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But 'Power of Love' could be Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Jennifer Rush or Huey Lewis and the News, so three fairly different possibilities there.

Surely a lot of people would stream it first (even if only on youtube) to see if it was any good before actually paying for it, so wouldn't the first week of streams be ok, at the very least? I also think significant physical sales wouldn't be a given for them for new material, though it probably would for reissues, remixes or alternate versions of their old classics.

I think the people who do the campaigns want to have the same glory as the Rage campaign, of taking a song from nowhere to massive number one, it's more of an achievment that way and it's less likely people will start saying "the campaign didn't do anything and the song would have got there on its own steam anyway" etc.

Far far less Halloween parties, both officially organised ones, and informal gatherings of families and or friendship groups etc, for obvious reasons, probably mean that people didn't put on as much Halloween music overall this year (I assume that much of the Halloween and Xmas effects is people putting on a Xmas or Halloween playlist, or asking Alexa etc to do so, to soundtrack their parties for those occasions, as well as some playlists being put on in workplaces etc), so it probably streamed rather less and therefore missed the Top 100.

I'm starting to think Mariah has more to gain financially from repeated efforts every year trying to get her to number one than she would from actually achieving it and then losing that boost in all future years.

That's given me horrible flashbacks to the year that Roy Wood must have smoked something funny and ended up deciding that his old xmas song would some how work in a mash-up with the Wombles classic xmas song.

I embarrased to admit I had to google all of those to get the references, although in hindsight I should have worked out the middle one was Amy Macdonald as I bought it at the time.

I disagree, I think the majority of people would still know the song, as it was well known, and well played by radio every xmas until at least the mid nineties, so with the possible exception of 25 and unders (who admittedly are more likely to be into chart music) most of the rest of the population will know the song.

Not sure if you cottoned on or not, but M4ngo was paraphrasing one of the comical lyrics in one of his previous xmas number one. The actual lyric being 'she put in her mouth and I nearly had a heart attack.

I wouldn't totally rule it out. The glittered weirdo hasn't owned the rights to any of his songs for (I think) over 20 years now, and definitely wouldn't make any money from it. I also swear that the song has been creeping back onto radio playlists in recent xmases (although I do nightshifts every Xmas, so it's possible radio in the middle of the night is more open to making controversial record choices, they certainly play Fairytale of New York frequently and uncensored, whilst I believe it is rationed and censored during the day). And as someone else said many younger people will have no real idea who the glittered one even is and will not have any negative connotations when hearing the tune etc.

Yes mate!

Christmas based food items enter the supermarkets from late August or early September each year (I used to work in supermarkets for years and well remember the store having to be rearranged whillst it was still quite hot, to condense down the BBQs and summer stuff and start to push out all the xmas stuff) so plenty of people do buy xmas stuff long long before Halloween.

Just catching up this thread now, and it's a really fascinating read. I was suprised to see Aneka was Scottish, as shortly after her number one she appeared on Wogan in character (with her Japanese wig etc, then pulled off the wig to reveal her real self, in doing so she told Wogan, in a very posh rp-type voice that playing the character had 'all been rather a hoot'. As for the Big Yin hi'self, I'm suprised to see Billy getting such a slaughtering. To give a little bit of context, in the days before VHS was a thing people bought and consumed their stand-up comedy on LPs which were probably recorded by sticking a reel-to-reel or tape recorder on the wings of the stage, and Billy was one of the bigger sellers of stand-up LPs (as was Jasper Carrott). This particular song was one part of such a stand-up show and LP, and the track was spun off onto a single. You won't find a studio version as there wasn't one, just the live stand-up performance. As for the word queer at the end, I really don't see any problem at all with describing a fictional dog using a synonym for strange or odd, which is all queer means in the context of that sentence. There certainly isn't any connection with sexuality at all, so surely there can be no suggestion of homophobia or even of being non-PC, so I'm not sure why it wouldn't be acceptable. I'm also not sure that last line is intended as a punchline, as such, I just think the writer had settled on the 'so as my dog can't hear' line and just needed a rhyme. If nothing else this single was notable for being the first charttopper to, if not actually use, then heavily imply, the f-bomb and c-bomb as part of the lyrics (albeit one used in a partly softened form, and the other bleeped, as they are on the video you embedded). Billy's popularity at that time was partly fuelled by his semi-regular appearances on the first incarnation of Michael Parkinson's talk show, so it's entirely possible that he either performed a version of it on the show, or that a clip of it was played as part of one of his interviews. He made shockwaves on one of his Parkinson appearances by telling a joke in which a badly buried body ends up with it's bum up out of the ground and someone passes it off as a bicycle stand (the joke is far funnier than I make it sound), so it's not impossible that this song could also have been performed on one. As for the intriguing sounding Supergran, it was the theme to the children's show of the same name, set in Scotland, featuring a tartan clad granny with super powers, and made for ITV by Tyne Tees Television. P.S. Just to reassure me, all this talk of a forum closing at midnight doesn't mean that Buzzjack is closing down does it? [it's 2:30am by now, so I'm guessing not, but thought I'd ask anyway].

