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Roxette & U2

I voted Brian may and Pasadenas

Didnt realise Pat Sharp was ever on R1

14/21 I'm Happy with that, considering my era was the 90's

would have Much preferred to have heard Blue Zoo, instead of the Beatles, not that I have anything against the beatles but its just you dont hear Blue Zoo much these days. Incidentally Tim Parry of Blue Zoo later formed Big Life Records with Jazz Summers. Which gave us Yazz, Lisa Stansfield, Orb, Soupdragons and a whole host of pther great 90's hits

Nouelty records always sell well over xmas & jiue bunny fit into that category

I Believe In Father Xmas by Greg Lake is my fave Xmas song :wub: Which you never hear anymore on radio

Listening to R1 yesterday and they played Step Into Christmas by Elton John :o I know there is a lack of currrent Christmas themed songs around in 21st century but didnt realise it was so bad that R1 have to break their policy about not playing old songs!

Its Xmas HITS, songs that were in the charts over xmas

Jade? :unsure:

Bananarama, Salt N Peppa?

Not often you get to hear other soft cell records other than Tainted Love. What is a good song and grows on you. According to https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/300...ions#nav-entity the original was by Melinds Marx (daughter of Groucho Marx) in 1965, then Judy Street in 1966 and Tina Mason in 1967. Love Talk Talk, however do prefer Talk Talk and o fcourse Its my Life to Today Save A Prayer not one of my fave songs by Duran Duran Dexys Midnight Runners another band you don't hear much else of their material other than Eileen

There are no rules its a decision between the act and label who gets credit even if they do contribute toward 90% of the song like in the case of clean bandit & sean paul

Just because an act is featured on a song doesnt mean they are automatically given credit. Back in the days of the physical format there were never problems like this

13/15 however i put Lou Bega was NOT a one hit wonder

Ive got 480k physicals for in the air tonight total 960k

RIP. I Like Night Has A Thousand Eyes and Take Good Care Of My Baby . Rubber Ball was quite good too (co-written by Gene Pitney) Some interesting Facts I dug out about Bobby Vee His backing band on tour were called The Shadows, following the death of Buddy Holly (of which Vee was a big fan) in a plane carash . He and his band stood in for him at the gig he was scheduled to play in February 1959. In July 1959, they decided to recruit a pianist called Elston Gunn, he played two gigs with them and was payed $30 and asked to leave due to compatibility differences. He later changed his name and became known as Bob Dylan! In November 1962, Vee recorded an album with Buddy Holly's group the Crickets, it was his biggest album in the UK peaking at number 2-held off from the top of the chart by The Shadows (Hank Marvin's group) with Out Of The Shadows! His hit More Than I Can Say was originally by The Crickets, Vee also had a minor American hit with a cover of Adam Faith's What Do You Want. Faith later discovered and managed Leo Sayer, who also covered More Than I Can Say-produced by ex Shadow Alan Tarney!

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...er-song__16423/ I got 22/23, some of them are tricky though.

There is a new batch of TOTP albums just been released, each album covers a five year period, 64-69/70-74/75-79/80-84/85-89/90-94/95-00/01-06. £5 each. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01H8TO...Z61ZQB5QYYJE0KK

There is a new batch of TOTP albums just been released, each album covers a five year period, 64-69/70-74/75-79/80-84/85-89/90-94/95-00/01-06. £5 each.

