October 24, 20222 yr What is Ed Sheeran's Bad Habits doing in this countdown :kink: 20th century songs only, but still can't get away from Jess Glynne's Hold My Hand thanks to a Jet2 advert. and Supermode :kink: this being an utter classic though! Edited October 24, 20222 yr by The Robageist
October 24, 20222 yr Poor Black Betty timing out! 260 ABBA – The Winner Takes It All #1 1980 259 Pixies – Where Is My Mind N/A 1988 258 Foo Fighters – Learn To Fly #21 1999 257 Belinda Carlisle – Heaven Is A Place On Earth #1 1988 256 Stardust – Music Sounds Better With You #2 1998 255 Celine Dion – My Heart Will Go On #1 1998 254 Commodores – Easy #9 1977 253 Queen – You’re My Best Friend #7 1976 252 Sinead O’Connor – Nothing Compares To You #1 1990 251 Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke #2 1977 250 Fleetwood Mac – Rhiannon #46 1978 249 Sixpence None The Richer – Kiss Me #4 1999 248 Gabrielle – Dreams #1 1993 247 Five – Keep On Moving #1 1999 246 Kenny Loggins – Danger Zone #45 1986 245 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water #1 1970 244 Bronski Beat – Smalltown Boy #3 1984 243 Depeche Mode – Just Can’t Get Enough #8 1981 242 Blink-182 – What’s My Age Again #38 1999 / #17 2000 241 Ram Jam – Black Betty #7 1977 Edited October 24, 20222 yr by Ghoul Jules
October 24, 20222 yr Did get a bit confused at hearing 'What's My Age Again' here as I was certain it came out in 2000. Turns out it was in 1999 :lol: Oops at Ram Jam getting a 20 second clip :') Edit: again like The Clash situation did become bigger later on and in Blink's case a year. Edited October 24, 20222 yr by The Robageist
October 24, 20222 yr Stats so far: 1970s 21 1980s 14 1990s 25 Well that’s about what I expected for the 90s, but I’d have expected the 70s and 80s to be roughly the other way round. :o Peak positions (based on highest peak within the 1970-1999 period, so for Casbah it’s #15 but for WMAA it’s only #38): #1 17 #2 4 #3-5 8 #6-10 11 #11-20 4 #21-40 8 #41-75 2 N/A 6 A diverse bunch! Edited October 24, 20222 yr by Ghoul Jules
October 24, 20222 yr Interesting. Fleetwood Mac clearly having their whole Greatest Hits on the chart! Never heard The Pixies track as far as I recall. I wouldnt call it a massive popular song so I expect niche fanbases with enthusiastic fans to throw in some oddities!. Black Betty obv been hit by the "no longer appropriate to broadcast" hammer presumably on the grounds that highlighting someone's skin colour while insinuating they like shagging is racist unless you have the same skin colour, cos pretty much the entirety of chart rap-based booty-loving oral describing tracks do that these days! Hopefully everyone is appropriately colour blind lyrically while they obsess about graphic sex :o :teresa: Expect more Abba and Queen. Great to see Five in there with Keep On Moving after recent BJ discussions about the merits of the band. The public have spoken! And the bigger shocks are the low positions for acknowledged classics obv out of fashion with younger music fans - I mean Bridge Over Troubled Water was always voted into the top 10 greatest records of all-time back in the day! 245 just ahead of a flop from a film that was never much cop to begin with (even with a hit movie it still was only a minor UK hit) underlines how much a classic movie can give gift llongevity to later generations to a classic or a piece of tat. :teresa:
October 24, 20222 yr The 4 most charted albums: ABBA Gold, Legend, Queen's Greatest Hits and Rumours all featured in songs today - as the vast majority of that music is from the 1970s and is fairly typical of popular legacy streaming, I'm not surprised it's outdone the 1980s so far.
October 24, 20222 yr By the way they confirmed that Queen is the most popular act and that they have 13 entries.
October 24, 20222 yr err Beatles, Elvis, Stones, Beach Boys, Dylan etc.... Commercial ageism, old music fans not target audience as they are still insisting on hanging about and should be listening to Radio 4 so they can be ignored by radio programmers and advertisers who want younger folk with cash to spare not doddery old gits with huge spending power from the £141 a week the taxpayer generously gifts them. Just saying.... :teresa:
October 24, 20222 yr Agreed popchartfreak - it was a rarity to hear a year from the 1960s covered on Pick of the Pops this Saturday!
October 24, 20222 yr That's a pretty great selection so far. I don't like everything but it's varied enough that it's a fair representation of the styles of music that have been popular over the decades.
October 24, 20222 yr https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dyq4 Radio 2 are doing this for the 1950s Presumably we’ll get a 1960s programme later…
October 24, 20222 yr 'Where Is My Mind?' was in the top 100 on Spotify not long ago! Great song, didn't realise it never charted on release. coi's fave at #249 :heart:
October 25, 20222 yr Not surprised they wouldn't play it on the radio but "Shook Ones Pt. II" is a song of the decade contender for me. Blows my mind that Prodigy (R.I.P. :cry: ) & Havoc were only like 19 when they made it.
October 25, 20222 yr 240-181 coming at 11 again today. Be interested to see what pops up unexpectedly for the rest of the week if yesterday is anything to go by. Edited October 25, 20222 yr by The Robageist
October 25, 20222 yr 240 Cranberries - Linger <3 239 Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply 238 The Stranglers - Golden Brown 237 Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) 236 Warren G and Nate Dogg - Regulate Dan can do his usual recap if he's around. I'm just posting some positions for the time being but will probably pop out for a bit soon so won't be keeping up with all positions. Edited October 25, 20222 yr by The Robageist
October 25, 20222 yr Crazy that the label were wanting 'Golden Brown' to flop :o glad it prevailed against really. 'You Spin Me Round' a classic :heart:
October 25, 20222 yr 235 Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free 234 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside :wub: A nice surprise! Guess they're going by the album release date as this wasn't a single until 2000.
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