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"I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" by Meat Loaf was the longest-running number-one single of 1993, spending ten weeks atop the Rock & Metal Singles Chart. It ended 1993 as the overall best-selling single of the year in the UK.

The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal singles in the United Kingdom. In 1993, the chart was compiled by Gallup and published in Hit Music magazine every two weeks. During the year, 26 charts were published with 17 singles at number one. The first number-one single of the year was "Womankind" by Little Angels. The last number-one single of the year was "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" by Meat Loaf, which spent the last ten weeks of the year atop the chart. "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" was also the most successful single of the year on the chart, as well as the overall best-selling single of the year in the UK.

Chart history

Ugly Kid Joe's version of "Cats in the Cradle" spent six weeks at number one during April and May 1993.
Lenny Kravitz (top), Green Jellÿ (middle) and Radiohead (bottom) each topped two UK Rock & Metal Singles Charts in 1993.
Key
† Indicates best-selling rock single of 1993
Issue date Single Artist(s) Record label(s) Ref.
9 January "Womankind" Little Angels Polydor
23 January "I'm Easy/Be Aggressive" Faith No More Slash
6 February "Heaven Is" Def Leppard Bludgeon Riffola
20 February "A Better Man" Thunder EMI
6 March "Are You Gonna Go My Way" Lenny Kravitz Virgin
20 March
3 April "Cats in the Cradle" Ugly Kid Joe Mercury
10 April
24 April
8 May "Bullet in the Head" Rage Against the Machine Epic
22 May "In These Arms" Bon Jovi Jambco
5 June "Three Little Pigs" Green Jellÿ Zoo
19 June
3 July "Take Me for a Little While" Coverdale–Page EMI
17 July "Big Gun" AC/DC Atco
31 July "La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)" Manic Street Preachers Columbia
14 August "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" Bon Jovi Jambco
28 August "Opal Mantra" Therapy? A&M
11 September "Heart-Shaped Box" Nirvana Geffen
25 September "Creep" Radiohead Parlophone
9 October
23 October "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" † Meat Loaf Virgin
6 November
20 November
4 December
18 December

See also

References

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