632 407 MONKEY George Michael 1988 1054750 My fave single from Faith, I bought the 7", and loved the remix too! 635 NEW DOMINO DANCING Pet Shop Boys 1988 1050900 636 408 OPPORTUNITIES (LET'S MAKE LOTS OF MONEY) Pet Shop Boys 1986 1046200 My favourite period for the Pet Shop Boys, I started to go off them from about the mid 90's onwards, but their late 80's early 90's singles are great. 648 415 (YOUR LOVE KEEPS LIFTING ME) HIGHER AND HIGHER Jackie Wilson 1967 1039750 Classic Jackie Wilson 655 NEW HUNG UP Madonna 2005 1036850 Love This 668 428 BABY NOW THAT I'VE FOUND YOU Foundations 1967 1027400 Never get bored of this song, one of Tony McCaulay's best. 672 NEW DARE Gorillaz/ Shaun Ryder 2005 1024850 I thought Feel Good Inc was good then this came out, even better! 674 431 COME UNDONE Duran Duran 1993 1024300 One Duran Duran's most underrated songs, follow up to Ordinary World which stole all the limelight 682 436 PRAYING FOR TIME George Michael 1990 1021000 I have a Live unplugged version of this song by George and it is absolutley stunning, better than the original 713 454 YOU DON'T KNOW ME Armand Van Helden/ Duane Harden 1999 1003800 Love This 714 NEW NO MILK TODAY Herman's Hermits 1967 1003800 Graham Gould man is such a good songwriter, 10cc one of my fave bands 722 NEW I SAW HER AGAIN The Mamas & The Papas 1967 1001800 Just heard this for the first time at the weekend on POTP's cant beat some Mamas and papas 732 468 END OF THE ROAD Boyz II Men 1992 998250 :wub: 738 467 HOLD ON TIGHT E.L.O. 1981 994000 Love anything by ELO 753 477 THE SIGN Ace Of Base 1994 985800 :wub: 757 NEW GHOSTTOWN Madonna 2015 981800 One of madonna's best songs and it failed it chart :huh: 761 NEW LOVE RUNS OUT OneRepublic 2014 978650 love this 766 NEW RADIOACTIVE Imagine Dragons 2012 975000 Been listening to their new album and Shot and I'm So Sorry are brilliant tracks, as is this 773 NEW STAY Shakespears Sister 1992 972250 I Don't Care and Hello are also brilliant songs 780 NEW SWEET CHILD 'O MINE Guns 'N' Roses 1988 967350 Classic 793 NEW THIS TIME I KNOW IT'S FOR REAL Donna Summer 1989 961450 One of the best SAW songs 796 499 MY OH MY Slade 1983 960700 Love this slade song, massively overlooked 797 NEW HEARTACHE AVENUE The Maisonettes 1982 959950 I got into this when it was sampled by some grime rapper about 10 years ago! 800 NEW BAD ROMANCE Lady Gaga 2009 959350 :wub:

First studio album I have bought in a long time. Great band. Can't understand why they don't re -promote Real, one of my fave tracks on the album and deserves a top 40 position.

Mariah Carey, Pogues, Slade and Wham will all be in the chart in the weeks before xmas :heehee:

Frankie Goes To Hollywood Relax also has 22 weeks over 2 chart runs 1983: 67-55-54-55-46-46-35-6-2-{1}-1-1-1-1-2-3-6-16-21-23-21-29-29-31-26-24-21-17-16-11-5-3-2-2-3-3-3-6-7-12-20-22-29-41-47-50-66-71-68R(17)-58-64-74->52 1993: 6-{5}-8-13-19-41-58->7

your probably right, they charted seven singles in 1990 and over a million sales, which was good for the early 90's. They didn't have the longevity that other teen idols that came after them enjoyed, which is a pity as some of their songs were quite good. Maybe the change of name and music style in later years was their downfall. 06/01/1990 New Kids On The Block Hangin' Tough {1990} 1 9-{1}-1-2-7-14-26-39-49->9 17/03/1990 New Kids On The Block I'll Be Loving You (Forever) 5 11-{5}-7-12-22-23-31-47->8 12/05/1990 New Kids On The Block Cover Girl 4 8-{4}-4-8-14-29-42-65->8 16/06/1990 New Kids On The Block Step By Step 2 {2}-5-12-23-30-45-72->7 04/08/1990 New Kids On The Block Tonight 3 17-8-6-4-{3}-5-8-20-30-50->10 13/10/1990 New Kids On The Block Let's Try Again/Didn't I (Blow Your Mind) 8 16-{8}-16-24-47->5 08/12/1990 New Kids On The Block This One's For The Children 9 13-{9}-13-20-15-38-62->7