Courtesy of AcerBen

 

Bruno Brookes presents his final UK top 40 show on BBC Radio 1 on April 16th 1995.

A couple of interesting bits about this chart:

 

1. The top 3 (Take That, Outhere Brothers, Bobby Brown) stayed in those positions for 4 weeks (of which this was the third). This was in fact the last time that the top 3 remained steady even for 3 weeks until recently (Duffy, H Two O, Nickelback).

 

2. Strike and Bobby Brown were officially re-entries to the chart at #6 and #5 a few weeks previously (having peaked at #31 and #38 in 1994). The only previous song since 1960 to re-enter the whole chart (officially) inside the top 10 was Imagine by John Lennon in 1981. It has however happened a few times since (Dog Eat Dog, Deep Blue Something, Snow Patrol, Cascada, Avril Lavigne, Scooch). It also looks as though another record might be added to this list tomorrow...

 

3. This was the point at which entering at #1 started to become the norm. Previously, entering at #1 was the exception unless your name was Take That - however Oasis, Livin' Joy and Robson & Jerome would all enter at #1 after Back For Good.

Thank you so much for that! :wub: 1995 was one of my fave years for music ever (perhaps as I was at Uni then!) and I have most of the top 10 on CD single :lol:

 

Portishead's Sour Times at 13 :heart:

Glad you enjoyed :)

 

I believe it was that Take That single that really made the record companies change their tactics - it was premiered at the BRIT Awards 6 weeks up front and caused a massive pent up demand.

LOL, highest climber was Love City Groove, our Eurovision entry :lol:

 

Thanks for sharing, really enjoyed that.

LOL, highest climber was Love City Groove, our Eurovision entry :lol:

 

Thanks for sharing, really enjoyed that.

 

Love City Groove had a strange chart run: 52-36-17-12-17-16-7-12-27-42-70

Thanks for sharing AcerBen, you have loads of goodies in your archives

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