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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

No need to apologise Lonnie, it's not your fault they have taken unverified data from so long ago. I know that you work very hard to ensure the accuracy of your current database. I think there are only really 3 sources online for the 76-100 positions in 83-91, the original charts scans, the OCC and a thread on UKmix that I think you provided most/all of that data for. It's possible that the OCC used someone else's database, and that they had entered in those 76-100 positions from the UKmix thread.

The One Week Wonders - Episode 154 We start by skipping over My Perfect Cousin by the Undertones, which was at #88 on w/e 29th October 1983, because this was a reissue of a 1980 hit. Instead, at #94 in the same week was So Tired, the sixth and final charting single by Haircut 100. kRCAwei-b6s And sticking with the same week we move down to #99 where we find the only week of uk chart action for the Flirtations with Earthquake. FvG38dVxS-A We would have ended with Electric Boogie and Break Dancin', which was at #81 on w/e 5th November 1983, but the OCC incorrectly has Electric Boogie as the artist. The correct artist is West Street Mob and the single is called Electric Boogie - Breakdance or Breakdance - Electric Boogie or even Breakdancin' - Electric Boogie, I'm not entirely sure which is right, but knowing the correct artist has meant I have found another 4 weeks on chart credited entirely differently to the one week I had first identified. Instead we end tonight with the #91 from that week, Heavy Metal Love by Helix, which was their only week of Uk chart action. Hh9Oomm2SqA

The One Week Wonders - Episode 153 We start this episode with the third charting single by New Edition, who had topped the charts with Candy Girl. Is This The End was at #83 on w/e 22nd October 1983. XvdNNSPsXkI Next at #87 in the same is the Gap Band, most well know for the #6 hit Oops Up Side Your Head. This is I'm Ready (If You're Ready). LU5Og5_2jWk And sticking with the same week also for the last one, we move down to #99 where we find Dionne Warwick and Luther Vandross with How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye. Dionne had had a lot of hits already by this point, but this was only Luther's second charting single in the UK, after Never Too Much had reached #44 earlier in 1983. t90AIc5dZv0

The One Week Wonders - Episode 152 We start today with the only week of UK chart action for the Natural Ites, with Picture On The Wall, which was at #97 on w/e 1st October 1983. Zl1Tnm0RaG8 Next up is Get Out Of London by Intaferon, which was at #93 on w/e 8th October 1983. Intaferon followed this up with one other charting single, Steamhammer Sam, which reached #77. 6u3UNwybclo The final one today would have been Give Me Your Life by Active Force, which was at #98 on w/e 8th October 1983, however it managed to notch up one more week on w/e 6th September 1986 at #99. Instead we have This Mortal Coil, a collection of musicians from the 4AD label, with 16 days, which is actual a medley of two songs, 16 Days and Gathering Dust. The single was at #100 on w/e 15th October 1983. r_V8jeMkRzc

The One Week Wonders - Episode 151 We start today with the only week of UK chart action for Patrick Gammon, with Do My Ditty, which was at #97 on w/e 3rd September 1983. yhBFg7Z2ukk Next up is The Shadow Of Your Smile by D Train, which was at #88 on w/e 10th September 1983. It was D Train's 5th charting single, but although they made the chart on three occasions after this, those were all reissues of previous charting singles. NcGyScT6kqQ I'm then going to skip over Ryuichi's Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, from the film of the same name, which was charting at #93 on w/e 24th September 1983, as earlier in the same year a vocal version, Forbidden Colours, featuring David Sylvian had reached #15. The vocal version uses pretty much the same track as the instrumental, and both would have been made pretty much at the same time for the film, so I don't see them as different enough to allow the instrumental to be a true one week wonder. We instead end this episode with the first charting single for Queensryche. Queen Of The Reich was at #94 on w/e 24th September 1983. i0_THrxYs1w

The One Week Wonders - Episode 150 Our first single today is Cabaret Voltaire's uk chart debut, Just Fascination, which was at #94 on 23rd July 1983. It's the first of ten charting singles for them, all relatively small hits, and several one week wonders, so we shall be seeing more of them. 2ij5DGxYi2k We then skip over the Chi-Lites double A-side Have You Seen Her/Oh Girl, which was at #100 on w/e 30th July 1983, as it is a reissue of two chart hits from 1972, and instead our second song today is Try Your Lovin' by Cashmere, which was at #99 on w/e 20th August 1983. 7fp9oPztVc8 We end this episode with the only week of UK chart action for Project Future, whose Ray-Gun-Omics was at #99 on w/e 27th August 1983. v9DfQvIjSNs

The One Week Wonders - Episode 149 We start with Frida of Abba fame, who was at #100 on w/e 25th June 1983 with Here We'll Stay. nwghh86ySKI Next up is the only week of UK chart action for Howard Devoto with Rainy Season at #97 on w/e 2nd July 1983. P7-j4rP2Pmk Finally today it's the chart debut of Wang Chung who were at #92 on w/e 16th July 1983 with (Don't Be My) Enemy. ITLhT8ZWkDM

At least we have in effect two singles charts compiled. The Official one from the OCC and the weekly and daily ones from Spotify. You could also count itunes charts too, though they are a tiny percentage of the market now. And of course physicals will drop to basically zero. If something goes wrong with the OCC's server or the computer that compiles their chart then I guess we fill the gap with Spotify's weekly charts, which are after all more or less a straight listing, compared to the OCC's mess of ratios, formulas and rules. It seems a lot less likely that Spotify's system would break down, as compared to the OCC they likely have much more by way of mirror servers, back-ups and so on.

