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Surprised love changes everything is so high in the list, it is typical late 80s MOR and I am not a big fan of love songs but its good for what it is and the chorus is very memorable so would have given it points had I voted!

Yes, British MOR is almost always better than American MOR *cough Richard cough Marx* :teresa:

Climie Fisher were just pop, not sure why anyone would put them in the same category as Richard Marx

it's also not a competition, both songs were great

 

sad to see Right Here Waiting go, great single from Richard Marx

Richard Marx, much prefer Hazard, now thats a classic, but its pleasant enough, Climie Fisher is still fab, great tune. Ghostbusters is another "Oh no not again" every year, but its great fun anyway. Howard Jones is a goodie, though I loved the forgotten follow-up Hide And Seek even more. Not one of my fave Erasure records, I'm afraid, but it's OK. Sometimes is much better.
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NO 53- 64 POINTS

 

Say Say Say Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson (Voter: Fiesta- 4 pts, Mack- 20 pts, Leonardo- 16 pts, …Ready for it- 24 pts)

(#2 for 2 weeks in November 1983 by "Uptown Girl" by Billy Joel)

 

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This is our preferred 80s No 2 for both of these acts whose unusual chart trajectory was all to do with the availability of the promo.

 

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NO 52- 65 POINTS

 

Heartbreaker Dionne Warwick (Voter: JulianT- 6 pts, Gezza- 28 pts, AH Gold- 7 pts, Daan- 24 pts)

(#2 for 2 weeks in November 1982 behind “I Don’t Wanna Dance” by Eddy Grant)

 

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Bee Gees to the rescue and give Warwick her biggest UK hit along with providing the backing vocals.

 

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NO 51- 65 POINTS

 

Everything She Wants Wham! (Voter: Popchartfreak- 6 pts, Jason- 20 pts, Gezza- 29 pts, Daan- 10 pts)

(#2 for 5 weeks in December/ January 1984/85 behind “Do They Know It’s Christmas” by Band Aid)

 

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So I lose two of my top 3! We like this more than “Bad Boys” though and it was a US No 1.

 

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Recap 51-100

 

51 Everything She Wants Wham!- 65pts

52 Heartbreaker Dionne Warwick- 65 pts

53 Say Say Say Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson- 64pts

54 Right Here Waiting Richard Marx- 63 pts

55 What Is Love? Howard Jones- 63pts

56 Ghostbusters Ray Parker Jnr- 62 pts

58 Love Changes (Everything) Climie Fisher- 61pts

57 Stop Erasure- 61 pts

59 Got To Be Certain Kylie Minogue- 60 pts

60 All Night Long (All Night) Lionel Richie- 59pts

 

61 Abracadabra Steve Miller Band- 57pts

62 Antmusic Adam & The Ants- 57pts

63 China Girl David Bowie- 56 pts

64 Modern Love David Bowie- 56pts

65 Together Forever Rick Astley- 54pts

66 Masterblaster Stevie Wonder- 53 pts

67 It's Raining Men Weather Girls- 52 pts

68 Happy Birthday Altered Images- 51 pts

69 I Can't Wait Nu Shooz- 50 pts

70 Ain't No Pleasing You Chas N Dave- 50 pts

 

71 Crazy For You Madonna- 46 pts

72 My Oh My Slade- 46 pts

73 You Take Me Up Thompson Twins- 45 pts

74 (Keep Feeling) Fascination Human League- 44pts

75 French kiss Lil Louis- 42 pts

76 A Winter's Tale David Essex- 42 pts

77 Mirror Man Human League- 41 pts

78 So Macho Sinitta- 41 pts

79 Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me) Phil Collins- 40pts

80 Sign Your Name Terence Trent D'Arby- 39pts

 

81 Wouldn't Change A Thing Kylie Minogue 37pts

82 When Will I Be Famous Bros- 37pts

83 Invisible Sun The Police- 37 pts

84 Leave Me Alone Michael Jackson- 36pts

85 Absolute Beginners David Bowie- 36 pts

86 Love & Pride King- 35pts

87 A View To A Kill Duran Duran- 33pts

88 When A Man Loves A Woman Percy Sledge- 32pts

89 Wild Boys Duran Duran- 31 pts

90 The Loco-Motion Kylie Minogue- 30 pts

 

91 Kings Of The Wild Frontier Adam & The Ants- 30pts

92 Da Da Da Trio- 29 pts

93 Coming Up Paul McCartney- 29 pts

94 Church Of The Poison Mind Culture Club- 28 pts

95 Happy Birthday Stevie Wonder 28pts

96 One Step Further Bardo- 28 pts

97 London Nights London Boys- 28 pts

98 Private Investigations Dire Straits- 27 pts

99 No Doubt About It Hot Chocolate- 26pts

100 Torch Soft Cell- 25pts

 

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Year by year breakdown

 

1980- 3

1981- 4

1982- 3

1983- 7

1984- 3

1985- 7

1986- 8

1987- 6

1988- 4

1989- 5

 

 

Acts with multiple entries left

 

Madonna 3

Phil Collins 2

Prince 2

Kim Wilde 2

 

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And Finally....

 

Voters by points left in the rate...

 

*Dandy 422pts

Jimwatts 419pts

Daan 412pts

Chez Wombat 404pts

Leonardo 403pts

 

Colm 396pts

Torple 393pts

JulianT 378pts

Jade 365 pts

AaronTM 363pts

Bjork 355pts

 

Jester 350pts

West 342pts

Mack 336pts

AH Gold 334pts

Gooddelta 329pts

JackJones 328pts

Chartjack2 323pts

…Ready For it 322pts

Gezza 315pts

King Rollo 306pts

Popchartfreak 305pts

 

Jason 290pts

Fiesta 265pts

 

 

Congrats to everyone for getting their 30 pointers into the top 50.

 

I'm away now until Sunday when the top 50 kicks off!

ah that’s a shame for heartbreaker to miss out top fifty

perhaps it would be more remembered if bee gees sang it themselves but dionne has a great voice for it

Oh Say Say Say :wub:, such a fantastic hook from MJ. Although you might want to edit the entry as I don’t think it kept itself of the top spot. :D

 

GREAT Top 50 there, except one song which I hate for personal reasons but I can see why others like it.

3 good songs out today and a heartbreaker of a final reveal for Gezza.

 

Strong Top 50 though. Pleased that my Top 10 is intact and 22 of my picks have made it this far, including some that I didn’t expect to still be standing!

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3 good songs out today and a heartbreaker of a final reveal for Gezza.

I see what you did there....

Shame the brilliant Everything She Wants just missing out on top 50. :(

 

I really can't understand why Gold, Crockett's Time, Golden Brown and They Don't Know are top 50. :nono:

 

Bottom 2 in the points left. What a surpriseeeeeeeeeeeee!

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I really can't understand why Gold, Crockett's Time, Golden Brown and They Don't Know are top 50. :nono:

 

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Maybe other people have different music taste to you.

 

*gasp* :louis3:

Say Say Say I know more from the Hi-Tack song which sampled it but yes it has a good chorus.

 

Heartbreaker is a very nice song indeed.

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