Would like to see your charts for 1982 on here soon, looking at the Official Chart archive from that year, that is probably my favourite year from the 80s for music.

 

1987 seems to have had some great songs making the chart though so I look forward to seeing your personal charts for this year and also seeing the episodes from that year once they appear soon on the BBC Four TOTP re-run.

 

Hi Snakey, I'll see if I can push 1980/1/2 through a bit ahead of the crowd - hoping to have a go over Xmas at some serious catching up old charts and indulge myself a bit :)

Yeh my fav year from the totp and popchart journey is 1983!

 

Hi Steve, 1983 is one of my fave years too, music videos took over in my memory fused by betamax recordings of them played over and over.... :lol:

25th November 1986

 

It's a sudden leap to the top spot for Erasure, Sometimes has pottered around climbing slowly for a few weeks, before stopping Debbie Harry getting a solo topper - though Blondie would be back for some more in the 21st century anyway. Vince Clark had already topped with Yazoo's Only You 4 years earlier, and it wouldn't be his last chart-topper either. Cyndi Lauper rockets into the top 20 with Change Of Heart, easily outdoing True Colors which was pleasantly dull in comparison, and giving her a 4th top 20.

 

Highest newie is The Damned, 7 years of chart entries and counting, followed by a 3rd for Fuzzbox, both inside the 40, just behind a leaping Jam & Lewis Human League, and ahead of a cool Oran 'Juice' Jones, both climbing fast. Genesis also return with one of their very best singles, Land Of Confusion and it's Spitting Image video, and the smooth Shake You Down gives Gregory Abbott a debut. Actor and comedian Billy Crystal, long a fave from the sitcom Soap, and en route to movie stardom, slips out a whimsical US hit single, You Look Marvellous, done in the style of latin Hollywood movie star Fernando Llamas, and tickles my fancy as I also liked Fernando. The Housemartins cover the Isleys, and instantly outdo them with their accapella version.

 

Talking of Yazoo, Alison Moyet is also back with a goodie, Is This Love, and Howard Jones & Five Star add to their list, while new in at 75, briefly, it's Wendy Richard reprising her 1962 smash Come Outside, which I adored as a 4 or 5-year-old and thereafter, though she swaps lead singer from Mike Sarne to Mike Berry who had been hitless for 6 years, but gets 11 years of chart entries since his 1975 cover of Don't Be Cruel, some 10 years since his 60's popstar career stalled.

 

1 ( 14 ) SOMETIMES Erasure

2 ( 5 ) FRENCH KISSING IN THE USA Debbie Harry

3 ( 3 ) BECAUSE I LOVE YOU Shakin’ Stevens

4 ( 4 ) LIVIN’ ON A PRAYER Bon Jovi

5 ( 1 ) TAKE MY BREATH AWAY Berlin

6 ( 7 ) SHOWIN’ OUT (GET FRESH AT THE WEEKEND) Mel & Kim

7 ( 2 ) SWEET LOVE Anita Baker

8 ( 9 ) YOU KEEP ME HANGIN’ ON Kim Wilde

9 ( 18 ) EACH TIME YOU BREAK MY HEART Nick Kamen

10 ( 10 ) (WAITING FOR) THE GHOST TRAIN Madness

 

11 ( 50 ) CHANGE OF HEART Cyndi Lauper

12 ( 12 ) NOTORIOUS Duran Duran

13 ( 8 ) ALL I ASK OF YOU Cliff Richard & Sarah Brightman

14 ( 15 ) BREAKOUT Swing Out Sister

15 ( 6 ) THIS IS THE WORLD CALLING Bob Geldof

16 ( 11 ) WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN The Bangles

17 ( 28 ) WE LOVE YOU OMD

18 ( 25 ) THE FINAL COUNTDOWN Europe

19 ( 29 ) KEEP EACH OTHER WARM Bucks Fizz

20 ( 22 ) ARIZONA SKY China Crisis

 

21 ( 13 ) SUBURBIA Pet Shop Boys

22 ( 17 ) TRUE BLUE Madonna

23 ( 16 ) WATERLOO Doctor & The Medics featuring Roy Wood

24 ( 32 ) EMOTION IN MOTION Ric Okasek

25 ( 20 ) FOR AMERICA Red Box

26 ( 34 ) I’VE BEEN IN LOVE BEFORE Cutting Crew

27 ( 24 ) IN THE ARMY NOW Status Quo

28 ( 19 ) DON’T GET ME WRONG The Pretenders

29 ( 33 ) ALL FALL DOWN Ultravox

30 ( 37 ) WARRIORS OF THE WASTELAND Frankie Goes To Hollywood

 

