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UK Top 75 Singles Week Ending 10 June 1989 1 - NEW - 01 - Jason Donovan - SEALED WITH A KISS (67,000 copies) 1 - NEW - 02 - Cliff Richard - THE BEST OF ME 04 - 01 - 03 - Gerry Marsden, Paul McCartney, Holly Johnson And The Christians - FERRY CROSS THE MERSEY 09 - 02 - 04 - Natalie Cole - MISS YOU LIKE CRAZY 02 - 10 - 05 - Madonna - EXPRESS YOURSELF 02 - 19 - 06 - Sinitta - RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM 08 - 03 - 07 - Lynne Hamilton - ON THE INSIDE 10 - 14 - 08 - Guns N' Roses - SWEET CHILD O' MINE 04 - 05 - 09 - Neneh Cherry - MANCHILD 03 - 07 - 10 - Donna Summer - I DON'T WANNA GET HURT 06 - 04 - 11 - Kylie Minogue - HAND ON YOUR HEART 1 - NEW - 12 - Soul II Soul - BACK TO LIFE (HOWEVER DO YOU WANT ME) 20 - 06 - 13 - London Boys - REQUIEM 04 - 09 - 14 - Bobby Brown - EVERY LITTLE STEP 07 - 08 - 15 - Edelweiss - BRING ME EDELWEISS 04 - 13 - 16 - Tone Loc - FUNKY COLD MEDINA/ON FIRE 06 - 22 - 17 - Cyndi Lauper - I DROVE ALL NIGHT 03 - 20 - 18 - Double Trouble And The Rebel MC - JUST KEEP ROCKIN' 02 - 25 - 19 - D Mob Featuring LRS - IT IS TIME TO GET FUNKY 06 - 11 - 20 - Cappella - HELYOM HALIB 05 - 15 - 21 - Sam Brown - CAN I GET A WITNESS? 04 - 24 - 22 - We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It - PINK SUNSHINE 02 - 35 - 23 - Beautiful South - SONG FOR WHOEVER 11 - 12 - 24 - Roxette - THE LOOK 1 - NEW - 25 - Transvision Vamp - THE ONLY ONE 02 - 30 - 26 - Paula Abdul - FOREVER YOUR GIRL 19 - 27 - 27 - Bangles - ETERNAL FLAME 04 - 16 - 28 - Deacon Blue - FERGUS SINGS THE BLUES 03 - 23 - 29 - WASP - THE REAL ME 06 - 21 - 30 - Stefan Dennis - DON'T IT MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD? 05 - 18 - 31 - Queen - I WANT IT ALL 06 - 17 - 32 - Chaka Khan - I'M EVERY WOMAN 1 - NEW - 33 - Bananarama - CRUEL SUMMER 05 - 28 - 34 - Robert Palmer - CHANGE HIS WAYS 06 - 34 - 35 - Tom Petty - I WON'T BACK DOWN 02 - 39 - 36 - Vixen - WHO MADE ME 1 - NEW - 37 - New Model Army - GREEN AND GREY 02 - 42 - 38 - Donna Allen - JOY AND PAIN 02 - 56 - 39 - REM - ORANGE CRUSH 05 - 33 - 40 - Jacksons - NOTHING (THAT COMPARES 2 U) 07 - 26 - 41 - Debbie Gibson - ELECTRIC YOUTH 05 - 61 - 42 - Placido Domingo And Jennifer Rush - TIL I LOVED YOU 18 - 31 - 43 - Midnight Oil - BEDS ARE BURNING 03 - 47 - 44 - Malcolm McLaren And The Bootzilla Orchestra - WALTZ DARLING 06 - 37 - 45 - Stevie Nicks - ROOMS ON FIRE 04 - 29 - 46 - Paul McCartney - MY BRAVE FACE 03 - 32 - 47 - ABC - ONE BETTER WORLD 06 - RE - 48 - Clannad / additional vocals Bono - IN A LIFETIME 08 - 40 - 49 - Beatmasters With Merlin - WHO'S IN THE HOUSE? 1 - NEW - 50 - Karyn White - SUPERWOMAN 1 - NEW - 51 - Bangles - BE WITH YOU 1 - NEW - 52 - Living In A Box - GATECRASHING 1 - NEW - 53 - LL Cool J - I'M THAT TYPE OF GUY 03 - 59 - 54 - Waterfront - CRY 11 - 38 - 55 - Holly Johnson - AMERICANOS 1 - NEW - 56 - Al B Sure! Featuring Slick Rick - IF I'M NOT YOUR LOVER 04 - 49 - 57 - Stevie Wonder - FREE 1 - NEW - 58 - Gladys Knight - LICENCE TO KILL 02 - 52 - 59 - Coldcut - MY TELEPHONE 11 - 41 - 60 - Transvision Vamp - BABY I DON'T CARE 10 - 45 - 61 - Simply Red - IF YOU DON'T KNOW ME BY NOW 02 - 69 - 62 - Youssou N'Dour And Peter Gabriel - SHAKIN' THE TREE 1 - NEW - 63 - Carly Simon - WHY 1 - NEW - 64 - Enya - STORMS IN AFRICA (PART II) 07 - 66 - 65 - One 2 Many - DOWNTOWN 02 - 64 - 66 - LNR - WORK IT TO THE BONE 03 - 36 - 67 - Fields Of The Nephilim - PSYCHONAUT 1 - NEW - 68 - M - POP MUZIK 06 - 43 - 69 - Hue And Cry - VIOLENTLY (EP) 07 - 48 - 70 - Poison - YOUR MAMA DON'T DANCE 03 - 57 - 71 - Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly - JOY AND PAIN 10 - 53 - 72 - Bible - GRACELAND 02 - 76 - 73 - Adult Net - WHERE WERE YOU 02 - 44 - 74 - Sharpe And Numan - I'M ON AUTOMATIC 07 - 60 - 75 - Bon Jovi - I'LL BE THERE FOR YOU The UK Album Chart Week Ending 10 June 1989 1 (2) Ten Good Reasons (By Jason Donovan) 5w 2 (1) The Miracle (By Queen) 2w 3 (NEW) The Other Side Of The Mirror (By Stevie Nicks) 1w 4 (4) When The World Knows Your Name (By Deacon Blue) 9w 5 (6) Don't Be Cruel (By Bobby Brown) 