DanChartFan

Wow this thread has been resurrected just ahead of it's 10th birthday! :birthday: I might try to add an update from 2006 to the present day. One thing that occurs to me though is that prior to 1978 the album chart for any given sales week was announced a week later than the singles chart for the same period, and that is why when this changed there were two album charts with the same date at one point that year (I forget exactly which date), so that would need taking into account for these stats, and I've no idea what the turn around was for the Melody Maker and NME album charts prior to Record Retailer charts, or whether the RR album chart was always a week delayed or whether this just came into effect with the BMRB and it's sales diaries in 1969. Perhaps I'm over thinking things though.

:blush: :blush: :blush: I apologise to Kay, her family, friends and fans for inadvertently starting rumours of her death. It almost makes it worse that I had to slip-up on the lady who is actually the earliest of the surviving charttoppers.....

I was thinking first half of the 50s to be 50-54, but actually technically you're correct as decades (and centuries and milleniums) strictly speaking start on a year ending in 1. So yes Jimmy is on the list, but if we are including 1955 then we also have to put Tony Bennett on the list too, and I think Tony is the only one of these who's still musically active so to speak.

Oops :blush: I could have sworn that someone on the chart thread had said that he had 8 consecutive weeks now, and didn't bother to check myself. I also assumed that was the reason for the creation of this thread and the bracketed proviso in the title. I'll get me coat.......

Thank you for letting us know Suedehead. I wonder if she was aware of the recent resurgence in interest in her famous song, after it's use in ads, and what she made of it. I think the only surviving chartopping artists from the first half of the 50s are now Doris Day and Vera Lynn, unless there is still a surviving Stargazer.

Jo's 9 week's weren't consecutive, so the only two to make 8 consecutive weeks at 2 are Johnnie and Justin. Another record for Justin next Friday methinks, as well as becoming the first single to have it's first 20 weeks in the top7 (random stat from another thread lol)

Pat Boone didn't either, beaten by All Shook Up then Diana.

Too early to tell. Not playing the new entries was odd, and two news bulletins during the show and an extended one afterwards are a downside. On the plus side I do rate Greg as a host, and there was a lot more focusing on getting through the chart and a lot less nonsensical texts and stuff. Maybe rather than trying to play a fixed part of the chart in full they should try to play new entries, climbers and the top 3, then slot extra tracks in to make up the time.

I think tonight's episode was a masterclass in Corrie at it's best, albeit a very emotional best. I thought Eileen Derbyshire was especially good, and was glad they remembered that Emily had thought of her like a daughter and that it was important that Emily would be particularly affected. I also liked a few of the other touches that they put in, Audrey saying 'Tracy, luv' and in a similar way to how Dierdre/Annie would have said it too, but beyond that when Tracy broke right down and got up to fall into Ken's arms and later when she looked at the cake and said 'Oh, mam!' both of those moments where played by Kate with the same style (if that's the right word?) of emotional acting that Annie herself would have played them with, especially the 'Oh, mam' which was so remeniscent of Dierdre's 'Oh, Ken!' whenever she was upset about something. It must have been so hard for all the cast to record tonight's episode too.

I'm with the majority here, in that the charts and music industry of today no longer really interest me any more. I don't download singles (too likely to fail for me to want to spend the money) and can't buy them physical any more, not that there's anything I want want to buy particularly. With youtube/streaming I no longer buy greatest hits albums and never really bought regular albums anyway, and until recently my last foothold in contemporary chart music was buying each Now album when it came out, but I haven't bought the last two now as I'm not really interested in anything on them any more. Net result is that for the first time since I was about 11 I am not putting any money at all into the music industry, unless a free steaming account somehow puts any money in even though I almost never see an advert via it. We used to define a chart as a tabulation of sales in a week, then it became psuedo-sales in a week, now it's going to become psuedo-sales in a psuedo-week so it is even becoming statistically pointless as well as being musically pointless. My solution as of the start of this year has been to start again from the 90s. Each week I put together a streaming list of the equivelant weeks chart from 25 years ago to listen to, and pretend I'm living back in the age of real sales of real music in a real week......

What about some members of Hot Chocolate and 10cc? Or are the Carribbean members from other nations there? Also wondered about the Fugees, but that's probably because they covered Bob Marley tracks.

