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Full list of hits covered today, (w/e of Top 40 new entries in bold; * denotes if not on Spotify): 18/02/1984 The Style Council - My Ever Changing Moods Howard Jones - Hide And Seek Kool And The Gang - Joanna / Tonight Billy Joel - An Innocent Man Henry Mancini And His Orchestra - Main Theme From 'The Thorn Birds' Matt Bianco - Get Out Of Your Lazy Bed Hot Chocolate - I Gave You My Heart (Didn't I) 25/02/1984 Van Halen - Jump Re-Flex - The Politics Of Dancing Carmel - More More More Soft Cell - Down In The Subway Marilyn - Cry And Be Free* 03/03/1984 Richard Hartley And The Michael Reed Orchestra - Boléro (The Music Of Torvill And Dean EP) Alexei Sayle - 'Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?* The Fraggles - Fraggle Rock Theme* Julia And Company - Breakin' Down (Sugar Samba)* Mel Brooks - To Be Or Not To Be (The Hitler Rap)* 10/03/1984 Lionel Richie - Hello Phil Fearon And Galaxy - What Do I Do Tracey Ullman - My Guy's Mad At Me Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men Sade - Your Love Is King Bananarama - Robert De Niro's Waiting Afrika Bambaataa And The Soul Sonic Force - The Renegades Of Funk Tina Turner - Help 17/03/1984 Kajagoogoo - The Lion's Mouth 24/03/1984 Culture Club - It's A Miracle Shakin' Stevens - A Love Worth Waiting For UB40 - Cherry Oh Baby Depeche Mode - People Are People Madonna - Lucky Star Siouxsie And The Banshees - Swimming Horses Simple Minds - Up On The Catwalk The Special AKA - Nelson Mandela John Lennon - Borrowed Time 31/03/1984 Thompson Twins - You Take Me Up Michael Jackson - P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) Captain Sensible - Glad It's All Over / Damned On 45* Rufus And Chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody Scritti Politti - Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin) Dead Or Alive - That's The Way (I Like It) Votes welcome for up to five of your favourites, with the song with the most votes played at the start of the next session! My votes: Depeche Mode - People Are People Siouxsie And The Banshees - Swimming Horses The Special AKA - Nelson Mandela Rufus And Chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody Scritti Politti - Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)

'Wonderwall' #21 and England haven't played yet?

Best of Week 29 poll results 9 Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax 7 Echo And The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon 7 Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again 5 Nena - 99 Red Balloons 4 Fiction Factory - (Feels Like) Heaven 4 Nik Kershaw - Wouldn't It Be Good 4 Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me 3 The Icicle Works - Love Is A Wonderful Colour 2 China Crisis - Wishful Thinking 2 Madonna - Holiday 2 Queen - Radio Ga Ga 2 Shannon - Let The Music Play 2 The Alarm - Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke 2 The Police - King Of Pain 1 Break Machine - Street Dance 1 Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun 1 Eartha Kitt - Where Is My Man 1 Joe Fagin - That's Livin' Alright (From 'Auf Wiedershen Pet') 1 Madness - Michael Caine 1 Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride 1 Swans Way - Soul Train 1 Thomas Dolby - Hyperactive! 1 Ultravox - One Small Day 1 Whitesnake - Give Me More Time Wall of fame Week 1: John Foxx - Underpass Week 2: Blondie - Atomic Week 3: The Cure - A Forest Week 4: Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart Week 5: David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes Week 6: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Enola Gay Week 7: Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry Week 8: Visage - Fade To Grey Week 9: The Teardrop Explodes - Reward Week 10: Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes Week 11: The Specials - Ghost Town Week 12: Soft Cell - Tainted Love Week 13: Laurie Anderson - O Superman Week 14: Ultravox - The Voice Week 15: The Stranglers - Golden Brown Week 16: Associates - Party Fears Two Week 17: Yazoo - Only You Week 18: Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra Week 19: Duran Duran - Save A Prayer Week 20: Tears For Fears - Mad World Week 21: A Flock Of Seagulls - Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You) Week 22: Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) Week 23: New Order - Blue Monday Week 24: Heaven 17 - Temptation Week 25: Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow Week 26: Depeche Mode - Everything Counts Week 27: Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance Week 28: The Smiths - This Charming Man Week 29: Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax

'Choosin' Texas' had streams of exactly 250,000 yesterday!

Coming up at 4pm, another 42 singles from the next 7 weeks of 1984! https://sync-tube.de/room/2gHBerpI

This was the Top 10 that I referred to in my previous post: 1 (1) 'Relax' 2 (10) 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun' 3 (3) 'That's Livin' Alright' 4 (-) 'Radio Ga Ga' 5 (14) 'Break My Stride' 6 (12) '(Feels Like) Heaven' 7 (2) 'Pipes Of Peace' 8 (11) 'Here Comes The Rain Again' 9 (17) 'The Killing Moon' 10 (8) 'Wonderland' That's 6 new songs to the Top 9 in the same week, all of them great and mostly well-remebered all these years on - chart turnover with quality doesn't get much better than that! Outside the Top 10, another early great from The Smiths with influential guitar work from Johnny Marr again and Morrissey's humorous turns of phrase, yet it looks like it's missed out on any votes in this week's poll alongside such competition!

One True Voice - can you imagine if they'd got the #1 ahead of Girls Aloud?

I notice Sybil is now credited on 'Free Your Mind' on Spotify

'Steal My Sunshine' to win, great use of the sample and such an earworm

+5 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean +4 Ariana Grande - hate that i made you love me +3 Olivia Rodrigo - stupid song +2 Olivia Rodrigo - the cure +1 Olivia Rodrigo - drop dead -1 Prospa & Cloonee - Free Your Mind -2 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In -3 Ella Langley - Choosin’ Texas -4 Harry Styles - American Girls -5 Taylor Swift - I Knew It, I Knew You

This week's new peaks on the Audio Streaming chart for songs either on ACR or starred out: 8 Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun

A very unique UK #1. Also it inspired the "Dr. Zaius" song in The Simpsons

Wow at 'Under Your Spell' certified! 'Imitation Of Life' is great and I bought it on release, but 'The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite' is classic R.E.M. 💚

Olivia Rodrigo's 'hope ur ok' is now gold, which I believe makes SOUR only the second album (after ÷) where every track is at least gold! (Arctic Monkeys' 'One For The Road' is now platinum)

Ella up to #5 on Spotify, sombr #22, and Stella Lefty in the top 50 for the first time at #47

Olivia Dean's album kept the Top 5 run going by a margin of 60 sales!

'Rein Me In' becomes the first song to have 4 separate runs of multiple weeks at #1 ('Last Christmas' has only had two of those so far!)

'Billie Jean' still unable to make the Top 2 in 2026, just as Milky couldn't crack the Top 10 this year!

Rebecca Black's 'Friday' getting a snippet play

'Man I Need' still not getting that elusive 5th run in the Top 10

40 weeks Top 5 from debut and counting for The Art Of Loving

This would need to peak at #7 to continue sombr's cycle of #7 hit, #4 hit, 31-40 hit

ah, Jack got the Naté memo then

sing it Ultra N8

This is a great song and everything but... an England football anthem? There are loads more suitable Oasis songs alone, but it had to be this one