UK Top 40 Singles weekending 31st March 1990

 

1 (12) The Power – Snap!

2 (2) Love Shack – The B-52s

3 (6) Strawberry Fields Forever – Candy Flip

4 (3) Blue Savannah – Erasure

5 (1) Dub Be Good To Me – Beats International

6 (7) Lily Was Here – David A. Stewart ft Candy Dulfer

7 (5) I’ll Loving You Forever – New Kids On The Block

8 (17) Birdhouse In Your Soul – They Might Be Giants

9 (4) That Sounds Good To Me – Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers

10 (8) How Am I Supposed To Live Without You – Michael Bolton

11 (10) Infinity – Guru Josh

12 (14) Don’t You Love Me – 49ers

13 (11) Moments In Soul – JT and the Big Family

14 (15) This Is How It Feels – Inspiral Carpets

15 (19) Everything Starts With An ‘E’ – E-Zee Posse

16 (16) Loaded – Primal Scream

17 (28) Chime - Orbital

18 (34) Mama Gave Birth To The Soul Children – Queen Latifah & De La Soul

19 (9) The Brits 1990 – Various Artists

20 (13) Nothing Compares 2 U – Sinead O’Connor

21 (36) Another Day In Paradise – Jam Tronik

22 (New) Don’t Miss The Partyline – Bizz Nizz

23 (33) All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You - Heart

24 (New) Ghetto Heaven – Family Stand

25 (21) Handful Of Promises – Big Fun

26 (32) Read My Lips (Enough Is Enough) – Jimmy Somerville

27 (New) Better World – Rebel MC

28 (New) Pictures Of You – The Cure

29 (18) Natural Thing - Innocence

30 (New) Kingston Town – UB40

31 (New) Escapade – Janet Jackson

32 (20) Enjoy The Silence – Depeche Mode

33 (New) Black Velvet – Alannah Myles

34 (New) She Bangs The Drums – Stone Roses

35 (New) What U Waitin’ 4 – Jungle Brothers

36 (New) I Remember You – Skid Row

37 (22) I Don’t Know Anybody Else – Black Box

38 (29) Here We Are – Gloria Estefan

39 (40) Your Love Takes Me Higher – The Beloved

40 (38) Too Late To Say Goodbye – Richard Marx

 

oooh... that was a bad chart imho.. theres only beats international and alanah miles that i could tollerate.

Ah, see that's back in the days when a song could enter at number 33 and eventually climb to the top. I miss those days.

 

I like a lot on that chart

 

Snap

Candy Flip

Erasure

Beats International

They Might Be Giants (what a forgotten classic that is!)

Guru Josh (saxtastic!)

Inspiral Carpets

EZee Posse

Primal Scream

Orbital

Queen Latifah & De La Soul

Bizz Nizz

Family Stand

The Cure

Depeche Mode

Stone Roses

Jungle Brothers

The Beloved

 

But it coincides with when I really, really started getting into the charts. 1990 was a great year!

the second from last chart before the big chart rules change (which turned out to be the first of many in the 90s!) which brought in rules about the maximum amount of formats on which a record could be released. At the time it was the most radical chart rule changes for over two decades...

 

I loved every song in the top 6 and bought the #1 this very week in 1990, in fact this very day as I bought it on payday, which would have been 30/03/90 as I was paid on the last working day of the month... The Power is still an excellent song. The following week I bought what turned out to be my last vinyl single purchase, Vogue by Madonna. This week in 1990 I think it was only available on 7" (it charted at #4 on those sales on April 1st), with the 12" making an appearance on the Monday (April 2) and I bought the 12" on the Wednesday.

 

I think I had bought my last vinyl album a few months earlier, a dance compilation album... it was all CDs after this...

Edited March 30, 200718 yr by Robbie