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 90s Top 10 Sales- week by week 1990, In conjunction with TOTP |
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 Nov 20 2020, 12:02 AM
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Surely Dandy* 'bang bang bang on the door baby' *Mime knocking on door* 'I can't hear you?' is the best bit ?
“Love Shack” went down really well at my sister's wedding with people mostly born at or after it was released so it's definitely crossed over to classic status - although my Dad wondered over when I was playing it saying he thought that he hated it but it wasn't as bad as he'd remembered it.  Here's the Top 40 broadcast on Radio 1: https://www.mixcloud.com/1869300/uk-top-40-...kes-25-03-1990/ Worth a listen: Orbital are at 17 with “Chime” ! |
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Nov 20 2020, 07:44 AM
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 Right in front of my salad?!
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I also forgot that Mamma Ru Paul is in the Love Shack video!
Argh at the Groove is in the Heart hate 
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Nov 20 2020, 09:30 PM
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 Ciao, 911? E 'Quagmire. Sì, è preso nella finestra di questo
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7TH APRIL
 Lots of new hits to digest this week but first to the top 3 where everything is, by way of contrast, entirely static. Snap! Make it two weeks at No 1 with “The Power” shifting another 78,000 copies, that’s an increase of 20% week on week, and they do extend their lead over The B-52’s to 36,000 from 10,000 last week so are slightly more secure, and Candy Flip get stuck in mud at No 3, again losing sales to 38,000.  Below that it gets interesting with the new Madonna Single called “Vogue”. It takes its inspiration from the dance of the same name popular in underground gay clubs in New York which has now been exported by the singer to the mainstream and features a roll call of classic 30s-50s movie stars to accompany the stylish black and white promo which naturally being Madonna is another instantly memorable one. The song was originally written as a B-Side to the US single “Keep It Together”, a fourth release from the “Like A Prayer” album, as it was felt it needed a new track to get sales for a song available for such a long time on the album. In the end it was deemed too good to be thrown away on a B-side as instead it is issued as a standalone single and it arrives at No 4 (36,000) this week, she’s never debuted in the top 5 and not gone to No 1!  Not had enough Belgian Dance music? Well look no further than Bizz Nizz who leap 22-8 (28,000) with “Don’t Miss The Partyline” and is another song which forms part of the ongoing trend of generating hits first in the clubs that transfer onto the charts. It’s the brainchild of Jean-Paul De Costa.  So onto 1989’s biggest chart star Jason Donovan. His last 5 singles all debuted in the top 10 and all peaked in the top 2 and his newie “Hang On To Your Love” has started in the right vein as it debuts brightly at No 9 (27,000) and will be the second single from his new album expected in the summer. It’s another top 10 single for S/A/W/ Hit factory who have been absent from the big 10 for 5 weeks now, since Pepsi & Shirlie’s “Goodbye Stranger” entered the top 10 back in June 1987 a total of 148 chart weeks have elapsed, weeks without a hit factory record being present in it? Just 25! Erasure continue their slow descent 4-5 (35,000) along with a reverse gear for David A Stewart & Candy Dulfer dip 6-7 (34,000), meanwhile better news for They Might Be Giants who climb 8-6 (34,000) and see their album debut at No 14. Beats International slump 5-10 (22,000) to complete our round up but as it’s the end of the first quarter let’s see how the year is shaping up thus far! 1- NOTHING COMPARES 2 U- Sinead O’Connor 661,000 2- DUB BE GOOD TO ME- Beats International Featuring Lindy Layton 440,000 3- GET UP! (BEFORE THE NIGHT IS OVER)- Technotronic Ft Ya Kid K 320,000 4- HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO LIVE WITHOUT YOU- Michael Bolton 257,000 5- TEARS ON MY PILLOW- Kylie Minogue 245,000 6- GOT TO HAVE YOUR LOVE- Mantronix 198,000 7- I DON’T KNOW ANYBODY ELSE- Black Box 191,000 8- HANGIN TOUGH- New Kids On The Block 187,000 9- LOVE SHACK- The B-52’s 185,000 10-TOUCH ME- 49ers 181,000 This week's top 10 1- THE POWER- Snap! (78,000) 2- LOVE SHACK- The B-52’s (42,000) 3- STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER- Candy Flip (38,000) 4- VOGUE- Madonna (36,000) 5- BLUE SAVANNAH- Erasure (35,000) 6- BIRDHOUSE IN YOUR SOUL- They Might Be Giants (34,000) 7- LILY WAS HERE- David A Stewart Ft Candy Dulfer (34,000) 8- DON’T MISS THE PARTYLINE- Bizz Nizz (28,000) 9- HANG ON TO YOUR LOVE- Jason Donovan (27,000) 10- DUB BE GOOD TO ME- Beats International Ft Lindy Layton (22,000)          
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Nov 20 2020, 09:55 PM
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was Madonna entering "only" at #4 considered an underperformance at the time?
