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Over the past few years, Baidu has been keeping track of the weekly Top 10 Chinese songs. Rather than provide an extensive list of all these, I'm just going to look at the Number One songs. The charts began 1 December 2005 and have been running weekly (with the odd omission) up to the present time.

During these nearly four years (175 weeks listed) 75 songs from some 40 Chinese artists have topped the charts. If we look at the number of weeks a particular artist has topped the charts, Jay Zhou (周杰伦) takes the cake at 37 weeks. Coming in second is Jolin Cai (蔡依林) at 13 weeks. Singapore's JJ Lin (林俊杰) spent 7 weeks as a soloist. If we include his two duets that reached Number One, his total is 12 weeks. S.H.E. spent 11 weeks on top of the charts and Malaysia's Fish Liang spent 10 weeks at Number One.

Artists with the most Number One songs were Jay Zhou with 12; Jolin Cai and JJ Lin (including his two duets) with 5 apiece; Fish Liang and S.H.E. with 4 apiece.

In terms of trivia, there was one foreign artist who topped the charts in a duet with a Chinese: Sarah Brightman. There was a song sung by many Chinese singers together: "Beijing Welcomes You". And, as I mentioned, there were a couple of duets involving JJ Lin: one with Kym and one with Liao Zhong.

Below is a summary. Bolded artists are those with more than 5 weeks on the charts and/or at least 3 No. 1 hits.

1 December 2005 – 9 October 2009

Artist's English Name (Chinese Name), Weeks at No. 1, No. 1 Hits:

Andy Lau (刘德华), 2, 1

Angela An (安又琪), 1, 1

Angela Zhang (张韶涵), 8, 3

Bibi Zhou (周笔畅), 4, 3

BY2, 2, 1

Chris Li (李宇春), 5, 3

Chris Yu (游鸿明), 2, 1

Christine Fan (范玮琪), 3, 2

David Tao (陶喆), 1, 1

Eason Chan (陈奕迅), 6, 1

Elva Xiao (萧亚轩), 1, 1

F.I.R., 2, 1

Fahrenheit (飞轮海), 3, 1

Fish Liang (梁静茹), 10, 4

Gigi Leung (梁咏琪), 1, 1

He Jie (何洁), 2, 1

Jacky Xue (薛之谦), 6, 2

Jane Zhang (张靓颖), 4, 3

Jay Zhou (周杰伦), 37, 12

JJ Lin (林俊杰), 7, 3

JJ Lin & Kym (林俊杰 金莎), 2, 1

JJ Lin & Liao Zhong (林俊杰 廖君), 3, 1

Jolin Cai (蔡依林), 13, 5

Kenji Wu (吴克群), 4, 2

Liu Huan (刘欢) & Sarah Brightman, 4, 1

Loving (爱乐团), 2, 1

Ma Tian Yu (马天宇), 3, 1

Nicholas Teo (张栋梁), 1, 1

Rene Liu (刘若英), 3, 1

Richie Jen (任贤齐), 2, 1

S.H.E., 11, 4

Sam Li (李圣杰), 1, 1

Sherry Zhang (张惠妹), 4, 1

Stefanie Sun (孙燕姿), 1, 1

Steve Zhou (周传雄), 2, 1

Various Artists (群星), 5, 1

Wang Xiao Kun (王啸坤), 1, 1

Wilber Pan (潘玮柏), 4, 2

Xian Zi (弦子), 1, 1

Xu Fei (许飞), 1, 1

Next I'll provide a list of all the Number One songs.