16w 6 (5) Street Fighting Years (By Simple Minds) 5w 7 (7) Past Present (By Clannad) 6w 8 (3) Tin Machine (By Tin Machine) 2w 9 (10) Club Classics Volume One (By Soul II Soul) 8w 10 (16) Appetite For Destruction (By Guns N' Roses) 43w 11 (8) Paradise (By Inner City) 4w 12 (9) The Raw And The Cooked (By Fine Young Cannibals) 17w 13 (NEW) Avalon Sunset (By Van Morrison) 1w 14 (11) A New Flame (By Simply Red) 16w 15 (13) Good To Be Back (By Natalie Cole) 4w 16 (19) Like A Prayer (By Madonna) 11w 17 (38) Watermark (By Enya) 35w 18 (14) Life Is A Dance - The Remix Project (By Chaka Khan) 2w 19 (17) Anything For You (By Gloria Estefan And Miami Sound Machine) 30w 20 (21) Everything (By Bangles) 13w 21 (15) Blast (By Holly Johnson) 6w 22 (12) Mind Bomb (By The The) 3w 23 (18) Steppin' To The Shadows (By Shadows) 4w 24 (20) Remote / The Bitter Suite (By Hue And Cry) 27w 25 (24) Kylie - The Album (By Kylie Minogue) 48w 26 (27) Stop (By Sam Brown) 14w 27 (25) Pop Art (By Transvision Vamp) 22w 28 (26) Kick (By INXS) 78w 29 (39) Loc'ed After Dark (By Tone Loc) 6w 30 (23) Blind Man's Zoo (By 10,000 Maniacs) 3w 31 (22) Kaleidoscope World (By Swing Out Sister) 4w 32 (28) Disintegration (By Cure) 5w 33 (41) Another Place And Time (By Donna Summer) 12w 34 (33) Forever Your Girl (By Paula Abdul) 9w 35 (37) Ancient Heart (By Tanita Tikaram) 38w 36 (NEW) 9 (By Public Image Ltd) 1w 37 (36) Bad (By Michael Jackson) 92w 38 (31) Diesel And Dust (By Midnight Oil) 8w 39 (30) Gipsy Kings (By Gipsy Kings) 9w 40 (29) Workin' Overtime (By Diana Ross) 3w 41 (34) Open Up And Say... Aah! (By Poison) 18w 42 (32) Big Daddy (By John Cougar Mellencamp) 3w 43 (35) Singular Adventures Of The Style Council (By Style Council) 13w 44 (40) Southside (By Texas) 12w 45 (52) The Headless Children (By W.A.S.P.) 9w 46 (42) Hey Hey It's The Monkees - Greatest Hits (By Monkees) 9w 47 (59) Green (By REM) 6w 48 (44) The Innocents (By Erasure) 59w 49 (43) Wanted (By Yazz) 29w 50 (47) Rattle And Hum (By U2) 34w 51 (67) Electric Youth (By Debbie Gibson) 9w 52 (NEW) Stage Heroes (By Colm Wilkinson) 1w 53 (45) Songs To Make The Whole World Sing (By Barry Manilow) 4w 54 (66) G 'N' R Lies (By Guns N' Roses) 22w 55 (56) The Stone Roses (By Stone Roses) 5w 56 (54) Tracy Chapman (By Tracy Chapman) 56w 57 (48) Sonic Temple (By Cult) 8w 58 (53) Coming Alive Again (By Barbara Dickson) 6w 59 (63) Mystery Girl (By Roy Orbison) 18w 60 (50) Doolittle (By Pixies) 7w 61 (55) Money For Nothing (By Dire Straits) 33w 62 (62) The Travelling Wilburys (By Traveling Wilburys) 32w 63 (57) 3 Feet High And Rising (By De La Soul) 12w 64 (65) The Greatest Hits Collection (By Bananarama) 34w 65 (61) Greatest Hits - Fleetwood Mac (By Fleetwood Mac) 28w 66 (69) Hysteria (By Def Leppard) 85w 67 (60) Raintown (By Deacon Blue) 64w 68 (58) Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars (By Edie Brickell And The New Bohemians) 16w 69 (RE) Karyn White (By Karyn White) 5w 70 (73) Hearsay / All Mixed Up (By Alexander O'Neal) 96w 71 (RE) Private Collection (By Cliff Richard) 23w 72 (RE) The Legendary Roy Orbison (By Roy Orbison) 30w 73 (RE) New Jersey (By Bon Jovi) 30w 74 (49) Amandla (By Miles Davis) 2w 75 (RE) Spike (By Elvis Costello) 16w UK Top 20 Radio Airplay Chart Week Ending 10 June 1989 01 (01) Gerry Marsden, Paul McCartney, Holly Johnson And The Christians - FERRY CROSS THE MERSEY 02 (NE) Madonna - EXPRESS YOURSELF 03 (06) Natalie Cole - MISS YOU LIKE CRAZY 04 (10) Queen - I WANT IT ALL 05 (NE) Cyndi Lauper - I DROVE ALL NIGHT 06 (19) Sam Brown - CAN I GET A WITNESS? 07 (13) ABC - ONE BETTER WORLD 08 (NE) Jason Donovan - SEALED WITH A KISS 09 (02) Roxette - THE LOOK 10 (12) Tone Loc - FUNKY COLD MEDINA 11 (07) Bobby Brown - EVERY LITTLE STEP 12 (11) Neneh Cherry - MANCHILD 13 (04) Kylie Minogue - HAND ON YOUR HEART 14 (08) Paul McCartney - MY BRAVE FACE 15 (05) Robert Palmer - CHANGE HIS WAYS 16 (NE) Sinitta - RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM 17 (18) Chaka Khan - I'M EVERY WOMAN '89 18 (NE) Bananarama - CRUEL SUMMER '89 19 (03) Deacon Blue - FERGUS SINGS THE BLUES 20 (NE) Bangles - BE WITH YOU

