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2ND FEBRUARY



2Tone comes of age today with its first chart topper in the form of The Specials whose "Special AKA Live EP" moves from 15-1 today, the last time a track climbed to the top from outside the top 10 was last June when the Boomtown Rats achieved that with an identical 15-1 climb for "I Don't Like Mondays". In many ways that wasn't the story of this week on the charts as it all started out quite differently with Madness' "My Girl" topping initial sales flashes narrowly ahead of The Pretenders but the power of Top Of The Pops proved too great again with both "Brass In Pocket" and "Too Much Too Young" getting valuable exposure and both sprinting ahead of the nutty boys. Sales of 88,000 earned The Specials No 1, 16,000 ahead of the Pretenders and Madness who had only a few hundred between them.





The Nolans sold virtually the same at No 4 (67,000) as last week and refuse to move, but the top 4 are over 20,000 copies clear of the remainder of the chart with Joe Jackson's "It's Different For Girls" moving 12-5 (44,000) to become his first top 10 hit and beating the peak of his debut hit "Is She Really Going Out With him" last year. It's taken from his second album "I'm The Man" Illustrating an admirable work rate for such a new act.





Moving with pace up the charts 33-10 is Kenny Rogers who proves once again that you can never quite write him off. After scoring two big hits in 1969/70 it took another seven years for Rogers to return the charts but then he made No 1 with "Lucille", he's never been back in the top 30 since but this week "Coward Of The County" rectifies that. A country tale of revenge and putting right some wrongs, it seems to have captured the public imagination, we'll see how high this can go its sales of 42,000 brings its collective tally to 58,000 in total so far.



Bad news for the remainder of the top 10 as they all fall. Billy Preston and Syreeta tumble four places 2-6 (43,000), Styx move back one spot 6-7 (42,000), KC & The Sunshine band slip 3 (5-8, 42,000) and Booker T & The MG's fall 2 places (7-9, 42,00) in an incredibly packed lower top 10 with just over 1,500 copies separating No's 6 and 10.

1- TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG- The Specials (88,000)
2- BRASS IN POCKET- The Pretenders (72,000)
3- MY GIRL- Madness (72,000)
4- I’M IN THE MOOD FOR DANCING- The Nolans (67,000)
5- IT’S DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS- Joe Jackson (44,000)
6- WITH YOU I’M BORN AGAIN- Billy Preston & Syreeta (43,000)
7- BABE- Styx (42,000)
8- PLEASE DON’T GO- KC & The Sunshine Band (42,000)
9- GREEN ONIONS- Booker T & The MG’s (42,000)
10- COWARD OF THE COUNTY- Kenny Rogers (42,000)