31 ( 26 ) STEP RIGHT UP Jaki Graham

32 ( 27 ) HUMAN Human League

33 ( 21 ) DON’T GIVE UP Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush

34 ( 39 ) MIRACLE OF LOVE Eurythmics

35 ( 35 ) THROUGH THE BARRICADES Spandau Ballet

36 ( 60 ) I NEED YOUR LOVIN’ Human League

37 ( 42 ) SOUL LOVE/SOUL MAN Womack & Womack

38 ( NEW ) ANYTHING The Damned

39 ( NEW ) LOVE IS THE SLUG We’ve Got A Fuzzbox and We’re Gonna Use It

40 ( 63 ) THE RAIN Oran ‘Juice’ Jones

 

41 ( 66 ) SO COLD THE NIGHT The Communards

42 ( 23 ) NEVER TOO LATE TO LOVE YOU Kissing The Pink

43 ( 40 ) WHEN THE WIND BLOWS David Bowie

44 ( 36 ) TWO PEOPLE Tina Turner

45 ( 31 ) RAIN OR SHINE Five Star

46 ( 48 ) DANGER ZONE Kenny Loggins

47 ( 71 ) GHOSTDANCING Simple Minds

48 ( 67 ) DON’T FORGET ME Glass Tiger

49 ( 46 ) AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH Diana Ross

50 ( 38 ) THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW The Monkees

 

51 ( 54 ) CANDY Cameo

52 ( 47 ) EXPERIMENT IV Kate Bush

53 ( NEW ) LAND OF CONFUSION Genesis

54 ( 53 ) A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael

55 ( 30 ) ASK The Smiths

56 ( NEW ) SHAKE YOU DOWN Gregory Abbott

57 ( 58 ) AIN’T NOTHIN’ BUT A HOUSEPARTY Phil Fearon

58 ( 44 ) SHELTER Lone Justice

59 ( NEW ) YOU LOOK MARVELLOUS Billy Crystal

60 ( NEW ) CARAVAN OF LOVE The Housemartins

 

61 ( 64 ) C’EST LA VIE Robbie Nevil

62 ( 61 ) CRY Godley & Creme

63 ( 49 ) THORN IN MY SIDE Eurythmics

64 ( NEW ) CROSS THAT BRIDGE The Ward Brothers

65 ( 62 ) ELEANOR RIGBY/ YELLOW SUBMARINE The Beatles

66 ( NEW ) IS THIS LOVE Alison Moyet

67 ( NEW ) YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU...DON’T YOU Howard Jones

68 ( 69 ) E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite

69 ( 75 ) SLOW RIVERS Elton John & Cliff Richard

70 ( 68 ) NEW BEGINNING (MAMBA SEYRA) Bucks Fizz

 

71 ( NEW ) IF I SAY YES Five Star

72 ( 73 ) WAR Bruce Springsteen

73 ( 74 ) I’M NOT PERFECT (BUT I’M PERFECT FOR YOU) Grace Jones

74 ( 65 ) WHEN I THINK OF YOU Janet Jackson

75 ( NEW ) COME OUTSIDE Mike Berry & Wendy Richard

 

 

Playlist Oldies

1 WHY Donny Osmond

2 YOU CAN DO MAGIC America

3 BEHIND THE MASK Greg Philinganes

Sometimes is an excellent debut for Erasure and Land Of Confusion with is epic! I like So Cold The Night and its operatic chorus, its very different to anything else in the charts at this time.

Love checking out the upcoming hits for totps 1986 in your chart!!

Sometimes is an excellent debut for Erasure and Land Of Confusion with is epic! I like So Cold The Night and its operatic chorus, its very different to anything else in the charts at this time.

 

Thanks for the comment and agree with every word! All 3 are fab fab!

Love checking out the upcoming hits for totps 1986 in your chart!!

 

Thanks Steve, it's going to get ahead of me soon though! :o How very dare they! :lol:

2nd December 1986

 

2 weeks on top for Erasure, as Madonna's True Blue album delivers the highest new entry at 6 with the fab Open Your Heart. The even-fabber La Isla Bonita is in my playlist as ineligible for my singles-only listings. She also replaces one of her own songs in the top 10 as Nick Kamen drops, and keeps her hot streak of top 10's going. Bucks Fizz add to their long-list of top 10's with a warm Christmassy ballad - or at least a cocoa-advert-ey ballad. Oran 'Juice' Jones gets another big leap into the 20, and big top 40 leapers include Cameo, Gregory Abbott, Genesis and Cliff & Elton. The late Jackie Wilson is reinvented in plasticine video form and makes fifties biggie Reet Petite about to become the oldest record to top the UK charts - but not mine.

 

Billy Ocean is big in 1986, so why not remix his first hit from 1976? In at 57, and the Motown-flavoured original still sounds better than most of his 80's hits these days. Daryl Hall keeps the solo entries coming, also from the Class of '76 debuts, while George Benson shivers a bit (Winter is here!) and a run of 11 chart years since Supership. Quo can beat that - 1973 they debuted in my charts, and now have 2 in the listings, how greedy! Of course Macca beats the lot of 'em, being as he debuted with The Beatles on top of my first retro charts in 1968 with Hey Jude, and is back with another Press To Play track.

