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1995 January 8th - no presenter credited in RT, we have Bruno Brookes as usual. October 15th - we have Dave Pearce listed, in the first of two consecutive weeks, but RT only listed for him on the 22nd and had Mark Goodier listed as usual on the 15th. December 24th - in a bizarre anomaly Genome has no knowledge of a chart show on radio 1 on that day at all. But as the listed show, Soul on Sunday, appears to run from 14:00 to 19:00, a total of five hours, I'm assuming that somehow the chart show either got missed/lost during Genome's OCR scanning process (perhaps a symbol in the listings of RT directed the reader to a separate box on the page, which wasn't then incorporated into the Genome data?), or else it got accidentally missed in the original edition of the Radio times. 1997 January 12th, February 2nd, 9th and 16th, March 2nd, 9th and 16th, May 4th and 18th, June 1st, 15th, 22nd and 29th, July 6th, 13th and 27th and August 10th and 17th - RT really gave up bothering to list anything beyond 'UK Top 40' half the time this year, so on all these dates there is no presenter credit in RT, and in all cases we have Mark Goodier as usual. August 31st - Ironically RT did bother to credit Mark Goodier this week, but in the event the show was famously postponed due to the outpouring of grief following the news that Diana, Princess Of Wales had died in the early hours of that day. September 7th, October 12th and December 14th and 28th - No presenter credited in RT, but we have Mark Goodier as usual. 1998 February 8th, March 8th and 22nd and June 7th and 14th - No presenter credited in RT, but we have Mark Goodier as usual. August 23rd - RT has Mark Goodier as usual, but we have Clive Warren, so presumably there is some source for this. 1999 May 30th - No presenter listed in RT, but we have Mark Goodier as usual. That is all the differences I have found so far between 1967 (R1 only) and 2nd January 2000, so all the other weeks presenters match on our list and in the respective issue of Radio Times (though of course we both have been unaware of a last minute change in at least the odd case).

A year on from the original thread, and now we have the fantastic (if somewhat glitchy) resource BBC Genome to help us further with this project. For those who don't know, BBC Genome is a database on the bbc website that contains all the radio and tv listings published by Radio Times between 1923 and 2009. It therefore gives us instant access to the original RT listing for the majority of the BBC's chart shows, and those beyond 2009 are detailed (in vary degrees of helpfulness) on the previously reference existing bbc database. You can find genome at genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. I have been spending most of the last week or so, making use of my time off of work, by paging through every Sunday in Radio 1's history and recording the presenter, producer and description (if any) in a spreadsheet. I have so far done 1967-Jan 2000 plus a few isolated periods beyond that, and hope to finish the whole lot before too long. I have now compared my spreadsheet to the list at the start of this thread, and now will listed the differences I have spotted (and also the weeks when no presenter was listed in RT). Bear in mind though that such discrepancies may be due to either a last minute substitution being made due to illness or sudden departures from the station, or simply Radio Times publishing incorrect information. Genome itself may also have some errors due to problems in the OCR scanning process (a particular problem throughout the database is that the new year lstings in a festive issue have, on several occasions in the database, been accidentally wrapped around to the start of the outgoing year, rather than put into the correct incoming year, which causes incorrect data in the outgoing year, and total absence of those days in the database in the incoming year). Interestingly the Producer is credited more or less every single week from 1967 to May 1993 (spanning Denys Jones to Simon Sadler) and then seemingly never listed again since. I will probably post the producer list with dates if anyone is interested. 1968 Sep 22nd and Sep 29th - We have Pete Murray as a cover presenter for Alan Freeman in these weeks, owing to Alan being in the US, however the Radio Times lists Alan and Pete as effectively co-presenters (with Alan first of the two) for those weeks, and explains that Alan is in New York and Pete in London, and that the show features both the UK top 20 and the US top 20! 1972 March 12th - Alan was credited as usual in RT throughout March 1972, so Ed Stewart was a last minute replacement whichever week it was. November 5th - A special chart show was broadcast, retitled 50 years of pop, to mark the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast by the BBC (then still a company rather than a corporation). According to the description for the programme, Brian Matthew recalled earlier hits while Tom Browne played those of today. 1977 June - RT had Simon Bates credited for 3rd and 10th of June, not 10th and 17th, though they could have been incorrect at the time I guess. 1981 August 2nd - RT was not printed for the week covering that show, due to a printing dispute. It is very likely, however, to have been Tony presenting, as we have listed, since it has been said that he never missed a show. 1983 April 3rd and 10th - Again no RT covering these weeks, again due to a printing dispute, so would be interested in finding another source to corroborate those two weeks (did say The Times or another reliable newspaper publish listings during the strike periods?). Tommy then Simon, which we have, does seem plausible though, as RT agrees that Simon did do the 17th April chart. December 4th - Once again no RT for that week, and once again due to a printing dispute, though thankfully this was the final one to affect the 'official organ of the BBC' as it was once described. Our list gives Tommy, but a source would be good for corroboration here. 1985 January 27th - RT listed Richard Skinner, but we have Tommy Vance. Could have been last minute cover I suppose. 1986 March 31st and April 6th - We have Bruno for both of these shows, having taken over from Richard Skinner at this time, but RT still listed Richard for both of these weeks (possibly no one told RT about the presenter change, or it was in someway unplanned?). 1988 February 21st - we have Mark Goodier, but RT listed Bruno. Again could have been last minute cover. 1989 March 26th - again we have Mark G and RT listed Bruno. Another last minute cover perhaps. June 11th - just to mix things up, on this occasion we have Bruno, but RT listed Mark Goodier (who it also listed, as do we, the following week). 1991 May 8th - we have Tommy Vance this week, as well as the following one, whereas RT only lists Tommy on the 15th, and Mark as usual on the 8th. 1992 April 19th - we have Mark Goodier, RT listed Bruno as usual. September 27th - in a sign of things to come RT managed, for the first time, not withstanding strike hit editions, to not credit any presenter at all for the chart show. Bruno, as we have, does seem likely though. October 25th - we have Simon Bates, RT listed Bruno as usual. November 8th - we have Mark Goodier, RT listed Bruno as usual. 1993 July 4th - we have Mark Goodier, RT listed Bruno as usual. August 1st - we have Mark Goodier, RT listed Bruno as usual. 1994 March 6th - no presenter credited in RT, we have Bruno as usual. March 20th - no presenter credited in RT, we have Bruno as usual. May 8th - no presenter credited in RT, we have Bruno as usual. June 26th - no presenter credited in RT, we have Bruno as usual. July 3rd - we have Mark Goodier, RT listed Bruno as usual (the previous weeks lack of credit not withstanding). September 25th - no presenter credited in RT, interestingly we listed the chart show debut of Neale James that week, so I assume we have a source for that somewhere. October 2nd - we have Neale James for a second week, but RT lists Bruno as usual (again the previous weeks lack of credit not withstanding). October 23rd and 30th and November 6th - no presenter listed in RT any of these weeks, in which we have Bruno as usual throughout. I'll do 1995-Jan 2000 in another box as this is getting quite long, and as missing RT presenter credits begin to dominate the list.

