Robbie

Christmas songs that flopped in the 80s include the brilliant 'Christmas Wrapping' by The Waitresses. First released in 1981, when I bought it, it only made the Breakers Chart (for 3 weeks) that was published alongside the top 75 at the time. In 1982 it made number 45 and after that failed to make the top 100 in 1983 despite a further re-release.

Pat Benatar struggled to have hits in the UK. One of her singles ('Love Is A Battlefield') took 3 re-issues to finally chart inside the top 40. PB's best single is the excellent 'All Fired Up', which reached number 19 in 1988. It later became the theme tune to Channel 4's coverage of the Aussie Rules Football programme in the early 90s.

Yes! A brilliant record that I bought back in 1985!

A few more... One 2 Many - Downtown (the lead singer Camilla Griehsel later married Colin Vearncombe aka Black) Soulsister - Way To Your Heart Fantastique - Mama Told Me Lime - Guilty Miquel Brown - So Many Men So Little Time (Miquel is Sinitta's mum and Amii Stewart's step sister)

It says it all that Christmas Day TOTP has been brought forward so that BBC1 can show Shaun the Sheep Movie in its usual timeslot. Plus sticking to Fearne and Reggie once again shows a lack of interest in the programme at the BBC. It would have made more sense to have brought on board two current presenters from Radio 1. The second Top Of The Pops is on New Year's Eve at 3.35pm. http://ukchristmastv.weebly.com/bbc-2017.html

^ 'Mi Gente' recorded a sales increase on the new chart.

I still think 'It's Oh So Quiet' is a brilliant record. I remember seeing it on Top Of The Pops back in the day in 1995 and actually applauding afterwards! It was such a great performance.

1.61m is the "overnights" figure which is the amount of viewers who watched the programme by midnight last night. BARB, the organisation that calculates viewing figures describes the overnights figure as The consolidated figures that are released 14 or so days later are the figures that the broadcasting industry and advertising agencies take note of. The overnights are simply a guide and in many cases (like Doctor Who) they are less and less reliable as an indication of final figures due to large numbers watching on catchup / timeshift during the following week. These final figures include all time shifting, such as Sky+ boxes and iPlayer viewings http://www.barb.co.uk/about-us/how-we-do-what-we-do/

Liam Gallager won't now be appearing and has been replaced by Dizzee Rascal http://www.musicweek.com/talent/read/liam-...ay-night/070370

The viewing figures for the show as it was broadcast were 2.21m, which was 12.2% of the total TV viewing audience. The final viewing figures, which includes viewings on timeshift (Sky+ etc plus I believe also iPlayer) in the next 7 days, will be available in a fortnight's time. That's a decent figure given that it was up against Coronation Street which got 6.05m viewers and 33.4% of the audience. The real test will be how SLFN performs next week as many people will have been watching out of curiosity to see what the programme was like.

I don't know if it would make much difference who takes over Breakfast on Radio 1. The BBC have already said that Radio 1 has to lower the average age of its listeners and the average age is still outside of the 15 to 29 age group it has been told to appeal to. I believe the average age of the audience is 32 so losing listeners is possibly what the station, and Breakfast, may have to do in order to meet its remit.

He didn't leave the station until April 2004. When I lived in London his breakfast show was always the one I listened to. A great listen and he was far better than Radio 1's breakfast hosts at the time...

Plus, if you watch the BBC4 repeats, you would have seen him on the first edition from 1978, which was repeated at the start of 2013. He was standing near to Peter Powell, trying (and successfully!) to get his face on camera. He must have just been starting out on local radio at the time and somehow managed to wangle his way onto an episode of the programme...

^ 'Barbie Girl' wasn't a big radio hit, peaking at number 15 on the Airplay chart on the week it climbed to the top of the sales chart (and it ended up at number 186 on the end of year Airplay chart). Radio 1 must have more or less ignored it as had the station playlisted it the track would have charted much higher.

