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I had an 80's week, seeing the fab Human League live at Bournemouth, (new entry, therefore, for single off the latest album Credo, and for support band The Penelopes, a new French synth band, sort of, with a great instrumental track not unlike chemical brothers Setting Son in mood). Keane, meanwhile return to Number 1 for a 4th week. I notice only 2 UK Top 40 hits in my top 10. I blame buzzjack for all the distractions from other people's charts...:)

 

Highest new entry from the Stones, used in a advert a couple of years back, never a UK single (though a hit in the USA) and I downloaded it 2 years back without charting it. Now Grrr had charted, and it's on it, I have an excuse, hooray! It's a 60's hippie charmer. Bobby Womack has his biggest ever hit at 7, with what is essentially a slow soulful dubstep track, not bad for an old geezer. The Nanas meanwhile do a sort of "I Feel Love" moroder version of Maroon 5, not bad for lasses of 50-harrumph. Girls Aloud get 10 years of Top 10's with a big mover, as I finally get to hear it properly (its fab of course).

 

Big moves for Pink, and Coldplay, new entries for The Overtones and Kylie's next single remake, and Steps re-enter as i finally get to hear it for a second time. It's a good record. I have to say Steps don't always make my Top 40, so that's actually to their credit!

 

cheers!

 

 

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30 35 30 2 YOU GET WHAT YOU GIVE New Radicals 35500

 

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33 29 19 7 CARRY ON fun 127700

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38 new 38 1 SKY The Human League 17200

39 4 4 16 HEROES David Bowie 335500

40 new 40 1 THE SWEET SONG (FUKUSHIMA MON AMOUR) The Penelopes 17000

 

 

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50 50 50 13 WE WILL ROCK YOU Queen 111400

 

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54 34 34 7 SWEET NOTHING Calvin Harris/ Florence Welch 96500

55 57 55 8 HELP ME RHONDA The Beach Boys 61000

56 new 56 1 THE OUTSIDERS Deacon Blue 10600

57 59 57 6 YOUR MOTHER SHOULD KNOW The Beatles 43100

58 41 4 17 GOOD TIMES Owl City/ Carly Rae Jepson 571850

59 48 3 21 UNFINISHED SYMPATHY Massive Attack 479400

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61 58 1 37 ANYONE WHO HAD A HEART Cilla Black 923000

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67 70 67 2 DO YOU THINK OF ME Misha B 12600

68 new 68 1 GIRL ON FIRE Alicia Keys 6400

69 54 10 13 LEAVING Pet Shop Boys 256000

70 75 70 2 DON'T SPEAK No Doubt 11000

 

71 new 71 1 WASTED LIGHT Ronan Keating 5800

72 71 1 44 SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW Gotye/Kimbra 1680500

73 new 73 1 HIGHWAY TO HELL AC/DC 5400

74 new 74 1 GOLD DUST DJ Fresh 5200

75 new 75 1 THE POWER OF LOVE Frankie Goes To Hollywood 5000

 

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56 2 WALK THROUGH WALLS Emin 21200

60 2 YOU TAKE MY BREATH AWAY Eva Cassidy 16800

65 2 MOUNTAIN SONG Of Monsters And Men 13000

1 29 SOLDIERS Abba 961050

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68 1 LOVE ME DO The Beatles 6400

69 1 I'M NOT THE SAME WITHOUT YOU Donald Fagen 6200

72 1 YOUR BODY Christina Aguilera 5600

73 1 ALL YOUR GOLD Bat For Lashes 5400

1 25 ANOTHER DAY Paul McCartney 738650

 

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Hi John

 

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28 12 5 8 SKYFALL Adele 319500

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68 new 68 1 GIRL ON FIRE Alicia Keys 6400

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70 75 70 2 DON'T SPEAK No Doubt 11000

72 71 1 44 SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW Gotye/Kimbra 1680500

73 new 73 1 HIGHWAY TO HELL AC/DC 5400

75 new 75 1 THE POWER OF LOVE Frankie Goes To Hollywood 5000

 

thanks mart!n you like a lot of my new entries:)!:)

Highest new entry from the Stones, used in a advert a couple of years back, never a UK single

 

6 new 6 1 SHE'S A RAINBOW The Rolling Stones 55000

 

I think it's one of the biggest injustice in UK Chart history. This song along with Gimme Shelter are my favourite Stones songs ever! Their 1967 double A-sided single We Love You/Dandelion is no near as good as that one. No wonder it was their worst selling single in UK since the beginning...

