ScottyEm

40 Joyce Sims/Come Into My Life HCP:7/1988 And she's back! Only 2 top 20 hits to her name and both easily sail into this top 80. Unlike it's predecessor, "Come Into My Life" is a slowie in that candle-lit 80s short of way but in much better way that you're probably envisaging! Gorgeous, silky 80s soul that still oozes class 24 years on. http://chartarchive.org/artwork/9608-raw.jpg v_H23dEmO4Y

41 Kylie Minogue/Hand On Your Heart No:1/1989 Well it was only a matter of time before she turned up! Not content with 4 top 2 hits and a 2 million selling debut album, SAW and Kylie plotted a second avalanche of hit singles to irritate the utter hell out of so-called muzo's. "HOYH" was a move towards a bouncier, housier sound from SAW which I'm a total sucker for (to be fair, it's all down to the desk-board wizardry of remixer Phil Harding). The choreography is rather splendid too! Check! http://chartarchive.org/artwork/10486-raw.jpg dDl7qxXikXk

42 Lipps Inc/Funky Town No:2/1980 Play it in a retro bar, play it in an indie bar, play it in a gay bar or play it in a student dive errr I mean bar... "Funky Town" will fill a floor of drunks doing their very best robot dance. One of the most glorious one-hit-wonders of the 1980s, "Funky Town" sort of bridged the gap between disco and electro and suffered 5 long weeks in the top 3 without troubling the top spot. Considered a guilty pleasure but I struggle to understand why! http://chartarchive.org/artwork/5603-raw.jpg 5CImrIKNmBo

My music roots are FIRMLY in dance/house music, I bought an old dance CD when I was a kid and I was HOOKED from the get go! Bizarrely it's the chart pop of the 1980s I would discover later on. "Tears' just oozes gorgeousness and class... perhaps needed to balance out the cheddar and naffness! Ha!

43 Pet Shop Boys/West End Girls HCP:1/1985 Is this the first rap single to top the UK charts? "West End Girls" was an underground sleeper, initially released in 1984 yet without troubling the mainstream. Refusing to accept there was no commercial potential in the track, Stephen Hague is assigned to revamp it into the song we know today. Those synth pads, the trembly bass line and Tennants stern "rapping" was just the latest milestone in electronic 80s music and one of the most illustrious careers on pop music was about to follow. A triumph! http://chartarchive.org/artwork/8306-raw.jpg j2QbhlnpZlY

44 Frankie Knuckles Featuring Robert Owens/Tears No:50/1989 1989 again... but clock that underwhelming chart peak! "Tears" didn't exactly set the charts alite, "Tears" rather like a lot of club records, failed to translate to the charts. What is interesting about "Tears" is that this is not a house track that you can dance to - it's a love song, plain and simple. 23 years and and it's still hailed as a cult classic, mainly due to it's stellar production and the remarkable vocal from Robert Owens. -no available image- RwYJ6lTlzt0

45 Neneh Cherry/Manchild No:5/1989 How do you follow up a debut top 3 smash and a very good one at that? With something remarkably different but (almost) equally as good. "Manchild" took the tempo down and ropped in 3-D from Massive Attack - this Swedish canteause was on a mission to prove her worth. A shame Neneh never sustained the momentum as the big hits very quickly dried up. "Manchild" however remains one of '89s most under-rated and criminally ignored singles. http://chartarchive.org/artwork/10514-raw.jpg sWBTw9paRXE

46 Shalamar/A Night To Remember No:5/1982 Disco was very, very cruely written off by the beginning of the 80s, yet Shalamar continued - blissfully unaware almost. "A Night To Remember" bleeds into disco, funk, soul and pop... and cheese. It's a shame Shalamar don't get a look in much these days, 'ANTR' is just one of an array of brilliant singles and no CD/vinyl collection is complete without a 'Best Of Shalamar'. Oh and that TOTP performance... ^_^ http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/Shalamarnight.jpg 1qokA5khruY

47 Divine/You Think You're A Man No:16/1984 1984 is the year pop music came out of the closet. Hi NRG was getting commercial exposure, Frankie Goes To Hollywood practically monopolised the number one position and a virtually unknown songwriting trio, Stock/Aitken/Waterman, bagged their first top 20 hit with what remains their most rampent and campest hit. Even TOTP joined the gay party by having the late Divine on a centre platform, sporting a lovely V-line silver number. http://chartarchive.org/artwork/7560-raw.jpg xp-9vUp3Ge4

48 Mel & Kim/Respectable No:1/1987 Mel & Kim were great. 2 Hackney girls - gorgeous and instantly likeable. Pete Waterman could not have been marketed them any better; young girls loved watching them on TV while their elder siblings were out dancing to the extended house mixes at 3am. SAW came to their creative peak with this and what remains is one of the most instantly recognisable classics of 1987. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/Respectable_-_Mel_and_Kim.jpg czAQVsIldZ4

49 Kim Wilde/You Keep Me Hanging On No:2/1986 Enormous, dramatic, titanic sized production values - this is Motown getting a 1986 make over. "You Keep Me Hanging On' is a great song - the much told story of getting shut of a loveless relationship (rather like getting rid of a bad fart), Kim gives it 110% and her efforts paid off. Number one in the USA, Australia and basically shattering charts all over Eurpoe. Given it's production values, time hasn't been very kind to YKMHO, but no budget 80s compilation is complete without this! Certainly beats gardening anyway... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/Youkeepmehanginon.jpg N_xrVEEblY