 

 

 

1 ( 1 ) SOMETIMES Erasure

2 ( 2 ) FRENCH KISSING IN THE USA Debbie Harry

3 ( 6 ) SHOWIN’ OUT (GET FRESH AT THE WEEKEND) Mel & Kim

4 ( 4 ) LIVIN’ ON A PRAYER Bon Jovi

5 ( 3 ) BECAUSE I LOVE YOU Shakin’ Stevens

6 ( NEW ) OPEN YOUR HEART Madonna

7 ( 8 ) YOU KEEP ME HANGIN’ ON Kim Wilde

8 ( 5 ) TAKE MY BREATH AWAY Berlin

9 ( 11 ) CHANGE OF HEART Cyndi Lauper

10 ( 19 ) KEEP EACH OTHER WARM Bucks Fizz

 

11 ( 7 ) SWEET LOVE Anita Baker

12 ( 9 ) EACH TIME YOU BREAK MY HEART Nick Kamen

13 ( 18 ) THE FINAL COUNTDOWN Europe

14 ( 10 ) (WAITING FOR) THE GHOST TRAIN Madness

15 ( 14 ) BREAKOUT Swing Out Sister

16 ( 12 ) NOTORIOUS Duran Duran

17 ( 17 ) WE LOVE YOU OMD

18 ( 13 ) ALL I ASK OF YOU Cliff Richard & Sarah Brightman

19 ( 40 ) THE RAIN Oran ‘Juice’ Jones

20 ( 16 ) WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN The Bangles

 

21 ( 30 ) WARRIORS OF THE WASTELAND Frankie Goes To Hollywood

22 ( 26 ) I’VE BEEN IN LOVE BEFORE Cutting Crew

23 ( 51 ) CANDY Cameo

24 ( 15 ) THIS IS THE WORLD CALLING Bob Geldof

25 ( 20 ) ARIZONA SKY China Crisis

26 ( 34 ) MIRACLE OF LOVE Eurythmics

27 ( 22 ) TRUE BLUE Madonna

28 ( 29 ) ALL FALL DOWN Ultravox

29 ( NEW ) FALLIN’ IN LOVE (UH-UH) Miami Sound Machine

30 ( 27 ) IN THE ARMY NOW Status Quo

 

31 ( 21 ) SUBURBIA Pet Shop Boys

32 ( 41 ) SO COLD THE NIGHT The Communards

33 ( 56 ) SHAKE YOU DOWN Gregory Abbott

34 ( 35 ) THROUGH THE BARRICADES Spandau Ballet

35 ( 25 ) FOR AMERICA Red Box

36 ( NEW ) REET PETITE Jackie Wilson

37 ( 53 ) LAND OF CONFUSION Genesis

38 ( 38 ) ANYTHING The Damned

39 ( 28 ) DON’T GET ME WRONG The Pretenders

40 ( 69 ) SLOW RIVERS Elton John & Cliff Richard

 

41 ( 32 ) HUMAN Human League

42 ( 24 ) EMOTION IN MOTION Ric Okasek

43 ( 33 ) DON’T GIVE UP Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush

44 ( 31 ) STEP RIGHT UP Jaki Graham

45 ( 60 ) CARAVAN OF LOVE The Housemartins

46 ( 48 ) DON’T FORGET ME Glass Tiger

47 ( 23 ) WATERLOO Doctor & The Medics featuring Roy Wood

48 ( 44 ) TWO PEOPLE Tina Turner

49 ( 36 ) I NEED YOUR LOVIN’ Human League

50 ( 71 ) IF I SAY YES Five Star

 

51 ( 49 ) AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH Diana Ross

52 ( 45 ) RAIN OR SHINE Five Star

53 ( 61 ) C’EST LA VIE Robbie Nevil

54 ( 66 ) IS THIS LOVE Alison Moyet

55 ( 50 ) THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW The Monkees

56 ( 54 ) A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael

57 ( NEW ) LOVE REALLY HURTS WITHOUT YOU (REMIX) Billy Ocean

58 ( 59 ) YOU LOOK MARVELLOUS Billy Crystal

59 ( 42 ) NEVER TOO LATE TO LOVE YOU Kissing The Pink

60 ( NEW ) I WASN’T BORN YESTERDAY Daryl Hall

 

61 ( 37 ) SOUL LOVE/SOUL MAN Womack & Womack

62 ( 47 ) GHOSTDANCING Simple Minds

63 ( 67 ) YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU...DON’T YOU Howard Jones

64 ( 64 ) CROSS THAT BRIDGE The Ward Brothers

65 ( 62 ) CRY Godley & Creme

66 ( NEW ) SHIVER George Benson

67 ( 72 ) WAR Bruce Springsteen

68 ( 68 ) E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite

69 ( NEW ) DREAMING Status Quo

70 ( 39 ) LOVE IS THE SLUG We’ve Got A Fuzzbox and We’re Gonna Use It

 

71 ( 73 ) I’M NOT PERFECT (BUT I’M PERFECT FOR YOU) Grace Jones

72 ( 43 ) WHEN THE WIND BLOWS David Bowie

73 ( 65 ) ELEANOR RIGBY/ YELLOW SUBMARINE The Beatles

74 ( NEW ) ONLY LOVE REMAINS Paul McCartney

75 ( 70 ) NEW BEGINNING (MAMBA SEYRA) Bucks Fizz

 

2nd Dec

PLAYIST OLDIES - all future chart-toppers in my charts in 1992, 1987, 2000's respectively!

 

1 DANCING QUEEN Abba

2 LA ISLA BONITA Madonna

3 YOU’RE MY WORLD Cilla Black

Thanks Steve, it's going to get ahead of me soon though! :o How very dare they! :lol:

 

Indeed I rely on your upfrontness 😜

Ultravox seemed to disappear from the charts quickly didn't they!?

 

Surprised to see The Housemartins official number 1 not in the top 40 so far Popchart?

 

 

Ultravox seemed to disappear from the charts quickly didn't they!?

 

Surprised to see The Housemartins official number 1 not in the top 40 so far Popchart?

 

Hi Steve, yes Ultravox were very much on the decline by 1986, and Housemartins are about to make a huge leap - I think I took a short while to warm to it as I liked the original version :D

 

cheers!

john

9th December 1986

 

It's 3 weeks on top for Erasure as Madonna threatens her 3rd chart-topper in a row at 2, and the chart starts to feel a little festive with The Housemartins leaping up to 13 with the Isleys cover, The Ronettes topping my oldies playlist (had I charted oldies in those days that means it would have been invading my top 75), and Chris De Burgh's 3rd good single entering at 74, a perennial of course these days that never quite got the chart positions you might think. His other 2 good ones are High On Emotion and Don't Pay The Ferryman.

 

Europe go top 5, that'll please Brexiteers aiming for The Final Countdown, while Communards leap right into the top 10 from 32 with one of their very best tracks, So Cold The Night. Gregory Abbot & Jackie Wilson have good leaps into the 20, that'll be the 3rd time Jackie has done that with oldies starting with Higher & Higher in 1969, I Get The Sweetest feeling in 1972, both of them going top 30 in 1975 as a double A, and now Reet Petite posthumously triggering the same 2 to come back and hit even higher peaks in 1987!!

 

Highest new entry is a-ha crying wolf, another winner from Morten & the lads yet to put a foot wrong, at 32, as Rod the Mod enters with In My Life at 35 the touching John Lennon Beatles song. As is always the case with Rod covers, bar Oh No Not My Baby and Ooh La La, it's not as good as the original. Paul Simon's good Boy In The Bubble is in at 45, giving him 17 years of chart success, 2 more than Rod, and 7 more than Elkie Brooks who returns with her last very good hit, No More The Fool at 62.

 

1 ( 1 ) SOMETIMES Erasure

2 ( 6 ) OPEN YOUR HEART Madonna

3 ( 3 ) SHOWIN’ OUT (GET FRESH AT THE WEEKEND) Mel & Kim

4 ( 13 ) THE FINAL COUNTDOWN Europe

5 ( 2 ) FRENCH KISSING IN THE USA Debbie Harry

6 ( 19 ) THE RAIN Oran ‘Juice’ Jones

7 ( 4 ) LIVIN’ ON A PRAYER Bon Jovi

8 ( 5 ) BECAUSE I LOVE YOU Shakin’ Stevens

9 ( 9 ) CHANGE OF HEART Cyndi Lauper

10 ( 32 ) SO COLD THE NIGHT The Communards

 

11 ( 10 ) KEEP EACH OTHER WARM Bucks Fizz

12 ( 8 ) TAKE MY BREATH AWAY Berlin

13 ( 45 ) CARAVAN OF LOVE The Housemartins

14 ( 7 ) YOU KEEP ME HANGIN’ ON Kim Wilde

15 ( 33 ) SHAKE YOU DOWN Gregory Abbott

16 ( 36 ) REET PETITE Jackie Wilson

17 ( 12 ) EACH TIME YOU BREAK MY HEART Nick Kamen

18 ( 23 ) CANDY Cameo

19 ( 11 ) SWEET LOVE Anita Baker

20 ( 21 ) WARRIORS OF THE WASTELAND Frankie Goes To Hollywood

 