I haven't bought it yet, and haven't decided yet whether or not I will, so there wasn't really an accurate second choice in this poll for me. In the end I chose the middle first option and the top second option, because if I do buy it, it will be primarily to help the charity, and also to buy a moment in pop history. Not really sure who most of the artists are this time round tbh, and not overly keen on this version, but it may yet grow on me.

I'm fairly sure that Woolworths DID stock the X Factor single in it's last week of trading (seem to remember a pile of them in Swindon Woolies on closing down week anyway), and it's clearance price on it for the last day or two was said to have contributed to slightly higher sales of it than would otherwise have been the case.

And me please. Thanks.

I agree, he is the Chart Show host that never was as far as Radio 1 Chart Show history goes, and it's a great shame as he's really good at it, unlike pretty much every host since Wes left. In fact I'm pretty sure this particular edition of the Chart Show marked a very special career record for Scott, in that he has now presented the Chart Show in more calender years than any other host (regular or temporary), having tied with Mark Goodier last year, and now having overtaken him. So in a sense he is the longest running Chart Show host ever, yet he has never been given the Chart Show in his own right for some reason.

I've been listening to this historic chart and letting most of it pass by, but sat up and thought "that song sounds good, what's that?" when I heard "If I build it, they will come. If I build it, they will come....." , before realising belatedly that it was just a promotional thing for T in the Park. What does it say about the state of chart music these days if I preferring a cheaply produced radio one advert to much of what is in the chart :-D

Looks like I'm the only one genuinely excited about a suprise release by Colbie Cailat then. She is a great singer and a lot more well known than her modest chart sucess and this thread would have people believe. Off to iTunes now to investigate what she has actually released....

I would love to see them mick745, so please do post them. And I now work for Lidl so I will have to look into the tape to USB converters as I have tons of tapes I would love to convert.

Not sure about total sales for each solo spice, but in chart terms Geri is the most successful solo spice, with more number ones (and I think more total hits) than the others, though to be fair she did ensure she got a head start on the others, and began her solo career whilst the Spice Girls were still at their biggest.

