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1 Lay All Your Love On Me 2 Voulez Vous 3 Does Your Mother Know 4 I Have A Dream 5 S O S

Bungle didnt get through :cry: People who are saying the voice has had no success, erm what about Becky Hill :huh:

Are people not maybe over stating the predicted decline in download sales, agreed they are falling and may continue to decline but will they really decline to such a level as say vinyl sales, I would have thought maybe down to maybe 70-80 million per annum minimum?

Always remember loving the video to Kylies Single Put Yourself In My Place when it came out. In the video she recreates the scene from the Film Barbarella and strips off her space suit :D

Good start to 1980, all good except for Dr Hook. According to Who sampled Kurtis Blows Christmas rappin has been sampled in 115 songs including Bomb The Bass Beat Dis, probably the best known of the lot. Dont normally go in for ballads but With You I'm Born Again is not too bad, written by Carol Connors who was school friends and in the Teddy Bears (To Know Him Is To Love Him) with Phil Spector. She also wrote the theme to Rocky!

I think each different 'sale' (Streams, downloads, physical) should be counted separatley and not combined or compared to each other. Its a whole different ball game today than what it was in the past, everything should be treated individually. However whilst the OCC and BPI are lumping everything together its going to be very difficult to do so. i.e if a song sold 750,000 in the physical age. thoat would be its physical sale, then if it sold 200,000 downloads that would be its download sale and same for streams

it seemed as though if their hadnt of been a strike there would have been no change to the format, It is Much better from august when you can see the crowd and they look as if their enjoying themselves instead of looking like their being bored to tears... Piranahs Tom Hark is my guilty pleasure :wub:

I think it was Dario G that was behind Candle In the Wind, but it only did about 85k.. Victoria Becham had huge sales behind Spiller in 2000

Its frozen at no.1 :lol:

Leona Lewis had a xmas single out last year, however it wasnt as good as Mariah Carey, Slade, Wizzard etc

bring on the 80's :yahoo:

He also described Police and Sugar Hill Gang hits as simply Walking and Rapper, with all these mistakes he would be driving viewers up the wall :lol:

Not as good this week. This episode should maybe be re-titled Top Of The Flops! Of appearnces only Three Degrees, Police Pink Floyd and Michael Jackson were big hits. Nothing will ever top the Jackie Wilson original of reet petite (not Little Richard as Bates said) however Cee lo Green did not a bad version on Jools Holland a few years back!

According to an earlier article the OCC confirmed that Babe sold 350k in 1993 http://www.officialcharts.com/features/off...that-babe-2671/ so it would seem they have missed out 1994 sales (61,500). Wouldnt be the first time they missed out some sales from singles straddling two calender years..

Much better show this week, and the videos provided good viewing even if they did cut them short. I always think that BBC could bring back TOTP's on BBC3, cause thats where all their younger viewers are and the audience figures TOTP was getting on BBC1 in 2006, that were rubbish for BBC1 would probasbly be one of their highest viewing shows on BBC3, though as its the BBC it would need to provide viewers (licensse fee payers) with something different than all the other music channels, so maybe they could have live performances and promote new acts along with some big hits and the chart. As BBC3 is being axed nect year and moving on line, probably make its an even better idea as thats where most ppl consume music these days anyhow.

I wonder will the OCC do a seperate year end chart counting just proper sales, excluded streams?..

Queen's Boh Rhap sold 350,000 in 1991 following Freddies death

Before You Were Born? If none which ones would you consider downloading? :)

A third time in the chart for Nights In White Satin, renewed interest after a version by these guys (banana splits anyone?)scraped into the top 40 a couple of months earlier.. MFsj2Q9nEiE

