Love Love Get Up (Before The Night Is Over) - what a tune!

Great for Sinead <3 Totally deserved

Really like Get Up, much much better than Pump up the Jam

the Lonnie Gordon I didn't mind but rather average SAW

the Phil Collins one is just very bad

10TH FEBRUARY






“Nothing Compares 2 U” beds in at the top of the charts this week shifting an impressive 114,155 copies giving it a new total of 241,128 and allowing it to lead the pack in the YTD chart. Its victory over the new No 2 (Technotronic’s “Get Up”) was conclusive as it sold a mere 65,484 to move 3-2, the band’s last hit “Pump Up The Jam” also peaked at No 2 but was only 8,000 copies off the top spot at one time, this time around it looks like they are going to be further off the pace.  In only 6 weeks last year did the chart topper's weekly tally move into 6 figures so it's encouraging to see that tally so early in the year!

Two new entries to the top 10 this week, and both covers. First up is Sybil who climbs 19-9 (18,785) with her version of Dionne Warwick’s “Walk On By”, it’s the fifth time the song has been a hit but Sybil’s recording has already equalled the peak of Warwick’s 26 years ago, it’s also the first song to be a chart single in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. Sybil has scored four previous hits but the only track to break the top 20 was last year’s “Don’t Make Me Over” which peaked at No 19 and was, you guessed it a cover of a Dionne Warwick single! The single is produced by Tony King who is on the PWL b-team and with this track being issued on PWL records which leads us nicely onto the other new entry.

Inching 11-10 (18,428) are the newest act to get some hit factory help- Yell! With a version of the Dan Hartman track “Instant Replay” a No 8 hit 12 years ago. Being pushed as the next Bros in “Smash Hits” land, this track has earned the boys a strong female following and it’s Pete Hammond’s production you can hear steering this into the top 10 (61st for PWL), an album is promised in the summer.  Therefore, along with Lonnie Gordon, Kylie Minogue, and Sybil there are currently 4 tracks in the top 10 from the PWL stable- a new high!

More S/A/W related hits dominate the top 5 with the men themselves seeing Lonnie Gordon sprint 9-4 (32,572) to compensate for Kylie’s continued descent 2-3 (32,674). Phil Collins rises 10-7 (21,284) as everything else heads south, that includes Mantronix 4-5 (27,489), 49ers 5-6 (23,426) and Halo James flop 6-8 (20,536).


1- NOTHING COMPARES 2 U- Sinead O’Connor (114,155)
2- GET UP (BEFORE THE NIGHT IS OVER)- Technotronic (65,484)
3- TEARS ON MY PILLOW- Kylie Minogue (32,674)
4- HAPPENIN ALL OVER AGAIN- Lonnie Gordon (32,572)
5- GOT TO HAVE YOUR LOVE- Mantronix (27,489)
6- TOUCH ME- 49ers (23,426)
7- I WISH IT WOULD RAIN DOWN- Phil Collins (21,284)
8- COULD HAVE TOLD YOU SO- Halo James (20,536)
9- WALK ON BY- Sybil (18,785)
10- INSTANT REPLAY- Yell! (18,428)

Yell were definitely not the new Bros :D

I think the controversy pretty much sunk them after the first single

Love how petty the start and end of this paragraph is on the Yell! Wikipedia page:

Sinead was and is a classic and deserved number one, head and shoulders over the rest of the top 10. Technotronic's is catchy dance fun but not as good as Jam, Lonnie Gordon is PWL tuneful but not one of their greats, Halo James poor-man's Johnny Hates Jazz, not a fave, Yell was a formula cover of a better record, Phil Collins was starting to get a bit samey and bland compared to some of his 80's hits, and Walk On By is a flawless song but the covers get worse with time. Dionne's is an all-time brilliance, love it dearly. The Stranglers had the next best version, and Sybil's rates about 3rd amongst the hit versions.

Dont recall this at all

But per wiki, Nothings compares 2 U was the albums second single

The lead was Jump in the river, which flopped!

Edited 6 hours ago6 hr by Bjork

17TH FEBRUARY

The charts have been set up for a very interesting battle next week, but this week at least “Nothing Compares 2 U” remains unassailable moving a further 108,375 copies over the last 7 days cooling ever so slightly, Technotronic remain in the runner up spot but they do reduce the deficit albeit slightly by a mere 800, posting a sale of 60,469.

What do you get when you mash The Clash, Ennio Morricone, and the S.O.S band together? Well the answer is “Dub Be Good To Me” which is essentially a rework of the S.O.S band’s 1984 No 13 hit “Just Be Good To Me” coupled with the bassline from the Clash’s “Guns Of Brixton” by Beats International. Proving what a hotbed of creativity The Housemartins were, this outfit contains Norman Cook who is clearly hoping to beat ex-bandmates outfit The Beautiful South to claim the first chart topper outside the outfit. The song powers 15-3 (42,313) and features the vocals of Lindy Layton who was one time actress in “Grange Hill” and more recently in an advert for spaghetti on TV last year!

Before Beats International get too excited about trying to catch Sinead O’Connor at the top here’s Black Box with the follow up to last year’s “Ride On Time” which was the best selling single of the year shifting 850,000 copies. The vocalist on the track is subject to speculation though many have again pointed to “Love Sensation” as the inspiration for their new single “I Don’t Know Anybody Else”, it duly arrives with a bang straight in at No 5 (22,627) and deprived Technotronic last time around- can they do so next week?

Speaking of following up chart toppers Lisa Stansfield is back with “Live Together”, another track from her “Affection” album which hasn’t left the top 10 since its release 12 weeks ago and rebounds 10-3 this week but still has Phil Collins ahead of it, the album which held it off the top in December. Current single rises 19-10 (18,904).

In other news Lonnie Gordon sticks at No 4 (34,969) whilst Sybil climbs 9-6 (21,811) to make her version of “Walk On By” the highest charting one, that rise leaves Phil Collins stranded at No 7 (21,233). Mantronix tumble 5-8 (19,958) whilst Kylie Minogue doesn’t have a soft landing as she slumps 3-9 (19,669)


1- NOTHING COMPARES 2 U- Sinead O’Connor (108,375)
2- GET UP! (BEFORE THE NIGHT IS OVER)- Technotronic (60,469)
3- DUB BE GOOD TO ME- Beats International Ft Lindy Layton (42,313)
4- HAPPENIN ALL OVER AGAIN- Lonnie Gordon (34,969)
5- I DON’T KNOW ANYBODY ELSE- Black Box (22,627)
6- WALK ON BY- Sybil (21,811)
7- I WISH IT WOULD RAIN DOWN- Phil Collins (21,233)
8- GOT TO HAVE YOUR LOVE- Mantronix (19,958)
9- TEARS ON MY PILLOW- Kylie Minogue (19,669)
10- LIVE TOGETHER- Lisa Stansfield (18,904)

The charts were changing by this stage with a group like Black Box able to follow up with a big hit by entering at no5, not like they were George Michael etc!

always liked Dub be good to me

the newies by Black Box and Lisa s not so much... rather mediocre both

I way prefer Get Up (Before the Night is Over) to Pump Up The Jam!

Happening All Over Again I actually danced to this in a club last night, such a tune.

Dub Be Good To Me