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And the big vote was the biggest thing that got up someone's nose, was Fearne Cotton. Bom Bom! :dance:

Vance in March 83 at #27. But not in the stupid context of Yates, whittering on & recalling going into the newsagents, with snot running from his nose on to the counter. Very chart related I don't think.

Amazing Australian story. Unproveable. But no doubt bought on by the easy cash stuff, spread around by equally unproveable events, drummed into the media by that equally pea-brained ex-detective (who claims to be a criminologist, but hasn't yet passed the exam!) http://www.news.com.au/national-news/south...4-1226690475090 A WOMAN accused of unlawfully performing oral sex on her ex-husband, has no case to answer, the Adelaide Magistrates Court has heard. The woman, 49, is charged with engaging in sexual intercourse without consent in August 2011 at an address on the Eyre Peninsula. The complainant said he was awoken by his ex-wife performing fellatio on him. She appeared in the court on Friday when her lawyer said she had no case to answer, noting it involved the woman’s word against the complainant's. The case was adjourned until September 6.

No. Blackburn had 2 Top 50 singles 68/69ish. And to their faults, Alan Freeman also made records & Bruno Brookes almost scored with his Liz "don't touch me DLT" Kershaw duet.

I'll decline this one. As there is a running thing through all Capital produced chart shows (except those introduced by Alan Freeman). They all talk over intros of records & you don't do that on a chart show. End of. Gary Crowley, Mike Smith, Peter Young & Richard Allinson were ok on the Network Chart forerunner "UK Top 30". Jensen takes the crown for nicking Radio One's comfort zone & it's easy to see why Rich & Cat win every week on Big Top 40. They've become decent unchildish stalwarts. Timmy Mallet & Mick Brown also stood in on a couple of Network Charts, but were not great. Best Independant Radio Chart show host, would go to Robin Banks for The Smash Hits Chart, after he replaced Goodier in the 2005/6 run, before it was taken off for "Lucio's" nonsense & stupid remarks like "why don't you download Rhinestine Cowboy?"

Here goes: Franklin Engelmann: POTP's first host when it was just a new release show with no charts. He only did a handful of shows & was a typical BBC host. The genial snobby type Alan Dell: No real chart with Alan (he took over in January 1956, left in September & returned 57 - 58. He introduced the current hits segment to POTP with various positions mentioned from various charts. Still a typical BBC type of the time David Jacobs: Everybody knows David. He's OK, knows his stuff & was the first person to introduce the Top 20 to POTP in March 58. The BBC top 20 complied from an average of charts in Record Mirror, Melody Maker, Disc & NME. Again, a typical BBC type of the time Alan Freeman: Alan replaced David in September 61. Was taken off & David returned in Sept 62. Alan was back in Jan 63. Taken off in Sept 63 & finally returned for over 8 years in 1964. Hopefully everybody remembers Alan. The first person to bring in the chart rundown at the end of the show i.e. the rundown after playing the chart. Aalso the first to be very slick & not the typical BBC type i.e. not the snob! Possibly one of the best hosts. Removed when he became old hat, apparently Don Moss: Don did the Sept 63 to Dec 63 period on POTP & was very original for the show. A tad camp, but original going on to host various ITV quiz shows in the 70s & 80s. Very good slick presenter again Tom Browne: Fresh from a Danish TV Pop show & an Actor. Tom was good in his day & the silky smooth voice & slick show, that didn't always go according to plan. But he was the best host of the Solid Gold Sixty & Top 20 shows in the 70s. He left the show to present another Scandinavian Pop show Simon Bates: Simes definately the best host & the first to introduce the Top 40 (although ad hoc for a large period of time) First show in May 76 & last in November 92. He turned the show into a magazine show, was very slick & just got on with it Tony Blackburn: Don't laugh. Why was he given the show? Because he'd out stayed his welcome on the Afternoon show after going on & on about his divorce to the equally awful Tessa Wyatt. He could be OK on the top 40, aside his silly remarks & mistakes. Replaced in Jnauary 82 Tommy Vance: A bad choice for Presenter. Radio One thought he'd be another Alan Freeman. He wasn't & made a million mistakes every week, couldn't operate jingles for toffee & became the worst host to date at that point. Even his "facts" were complete nonsense, if you fell for them. Finally kicked out after many complaints & a story in a Sunday Newspaper Richard Skinner Laughing boy Richard. Bought in to save Radio One from the Network Chart. He was OK & (made me laugh immensly) as he jumped ship to Capital Radio 18 months, after taking over the Top 40 Bruno Brookes: WHY DID HE HAVE TO SHOUT ALL THE TIME? And why pretend the new chart was coming in, during the show, when it had been settled by 1pm? Awful host, that bored the pants off everyone, including the chiefs at Radio One in the end Mark Goodier: 15 years on & off as presenter. He was OK in the 1991 4.30pm run. Then on his return, he started to become boring, bland & a right turn off. By 2003, he should of been taken off, but wasn't. Then someone decided to give him, 2 years as host of the Smash Hits Chart. Where he did get a bit of welly back. But the slickness dried up, during his Radio One run Wes Butters: Ego. A tit. Too young. Could of been better if the producers had let him play the complete top 40 JK & Joel: Can't separate these two, as you couldn't tell one from the other & you never needed two hosts talking crap, when one could do it! Fearne Cotton: Silly un-coherent girl that didn't know shit from clay! Reggie Yates: As Fearne. Childish & the first person to mention snot in a chart show.Ghastly! Jameela Jamil: Started OK. Now going down the "I'm a woman" presenting a chart show, but also talk bollocks. There are many stand-ins that should of been given Top 40 time. Andy Peebles, Neale James, Clive Warren but never were. Scott Mills has been ad hoc for some 16 years, but is just about as good as Goodier was i.e. not good. Greg James could be Goodier, he's as boring as he was & the other one is Dev (who should of taken over from Yates) as he has a certain Je ne sais quoi.