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Nov 20 2020, 10:15 PM
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Ciao, 911? E 'Quagmire. Sì, è preso nella finestra di questo
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Not really. She'd never entered at No 1 so it wasn't expected, Neither was Jason Donovan....this week at least.
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Nov 20 2020, 10:31 PM
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At the time I really liked both of the new entries in the top 10, in fact I was pretty obsessed with the Jason Donovan track - although I've listened to it back since and goodness only knows why.
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Nov 26 2020, 08:27 PM
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Ciao, 911? E 'Quagmire. Sì, è preso nella finestra di questo
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14TH APRIL
 So in the end it ended up being quite a tussle, not between Madonna and Jason Donovan as form would suggest (they crossed swords last Easter you may recall) but between Madonna and the outgoing chart topper from Snap!, it ended up being awarded to Madonna who sees “Vogue” become her seventh chart topper placing her 6th on the all time list behind The Beatles, Elvis, Cliff, ABBA and The Rolling Stones, and she also becomes the third act to top the charts in the 80s and 90s. The track sold 65,000 against “The Power”’s 58,000, that 25% sales loss proving fatal. :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/A-254403-1396631339-8957.jpeg.jpg) Recent US chart topper “Black Velvet” is also on the move 17-3 (44,000) and could yet prove troublesome for Madonna, the song by Canadian Alannah Myles, is a homage to Elvis Presley and was inspired when Myles’s boyfriend was on a coach to Graceland to mark the 10th anniversary of the icon’s death in 1987.  UB40’s inability to score a big hit with self- written material arguably lead to “Labour Of Love II” at the end of last year and now they score a second top 10 single from it with “Kingston Town” originally written by Kendrick Patrick in 1970. It’s their 13th top 10 hit and as it rises 11-4 (40,000) and it also becomes their highest peaking single since 1985’s “Don’t Break My Heart” made No 3. The album debuted at No 9 back in December but this week charges 16-8 to reach a new peak though it still has a long way to go to reach the success of the original “Labour Of Love” which went all the way to the top.  Leading lights, along with The Stone Roses, in the current “Madchester” movement, and after their last single “Madchester Rave On EP” became their first Top 40 hit (peaking at No 19), Happy Mondays have seen considerable adulation in the music press (second only to the Roses), now they finally have a top 10 single to back it up, “Step On”. A take on John Kongos’s 1971’s No 4 hit “He’s Gonna Step On you Again” it’s been remixed by Paul Oakenfold and will be the first release from their third album due at Christmas, the single powers 16-5 (39,000) and could yet be a chart topper given their support. Two of last week’s top 3 find themselves out of favour with The B-52’s falling 2-6 (34,000) and Candy Flip tumble 3-9 (22,000) along with They Might Be Giants ebbing 6-10 (19,000). Bizz Nizz rise 8-7 (30,000) and the surprise of the week being that Jason Donovan can only move a slot 9-8 (23,000) even with TOTP to help him, could S/A/W’s golden boy be losing his touch? Finally as a foot note the charts have altered the allowed formats to contribute to chart positions with only 5 formats now being permissible, hence the high number of new entries last week to get around the issue. 1- VOGUE- Madonna (65,000) 2- THE POWER- Snap! (58,000) 3- BLACK VELVET- Alannah Myles (44,000) 4- KINGSTON TOWN- UB40 (40,000) 5- STEP ON- Happy Mondays (39,000) 6- LOVE SHACK- The B-52’s (34,000) 7- DON’T MISS THE PARTYLINE- Bizz Nizz (30,000) 8- HANG ON TO YOUR LOVE- Jason Donovan (23,000) 9- STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER- Candy Flip (22,000) 10- BIRDHOUSE IN YOUR SOUL- They Might Be Giants (19,000)   
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Nov 26 2020, 10:50 PM
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QUOTE(Gezza @ Nov 19 2020, 09:24 PM)  I must be alone in my dislike of "Love Shack". It's all just annoyingly jolly and forced, I dislike "Groove In The Heart" in the same manner. I don't like either very much although Grove is in the Heart is preferable. |
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Nov 26 2020, 10:50 PM
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QUOTE(Gezza @ Nov 19 2020, 09:24 PM) I must be alone in my dislike of "Love Shack". It's all just annoyingly jolly and forced, I dislike "Groove In The Heart" in the same manner. I don't like either very much although Grove is in the Heart is preferable. |
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Nov 27 2020, 09:14 AM
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so Vogue #1 but not doing crazy figures.