Thank you for that extra information Robbie, that fills all the gaps from after 1990 and makes a complete listing of charttopper cassingles from the last week of August 1990 to at least the end of 1995. It''ll be interesting to see how long the continuous list goes on till and also if we can fill the three gaps in 1990, particular Partners In Kryme, which I couldn't see a cassingle for on ebay. Whilst I'm posting I may as well add 1996 to this thread. 1996[#732-#755] #732 – George Michael – Jesus To A Child – Virgin VSC 1571 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Jesus To A Child/One More Try (Live Gospel Version)/Older (Instrumental Version) #733 – Babylon Zoo – Spaceman – TCEM 416 Cardboard Outer – Black Cassette Side A: Spaceman (Radio Edit)/Blue Nude Side B: Metal Vision/Spaceman – The 5th Dimension #734 – Oasis – Don’t Look Back In Anger – CRECS 221 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Don’t Look Back In Anger/Step Out [sBS] #735 – Take That – How Deep Is Your Love – RCA 74321355594 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette How Deep Is Your Love/Never Forget [sBS] #736 – The Prodigy – Firestarter – XL XLC 70 Plastic Outer – Black Cassette Firestarter (Edit)/Molotov Bitch #737 – Mark Morrison – Return Of The Mack – WEA WEA040C Plastic Outer – Black Cassette Return Of The Mack (C&J Street Mix)/Return Of The Mack (D-Influence Vibe Mix) [sBS] #738 – George Michael – Fastlove – Virgin VSC 1579 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Fastlove Part 1/I’m Your Man #739 – Gina G – Ooh Aah... Just A Little Bit – WEA WEA041C Plastic Outer – Black Cassette Ooh Aah... Just A Little Bit (Motiv8 Radio Edit)/Ooh Aah... Just A Little Bit (Motiv8 Extended Vocal Mix) [sBS] #740 – Baddiel & Skinner & The Lightning Seeds – Three Lions – Epic 663273 4 Cardboard Outer – Clear Cassette Three Lions/Three Lions (Karaoke Version) #741 – The Fugees – Killing Me Softly – Columbia 663343 4 Cardboard Outer – Clear Cassette Killing Me Softly (Album Version Without Intro)/Cowboys (Album Version) [sBS] #742 – Gary Barlow – Forever Love – RCA 74321387964 [*No correlation to UK cat no?*] Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Forever Love/I Miss It All/Forever Love (Instrumental) [sBS] #743 – The Spice Girls – Wannabe – Virgin VSC 1588 Cardboard Outer – Clear Cassette Wannabe (Radio Edit)/Bumper To Bumper/Wannabe (Vocal Slam) [sBS] #744 – Peter Andre – Flava – Mushroom C2003 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Flava (7” Edit)/To The Top [sBS] #745 – The Fugees – Ready Or Not – Columbia 663721 4 Cardboard Outer – Clear Cassette Ready Or Not (Radio Version)/The Score [sBS] #746 – Deep Blue Something – Breakfast At Tiffany’s – MCA/Interscope INC 80032 Cardboard Outer – Clear Cassette Breakfast At Tiffany’s/A Water Prayer #747 – The Chemical Brothers – Setting Sun – Virgin/Junior Boy’s Own CHEMSTC 4 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Setting Sun (Full Length Version)/Setting Sun (Radio Edit)/Buzz Tracks/Setting Sun (Instrumental) [sBS] #748 – Boyzone – Words – Polydor 575536-4 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Words/The Price Of Love [sBS] #749 – The Spice Girls – Say You’ll Be There – Virgin VSC 1601 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Say You’ll Be There (Single Mix)/Take Me Home/Say You’ll Be There (Junior’s Main Pass) [sBS] #750 – Robson And Jerome – What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted/Saturday Night At The Movies/You’ll Never Walk Alone – RCA 74321424734 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Side A: What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted/Saturday Night At The Movies Side B: You’ll Never Walk Alone #751 – The Prodigy – Breathe – XL XLC 80 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Breathe (Edit)/The Trick [sBS] #752 – Peter Andre – I Feel You – Mushroom C1521 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette I Feel You (Radio Edit)/Take Me Back [sBS] #753 – Boyzone – A Different Beat – Polydor 573204-4 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette A Different Beat/Angel #754 – Dunblane – Throw These Guns Away/Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door – BMG 74321442184 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door/Throw These Guns Away [sBS] #755 – The Spice Girls – 2 Become 1 – Virgin VSC 1607 Cardboard Outer – Clear Cassette 2 Become 1 (Single Version)/2 Become 1 (Orchestral Version)

