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Yes I think it re-entered the chart at the lower reaches due to becoming a TikTok meme, and has become the new Rick-rolling.......

The OCC, and some chart books, 'standardise' the chart dates' by converting them all to a 'week ending' date that falls on a Saturday, which arguably made sense when all charts post Feb 1969 where also week ending Saturday. Since the last few years and the move to a week ending Thursday chart, perhaps it doesn't make sense. The actual singles charts of the 50s and 60s, as compiled and published by various different competing music magazines, were dated by chartologists either by a chart date published with the actual chart in that week's magazine, or by the publication date of the actual magazine. Neither of those two dating methods necessarily produces a date that tallies with the actual day the magazine became available in the shops, nor with the actual day of compilation of the chart (itself obviously at least a couple of days before the date the magazine became available). In addition the method of compiling charts was more a survey that created a sample that could be used as a guide to the whole market, and was, as I understand it, usually done by a magazine on a particular day of the week, so didn't necessarily cover any particular sales week as such anyway. Initially NME in the 50s published a chart that gets dated with a Friday date. The first Record Retailer chart was dated a Thursday date, and later moved to a Wednesday. When BMRB began compiling an official chart in Feb 1969 this was compiled for a Mon-Sat sales week (no sales on a Sunday in those days!) and was then announced on the following Wednesday, moving to the Tuesday. By early 1987 the chart was being announced in passing on ordinary Radio 1 shows on the Tuesday (or Wednesday in a bank holiday week) and was then played in full the following Sunday (i.e. just over a week after the sale period used had ended), but this changed in November 1987, with improvements in POS technology meaning that it was now posisble to compile the chart on the Sunday morning, as soon as the sales period ended, and announce it first on the chart show that afternoon. This remained the status quo until a few years ago when the OCC moved to a Friday to Thurs chart week, and Radio 1 to announcing the chart as part of their Friday evening schedule. Hope this helps.

4 in a row would be the 'in a row' record but 4 in total would not be a 'in total' record. The Beatles were xmas number one in 1963-65 and 1967, and it looks like they weren't even in the race in 1966.

The cover is a parody of Queen's bo rhap video with the four family members in a circle etc, so I assumed it was a cover of Don't Stop Me Now?

I think Wham! could well do it eventually, and if they do it could then pave the way for the Pogues to finally make it another week or year, although the ship is just starting to sail, sadly, for the Pogues in terms of its popularity, so perhaps by the time Wham! do eventually manage it (if such happens) it might be too late for the Pogues to then follow suit.

I think the charts should be a level playing field, and that ACR goes against that as it is, so I don't think double ACR should happen. The more complicated, confusing and arbitary the chart rules get the harder it is for the average person to understand how the chart is compiled, and therefore the harder it is for them to understand what significance being number one is even meant to have. The chart has always had rules, but in the old days it was a straight tally of sales (admittedly in the very early days this was extrapolated from a small sample of retailers), with the highest seller at number one, which was really simple for even the most casual of chart music followers to understand, and any rules that did exist were there to keep the playing field level. Nowadays there are so many rules, and they mostly exist to purposely make the playing field less level rather than more level, and also serve to make things too complicated, to the point that even the more dedicated chart enthusiast is likely to get confused with it all at some point. Another point is that if the chart rules are so complicated, doesn't it make it harder for us to know if we can even trust they are calcuated correctly, and therefore potentially easier for the compliers or industry to just straight make it up (not saying they actually are making anything up, but all the different ratios etc would be the perfect obfuscation for it were they to decide to start making it up to purpose hinder or favour any particular release, artist or label).

I was probably the exception rather than the rule, but back in the day when the charts were mostly physical I used to buy singles because I was passionate about collecting them, and about not having obvious gaps in my collection, and not because I was neccessarily passionate about any particular individual single. Fast forward to now and I have boxes and boxes of cassettes and cds in what is supposed to be the broom cupboard, plus a spare room full of vinyl, all of which cost a lot to collect, and yet I usually just use youtube to listen to/watch music nowadays.