Well the Big "C"? Some thought I was talking about myself. What?! It's not that lesser heard of Scottish band "Colic & Cheese" either. Nor the Carpenters. "C" is for David Cassidy (& the Partridge Family). And Number 10: 12M2xMx2eeU The #11 in December 1972 & 130,000 sold Number 9: FuejoIh0Cfk The #11 in 1973 & 146,000 sold Number 8: dtmgENKr3x4 Number 9 in 1973 & 162,000 sold Number 7: EsvWgTqfjWM Number 9 in 1972 & 178,000 sold Number 6: Qrhgqz4tLoU The 1985 comeback. It reached #6 & sold 189,000 Number 5: 1BalD0lli1U The 1973 double A side with "Some Kind Of Summer" reached #3 & sold 269,000 Number 4: RCjdq_q_dN0 The 1972 double A side with "Cherish" reached #2 & sold 340,000 Number 3: Q5fPDYPk8YE Number 3 in 1972 & 350,000 sold Number 2: p1rpKz_52GE The number one in 1972 & 380,000 sold And David's big Number One: Ybu3vKZ_Lz0 The 1973 double A side with "The Puppy Song". Number One in October 73 & 502,000 sold So, what will the letter "D" bring? You just don't know what will be next!

No. They start with the Top 10 of the week on iTunes (to beat Radio 1 with the top 10) & then kid you into a lie that you can help, change the top 10 by buying something from iTunes. They then play 40 to 11 & replay the current top 10, as it stands on itunes, saying you've helped change the top 10 around...but you haven't really, as it's only the top 10 at that moment. It's done to be ahead of Radio One in a nod to the Network Chart, but it doesn't quite cut it, as it's seriously flawed.

JK & Joel won the ratings for 3 reasons. 3 groups of Independant Radio stations were broadcasting 3 different chart shows. Hit40UK, The A List & The Smash Hits Chart. Radio One won by default of which Regional variation, you got on your local Independant Station. The original Network Chart never had more than 5 million listeners. 1986 was the peak. Radio One Top 40 in 1986 having nearly 11 million listeners, but Jimmy Savile's Old Record Club achieved nearly 12 milllion, due to listeners switching over to David Jensen's Network Chart Show. Falling listeners for both shows are contributed, by people watching more TV on Sundays, people going to work (hardly anyone worked on Sundays in 1986) & the fact that the Singles chart is largely a show of reflection to a small age group of people, that download records. Back in 1986, the record buying public reflected a more ecelectic age group. Des O'Connor & Roger Whittaker would never trouble the chart compilers today, for instance let alone Clare & Friends (I fear). The Top 40 & Network Chart were a family thing in 1986 & not your average Rihanna fan. Added bonus of the Network Chart being, they still recognised Alan Freeman, as not being too old to stand-in. Where as Radio One insisted (that although there were many complaints in 82/83) that Tommy Vance was quite a good choice to stand-in. Radio One hasn't really won the ratings on chart shows, since 1993 & the advent of Neil Fox's Pepsi Chart on Independant Radio. And if hosts are to blame, then look no further than Brookes & Goodier. Goodier has always had a mind like a sieve & the amount of notes, given to him to remember things was incredible. Really they haven't had a decent presenter since Simon Bates (& he was never actually given the show permanently, it was just an ongoing replacement role). How do I know all this? Well, a good friend of mine (Richard White) has been researching all of it, for a new book. Coming out soon. I suppose the major point on Radio One (i've not mentioned) is the 1993 hatchet job by Matthew Bannister & Trevor Dann. Yes, Radio One had to change, but not within a few weeks. Big Top 40 & 2.5 million suggests Independant Radio have only lost half their Sunday listeners, while Radio One have lost nearly 8 million in 20 years & therefore is of minority interest to a small age group i.e. under 25 year olds. If it were a BBC Soap, then it would be axed. Did I mention Eastenders previously?!