And here's 1995, including a charttopper available on 2 distinct cassingles! 1995 [#715-#731] #715 – Rednex – Cotton Eye Joe – Zomba KGB M 016 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Cotton Eye Joe/Cotton Eye Joe (Original Instrumental) [sBS] #716(a) – Celine Dion – Think Twice –Epic 660642 0 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Think Twice (Album Version)/The Power Of Love (Album Version)/Where Does My Heart Beat Now (Album Version) [sBS] #716(b) – Celine Dion – Think Twice – Epic 660642 4 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassettte Think Twice (Radio Edit)/Le Monde Est Stone [sBS] #717 – Cher, Chrissie Hynde and Neneh Cherry with Eric Clapton – Love Can Build A Bridge – London COMMC 1 Cardboard Outer – Clear Cassette Cher, Chrissie Hynde and Neneh Cherry with Eric Clapton – Love Can Build A Bridge/Bananarama and LaNaNeeNeeNooNoo – Help #718 – The Outhere Brothers – Don’t Stop (Wiggle, Wiggle) – Eternal YZ917C Plastic Outer – Black Cassette Don’t Stop (Wiggle, Wiggle) (Townhouse Radio Edit)/Don’t Stop (Wiggle, Wiggle) (Original Radio Version) #719(a) – Take That – Back For Good – RCA 74321271464 [both types have same cat no but are diff] Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Side 1: Back For Good (Radio Mix)/Sure (Live). Side 2: Back For Good (TV Mix) #719(b) – Take That – Back For Good – RCA 74321271464 [both types have same cat no but are diff] Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Back For Good (Radio Mix)/Sure (Live) [sBS?] #720 – Oasis – Some Might Say – Creation CRECS 204 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Some Might Say/Talk Tonight [sBS] #721 – Livin’ Joy – Dreamer – MCA MCSC 2056 Cardboard Outer – Clear Cassette Dreamer (7” Mix)/Dreamer (Loveland’s Viva Tenerife Mix) #722 – Robson Green And Jerome Flynn – Unchained Melody/(There’ll Be Bluebirds Over) White Cliffs Of Dover – RCA 7432128436 4 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Unchained Melody/(There’ll Be Bluebirds Over) White Cliffs Of Dover [sBS] [interestingly the inner sleeve notes this is a rerecording and not the version that actually appeared in Soldier Soldier. It also notes something I didn’t know, in that 5% of artist royalties were going to go to Greenpeace, although this probably only worked out to be a few hundred quid despite the high sales] #723 – The Outhere Brothers – Boom Boom Boom – Eternal YZ938C Plastic Outer – Black Cassette Boom Boom Boom (Don’t Break My Balls Radio Mix)/Boom Boom Boom (UK Radio Edit) [sBS] #724 – Take That – Never Forget – RCA 74321299564 [*Not quite the UK cat no?*] Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Never Forget/Back For Good (Live) [sBS] #725 – Blur – Country House – Food TCFOOD63 Cardboard Outer – Black Cassette Country House/One Born Every Minute [sBS] #726 – Michael Jackson – You Are Not Alone – Epic 662310 4 Cardboard Outer – Clear Cassette Michael Jackson – You Are Not Alone/Michael Jackson & Janet Jackson – Scream Louder (Flyte Tyme Remix) [sBS] #727 – Shaggy – Boombastic – Virgin VSC 1536 Cardboard Outer – Clear Cassette Boombastic (7” Original Edit)/Boombastic (Sting/Shaggy Remix)/Boombastic (Stonebridge Vocal Remix)/Boombastic (Firefox & 4-Tree Bassboom Remix) [sBS] #728 – Simply Red – Fairground – EastWest EW 001 C Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Fairground (Single Edit)/Fairground (Extended Single Edit) [sBS] #729 – Coolio ft L.V. – Gangsta’s Paradise – Tommy Boy MCSC 2104 Cardboard Outer – Clear Cassette Coolio ft L.V. – Gangsta’s Paradise/Coolio – Fantastic Voyage (Original Version) #730 – Robson Green And Jerome Flynn – I Believe/Up On The Roof – RCA 74321326884 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette I Believe/Up On The Roof [sBS] #731 – Michael Jackson – Earth Song – Epic 662695 4 Cardboard Outer – Clear Cassette Earth Song (Radio Edit)/Earth Song (Hani’s Extended Radio Experience) [sBS]

I think digital preorders exist for the benefit of the label/artist possibly, but don't benefit the consumer at all, beyond combating forgetfulness of the release schedule. Preorders in the physical era were beneficial to the consumer because it guaranteed you got a copy of a hotly anticipated release, even if the shop sold out due to demand, so the marketing benefit was sort of hidden behind the facade of a consumer service. With digital preorders all you are doing is a open marketing excercise, manipulating consumers, probably annoying many of them, and probably helping to decrease the number of people prepared to legally download in future. And the big problem with the legal vs illegal download is that they are basically impossible to tell apart, so no one will no if they look at your music files, whereas in the physicals era a fake was usually obvious and therefore embarrassing to show other people, so that helped to ensure people wanted the real deal.