The One Week Wonders - Episode 161 We start this episode with the only week of chart action for Trans Lux, who were at #97 on w/e 3rd March 1984 with Big Apple Noise. T8_-YOaZYy4 Next is Quiet Riot, with their second and last charting single, Bad Boy, which was at #91 on w/e 17th March 1984. Oed20noYZXk Finally for tonight, at 92 in the same week were Cutting Edge, enjoying their only week of chart action with Dancing With The Rebels. Fqc7G_tlRXg

The One Week Wonders - Episode 160 First up for this episode is Shooting Shark by the Blue Oyster Cult which was at #97 on w/e 18th February 1984. Their only other charting singles was the #16 hit (Don't Fear) The Reaper. Shooting Shark was the first of six singles to reach the charts with Shark in the title, and I probably don't have to tell you which of those six was the most successful... mvsthsbbLfM Next up, at #99 in the same week with their only UK chart action are Indians In Moscow with Naughty Miranda. IqcvuJ3LhNg Also having their only week of UK chart action, despite having many number ones in the US and Canada, were Alabama, who were at #91 on w/e 25th February 1984 with Feels So Right. J2Q0gHA9vXY

The One Week Wonders - Episode 159 Continuing with w/e 21st January 1984 we find Luther Vandross at #100 with I'll Let You Slide. UUgHnn2fUk4 A week later Jimmy Cliff was at #93 with We All Our One. grbew-eXQgk Finally, in w/e 4th February 1984, at #91 was Stewart Copeland and Stan Ridgway with Don't Box Me In. Stewart would have one more charting single in his own name, The Equalizer Busy Equalizing, which reached #96, whilst Stan had two more charting singles, including the #4 hit Camouflage. 6gJtG5NC9kU

The One Week Wonders - Episode 158 Continuing where we left of, in w/e 17th December 1983, we move down to #100 and find Renee and Renato with their third and final charting single, Jesus Loves Us All. 30tskDrCoi0 The w/e 31st December 1983 was the last weekly chart that went uncompiled, so the previous chart was the last one to be repeated by chartologists to fill the gap. This means the last chance for two week wonders, and we have five of them: #77 Joe Fagin - Breaking Away #78 Brendan Shine - Thank God For Kids #97 The Damned - There Ain't No Sanity Clause #99 Men Without Hats - I Get The Message #100 Hooray And The Henrys - All Stuck Up Carrying on into 1984, w/e 21st January to be exact, we have Watusi Brothers with Bodwork at #95, their only charting single. S6pwSQehA4U And at #97 the same week were the Three Degrees with Liar. ojGppbXSCqI

I'm thinking of creating a spreadsheet to figure out the longest possible chain that happens to be all charttoppers, so I'll let you know if I find any significantly long ones.

The One Week Wonders - Episode 157 First up, at #90 on w/e 3rd December 1983 was Torment, the second and last charting single by Marc And The Mambas, Marc Almond's post-Soft Cell project. The first charting single, Black Heart, had reached #49 earlier in the year. PvuutqCOm0U Moving down one place to #91 we have Midnight In Tokyo, the second of three charting singles for Y&T. jx-xUszFpvs We then skip over Uncertain Smile by The The, which was at #100, as this was a re-issue of a #68 hit from the previous. We instead move forward to the w/e 17th December 1983, and to #90 where we find Michael Barrymore singing Kenny The Kangaroo. He had two other charting singles besides this, Do The Crab, which peaked at #81 in 1987, and Too Much For One Heart, which hit #25 in 1995. wKk9ICaeWCM