There's never been a lack of interest of me! Keep posting when you can!

"Wake Me Up!" spent 12 weeks at #1 according to this MTV archive first hitting at #1 on August 17: http://ki.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~topsi/mtv2013/

Which isn't even true either as Lady Marmalade did.

There was no million selling single in 2000 though. Into The Groove must be at a million by now? Or are they waiting for a special announcement?

This is an amazing album. "Take You Home" and "Hell After This" are definitely my favourite songs.

Jay, I thought Who Do You Love Now sold over 200k?

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Top 20 with EXACT figures from the ERA: Artist Total Units Corp. Group % Digital % Physical Title 1 The Greatest Showman Cast Recording 1,621,905 Warner 48.70% 51.30% 2 Staying At Tamara's George Ezra 691,332 Sony 29.50% 70.50% 3 Divide Ed Sheeran 510,305 Warner 59.10% 40.90% 4 Now That's What I Call Music 100 Various Artists 479,197 Sony/Universal 14.60% 85.40% 5 Now That's What I Call Music 99 Various Artists 395,237 Sony/Universal 16.90% 83.10% 6 Mamma Mia - Here We Go Again Cast Recording 374,476 Universal 34.10% 65.90% 7 Scorpion Drake 300,100 Universal 93.10% 6.90% 8 Now That's What I Call Music 101 Various Artists 287,217 Sony/Universal 7.20% 92.80% 9 Beerbongs & Bentleys Post Malone 281,644 Universal 91.90% 8.10% 10 A Star Is Born Cast Recording 271,635 Universal 35.90% 64.10% 11 Love Michael Buble 263,538 Warner 6.70% 93.30% 12 Dua Lipa Dua Lipa 251,280 Warner 65.10% 34.90% 13 Kamikaze Eminem 232,420 Universal 71.60% 28.40% 14 Odyssey Take That 231,290 Sony/Universal 7.10% 92.90% 15 Si Andrea Bocelli 213,321 Universal 5.10% 94.90% 16 Bohemian Rhapsody - OST Queen 210,306 Universal 35.20% 64.80% 17 Always In Between Jess Glynne 204,923 Warner 28.20% 71.80% 18 Blood Red Roses Rod Stewart 196,192 Universal 5.10% 94.90% 19 Sweetener Ariana Grande 193,362 Universal 61.70% 38.30% 20 The Architect Paloma Faith 179,716 Sony 22.90% 77.10% https://eraltd.org/news-events/press-releas...year-of-growth/

Updated with ALL of 2018's #1's!

