The first to reach number one was "California Gurls," featuring Snoop Dogg.
It's not a career high-point creatively, but it did reach number 15 in the UK charts.
It went on to reach number 17 in the UK charts as the winter of 1988 drew in.
Coventry University has nudged past many of its Russell Group peers to reach number 15 in the Guardian university guide.
Oakley, who earned $5m last year, has had a book reach number two in the New York Times bestseller list and interviewed Barack Obama.
Smith's track, Writing's On the Wall, became the first Bond theme song to reach number one on the British singles charts.
I was lucky enough — and luck had a lot to do with it — to have a couple of the books I've written reach number one on bestseller lists.
Percy Sledge's supersmooth "When a Man Loves a Woman" (1966), recorded in nearby Sheffield, became the first Southern soul song to reach number one on the pop charts.
The sound exploded in 1961, following the release in late 1960 of the Shirelles' "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," the first girl group single to reach number one.
The first Indigenous-language album to reach number one on the Aria charts, it won four Aria awards and three National Indigenous Music Awards (Nimas).
His death sparked an outpouring of tributes celebrating his life and Blackstar is set to reach number one in the UK charts on Friday.
