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Post by popchartfreak on May 3, 2018 14:40:14 GMT 1
27th April 1968
Its 2 weeks on top for This Wheel's On Fire, holding off the Hump in his only chance of topping my chart. Simon & Garfunkel get a first retro-chart top 10, and LOve climb back up. Nancy & Lee make it 6 top 10's in 16 months, 8 for Nancy in total. Merrilee Rush Deadpool's it into the 30, and Eddy Grant equals chart success times 2 as Baby Come Back enters some 20-odd years before his own solo version enters a bit lower. A big climb for The Delfonics into the 40, as yet another is new lower down.
Scott Walker goes ballad and in at 45, Bill Medley drops Bobby Hatfield for a solo entry, while Neil Diamond, The Temptations and The Foundations all keep the hits coming at frantic paces - the speed of single releases in 1968 USA in particular was amazing considering the current "hang-around-forever" big hits and "useless-invasion-of-album-tracks-masquerading-as-singles-in-week-one" that has made me determined to treat 60's acts and albums the same way to illustrate that Drake having 3,546 chart entries in a year is meaningless when big 60's streaming-free acts could have had the same (but didn't by virtue of people having to buy music at great expense or else just listen to the radio)
1 ( 1 ) THIS WHEEL’S ON FIRE Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity 2 ( 6 ) A MAN WITHOUT LOVE Engelbert Humperdinck 3 ( 2 ) WHITE HORSES Jackie 4 ( 5 ) RAINBOW VALLEY The Love Affair featuring Sue Glover 5 ( 3 ) MONY MONY Tommy James & The Shondells 6 ( 4 ) ELUSIVE BUTTERFLY Glen Campbell 7 ( 25 ) MRS ROBINSON Simon & Garfunkel 8 ( 22 ) ALONE AGAIN OR Love 9 ( 7 ) SUNDOWN, SUNDOWN Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 10 ( 13 ) ELUSIVE DREAMS Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood
11 ( 8 ) VALLERI The Monkees 12 ( 9 ) THE LEGEND OF XANADU Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 13 ( 17 ) DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO SAN JOSE Dionne Warwick 14 ( 10 ) SOMEWHERE IN THE COUNTRY Gene Pitney 15 ( 12 ) IF I WERE A CARPENTER The Four Tops 16 ( 11 ) FOREVER CAME TODAY Diana Ross & The Supremes 17 ( 15 ) DELILAH Tom Jones 18 ( 26 ) I DON’T WANT OUR LOVING TO DIE The Herd 19 ( 14 ) LADY MADONNA The Beatles 20 ( 36 ) AMERICA Simon & Garfunkel
21 ( 16 ) HONEY Bobby Goldsboro 22 ( 18 ) YOUNG GIRL The Union Gap featuring Gary Puckett 23 ( 19 ) LA-LA MEANS I LOVE YOU The Delfonics 24 ( 27 ) SWEET BLINDNESS Laura Nyro 25 ( 21 ) CAN’T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU Andy Williams 26 ( 44 ) ANGEL OF THE MORNING Merrilee Rush & The Turnabouts 27 ( 23 ) THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY Hugo Montenegro, His Orchestra & Chorus 28 ( 20 ) LOVING YOU HAS MADE ME BANANAS Guy Marks 29 ( NEW ) BABY COME BACK The Equals featuring Eddy Grant 30 ( 24 ) I CAN’T LET MAGGIE GO Honeybus
31 ( 29 ) SOME VELVET MORNING Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 32 ( 28 ) MASTER JACK Four Jacks And A Jill 33 ( 39 ) LAZY SUNDAY The Small Faces 34 ( 31 ) (SITTIN’ ON) THE DOCK OF THE BAY Otis Redding 35 ( 30 ) I’LL SAY FOREVER MY LOVE Jimmy Ruffin 36 ( 37 ) GOIN’ AWAY The Fireballs 37 ( 32 ) WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD Louis Armstrong 38 ( 50 ) FRIENDS The Beach Boys 39 ( 47 ) TAKE ME IN YOUR ARMS (ROCK ME A LITTLE WHILE) The Isley Brothers 40 ( 73 ) I’M SORRY The Delfonics
41 ( 35 ) WORDS The Bee Gees 42 ( 38 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles 43 ( 41 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 44 ( 33 ) IF YOU DON’T WANT MY LOVE Robert John 45 ( NEW ) JOANNA Scott Walker 46 ( 34 ) AIN’T NO WAY Aretha Franklin 47 ( 68 ) HOW’D WE EVER GET THIS WAY Andy Kim 48 ( 64 ) HELLO HOW ARE YOU The Easybeats 49 ( 45 ) KITES Simon Dupree & The Big Sound 50 ( 40 ) 100 YEARS Nancy Sinatra
51 ( NEW ) NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP Jerry Butler 52 ( 56 ) YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY Ohio Express 53 ( 70 ) I AM THE MAN YOU NEED Edwin Starr 54 ( 59 ) IMPOSSIBLE MISSION (MISSION IMPOSSIBLE) Soul Survivors 55 ( 46 ) ME THE PEACEFUL HEART Lulu 56 ( 42 ) THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM (THE QUEST) Glen Campbell 57 ( NEW ) HE DON’T REALLY LOVE YOU The Delfonics 58 ( 61 ) AIN’T NOTHING LIKE THE REAL THING Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell 59 ( 51 ) WALK AWAY RENEE The Four Tops 60 ( 52 ) FOOL ON THE HILL The Beatles
61 ( 69 ) WONDER BOY The Kinks 62 ( 53 ) JACKIE Scott Walker 63 ( 54 ) EVERLASTING LOVE The Love Affair 64 ( 66 ) DON’T HURT ME NO MORE Al Green 65 ( 49 ) WE CAN FLY The Cowsills 66 ( 43 ) I’VE GOT YOU ON MY MIND Dorian Gray 67 ( 48 ) JENNIFER ECCLES The Hollies 68 ( NEW ) LOVE MACHINE The Roosters 69 ( NEW ) RICE IS NICE The Lemon Pipers 70 ( 57 ) ROSIE Don Partridge
71 ( NEW ) ANY OLD TIME (YOU’RE LONELY AND SAD) The Foundations 72 ( NEW ) BROOKLYN ROADS Neil Diamond 73 ( NEW ) I CAN’T MAKE IT ALONE Bill Medley 74 ( NEW ) I COULD NEVER LOVE ANOTHER The Temptations 75 ( NEW ) HOLD ME CLOSER The Equals featuring Eddy Grant
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Post by popchartfreak on May 1, 2018 14:42:37 GMT 1
29th april 2018
Its a first week on top for Built By Titan and fab bhangra-stylee rhythms in the lush pop mix, leaping up 18 places for a Buzzjack Song Contest top 2. Foster The People get a second top 5 a few years late and Kylie still has 2 songs climbing inside the 20. Human leap into the 20, as do calvin n dua in the 40. New entries are lesser this week, lots of oldies from World Record Day pushing them into the UK sales top 100, including Soft Cell back with the original fab version of Say Hello 36 years after peaking at 2, Aladdin Sane album track Cracked Actor 45 years on for Bowie, the original Prince version of Nothin Compares, and The Small Faces oldie which technically charted for me in 1976 on reissue, but actually if id started compiling my charts a few months earlier in 1968 it would easy have been a top 5 then.