It's nice of the OCC to feel the need to explain why acts recorded B sides! I suppose there's a generation of music consumers growing up now who have no concept of what a B side was. Aqua sold 183,000 copies as a new entry at number 2. The number 1 album was 'Urban Hyms' by The Verve (63,500) while the number 1 Compilation album was 'The Best Anthems in the World...Ever Vol.2'. Number 1 on the Airplay chart was 'Raincloud' by the Lighthouse Family.

I agree. I don't think Wes was keen on the format either. He came in for much criticism at the time but he was only presenting the show the way he was told to do so. I remember his last top 40 show where he gave a little speech about his time presenting the chart show and I can remember feeling a bit sorry for him because he genuinely did sound a bit upset about how things had worked out.

Indeed. I know listening figures were falling and the Top 40 countdown on commercial radio had twice the audience but under Wes things got worse.

Scott would have been the ideal replacement back in 2002. However Radio 1 wanted to take the presentation style of the chart in a new direction and Scott would probably have been too much of a straightforward replacement to Mark.

That makes sense. I suppose the only time it may seem odd is when a track already in the chart hapens to increase its sales by +50% over the market change on the same week it moves to ACR as it's more noticeable.

So am I right in thinking that on the Comprehensive / non-ACR / not Official Top 200 chart its chart sales increased from about about 18,000 to about 30,000 that week? And its what happens to its sales under the standard 150:1 ratio that determines whether a track on ACR moves back to SCR? In which case, I would have thought a sales increase of +50% more than the market change would have been enough to stop ACR from kicking in that week. Instead the OCC appear to have applied the reset from the following week.

The dreadful 'Agadoo' by Black Lace has probably sold quite a few copies in the past two weeks after being featured on Top Of The Pops 1984... I noticed the other day it was on the iTunes charts.

Cheers Paul, I knew 'Footprints In The Sand' was involved somewhere! As it's 10 years ago this week since Music Week launched its first digital edition and as I have that first copy on my computer here's a look at the charts they published back then: Top 5 Radio Airplay: 1 (1) - Hey There Delilah - Plain White T's 2 (8) She's So Lovely - Scouting For Girls 3 (22) - Goodbye Mr A - The Hoosiers 4 (12) About You Now - The Sugababes 5 (2) - 1973 - James Blunt Radio 1 Record Of The Week Jo Whiley - Heater - Samim Edith Bowman - Echoes Patience & Grace - Foo Fighters Scott Mills - Bleeding Love - Leona Lewis Colin Murray - Machines - Biffy Clyro Zane Lowe - Empty Walls - Serj Tankian JK & Joel - Uninvited - Freemasons feat. Bailey Tzuke Weekend Anthem - Let's Dance To Joy Division - The Wombats One For The Weekend - Why Not - Alter Ego Most Played on: Radio 1: She's So Lovely - Scouting For Girls Radio 2: 4:00AM - Cherry Ghost Commercial Radio: Hey There Delilah - Plain White T's Number 1 Albums: Albums: Echoes Silence Patience & Grace - Foo Fighters (135,685) Compilation Albums: Original Soundtrack TV - High School Musical 2

How many double A sided singles charted after 'No U Hang Up / If That's OK With You' by Shayne Ward? I can't think of any. The rules back then about double A sides were a bit convoluted with regards to how to attach download sales to the single and I think double A sides died off pretty soon after. I remember Leona Lewis had a double A side around then, something like 'Footprints In The Sand' and I forget the other track, but I can't remember if that was before or after Shayne Ward.

Yup, 'Born To Run' made the Breakers Chart back in 1975, which was the next 10 records below 50 which hadn't made the top 50. The run on that chart was: (entry date 25 October 1975) 8-6-x-8-10 It would be good if the OCC could also publish the old Breakers Charts from 1965 to 1978 and then from 1981 to 1982 on its website. They probably don't have them though... though they only need to ask and I'll gladly provide them!

Congrats! And I'm sure they will be available to listen to until the end of October. Once the first programme has been broadcast at 6am to 6.55am tomorrow if you check the link to that programme on the BBC site it will list how long it is available to listen to. All the other programmes should be available for the same length of time http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1vintage/program...ules/2017/09/30