Now the full countdown of the 30th Anniversary chart from 13th November 1982.

 

 

10 [20] Daryl Hall And John Oates - Maneater

9 [33] Michael Jackson And Paul McCartney - The Girl Is Mine

8 [8] Barry Manilow - I Wanna Do It With You

7 [4] The Kids From 'Fame' - Starmaker

6 [11] Kool And The Gang - Ooh La La La (Let's Go Dancin')

5 [18] Marvin Gaye - (Sexual) Healing

4 [1] Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?

3 [3] Tears For Fears - Mad World

2 [5] Dionne Warwick - Heartbreaker

 

 

 

The New Number 1 with a climb of a place

 

 

Eddy Grant - I Don't Wanna Dance

 

 

Number 1

 

 

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Next week two more charts from November of two particular years selected at random.

Can't say i'd be celebrating this, because the fact is, it ain't really the 60th anniversary of the chart.

 

What we've really got is, that it's 60 years that NME first did a Record chart.

 

Points are: Nobody took any notice of NME charts, until Radio Luxembourg used them from 1960 to 1966.

 

The Sheet Music Chart was more popular until 1958.

 

Then, you've got these damn books trying to pass Record Retailer, as being "Official" from 1960 to 1969. Utter nonsense. Nobody ever touched this. Way behind all other music papers & full of hidden ties (including #1s).

 

There are only 2 things, that should of been celebrated. The BBC chart was 50 years old on 29th March 2008. Nobody covered that great day. The chart (to this day) has never been published, although it was the most popular & listened to chart of the time. And the other celebration was the very first sales based chart, compiled by the British Market Research Bureau, which would of been 40 years old on 11th February 2009.

 

Everyone knows (of course) that all music papers in the 50s & 60s did was collect a number of charts from relatuvely small record shops & then just add them all together. No sales info, there whatsoever.

 

NME only polled 25 shops to start with (inconclusive of any real chart positions)

Record Mirror did the biggest poll of 50 shops (between 1955 & 1960)

Melody Maker covered well over 200 shops (from July 1960 onwards)

Record Retailer (not even worth a mention, as it only covered 30 shops for much of the 60s & relegated EPs to a poor separate chart)

Disc & Music Echo only started to separate LPs from the chart, when they started to sell in decent weekly proportions (April 1966)

The BBC compiled their own charts from all the others published, which covered some 500 shops & so has to be the most correct, followed by EMI (who did similar)

 

Anyone that prints the BBC charts, that show proper #1s like "Please Please Me", "Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown", " Sha La La La La Lee", "A Picture Of You", "Bird Dog" at #1 & not "I Pretend", "On The Rebound", "Mack The Knife", "The Wayward Wind", "Fire", & "Legend Of Xanadu"...which just never got to #1, will get a big vote from all of us, that lived & enjoyed life in the 50s & 60s with the correct charts of the time & not some nonsense, that was never seen.

 

That's the truth on UK charts. Other statistics show that WHSmiths did not participate in compilation until March 1971 & Woolworths (the biggest seller of UK records) did not paticipate, until 8th July 1975.

 

Then you've got BMRB throwing records out of the chart, if they slipped down, 2 weeks running & had sales falls. Plus, changing chart compilation days i.e. from May - October 1976, the days were switched from Mon to Sat, to Sat to Fri. This happened again in the early part of 1982 & cost BMRB the licence to supply the BBC with charts. Then (& only then) did the chart become really "Official" because Gallup increased shops polled to over 1000 & the whole thing became computer generated.

Edited April 11, 201213 yr by davetaylor