1 19 1 2 BROKEN LOVE Built By Titan featuring Starxs 191000
2 2 1 9 BEND Ria Mae 626511300 3 1 1 4 A LIFETIME TO REPAIR Kylie Minogue 485000 4 23 4 2 SIT NEXT TO ME Foster The People 84250 5 4 1 6 YOU’RE SO COOL Jonathan Bree 493000 6 5 4 7 STOP ME FROM FALLING Kylie Minogue featuring Gente De Zona 366000 7 7 7 4 YOU MUST LOVE ME Lana Del Ray 157000 8 3 3 2 SUMMER NIGHT CITY Abba 133000 9 9 9 2 YOU’VE GOT MY NUMBER (WHY DON'T YOU USE IT!) The Undertones 90000 10 6 1 4 I’M A MARIONETTE Abba 352000
11 17 11 4 EVERY LITTLE PART OF ME Kylie Minogue 101000 12 15 12 2 BE THANKFUL FOR WHAT YOU’VE GOT William DeVaughn 62000 13 8 8 4 YOU ARE THE SHINING LIGHT Eels 146300 14 10 10 4 SWEET SCORCHED EARTH Eels 131000 15 16 15 13 RHIANNON (ALBUM VERSION) Fleetwood Mac 260600 16 12 1 13 ALL THE STARS Kendrick Lamar and SZA 987350 17 11 1 12 BEST DAYS Lissie 840000 18 14 7 7 MAKE YOUR OWN KIND OF MUSIC Paloma Faith 223300 19 24 19 4 SINCERELY YOURS Kylie Minogue 69600 20 13 10 4 MUSIC’S TOO SAD WITHOUT YOU Kylie Minogue & Jack Savoretti 111400
21 18 13 5 RAINING GLITTER Kylie Minogue 125500 22 25 22 4 TINY DANCER Florence + The Machine 65950 23 27 23 2 WHAT CAN I SAY Boz Scaggs 37650 24 26 24 4 HIGH HORSE Kacey Musgraves 66900 25 29 25 4 CRAZY GIRL Lissie 58000 26 21 3 14 SAY SOMETHING Justin Timberlake featuring Chris Stapleton 635350 27 20 20 4 CALL OUT MY NAME The Weeknd 77150 28 30 28 8 VINCENT Don McLean 134700 29 64 29 2 HIGHER Human 25200 30 33 30 6 SAY AMEN (SATURDAY NIGHT) Panic! At The Disco 95100
31 22 9 5 NOTHING TO REGRET Robinson 140400 32 32 32 2 LOADED Miles Kane featuring Lana Del Ray & Jamie T 35600 33 45 33 2 WHY CAN’T WE BE LOVERS Holland-Dozier featuring Lamont Dozier 30700 34 39 34 2 HEY BROTHER Avicii featuring Dan Kaminski 34700 35 49 35 2 THE NIGHTS Avicii 29600 36 38 36 4 EVERYTHING Lisa Stansfield 62100 37 28 20 4 HURT YOU The Weeknd featuring Gesaffelstein 74100 38 65 38 2 ONE KISS Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa 24200 39 3110 8 IN DEEP LOVE Beca 213750 40 42 40 5 FLAMES David Guetta & Sia 65600
41 35 1 12 MONSTERS Saara Aalto 918700 42 43 42 4 CASTLES Lissie 53750 43 34 4 12 LET ME GO Hailee Steinfeld featuring Florida Georgia Line & watt 431300 44 NEW 44 1 SAY HELLO WAVE HOODBYE Soft Cell 13250 45 36 15 7 KANDY KRUSH Kim Wilde 113050 46 37 37 8 TWO DIVIDED BY ZERO Pet Shop Boys 106500 47 40 18 6 10 STARCROSSED LOSERS The Fratellis 321700 48 44 10 11 CAPITAL LETTERS Hailee Steinfeld featuring BoodPop 242950 49 41 11 8 SANCTIFY Years & Years 188050 50 48 5 15 TIL I’M DONE Paloma Faith 421050
51 47 27 7 TIME IN A BOTTLE Lykke Li 102250 52 52 1 21 UNTIL YOU COME BACK TO ME (THAT’S WHAT I’M GONNA DO) Aretha Franklin with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 1040250 53 53 1 14 ANYONE WHO KNOWS WHAT LOVE IS (WILL UNDERSTAND) Irma Thomas 738000 54 68 54 3 WHATEVER YOU WANT P!nk 22600 55 50 18 8 LUCID DREAM Owl City 124500 56 56 56 5 LADY POWERS Vera Blue featuring Kodie Blue 43400 57 72 57 2 NO TEARS LEFT TO CRY Ariana Grande 16000 58 58 58 4 BILLIONAIRE Lisa Stansfield 36700 59 59 59 2 WHAT A DIFF’RENCE A DAY MADE Dinah Washington & Belford Hendrick’s Orchestra 20200 60 55 5 14 THE DECONSTRUCTION Eels 380650
61 61 3 19 ON OUR WAY HOME Empire Of The Sun 750850 62 62 12 12 MEANT TO BE Bebe Rexha featuring Florida Georgia Line 214000 63 57 6 910 MAKE ME FEEL Janelle Monae 280600 64 60 2 13 PRAY FOR ME The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar 520800 65 NEW 65 1 LET ME LOVE ARCHIS 7000 66 NEW 66 1 LOSE MYSELF Post Precious 6800 67 67 67 2 SEXY BOY Air 13200 68 70 68 3 I WANT A LOVER Pet Shop Boys 17400 69 NEW 69 1 CRACKED ACTOR David Bowie 6200 70 NEW 70 1 SUGAR & SPICE Hatchie 6000
71 71 71 2 LONELY TOGETHER Avicii featuring Rita Ora 11600 72 NEW 72 1 LAZY SUNDAY The Small Faces 5600 73 NEW 73 1 NOTHING COMPARES 2 U Prince 5400 74 NEW 74 1 THE ARCHITECT Jane Weaver 5200 75 NEW 75 1 LET ME Zayn 5000
DROP OUTS 46 36 18 5 YARADA LIJ Mikael Seifu 89650 51 35 35 4 INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT Robbie Williams 64250 54 28 14 9 LULLABY Sigala & Paloma Faith 164900 63 38 31 4 WHITE FLAG Bishop Briggs 60200 66 69 66 3 NO ROOTS Alice Merton 18200 69 NEW 69 1 WAITING FOR LOVE Avicii featuring Simon Aldred (of Cherry Ghost) 6200 73 NEW 73 1 WAWWA (WOLFGANG LOHR REMIX) Bart&Bake featuring Billy Bros Orchestra 5400 74 45 9 8 KILLER Pete Tong Heritage Orchestra featuring Seal 176050 75 NEW 75 1 SAFARI Serena 5000
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Post by popchartfreak on Apr 28, 2018 20:02:29 GMT 1
29th April 1986
It's a first week on top, making it over 17 years from debut to topping the chart, a new record for Marvin Gaye. Simple Minds get a second top 3, Wax get a first top 10 as a duo, or rather Andrew Gold gets one 9 years after his first, and Graham Gouldman 14 years after his first. The Big Sky bangs right in at 9, giving Kate 4 in a row off The Hounds Of Love album, and 8 years of 'em. a-ha get a 3rd top 10 in a row.
Whitney outdoes George Benson's original in chart performance as she hits the 20, Maxi Priest gets a first top 20, and Shalamar return A Night To Remember 4 years on from the first time it hit my top 10. From here-on the chart gets mega-volatile as last-week's deluge of new entries climb, while a deluge of 20 enter this week, meaning loads of tracks plummet, including classics. OMD go top 30 in a big climb, ditto PIL, and Icehouse, as Peter Gabriel swoops into the 40. Newies include Blancmange extending their run to 4 years, The Cure re-doing a great oldie that didn't hit, as Boys Don't Cry joins Rough Boys and Bad Boys - the latter giving Miami Sound Machine, or Gloria Estefan as they essentially were by this stage, another chart hit ahead of her actual solo launch. One and the same, same vocalist, same husband writer-producer, same success.
ELO are seriously back for a last time for a few decades (at least with Jeff Lynne), Fuzzbox debut with a longer band name and more of an indie vibe, Elaine Page gets another Chess musical song in my chart, so that's Benny & Bjorn of Abba making it two - Swedish protogee's Gemini enter with Just Like That, the 1982 Abba song that was never released in a finished form (though it did top my chart a decade later when a shortened version was released). Ted Chippington amusingly talks a Beatles classic into a laidback entry, Jean-Michel Jarre is another Spirit of 1977 to return, since his debut Oxygene Part VI peaked at 2. Only another 40 years to wait to top my chart (with Cyndi Lauper)...
Patti Labelle has dropped the girls of Lady Marmalade, and the shiny spacesuits, now opting 11 years on for a smooth soul duet with Michael MacDonald, now Doobie-less, and On My Own is just beautifully sad and beautifully sung by both. Annabella covers Peggy Lee's Fever a decade ahead of Madonna, Doctor & The Medics sneak in with a camp soundalike cover of Spirit In The Sky, 16 years on from the classic Norman Greenbaum, Level 42 start the great period rolling with Lessons In Love, Van Halen are David Lee Roth-less, and a bit toothless for me, and Limahl manages to drag another chart entry out 3 years on from Kajaverygoogooey acrimoniously splitting. Kaja who?
