22nd: 149 points

Would I Lie To You - Charles & Eddie

Voters: gasman449 (17), Julian_ (16), DaTilt (14), Michael Bubré (14), dandy* (13), Electroboy (13), Jaz13music (11), Paddington James (10), GreyAsh (9), RabbitFurCoat (9), AaronTM (8), Dobbo (6), Mack. (3), Roba. (3), Scene (1), Mangø (1), Jason (1)

31/10/1992 34-14-2-{1}-1-2-3-3-3-3-4-8-14-27-37-49-70->17

Christmas number one: I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston

Christmas number two: Heal The World - Michael Jackson

This was the only big hit for Charles Pettigrew and Eddie Chacon. They met on the New York subway in 1990 and started talking because one of them was carrying a Marvin Gaye album. Sadly Charles died of cancer in 2001, but their legacy is this beautiful soul song.

I'm not sure @Julian_ would you lie to me 🤔🤣

Is a tune though

21st: 153 points

Crackers International EP - Erasure

Voters: Jaz13music (19), dandy* (18), chartjack2 (17), Mangø (16), GreyAsh (14), Julian_ (14), Severin (13), Jester (12), Sausage Rollo (9), Michael Bubré (8), Steve201 (5), DaTilt (3), jimwatts (3), Scone1 (2)

10/12/1988 7-4-3-3-{2}-2-2-6-9-17-26-36-57->13

Christmas number one: Mistletoe And Wine - Cliff Richard

Christmas number two: Especially For You - Kylie And Jason

Unusually 2 of Erasure’s biggest hits are 4 track EPs: this #2 hit and “ABBA-esque”, the latter of which finally gave them their only chart topper in 1992. “Crackers International” was a collection of synth pop tracks released between 2 studio albums and includes the Christmas song “She Won’t Be Home”.

The Top 20:

Comes A-Long A-Love - Kay Starr (1952)

The Isle Of Innisfrey - Bing Crosby (1952)

Let's Have A Party - Winifred Atwell (1953)

I Still Believe - Ronnie Hilton (1954)

Meet Me On The Corner - Max Bygraves (1955)

The Green Door - Frankie Vaughan (1956)

St. Therese Of The Roses - Malcolm Vaughan (1956) 

My Special Angel - Malcolm Vaughan (1957)

Tom Dooley - Lonnie Donegan (1958)

Oh Carol - Neil Sedaka (1959)

Strawberry Fair - Anthony Newley (1960)

Midnight In Moscow - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen (1961)

Dance On - The Shadows (1962)

You Were Made For Me - Freddie & The Dreamers (1963)

I'm Gonna Be Strong - Gene Pitney (1964)

The River - Ken Dodd (1965)

Save Me - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich (1966)

I'm Coming Home - Tom Jones (1967)

Ain't Got No (I Got Life) / Do What You Gotta Do - Nina Simone (1968)

Sugar Sugar - The Archies (1969)

Cracklin' Rosie - Neil Diamond (1970)

Coz I Luv You - Slade (1971)

Solid Gold Easy Action - T. Rex (1972)

You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me - The New Seekers (1973)

Juke Box Jive - The Rubettes (1974)

The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine - Laurel & Hardy (1975) 

Money Money Money - ABBA (1976)

How Deep Is Your Love - Bee Gees (1977)

A Taste Of Aggro - The Barron Knights (1978)

Walking On The Moon - The Police (1979)

Stop The Cavalry - Jona Lewie (1980)

One Of Us - ABBA (1981)

Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy - David Bowie & Bing Crosby (1982)

Victims - Culture Club (1983)

We All Stand Together - Paul McCartney & The Frog Chorus (1984)

Do They Know It's Christmas - Band Aid (1985)

The Final Countdown - Europe (1986)

Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - Mel Smith & Kim Wilde (1987)

Crackers International EP - Erasure (1988)

When You Come Back To Me - Jason Donovan (1989)

You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling / Ebb Tide - The Righteous Brothers (1990)

Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me - George Michael & Elton John (1991)

Would I Lie To You - Charles & Eddie (1992)

Twist And Shout - Chaka Demus & Pliers (1993)

Whatever - Oasis (1994)

Father And Son - Boyzone (1995)

Don't Cry For Me Argentina - Madonna (1996)

Perfect Day - Various Artists (1997)

Especially For You - Denise & Johnny (1998)

Imagine - John Lennon (1999)

Stan - Eminem (2000)

Gotta Get Thru This - Daniel Bedingfield (2001)

The Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum) - The Cheeky Girls (2002)

Changes - Ozzy & Kelly Osbourne (2003)

I Believe In You - Kylie Minogue (2004)

Fairytale Of New York - The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl (2005)

Sorry's Not Good Enough / Friday Night - McFly (2006)

Bleeding Love - Leona Lewis (2007)

Run - Leona Lewis (2008)

Bad Romance - Lady Gaga (2009)

Surfin' Bird - The Trashmen (2010)

Dominick The Donkey - Lou Monte (2011)

Scream And Shout - will.i.am ft. Britney Spears (2012)

One More Sleep - Leona Lewis (2013)

Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran (2014)

Sorry - Justin Bieber (2015)

Just Hold On - Louis Tomlinson & Steve Aoki (2016)

Last Christmas- Wham! (2017/2020/2021)

Thank U, Next - Ariana Grande (2018)

Before You Go - Lewis Capaldi (2019)

Christmas Drillings - Sidemen (2022)

All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey (2023/2024/2025)

I absolutely hated Sorry at the time, but it's grown on me massively. It's a fairly decent song.