And 1994 1994 (#700-#714) #700 – Chaka Demus & Pliers With Jack Radics & Taxi Gang – Twist And Shout – Mango MCT 814 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Twist And Shout (Straight Mix)/Rhythm Killer [sBS] #701 – D:Ream – Things Can Only Get Better – Warner Music MAG 1020C Plastic Outer – Black Cassette Things Can Only Get Better (D:Reamix Edit)/ Things Can Only Get Better (D:Reamix U.S.) [sBS] #702 – Mariah Carey – Without You – Columbia 659919 4 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Without You/Never Forget You [sBS] #703 – Doop – Doop – Citybeat CBE 774C Plastic Outer – Black Cassette Doop (Urge 2 Merge Radio Mix)/Doop (Jean Lejeux Radio Mix) [sBS] #704 – Take That – Everything Changes – RCA 74321167734 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Everything Changes/Beatles Medley (I Want To Hold Your Hand/Hard Day’s Night/She Loves You) [sBS] #705 – ‘Prince’ – The Most Beautiful Girl In The World – NPG NPG 6015-9 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette The Most Beautiful Girl In The World/Beautiful #706 – Toni Di Bart – The Real Thing – Cleveland City Blues CCBMC 15001® Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette The Real Thing (New 7” Dance)/The Real Thing (New 7” Radio) #707 – Stiltskin – Inside – White Water LEV 1C Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Inside/America [sBS] #708 – Manchester United Football Squad – Come On You Reds – Polygram TV MANU 4 [*UK cat no was MANU 2?*] Cardboard Outer – Clear Cassette Come On You Reds/ Come On You Reds (Instrumental) [sBS] #709 – Wet Wet Wet – Love Is All Around – Precious JWLMC 23 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Love Is All Around/I Can Give You Everything (7” Arthur Baker Soul Remix) [sBS] #710 – Whigfield – Saturday Night – Systematic SYSMC3 Cardboard Outer – Clear Cassette Saturday Night (Radio Mix)/Saturday Night (Radio Nite Mix)/Saturday Night (Nite Mix) #711 – Take That – Sure – RCA 74321236624 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Sure/No Si Aqui No Hay Amor #712 – Pato Banton – Baby Come Back – Virgin VSC 1522 Cardboard Outer – Clear Cassette Baby Come Back/Gwarn! (New Version) [sBS] #713 – Baby D – Let Me Be Your Fantasy – Systematic SYSMC4 Cardboard Outer – Clear Cassette Let Me Be Your Fantasy (Radio Edit)/Let Me Be Your Fantasy (Original Mix)/Let Me Be Your Fantasy (Dancing Divaz Club Mix) #714 – East 17 – Stay Another Day – London LONCS 354 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Stay Another Day (S.A.D. Mix)/Stay Another Day (Less SAD Mix) [sBS]

Now for 1993 1993 [#685-#699] #685 – 2 Unlimited – No Limit – PWL Continental PWMC 256 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette No Limit/No Limit (Breakbeat Remix) [sBS] #686 – Shaggy – Oh Carolina – Greensleeves GREC361 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Oh Carolina (Radio Version)/Oh Carolina (Rass Bumba Claat Version) [sBS] #687 – The Bluebells – Young At Heart – London LONCS 338 Cardboard Outer – Black Cassette Young At Heart/I’m Falling [sBS] #688 – George Michael And Queen (*With Lisa Stansfield) – Five Live (EP) – Parlophone TCR 6340 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Somebody To Love/Killer-Papa Was A Rolling Stone/These Are The Days Of Our Lives*/Calling You [sBS] #689 – Ace Of Base – All That She Wants – London 861 270-4 Cardboard Outer – Black Cassette All That She Wants (Radio Edit)/All That She Wants (Bhangra Version) [sBS] #690 – UB40 – (I Can’t Help) Falling In Love With You – Virgin DEPC 40 Cardboard Outer – Clear Cassette (I Can’t Help) Falling In Love With You/Jungle Love [sBS] #691 – Gabrielle – Dreams – Go Beat GODMC 99 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Dreams/Dreams Breakdown Mix [sBS] #692 – Take That – Pray – RCA 74321154504 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Pray (Radio Edit)/Pray (Acappella) #693 – Freddie Mercury – Living On My Own – Parlophone TCR 6355 Cardboard Outer – Black Cassette Living On My Own (Radio Mix)/Living On My Own (Album Mix) #694 – Culture Beat – Mr Vain – Epic 659468-4 Plastic Outer – Grey Cassette Mr Vain (Special Radio Edit)/(Cherry Lips) Der Erdbeermund (Single Version) [sBS] #695 – Jazzy Jeff And The Fresh Prince – Boom! Shake The Room – Jive C 335 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Boom! Shake The Room (LP Version)/Summertime (7” Mix) [sBS] #696 – Take That (*ft Lulu) – Relight My Fire – RCA 74321167724 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Relight My Fire (Radio Version)*/Why Can’t I Wake Up With You? (Live Version) #697 – Meat Loaf – I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That) – Virgin VSC 1443 Cardboard Outer – Clear Cassette I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)/Back Into Hell [sBS] #698 – Mr Blobby – Mr Blobby – Destiny Music CA DMUS 104 Plastic Outer – White Cassette Mr Blobby/Mr Blobby’s Theme [sBS] #699 – Take That – Babe – RCA 74321182134 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Babe (Return Remix)/All I Want Is You

