1st FEBRUARY



Recording a healthy 55% sales hike to 63,375, Wet Wet Wet grab a second week at the top of the charts with demand clearly not satiated yet for the track “Goodnight Girl”. Sales of the song now stand at 155,652 just a few thousand behind Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody which itself slides 2-4 (27.090) and will lose its pole position on the YTD listings next week but they still have two GH sets in the top 10 on the album charts so the money is pouring in.

Two tracks make big leaps right behind the Wets, Kylie Minogue strikes 5-2 (34,785) and 2 Unlimited fly 9-3 (32,415) but in reality they are far too far away to pose a threat to the current chart topper with the only hope on the horizon the arrival of the wets album in a few weeks. For Minogue it gives her recent chart peaks of No 16, 4, and now 2- she seems back in favour.

Already a US No 9 hit last November, US Vocalist and Saxophonist Curtis Stigers has found fans on this side of the pond with his self written debut single “I Wonder Why”. His success is seen as a continued revival in the US Jazz scene along with Harry Connick Jnr and “I Wonder Why” certainly is a hit as it powers 26-7 (21,795) off the back of a TOTP performance.

On a UK tour at present the Wonder Stuff are also back in the charts with the follow up to “Dizzy”. Backing vocals here are by Kirsty MacColl and “Welcome To The Cheap Seats” is actually an EP and includes in its other tracks the band’s take on the Jam’s “That’s Entertainment”, it climbs 11-8 (21,075) to give them a third top 10 single in 10 months.

Marcella Detroit and Siobhan Fahey are back as Shakespears Sister, you may recall their 1989 No 6 hit “You’re History” as that was their previous best, subsequent singles have failed to impress all missing the top 30 including their last single “Goodbye Cruel World” which was a first release from the duo’s second album “Hormonally Yours”. If you’re wondering why the title then that’s because both ladies were pregnant during the writing and recording of it, second single to be cut from it “Stay” is proving a far bigger hit as it soars 27-10 (19,305), it comes with a rather memorable promo based on the film “Cat Woman Of The Moon” and sees the girls fighting over a man, he’s played by a certain Dave Evans former boyfriend of Bananarama’s Karen Woodward.  it's co-written by Fahey's husband and former Eurythmic Dave Stewart under the pseudonym Guiot. 

Elsewhere The Prodigy fall 3-5 (24,135), Kiss reverse 4-6 (23,910) and Genesis stride 7-9 (20,100).


1- GOODNIGHT GIRL- Wet wet wet (63,375)
2- GIVE ME JUST A LITTLE MORE TIME- Kylie Minogue (34,785)
3- TWILIGHT ZONE- 2 Unlimited (32,415)
4- BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY/ THESE ARE THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES- Queen (27,090)
5- EVERYBODY IN THE PLACE E.P- The Prodigy (24,135)
6- GOD GAVE ROCK N ROLL TO YOU II- Kiss (23,910)
7- I WONDER WHY- Curtis Stygers (21,795)
8- WELCOME TO THE CHEAP SEATS E..P- Wonder Stuff (21,075)
9- I CAN’T DANCE- Genesis (20,100)
10- STAY- Shakespears Sister (19,305)

Love the French & Saunders parody of “Stay”!

That's it - my birthday chart 4th Feb 1992!

Forgot about that Curtis song its a nice ballad - and maybe it inspired the saxophone revival later in 1992 with Undercover.

'Stay' is an epic!

Edited 8 hours ago8 hr by TheSnake

17 minutes ago, TheSnake said:

That's it - my birthday chart 4th Feb 1992!

Forgot about that Curtis song its a nice ballad - and maybe it inspired the saxophone revival later in 1992 with Undercover.

'Stay' is an epic!

Not quite- These are week ending dates so this chart is valid until 1st February with a new chart announced on 2nd Feb 😁

Twilight Zone was one of 2 Unlimited's better tracks so it was good to see it be successful, or at least I thought so at the time. Good to see another Wonder Stuff track in the top 10 too, I didn't care for them that much at the time but I did eventually get their best of years from now and found myself liking pretty much everything on it.

But obviously the main news is that we've been graced with the presence of one of the best songs of the year in the form of Stay. I absolutely loved it at the time and remember really hoping it would do well. I can also remember my dad telling me that the mad one in the video used to be in Bananarama and me really struggling to process that news.