 

Madness and Bananarama give 80's favour to your Top 10. :)

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I think it's one of the biggest injustice in UK Chart history. This song along with Gimme Shelter are my favourite Stones songs ever! Their 1967 double A-sided single We Love You/Dandelion is no near as good as that one. No wonder it was their worst selling single in UK since the beginning...

 

Madness and Bananarama give 80's favour to your Top 10. :)

 

Thanks Andrey, yes I totally agree, this should have been a single, and it stands up there with the best singles they did in the 60's!:)

 

Yes, I seem to be on an 80's revival at the moment:)

 

cheers!

john

Hi

 

 

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5 6 3 4 I FOUND YOU The Wanted 209500

6 new 6 1 SHE'S A RAINBOW The Rolling Stones 55000

9 38 9 4 SOMETHING NEW Girls Aloud 96600

11 13 10 4 LATCH Disclosure/Sam Smith 132000

13 7 1 18 SOME NIGHTS fun. 1325500

14 11 9 5 BENEATH YOUR BEAUTIFUL Labrinth/ Emili Sande 166000

15 17 15 16 (I'M NOT YOUR) STEPPIN' STONE The Monkees 249150

17 32 17 3 TRY P!nk 52800

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21 21 10 6 DON'T YOU WORRY CHILD Swedish House Mafia/ John Martin 147950

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23 23 12 6 WONDER Naughty Boy/ Emeli Sande 114100

26 64 26 4 HURTS LIKE HEAVEN Coldplay 42600

28 12 5 8 SKYFALL Adele 319500

29 33 29 7 VAVA VOOM Nicki Minaj 81500

30 35 30 2 YOU GET WHAT YOU GIVE New Radicals 35500

31 16 16 9 PUSH AND SHOVE No Doubt/Busy Signal/Major Lazer 185200

32 RE 32 3 LIGHT UP THE WORLD Steps 38100

33 29 19 7 CARRY ON fun 127700

34 new 34 1 ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS (ABBEY ROAD SESSIONS) Kylie Minogue 17600

36 40 36 12 I DON'T KNOW HOW TO LOVE HIM Yvonne Elliman 130800

37 49 37 3 TROUBLEMAKER Olly Murs/ Flo Rida 34400

39 4 4 16 HEROES David Bowie 335500

43 43 43 9 NEVER TEAR US APART INXS 103050

44 37 18 10 GANGNAM STYLE PSY 151650

45 new 45 1 MISS ATOMIC BOMB The Killers 13000

47 47 47 4 I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE Taylor Swift 44600

49 36 10 8 BACKTRACK Rebecca Ferguson 185850

50 50 50 13 WE WILL ROCK YOU Queen 111400

51 26 26 3 RADIOACTIVE Imagine Dragons 48750

52 42 20 6 DOOM AND GLOOM The Rolling Stones 87400

53 53 53 9 EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE The Police 75000

54 34 34 7 SWEET NOTHING Calvin Harris/ Florence Welch 96500

58 41 4 17 GOOD TIMES Owl City/ Carly Rae Jepson 571850

59 48 3 21 UNFINISHED SYMPATHY Massive Attack 479400

60 55 1 57 PRINCESS OF CHINA Coldplay/ Rihanna 3448300

61 58 1 37 ANYONE WHO HAD A HEART Cilla Black 923000

62 61 1 78 GOD ONLY KNOWS The Beach Boys 1675650

64 63 1 98 BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 2003650

65 new 65 1 HO HEY The Lumineers 7000

67 70 67 2 DO YOU THINK OF ME Misha B 12600

68 new 68 1 GIRL ON FIRE Alicia Keys 6400

70 75 70 2 DON'T SPEAK No Doubt 11000

72 71 1 44 SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW Gotye/Kimbra 1680500

