Danny89

The Top 2 Sales for Dec/Jan 1984 between Band Aid and Wham! are just eye-watering! :o :o 15 Dec 84: (1) Band Aid... 639,000... (2) Wham!... 348,000 22 Dec 84: (1) Band Aid... 567,000... (2) Wham!... 188,000 29 Dec 84: (1) Band Aid... 631,000... (2) Wham!... 195,000 05 Jan 85: (1) Band Aid... 306,000... (2) Wham!... 104,000 12 Jan 85: (1) Band Aid... 119,000... (2) Wham!... 85,000 19 Jan 85: (2) Band Aid... 61,000... (3) Wham!... 55,000 26 Jan 85: (8) Wham!... 31,000... (9) Band Aid... 27,000 In the first 7 weeks Band Aid: 2,350,000... Wham!... 1,006,000 Shaky was right to hold on another year to release “Merry Christmas Everyone!” :lol:

I wish Sia’s ‘Snowman’ was included, instead of ‘Santa’s coming for us’. I don’t hate it, but it does grate after a bit. ‘Snowman’ is a grower!🥰🥰 Also it’s so frustrating how the following are not included: Hurts - All I want for Christmas is New Year’s Day. ( A perfect song for anytime of the year.) George Michael - Sweet December song.😍😍 ( Just a stunning song, with a heartwarming video. This really is criminally underrated, it finally clicked with me a few years ago. It’s also much MUCH better than ‘Last Christmas’. (Sorry.)😎 Low - Just like Christmas ( Now THIS should be Xmas No.1 this year.) Mavis Staples - Christmas Vacation.🥰 ( I never hear this classic on the radio, it’s included on ‘National lampoon Xmas vacation.’ And finally just for fun... Pet Shop boys - it doesn’t often snow at Christmas.🥳🥳

“Baby, keep on dancing like you ain’t got a choice!”😍 God, I can’t get enough of this! This will surely be one of the defining hits of the year. Please get this to No.1, it can stay there forever, well at least a month.🥰

One of my favourite battle for No. 1 was one week in October 2012. Rihanna, One Direction, Ellie Goulding & Psy all competing for the top spot! It looked like OD were going all the way, but Rihanna was not far behind, both neck & neck in the updates. By the middle of the week it looked like “Diamonds” was going to be her seventh UK No. 1 Single... But of course Adele released “Skyfall” that Friday with only 48 hours left to spare. God it was nailbiting! iTunes that morning was just crazy!!! I was checking many websites early afternoon on Sunday to see if Rihanna had done it😎

Belinda Carlisle finally hit the top spot! I think Kylie was No. 90 that week, though I may be mistaken? ‘Heaven is a place on earth’ & ‘Father Figure’ both in the same edition. That instantly makes it 10/10.😍 I’ll forget about ‘Stutter-rap’ though😡.

I’m looking forward to seeing ‘The Adventures’ with ‘Broken Land’. I can’t believe that didn’t even reach the top 5. Easily one of the best tunes of 1988. Amazingly despite being the biggest singles act of 1988, Kylie doesn’t even appear live in the studio until July/August with the Loco-motion (I think?). That edition is also memorable for other reasons, can’t wait for that!!

The lack of ‘Eternal’ output in the list is infuriating! Between 1993-1997 they had such classic discography. Much better than a lot of the spice girls singles. Also I think they were the first girlband in Britain to have million selling album. Easily one of Britain’s best girlbands, and very often criminally overlooked and forgotten.

I’m not surprised S Club7 went to No.1. They were EVERYWHERE promoting that. TV show/The Box constantly playing it. That channel always had exclusives first play. But I prefer Madonna.