21 ( 26 ) THE MIRACLE OF LOVE Eurythmics

22 ( 29 ) FALLIN’ IN LOVE (UH-UH) Miami Sound Machine

23 ( 37 ) LAND OF CONFUSION Genesis

24 ( 14 ) (WAITING FOR) THE GHOST TRAIN Madness

25 ( 18 ) ALL I ASK OF YOU Cliff Richard & Sarah Brightman

26 ( 40 ) SLOW RIVERS Elton John & Cliff Richard

27 ( 15 ) BREAKOUT Swing Out Sister

28 ( 16 ) NOTORIOUS Duran Duran

29 ( 20 ) WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN The Bangles

30 ( 38 ) ANYTHING The Damned

 

31 ( 17 ) WE LOVE YOU OMD

32 ( NEW ) CRY WOLF a-ha

33 ( 27 ) TRUE BLUE Madonna

34 ( 22 ) I’VE BEEN IN LOVE BEFORE Cutting Crew

35 ( NEW ) IN MY LIFE Rod Stewart

36 ( 30 ) IN THE ARMY NOW Status Quo

37 ( 24 ) THIS IS THE WORLD CALLING Bob Geldof

38 ( 31 ) SUBURBIA Pet Shop Boys

39 ( RE ) DANGER ZONE Kenny Loggins

40 ( 44 ) STEP RIGHT UP Jaki Graham

 

41 ( 41 ) HUMAN Human League

42 ( 54 ) IS THIS LOVE Alison Moyet

43 ( 35 ) FOR AMERICA Red Box

44 ( 53 ) C’EST LA VIE Robbie Nevil

45 ( NEW ) THE BOY IN THE BUBBLE Paul Simon

46 ( 25 ) ARIZONA SKY China Crisis

47 ( 60 ) I WASN’T BORN YESTERDAY Daryl Hall

48 ( 39 ) DON’T GET ME WRONG The Pretenders

49 ( 66 ) SHIVER George Benson

50 ( 50 ) IF I SAY YES Five Star

 

51 ( 28 ) ALL FALL DOWN Ultravox

52 ( 51 ) AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH Diana Ross

53 ( 43 ) DON’T GIVE UP Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush

54 ( 69 ) DREAMING Status Quo

55 ( 34 ) THROUGH THE BARRICADES Spandau Ballet

56 ( 56 ) A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael

57 ( 57 ) LOVE REALLY HURTS WITHOUT YOU (REMIX) Billy Ocean

58 ( 74 ) ONLY LOVE REMAINS Paul McCartney

59 ( 52 ) RAIN OR SHINE Five Star

60 ( 42 ) EMOTION IN MOTION Ric Okasek

 

61 ( 63 ) YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU...DON’T YOU Howard Jones

62 ( NEW ) NO MORE THE FOOL Elkie Brooks

63 ( 71 ) I’M NOT PERFECT (BUT I’M PERFECT FOR YOU) Grace Jones

64 ( 64 ) CROSS THAT BRIDGE The Ward Brothers

65 ( 55 ) THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW The Monkees

66 ( 67 ) WAR Bruce Springsteen

67 ( 65 ) CRY Godley & Creme

68 ( 68 ) E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite

69 ( 48 ) TWO PEOPLE Tina Turner

70 ( 47 ) WATERLOO Doctor & The Medics featuring Roy Wood

 

71 ( 61 ) SOUL LOVE/SOUL MAN Womack & Womack

72 ( 49 ) I NEED YOUR LOVIN’ Human League

73 ( 59 ) NEVER TOO LATE TO LOVE YOU Kissing The Pink

74 ( NEW ) A SPACEMAN CAME TRAVELLING Chris De Burgh

75 ( 46 ) DON’T FORGET ME Glass Tiger

 

Playlist Oldies Of The Week

1 SLEIGH RIDE The Ronettes

2 BOYS DO FALL IN LOVE Robin Gibb

3 DREAM WEAVER Gary Wright

Hi Steve, yes Ultravox were very much on the decline by 1986, and Housemartins are about to make a huge leap - I think I took a short while to warm to it as I liked the original version :D

 

cheers!

john

 

Ah I didn't even realise that it was a cover :lol:

16th December 1986

 

It's the hat-trick for Madonna, as Open Your Heart gives her 3 chart-toppers in a row, holding The Final Countdown at 2. Cameo get a 3rd top 10, Jackie Wilson ditto, and Genesis a 4th. Daryl Hall makes it solo top40 hits, and Human League does a turnabout and leaps into the 30 after looking perilously like it was heading for the lowest chart position of any track from them (ignoring reissues) since the EP in 1980 debuted and peaked outside the 40. Also Spirit Of '80 debut acts The Gap Band return, as does chart-topping Dexy's Midnight Runners now back with a TV theme tune, while 1980 chart-toppers The Pretenders are also back with the lovely Hymn To Her.

 

Bad Company return for the first time since the mid-70's, minus vocalist Paul Rodgers, ex-Free lead singer, but some of the band still technically date back to 1970 Free-era, and Mott The Hoople 1972-era. Spitting Image return with a Xmas novelty song. Thankfully, no I don't remember it either. I can't imagine it's worse than their appalling chart-topper. Quo are beside themsleves in the top 40, and Elkie Brooks keeps the 70's blues rock vibe going just behind them. Meanwhile my oldies chart shows me obviously revisiting December 1971 reel-to-reel tapes, and opting for the rock tracks and ex-Godspell soul singers.