1 ( 2 ) I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE Marvin Gaye 2 ( 1 ) A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael 3 ( 7 ) ALL THE THE THINGS SHE SAID Simple Minds 4 ( 4 ) WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY Janet Jackson 5 ( 3 ) E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite 6 ( 6 ) ROCK ME AMADEUS Falco 7 ( 12 ) RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES Wax 8 ( 10 ) CAN’T WAIT ANOTHER MINUTE Five Star 9 ( NEW ) THE BIG SKY Kate Bush 10 ( 16 ) TRAIN OF THOUGHT a-ha
11 ( 5 ) DRIVING AWAY FROM HOME It’s Immaterial 12 ( 14 ) MARLENE ON THE WALL Suzanne Vega 13 ( 8 ) PETER GUNN Art Of Noise & Duane Eddy 14 ( 9 ) A KIND OF MAGIC Queen 15 ( 27 ) STARS Hear ‘n’ Aid 16 ( 38 ) THE GREATEST LOVE OF ALL Whitney Houston 17 ( 17 ) THE FINEST SOS Band 18 ( 28 ) STROLLIN’ ON Maxi Priest 19 ( NEW ) A NIGHT TO REMEMBER Shalamar 20 ( 11 ) CALLING AMERICA Electric Light Orchestra
21 ( 13 ) WONDERFUL WORLD Sam Cooke 22 ( 45 ) IF YOU LEAVE OMD 23 ( 26 ) LIVE TO TELL Madonna 24 ( 61 ) NO PROMISES Icehouse 25 ( NEW ) I CAN SEE IT Blancmange 26 ( 30 ) ROUGH BOY ZZ Top 27 ( 36 ) JUST SAY NO Grange Hill Cast 28 ( 15 ) DIGGING YOUR SCENE The Blow Monkeys 29 ( 59 ) HOME PIL 30 ( NEW ) BOYS DON’T CRY The Cure
31 ( 20 ) YOU TO ME ARE EVERYTHING (REMIX) The Real Thing 32 ( 18 ) SOME PEOPLE Belouis Some 33 ( NEW ) BAD BOY Miami Sound Machine 34 ( 49 ) WHAT YOU NEED INXS 35 ( 23 ) HOUNDS OF LOVE Kate Bush 36 ( 19 ) TALK TO ME Stevie Nicks 37 ( 47 ) TENDER LOVE Force MD’s 38 ( NEW ) SO SERIOUS Electric Light Orchestra 39 ( 65 ) SLEDGEHAMMER Peter Gabriel 40 ( 44 ) I’LL KEEP ON LOVING YOU Princess
41 ( 34 ) IT’S ALL IN THE GAME The Man (aka Jonathan King) 42 ( 22 ) LOVE COMES QUICKLY Pet Shop Boys 43 ( 41 ) EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD Tears For Fears 44 ( 31 ) KISS Prince & The Revolution 45 ( 25 ) ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS David Bowie 46 ( NEW ) SWEETEST THING Gene Loves Jezebel 47 ( 21 ) HAVE YOU EVER HAD IT BLUE The Style Council 48 ( NEW ) XX SEX We’ve Got A Fuzzbox & We’re Gonna Use It 49 ( 62 ) A QUESTION OF LUST Depeche Mode 50 ( 24 ) OVERJOYED Stevie Wonder
51 ( 29 ) CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE Lick The Tins 52 ( NEW ) NOBODY’S SIDE Elaine Page 53 ( 43 ) THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES ON TV A-ha 54 ( 56 ) R.O.C.K. IN THE USA John Cougar Mellencamp 55 ( 39 ) CHAIN REACTION Diana Ross 56 ( NEW ) RENDEZVOUS Jean-Michel Jarre 57 ( 42 ) LOVE MISSILE F1-11 Sigue Sigue Sputnik 58 ( 58 ) A LOVE BIZARRE Sheila E 59 ( 46 ) HEAVEN MUST BE MISSING AN ANGEL Tavares 60 ( NEW ) GODSTAR Psychic TV
61 ( 40 ) MOVE AWAY Culture Club 62 ( NEW ) SHE LOVES YOU Ted Chippington 63 ( NEW ) ON MY OWN Patti Labelle & Michael MacDonald 64 ( 53 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 65 ( 54 ) WEST END GIRLS Pet Shop Boys 66 ( 32 ) IS YOUR LOVE STRONG ENOUGH Bryan Ferry 67 ( NEW ) FEVER Annabella 68 ( 69 ) THIS IS LOVE Gary Numan 69 ( NEW ) SPIRIT IN THE SKY Doctor & The Medics 70 ( 33 ) IF YOU WERE A WOMAN (AND I WAS A MAN) Bonnie Tyler
71 ( NEW ) LESSONS IN LOVE Level 42 72 ( NEW ) WHY CAN’T THIS BE LOVE Van Halen 73 ( NEW ) JUST LIKE THAT Gemini 74 ( NEW ) MASUKA DAN The Flaming Mussolinis 75 ( NEW ) LOVE IN YOUR EYES Limahl
FAVE OLDIES OF THE WEEK 1 YOU SEND ME Sam Cooke 2 (I’LL NEVER BE) MARIA MAGDALENA Sandra 3 SCHOOL LOVE Barry Blue
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Post by popchartfreak on Apr 28, 2018 19:55:43 GMT 1
Hi alex a very curious mixture of some of my very fave abba songs and some of my least faves! 😀
It sounds like my middle faves are going to top your charts at this rate! ☺
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Post by popchartfreak on Apr 25, 2018 20:11:28 GMT 1
22nd April 1986
It's an otherwise hectic chart as George grabs a 3rd week on top, chased suddenly by a 1967 classic released as a single in the USA in 1968 and topped the UK chart in 1969. I Heard It Through The Grapevine made my top 5 that year but never got as high as 2 - with this jeans advert classic replacing the same company's Sam Cooke track in the top 10. Levi 501's I think. Everyone was wearing them. I know I was. Nick Kamen getting his kit off in the laundrette was enough for no-one to realise that the songs used were tatty soundalikes, not the originals.
Janet Jackson gets a first top 5, one of many, and Simple Minds keep their hot streak going with another top 10, and Five Star snatch a second in a row. New at 26, Madonna's low-key debut single off the forthcoming True Blue album is the highest new song, Live To Tell being far and away her best ballad to date, what with being classy and all rather than dirge-like. Hear'n'Aid go top 30, which is ironically what several of the metal members now need after decades of ear abuse. The Grange Hill Cast also enter high - in my defence I enjoyed the show, and it was a good cause, and good advice that no-one heeded as the Aceeeeed generation loomed.
Princess gets another newie, Whitney covers George Benson, replacing jazz subtlety with foghorn volume, 9 years since the original made my top 30, and the ever-good OMD keep the initial-for-group-name flag flying with the sweet If You Leave, and PIL join in with Home giving them 8 years of action, and OMD 6 years. The Force MD's debut with a nice soul number, and INXS storm in with a debut great, What You Need. Michael Hutchence was one of the great frontmen of all-time, and INXS' funked-up rock anthems were just fab - I saw them in concert only once, in Bournemouth, but my word that man was a star and the band were rock-funking.
John Cougar is also back, with a goodie, albeit a superfluous Mellencamp - his original decision to drop the surname was the right one. Depeche Mode keep the sombre entries going, Fine Young Cannibals keep The Beat flag flying, and The Bangles get a 3rd top 75. Surprisingly, one of the lower debuts is for an absolute belting classic with a famous video - Sledgehammer, and Peter Gabriel peaking after 9 years of chart action solo, and 12 years including Genesis.
1 ( 1 ) A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael 2 ( NEW ) I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE Marvin Gaye 3 ( 2 ) E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite 4 ( 11 ) WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY Janet Jackson 5 ( 8 ) DRIVING AWAY FROM HOME It’s Immaterial 6 ( 3 ) ROCK ME AMADEUS Falco 7 ( 18 ) ALL THE THE THINGS SHE SAID Simple Minds 8 ( 6 ) PETER GUNN Art Of Noise & Duane Eddy 9 ( 4 ) A KIND OF MAGIC Queen 10 ( 28 ) CAN’T WAIT ANOTHER MINUTE Five Star
11 ( 5 ) CALLING AMERICA Electric Light Orchestra 12 ( 12 ) RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES Wax 13 ( 7 ) WONDERFUL WORLD Sam Cooke 14 ( 26 ) MARLENE ON THE WALL Suzanne Vega 15 ( 10 ) DIGGING YOUR SCENE The Blow Monkeys 16 ( 19 ) TRAIN OF THOUGHT a-ha 17 ( 21 ) THE FINEST SOS Band 18 ( 22 ) SOME PEOPLE Belouis Some 19 ( 9 ) TALK TO ME Stevie Nicks 20 ( 13 ) YOU TO ME ARE EVERYTHING (REMIX) The Real Thing
21 ( 14 ) HAVE YOU EVER HAD IT BLUE The Style Council 22 ( 17 ) LOVE COMES QUICKLY Pet Shop Boys 23 ( 20 ) HOUNDS OF LOVE Kate Bush 24 ( 16 ) OVERJOYED Stevie Wonder 25 ( 15 ) ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS David Bowie 26 ( NEW ) LIVE TO TELL Madonna 27 ( 48 ) STARS Hear ‘n’ Aid 28 ( 39 ) STROLLIN’ ON Maxi Priest 29 ( 32 ) CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE Lick The Tins 30 ( 74 ) ROUGH BOY ZZ Top
31 ( 23 ) KISS Prince & The Revolution 32 ( 24 ) IS YOUR LOVE STRONG ENOUGH Bryan Ferry 33 ( 35 ) IF YOU WERE A WOMAN (AND I WAS A MAN) Bonnie Tyler 34 ( 45 ) IT’S ALL IN THE GAME The Man (aka Jonathan King) 35 ( 37 ) IT ONLY TAKES A MINUTE Tavares 36 ( NEW ) JUST SAY NO Grange Hill Cast 37 ( 25 ) SHELLSHOCK New Order 38 ( NEW ) THE GREATEST LOVE OF ALL Whitney Houston 39 ( 29 ) CHAIN REACTION Diana Ross 40 ( 27 ) MOVE AWAY Culture Club
41 ( 41 ) EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD Tears For Fears 42 ( 33 ) LOVE MISSILE F1-11 Sigue Sigue Sputnik 43 ( 36 ) THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES ON TV A-ha 44 ( NEW ) I’LL KEEP ON LOVING YOU Princess 45 ( NEW ) IF YOU LEAVE OMD 46 ( 40 ) HEAVEN MUST BE MISSING AN ANGEL Tavares 47 ( NEW ) TENDER LOVE Force MD’s 48 ( 30 ) TOUCH ME (I WANT YOUR BODY) Samantha Fox 49 ( NEW ) WHAT YOU NEED INXS 50 ( 46 ) SYSTEM ADDICT Five Star
51 ( 56 ) LOOK AWAY Big Country 52 ( 43 ) SILENT RUNNING Mike + The Mechanics 53 ( 53 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 54 ( 54 ) WEST END GIRLS Pet Shop Boys 55 ( 38 ) KYRIE Mr. Mister 56 ( NEW ) R.O.C.K. IN THE USA John Cougar Mellencamp 57 ( 44 ) MANIC MONDAY The Bangles 58 ( 69 ) A LOVE BIZARRE Sheila E 59 ( NEW ) HOME PIL 60 ( 31 ) LIVING DOLL Cliff Richard & The Young Ones
61 ( 66 ) NO PROMISES Icehouse 62 ( NEW ) A QUESTION OF LUST Depeche Mode 63 ( 42 ) DARE TO DREAM Viola Wills 64 ( 34 ) SECRET LOVERS Atlantic Starr 65 ( NEW ) SLEDGEHAMMER Peter Gabriel 66 ( 63 ) WE CAN WORK IT OUT/ DAY TRIPPER The Beatles 67 ( 64 ) LONELY THIS CHRISTMAS Mud 68 ( 58 ) C’MON C’MON Bronski Beat 69 ( NEW ) THIS IS LOVE Gary Numan 70 ( 75 ) THERE’LL BE SAD SONGS Billy Ocean
71 ( 59 ) BEHIND THE MASK Greg Philinganes 72 ( 57 ) CELEBRATE YOUTH Rick Springfield 73 ( 49 ) THEME FROM NEW YORK NEW YORK Frank Sinatra 74 ( NEW ) FUNNY HOW LOVE IS Fine Young Cannibals 75 ( NEW ) IF SHE KNEW WHAT SHE WANTS The Bangles
Oldies 1 THE POWER OF LOVE Jennifer Rush 2 SUNSHINE The Archies 3 THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD The Beatles
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Post by popchartfreak on Apr 24, 2018 19:58:26 GMT 1
20th April 1968
It's a first week on top for Julie, Bri & co having a neat Dylan-cover bookending the top and bottom of my chart. The Ab Fab theme tune has eaten into the record's Ab Fabness over the years, but really it's a majestic powerful record that I wasn't really aware of much at the time. Highest new entry is the penultimate 16 Big Hits record to debut, and it's Engelbert's best record by a country mile, the smooth A Man Without Love, an English-language cover of a fab dramatic 1962 Italian soaring ballad. Another expert at the dramatic ballad, Gene Pitney, also goes top 10, not for the first time, not for the last time, cos Gene was just epic at his best.
