disco album, which John himself described as jumping on a dying bandwagon—but he has always endured, emerging from the debauchery of the ’70s and redefinitions of the ’80s bruised but never beaten, a gay icon, AIDS activist, philanthropist, Knight Bachelor, and father of two. In 2018, nearly 50 years after his debut album, he embarked on a three-year farewell tour, and published his first autobiography, Me, in 2019. The host of Apple Music 1’s Rocket Hour, Elton has been the recipient of countless awards (Grammys, Oscars, BRITs, Tonys, Ivors), has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, and, in 2020, was awarded the Companion of Honour.
The excess was always apparent: the rhinestones, the costumery, the old Hollywood glamour retrofitted for a new, gender-bending world. But beneath the feathers, John’s music—written with the lyricist Bernie Taupin—was direct and unpretentious, the kind of rock ’n’ roll storytelling that met you where you were. Even if you didn’t know exactly what it meant—who is the dancer, and why are they so tiny?—the feeling was immediate, universal. By 1973’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, John said they were writing a couple of songs at breakfast and recording them before lunch. This was pop music, John argued: You weren’t supposed to think about it too much, and god help you if you did. And yet here we are, singing the songs five decades later.
Born Reginald Dwight in Pinner, England, in 1947, John took to the piano young, studying on a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music while obsessively listening to Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard. They were so physical, John marveled—they didn’t just play the piano, they beat it. He started playing in pubs at 15 and, around 20, met Taupin through a want ad in a music magazine.
There were good years and bad ones, highs and lows—that handful of Valium before jumping into the swimming pool in 1975, for example, or the disco album, which John himself described as jumping on a dying bandwagon—but he has always endured, emerging from the debauchery of the ’70s and redefinitions of the ’80s bruised but never beaten, a gay icon, AIDS activist, philanthropist, Knight Bachelor, and father of two. In 2018, nearly 50 years after his debut album, he embarked on a three-year farewell tour, and published his first autobiography, Me, in 2019. The host of Apple Music 1’s Rocket Hour, Elton has been the recipient of countless awards (Grammys, Oscars, BRITs, Tonys, Ivors), has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, and, in 2020, was awarded the Companion of Honour.
Musical InfluencesElton John's musical influences include The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley and more.
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