50 Freeez/I O U No:2/1983 A relatively short-lived London act, Freeez would never come close to topping the electro swagger of "IOU". Produced by Arthur Baker (a man who is basically a leg end in dance music circles). "I O U" in 1983 is essentially a new-found technology. Even as early as 1983, electronic dance music was in position and a whole host of electro 80s tracks were predictably to follow. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4b/Freeez_IOU_single_cover.jpg hRG_mwCecmE

After a too-may-months hiatus! The Top 50 shall begin! I have no real excuse of why I stopped for several months, the top 80 has already been done and ready to relay... Just a case of lazyarseitis. Anyway... shall we continue?

I never listen to Radio 1 but I'm very happy about this! And only 38? Not weathering very well is he?!

A pretty shoddy list... struggled with this one! Unimpressed with the lack of support for "Lola's Theme". Perhaps faceless dance music doesn't resonate too well! +30 Shapeshifters - Lola's Theme +25 Lady Gaga - Bad Romance +22 S Xpress - Theme From S Xpress +20 Kylie - I Should Be So Lucky +18 Steve Silk Hurkey - Jack Your Body +16 Culture Beat - Mr Vain +14 Bros - I Owe You Nothing +13 Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now +12 Michael Jackson - Black Or White +11 Charles and Eddie - Would I Lie To You? +10 Modjo - Lady +09 Spice Girls - Say You'll Be There +08 D:Ream - Things Can Only Get Better +07 David Bowie - Space Oddity +06 Snap - Rhythm Is A Dancer +05 Robin Beck - The First Time +04 Blu Cantrell - Breathe +03 Outhere Brothers - Don't Stop (WIggle Wiggle) +02 KWS - Please Don't Go +01 Lady Gaga - Just Dance -02 Robbie Williams - Millenium (One of the most woeful songs sung by a horrible, odious prick!)

I couldn't disagree with you anymore here! "Satisfaction" was so ridiculously ahead of its time, it should've been too underground to resonate with joe public. However, with a hook big enough to hand your coat up on (and it pains me to say, the horrible video) were enough to send it to No.2 (I remember Beyonce stopping it going to its rightful place and being a bit miffed - funny how I don't give 2 shits about the charts now!). In 2012, "Satisfaction" can sit very comfortably with your average Guetta track to Afrojack in any set and not sound one bit out of place.

The irony of this song is unbearable!

One of the most pointless efforts ever. Britney is little more than a fraud, a talentless waste of space that has sustained a music career on the strength of making a bit of a tit out of herself in the public eye - Yes, I can't abide the woman. There, done. Madonna, who I still had a lot of time for in 2003 (not so in 2012), is totally anonymous sounding and frankly shouldn't have even bothered on what is principally a Britney song. Oh yeah, the song was crap too.

100% agree. A truly horrific track which, unfortunately, was hogging the upper end of the Top 40 when I began my 2 year DJ stint. I played it 2 weeks solid and then pretended I "couldn't find it"... even after 17 requests. Utter shit.

Oh good LORD! Takes me back to being a 19 year old stooodent at a uni VERY close to Liverpool, funnily enough (Ultrabeat were unsurprisingly massive at this neck of the woods)! I was a resident DJ at the uni and this was just about the only dance track I could gat away with playing. I love house music, which by 2003 was dead on its arse, so after one to many bevvies I defaulted to this sort of vacuous dance music that got churned out by records label All Around The World. In 2012, this sounds terribly dated but a song that makes me pine for my uni days soo painfully bad, it can drive me to tears.

+30 Livin Joy - Dreamer +25 Fedde Le Grand - Put Your Hands Up For Detroit +22 Sonia - You'll Never Stop Me Loving You B-) +20 Shakespears Sister - Stay +18 Tony Di Bart - The Real Thing +16 Mel and Kim - Respectable +14 A Ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV +13 David Guetta/Sia - Titanium +12 Lady Gaga - Poker Face +11 Kylie - Slow +10 Spiller - Groovejet +09 Roger Sanchez - Another Chance +08 Pet Shop Boys - Heart +07 Adamski/Seal - Killer +06 Aswad - Don't Turn Around +05 Sugababes - Round Round +04 Blondie - Call Me +03 Arctic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down +02 Barry White - Youre The First, The last, My Everything +01 Spacedust - Gym and Tonic -02 Robbie Williams/Nicole Kidman - Something Stupid

Urm where were my votes?? Mind you, since my 1 and 2 were the same as the results, it matters little.... though Ukraine would've moved up a place!

Cheesier than a deli counter... but in the best possible way! The song stunk of 3rd place, a real shame it didn't do very well in the results. Defo snubbed by jury. I'm off to Cyprus in a few weeks so will defo give "La La Love" a good battering!

Comparing "Euphoria" to Cascada is unfair. Cascada is vacuous dirge. "Euphoria" has a wiff of Costa Del Sol, but so what? It's pop dance, with a dash of class.

Well I was referring to their jury voters... ;)