And here's 1992. BTW If a charttopper has a note next to it about the cat no of the format not being the same as the 'UK cat no' then this means it doesn't appear to fit the cat no listed in Guinness (usually for the CD format from 92+ and 7" format before this), though in most cases this probably doesn't mean I have a non UK format or slightly different release, just that the numbers used for the different formats of that release didn't necessarily confirm to the usual pattern (whereby the same basic cat no has a 7 on the end for a 7", 2 or 5 for a CD, 4 or 0 for a cassette etc). 1992 [#673-#684] #673 – Wet Wet Wet – Goodnight Girl – Precious JWLMC 17 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Goodnight Girl/Ambrose Wykes [sBS] #674 – Shakespear’s Sister – Stay – London LONCS 314 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Stay/The Trouble With Andre #675 – Right Said Fred – Deeply Dippy -Tug CA SNOG 3 Plastic Outer – White Cassette Deeply Dippy (Single Mix)/Deeply Dubby (Single Mix) [sBS] #676 – KWS – Please Don’t Go/Game Boy – Network NWKC46 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Please Don’t Go (77 Sunshine Edit)/Game Boy #677 – Erasure – Abba-esque (EP) – Mute CMUTE 144 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Lay All Your Love On Me/S.O.S./Take A Chance On Me/Voulez Vous #678 – Jimmy Nail – Ain’t No Doubt – EastWest YZ686C Plastic Outer – Black Cassette Ain’t No Doubt (7” Version)/What Can I Say [sBS] #679 – Snap! – Rhythm Is A Dancer – Arista 74321-10213-4 [*No correlation to UK cat no?*] Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Rhythm Is A Dancer (7” Edit)/Rhythm Is A Dancer (Purple Hazed 7” Edit) [sBS] #680 – The Shamen – Ebeneezer Goode [Ebay evidence of a UK Cassingle] #681 – Tasmin Archer – Sleeping Satelitte – EMI TCEM 233 Cardboard Outer – Black Cassette Sleeping Satelitte/Sleeping Satelitte (Acoustic Version) #682 – Boyz II Men – End Of The Road – Motown TMGCS 1411 Plastic Outer – Black Cassette End Of The Road (Pop Edit)/End Of The Road (Instrumental) #683 – Charles And Eddie – Would I Lie To You? – Capitol TCCL 673 Cardboard Outer – Black Cassette Would I Lie To You?/Unconditional [sBS] #684 – Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You – Arista 74321 12065 4 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette I Will Always Love You/Jesus Loves Me [sBS]

And here's 1991 1991 [#656-#672] #656 – Iron Maiden – Bring Your Daughter (To The Slaughter) [Ebay evidence of a UK Cassingle] #657 – Enigma – Sadness Part 1 – Virgin International DINSC 101 Cardboard Outer – Black Cassette Sadness Part 1 (Radio Edit)/Sadness Part 1 (Meditation Mix) [sBS] #658 – Queen – Innuendo – Parlophone TC QUEEN 16 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Innuendo/Bijou [sBS] #659 – The KLF – 3:a.m. Eternal – KLF005C Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette 3 a.m. Eternal 1. Live At The S.S.L. 2. Guns Of Mu Mu [sBS] #660 – The Simpsons – Do The Bartman [Ebay evidence of a UK Cassingle] #661 – The Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I Go – Columbia 656667 4 Plastic Outer – White Cassette The Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I Go/Bad II – Rush [sBS] #662 – Hale And Pace And The Stonkers – The Stonk [Ebay evidence of a UK Cassingle] #663 – Chesney Hawkes – The One And Only #664 – Cher – The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s In His Kiss) – Epic 656673 4 Plastic Outer – White Cassette The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s In His Kiss)/Baby I’m Yours [sBS] #665 – Color Me Badd – I Wanna Sex You Up #666 – Jason Donovan – Any Dream Will Do – Really Useful RURCS 7 Plastic Outer – Black Cassette Any Dream Will Do/Close Every Door [sBS] #667 – Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It For You – A & M AMMC 789 Cardboard Outer – White Cassette (Everything I Do) I Do It For You (Single Version)/She’s Only Happy When She’s Dancing (Live) #668 – U2 – The Fly – Island CIS 500 Plastic Outer – Black Cassette The Fly/Alex Descends Into Hell For A Bowl Of Milk-Korova1 [sBS] #669 – Vic Reeves And The Wonder Stuff – Dizzy – Sense SIGH 4-12 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Dizzy/Oh... Mr. Hairdresser [sBS] #670 – Michael Jackson – Black Or White – Epic 657598-4 Plastic Outer – Grey Cassette Black Or White/Black Or White (Instrumental) [sBS] #671 – George Michael with Elton John – Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me – Epic 657646 4 Plastic Outer – Grey Cassette George Michael with Elton John – Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me/George Michael – I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever) [sBS] #672 – Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody/These Are The Days Of Our Lives – Parlophone TCQUEEN20 Cardboard Outer – Clear Cassette Bohemian Rhapsody/These Are The Days Of Our Lives [sBS]

