June 10, 20178 yr The new top 40 run downs seem to take up alot more time than I would have thought, and the 20th anniversary edition was rubbish- major disappointment
June 14, 20178 yr It was just John Peel,Kid Jensen and Alan Freeman so I don't think any cuts were made.
June 15, 20178 yr Just watched the episode from before xmas 1983 there with The Pretender performance of 2000 Miles, such an underrated classic! Pity that performance didn't take them into the top 10!! Also is it just me or are the no1s spending longer than normal at the top spot - Karma Cameleon 6 weeks, Uptown Girl 5 weeks & Only You set for 5 weeks and we have Frankie in 1984!! Was there a reason for this? I have no facts, just a theory: sales in late 83 and 84 were amongst one of the higher periods for singles, with lots of million sellers or near-million-sellers, so guessing that they had long runs due to the sales increases generally, rather than specifically just coincidentally all arriving in a 15-month period. or maybe not... :lol:
June 20, 20178 yr Why did sales increase - due to cassette sales increasing? Also the fact that most no1s from this time from the POV of someone who wasn't there at the time(or just in my pram) are also well known classics nowadays and therefore we can assume the output was great so increased sales.
June 20, 20178 yr Roland Rat on last week blimey!!. Strange he was rising up the chart in January when you'd have thought the single was released to coincide with the xmas market although this happened back then as with Orville & David Essex in Jan 83 & the no1 being Paul McCartney which is today considered an xmas hit!
June 20, 20178 yr The new top 40 run downs seem to take up alot more time than I would have thought, and the 20th anniversary edition was rubbish- major disappointment Glad we have a full top 40 meant we see acts like FGTH being given a chance when they enter at 35!!
June 21, 20178 yr I have no facts, just a theory: sales in late 83 and 84 were amongst one of the higher periods for singles, with lots of million sellers or near-million-sellers, so guessing that they had long runs due to the sales increases generally, rather than specifically just coincidentally all arriving in a 15-month period. or maybe not... :lol: Perhaps somewhat counter-intuitively total singles sales increased in 1984 over 1983 because there were a lot of million plus sellers (Band Aid, 2 x FGTH, Stevie Wonder, George Michael, Last Christmas by Wham! nearly there at year-end). If each of these had sold only half of what they did overall sales would have been down slightly. Indeed average sales at positions lower down the chart were significantly lower than in the late 1970s. In 1985 overall sales did drop, but with only one million-seller perhaps they had otherwise held up OK, for one more year at least.
June 22, 20178 yr Author We’re up to the middle of January 1984 with Simon Bates and Peter Powell as our hosts. Whitesnake get things off to a gentle start. Big Country’s adventures in Wonderland come next. They seem to have replaced the video with a knitwear advert. On to some classic eighties stuff from Fiction Factory, a band named after the Daily Mail offices. A pleasant little number from China Crisis. First bit of the chart. Time for Gloria Gaynor at number 24. Alternatively, time to do something more interesting for a few minutes. If only I had a fruit bowl I could rearrange it. Next bit of the chart. Thriller already on the way down after an unspectacular chart run. John Lennon with something from his posthumously released album. From Lennon to Paul McCartney at number one with a song generally associated with Christmas. The Police bring proceedings to a close - or arrest them if you prefer.
June 22, 20178 yr Estimated sales for the week for the top 10 1- PIPES OF PEACE- Paul McCartney (63,000) 2- RELAX- Frankie Goes To Hollywood (55,000) 3- WHAT IS LOVE- Howard Jones (51,000) 4- THAT’S LIVIN ALRIGHT- Joe Fagin (48,000) 5- A ROCKIN GOOD WAY- Bonnie Tyler & Shakin Stevens (47,000) 6- BIRD OF PARADISE- Snowy White (43,000) 7- MARGUERITA TIME- Status Quo (38,000) 8- TELL HER ABOUT IT- Billy Joel (35,000) 9- RUNNING WITH THE NIGHT- Lionel Richie (32,000) 10- ISLANDS IN THE STREAM- Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers (30,000)
June 28, 20177 yr We are denied Madonna's TOTP debut as it's in the missing episode between last week and tomorrow's episode so I thought I would put the link here: hbhyTtEUPl8
July 1, 20177 yr Anyone have top 10 sales for this weeks episodes? Also have we any more DLT episodes left?
July 6, 20177 yr Author Mike Read and Janice Long are our hosts for this episode from February 1984. Long has decided to copy Read’s haircut. Why? Some Hot Chocolate to start. Not one of their best-known songs. Rockwell is up next with a distinctly average song. Some other bloke is on backing vocals. The fact that the whole thing sounds like an out-take from Thriller provides a clue. We are spared Marilyn but we still get lumbered with Kool and the Gang. This episode is not going well. An improvement at last with little Nik Kershaw. He’s wearing some sort of lime green number. Oh, we also get a bit of the video complete with state-of-the-art effects. First bit of the chart. Back to the distinctly average, this time from Carmel. These special effects are amazing. Well, OK, they are distinctly average too but you have to remember we are talking BBC budgets here. Middle bit of the chart which includes Henry Mancini no less. It’s his second (and, so far, last) top 40 hit a full 20 years after the first. Howard Jones with a song that seems to have been lost. Apparently it’s his birthday. We are promised the top ten videos but there’s still a gaping hole where the number one should be. We finish on a high from Re-Flex.
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