I've still got 13/20 songs left and my entire +20 to +11 points scorers.

Two of my top ones out with "Walking On The Moon" and "Would I Lie To You" - amazing atmosphere on the Police track, one of my favourite number ones of the 70s! "Would I Lie To You" just scratches an itch in my brain that most other similar songs don't, no clue why. Also one of my mam's favourite songs 😁 "Sorry" is probably my least favourite Bieber solo number one but still alright. I can appreciate Nina Simone's significance as an artist but I don't find myself seeking out her music, Muse's version of "Feeling Good" is the closest I've come to putting her on one of my playlists (and as of writing this it comes on my Spotify shuffle, scary). I listened to Crackers International for the first time for this rate, like with a lot of 80s synthpop it just doesn't do it for me.

'Baby' and 'Sorry' are the only Bieber songs I like. 'What Do You Mean?' is ok too but not a fan of anything else of his.

'Walking On The Moon' is another classic Police hit. They have loads of them. 'Would I Lie To You' another I voted. Great song.

Nina Simone has a gorgeous voice and 'Ain’t Got No (I Got Life)' is a powerful yet fun moment in her catalogue. I think I first discovered it from the Müller advert mentioned in the commentary. I hear the Groovefinder mix more on the radio, which is also good, but I tend to seek out the original.

Not too shabby a result for a '60s release!

That Muller advert felt like it was on ALWAYS akin to the Crazy Frog levels of exposure.

20th: 155 points

Money Money Money - ABBA

Voters: DaTilt (15), Paddington James (15), Scene (14), Steve201 (14), musicfan97 (12), Mangø (11), Last Dreamer (10), JackJones (8), AaronTM (7), dancember (7), Jade (6), Mack. (6), Dobbo (5), Chez Wombat (4) Jester (4), ...ready for it (4), Sausage Rollo (4), GreyAsh (3), Jaz13music (2), Severin (2), 777666jason (1), gooddelta (1)

Chart run: 20/11/1976 34-10-6-{3}-5-3-3-4-3-8-17-34->12

Christmas number one: When A Child Is Born - Johnny Mathis

Christmas number two: Under The Moon Of Love - Showaddywaddy

The 6th of 20 ABBA top 10s and the first of their 2 Christmas number 3 hits is "Money Money Money" from their 1976 album Arrival. It was the only ABBA single between "Mamma Mia" and "Take A Chance On Me" to not reach the top of the UK chart.

14 hours ago, Julian_ said:

23rd: 138 points

Ain’t Got No (I Got Life) / Do What You Gotta Do - Nina Simone

Voters: dandy* (20), Julian_ (18), Jade (16), Severin (15), RabbitFurCoat (14), Michael Bubré (12), AaronTM (11), Chez Wombat (9), Jaz13Music (6), Scone1 (6), Steve201 (6), DaTilt (5)

19/10/1968 45-45-35-28-18-10-7-7-3-{2}-3-7-7-9-14-20-27-45->18

This was Nina’s biggest hit, though she had a couple of other Top 5s. “Ain’t Got No (I Got Life) was a mash up of 2 songs used in the musical “Hair”. It was also used in a 2000s Müller Light advert. It is by far our favourite pre 1970 Christmas #3.

I am so pleased this has done well! I just missed out on giving it points - and if I had done, it would easily have been the earliest song I had given points to. One of the most uplifting songs ever written.

13 hours ago, Julian_ said:

21st: 153 points

Crackers International EP - Erasure

Voters: Jaz13music (19), dandy* (18), chartjack2 (17), Mangø (16), GreyAsh (14), Julian_ (14), Severin (13), Jester (12), Sausage Rollo (9), Michael Bubré (8), Steve201 (5), DaTilt (3), jimwatts (3), Scone1 (2)

10/12/1988 7-4-3-3-{2}-2-2-6-9-17-26-36-57->13

Unusually 2 of Erasure’s biggest hits are 4 track EPs: this #2 hit and “ABBA-esque”, the latter of which finally gave them their only chart topper in 1992. “Crackers International” was a collection of synth pop tracks released between 2 studio albums and includes the Christmas song “She Won’t Be Home”.

To me, this was one of the top level Christmas number 3s. I now wish I had given it even more points to put it into the top 20.