 

1 ( 2 ) OPEN YOUR HEART Madonna

2 ( 4 ) THE FINAL COUNTDOWN Europe

3 ( 1 ) SOMETIMES Erasure

4 ( 6 ) THE RAIN Oran ‘Juice’ Jones

5 ( 18 ) CANDY Cameo

6 ( 3 ) SHOWIN’ OUT (GET FRESH AT THE WEEKEND) Mel & Kim

7 ( 9 ) CHANGE OF HEART Cyndi Lauper

8 ( 16 ) REET PETITE Jackie Wilson

9 ( 23 ) LAND OF CONFUSION Genesis

10 ( 10 ) SO COLD THE NIGHT The Communards

 

11 ( 7 ) LIVIN’ ON A PRAYER Bon Jovi

12 ( 13 ) CARAVAN OF LOVE The Housemartins

13 ( 15 ) SHAKE YOU DOWN Gregory Abbott

14 ( 5 ) FRENCH KISSING IN THE USA Debbie Harry

15 ( 8 ) BECAUSE I LOVE YOU Shakin’ Stevens

16 ( 12 ) TAKE MY BREATH AWAY Berlin

17 ( 21 ) THE MIRACLE OF LOVE Eurythmics

18 ( 11 ) KEEP EACH OTHER WARM Bucks Fizz

19 ( 32 ) CRY WOLF a-ha

20 ( 22 ) FALLIN’ IN LOVE (UH-UH) Miami Sound Machine

 

21 ( 47 ) I WASN’T BORN YESTERDAY Daryl Hall

22 ( 26 ) SLOW RIVERS Elton John & Cliff Richard

23 ( 14 ) YOU KEEP ME HANGIN’ ON Kim Wilde

24 ( 19 ) SWEET LOVE Anita Baker

25 ( 17 ) EACH TIME YOU BREAK MY HEART Nick Kamen

26 ( 25 ) ALL I ASK OF YOU Cliff Richard & Sarah Brightman

27 ( 72 ) I NEED YOUR LOVIN’ Human League

28 ( 42 ) IS THIS LOVE Alison Moyet

29 ( 45 ) THE BOY IN THE BUBBLE Paul Simon

30 ( 20 ) WARRIORS OF THE WASTELAND Frankie Goes To Hollywood

 

31 ( 24 ) (WAITING FOR) THE GHOST TRAIN Madness

32 ( 39 ) DANGER ZONE Kenny Loggins

33 ( 35 ) IN MY LIFE Rod Stewart

34 ( 29 ) WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN The Bangles

35 ( 40 ) STEP RIGHT UP Jaki Graham

36 ( 33 ) TRUE BLUE Madonna

37 ( NEW ) THIS LOVE Bad Company

38 ( 36 ) IN THE ARMY NOW Status Quo

39 ( 54 ) DREAMING Status Quo

40 ( 62 ) NO MORE THE FOOL Elkie Brooks

 

41 ( 41 ) HUMAN Human League

42 ( 38 ) SUBURBIA Pet Shop Boys

43 ( 44 ) C’EST LA VIE Robbie Nevil

44 ( 37 ) THIS IS THE WORLD CALLING Bob Geldof

45 ( 28 ) NOTORIOUS Duran Duran

46 ( NEW ) SANTA CLAUS IS ON THE DOLE Spitting Image

47 ( 49 ) SHIVER George Benson

48 ( 27 ) BREAKOUT Swing Out Sister

49 ( 61 ) YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU...DON’T YOU Howard Jones

50 ( 30 ) ANYTHING The Damned

 

51 ( 58 ) ONLY LOVE REMAINS Paul McCartney

52 ( 31 ) WE LOVE YOU OMD

53 ( 52 ) AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH Diana Ross

54 ( 34 ) I’VE BEEN IN LOVE BEFORE Cutting Crew

55 ( NEW ) BIG FUN The Gap Band

56 ( 43 ) FOR AMERICA Red Box

57 ( 56 ) A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael

58 ( 71 ) SOUL LOVE/SOUL MAN Womack & Womack

59 ( 48 ) DON’T GET ME WRONG The Pretenders

60 ( NEW ) HYMN TO HER The Pretenders

 

61 ( 64 ) CROSS THAT BRIDGE The Ward Brothers

62 ( 46 ) ARIZONA SKY China Crisis

63 ( 50 ) IF I SAY YES Five Star

64 ( 59 ) RAIN OR SHINE Five Star

65 ( NEW ) REAL WILD CHILD Iggy Pop

66 ( 53 ) DON’T GIVE UP Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush

67 ( 74 ) A SPACEMAN CAME TRAVELLING Chris De Burgh

68 ( 67 ) CRY Godley & Creme

69 ( 68 ) E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite

70 ( NEW ) BECAUSE OF YOU Dexy’s Midnight Runners

 