73 new 73 1 HIGHWAY TO HELL AC/DC 5400

74 new 74 1 GOLD DUST DJ Fresh 5200

75 new 75 1 THE POWER OF LOVE Frankie Goes To Hollywood 5000

 

 

Great Chart!

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Hi

2 3 1 7 RUN BOY RUN Woodkid 747000

4 5 4 6 BRUISES Train/ Ashley Monroe 191100

5 6 3 4 I FOUND YOU The Wanted 209500

6 new 6 1 SHE'S A RAINBOW The Rolling Stones 55000

9 38 9 4 SOMETHING NEW Girls Aloud 96600

11 13 10 4 LATCH Disclosure/Sam Smith 132000

13 7 1 18 SOME NIGHTS fun. 1325500

14 11 9 5 BENEATH YOUR BEAUTIFUL Labrinth/ Emili Sande 166000

15 17 15 16 (I'M NOT YOUR) STEPPIN' STONE The Monkees 249150

17 32 17 3 TRY P!nk 52800

18 15 6 11 CANDY Robbie Williams 291850

19 19 8 9 ONE MORE NIGHT Maroon 5 213800

21 21 10 6 DON'T YOU WORRY CHILD Swedish House Mafia/ John Martin 147950

22 14 1 17 LITTLE TALKS Of Monsters And Men 1373900

23 23 12 6 WONDER Naughty Boy/ Emeli Sande 114100

26 64 26 4 HURTS LIKE HEAVEN Coldplay 42600

28 12 5 8 SKYFALL Adele 319500

29 33 29 7 VAVA VOOM Nicki Minaj 81500

30 35 30 2 YOU GET WHAT YOU GIVE New Radicals 35500

31 16 16 9 PUSH AND SHOVE No Doubt/Busy Signal/Major Lazer 185200

32 RE 32 3 LIGHT UP THE WORLD Steps 38100

33 29 19 7 CARRY ON fun 127700

34 new 34 1 ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS (ABBEY ROAD SESSIONS) Kylie Minogue 17600

36 40 36 12 I DON'T KNOW HOW TO LOVE HIM Yvonne Elliman 130800

37 49 37 3 TROUBLEMAKER Olly Murs/ Flo Rida 34400

39 4 4 16 HEROES David Bowie 335500

43 43 43 9 NEVER TEAR US APART INXS 103050

44 37 18 10 GANGNAM STYLE PSY 151650

45 new 45 1 MISS ATOMIC BOMB The Killers 13000

47 47 47 4 I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE Taylor Swift 44600

49 36 10 8 BACKTRACK Rebecca Ferguson 185850

50 50 50 13 WE WILL ROCK YOU Queen 111400

51 26 26 3 RADIOACTIVE Imagine Dragons 48750

52 42 20 6 DOOM AND GLOOM The Rolling Stones 87400

53 53 53 9 EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE The Police 75000

54 34 34 7 SWEET NOTHING Calvin Harris/ Florence Welch 96500

58 41 4 17 GOOD TIMES Owl City/ Carly Rae Jepson 571850

59 48 3 21 UNFINISHED SYMPATHY Massive Attack 479400

60 55 1 57 PRINCESS OF CHINA Coldplay/ Rihanna 3448300

61 58 1 37 ANYONE WHO HAD A HEART Cilla Black 923000

62 61 1 78 GOD ONLY KNOWS The Beach Boys 1675650

64 63 1 98 BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 2003650

65 new 65 1 HO HEY The Lumineers 7000

67 70 67 2 DO YOU THINK OF ME Misha B 12600

68 new 68 1 GIRL ON FIRE Alicia Keys 6400

70 75 70 2 DON'T SPEAK No Doubt 11000

72 71 1 44 SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW Gotye/Kimbra 1680500

73 new 73 1 HIGHWAY TO HELL AC/DC 5400

74 new 74 1 GOLD DUST DJ Fresh 5200

75 new 75 1 THE POWER OF LOVE Frankie Goes To Hollywood 5000

Great Chart!