Oh money money money must be funny in a rich man's world how accurate those lyrics are today 🤣🤣🤣

Should of at least been 2 that week , id of settled for showaddywaddy too

19th: 157 points

How Deep Is Your Love - Bee Gees

Voters: DaTilt (18), Steve201 (16), gasman449 (15), detonate (13), Roba. (13), Dobbo (12), Paddington James (11), WhoOdyssey (10), musicfan97 (9), 777666jason (8), Sausage Rollo (8), Jason (7), AaronTM (6), chartjack2 (5), rio309 (3), Mack. (2), dancember (1)

Chart run: 29/10/1977 36-22-12-9-6-5-{3}-3-3-3-3-7-7-24-31->15

Christmas number one: Mull Of Kintyre / Girls School - Wings

Christmas number two: Floral Dance - Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band

Written for the hugely successful soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever, "How Deep Is Your Love" was originally going to be given to Yvonne Elliman but the Bee Gees' manager insisted they sung the song themselves. It went on to be their biggest-selling hit in the UK despite its number 3 peak, as well as a massive US number one. Barry Gibb later said that it was his favourite Bee Gees song. Take That recorded the song as a farewell single in 1996, taking the song to the top for the first time. One of the ultimate love ballads!

What a GEM that song is.

18th: 159 points

Perfect Day - Various Artists

Voters: DarrenJ77 (19), JackJones (18), rio309 (18), Jason (15), gasman449 (13), Sausage Rollo (13), Jaz13music (12), dandy* (8), Mack. (8), ElectroBoy (7), December Dong (6), Jester (5), Mangø (5), RabbitFurCoat (4), chartjack2 (3), Severin (3), AaronTM (2),

Chart run: 29/11/1997 {1}-1-2-2-3-3-1-4-10-14-16-23-25-49-56-58-59-61-71-73R(2)-68->21

Christmas number one: Too Much - Spice Girls

Christmas number two: Teletubbies Say Eh-Oh - Teletubbies

Lou Reed's 1972 classic "Perfect Day" was fresh in the minds of the British public in 1997 after its use in the massively successful film Trainspotting the year prior. The BBC decided to round up a selection of popular music stars, including Reed and the song's co-writer David Bowie, to record a new version of the song and a promotional video that would show off the BBC's diverse music coverage and assure people that their TV licence money was being used fruitfully. The promotional video was frequently shown between programmes in late 1997 and was received extremely well by the public, prompting the BBC to release the song as a single with proceeds going towards Children In Need. It ended 1997 as its 4th biggest seller and was the 6th biggest seller of the 90s overall. It was knocked to number 3 over the 1997 festive period by Spicemania and Teletubby-mania but reclaimed the top spot in the first chart of 1998! It is unavailable on all streaming and download platforms, the only way to own this song is to have a physical copy (which I do). Much prefer this version over the original.

4 hours ago, gasman449 said:

19th: 157 points

How Deep Is Your Love - Bee Gees

Christmas number one: Mull Of Kintyre / Girls School - Wings

Christmas number two: Floral Dance - Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band

Written for the hugely successful soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever, "How Deep Is Your Love" was originally going to be given to Yvonne Elliman but the Bee Gees' manager insisted they sung the song themselves. It went on to be their biggest-selling hit in the UK despite its number 3 peak, as well as a massive US number one. Barry Gibb later said that it was his favourite Bee Gees song. Take That recorded the song as a farewell single in 1996, taking the song to the top for the first time. One of the ultimate love ballads!

Fact: number 2 was written by my great great (great?) aunt.

17th: 172 points

You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling / Ebb Tide - The Righteous Brothers

Voters: rio309 (19), Sausage Rollo (19), Jaz13music (17), Roba. (15), DarrenJ77 (14), jimwatts (13), RabbitFurCoat (13), Jade (12), dandy* (10), Scone1 (10), Mack. (9), Severin (7), Chez Wombat (6), gasman449 (5), AaronTM (3)

Chart run: * 16/01/1965 35-20-3-{1}-1-3-4-13-22-37->10R(204)31-30-15-13-12-{10}-17-20-23-32-36->11R(446)50-46-{42}-49->4 * R(679)13-4-{3}-6-7-19-34-53-73->9

*"Lovin' Feeling" only *

Christmas number one: Saviour's Day - Cliff Richard

Christmas number two: Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice

"You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" was written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil for the Righteous Brothers, who were the first white act signed to Phil Spector's record label. Andrew Loog Oldham, the Rolling Stones' manager, helped push the record in the UK after being upset that Cilla Black's recording was doing better than the original in the charts. Loog Oldham helped popularise the phrase "Wall Of Sound" which would widely be used to describe Spector's work. It reached number one in 1965, becoming the first Spector production to reach number one in the UK. It re-entered the top 10 in 1969, and again in 1990 when released as a double A-side with their previously uncharted recording of the 1953 song "Ebb Tide". The 1990 release occured following the mass success of their version of "Unchained Melody" which was the biggest selling single in the UK that year following its use in the film Ghost. Top Gun, which features the song, had recently aired on UK TV for the first time when the double A was released, so demand for a reissue was clearly very high. It ended up as Christmas number 3.

Edited Tuesday at 16:442 days by gasman449

Surprised that's as high as it is.