Glen Campbell gets a 3rd top 5 and The Love Affair get a second top 5, with an uncredited Sue Glover doing some key female melody hooks on it. As I'm treating my retro charts as if they were 2018, streaming, worldwide release, and dozens of featuring credits for minimal effort, I'm giving credit where it's deserved in the grooves. Sun & Sunny had a duetting stream of support vocals, a minor hit, and an actual hit as The Pearls (Third Finger Left Hand) but weren't allowed to promote it due to contractual problems, so fellow backing vocalists took over the group. Not that it mattered, they were also Brotherhood Of Man pre-Eurovision, Sunny had a solo hit in 1974, and Sue was one of the gospel rousing singers on With A Little Help for Joe Cocker later in 68, before both backed Lulu at Eurovision in 69. Cue singing for T.Rex, Mott, Dusty, Elton, Zappa & Moroder among many....!
Simon & Garfunkel's movie soundtrack classic (The Graduate - "are you trying to seduce me Mrs Robinson?") enters at 25 as lead track on Bookends, along with post-split 1972 hit America. Great record but it belongs in 1968 charts not 1972. Angel Of The Morning, Merrilee Rush's big US hit (as later covered in the UK by Mary Mason in 1977, and definitively by Juice Newton in the early 80's, as featured in probably the greatest ever use of an oldie to start a movie - the awesome Deadpool) enters at 44, one I never knew back then, but know by others way better now. The original is pretty good though.
That leaves just another Thom Bell writer/production for The Delfonics follow-up hinting of greater things to come - that would be The Detroit Spinners, The Stylistics early hits, New York City and a banger 21st century number from Elton John's Thom Bell Philadelphia soul EP - Are You Ready For Love. The record that cheated Cliff out of his win by one point (rumour suggests Spanish leader Franco had a hand in nobbling judges, but nothing has been proved to back it up), La La La, enters. Not only is it not as good, as successful, nor as famous as Cliff's Congratulations, but it was supposed to have been sung in Catalan by a male singer but Franco over-ruled this bare-faced affront. Much more likely 1969 judges were nobbled, I say - come back next year for more...
1 ( 3 ) THIS WHEEL’S ON FIRE Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity 2 ( 1 ) WHITE HORSES Jackie 3 ( 2 ) MONY MONY Tommy James & The Shondells 4 ( 8 ) ELUSIVE BUTTERFLY Glen Campbell 5 ( 10 ) RAINBOW VALLEY The Love Affair featuring Sue Glover 6 ( NEW ) A MAN WITHOUT LOVE Engelbert Humperdinck 7 ( 4 ) SUNDOWN, SUNDOWN Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 8 ( 5 ) VALLERI The Monkees 9 ( 6 ) THE LEGEND OF XANADU Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 10 ( 17 ) SOMEWHERE IN THE COUNTRY Gene Pitney
11 ( 7 ) FOREVER CAME TODAY Diana Ross & The Supremes 12 ( 9 ) IF I WERE A CARPENTER The Four Tops 13 ( 15 ) ELUSIVE DREAMS Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 14 ( 11 ) LADY MADONNA The Beatles 15 ( 13 ) DELILAH Tom Jones 16 ( 12 ) HONEY Bobby Goldsboro 17 ( 18 ) DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO SAN JOSE Dionne Warwick 18 ( 16 ) YOUNG GIRL The Union Gap featuring Gary Puckett 19 ( 14 ) LA-LA MEANS I LOVE YOU The Delfonics 20 ( 24 ) LOVING YOU HAS MADE ME BANANAS Guy Marks
21 ( 21 ) CAN’T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU Andy Williams 22 ( 22 ) ALONE AGAIN OR Love 23 ( 20 ) THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY Hugo Montenegro, His Orchestra & Chorus 24 ( 25 ) I CAN’T LET MAGGIE GO Honeybus 25 ( NEW ) MRS ROBINSON Simon & Garfunkel 26 ( 31 ) I DON’T WANT OUR LOVING TO DIE The Herd 27 ( 30 ) SWEET BLINDNESS Laura Nyro 28 ( 19 ) MASTER JACK Four Jacks And A Jill 29 ( 27 ) SOME VELVET MORNING Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 30 ( 34 ) I’LL SAY FOREVER MY LOVE Jimmy Ruffin
31 ( 28 ) (SITTIN’ ON) THE DOCK OF THE BAY Otis Redding 32 ( 29 ) WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD Louis Armstrong 33 ( 26 ) IF YOU DON’T WANT MY LOVE Robert John 34 ( 23 ) AIN’T NO WAY Aretha Franklin 35 ( 32 ) WORDS The Bee Gees 36 ( NEW ) AMERICA Simon & Garfunkel 37 ( 39 ) GOIN’ AWAY The Fireballs 38 ( 35 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles 39 ( 53 ) LAZY SUNDAY The Small Faces 40 ( 45 ) 100 YEARS Nancy Sinatra
41 ( 36 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 42 ( 43 ) THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM (THE QUEST) Glen Campbell 43 ( 33 ) I’VE GOT YOU ON MY MIND Dorian Gray 44 ( NEW ) ANGEL OF THE MORNING Merrilee Rush & The Turnabouts 45 ( 41 ) KITES Simon Dupree & The Big Sound 46 ( 37 ) ME THE PEACEFUL HEART Lulu 47 ( 56 ) TAKE ME IN YOUR ARMS (ROCK ME A LITTLE WHILE) The Isley Brothers 48 ( 38 ) JENNIFER ECCLES The Hollies 49 ( 46 ) WE CAN FLY The Cowsills 50 ( 68 ) FRIENDS The Beach Boys
51 ( 48 ) WALK AWAY RENEE The Four Tops 52 ( 50 ) FOOL ON THE HILL The Beatles 53 ( 51 ) JACKIE Scott Walker 54 ( 49 ) EVERLASTING LOVE The Love Affair 55 ( 55 ) A BEAUTIFUL MORNING The Rascals 56 ( 62 ) YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY Ohio Express 57 ( 47 ) ROSIE Don Partridge 58 ( 42 ) IF THIS WORLD WERE MINE Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell 59 ( 59 ) IMPOSSIBLE MISSION (MISSION IMPOSSIBLE) Soul Survivors 60 ( 44 ) STEP INSIDE LOVE Cilla Black
61 ( 63 ) AIN’T NOTHING LIKE THE REAL THING Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell 62 ( 57 ) WORLD The Bee Gees 63 ( 58 ) MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR The Beatles 64 ( 64 ) HELLO HOW ARE YOU The Easybeats 65 ( 61 ) DAYDREAM BELIEVER The Monkees 66 ( 66 ) DON’T HURT ME NO MORE Al Green 67 ( 40 ) CONGRATULATIONS Cliff Richard 68 ( 74 ) HOW’D WE EVER GET THIS WAY Andy Kim 69 ( 70 ) WONDER BOY The Kinks 70 ( 75 ) I AM THE MAN YOU NEED Edwin Starr
71 ( 54 ) I’M GONNA MAKE YOU LOVE ME Madeline Bell 72 ( 72 ) WE’RE ROLLIN’ ON The Impressions featuring Curtis Mayfield 73 ( NEW ) I’M SORRY The Delfonics 74 ( NEW ) LA LA LA Massiel 75 ( NEW ) YOU AIN’T GOING NOWHERE The Byrds
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Post by popchartfreak on Apr 23, 2018 11:40:19 GMT 1
22nd April 2018
It's Kylie on top with album track country ho-down A Lifetime To Repair, MUST be a future single surely! It's the 2nd time she's taken an album track on top (Aphrodite in 2011 was the previous one), and the 12th time on top. Bizarrely it took her 6 years of singles to grab one (1994 Put Yourself In My Place) and another 6 years to wait for a second one (Kids, with Robbie) before the floodgates opened - 2001, 2 in 2002, 2005, 2 in 2010, 2014, and most recently 2017 as guest vocalist with Zoot Woman. Meanwhile her new version of Stop Me From Falling with added Gente De Zona and Spanish lyrics ahead of my Spanish holiday next week does what it says on the tin - stops her from falling, and it climbs back into the top 5, helped by a Queen's birthday performance.