Ok here's 1990. From now on an emboldened charttopper means it's in my collection (and details of the cassette then given), while an italicized charttopper means it appears not to be in my collection (although one or two tapes seem to have gone walkies since I last dug my collection out from the back of the cupboard, so it's possible I might be able to add the odd one back into the list later should I stumble across them in a different box or something). For charttoppers that are not in my collection I have done a very quick search on ebay to see if anyone is selling a UK cassingle of that charttopper, and then indicated where evidence of the existence of a UK cassingle was found. 1990 [#639-#655] #640 – Kylie Minogue – Tears On My Pillow – PWL PWMC 47 Cardboard Outer – Clear Cassette Tears On My Pillow/We Know The Meaning Of Love #641 – Sinead O’Connor – Nothing Compares 2U [Ebay evidence of a UK Cassingle] #642 – Beats International ft Lindy Layton – Dub Be Good To Me – Go Beat GODMC 39 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Dub Be Good To Me/Invasion Of The Estate Agents [sBS] #643 – Snap! – The Power – Arista 410309 [*No correlation to UK cat no?*] Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette The Power/The Power (Dub) [sBS] #644 – Madonna – Vogue – Sire W9851C Plastic Outer – Black Cassette Vogue (Single Version)/Keep It Together (Single Remix) [sBS] #645 – Adamski – Killer [Ebay evidence of a UK Cassingle] #646 – Englandneworder – World In Motion – Factory fac293c Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette World In Motion/The b-side #647 – Elton John – Sacrifice/Healing Hands – Rocket EJSMC 22 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette Sacrifice/Healing Hands [sBS] #648 – Partners In Kryme – T.U.R.T.L.E. Power #649 – Bombalurina – Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini – Carpet CRPCS 1 Plastic Outer – Black Cassette Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini/Clap Yo Hands Stomp Yo Feet [sBS] #650 – Steve Miller Band – The Joker – Capitol TC CL583 Cardboard Outer – Clear Cassette The Joker (Single Version)/Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around [sBS] #651 – Maria McKee – Show Me Heaven – Epic 656303 4 Plastic Outer – White Cassette Maria McKee – Show Me Heaven/Hans Zimmer – Car Building [sBS] #652 – Beautiful South – A Little Time – Go! Discs GODMC 47 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette A Little Time/In Other Words I Hate You [sBS] #653 – The Righteous Brothers – Unchained Melody – Verve/Polydor POCS 101 Plastic Outer – Black Cassette Unchained Melody/You’re My Soul And Inspiration #654 – Vanilla Ice – Ice Ice Baby – SBK TCSBK 18 Cardboard Outer – Clear Cassette Ice Ice Baby (Radio Edit)/It’s A Party #655 – Cliff Richard – Saviour’s Day – EMI TC XMAS 90 Cardboard Outer – Clear Cassette Saviour’s Day/Oh Boy Medley (Oh Boy-Whole Lotta Shakin’-Bird Dog-Let’s Have A Party-It’s My Party-C’mon Everybody-Whole Lotta Shakin’)

