I have the plan to collect all single CD's of songs, which entered the UK Top 40 in a certain timeframe.

Initially this was only intended for the UK Top 40 in the 1990's, but I have extended it part by part and have now a time range from 1989 to 2006.

Before 1989 is difficult, because not everything had a CD release as single. Even in 1989 and 1990 some singles were not released on CD, so I counted these exceptions in my collection, when I own the main version on a compilation or album-CD.

From 2007 on it is also difficult, because due to downloads for some songs there were no physical releases.

The following graphic shows the percentage of Top 40 singles I own for each respective year:

As I jsut recently started systematicilly collecting 2005 and 2006, these numbers are still a bit low. 1989 is not that easy to collect, because the pressing numbers of single CD's were much lower than in the 1990's.

For the 90's I am quite close and only a few are missing:

Year Artist Title Peak

1990 New Kids On The Block Cover Girl 4

1990 Malandra Burrows Just This Side Of Love 11

1990 Little Angels She's A Little Angel 21

1990 Pat & Mick Use It Up And Wear It Out 22

1990 Faith No More From Out Of Nowhere 23

1990 Megadeth Holy Wars 24

1990 Carpenters Merry Christmas Darling 25

1990 Eric Clapton Bad Love 25

1990 Thunder Backstreet Symphony 25

1990 NWA Express Yourself 26

1990 Paul McCartney Birthday 29

1990 Rolling Stones Almost Hear You Sigh 31

1990 Emma Give A Little Love Back To The World 33

1990 Little Angels Radical Your Lover 34

1990 All About Eve Scarlet 34

1990 Thunder She's So Fine 34

1990 Paul McCartney All My Trials 35

1990 Whitesnake The Deeper The Love 35

1990 Dogs D'Amour Victims Of Success 36

1990 Orchestra On The Half Shell Turtle Rhapsody 36

1990 Quireboys There She Goes Again 37

1990 James Lose Control 38

1990 And Why Not Something You Got 39

1990 Motley Crue Without You 39

1990 The Beloved Your Love Takes Me Higher 39

1990 Lenny Kravitz Let Love Rule 39

1990 Salt 'N' Pepa Expression 40

1990 Loose Ends Love's Got Me 40

1991 Metallica Enter Sandman 5

1991 Dannii Minogue Baby Love 14

1991 Megadeth Hangar 18 26

1991 Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers Over To You John 28