With Band Aid 30, going to be number one on Sunday, it will be the 36th song to be number one more than once in different versions, and Do They Know Its Christmas wil be only the second song after Unchained Melody to do it 4 times. Heres a full list. 1) Against All Odds –Mariah Carey & Westlife (2000) / Steve Brookstein (2005) 2) Answer Me – David Whitfield (1953) / Frankie Laine (1953) 3) Baby Come Back – Equals (1968) / Pato Banton (1994) 4) Barbados – Typically Tropical (1975) / Vengaboys (1999) [re-titled We’re Going To Ibiza] 5) Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White - Eddie Calvert (1955) / Perez ‘Prez’ Prado (1955) 6) Dizzy – Tommy Roe (1969) / Vic Reeves & The Wonderstuff (1991) 7) Do They Know It’s Christmas – Band Aid (1984) / Band Aid II (1989) / Band Aid 20 (2004) / Band Aid 30 (2014) 8) Eternal Flame – Bangles (1989) / Atomic Kitten (2001) 9) Everything I Own – Ken Boothe (1974) / Boy George (1987) 10) He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Brother – Hollies (1988) / Justice Collective (2012) 11) I Believe – Frankie Laine (1953) / Robson & Jerome (1995) 12) I Can’t Help Falling In Love – Elvis Presley (1962) / UB40 (1993) 13) I Got You Babe – Sonny & Cher (1965) / UB40 & Chrissie Hynde (1985) 14) Lady Marmalade – All Saints (1998) / Christina Aguilera, Pink, Mya (2001) 15) Livin’Doll – Cliff Richard (1959) / Cliff Richard & The Young Ones (1986) 16) Mambo No.5 – Lou Bega (1999) / Bob The Builder (2001) 17) Mary’s Boy Child – Harry Belefonte (1957) / Boney M (1978) 18) Power Of Love – Frankie Goes To Hollywood (1984) / Gabrielle Aplin (2012) 19) Seasons In The Sun – Terry Jacks (1974) / Westlife (1999) 20) Singin’ The Blues – Guy Mitchell (1957) / Tommy Steele (1957) 21) Something Stupid – Frank & Nancy Sinatra (1967) / Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman (2001) 22) Spirit In The Sky – Norman Greenbaum (1970) / Dr & The Medics (1986) / Gareth Gates & The Kumars (2003) 23) Take A Chance On Me – Abba (1978) / Erasure (1992) [included on the Abba Esque EP] 24) These Are The Days Of Our Lives – Queen (1991) / Queen & Lisa Stansfield (1993) [included on the Five Live EP] 25) This ‘Ole House – Roosemary Clooney (1954) / Shakin’ Stevens (1981) 26) Tide Is High – Blondie (1980) / Atomic Kitten (2002) 27) Tragedy – Bee Gees (1979) / Steps (1999) 28) Unchained Melody – Jimmy Young (1955) / Righteous Brothers (1990) / Robson & Jerome (1995) / Gareth Gates (2002) 29) Uptown Girl – Billy Joel (1983) / Westlife (2001) 30) Wake Me Up – Avicci (2013) / Gareth Malone’s All Star Choir (2014) 31) What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong (1968) / Katie Melua & Eva Cassidy (2007) 32) With A Little Help From My Friends –Joe Cocker (1968) / Wet Wet Wet (1988) / Sam & Mark (2004) 33) Without You – Nilsson (1972) / Mariah Carey (1994) 34) You Are Not Alone – Michael Jackson (1995) / X Factor Finalists (2009) 35) You’ll Never Walk Alone – Gerry & The Pacemakers (1963) / Crowd (1985) / Robson & Jerome (1996) 36) Young Love – Tab Hunter (1957) / Donny Osmond (1972)

I did for 3 to 4 years between 1988-1992, but I used to note the Network Chart on local radio. Then I wanted older charts, so I went to the library (back in the days before internet) and found Tony Jaspers Top Twenty Book (anyone remember that?)- it listed all the top 20 singles charts (back in the day before Top 40 charts book came out) this was a god send for chart fans. I did start noting down the charts from there aswell, but with over 20 years of charts to write fown I gave up eventually :lol:

It was first performed by the cast of Whistle Down The Wind in December 1996. According to Wikipedia Meatloaf recorded it but wasnt released until his Very Best Of in 1998 after boyzones version.

Evidently, interest in the current music scene is as healthy as it was back in the 70's and 80's (judging from sales) but for some reason interest in the charts has waned considerably, further evidence of this is the demise of British Hit Singles and other such books, (i would estimate that sales of BHS peaked in the early 90's, figures anyone?) I think the the nail in the coffin for people being interested in the charts was the demise of vinyl and then the physical single altogether. IMO the majority of big chart fans were also record collectors.

:o No one listens to the chart show any more, back in the 90's it was about 10 million between R1 and Pepsi Chart (as it was then)

there was a mistake on this chart at the time and they accidentally put Dr Hook at number one. I'm not sure if it was the case on TOTP? but it was on some magazines. Heres Record Mirror for that week showing Dr Hook at number one http://scans.chartarchive.org/UK/1979/UK%2...01979.11.10.pdf