nice big jump for Black Velvet, I loved that song back then, loved all those rock ballads that are kinda similar to Heart-Alone I was more into The Stone Roses than Happy Mondays but Step On is great. Not the biggest UB40 fan. It's funny with Labour of love II cos they got 2 bit UK hits (Homely Girl, Kingston Town) while in the US they also got 2 Top 10s with 2 complete different songs (Here I Am, The way you do the things you do), which both flopped int he UK. Cannot really think of another album with such bizarre pattern... |
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Nov 27 2020, 01:49 PM
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I loved Kingston Town at the time.
I bought Now 17 on the strength of 4 songs that I wanted - and Kingston Town was one of them. |
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Nov 27 2020, 03:06 PM
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Ciao, 911? E 'Quagmire. Sì, è preso nella finestra di questo
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21ST APRIL
 Sparked by a media frenzy over the start of her world tour opening in Japan last week Madonna mania seems alive and well in the UK with “Vogue” on cruise control this week and is proving a consistent if unspectacular seller registering a further 64,000 copies last week, turning last week’s 7,000 victory into a 15,000 victory over the still rising Alannah Myles who squeezes past a falling Snap! (48,000). That all leaves UB40 out in the cold and holding at No 4 (34,000) with no clear way of it seeing the top 3.  Number One for 3 weeks Stateside in February “Opposites Attract” transposes its success across the Atlantic as it arrives 17-5 (29,000). Abdul’s career in the US has been stratospheric so far with four No 1 singles in the space of a year, it’s markedly different here where only “Straight Up” has been a top 20 single albeit a No 3 hit, her current features Bruce DeShazer and Marv Gunn as the “wild pair” but the track comes with a memorable semi animated promo featuring MC Skat Kat which is garnering attention, could it go all the way over here?  Here’s a song with a history, “All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You” is a Robert “Mutt” Lange written track which was originally recorded in 1979 by Dobie Gray with completely different lyrics, it was dusted down by Lange and re-written into its current form with Don Henley in mind but ends up in the hands of Heart who you may recall scored a couple of top 10 singles a few years ago. Their tenth album “Brigade” is due next month and this marks the first single, its somewhat controversial lyrics seem to have not caused as much outrage here as they have in the US and the song rises 11-8 (24,000) Among those taking surprising downturns this week include The Happy Mondays 5-6 (29,000) and Jason Donovan 8-9 (23,000), also falling are the B-52’s who fall 6-10 (21,000). Better news for Bizz Nizz who hold at No 7 (27,000). 1- VOGUE- Madonna (64,000) 2- BLACK VELVET- Alannah Myles (49,000) 3- THE POWER- Snap! (48,000) 4- KINGSTON TOWN- UB40 (34,000) 5- OPPOSITES ATTRACT- Paula Abdul with Wild Pair (29,000) 6- STEP ON- Happy Mondays (29,000) 7- DON’T MISS THE PARTYLINE- Bizz Nizz (27,000) 8- ALL I WANNA DO IS MAKE LOVE TO YOU- Heart (24,000) 9- HANG ON TO YOUR LOVE- Jason Donovan (23,000) 10- LOVE SHACK- The B-52’s (21,000)  
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Nov 27 2020, 03:12 PM
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I'm really surprised that Vogue didn't register any really high sales weeks. I knew it wasn't her biggest seller by any means but I'm surprised it isn't registering weeks over 60somethingK.