To update this to the end of 2020 3rd January 2020 Scott Mills 10th January 2020 Scott Mills 17th January 2020 Scott Mills 24th January 2020 Scott Mills 31st January 2020 Scott Mills 7th February 2020 Scott Mills 14th February 2020 Scott Mills 21st February 2020 Scott Mills 28th February 2020 Cel Spellman 6th March 2020 Scott Mills 13th March 2020 Scott Mills 20th March 2020 Scott Mills 27th March 2020 Scott Mills 3rd April 2020 Scott Mills 10th April 2020 Cel Spellman and Katie Thistleton 17th April 2020 Scott Mills 24th April 2020 Scott Mills 1st May 2020 Scott Mills 8th May 2020 Scott Mills 15th May 2020 Scott Mills 22nd May 2020 Scott Mills 29th May 2020 Scott Mills 5th June 2020 Scott Mills 12th June 2020 Scott Mills 19th June 2020 Scott Mills 26th June 2020 Scott Mills 3rd July 2020 Scott Mills 10th July 2020 Scott Mills 17th July 2020 Katie Thistleton 24th July 2020 Scott Mills 31st July 2020 Scott Mills 7th August 2020 Scott Mills 14th August 2020 Scott Mills 21st August 2020 Scott Mills 28th August 2020 Jordan North 4th September 2020 Scott Mills 11th September 2020 Scott Mills 18th September 2020 Scott Mills 25th September 2020 Scott Mills 2nd October 2020 Scott Mills 9th October 2020 Scott Mills 16th October 2020 Scott Mills 23rd October 2020 Scott Mills 30th October 2020 Scott Mills 6th November 2020 Scott Mills 13th November 2020 Scott Mills 20th November 2020 Scott Mills 27th November 2020 Scott Mills 4th December 2020 Scott Mills 11th December 2020 Scott Mills 18th December 2020 Scott Mills 25th December 2020 Katie Thistleton 1st January 2021 Alex West & Numi Gildert So assuming the last four are as planned the chart of Radio 1 chart show presenters, up to the end of 2020 is: 1. Mark Goodier 470 1988-2002 2. Bruno Brookes 358 1986-1990 & 1992-1995 3. Tom Browne 278 1972-1978 4. Alan Freeman 258 1967-1972 5. Reggie Yates 237 2007-2012 6. Scott Mills 200 1999-2020+ 7. Simon Bates 130 1976-1977, 1982-1985, 1987 & 1992 8. Tony Blackburn 123 1979-1982 9. Joel 122 (121 with JK, 1 solo) 2005-2007 10. JK 121 (121 with Joel) 2005-2007 11. Greg James 114 2010-2012, 2015-2018 12. Tommy Vance 103 1982-1987 & 1991-1992 13. Wes Butters 102 2003-2005 14. Jameela Jamil (1 with Clara Amfo) 97 2013-2015 15. Fearne Cotton (75 with Reggie Yates, 3 solo) 78 2007-2009 16. Richard Skinner 71 1984-1986 17. Dev 28 2009-2010, 2015-2018 18. Clara Amfo (1 with Jameela Jamil, 17 solo) 18 2015 19. Mista Jam 16 2017-2018 20. Clive Warren 12 1995-1998 21. Jordan North 11 2017-2020+ 22=. Andy Peebles 4 1979 & 1983 22=. Katie Thistleton 4 2019-2020+ (2 with Cel Spellman, 2 solo) 24. Cel Spellman 3 2019-2020+ (2 with Katie Thistleton, 1 solo) 25=. Pete Murray 2 1968 25=. Neale James 2 1994 25=. Dave Pearce 2 1995 25=. Jo Wiley 2 2002 & 2005 25=. Nemone 2 (1 with Scott Mills, 1 solo) 2002 & 2005 30=. (18 other DJs with one guest presenting appearance)

Was the December 1978 strike the one that happened abruptly on the day that Blue Peter's traditional xmas show was due to air that year? Their xmas show was always live and always featured a studio crammed full of many different school choirs and a brass band, as well as literally always using the same script every year. I think Biddy has said before that it was possibly the worst day of her career having to send home hundreds of confused and upset children, many in floods of tears at missing out on being on telly, after they had spent the last few weeks rehearsing the songs and looking forward to it.

Sorry I posted so many replies here, I haven't been on buzzjack in a while and there were loads of things I want to reply to lol. My suggestion for a song where 'Rock and Roll' could be replace with 'Sausage Roll' is the song from Grease 'Rock and Roll is her to stay'. I could just see Mark (ladbaby) singing 'Sausage Rolls are here to stay, they will never die'.

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