It is based on the full weeks iTunes sales (Sun to Sat) twixt 4 & 6.15pm , although it starts with the top 10. Then you either switch off or listen to the current iTunes Top 10 (but then you already know what it's gonna look like!) Of course if you've got Sky, then you've got Capital TV in the music channels section & they do the whole top 40 on Saturdays. Last week's chart: (with the 6.15 top 10 changes in brackets) 01 01 Avicii (1) 02 03 John Newman (2) 03 ne One Direction (4) 04 02 Robin Thicke (single version) (3) 05 04 Icona Pop (7) 06 07 Naughty Boy (8) 07 10 Passenger (5) 08 05 Will I Am (6) 09 06 Selena Gomez (10) 10 08 Sebastian Ingrosso (11) 11 11 Daft Punk (single version} (12) 12 27 Calvin Harris (9) 13 12 Jason Derulo 14 09 Breach 15 14 Taylor Swift 16 22 Pink/Lily Allen 17 15 Jay Z 18 16 Bruno 19 18 Olly 20 21 Arctic Monkeys 21 20 Jessie Jay 22 17 Chase & Status 23 25 Fuse ODG 24 RE Toploader 25 26 Macklemore 26 23 Wanted 27 24 Guetta 28 33 Demi Lovato 29 31 Kesha 30 19 Lawson 31 34 Carey 32 13 Avril 33 32 Tom Odell (single version) 34 RE Imagine Dragons (Radioactive) 35 35 Rudimental (single version) 36 36 Gabz (not played) 37 30 Iggy Azalea 38 38 Kanye (not played, deemed offensive) 39 40 Bastille 40 RE Calvin & Ellie Both the Armin Van Buuren & Lana Del Rey songs, were not combined, so were not in the chart.

Well anyone could say that. Even 30 years ago. I know what you mean,though. Those whose radio dials have become welded to 95.8fm, for the last 40 years! And those that are still stuck on 247 metres...God knows what broadcasts from that frequency today. So, all those listeners just can't be bother to re-tune their radios. Bit hard for a new radio station just starting up. They'll never get any listeners. On that basis, no wonder Radio One haven't many listeners.

I suppose it's still a point that some 4 million, are actually still listening to one chart show or another. Radio will never win again, as (like has been said) it's target is teens to 25s. Big Top 40 is a much better produced show, though a tad messy. They've ditched the Airplay for the iTunes chart of the week, but you won't hear "Black Skinhead", I don't think...but they play all the new entries now, aside that & usually get some 48 songs into the 3 hours. The 6 O'Clock change around is a tad silly, as it contradicts what's been played (even more so, when the numerous versions have been lumped together in the original Top 10 at 4pm & then ignored in the change around). On listening to that it's damn hard to guess, what is actually going to be lumped together in the 40 to 11 to start with, but I gather Album versions will not be lumped into the single version, false stop. As in Blurred Lines & a few others. Though it look's like they did lump all the Now 85 other versions, on to the single versions. It's a confusing programme & no mistake, but I would say slightly more interesting, as you don't really know what is coming up, where as Radio One's Top 40 is easily guessed, based around the Friday Mids. Though Big Top 40 (without the 6 O'Clock change about) is pretty much the same as Radio One's Top 40. The trick is they say "The Most Up To Date Chart In The UK" by the 6pm change around, but it isn't entirely true. Independant Radio's game has always been to try to be ahead of R1, as in the Record Business Top 30 & (later) Network Top 30. Big Top 40 has improved greatly in the last few months & is certainly a nod to the original Network Chart countdowns of the 80s & (indeed) a better show than Radio One.

Big Top 40. A major breakthrough, now they've dumped airplay. Though the 6 O'Clock change around is still iffy. But the 4 to 6.15pm part is quite interesting.