Thanks Ken, I could hardly even omit any from yours, so just listed them all!

 

cheers

john

Hi John,

 

It's been my turn to take chart tips from you this week! I've finally heard the Poly Styrene Christmas track - I adore it! I've practically had it on repeat since I downloaded it, so expect to see that high in my next chart! Also like the Bobby Womack track. Still great to see Bananarama and Gemma Ray climbing! I always enjoy reading your chart.

 

Fantastic chart as always :D

Viva la Steps !!!! Great comeback.

John, which Christmas songs are your all-time favourites?

 

Wait 1.000.000 points for Cilla Black.

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Hi John,

 

It's been my turn to take chart tips from you this week! I've finally heard the Poly Styrene Christmas track - I adore it! I've practically had it on repeat since I downloaded it, so expect to see that high in my next chart! Also like the Bobby Womack track. Still great to see Bananarama and Gemma Ray climbing! I always enjoy reading your chart.

 

Fantastic chart as always :D

 

Thanks AH, glad you like Poly too, though I can't take credit, I got it off another buzzjack fan, and I'm also liking it more & more:) As I am Gemma Ray, and I'm having to try and persuade friends my age that the 80's pop acts are still alive and well and making great records - they wouldn't know cos radio never plays stuff like Bananarama!

 

thanks again!

cheers:)

john

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Viva la Steps !!!! Great comeback.

John, which Christmas songs are your all-time favourites?

 

Wait 1.000.000 points for Cilla Black.

 

Thanks Alex, yes I really like the Steps record, and Ive only heard it twice, so it may yet go higher - it's ceratinly the most sophisticated release they've had!

 

I think Cilla will hang about for the "million" sales, as it's a classic!

 

My all-time fave xmas songs tend to be ones that radio doesnt play every year in the UK - they always play the same 15 or 20 records - great as they are (Pogues/Mariah/Wizzard/Wham etc I bought them all first time round) I'd like for them to not be played for a couple of years just to give other classics a chance for a change:

 

so apart from them:

 

Happy Xmas War Is Over (John & Yoko)

I Believe In father Xmas (Greg lake)

Lonely This Christmas (Mud)

Christmas Wrapping - (Waitresses)

 

probably some others Ive forgotten, stuff like Kate Bush, Gilbert O'Sullivan, you may like Dana's sweet "It's Gonna Be A Cold Cold Christmas":)

 

cheers!

john

 

in recent years warm This Winter (Gabriella Cilmi) is a goodie

1. John, my favourite Xmas songs are very unique thing.

I'm sure, that you watched that list with them in Retro part on this forum.

I didn't heard about Dana's Christmas song, so I would be watch this video on Youtube.

 

2. Steps have 16-17 # 1 songs in my charts with most their singles and three times with B-sides [Heartbeat, Better The Devil You Know, I Know Him So Well]

+ Claire Richards has 5 additional number 1s [4 in H & Claire and 1 in TSD] She is the record holder in my charts with 21-22 # 1 singles.

+ Faye Tozer has additional # 1 single "Someone Like You" [it was her wonderful duet with Russell Watson]

 

3. Glad for Kylie Minogue. Her EP is the best thing, which she recorded after her first two albums.

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1. John, my favourite Xmas songs are very unique thing.

I'm sure, that you watched that list with them in Retro part on this forum.

I didn't heard about Dana's Christmas song, so I would be watch this video on Youtube.

