Chig66

This has been a splendid way to spend the last hour or so! Thank you. I was doing quite well until I got to the quotes from a certain radio presenter, so there's now a big gap of four answers. Anyway, they're coming now...

That new Whitesnake album has visited each 'ten' of the update this week; top 10 on Monday, 11-20 on Tuesday, 21-30 on Wednesday and 31-40 today. It's slipped 8 places, then 9, then 10. So, I'm going to predict it slides a further 11 tomorrow and charts at #47. :D

I managed to f*** it up at the end! Spent too long thinking about one and put 16 I think!!

It's 'Everything She Wants' that I feel sorry for. ;-) It was a legitimate double A side with Last Christmas in 1984 (and the 1985 re-release), and one of the rare occasions where both sides of a double A side used to get played on the radio. Let's not forget that it was Band Aid that screwed up Wham! having the 1984 Christmas number one, but George Michael himself had happily contributed his vocals to Band Aid, knowing what would happen. So he ended up singing on the top 2 at Christmas, but it feels right that this has finally happened today, after such a long time. 'Last Christmas' definitely deserves to be a number one song. I've just remembered as well that George and Andrew ALSO donated their own royalties for Last Christmas to the Band Aid Trust in 1984. The trust still exists, so I wonder if that still happens? It could be that Andrew Ridgeley still hasn't made a single penny from this song!

It's interesting and amazing that 12 months ago there was a marketing push with Last Christmas. I bought a vinyl 7" copy of it in hmv. This time around, no special campaign or marketing, but it's almost happened by accident, helped by the way the dates have fallen. This was 'optimum Christmas' week for the chart, running from Christmas Day to NYE. I'm still amazed though, and sad that George isn't around to see it after so long.

Is it not Mr Acker Bilk then? :-)

It was #72 with one day to go, so it was hardly going to make the top 40 today.

I notice that today's industry update hasn't made its way onto here yet, but I can confirm that Wham! are #1 today and LadBaby are #74!

I thought I would have a go at this, but it turns out to be pretty difficult! I've only named three for sure. Lots of others are familiar, but I can't name them (and some I have no idea about). Aaaagh! :-)

How the heck do you manage to play these seven foot discs? In fact, how do you even get them home? :lol:

Has Robyn upset someone? Doesn't she deserve a little asterisk too? ;)

Dancing Queen is on both films' soundtrack albums, by different (but overlapping) groups of people. Is it definitely the sequel version that's charting? Or would the presence of Julie Walters and Christine Baranski on both versions be enough for the OCC to lump them together now? The version from the first Mamma Mia! is by Meryl Streep & Julie Walters & Christine Baranski. The sequel version is by Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard, Amanda Seyfried, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters, Pierce Brosnan.

Done!

This is a terrible way to find out that Paul McCartney has died. :lol: (If, by any chance, he hasn't, he was 75 years, 6 months and 4 days old yesterday, when the chart came out. That makes him two and a half years older than Brenda Lee! He's at #38.)

Where is this Welsh chart? It's not produced by the OCC, although their Wikipedia page (I know, I know) says they used to produce one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Charts_Company