The final artist to join our list in the seventies is Gordon Giltrap, whose single Heartsong peaked at 21 on w/e 11th February 1978. If it reminds of you of topless sunbathing in warmer climes it's because it was the theme to the BBC's holiday programme from 1978 to 1985, and the opening sequence usually featured such images at the time despite being on in the early evenings. Gordon reached the charts once more, in 1979. with Fear Of The Dark, which only got to 58. Z1LbcD_vRU0

A bit of cheese next, with The Floral Dance, but not the Brighouse And Rastrick Brass Band instrumental, which had already peaked at 2 for six whole weeks in Dec 77 and Jan 78, held off the top only by the million-selling Mull Of Kintyre. This is the version recorded by Terry Wogan (he of the Radio 2 breakfast show, TV chat shows, Children In Need and Eurovision) which peaked at 21 on w/e 28/01/1978. Terry subsequently lent his vocal 'talents' to a charity single, Peace On Earth-Little Drummer Boy, which got to 3 in the xmas chart of 2008, but that was under the act name Bandaged, and not in his own name, and thus I discounted that in including him here. He did however chart again under his own name, in a duet with Aled Jones, the following year, with Silver Bells/Me And My Teddy Bear, which got to 27. There was also a jungle remix of his Floral Dance in 1995, but that appears to have stayed clear of the charts entirely. ElnCI1fkfFM

1977 now, and Tony Etoria's only charting single, I Can Prove It, peaked at 21 on w/e 09/07/77 0lDXN36wCFg

W/e 04/12/1976 sees Hank C Burnette's only charting single, Spinning Rock Boogie peak at 21. 2OWe1ANJCOU

Next up are the J.A.L.N. Band whose first charting single, Disco Music (I Like It), peaked at 21 on w/e 16/10/1976. Two more of their singles made the charts, I Got To Sing reached 40 in 1977 and Get Up reached 53 in 1978. Z4BIojBvxT8

Weirdly our next artist manages to be a repeat offender on this list. We previously saw him as part of The Nice in 1969, and he would go on to also have one charting single as part of the supergroup Emerson Lake And Palmer, Fanfare For The Common Man, which peaked at 2 in July 1977, prevented from chartopping by the recently departed Errol Brown's Hot Chocolate and So You Win Again. However as a soloist Keith Emerson only had one charting single, Honky Tonk Train Blues, which peaked at 21 in w/e 01/05/1976. Va1WyPdxyqs

Crispy And Company had reached 26 in 1975 with Brazil. Their only other charting single, Get It Together, peaked at 21 in weeks ending 17th and 24th January 1976. J1Ekrkbqbdg

Next up is Chequers, who peaked at 21 on w/e 1st November 1975, with RocK On Brother. They did have one more charting single, Hey Miss Payne, in 1976, but that only got to 32. Sfcr8QXiGmM

This one is one that most of you will know, and I suspect a lot of you will be surprised that it only got to 21, that she never had any other charting singles, and that she hasn't even been back in the charts as a result of downloads in recent years (which I could have sworn she had, but no). It's Maria Muldaur and her classic Midnight At The Oasis, which peaked at 21 w/e 27/07/1974. VlrKETxwRvM

I dunno it's worse than the buses. You wait 4.5 years from Fairport Convention to another acts career peaking at 21, and then two acts come along in consecutive weeks. This time it's 8 times winners of Opportunity Knocks, Candlewick Green, with their version of the Jigsaw song Who Do You Think You Are, in w/e 16/03/1974 evZbeUAMoYg

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Prelude are next with their first charting single, After The Goldrush, which was a Neil Young song originally. Prelude went on to have three more singles, Platinum Blonde which reached 45 in 1980, a reissue of After The Goldrush which peaked at 28 in 1982, and Only The Lonely which only got to 55 in 1982. After the Goldrush peaked at 21 in w/e 09/03/1974. xjRH4R_MoSc

Continuin where I left off yesterday the next act whose career peaked at 21 was Fairport Convention, which surprised me as I knew from my dad's LP collection that they released several albums, but their only charting single, Si Tu Dois Partir, peaked at 21 in weeks ending 23rd and 30th August 1969. AmmCSOpPzZc

And now for probably the most famous and iconic entry so far on our list. The Nice were a prog rock outfit whose only single, America, peaked at 21 in w/e 18/09/1968. x_X9YqWu4pU