Random chart fact - on the WK Ending 6 May 1989: "Hand on your heart" was the third single from a female soloist to debut at No.2 (the other two were "The Loco-motion" and Madonna's "Like a prayer"). "Especially for you" doesn't count because Jason Donovan was featured. It 'technically' sold 78,000 copies that week, and would've easily debuted at No.1. But it had 11,000 sales discounted because PWL had the cassingle at £1.99 rp, lower than BPI rules at the time. So because of the cock up sales were reduced to 67,000, against The Bangles "Eternal Flame" selling 69,000 copies in it's fourth and final week at No.1. Kylie hit the top spot the following week with 103,000 copies.

"Feel" still sounds amazing! It should be in Top 5. "Rock DJ" was SO overplayed when it was released. Hated it then, still hate now. I have a soft spot for "Tripping". :wub: Otherwise, a great selection of Robbie tracks.

What a top 2! 'Live to tell' to win, pretty please.

'Temperature' still sounds fresh today. It felt a lot bigger than peaking at #11.

It's exactly 30 years ago today, on 13th February 1989, Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood hosted. I remember the full show was on YouTube a few years ago, but it's long gone now unfortunately. It's a good thing it happened before the social media age!

I voted 'You'll see'. A very tough decision though.

I wish 'I'm a ruin' was on the list! It should've been a much bigger hit. Haunting vocals and a really atmospheric video.

'Take a bow' is amazing, great video, she looks absolutely stunning in it. 'Rain' needs to go next, 'Live to tell' Top 2 please! :cheer:

Shame 'Oh Father' just missed out. The Top 5 are all worthy selections, but 'Rain' is my least fave. 'Live to tell' MUST be Top 3 :wub:

That was tough! The remaining songs are all great but I went with 'I'll Remember'. Off topic, but the album cover for 'Something to Remember' is one of my favourites from Madonna. It's so calming to look at. That period particularly from 94-95, contains some of her best visuals.

I echo the thoughts about 'when you're looking like that'. It was on 'The Box' music channel a lot if I recall. I'm surprised it didn't go to No.1 'World of our own' holds up well today too. 'Bop bop baby' was quite different from their usual output at the time.

No problem at all! Some of the sales figures from 81-84 are Jaw-dropping! :o And some exciting chart battles too, and close races. Madonna's "True blue" almost lost out to Five star's "Rain or shine" by 600 copies. Speaking of 1987, Madonna's "La Isla bonita" almost missed the No.1 spot thanks to Judy Boucher's " Can't be with you tonight" by 800 copies :blink:

Thank you! I thought I was the only one to hate 'please don't let me go'. I'm suprised it's so high up, I hope 'Dear Darlin' makes Top 5 at least. The middle 8 part of the song is sublime.

Thank you! I thought I was the only one to hate 'please don't let me go'. I'm suprised it's so high up, I hope 'Dear Darlin' makes Top 5 at least. The middle 8 part of the song is sublime.

I'm not ashamed to admit that I still listen to "Who's David?" & "3 A.M". They are both top tunes! They had a great run of singles in my opinion.

I found them all in the link below! I didn't compile any of it. :lol: It was a very long and fascinating read. This page contains a more detailed chart analysis of the Yazz/Kylie battle. https://forum.popjustice.com/threads/80s-to...9.60497/page-20 This website contains week by week sales for the UK top 10 singles chart from 1980 onwards till the end of 1992 at the moment. At the start of page 1 there are links that are helpful for finding individual years. It also reveals the best selling acts of the year, after each year has been compiled. The only way is up sold 704,000 copies, and was the UK's 2nd best selling single of 1988. You're right about single sales decreasing from 1985, you will notice a stark difference from sales between 81-84, & 88-89. Also Kylie frustratingly missed out AGAIN on making chart history with her single "Hand on your heart" because of a huge cock-up from PWL. This link below explains it more in further detail - WK Ending 6 May 1989: https://forum.popjustice.com/threads/80s-to...9.60497/page-47

Favourite: Live to tell Least Favourite: Hanky Panky I always forget that "Hanky panky" reached a No.2 peak. It's not even awful, it's just so unworthy. It always seems out of place in Madonna's single chronology.