That stops Abba from grabbing the top with 1978 chart-topper Summer Night City, back out for World Record Day, which leads a mini-invasion of vinyl-retro-reissues from The Undertones (1979 under-appreciated gem), William De Vaughan (ditto 1974 gem back with the original version 44 years on), Boz Scaggs 1977 top 10 great, Holland-Dozier's post-Motown goodie a full 46 years since it last made my top 20, and 1998 chart-topper from Air, Sexy Boy.
Highest new track is from Built By Titan at 19, with Foster The People (2011 former chart-toppers) back after a 4-year gap with their already second-biggest chart hit at 23, and Miles Kane is back with his first solo entry in 5 years, and some 7 years on from his top 10 Rearrange. Plus he gives Lana Del Ray a second chart presence. Dua Lipa and Ariana Grande add to their list of entries, while Calvin Harris extends his run to 11 years including 2 chart-toppers in 2013 and 2015.
Another DJ superstar-producer died tragically young at 28 this week, which explains the several returns for Swedish Tim Berling aka Avicii. His best track remains Hey Brother for me, one of 4 top 10's, though he also worked with Benny & Bjorn of Abba for a Eurovision collaboration, and belatedly his recent hit with Rita Ora enters my chart for the first time as I caught the video at the end of a music video tribute show.
1 2 1 3 A LIFETIME TO REPAIR Kylie Minogue 400000 2 1 1 8 BEND Ria Mae 511300 3 NEW 3 1 SUMMER NIGHT CITY Abba 85000 4 4 1 5 YOU’RE SO COOL Jonathan Bree 433000 5 12 4 6 STOP ME FROM FALLING Kylie Minogue featuring Gente De Zona 311000 6 3 1 3 I’M A MARIONETTE Abba 310000 7 9 7 3 YOU MUST LOVE ME Lana Del Ray 107000 8 8 8 3 YOU ARE THE SHINING LIGHT Eels 114300 9 NEW 9 1 YOU’VE GOT MY NUMBER (WHY DON'T YOU USE IT!) The Undertones 45000 10 11 10 3 SWEET SCORCHED EARTH Eels 102000
11 5 1 11 BEST DAYS Lissie 816000 12 6 1 12 ALL THE STARS Kendrick Lamar and SZA 961350 13 10 10 3 MUSIC’S TOO SAD WITHOUT YOU Kylie Minogue & Jack Savoretti 91400 14 7 7 6 MAKE YOUR OWN KIND OF MUSIC Paloma Faith 201300 15 NEW 15 1 BE THANKFUL FOR WHAT YOU’VE GOT William DeVaughn 27000 16 16 16 12 RHIANNON (ALBUM VERSION) Fleetwood Mac 229600 17 17 17 3 EVERY LITTLE PART OF ME Kylie Minogue 64000 18 13 13 4 RAINING GLITTER Kylie Minogue 105750 19 NEW 19 1 BROKEN LOVE Built By Titan featuring Starxs 21000 20 20 20 3 CALL OUT MY NAME The Weeknd 58750
21 15 3 13 SAY SOMETHING Justin Timberlake featuring Chris Stapleton 616750 22 14 9 4 NOTHING TO REGRET Robinson 122500 23 NEW 23 1 SIT NEXT TO ME Foster The People 19250 24 24 24 3 SINCERELY YOURS Kylie Minogue 48600 25 34 25 3 TINY DANCER Florence + The Machine 46450 26 27 26 3 HIGH HORSE Kacey Musgraves 47900 27 NEW 27 1 WHAT CAN I SAY Boz Scaggs 18400 28 26 20 3 HURT YOU The Weeknd featuring Gesaffelstein 56800 29 55 29 3 CRAZY GIRL Lissie 39200 30 30 30 7 VINCENT Don McLean 116400
31 25 10 7 IN DEEP LOVE Beca 196650 32 NEW 32 1 LOADED Miles Kane featuring Lana Del Ray & Jamie T 17800 33 33 33 5 SAY AMEN (SATURDAY NIGHT) Panic! At The Disco 77100 34 19 4 11 LET ME GO Hailee Steinfeld featuring Florida Georgia Line & watt 417800 35 29 1 11 MONSTERS Saara Aalto 904700 36 23 15 6 KANDY KRUSH Kim Wilde 100050 37 37 37 7 TWO DIVIDED BY ZERO Pet Shop Boys 93700 38 42 38 3 EVERYTHING Lisa Stansfield 44700 39 NEW 39 1 HEY BROTHER Avicii featuring Dan Kaminski 17100 40 18 6 10 STARCROSSED LOSERS The Fratellis 309100
41 21 11 7 SANCTIFY Years & Years 175850 42 48 42 4 FLAMES David Guetta & Sia 48600 43 44 43 3 CASTLES Lissie 40000 44 22 10 10 CAPITAL LETTERS Hailee Steinfeld featuring BoodPop 230550 45 NEW 45 1 WHY CAN’T WE BE LOVERS Holland-Dozier featuring Lamont Dozier 13000 46 36 18 5 YARADA LIJ Mikael Seifu 89650 47 32 27 6 TIME IN A BOTTLE Lykke Li 90500 48 40 5 14 TIL I’M DONE Paloma Faith 409050 49 NEW 49 1 THE NIGHTS Avicii 12100 50 41 18 7 LUCID DREAM Owl City 113700
51 35 35 4 INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT Robbie Williams 64250 52 49 1 20 UNTIL YOU COME BACK TO ME (THAT’S WHAT I’M GONNA DO) Aretha Franklin with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 1028750 53 51 1 13 ANYONE WHO KNOWS WHAT LOVE IS (WILL UNDERSTAND) Irma Thomas 726750 54 28 14 9 LULLABY Sigala & Paloma Faith 164900 55 47 5 13 THE DECONSTRUCTION Eels 370650 56 59 56 4 LADY POWERS Vera Blue 32800 57 31 6 9 MAKE ME FEEL Janelle Monae 273400 58 60 58 3 BILLIONAIRE Lisa Stansfield 26400 59 NEW 59 1 WHAT A DIFF’RENCE A DAY MADE Dinah Washington & Belford Hendrick’s Orchestra 10100 60 54 2 12 PRAY FOR ME The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar 513700
61 52 3 18 ON OUR WAY HOME Empire Of The Sun 743350 62 57 12 11 MEANT TO BE Bebe Rexha featuring Florida Georgia Line 206600 63 38 31 4 WHITE FLAG Bishop Briggs 60200 64 NEW 64 1 HIGHER Human 7100 65 NEW 65 1 ONE KISS Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa 7000 66 69 66 3 NO ROOTS Alice Merton 18200 67 NEW 67 1 SEXY BOY Air 6600 68 74 68 2 WHATEVER YOU WANT P!nk 11600 69 NEW 69 1 WAITING FOR LOVE Avicii featuring Simon Aldred (of Cherry Ghost) 6200 70 75 70 2 I WANT A LOVER Pet Shop Boys 11000
71 NEW 71 1 LONELY TOGETHER Avicii featuring Rita Ora 5800 72 NEW 72 1 NO TEARS LEFT TO CRY Ariana Grande 5600 73 NEW 73 1 WAWWA (WOLFGANG LOHR REMIX) Bart&Bake featuring Billy Bros Orchestra 5400 74 45 9 8 KILLER Pete Tong Heritage Orchestra featuring Seal 176050 75 NEW 75 1 SAFARI Serena 5000
DROP OUTS 39 3 5 PANINARO (ITALIAN REMIX) Pet Shop Boys 231350 43 20 4 SLIGHTLY ALL THE TIME Garden City Movement 69950 46 25 6 HANDERNA MOT HIMLEN Petra Marklund 96850 50 50 5 IN THE NIGHT Pet Shop Boys 47400 53 53 4 NAKED AND SACRED Maria Naylor 37750 56 12 8 HEART TO BREAK Kim Petras 174250 58 58 4 BLAZE UP Mai Lan 29400 61 28 7 LOVE TO LOVE YOU BABY Rosemary Martins 104700 62 62 4 PARADISE George Ezra 27400 63 49 5 FLOWER OF THE UNIVERSE Sade 38400 64 42 6 YOU ARE THE REASON (DUET VERSION) Calum Scott & Leona Lewis 71450 65 5 29 FEEL IT STILL Portugal. The Man 763050 66 53 4 SOMEONE OUT THERE Rae Morris 35500 67 18 11 THESE DAYS Rudimental featuring Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen 191350 68 68 3 YOU & I Asmik Shiroyan 18000 70 4 10 FEEL LIKE I DO Disclosure & Al Green 328050 71 71 2 SPACE COWBOY Kacey Musgraves 10800 72 1 21 HOW CAN I BE SURE David Cassidy 1024700 73 25 7 SLIDE LPX 88000
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Post by popchartfreak on Apr 19, 2018 14:44:58 GMT 1
13th April 1968
It's a first week on top for the galloping Jackie's kiddiepop gem, making it 7 weeks in a row of one-weekers on top, The Legend Of Xanadu being the last to stay on top longer than a week (3 weeks). Highest new entry at 3 is the psychedelic pop fabulousness of a Bob Dylan cover from Julie Driscoll & co, the best of many many Dylan covers to date, and better (as usual) than his original - Wheel's On Fire. Straight in at 10 The Love Affair cover a second Robert Knight top 20 original (in these charts), and also improve on the original considerably - My Rainbow Valley is triff. Robert Knight will be back in a few weeks with another Northern Soul gem that they didn't bother to cover - oops! Wrong choice! Talking of Northern Soul, Edwin Starr sneaks in at 75 with one I don't know, but like on first hearing, and it won't be long before he will be gracing the UK singles charts with other tracks.
