There have been some abberations on the charts, from random one-off looping beats to tunes that were either devised or made for children's programming. According to the UK hit singles charts, Bob the Builder was able to chart in 2000 for 22 consecutive weeks, three of them at number one. As queer as it sounds, it was able to become the most successful single in BBC history, one million sales in six months. I'm not aware of similar type happenings in the US or Australia (though there was something concerning the success of The Wiggles and Hi-5, can't remember if it was considered to be a mainstream mass audience happening though), suggesting that the British public are either into music from more than the usual sources, or just more eccentric in what they want to hear (those are only my observations, though I lean toward the latter).
That's not to say that other charts have never had bizarre songs though, citing the examples of the Crazy Frog and its reworkings of popular tunes (fortunately I didn't associate Axel F as the main song of 'Beverly Hills Cop' series, Glenn Frey's 'The Heat is On' all the way) and Schnappi (das klein krokodil (the small crocodile)) and their relative success with music and then apparently games as well (probably not games, but they had garnered enough success to have them made). Though they were short lived, their appearance nonetheless marks how success can emerge in bizarre and annoying forms (like television).
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I'm going to have that schnappy the crocodile song in my head all week now...
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