71 ( 55 ) THROUGH THE BARRICADES Spandau Ballet

72 ( 60 ) EMOTION IN MOTION Ric Okasek

73 ( NEW ) RADIO MUSICOLA Nik Kershaw

74 ( 65 ) THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW The Monkees

75 ( NEW ) SOME PEOPLE Paul Young

 

 

Playlist oldies

1 FIREBALL Deep Purple

2 HOLD YOUR HEAD UP Argent

3 WHEN YOU GET RIGHT DOWN TO IT Ronnie Dyson

The nostalgia factor seems massive during this period of time and in 1987 with Jackie Wilson, Sam Cooke, Ben E King and Percy Sledge's best known songs all returning to the upper reaches of the chart, mostly because of being in adverts at the time.

 

My favourite songs in your chart are Warriors of The Wasteland and Land Of Confusion, both have that 80s stadium rock sound I like! Cry Wolf is great too!

I'm guessing Europe will top following New Year's Eve!!

 

Waiting for the Communards and Chris De Burgh to peak on Xmas week, please.

The nostalgia factor seems massive during this period of time and in 1987 with Jackie Wilson, Sam Cooke, Ben E King and Percy Sledge's best known songs all returning to the upper reaches of the chart, mostly because of being in adverts at the time.

 

My favourite songs in your chart are Warriors of The Wasteland and Land Of Confusion, both have that 80s stadium rock sound I like! Cry Wolf is great too!

 

Hi Snakey, yes I was quite happy with adverts giving me the chance to chart classic oldies from before I started charting, very thoughtful of them! :lol:

 

I liked stadium rock too, it had started to become a dirty word by the end of the 80's, especially when grunge came in, but they seem to have outlasted grunge in popularity with people generally and with younger audiences :cheer:

I'm guessing Europe will top following New Year's Eve!!

 

Waiting for the Communards and Chris De Burgh to peak on Xmas week, please.

 

Hi Steve, oops! at Europe it peaked at 2 in my charts :lol:

 

Both the others will peak on the first chart after christmas - so sort of got your wish :D

23rd December 1986

 

It's straight in at 1 for recent Xmas classic Last Christmas, making it the 3rd xmas period in a row it had topped my chart - back in the day I was charting those not-so-old xmas faves year after year if they had made the UK charts at all (to qualify). Without that qualification my charts would have looked like the usual UK Xmas charts, chock full of the classic oldies. I did it first though, starting in Christmas 1974 and onwards, and yes the same songs that still chart. Shaky also charts for the second xmas in a row. Ahead of my time! That explains why I tend not to chart the same ones these days - been doing it for 44 years oops!

 

Eurythmics get another in a long line of top 10 singles, and Housemartins make it 2, as Jennifer Rush gets some recharting action in the UK singles chart, and thus mine too, a year on. Berlin come back with a good follow-up single that didn't sell well in the real world, annoyingly, in at 28 and The Gap Band go top 30, and that Spitting Image Xmas song inexplicably climbs to 29. I'm guessing the video was amusing, as I still don't recall it and can't be bothered to youtube it.

 

Macca & The Pretenders keep the top 40's coming, Paul McCartney making it 18 years and counting. Spoiler: he's still making my charts 50 years on from Hey Jude. The Pointer Sisters return some 14 years on from first hearing of them (Yes We Can Can), Kool & The Gang keep the decade-long run of hits going blissfully unaware that House Music is about to end all that, Gary Moore is back again, ditto The Stranglers coming to a decade of charting, and James Brown makes his comeback last a bit longer. Not Sex Machine, but hey Get On Up...

 

 

1 ( NEW ) LAST CHRISTMAS Wham!

2 ( 1 ) OPEN YOUR HEART Madonna

3 ( 5 ) CANDY Cameo

4 ( 4 ) THE RAIN Oran ‘Juice’ Jones

5 ( 8 ) REET PETITE Jackie Wilson

6 ( 3 ) SOMETIMES Erasure

7 ( 10 ) SO COLD THE NIGHT The Communards

8 ( 9 ) LAND OF CONFUSION Genesis

9 ( 17 ) THE MIRACLE OF LOVE Eurythmics

10 ( 12 ) CARAVAN OF LOVE The Housemartins

 

11 ( 2 ) THE FINAL COUNTDOWN Europe

12 ( 20 ) FALLIN’ IN LOVE (UH-UH) Miami Sound Machine

13 ( 7 ) CHANGE OF HEART Cyndi Lauper

14 ( 6 ) SHOWIN’ OUT (GET FRESH AT THE WEEKEND) Mel & Kim

15 ( 19 ) CRY WOLF a-ha

16 ( 13 ) SHAKE YOU DOWN Gregory Abbott

17 ( 11 ) LIVIN’ ON A PRAYER Bon Jovi

18 ( 21 ) I WASN’T BORN YESTERDAY Daryl Hall

19 ( 28 ) IS THIS LOVE Alison Moyet

20 ( 18 ) KEEP EACH OTHER WARM Bucks Fizz

 