Gene Pitney is Somewhere In The Country of, well in the region of, the top 20, and The Fireballs re-enter after dropping out the week before now the laid-back charms of Goin' Away are putting a hook into my car singalongs. Sounds more 70's than 60's so I take that to mean it was ahead of it's time. The Small Faces enter at 45 with what is a sort of cockney novelty record, and one I liked a lot at the time, much more than most of their hits which tended to pass me by on the whole. Lazy Sunday, though, was a last burst before they fizzled out.
At 59, it's Soul Survivors with another early Gamble & Huff Philly soul sound, and nothing to do with the TV theme, which is a relief as it's another new-to-me goodie. At 62, another 16 Big Hits track (I should recount them all, seems to be more like 26 tracks the amount of times I mention it!) and bubblegum earworm and a half: once you have heard the immortal lyric Yummy Yummy Yummy I've got love in my tummy there is no way of ever blocking it out no matter how you try. It's for life. Al Green has another obscure early soul goodie in my list, The Beach Boys return with Friends (much-needed as Brian Wilson had more-or-less retired burnt-out and mentally ill, along with the hint of genius, though it wouldnt be long before the rest of boys put in some good efforts). Curtis Mayfield and The Kinks return, and debuting at 74 it's Andy Kim with a bubblegum flop. Who he? Only the main co-songwriter of The Archies hits and album tracks, and 1974's fab Rock Me Gently which he grabbed all for himself. Get used to hearing his name frequently before year-end...yes I watched, adored, recorded, bought The Archies while I was cut off from the UK music scene in less than 18 months from this point.
1 ( 2 ) WHITE HORSES Jackie 2 ( 1 ) MONY MONY Tommy James & The Shondells 3 ( NEW ) THIS WHEEL’S ON FIRE Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity 4 ( 3 ) SUNDOWN, SUNDOWN Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 5 ( 4 ) VALLERI The Monkees 6 ( 5 ) THE LEGEND OF XANADU Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 7 ( 8 ) FOREVER CAME TODAY Diana Ross & The Supremes 8 ( 10 ) ELUSIVE BUTTERFLY Glen Campbell 9 ( 6 ) IF I WERE A CARPENTER The Four Tops 10 ( NEW ) RAINBOW VALLEY The Love Affair
11 ( 7 ) LADY MADONNA The Beatles 12 ( 9 ) HONEY Bobby Goldsboro 13 ( 11 ) DELILAH Tom Jones 14 ( 12 ) LA-LA MEANS I LOVE YOU The Delfonics 15 ( 17 ) ELUSIVE DREAMS Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 16 ( 13 ) YOUNG GIRL The Union Gap featuring Gary Puckett 17 ( 31 ) SOMEWHERE IN THE COUNTRY Gene Pitney 18 ( 19 ) DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO SAN JOSE Dionne Warwick 19 ( 15 ) MASTER JACK Four Jacks And A Jill 20 ( 14 ) THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY Hugo Montenegro, His Orchestra & Chorus 21 ( 16 ) CAN’T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU Andy Williams 22 ( 18 ) ALONE AGAIN OR Love 23 ( 20 ) AIN’T NO WAY Aretha Franklin 24 ( 30 ) LOVING YOU HAS MADE ME BANANAS Guy Marks 25 ( 27 ) I CAN’T LET MAGGIE GO Honeybus 26 ( 26 ) IF YOU DON’T WANT MY LOVE Robert John 27 ( 23 ) SOME VELVET MORNING Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 28 ( 21 ) (SITTIN’ ON) THE DOCK OF THE BAY Otis Redding 29 ( 22 ) WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD Louis Armstrong 30 ( 40 ) SWEET BLINDNESS Laura Nyro
31 ( 39 ) I DON’T WANT OUR LOVING TO DIE The Herd 32 ( 29 ) WORDS The Bee Gees 33 ( 35 ) I’VE GOT YOU ON MY MIND Dorian Gray 34 ( 25 ) I’LL SAY FOREVER MY LOVE Jimmy Ruffin 35 ( 32 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles 36 ( 33 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 37 ( 24 ) ME THE PEACEFUL HEART Lulu 38 ( 45 ) JENNIFER ECCLES The Hollies 39 ( RE ) GOIN’ AWAY The Fireballs 40 ( 43 ) CONGRATULATIONS Cliff Richard
41 ( 38 ) KITES Simon Dupree & The Big Sound 42 ( 28 ) IF THIS WORLD WERE MINE Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell 43 ( 61 ) THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM (THE QUEST) Glen Campbell 44 ( 34 ) STEP INSIDE LOVE Cilla Black 45 ( 56 ) 100 YEARS Nancy Sinatra 46 ( 42 ) WE CAN FLY The Cowsills 47 ( 41 ) ROSIE Don Partridge 48 ( 47 ) WALK AWAY RENEE The Four Tops 49 ( 46 ) EVERLASTING LOVE The Love Affair 50 ( 48 ) FOOL ON THE HILL The Beatles
51 ( 49 ) JACKIE Scott Walker 52 ( 37 ) SOMETHING HERE IN MY HEART The Paper Dolls 53 ( NEW ) LAZY SUNDAY The Small Faces 54 ( 44 ) I’M GONNA MAKE YOU LOVE ME Madeline Bell 55 ( 59 ) A BEAUTIFUL MORNING The Rascals 56 ( 60 ) TAKE ME IN YOUR ARMS (ROCK ME A LITTLE WHILE) The Isley Brothers 57 ( 53 ) WORLD The Bee Gees 58 ( 55 ) MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR The Beatles 59 ( NEW ) IMPOSSIBLE MISSION (MISSION IMPOSSIBLE) Soul Survivors 60 ( 36 ) UNWIND Ray Stevens
61 ( 58 ) DAYDREAM BELIEVER The Monkees 62 ( NEW ) YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY Ohio Express 63 ( 66 ) AIN’T NOTHING LIKE THE REAL THING Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell 64 ( 65 ) HELLO HOW ARE YOU The Easybeats 65 ( 67 ) ELI’S COMING Laura Nyro 66 ( NEW ) DON’T HURT ME NO MORE Al Green 67 ( 63 ) I AM THE WALRUS The Beatles 68 ( NEW ) FRIENDS The Beach Boys 69 ( 69 ) BLACK MAGIC WOMAN Fleetwood Mac 70 ( NEW ) WONDER BOY The Kinks
71 ( 50 ) THE SON OF HICKORY HOLLER’S TRAMP O.C. Smith 72 ( NEW ) WE’RE ROLLIN’ ON The Impressions featuring Curtis Mayfield 73 ( 68 ) DIFFERENT DRUM The Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt 74 ( NEW ) HOW’D WE EVER GET THIS WAY Andy Kim 75 ( NEW ) I AM THE MAN YOU NEED Edwin Starr
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Post by popchartfreak on Apr 19, 2018 9:42:40 GMT 1
15th April 1986
It's a second week on top for George Michael as Falco and Queen move closer, It's Immaterial get a fab top 10 worthy slot and Stevie Nicks gets her first solo top 10, though she had already been there before with Dreams, Gypsy and Sara amongst her many classic Mac tracks. Janet Jackson almost makes it a Jam & Lewis top 10, as do Andrew Gold & Graham Gouldman waxing lyrical.