So, the letter "B" is for the best Scottish group ever, The Bay City Rollers & everyone starts waving their Tartan scaves & shouting "Woody!" Number 10: df_8HUROn4Q The Number 4 from 1976 & 135,000 sold Number 9: A different kettle of fish. The original line-up, produced by Jonathan King & featuring a couple of later members of "Pilot". wlyq4qBalOM Number 9 in 1971 & 136,000 sold Number 8: aw_pHcKSUVI The best spelt & performed version, getting to Number 4 in 1976 & 230,000 sold Number 7: Christmas 1975 & a turn to rock 7fJv5kUjddc Number 3 in 1975 & 260,000 sold Number 6: ytii7-bUxuk Number 2 in 1974 & 261,000 sold Number 5: Sha La La. Remember? lNAMV02Ux-0 Number 6 in 1974 & 295,000 sold Number 4: qJOptEa0Ano Number 4 in 1974 & 296,000 sold Number 3: kpqg35hfQow Number 3 in 1974 & 305,000 sold Number 2: Give Give Give! I think a shame it wasn't put out before Bye Bye Baby, as I thoroughly believe it would of out shone it hGI92eNYC6E Number One in 1975 & 490,000 sold The Big Number One: 3aBNibb7QBA Number One in 1975 & 714,000 sold Hang on for the letter "C" & I think the biggest "C" for me is coming....

Pluck an idea out of thin air & we have an A to Z (that's 26 artists or groups) of not necessarily the obvious people that had hits, during the 70s & 80s. Starting wth the letter "A". A is not the obvious i.e. not Abba, but something much more interesting: ADAM AND THE ANTS/ADAM ANT Stewart Goddard the main man & here is his/their top 10 selling singles in the UK. Number 10: 4IP-2Ck-wak Number 9 in 1982 & 152,000 sold Number 9: L26l5KbQTSs Number 9 in 1981 & 172,000 sold Number 8: k6zstmlOjLs Number 5 in 1983 & 183,000 sold Number 7: wtxuPqjSJDc Number 4 in 1980 & 245,000 sold Number 6 xT27A6Sa10k Number 2 in 1981 & 335,000 sold between 1980 & 81 Number 5: hgQYp1UDn1k Number 3 in 1982 & 435,500 sold between 1981 & 82 Number 4: o41A91X5pns Number One in 1982 & 466,000 sold Number 3: h-EaWRqikAg Number 2 in 1981 & 710,000 sold between 1980 & 81 Number 2: 9p__WmyAE3g Number One in 1981 & 755,000 sold And Adam's Biggest Seller: 4B2a6l6wM2k The big Spring Number One in 1981 & the 2nd best seller of the year, selling 900,000 What will the letter "B" bring? We'll find out very soon....

Number One: THE ROYAL VARIETY PERFORMANCE 1967 11.60m The most watched programme of the 60s. It featured Sandie Shaw, Mirielle Mathieu, Tom Jones & Harry Secombe & Rolf Harris, to name but 5 Rolf Harris did the old favourite & his latest record: GS-itkO9ia8 7O6BgSmlOL4 And Mirelle Mathieu sang a couple of songs including her original of "The Last Waltz" (La Derniere Valse): crpHb7k9wKw C86uiDTxLJ0 And that's that. May dothe 70s & 80s at some point.

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Number 5: A SPECIAL ROYAL PERFORMANCE 10.55m A show, away from the other Royal Variety show. This one went out in the Summer of 1968 Number 4: MISS WORLD 1964 10.55m ociD3WN1tk4 Number 3: MISS WORLD 1967 10.80m _WC9y0spy84 7gT9ig9N5Vc

Number 7: MISS WORLD 1968 10.05m Some interest in some of the stories, behind the build up to that edition: ypL0mjP0cP8 Number 6: The Royal Variety Performance 1963: Probably the best ever, with the Beatles, Eric Sykes, Buddy Greco, Marlene Dietrich & Steptoe & Son: pD3y7HXRyCQ fdoAJIMBtwM Hu65x1fFh0E rpwK7xsOGpA OcOpNnaDmi8

Number 8: LONDON PALLADIUM 9.95m A 1967 Edition, in which the Rolling Stones appear on the revolving stage (sound only: f9_R4rvfJvQ

Number 9: CORONATION STREET 9.70m A 1963 Episode & the highest placed of the 1960s ("it's alright Jeff, only you can see me!"): 0dfINHgQhd4

Number 10: SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM 9.69m A 1963 Edition of the show (sound only): Noxd94Rlgfk

Number 12: MRS THURSDAY 9.55m A 1966 Edition of the ITV comedy/drama Number 11: CORONATION STREET 9.66 A 1965 Episode: ZwFhWtdNoVQ

Number 13: THE ROYAL GALA 1966 ITV's 1966 Edition, where the Coronation Street cast performed: _9ueyz0Di20

Number 14: SECOMBE AND FRIENDS 9.45m A 1966 Edition, where Harry reunites with the rest of the Goons: EB7eep-fK8Q