Think I first started watching TOTP when I was six in early '89 when Like a Prayer was #1 and started listening to the Top 40 a few months after, definitely remember Ride on Time being #1 on a Sunday night. I'm 35 now and still tune in most Fridays when I can, even though the streaming age has sucked a lot of the excitement out of it. ACR has caused annoying chart runs but it was as frustrating as hell seeing songs barely move before.

Around the same time for me, I remember listening when Like A Prayer was #1 and I think I recall Ride On Time being the first number 1 of the 1990s unless I'm remembering that wrong. I always hated history at school so my mate and I used to spend our history lessons on a Monday morning discussing the previous night's charts. I stopped listening religiously to the chart rundown a few years ago but obviously still follow them (mostly on buzzjack). Weirdly I'm the only one of all my mates who still follows the charts and has a big interest in music - I don't think any of them could tell me what's currently number one. In fact I have no idea when/if I'll ever stop being into music!

Weirdly I'm the only one of all my mates who still follows the charts and has a big interest in music - I don't think any of them could tell me what's currently number one. In fact I have no idea when/if I'll ever stop being into music!

 

I have a few friends who still follow things but they are few and far between. My social media (RIP, got sick of it) was littered with people that thought being woefully uninformed about modern pop music and not knowing what the #1 was for the past 15-20 years somehow made them better people. They wore their ignorance like a badge of honour. I still check the chart and the chart updates every week and add Radio 1's latest playlist entries to my own playlist every Friday morning, I don't think I will ever stop. Have been doing it 30 years so there's no point quitting now!

Edited December 4, 20186 yr by 34yopoppicker

Yeh it's funny how people think it's cool not to be into the charts and what popular - quite an adolescent way of looking at things!!