 

2. Steps have 16-17 # 1 songs in my charts with most their singles and three times with B-sides [Heartbeat, Better The Devil You Know, I Know Him So Well]

+ Claire Richards has 5 additional number 1s [4 in H & Claire and 1 in TSD] She is the record holder in my charts with 21-22 # 1 singles.

+ Faye Tozer has additional # 1 single "Someone Like You" [it was her wonderful duet with Russell Watson]

 

3. Glad for Kylie Minogue. Her EP is the best thing, which she recorded after her first two albums.

 

Thanks Alex, yes i read your list and I didnt know any of them! I'm always interested in archive tracks so If i get the time when i go on holiday next week I may youtube them:)

 

You are quite the Steps fan! A few of my friends (who are only just a bit younger then me) love them too, though they usually have to work hard to peak high in my chart, there's usually so many others I love! My top tracks are Last Thing On My Mind (5), DJ (8), One For Sorrow (18), Better The Devil You Know/Say You'll B eMine (18) Its the way you make me feel (25) Stomp (30) and the rest a bit lower. The new one is 32 so far, and the most under-rated is Deeper Shade Of Blue which peaked at 36 but should have gone top 10. If it's any consolation their version of Last Thing... did much better than Bananarama's by about 70 places! I periodically review whole years (recorded on tape) and Deeper Shade, DJ, Stomp, Say You''l Be mine all did much better in the year-end list than first time round. I also was impressed with Claire's vocals when I saw her on Popstar to Operastar TV show, she can really sing well when she does the opera stuff!

 

cheers:)

john

John ,

 

TSD - Heart & Soul

Dance pop song, which was UK # 69 in February 1996. It was the first music experience for Claire before Steps in girl trio TSD and were dropped by their record label after the release of their second single "Baby I Love You".

 

Faye Tozer & Russell Watson - Someone Like You

Gorgeous ballad, which was realised in the same time with H & Claire first single. "DJ" was # 3, "Someone Like You" - # 10.

 

Faye Tozer - If You Believe

Claire Richards - Hand On Your Heart

 

Every Steps member have solo song on their third album "Buzz". 2 best voices from Steps got 2 amazing ballads. Both songs used for Gold Greatest Tour.

 

H & Claire - Another You, Another Me

Claire is true ballad queen. Cover version. Original was written by Bjorn & Benny for Gemini in 80s.

 

Heartbeat [b-side for million seller "Tragedy"]

Christmas video. One from my favourite winter videos with "Happy New Year" and "Something Stupid"

 

Popstar to Operastar was a good show. I like Claire and Cheryl Baker perfomances in it.

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John ,

 

TSD - Heart & Soul

Dance pop song, which was UK # 69 in February 1996. It was the first music experience for Claire before Steps in girl trio TSD and were dropped by their record label after the release of their second single "Baby I Love You".

 

Faye Tozer & Russell Watson - Someone Like You

Gorgeous ballad, which was realised in the same time with H & Claire first single. "DJ" was # 3, "Someone Like You" - # 10.

 

Faye Tozer - If You Believe

Claire Richards - Hand On Your Heart

 

Every Steps member have solo song on their third album "Buzz". 2 best voices from Steps got 2 amazing ballads. Both songs used for Gold Greatest Tour.

 

H & Claire - Another You, Another Me

Claire is true ballad queen. Cover version. Original was written by Bjorn & Benny for Gemini in 80s.

 

Heartbeat [b-side for million seller "Tragedy"]

Christmas video. One from my favourite winter videos with "Happy New Year" and "Something Stupid"

 

Popstar to Operastar was a good show. I like Claire and Cheryl Baker perfomances in it.

 

thanks for the info Alex,

 

The faye/russell single charted in mine at 44, again one I under-appreciated at the time. I actually have the Gemini album that track is on and hadnt realised it was the same track (because i havent heard H & Claire's version yet) so appreciate that info, I must dig them both out:)

 

cheers!

john

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