Looks like the Nicki and Cardi feud really boosted WLM a bit!

f-LfVmWap5E A bop! :music:

Let's take a look at the actual chart though: https://soundcloud.com/charts/top?genre=all...&country=GB Very few non-urban tracks, but the streams aren't that high to make much of a difference.

No it wasn't, Pocketful of Sunshine also went top 5.

#1 easily, but not the first week. Maybe #3 again.

zjcRBs5q9VE House music meets "Phantom Of The Opera/Rocky Horror Picture Show".

I agree. I'm Not Alone > You Used To Hold Me >>> Flashback >>> Ready For The Weekend.

Miraculously, they're just stagnant. Only Rod Stewart's song was an instant A-List add.

It's incredibly rare to find a full Radio 1 playlist this old. Some are available on old issues of the Music Week & Record Business magazines on the American Radio History website: https://www.americanradiohistory.com/index.htm You can find the playlists for August '88 on Music Week and parts of '81 and 1982 on Record Business.

Yep that's all I have for now, including some from August of '88. There are also some Radio 1 playlists available on the net from parts of '81 to early '83. On the second question, yes it is! It was recently remixed 7 years ago too: 08tJk9luNaE

A List Pat Benetar - All Fired Up [A-A] Tracy Chapman - Fast Car [A-A] Deacon Blue - Chocolate Girl [A-A] Def Leppard - Love Bites [A-A] Everything But The Girl - I Don't Want To Talk About It [A-A] Fairground Attraction - Find My Love [A-A] Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana [A-A] Glenn Medeiros - Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You [A-A] George Michael - Monkey [A-A] Kylie Minogue - The Locomotion [A-A] Alexander O'Neal - What Can I Say To Make You Love Me [A-A] The Pogues - Fiesta [A-A] Prince - Glam Slam [A-A] Salt 'N' Pepa - Push It [A-A] ^ S-Express - Superfly Guy [b-A] ^ Siouxsie & The Banshees - Peek-A-Boo [b-A] * Rod Stewart - Forever Young [A] Tanita Tikaram - Good Tradition [A-A] Voice Of The Beehive - I Say Nothing [A-A] Kim Wilde - You Came [A-A] Yazz & The Plastic Population - The Only Way Is Up [A-A] B List * Big Audio Dynamite - Other 99 * Breathe - Hands To Heaven Catherine Buchanan - Love Is [b-B] * B.V.S.M.P. - I Need You Steven Dante - I'm Too Scared [b-B] * Steve Earle - I Ain't Ever Satisfied ^ Four Tops - Reach Out (I'll Be There) [C-B] Debbie Gibson - Foolish Beat [b-B] Hard Rain - Diamonds [b-B] Hothouse Flowers - I'm Sorry [b-B] * Mory Kante - Ye Ke Ye Ke Huey Lewis & The News - Perfect World [b-B] Living Colour - Glamour Boys [b-B] Mac Band & The McCampbell Brothers - Roses Are Red [b-B] * Donny Osmond - Soldier Of Love Mica Paris - Like Dreamers Do [b-B] Pretty Poison - Catch Me (I'm Falling) [b-B] Robbie Robertson - Somewhere Down The Crazy River [b-B] * Joyce Sims - Love Makes A Woman Van Halen - When It's Love [b-B] * Jane Wiedlin - Rush Hour The Wonderstuff - A Wish Away [b-B] C List Bros - I Owe You Nothing [C-C] James Brown - I Got You (I Feel Good) [C-C] The Communards - There's More To Love [C-C] v Dollar - It's Nature's Way (No Problem) [b-C] v Eighth Wonder - Cross My Heart [A-C] Denis Graves & The Truth - God Gave Rock & Roll To You [C-C] * Julia Fordham - Happy Ever After [C] * Local Hero - Daydream Believer [C] v Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers - Tomorrow People [A-C] Martha Reeves - Nowhere To Run [C-C] Shakin' Stevens - Feel The Need In Me [C-C] v Style Council - How She Threw It All Away [b-C] v UB40 & Chrissie Hynde - Breakfast In Bed [b-C] v Wee Papa Girl Rappers - Heat It Up [A-C] OUT Billy Idol - Catch My Fall Prefab Sprout - Hey Manhattan

The original version of Flames is so dull to listen to. Much prefer the Guetta's club mix.

So he died of an apparent suicide: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/avi...suicide-w519578 Very, very tragic. :(

Horrifically sad. "Fade Into Darkness" had a whole new meaning now :cry: