Ewan McGregor is a Scottish actor who is best known for films like Trainspotting, Moulin Rouge and as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy.
| Artist | (PF Project featuring) Ewan McGregor | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Biggest Hit | Choose Life | ||
| UK Top 40 Hits | 1 | Peak (UK) | 6 |
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#29: RuPaul
RuPaul is an American drag queen, actor, model and TV personality. These days, RuPaul is best known for RuPaul's Drag Race. In the early years, RuPaul had a number of dance singles including "Supermodel", "Back to my roots", "House of Love" and "A shade shady". RuPaul had a bigger hits in the UK with duets, first with Elton John on "Don't go breaking my heart" (peaked at #7 in 1994) and secondly with Martha Wash on "It's raining men.. the sequel!" (peaked at #21 in 1998). Recently, RuPaul starred in the Netflix series, "AJ and the Queen" (which sounds like a dodgy poker hand).
| Artist | (Elton John and) RuPaul | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Biggest Hit | Don't Go Breaking My Heart/a> | ||
| UK Top 40 Hits | 4 | Peak (UK) | 7 |
| Links | Facebook instagram Twitter Youtube | ||
#28: Ant & Dec
Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly are the iconic British entertainers who present such shows as Saturday Night Takeaway, I'm a celebrity get me out of here and Britain's got talent. The pair started their career in the kid's drama, Byker Grove portraying PJ & Duncan. They launched a fair pop career on the back of this in 90s with no less than 12 Top 40 hits, 3 of which making the top 10 ("Better Watch Out" and "Shout" peaking at #10). Their biggest hit was "Let's get to rhumble". In 2013, a performance of "Let's get to rhumble" on a 90s revival episode of Saturday Night Takeaway was the launchpad for a re-issue, which utlimately gave them their first UK chart-topper.
| Artist | PJ & Duncan | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Biggest Hit | Let's get ready to rhumble | ||
| UK Top 40 Hits | 9 | Peak (UK) | 9 |
| Links | Facebook instagram Twitter Youtube | ||
#27: John Alford
John Alford is a Scottish actor who is best known for appearing in dramas, "Grange Hill" and "London's Burning". In 1996, he launched a brief music career with one self-titled album that spawned three hit singles, "Smoke gets in your eyes" (UK#13), "Blue moon/Only you" (UK#9) and "If/Keep on running" (UK#24).
| Artist | John Alford | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Biggest Hit | Blue Moon / Only You | ||
| UK Top 40 Hits | 3 | Peak (UK) | 9 |
| Links | Facebook instagram Twitter Youtube | ||
#26: Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean)
Rowan Atkinson is an English actor, comedian and writer, best known for his work portraying Blackadder and Mr Bean. It was under the guise of the latter that he cropped up in the music chart. He collaborated with Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden for Comic Relief on the song "(I want to be) elected".
| Artist | Mr Bean | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Biggest Hit | (I want to be) elected | ||
| UK Top 40 Hits | 1 | Peak (UK) | 9 |
| Links | Youtube | ||
#25: Malandra Burrows
Malandra Burrows is best known for portraying Kathy Glover in the soap, Emmerdale. Like many others, she tried to launch a pop career. Despite a number of single releases, her only hit was "Just this side of love" in 1990.
| Artist | Malandra Burrows | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Biggest Hit | Just this side of love | ||
| UK Top 40 Hits | 1 | Peak (UK) | 11 |
| Links | Facebook instagram Twitter Youtube | ||
#24: Sean Maguire
Sean Maguire is an English actor who started his career in soaps Grange Hill and Eastenders before his jump into films (e.g. Meet the Spartans) and American TV shows (e.g. Eve, The 100). He had a not too bad music career with 2 studio albums and 8 UK Top 40 hits, although none of them made the top 10.
| Artist | Sean Maguire | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Biggest Hit | Good Day | ||
| UK Top 40 Hits | 8 | Peak (UK) | 12 |
| Links | instagram Twitter | ||
#23: Matthew Marsden
Matthew Marsden is an English actor. In his early career, he had stints on both Emmerdale and Coronation Street before moving onto films. Credits include Black Hawk Dawn, DOA: Dead or Alive, Rambo. In 1998, between the step from TV to film, he embarked on a brief music career and had a couple of hits with "The hearts lone desire" and "She's gone". The latter featured Destiny's Child on backing vocals and though that only reached #24 in the UK chart, serves as nice claim to fame. He recently had small part in the 2020 movie, "Tenet".
| Artist | Matthew Marsden | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Biggest Hit | The heart's lone desire | ||
| UK Top 40 Hits | 2 | Peak (UK) | 13 |
| Links | Twitter Youtube | ||
#22: Joey Lawrence
Joey Lawrence is an actor and his biggest roles were in American sitcoms, Blossom and Melissa & Joey. On the back of his success of Blossom, he launched a solo career and had instance hits with "Nothin' my love can't fix" and "I can't help myself" in 1993. The former was both a top 20 hit in the UK and the states.
| Artist | Joey Lawrence | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Biggest Hit | Nothin' my love can't fix | ||
| UK Top 40 Hits | 2 | Peak (UK) | 13 |
| Links | Facebook instagram Twitter | ||
#21: Johan Renck
Bo Johan Renck is a Swedish TV and music video director. He noted for winning an Emmy award in 2019 for his work in the mini-series Chernobyl. During the 90s, he had a short music career as Stakka Bo for which "Here we go" was his only UK hit.
| Artist | Stakka Bo | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Biggest Hit | Here we go | ||
| UK Top 40 Hits | 1 | Peak (UK) | 13 |
| Links | instagram Youtube | ||
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