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Thanks Tom. If it were on iTunes, we might be seeing a different chart entirely...Rather out of nowhere, and only at 151 on Amazon! Sacrilege ain`t it! :lol:

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Since you have TV ratings archives.. have you got any information on how TOTP was doing cerca 1993? And did the ratings go up in 1995 when Ric Blaxill revamped it? thanks

The Singles:

06 SO HUMAN - LADY SOVEREIGN 6th Apr

07 DANIEL - BAT FOR LASHES 6th Apr

09 ERCOLA - EVERY WORD 6th Apr

Woo! :yahoo:

17 NE WHITE LIES

 

Wait what?

o_o

Not even T40 on d/ls (probably) and #17 physical = #34? MINDSPAZ

 

40 NE I LOVE COLLEGE - ASHER ROTH -

OMG $h1t.

Farewell has gone T40 on iTunes. ;)

 

Also, I hope the Asher track will not make T40 come Sunday. http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/2557/thumbdowne.gif

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Lol I know White Lies were T40 on iTunes. :P

But I don't see how they could have been top 40 overall on downloads over the whole week.

 

If Noisettes sold more physicals, and their physicals were supposedly very bad, I don't know how White Lies managed #34.

I'm very happy about it looking to at least match the peak of TLML, but I don't know how it managed is all.

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Since you have TV ratings archives.. have you got any information on how TOTP was doing cerca 1993? And did the ratings go up in 1995 when Ric Blaxill revamped it? thanks

Well on TOTP...the ratings bombed out of the weekly top 20 by the beginning of 1990. Slipping from 11m to 9m between mid 1989 - mid 1990. By 1993, it was lucky to get 6m. The 1995 re-vamp didn`t do it any favours. By then the dreaded Emmerdale was picking up the viewers for ITV, which took away TOTPs figures on Thurs at 7pm. BBC2 were also repeating Waiting For God on a Thurs at 7. TOTP didn`t stand a chance really. A slippery slide that dropped to 3m by 2003. Gross for a primetime BBC1 show. Considering in the 70s, it got over 15m viewers. At the end it was just over 1m, I believe. Though it shouldn`t have been put on BBC2, or introduced by the gruesome twosome of Fearne and Reggie. Basically, I would say the show lost it`s family appeal. Taking into account, there was little on it, for anyone over 25! In the 70s, the dads all used to watch for the skimpy sights of Pan`s People, Legs And Co...and they took them off it, a big mistake!

 

But then the same can be said for Radio One`s Chart countdown. It doesn`t seem possible that it once was listened too, by 14m a week! A steady flow on Radio One on a Sunday Afternoon, and even Morning. The line-up of Junior Choice, Noel Edmonds, Adrian Juste, Jimmy Savile, Anne Nightingale, Tony Blackburn`s Top 40, and Alexis Korner. When Tony Blackburn was doing the Top 40 in September 1979, he managed the biggest listening figures the top 40 ever got!

"So, why is it that certain sweets/chocolate etc don`t taste like what they used to? For instance the original Mars Bar, Marathons, Galaxy Bars/Buttons...none of them taste like they did in the 70s. Whatever happened to the original taste of Penguins, is totally mind boggling. Personally my favourite sweet would be Rhubarb and Custards...and oh, what about Caramac...a real aquired taste, but then I remember Caramac Chocolate Digestive biscuits...what happened to them? They were delicious!"

 

Showing your age again Dave with the sweets and chocs. :naughty: I remember Caramac. Loved it! Does anyone remember the truly awful Anytime Bar? Had a green honeycomb centre which basically tasted of nothing. :angry: Or Big One, long hard toffee bar coated with chocolate? The ad used to go "big ones, stick out a mile" :o No-one remembers it but I definitely do. Twirly Wurly anyone?

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'Penguins' are still delicious, C Chris. :o

 

Come on. ;)

Yeah, but nothing like the original ones. Gone is the original flavour/recipe. I always remember back in the late 60s, when my dad worked at Huntley & Palmers. He told us many times, that all the biscuits they used to cover in chocolate were pretty ropey to start with. The chocolate coating, just hid the state of the biscuit.

 

And of course even elephants don`t like Penguins, do they?...Well, they still can`t the wrappers off!!!!!!

 

Only one type of Chocolate covered biscuity thing, is the same as ever today. It was always pretty grimly made, and still tastes flavourless...and that has to be Burton`s Wagon Wheels! :puke2:

 

On the Chocolate side, again. What became of the taste of the "proper" Milky Bar, when it was definately "Ness-alls Milky Bar", and not this Ness-lay! This one certainly doesn`t taste like it used to.

 

Great thing to cover on a chart thread, ain`t it! :lol:

"all the biscuits they used to cover in chocolate were pretty ropey to start with. The chocolate coating, just hid the state of the biscuit."

 

OMG laughing my head off here. Well they tasted okay to me Dave, Used to take one to school every day aged 8 in 1968!