The One Week Wonders - Episode 156 Thank you Robbie for pointing out that one of the songs from episode 152 wasn't eligble as it had further weeks on chart that the OCC credits differently to the week I had found. There will now be four songs in this episode to compensate. We start on w/e 19th November 1983. First up at #92 are The Walkers with Whatever Happened To The Party Groove, although the OCC site has taken 'Groove' from the end of the title and stuck it on the beginning of the act instead. The Walkers had one more charting single, Don't Waste My Time, which reached #76 in 1986. iKPNhPdJ18w Next, at #97, is the 9th of Modern Romance's 10 charting singles, Good Friday. Their final charting, in 1985, was The Best Mixe Of Our Lives, which I would presume was a remix of their #4 hit The Best Years Of Our Lives. U7s531ijpCk We then skip over the #99, The Same Old Song by KC and the Sunshine Band, as it is a re-release of a #47 hit from 1978, and instead we have the #100 song, Roman Candle, which is the only week of Uk chart action for Flesh For Lulu. 9ME_v1BOZM0 Finally we go forward a week, to w/e 26th November 1983, for the #99, Time For Some Fun, which is the 8th and final charting single by Central Line. HtACZww8mXM

Oops didn't pick up on that one. Thanks for letting me know. Four songs in the next episode, to compensate, then...

Celine Dion - Think Twice, which was actually played on the radio station I had on shortly after this lockdown had been announced by the prime minister last Monday. "Bayyyyyyyyby this is serious! This is serious. Are you thinkin' 'bout you, or us?...."

I agree that Addy has misunderstood, and T Boy has already said they misunderstood, but it is entirely possible that some people could have 100% charttoppers all the way down, so it'd be interesting to see what birthdates could give such a list, excluding the trivial case of all one year olds, whose list is one #1 song and is therefore 100% charttopper by default.

Interesting idea, here's mine: 1 (1984) - Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax 2 (1985) - King - Love And Pride 3 (1986) - Five Star - System Addict [NB my birthday was on a Sunday that year, so the new chart wasn't out until Tuesday, otherwise it would have been The Damned - Eloise] 4 (1987) - Randy Crawford - Almaz [As with the last one, this was a Monday, so new chart the next day would have been Pepsi and Shirlie - Heartache] 5 (1988) - Bomb The Bass - Beat Dis 6 (1989) - Bobby Brown - My Prerogative 7 (1990) - Phil Collins - I Wish It Would Rain Down 8 (1991) - EMF - I Believe 9 (1992) - Simply Red - For Your Babies 10 (1993) - M People - How Can I Love You More? (Remix) 11 (1994) - Wendy Moten - Come In Out Of The Rain 12 (1995) - Scarlet - Independent Love Song 13 (1996) - John Alford - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes 14 (1997) - Space - Dark Clouds 15 (1998) - Janet - Together Again 16 (1999) - The Moffatts - Crazy 17 (2000) - Nu Generation - In Your Arms (Rescue Me) 18 (2001) - Starsailor - Fever 19 (2002) - Elbow - Asleep In The Back/Coming Second 20 (2003) - Good Charlotte - Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous 21 (2004) - Jagged Edge - Walked Outta Heaven 22 (2005) - Freefaller - Do This! Do That! 23 (2006) - Kelly Clarkson - Because Of You 24 (2007) - Akon ft Eminem - Smack That 25 (2008) - Alicia Keys - No One 26 (2009) - Beyonce - If I Were A Boy 27 (2010) - The Saturdays - Up 28 (2011) - Tinchy Stryder ft Fiona - Let It Rain 29 (2012) - Beyonce - Love On Top 30 (2013) - The Fray - How To Save A Life 31 (2014) - Avicii - Wake Me Up 32 (2015) - Clean Bandit ft Jess Glynne - Real Love 33 (2016) - Adele - When We Were Young 34 (2017) - James Arthur - Safe Inside 35 (2018) - Post Malone ft 21 Savage - Rockstar 36 (2019) - Cadet & Dino Driz - Advice 37 (2020) - YNW Melly - Suicidal A right hotpotch there, and at least a few I don't know.

The One Week Wonders - Episode 155 All three singles today are from w/e 12th November 1983. Today's first song is I Just Can't Walk Away by the Four Tops, which was at #95. It was on the Tamla Motown, which they appear to have stopped releasing singles on in 1972, moving to Probe for about a year then dropping away from the charts, so I assume this is Tamla Motown issuing old material years later, in the same way they had been doing with Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson and others in the early 80s. This was the last chart entry of the Four Tops 1981-83 chart revival, but they would be in the charts with four more release in another chart revival in 1988-89, with the biggest being the #7 hit Loco In Acapulco. IGbLYBlM-GY Next up at #97 was the only week of chart action for the Haines Gang, with So Hot. tFlOU6Peiyo And finally for today is the return to the chart, after three years, of Ian Dury, who was at #98 with Really Glad You Came. JJIX0VL5na4