The most requests for one artist in a year is 158; the Spice Girls in 1997.
They also have the second highest tally of 106, which they achieved the following year, in 1998.
The most requests for one song in one year is 73, achieved by Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" in 1998.
This is closely followed by Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" which was requested by 71 people, in 1993.
James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" was announced as the most requested song of 2006 on Radio Brockley, and in so doing became the first song EVER to top our chart two years running!
One song has topped the request chart three times though.
This was Chris De Burgh's "Lady In Red" which was No. 1 in it's year of release, in 1986, and then shocked everyone by returning to the top spot in 1997 and 2000.
Robbie Williams in the only artist to have topped the annual request chart in three consecutive years - in 2000, 2001 and 2002.
Michael Jackson, the Spice Girls and Frank Sinatra have all topped the request chart two years running.
The most consistent song in the request chart is Chris De Burgh's "Lady In Red", which has only missed the request chart on three occasions.
This is closely followed by Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called To Say I Love You".
The most consistent artist since the chart started is Sir Cliff Richard.
He has still never missed the request chart top 20.
The lowest position he reached was No.18, in 1991, but his best years were 1996 and 1997 when he reached No. 2.
The most appearances in our songs chart by one act was set in 1990, when New Kids On The Block had 4 of the top 20 songs (3 in the top 10), as well as the year's No.1! The Spice Girls later equalled that record in 1997.
Shaggy set a new record in 2001 by becoming the first act to have the year's No.1 & No.2 most requested songs of the year.
1995's request chart had more previous entries than any other chart, with 12 of the top 20 having appeared in a previous year.