1991 Stranglers Always The Sun 29

1991 INXS Bitter Tears 30

1991 Samantha Janus A Message To Your Heart 30

1991 Harry Connick Jr. Recipe For Love 32

1991 Tin Machine You Belong In Rock N Roll 33

1991 Little Angels Boneyard 33

1991 Living Colour Solace Of You 33

1991 Shakin Stevens I'll Be Home This Christmas 34

1991 Warrant Cherry Pie 91 35

1991 Almighty Free 'n' Easy 35

1991 Paul Weller Movement Into Tomorrow 36

1991 Almighty Devil's Toy 36

1991 Queensryche Best I Can 36

1991 Extreme Decadence Dance 36

1991 Vixen Not A Minute Too Soon 37

1991 Take That Promises 38

1991 Black Crowes Hard To Handle 39

1991 Little Angels Product Of The Working Class 40

1992 Public Enemy Shut 'Em Down 21

1992 Iron Maiden From Here To Eternity 21

1992 Smiths There's A Light That Never Goes Out 25

1992 Stone Roses Waterfall 27

1992 Manic Street Preachers Little Baby Nothing 29

1992 Soundgarden Jesus Christ Pose 30

1992 Cliff Richard This New Year 30

1992 Stone Roses I Am The Resurrection 33

1992 Black Sabbath TV Crimes 33

1992 Mike Oldfield Tattoo 33

1992 Sex Pistols Anarchy In The UK 33

1992 Catherine Zeta-Jones For All Time 36

1992 Motley Crew Home Sweet Home (91 Remix) 37

1992 GSP The Banana Song 38

1993 Brian May With Cozy Powell Resurrection 23

1993 Deborah Harry I Can See Clearly 23

1993 Kate Bush Moments Of Pleasure 26

1993 Coverdale Page Take Me For A Little While 29

1993 Special AKA 2 Tone EP 30

1993 Alice In Chains Angry Chair 33

1993 Duran Duran Too Much Information 35

1993 Alice In Chains Down In A Hole 36

1993 Rage Against The Machine Bomb Track 37

1993 W.A.S.P. Sunset & Babylon 38

1993 Curve Blackerthreetracker EP 39

1993 Go West We Close Our Eyes 40

1994 Green Day Welcome To Paradise 20

1994 Kate Bush The Red Shoes 21

1994 Terrorvision Alice, What's The Matter 24

1994 Morrissey & Siouxsie Interlude 25

1994 Pink Floyd High Hopes 26

1994 Kate Bush And So Is Love 26

1994 Roger Taylor & Yoshiki Foreign Sand 26

1994 UB40 Reggae Music 28

1994 Terrorvision My House 29

1994 Roger Taylor Happiness? 32

1994 Optimystic Nothing But Love 37

1994 Kerbdog Dummy Crusher 37

1995 Suede New Generation 21

1995 Megadeth Train Of Consequences 22

1995 Julian Cope Try Try Try 24

1995 Everton FC All Together Now 24

1995 Skin Take Me Down To The River 26

1995 Faith No More Ricochet 27

1995 Frank Bruno Eye Of The Tiger 28

1995 Thunder Castles In The Sand 30

1995 Wildhearts If Life Is Like 31

1995 Bob Dylan Dignity 33

1995 Status Quo When You Walk In The Room 34

1995 Black Crowes Wiser Times 34

1995 Verve This Is Music 35

1995 Belly Seal My Fate 35

1996 Squeeze Heaven Knows 27

1996 Placebo Teenage Angst 30

1996 Cocteau Twins Tishbite 34

1996 Coolio It's All The Way Live (Now) 34

1996 Alice In Chains Heaven Beside You 35

1997 Korn A.D.I.D.A.S. 22

1997 Sheryl Crow Hard To Make A Stand 22

1997 Korn Good God 25

1997 Paul McCartney Beautiful Night 25

1997 Tony Toni Tone Let's Get Down 33

1998 Faith No More Ashes To Ashes '98 29

1998 Deftones My Own Summer (Shove It) 29

1998 Neil Finn Sinner 39

1998 Peter Cox What A Fool Believes 39

1999 Marilyn Manson Rock Is Dead 23

1999 Gene As Good As It Gets 23

1999 Andrea Bocelli Canto Della Terra 24

1999 Bjork All Is Full Of Love 24

1999 Gloria Estefan Don't Let This Moment End 28

1999 Monifah Touch It 29

1999 DMX Slippin' 30

1999 Orbital Nothing Left 32

1999 Monster Magnet Powertrip 39

1999 Nine Inch Nails We're In This Together 39

I will update this thread regularly, when I have reached progress.

Wow that's a very impressive collection! Just wondering, do you actually play the CD singles regularly or is it more of just a collection project?

I'm sure in my loft I have a few of your missing singles from the list above, so if you would like me to, I don't mind looking for these and sending them to you.

I also have a lot from 2000 onwards, and they're just sat gathering dust, so if you have a list of these too I can look to see what I have.

Do let me know!

3 hours ago, Mangø said:

Wow that's a very impressive collection! Just wondering, do you actually play the CD singles regularly or is it more of just a collection project?

I'm sure in my loft I have a few of your missing singles from the list above, so if you would like me to, I don't mind looking for these and sending them to you.

I also have a lot from 2000 onwards, and they're just sat gathering dust, so if you have a list of these too I can look to see what I have.

Do let me know!

I have sorted them in special boxes sorted by year. I rarely put the CD's out, but have ripped them all to my harddrive and regularly generate playlists from it. I also regularly compile the UK Top 40 of specific weeks and listen to them. I don't use any streaming services - everything I listen to except some youtube videos are playlists created by me or compilations and mixes I find at mixcloud.

I have a still quite huge wantlist at discogs: https://www.discogs.com/wantlist?user=InDeepSpace . Of course I'm happy for help - Brexit somewhat slowed down the process a bit. So if you have something from that list, let me know. 🙂

This is not a helpful reply haha but I had a few of those… up until about two years ago when I decided my CD singles were taking up too much space and gave them all to the charity shop in Nottingham.

Very impressive collection that you have though, that’s a lot of singles to own!

Wow impressive undertaking!! I casually collect #1 hits on CD single (one of them will come in handy for an upcoming 2006 #1s commentary) and that alone takes up more room than I'd like so I admire this dedication *.*

2 hours ago, Jade said:

Wow impressive undertaking!! I casually collect #1 hits on CD single (one of them will come in handy for an upcoming 2006 #1s commentary) and that alone takes up more room than I'd like so I admire this dedication *.*

Likewise, if you have any missing #1s from the 90s or 2000s which are hard to find, let me know as it's possible I may have some of them gathering dust in my loft. I don't have the heart to get rid of them but I'm happy to part with them if it adds to someone's collection!

Yeh impressive collection and I would love to undertake a project like this but my wife would probably divorce me 🤣 I have boxes of cd singles and albums and she put up with them to an extent as long as they are packed away!!

Great dedication!