This thread has motivated me to compile a list of all the charttoppers I have on the cassette single format, including nearly everything in the 90s. If anyone is interested I can share my list on here year by year, but apologies if the formatting goes awry when I paste it over from Word. Here firstly is a short list of the examples I have from the 80s, not many sadly, but it serves as a test of the formatting for me if nothing else. I read on another site that between 1978 and 1989 cassingles were chart eligible, but only if they had a relatively high price (not sure if this meant consumer or dealer price), so that, in May 1989, a too cheaply priced cassingle was able to initially cause Kylie Minogue's Hand On Your Heart to initially chart at #2 rather than #1 (which it later did anyway). As a result of Kylie cassingle confusion the chart rules were changed in respect of the minimum price for the cassingle being greatly reduced, with effect from Monday 29th May 1989. This date therefore probably marks the point when the cassingle fully crossed over from a relatively expensive alternative format for collectors to instead be a cheap, popular and mainstream format that played an important (but too easily ignored now) role in the pop music industry of the 90s. The first new number one to benefit from the change in chart rules was #629 Jason Donovan's - Sealed With A Kiss, which just happens to be in my collection. In the short list below [sBS] at the end of a tracklisting means the tape was the Same Both Sides, but I have only indicated this where the sleeve or cassette itself make this clear as I haven't attempted to play any of the cassettes at this stage. I would be interested to know if other buzzjackers have any other charttoppers on cassingle from the 1978-89 period to add information to what I have. If this post works out ok then I can carry on for each year of the 90s and up to 2003, but in each case listing all the chartoppers and detailing if I have a cassingle format or not, so that those missing a cassingle can be identified and further researched. 1987/8 [#583-#620] #601 – Pet Shop Boys – Always On My Mind – EMI Manhattan 4XPRO-04057 [*not the UK cat no*] Cardboard Outer – Clear Cassette Always On My Mind Extended Dance Version/Do I Have To?/Always On My Mind [sBS] 1989 [#621-#638] #629 – Jason Donovan – Sealed With A Kiss – PWL PWMC 39 Cardboard Outer [but like a playing card packet with hanging tab] – Grey Cassette Sealed With A Kiss/Just Call Me Up #630 – Soul II Soul ft Caron Wheeler – Back To Life (However Do You Want Me – TENC 265 Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette [The printed cover design includes the price $3.99, so prob. US] Back To Life (However Do You Want Me)/ Back To Life (However Do You Want Me) (Instrumental) [sBS] #635 – Lisa Stansfield – All Around The World – Arista 410308 [*No correlation to UK cat no?*] Plastic Outer – Clear Cassette All Around The World/Wake Up Baby [sBS] #638 – Band Aid II – Do They Know It’s Christmas? – PWL/Polydor FEEDC2 Plastic Outer – Cream Cassette Do They Know It’s Christmas?/ Do They Know It’s Christmas? (Instrumental)

... in recent years to plug the gap and give album in that period their true peak, I think.

In early 1971 there was a postal strike which caused all sorts of problems for the compilation of the charts, and I think the album chart was abandoned altogether for a couple of months in Record Retailer/Record Mirror, so the Guinness Series gave the lower peaks. I believe some album charts were however being compiled by another music paper (either NME or Melody Maker) and these have been used by OCC

OK I've dug out my old cassette singles, and I do indeed have the cassette single for Crashed The Wedding, so that could very well be the last charttopper on the format. I do recall that the reason I bought my first CD player was because Ozzy and Kelly's Changes wasn't available on cassette, but as I recall I found that fairly unusual for a singles release at the time, so I still think that cassettes were available on at least some releases into early 2004 at the very least, maybe they even phased out by region or something (I'm from Swindon, Wilts so not exactly the trendiest or most affluent place (though not the least either)), so it's possible cassettes stayed a little longer here than in other places (and of course Woolworths had tons of old tapes right up until the last day of their closing down sale). Also in doing some research about the format, and chart rules generally, I discovered this paragraph on http://musicforstowaways.wordpress.com/201...07/chart-rules/ "In 1987, new rules were introduced to limit the number of formats for the first time to five. Perhaps slightly inexplicably looking back, one of those had to be a cassette. So typically a single would be released on 7″, 12″, limited 12″, CD, and of course, a tape. This was reduced to four formats (with the cassette requirement removed) in June 1991, and singles were now limited to a maximum of four tracks". So is that true that singles releases in the late 80s HAD to include a tape format in order to be chart eligible? Or has the author of that article misunderstood somewhere along the line?

I'm gonna have to dig out my collection of cassette singles number ones, as I have almost everything in the period of 1989-2003 and will have to see exactly what I have, as it'll narrow down some possibilities. Crashed The Wedding on cassette rings a feint bell so I'll have to see if I have it, I'm pretty sure there was however a CD1 and CD2 for that release. In terms of when cassettes came to an end, is it possible that retailers made the decision in order to make their shelving neater? I believe that HMV and Woolworths' respectively owned the major suppliers for almost all the physical music market at the time, so if one them ditched cassettes then everyone else they supplied would have gone over to CD only at the same time. If it was a loss of chart eligibility (which seems unlikely as 7" never became ineligible to my knowledge) then it wouldn't necessarily have prevented the Feeder cassette single charting more recently, because a lot of chart eligibility rules and restrictions were removed when the full downloading era came in (since restricting physical formats is largely irrelevant now anyway).

You know what I think? I'm predicting that Cliff Richard has turned his attention away from vineyards and tennis for long enough to ask why he hasn't made any sales in the last 5 or 6 years, and someone has had to break the news of Woolsworths' demise to him, and then explain to him what a download is, and he's got interested in the idea and decided to try and be down with the kids to celebrate his '55 years of recording music' anniversary.

I believe the first number one not on cassette single (since their chart eligibility in 1989ish) was a Chemical Brothers single. I'm fairly sure the last time I saw cassette singles for sale was the week when Victoria Beckham had that double A side (Let your head go/???) out on tape/CD, at WHsmiths, so that might be amongst the last mainstream release on tape during the cassingle era.