Also... Opposites Attract is a huge guilty pleasure of mine, I bought that at the time and played it to death
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Nov 27 2020, 07:42 PM
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Black velvet was one of the last singles I bought on vinyl, on the rare occasion I did buy a single it was on casette.
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Nov 27 2020, 08:46 PM
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love those 2 newies!
I was a big fan of Heart, Alone was one of the first singles I bought as a kid. Really liked this one and the parent album had great songs too. I also bought the Paula album back in the day, still got the vinyl. It was crazy how popular she was in the US with four #1s from he debut. This is not as good as Straight up but still a pretty good pop song. |
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Nov 28 2020, 07:09 PM
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Opposites Attract is fantastic - good to see it on the way up.
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Nov 29 2020, 02:25 PM
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Opposites Attract is nowhere as good as Straight Up and Cold Hearted but still a very good pop song. Her Forever Your Girl album is great.
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Nov 29 2020, 02:35 PM
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I dont like Opposites Attract at all
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Dec 3 2020, 10:09 PM
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Ciao, 911? E 'Quagmire. Sì, è preso nella finestra di questo
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28TH APRIL
 Madonna once again proves she is the current queen of pop as she sees “Vogue” grab a third week at the top, only “Into The Groove” has lasted longer at the top out of her chart toppers. It was helped by the news of her UK tour dates which naturally sold out in a morning, the song will now also be available on the soundtrack to her new movie “Dick Tracy” which is due to get a UK release in July to accompany the tour, the soundtrack is due in June. Alannah Myles did cut her lead at the top to just 6,000 selling 62,000 as her album debuts at No 3, Paula Abdul and the Wild Pair float 5-3 (44,000) so depending on how you view the contribution of the Wild Pair it is arguable that this is an all female top 3 for only the third time in history but the first not to feature Kylie Minogue, her new single is released next month.  Adamski’s first hit “N-R-G” peaked at No 12 back in January, his new single “Killer” does even better as it rockets 20-7 (31,000) and introduces us to singer Seal though he is uncredited on the track. The pair apparently met in a McDonalds (if you believe the story) and now find themselves in the top 10, and Adamski (real name Adam Tinley) has a second album due this year if you like the sound of this.  New York outfit Family Stand are also new entrants to our top ten with “Ghetto Heaven” moving 12-10 (24,000). Part of the song’s appeal comes from the fact that it is remixed and produced by Nelle Hooper and Jazzy B from Soul II Soul who have their own new single in the shops this week (watch out for that in 7 days time). A couple of tracks which can’t seem to move are The Happy Mondays at No 6 (33,000) and Heart at No 8 (30,000). Fallers include Snap! Who are powerless to drop 3-4 (43,000), UB40 who slip 4-5 (34,000), and Bizz Nizz who are hungover and slide 7-9 (27,000). 1- VOGUE- Madonna (68,000) 2- BLACK VELVET- Alannah Myles (62,000) 3- OPPOSITES ATTRACT- Paula Abdul Duet with The Wild Pair (44,000) 4- THE POWER- Snap! (43,000) 5- KINGSTON TOWN- UB40 (34,000) 6- STEP ON- Happy Mondays (33,000) 7- KILLER- Adamski (31,000) 8- ALL I WANNA DO IS MAKE LOVE TO YOU- Heart (30,000) 9- DON’T MISS THE PARTYLINE- Bizz Nizz (27,000) 10- GHETTO HEAVEN- Family Stand (24,000)  
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Dec 3 2020, 10:17 PM
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Great top 3, love all 3
Also love the 2 newies. Killer is just an incredible song, only "but" was Seal not being credited. Ghetto Heaven was great, for some reason I thought it had charted much higher. |
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