Simple Minds rocket into the 20, up 54 places, while the highest new entry is Five Star's Can't Wait Another Minute at 28. Bonnie Tyler takes future Bon Jovi smash You Give Love A Bad Name If You Were A Woman into the 40, and Tavares get a decade-old belated new entry with It Only Takes A Minute, never a hit because I never got to hear it first-time round - though it did top my chart in the violin-riff-led version by Jonathan King working under an alias (100 Ton & A Feather) in 1976. Talking of JK, much of the chart was pushed by his No Limits show, and guess what - he's also back in the pseudonym game covering It's All In The Game in at 45, giving him 16 years-worth of chart action. Or 21 years if I had been charting in 1965 with kiddie fave Everyone's Gone To The Moon.
In at 48, it's another charity effort, a metal band get-together featuring stars like Rob Halford of Judas Priest. Check out the video, I guarantee you will never see a greater show of permed hair in your life in a music video, it's the Olympic Event of 80's hairdressing. Icehouse are back, with the fab No Promises - such an under-rated band - as is Sheila E with her latest Prince record, A Love Bizarre. Pretty much a Prince duet and joint songwriting credit. ZZ Top are back with their most touching track, and a fab scifi video, and Billy Ocean adds to his 12 years of hits with one of his most mundane singles. That leaves Gary Glitter and Girlschool, a cover of his 1973 top 10 (in my charts) - I can't imagine what attracted Gary to want to duet with a band called Girlschool, but I'd suggest sticking to the original or preferably playing the HeadSchool duet Please Don't Touch instead..
1 ( 1 ) A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael 2 ( 2 ) E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite 3 ( 4 ) ROCK ME AMADEUS Falco 4 ( 5 ) A KIND OF MAGIC Queen 5 ( 3 ) CALLING AMERICA Electric Light Orchestra 6 ( 9 ) PETER GUNN Art Of Noise & Duane Eddy 7 ( 7 ) WONDERFUL WORLD Sam Cooke 8 ( 21 ) DRIVING AWAY FROM HOME It’s Immaterial 9 ( 12 ) TALK TO ME Stevie Nicks 10 ( 6 ) DIGGING YOUR SCENE The Blow Monkeys
11 ( 36 ) WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY Janet Jackson 12 ( 24 ) RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES Wax 13 ( 8 ) YOU TO ME ARE EVERYTHING (REMIX) The Real Thing 14 ( 15 ) HAVE YOU EVER HAD IT BLUE The Style Council 15 ( 10 ) ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS David Bowie 16 ( 11 ) OVERJOYED Stevie Wonder 17 ( 13 ) LOVE COMES QUICKLY Pet Shop Boys 18 ( 72 ) ALL THE THE THINGS SHE SAID Simple Minds 19 ( 26 ) TRAIN OF THOUGHT a-ha 20 ( 14 ) HOUNDS OF LOVE Kate Bush
21 ( 35 ) THE FINEST SOS Band 22 ( 22 ) SOME PEOPLE Belouis Some 23 ( 16 ) KISS Prince & The Revolution 24 ( 28 ) IS YOUR LOVE STRONG ENOUGH Bryan Ferry 25 ( 25 ) SHELLSHOCK New Order 26 ( 38 ) MARLENE ON THE WALL Suzanne Vega 27 ( 19 ) MOVE AWAY Culture Club 28 ( NEW ) CAN’T WAIT ANOTHER MINUTE Five Star 29 ( 20 ) CHAIN REACTION Diana Ross 30 ( 18 ) TOUCH ME (I WANT YOUR BODY) Samantha Fox
31 ( 17 ) LIVING DOLL Cliff Richard & The Young Ones 32 ( 47 ) CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE Lick The Tins 33 ( 27 ) LOVE MISSILE F1-11 Sigue Sigue Sputnik 34 ( 34 ) SECRET LOVERS Atlantic Starr 35 ( 74 ) IF YOU WERE A WOMAN (AND I WAS A MAN) Bonnie Tyler 36 ( 31 ) THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES ON TV A-ha 37 ( NEW ) IT ONLY TAKES A MINUTE Tavares 38 ( 23 ) KYRIE Mr. Mister 39 ( 48 ) STROLLIN’ ON Maxi Priest 40 ( 32 ) HEAVEN MUST BE MISSING AN ANGEL Tavares
41 ( 39 ) EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD Tears For Fears 42 ( 29 ) DARE TO DREAM Viola Wills 43 ( 33 ) SILENT RUNNING Mike + The Mechanics 44 ( 40 ) MANIC MONDAY The Bangles 45 ( NEW ) IT’S ALL IN THE GAME The Man (aka Jonathan King) 46 ( 44 ) SYSTEM ADDICT Five Star 47 ( 30 ) THESE DREAMS Heart 48 ( NEW ) STARS Hear ‘n’ Aid 49 ( 37 ) THEME FROM NEW YORK NEW YORK Frank Sinatra 50 ( 59 ) HELLO DARLING Tippa Irie
51 ( 45 ) NO-ONE IS TO BLAME Howard Jones 52 ( 43 ) THE HONEY THIEF Hipsway 53 ( 53 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 54 ( 54 ) WEST END GIRLS Pet Shop Boys 55 ( 49 ) HI HO SILVER Jim Diamond 56 ( 71 ) LOOK AWAY Big Country 57 ( 41 ) CELEBRATE YOUTH Rick Springfield 58 ( 68 ) C’MON C’MON Bronski Beat 59 ( 55 ) BEHIND THE MASK Greg Philinganes 60 ( 50 ) ANOTHER NIGHT Aretha Franklin
61 ( 58 ) LOVE IS WAR Brilliant 62 ( 57 ) VOICES Russ Ballard 63 ( 62 ) WE CAN WORK IT OUT/ DAY TRIPPER The Beatles 64 ( 63 ) LONELY THIS CHRISTMAS Mud 65 ( 42 ) POWER OF LOVE/ DO YOU BELIEVE IN LOVE Huey Lewis & The News 66 ( NEW ) NO PROMISES Icehouse 67 ( 46 ) CANDYMAN Siouxsie & The Banshees 68 ( 60 ) ELOISE The Damned 69 ( NEW ) A LOVE BIZARRE Sheila E 70 ( 52 ) LIVE IT UP Mental As Anything
71 ( 51 ) ONLY LOVE CAN BREAK YOUR HEART The Mint Juleps 72 ( NEW ) I’M THE LEADER OF THE GANG Gary Glitter & Girlschool 73 ( 66 ) GALVESTON BAY Lonnie Hill 74 ( NEW ) ROUGH BOY ZZ Top 75 ( NEW ) THERE’LL BE SAD SONGS Billy Ocean
PLAYLIST OLDIES OF THE WEEK
1 EMMA Hot Chocolate 2 I CAN’T WAIT Stevie Nicks 3 GET IT ON T.Rex
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Post by popchartfreak on Apr 16, 2018 17:11:23 GMT 1
15th April 2018
It's Canadian Ria Mae on top with the classy and clever EDM of Bend heading off the mighty singalong yee haw of Kylie's A Lifetime To Repair, surely it must be a single! Of last week's deluge of album tracks, Eels leapfrog themselves to grab a second top 10 of 2018, and that surely must be the next single. Lana Del Ray's definitively touching version of You Must Love Me gives her a 6th top 10, 3 of them covers - Blue Velvet from the 60's, You Must Love Me from the 90's, and Disney's Once Upon A Dream from 1959. It's rare that I like covers better than the originals, but Lana has a knack for it.
Kylie gets a 4th top 10 of the year with Jack Savoretti, a 6th top 20, and a 7th top 30, and it's only April. I don't know how many times she's featured in my charts (my stats are not anywhere near complete yet) but she's had at least 55 since 1997, and I'm guessing at least 25 prior to that so well on the way to 100. Not bad from someone I dismissed as a weedy-voiced SAW novelty soap-star 30 years ago, and who I'm paying £80 to see in September (again).
The Weeknd replaces himself in my top 20, his 3rd of the year, Kacey Musgraves goes top 30, Florence is back in the 40, her 19th chart entry in 9 years. There are only 2 new entries, at 74 another single from P!nk (wrong choice though, Where We Go was the commercial one) and yet another Pet Shop Boys album track from their debut Please, and the last one lined up to debut in my chart. Actually will get attention next, the deluxe version.