21 ( 16 ) TAKE MY BREATH AWAY Berlin

22 ( 22 ) SLOW RIVERS Elton John & Cliff Richard

23 ( NEW ) THE POWER OF LOVE Jennifer Rush

24 ( 37 ) THIS LOVE Bad Company

25 ( 14 ) FRENCH KISSING IN THE USA Debbie Harry

26 ( 29 ) THE BOY IN THE BUBBLE Paul Simon

27 ( 15 ) BECAUSE I LOVE YOU Shakin’ Stevens

28 ( NEW ) YOU DON’T KNOW Berlin

29 ( 46 ) SANTA CLAUS IS ON THE DOLE Spitting Image

30 ( 55 ) BIG FUN The Gap Band

 

31 ( 40 ) NO MORE THE FOOL Elkie Brooks

32 ( 43 ) C’EST LA VIE Robbie Nevil

33 ( 33 ) IN MY LIFE Rod Stewart

34 ( 27 ) I NEED YOUR LOVIN’ Human League

35 ( 26 ) ALL I ASK OF YOU Cliff Richard & Sarah Brightman

36 ( 39 ) DREAMING Status Quo

37 ( 24 ) SWEET LOVE Anita Baker

38 ( 23 ) YOU KEEP ME HANGIN’ ON Kim Wilde

39 ( 51 ) ONLY LOVE REMAINS Paul McCartney

40 ( 60 ) HYMN TO HER The Pretenders

 

41 ( 41 ) HUMAN Human League

42 ( 36 ) TRUE BLUE Madonna

43 ( 71 ) THROUGH THE BARRICADES Spandau Ballet

44 ( 25 ) EACH TIME YOU BREAK MY HEART Nick Kamen

45 ( 31 ) (WAITING FOR) THE GHOST TRAIN Madness

46 ( 42 ) SUBURBIA Pet Shop Boys

47 ( 38 ) IN THE ARMY NOW Status Quo

48 ( 34 ) WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN The Bangles

49 ( 65 ) REAL WILD CHILD Iggy Pop

50 ( 67 ) A SPACEMAN CAME TRAVELLING Chris De Burgh

 

51 ( 35 ) STEP RIGHT UP Jaki Graham

52 ( 53 ) AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH Diana Ross

53 ( 58 ) SOUL LOVE/SOUL MAN Womack & Womack

54 ( 44 ) THIS IS THE WORLD CALLING Bob Geldof

55 ( 32 ) DANGER ZONE Kenny Loggins

56 ( 61 ) CROSS THAT BRIDGE The Ward Brothers

57 ( 57 ) A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael

58 ( 30 ) WARRIORS OF THE WASTELAND Frankie Goes To Hollywood

59 ( 45 ) NOTORIOUS Duran Duran

60 ( 73 ) RADIO MUSICOLA Nik Kershaw

 

61 ( 56 ) FOR AMERICA Red Box

62 ( NEW ) MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE Shakin’ Stevens

63 ( 47 ) SHIVER George Benson

64 ( 59 ) DON’T GET ME WRONG The Pretenders

65 ( NEW ) YOU CAN DANCE Go Go Lorenzo

66 ( 70 ) BECAUSE OF YOU Dexy’s Midnight Runners

67 ( NEW ) GOLDMINE The Pointer Sisters

68 ( 69 ) E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite

69 ( 68 ) CRY Godley & Creme

70 ( 64 ) RAIN OR SHINE Five Star

 

71 ( NEW ) VICTORY Kool & The Gang

72 ( NEW ) OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY Gary Moore

73 ( 48 ) BREAKOUT Swing Out Sister

74 ( NEW ) HOW DO YOU STOP James Brown

75 ( NEW ) BIG IN AMERICA The Stranglers

 

Playlist Oldies

1 GOOD MORNING STARSHINE Oliver

2 IF IT WASN’T FOR THE NIGHTS Abba

3 LOVE IS LIFE Hot Chocolate

Great chart Pop!!

 

Wham for 3 years in a row - the equilivant of One More Sleep these days!! Such a culturally defining Xmas hit these days it's no surprise to see it at no1 3 christmases in a row. I assume christmases after the songs got better as you heard them more! George Michael could write a great song!!

 

Lol at the Spitting Image track - I just knew it because it's usually on totp 2 at Christmas - seemed to be a quick cash boost after a summer no1 single, bit like the Cheeky Girls from a different era, not really a classic!!

 

Human Leagues follow up to Human doesn't seem to have floor much traction - haven't seen it on totp yet!