 

 

Oh and the jammy Wagon Wheels are the best tasting! :P

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On the Chocolate side, again. What became of the taste of the "proper" Milky Bar, when it was definately "Ness-alls Milky Bar", and not this Ness-lay! This one certainly doesn`t taste like it used to.

 

Great thing to cover on a chart thread, ain`t it! :lol:

 

Oh god, my mum goes on about that all the time :heehee:

 

I think it's just because nobody in Britain can speak French...

Thanks as ever for the charts and the retro Dave, much appreciated!

 

the singles chart in 1993 was starting to show some improvement over 1992, as were sales which started to pick up in 1993. I didn't mind the reggae / ragga thing that happened in early 1993, it was quite fun for a while. My favourite song in the 1993 chart was Come Undone by Duran Duran, probably the last really decent song they did and it was a good one.

 

Looking at the TV ratings for then, it seems hard to believe that programmes could get those types of ratings although the figures were inflated due to the compilation method at the time which basically involved a sample of viewers ticking boxes in a booklet to say what they had watched. A couple of years later the figures dropped overnight when technology came into play with a box registering programmes that were actually watched rather than what the viewer wanted the compiler to think they had watched. Also, multi channel TV hadn't really come into play then, Sky only had about 2 million subscribers and not a great deal of channels and Cable and Wireless and Telewest were just making small inroads at the time.

 

It's good to see The Bill up there. It kept a decent audience until about 1997-1998 when the quality of the stories went into decline. 1993 was slap bang in the middle of its golden period and the week that these ratings cover includes perhaps the unforgettable and sad episode where WDC Viv Martella was shot dead. That episode aired 26/03/93. That was in the days when The Bill didn't kill off half its cast every few weeks and it was totally unexpected at the time. A handful of weeks later DS Ted Roach beat up his girlfriend's boyfriend then decked DI Andrew Munroe in one of the best exits anyone got in the programme! Yup, I was a big fan back then - now look at its ratings, 4.33m and rumours abound it will be taken off air within the next year regardless of it being dropped to one programme a week in the near future.

Haven't heard the Bill rumour. I'd be sad if it was dropped and tbh can't see it happening.
I remember Caramac. Loved it! Does anyone remember the truly awful Anytime Bar? Had a green honeycomb centre which basically tasted of nothing. :angry: Or Big One, long hard toffee bar coated with chocolate? The ad used to go "big ones, stick out a mile" :o No-one remembers it but I definitely do. Twirly Wurly anyone?

 

Caramac :wub:

 

Don't remember an Anytime Bar.

 

Twirly Wurly? I remember Curly Wurly...don't they still make those?

 

I remember a...was it called Wham bar or something? Sickly sweet, sticky bar dotted with zesty sugary bits...weird, but very nice :P

 

Oh...music...? Ahem. I agree with Robbie, I didn't mind the pseudo-reggae circa 92-93 either, it was quite fun.

 

I think Noisettes massive lead over GaGa on iTunes will see them just sneak the top spot tomorrow, and indeed I hope they do...far better and more original than the stuttering Just Dance part II.

I remember the Caramac, didn't they used to give away cards with them as well, as I collected a few, but lost them.

 

I love how the talking about biscuits/chocolate got into this thread

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I remember the Caramac, didn't they used to give away cards with them as well, as I collected a few, but lost them.

That`s right Martin...well remembered! All under the wrappers.

 

I wonder how many truckers managed to break their teeth on Yorkies, though! :D That advert, with the chap in the HGV, munching away to "Rollin Along", by Cirrus back in 1978! Wow, that chocolate bar was well `ard! :lol:

 

Not forgetting those Froggo Easter Eggs, that were everywhere during Easter 1977...lovely! Plus a box of Weekend Assorted Chocs!

The Singles:

01 WRONG - DEPECHE MODE 6th Apr

A lack of new releases in single form next week. Doves, the highest new entry? Looking forward to the 6th April...and Depeche Mode, already looking for a top 12 hit.

 

:cheer: :yahoo: :cheer:

 

I was sure "Wrong" will be number 1 on preorders :dance:

How far ahead are Depeche Mode from number 2? I don't expect them to do amazingly on downloads but I hope they could manage top ten overall!

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:cheer: :yahoo: :cheer:

 

I was sure "Wrong" will be number 1 on preorders :dance:

How far ahead are Depeche Mode from number 2? I don't expect them to do amazingly on downloads but I hope they could manage top ten overall!

A sure fire Physical #1. Downloads no, no, no...Looking at around combined #13 at the moment.

Caramac :wub:

 

Don't remember an Anytime Bar.

 

Twirly Wurly? I remember Curly Wurly...don't they still make those?

 

I remember a...was it called Wham bar or something? Sickly sweet, sticky bar dotted with zesty sugary bits...weird, but very nice :P

 

Nobody else around my age remembers Anytime Bar but I do. I'm not dreaming. Google doesn't bring it up either though!!

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