The One Week Wonders - Episode 148 First up tonight is BBC Breakfast's resident astrologer at the time, Russell Grant, with No Matter What Sign You are, which was at #87 on w/e 11th June 1983. The song was a cover of a Diana Ross and The Supremes song which reached #37 in 1969. W6p-FpjokaU Next up would have been It's You, It's You, It's You by Joe Dolan which was at #100 on w/e 11th June 1983, but it went on to return to the chart for one week at #96 on w/e 11th November 1985. Instead our second track is Music by F.R. David, which was at #71 on w/e 18th June 1983. It was the follow up to his debut #2 hit Words, and was also his last UK charting single. vRaYFAg48w0 Finally today here is a song that to me seems familiar and yet at the same time not familiar. It's credited to Jane and is called It's A Fine Day. It was at #87 on w/e 25th June 1983, and it feels unfamiliar because it consists of a lone female vocal whose slightly ghostly voice is at odds with the happiness implied by the lyrics. The reason it seemed a little bit familiar is because of a dance version by Opus III, which I think uses a different vocalist, which got to #5 in 1992. Another dance version, which I think samples the original version, but in my opinion is clearly a distinct enough composition to the original to not jeopardise the original's one week wonder status, is credited to Miss Jane, and reached #61 in 1999. 4vgcYBwyw28

The One Week Wonders - Episode 147 We start with a second charting single for Judie Tzuke. Black Furs was at #96 on w/e 21st May 1983. Her first charting single, Stay With Me Till Dawn, reached #16 in 1979. mVpYrn5gCqE Next up is the only week of UK chart action for Taco, whose version of Singin' The Rain reached #98 on w/e 4th June 1983. Other versions of Singin' In The Rain to chart over the years are Sheila and B Devotion (#11 in 1978), Mint Royale (#20 in 2005 and #1 in 2008), and Glee Cast ft Gwyneth Paltrow (#22 in 2011). A song of the same name by Gazebo (#78 in 1997) may also be the same song, but I couldn't find it online to check. LbHj4Q_amBk Finally for today we have the UK chart debut of Dead or Alive, with Misty Circles, which was as #100 on w/e 4th June 1983. KJgp8kBQ89c

Just had a look at the Spotify daily chart for GB on 21st March and there are 5 Kenny Rogers songs in the day's top 200 1. The Gambler - 170k - 31st 2. Islands In The Stream - 170k - 32nd 3. We've Got Tonight - 83k - 86th 4. Coward Of The County - 79k - 93rd 5. Through The Years - 51k - 190th Not sure I would have guessed We've Got Tonight would be so high, and Through The Years wasn't even a hit single in the UK. hDMmORGwRWI

Yet again I've caught back up to where I would have been with a strict daily episode. Let's see if I can keep it that way this time.... The One Week Wonders - Episode 146 We start with Roger Whittaker's vocal version of Stranger On The Shore, which was at #95 on w/e 23rd April 1983. Stranger On The Shore had originally been a big hit in late 1961 and early 1962, reaching #2 according to the retrospectively official charts of Record Retailer, and #1 in all the other paper's charts, as well as being a million seller. There was also an Andy Williams version, with the same lyrics as Roger's, that reached #30 in summer 1962. sFhTm6SDiXs Next is the only week of UK chart action for Peter and The Test Tube Babies with Zombie Creeping Flesh, which was at #99 on w/e 23rd April 1983. BB4NuhXUTfk And finally for today is the second and last charting single for Pete Shelley. (Millions Of People) No One Like You was at #94 on w/e 7th May 1983. His previous single was Telephone Operator, which peaked at #66 earlier in 1983. LqqpzIA3c9k

The One Week Wonders - Episode 145 We start at #93 on w/e 9th April 1983, with a song about the female singer's choice of hosiery, it's Yorkshire's leading duo! aXZcM3iQVwU Next up are the Tremeloes with Words, which was at #91 on w/e 16th April 1983. In the same week the F.R. David version was at #8 and would go on to reach #2. Words came almost twelve years after the Tremeloes previous hit, Hello Buddy, had reached #32 in the summer of 1971, and they have never returned to the singles chart since. 7rGNr40tjCk And we end this episode with Fleetwood Mac, who were at #83 on w/e 23rd April 1983 with Can't Go Back. 70FTf_OHuR0

The One Week Wonders - Episode 144 First up is Danse Society with Somewhere, which was at #94 on w/e 19th March 1983. It was the first of 6 top 100 singles for them, although only two made the top 75. 2T0F5CGwxYM Next is Be With Me by Billy Griffin, which was the follow up to the #17 hit Hold Me Tighter In The Rain. Be With Me was at #99 on w/e 19th March 1983. whZ4NkQM7Yw Finally for this episode is Wide Boy Awake, a short-lived band formed by former Adam and The Ants bassist Kevin Mooney. Bona Venture was at #99 on w/e 26th March 1983, and was their only week of UK chart action. tlB-Iknywpg

I was thinking how it was interesting that Ronan covered two of his songs. Perhaps he was a fan, or perhaps his manager was. I guess the fact that Kenny's songs were covered years later illustrates how Kenny's songs sort of transcended generations a bit. Not a weekend went by without someone at my local putting at least one Kenny Rogers song on the jukebox, and that was people of all ages from the oldest bar flies to the new teen drinkers having a game of pool and a pint before going on to a club, The Gambler in particular was often played, so I feel like there's a supreme irony that we learn of the loss of Kenny on the first day that the pubs cannot open, otherwise my local would definitely had a lot of Kenny Rogers sing-alongs tonight, as I suspect many others around the country would have done too.