Posted July 6, 200817 yr Hello, Does anyone have the Year End UK Best Selling Singles Lists, for 1988 & 1989 - with Sales? I can't find the information anywhere! The Top 10 for each of the 2 Years would be fine, but the Top 20 to Top 50 would be fantastic! I think that they weren't very big Sales Years, (for UK Singles), - am I right? Thanks, Zeus555
July 6, 200817 yr I'm afraid my records only go back as far as 1990, anything before 1990 I don't have on file. Hopefully someone else can shed some light on the subject. Sorry I can't be of much help this time round. It be interestiing to see any sales from the 80s
July 6, 200817 yr 1989 1 RIDE ON TIME Black Box 973,000 2 SWING THE MOOD Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers 3 ETERNAL FLAME The Bangles 4 TOO MANY BROKEN HEARTS Jason Donovan 5 BACK TO LIFE (HOWEVER DO YOU WANT ME) Soul II Soul 6 SOMETHING'S GOTTEN HOLD OF MY HEART Marc Almond featuring Gene Pitney 7 THAT'S WHAT I LIKE Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers 8 PUMP UP THE JAM Technotronic featuring Felly 9 DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS? Band Aid II 10 HAND ON YOUR HEART Kylie Minogue 11 LIKE A PRAYER Madonna 12 ALL AROUND THE WORLD Lisa Stansfield 13 IF ONLY I COULD Sydney Youngblood 14 LOVE CHANGES EVERYTHING Michael Ball 15 GIRL, I'M GONNA MISS YOU Milli Vanilli 16 YOU'LL NEVER STOP ME LOVING YOU Sonia 17 YOU GOT IT (THE RIGHT STUFF) New Kids On The Block 18 THE LIVING YEARS Mike & the Mechanics 19 FERRY 'CROSS THE MERSEY The Christians, Holly Johnson Paul McCartney, Gerry Marsden and Stock, Aitken & Waterman 20 MISS YOU LIKE CRAZY Natalie Cole 21 WOULDN'T CHANGE A THING Kylie Minogue 22 THIS TIME I KNOW IT'S FOR REAL Donna Summer 23 DON'T KNOW MUCH Linda Ronstadt featuring Aaron Neville 24 LET'S PARTY Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers 25 STREET TUFF Rebel MC and Double Trouble 26 BELFAST CHILD Simple Minds 27 REQUIEM London Boys 28 FRENCH KISS Lil Louis 29 SEALED WITH A KISS Jason Donovan 30 RIGHT HERE WAITING Richard Marx 31 STRAIGHT UP Paula Abdul 32 ESPECIALLY FOR YOU Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan 33 YOU GOT IT Roy Orbison 34 LAMBADA Kaoma 35 HELP Bananarama / La Na Nee Nee Noo Noo 36 STOP Sam Brown 37 WHEN YOU COME BACK TO ME Jason Donovan 38 IF YOU DON'T KNOW ME BY NOW Simply Red 39 LONDON NIGHTS London Boys 40 POISON Alice Cooper 41 THE BEST Tina Turner 42 LOVE TRAIN Holly Johnson 43 IF I COULD TURN BACK TIME Cher 44 LEAVE ME ALONE Michael Jackson 45 ROOM IN YOUR HEART Living In A Box 46 ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE Phil Collins 47 SONG FOR WHOEVER The Beautiful South 48 GET A LIFE Soul II Soul 49 BABY I DON'T CARE Transvision Vamp 50 LEAVE A LIGHT ON Belinda Carlisle
July 6, 200817 yr 1988 1 MISTLETOE AND WINE CLIFF RICHARD 2 THE ONLY WAY IS UP Yazz & the Plastic Population 3 I SHOULD BE SO LUCKY Kylie Minogue 4 ESPECIALLY FOR YOU Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan 5 I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW Tiffany 6 NOTHING'S GONNA CHANGE MY LOVE FOR YOU Glenn Medeiros 7 A GROOVY KIND OF LOVE Phil Collins 8 HE AIN'T HEAVY, HE'S MY BROTHER The Hollies 9 WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS/SHE'S LEAVING HOME Wet Wet Wet / Billy Bragg 10 TEARDROPS Womack & Womack 11 THE LOCO-MOTION Kylie Minogue 12 THE FIRST TIME Robin Beck 13 PERFECT Fairground Attraction 14 ONE MOMENT IN TIME Whitney Houston 15 PUSH IT c/w TRAMP Salt 'N' Pepa 16 SUDDENLY Angry Anderson 17 HEAVEN IS A PLACE ON EARTH Belinda Carlisle 18 ORINOCO FLOW Enya 19 THEME FROM S-EXPRESS S-Express 20 JE NE SAIS PAS POURQUOI Kylie Minogue 21 GOT TO BE CERTAIN Kylie Minogue 22 THE HARDER I TRY Brother Beyond 23 TELL IT TO MY HEART Taylor Dayne 24 CRACKERS INTERNATIONAL (EP) Erasure 25 I OWE YOU NOTHING Bros 26 HEART The Pet Shop Boys 27 GET OUTTA MY DREAMS, GET INTO MY CAR Billy Ocean 28 DON'T TURN AROUND Aswad 29 NOTHING CAN DIVIDE US Jason Donovan 30 BEAT DIS Bomb The Bass 31 DROP THE BOY Bros 32 SIGN YOUR NAME Terence Trent D'Arby 33 THE TWIST (YO TWIST) The Fat Boys & Chubby Checker 34 WHEN WILL I BE FAMOUS? Bros 35 BOYS (SUMMERTIME LOVE) Sabrina 36 HOUSE ARREST Krush 37 YOU CAME Kim Wilde 38 LOVELY DAY (SUNSHINE MIX) Bill Withers 39 I NEED YOU B.V.S.M.P. 40 GIRL, YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE Milli Vanilli 41 STAND UP FOR YOUR LOVE RIGHTS Yazz 42 CAT AMONG THE PIGEONS c/w SILENT NIGHT Bros 43 DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY Bobby McFerrin 44 HANDS TO HEAVEN Breathe 45 DESIRE U2 46 A LITTLE RESPECT Erasure 47 BIG FUN Inner City featuring Kevin Saunderson 48 LOVE CHANGES (EVERYTHING) Climie Fisher 49 TOGETHER FOREVER Rick Astley 50 MISSING YOU Chris De Burgh
July 6, 200817 yr Ride On Time had sold 849,000 copies up to December 31, 1989 - the figure was published in the Guinness Hit singles Book of the 80s - in fact that 973,000 figure, which was given by the OCC in 2002 (for the singles chart 50th anniversary Top 100 of all time), always looked suspect. Swing The Mood was listed as selling 820,000 copies in that same book. Eternal Flame was mentioned by Alan Jones in Record Mirror in January 1990 as being the "161st best selling record of the 1980s, the top 160 all having sold 500,000 copies" so its sale will (obviously!) be just under 500,000.
July 20, 200817 yr The Ride On Time sales confusion mite be due to there being two versions. The original with the illegal sample which was hastily withdrawn due to legal action and the 'remix' made with a re-recorded sample by a session singer which replaced it.
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