1978 was the year, and have every Top 40 chart since 1978, 28 years in total :lol: I've got 3 lever arch files of single charts, dated back to 1978 :lol: Not really into the album chart, I just follow the singles more.

 

First record I ever bought was The Police - Message In A Bottle, and a freebie came with it, Top 40 chart of that week, that's how I got addicted to the charts.

I got interested in the charts in about 2004 when I started compiling charts, and I bought my first single (Band Aid 20) in 2004 too! I now have FOUR singles in my collection :o

my first record i ever bought was

The Best Things In Life Are Free- Janet Jackson feat luther

 

I was so disgusted it got to no.2 i became very addicted to charts, pretty strange but thats where it came from

Start of 2004 :D my first single i bought was Geri Halliwell - Look At Me in 1999 i think ?

1996 with the Spice Girls. Their song 'Wannabe' was the first single I got bought for me by my mum :wub:

First single I bought myself was S Club 7 NHADCT in 2000 :P

 

I'd grown up with music cos my mum loves the 80s stuff - Erasure, Human League etc and I always loved it hence why my chart dates back to 1992 - but I remember everyone at school was singing 'Wannabe' and I listened to see where it would get to and it reached #3 :lol: I was just hooked from then on - started writing them down in 1998 :blush:

My first single was probably a Spice Girls one from '96/'97. :lol:

 

I began to be interested in the charts around 2000/2001 time.

1988, then lost interest in 1992, then regained interest in 1995!

1996 with the Spice Girls. Their song 'Wannabe' was the first single I got bought for me by my mum :wub:

First single I bought myself was S Club 7 NHADCT in 2000 :P

 

I'd grown up with music cos my mum loves the 80s stuff - Erasure, Human League etc and I always loved it hence why my chart dates back to 1992 - but I remember everyone at school was singing 'Wannabe' and I listened to see where it would get to and it reached #3 :lol: I was just hooked from then on - started writing them down in 1998 :blush:

 

Your mum's got good taste :)

The year Xtina - Genie In A Bottle arrived, I remember that, Ann Lee, Mel C - Going Down and Eiffel 65 being in the chart around the same time. :wub:

 

I haven't been a fanatic since then, but have kept up to date with the top 40, and since finding CC, top 75.

In 1996 I bought my single which was Spice Girls - 2 Become 1 and my first proper album the year after that Spice Girls - Spice World but I wasn't that interested until 1999 when I listened to check if S Club 7 were #1 with S Club Party :lol: which they weren't but ever since then that I became an addict but I was interested a little since I first started watching Top Of The Pops every week in about 1992.

Well i first started following the charts in 1986.

 

I can remember at the start of the year listening to the Next Week's chart show on Radio Luxembourg on my walkman. This was on a Monday evening and the presenter was Mike Hollis who is now on Saga 105.7 FM.

 

Then i got into the R1 chart show with Bruno Brookes, and started recording the shows, unfortunately i no longer have my early recordings which is a shame.

My earliest recording is a chart from 1987. I have one from Feb/March 88 too.

 

Anyway from then i on i never missed a chart show and became a addicted, although for some strange reason i only started writing the chart down from the start of 1989, which is quite surprising.

I was pleased to purchase the book of top 40 charts later where it had every single UK Top 40 from 1960 to the end of 1991 which was quite awesome to have.

 

 

My first single was Benni Benassi's 'Satisfaction', but I didn't truely get into the charts until September 2004 when bored on Sundays. I've been hooked ever since!

First chart I ever listened to was the old Pepsi Chart, when DJ Otzi was No.1. I was hooked after that, and I started compiling my personal chart finally in Jan this year.

 

First single anyone bought me was The Cardigans 'My Favourite Game', and the first one I bought myself was DJ Otzi 'Hey Baby' :D

Erm '97ish, and the first ever single I bought was Emma Bunton - What Took You So Long. :D :wub:

Well i bought my first single when i was 9 when i bought baby one more time by miss britney :wub: But i didnt get interested in the charts until a little after britneys third album so when i was 12 in 2002

1981, Human League #1 on TOTP began to list #1s then got the 500 UK #1s book for my birthday in 83. Karma Chameleon 1st single and now have every single uk#1 and every uk singles chart too. :dance:

1996 and my first single was 'where's the love?' by Hanson in september 1997

1996 and my first single was 'where's the love?' by Hanson in september 1997

 

Haha! I think my first single was Hanson - Mmm Bop. Either that or Britney - Baby One More Time :lol:

1999 - it was when britney spears was number 1 with baby one more time, the first single i bought, which was a tape, not a cd, was lolly - viva la radio, don't ask

My first single - 1984 - We Belong by Pat Benatar

(I think my first album was the St Elmo's Fire soundtrack)

Only got into charts in 1998 when I found the Guinness chart listing book by accident. I've not really listened to the chart on a Sunday though for about 15 years.