1 5 1 7 BEND Ria Mae 396300 2 2 2 2 A LIFETIME TO REPAIR Kylie Minogue 230000 3 1 1 2 I’M A MARIONETTE Abba 255000 4 3 1 4 YOU’RE SO COOL Jonathan Bree 368000 5 4 1 10 BEST DAYS Lissie 779000 6 6 1 11 ALL THE STARS Kendrick Lamar and SZA 926350 7 7 7 5 MAKE YOUR OWN KIND OF MUSIC Paloma Faith 172300 8 28 8 2 YOU ARE THE SHINING LIGHT Eels 66300 9 50 9 2 YOU MUST LOVE ME Lana Del Ray 57000 10 36 10 2 MUSIC’S TOO SAD WITHOUT YOU Kylie Minogue & Jack Savoretti 59400
11 17 11 2 SWEET SCORCHED EARTH Eels 60000 12 8 4 5 STOP ME FROM FALLING Kylie Minogue 251000 13 13 13 3 RAINING GLITTER Kylie Minogue 83750 14 9 9 3 NOTHING TO REGRET Robinson 103000 15 12 3 12 SAY SOMETHING Justin Timberlake featuring Chris Stapleton 597000 16 19 16 11 RHIANNON (ALBUM VERSION) Fleetwood Mac 204600 17 30 17 2 EVERY LITTLE PART OF ME Kylie Minogue 41000 18 11 6 9 STARCROSSED LOSERS The Fratellis 292100 19 16 4 10 LET ME GO Hailee Steinfeld featuring Florida Georgia Line & watt 400200 20 25 20 2 CALL OUT MY NAME The Weeknd 38750
21 14 11 6 SANCTIFY Years & Years 161850 22 10 10 9 CAPITAL LETTERS Hailee Steinfeld featuring BoodPop 217300 23 15 15 5 KANDY KRUSH Kim Wilde 82650 24 56 24 2 SINCERELY YOURS Kylie Minogue 29600 25 18 10 6 IN DEEP LOVE Beca 178750 26 20 20 2 HURT YOU The Weeknd featuring Gesaffelstein 38500 27 54 27 2 HIGH HORSE Kacey Musgraves 29400 28 21 14 8 LULLABY Sigala & Paloma Faith 153900 29 24 1 10 MONSTERS Saara Aalto 887200 30 32 30 6 VINCENT Don McLean 98400
31 22 6 8 MAKE ME FEEL Janelle Monae 263000 32 27 27 5 TIME IN A BOTTLE Lykke Li 78000 33 37 33 4 SAY AMEN (SATURDAY NIGHT) Panic! At The Disco 59400 34 59 34 2 TINY DANCER Florence + The Machine 27700 35 35 35 3 INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT Robbie Williams 52500 36 26 18 4 YARADA LIJ Mikael Seifu 76900 37 40 37 6 TWO DIVIDED BY ZERO Pet Shop Boys 76400 38 31 31 3 WHITE FLAG Bishop Briggs 53000 39 23 3 5 PANINARO (ITALIAN REMIX) Pet Shop Boys 231350 40 39 5 13 TIL I’M DONE Paloma Faith 396750
41 29 18 6 LUCID DREAM Owl City 101700 42 42 42 2 EVERYTHING Lisa Stansfield 27500 43 33 20 4 SLIGHTLY ALL THE TIME Garden City Movement 69950 44 44 44 2 CASTLES Lissie 26500 45 34 9 7 KILLER Pete Tong Heritage Orchestra featuring Seal 170850 46 38 25 6 HANDERNA MOT HIMLEN Petra Marklund 96850 47 41 5 12 THE DECONSTRUCTION Eels 359850 48 55 48 3 FLAMES David Guetta & Sia 34850 49 49 1 19 UNTIL YOU COME BACK TO ME (THAT’S WHAT I’M GONNA DO) Aretha Franklin with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 1017250 50 52 50 5 IN THE NIGHT Pet Shop Boys 47400
51 48 1 12 ANYONE WHO KNOWS WHAT LOVE IS (WILL UNDERSTAND) Irma Thomas 715500 52 47 3 17 ON OUR WAY HOME Empire Of The Sun 735850 53 RE 53 4 NAKED AND SACRED Maria Naylor 37750 54 43 2 11 PRAY FOR ME The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar 503700 55 58 55 2 CRAZY GIRL Lissie 21000 56 45 12 8 HEART TO BREAK Kim Petras 174250 57 57 12 10 MEANT TO BE Bebe Rexha featuring Florida Georgia Line 199200 58 66 58 4 BLAZE UP Mai Lan 29400 59 64 59 3 LADY POWERS Vera Blue 22200 60 69 60 2 BILLIONAIRE Lisa Stansfield 16200
61 46 28 7 LOVE TO LOVE YOU BABY Rosemary Martins 104700 62 62 62 4 PARADISE George Ezra 27400 63 63 49 5 FLOWER OF THE UNIVERSE Sade 38400 64 51 42 6 YOU ARE THE REASON (DUET VERSION) Calum Scott & Leona Lewis 71450 65 65 5 29 FEEL IT STILL Portugal. The Man 763050 66 53 53 4 SOMEONE OUT THERE Rae Morris 35500 67 RE 18 11 THESE DAYS Rudimental featuring Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen 191350 68 RE 68 3 YOU & I Asmik Shiroyan 18000 69 74 69 2 NO ROOTS Alice Merton 11400 70 60 4 10 FEEL LIKE I DO Disclosure & Al Green 328050
71 75 71 2 SPACE COWBOY Kacey Musgraves 10800 72 68 1 21 HOW CAN I BE SURE David Cassidy 1024700 73 73 25 7 SLIDE LPX 88000 74 NEW 74 1 WHATEVER YOU WANT P!nk 5200 75 NEW 75 1 I WANT A LOVER Pet Shop Boys 5000
DROP OUTS 61 46 6 MUTINY Think Up Anger featuring Crazy Vocal 52100 67 14 8 IT’S MY HOUSE MIKA 165550 70 63 4 STORM SuRie 25600 71 39 4 BLACK AND BLUE (WARRIOR) Paloma Faith & Sia 49150 72 20 8 ALL FALLS DOWN Alan Walker featuring Noah Cyrus & Digital Farm Animals 108700
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Post by popchartfreak on Apr 13, 2018 20:18:44 GMT 1
8th April 1986
It's an utter gem on top as George takes his greatest track to the top for a second solo chart-topper, and a 4th in total (unless you count his contribution to David Cassidy's The Last Kiss, in which case 5th). It's a fab top 40, with Queen up to 5 for 12 years of top 5's, and Bowie's fab Absolute Beginners gives him 14 years of top 10's, and 5 years since both of them topped my chart together. The Style Council make it 3 years of top 20's as Have You Ever Had It Blue whoops up the chart 39 spots, and Sam Fox inexplicably makes my top 20.
It's Immaterial have the highest new entry with the fab Driving Away From Home in at 21, and the fab Wax debut at 24 with the cruelly-flopped Right Between The Eyes. It's a terrific pop track with impeccable credentials, being as it's a joint Andrew Gold & Graham Gouldman effort. That'll be 9 years since Lonely Boy for Andrew, and 20 pre-chart years since teenage Graham wrote a bunch of 60's classics like Bus Stop, or 14 years since 10CC debuted with chart-topper Donna.
New Order and a-ha both are a bit shellshocked at riding the train into the top 30, and Bryan Ferry cruises smoothly in to boot, also 14 years on since he first did it. Spirit of 72! Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis were already making great smooth, classy dance tracks, and this week they underlined they were the sound of the mid-80's dance soul with Janet Jackson debuting with one of theirs, and the SOS Band returning with another cheek to cheek at 36 and 35 proving they The Finest.
Lower down another reggae stalwart debut from Maxi Priest, always smooth n tuneful, a nice soul tune I'd forgotten from Lonnie Hill, a great Simple Minds stormer, and a very Jim Steinman-ish Bonnie Tyler effort. That'll be because he produced it. If it sounds like Bon Jovi's You Give Love A Bad Name (which it totes does) that'll be because Desmond Child rewrote for them after he wasn't happy with the original song. Kerching!
Oldies faves of the week, my all-time fave Baker Street, the fab Rod Argent song from late 1971 when I first heard it on Fluff Freeman's Pick Of The Pops, and the South African tribal gem from John Kongos of the same time - influenced his sons if no-one else, happily, check out the good recent KONGOS singles.
1 ( 8 ) A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael 2 ( 1 ) E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite 3 ( 2 ) CALLING AMERICA Electric Light Orchestra 4 ( 4 ) ROCK ME AMADEUS Falco 5 ( 13 ) A KIND OF MAGIC Queen 6 ( 6 ) DIGGING YOUR SCENE The Blow Monkeys 7 ( 10 ) WONDERFUL WORLD Sam Cooke 8 ( 3 ) YOU TO ME ARE EVERYTHING (REMIX) The Real Thing 9 ( 9 ) PETER GUNN Art Of Noise & Duane Eddy 10 ( 14 ) ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS David Bowie
11 ( 11 ) OVERJOYED Stevie Wonder 12 ( 19 ) TALK TO ME Stevie Nicks 13 ( 12 ) LOVE COMES QUICKLY Pet Shop Boys 14 ( 7 ) HOUNDS OF LOVE Kate Bush 15 ( 54 ) HAVE YOU EVER HAD IT BLUE The Style Council 16 ( 17 ) KISS Prince & The Revolution 17 ( 5 ) LIVING DOLL Cliff Richard & The Young Ones 18 ( 23 ) TOUCH ME (I WANT YOUR BODY) Samantha Fox 19 ( 15 ) MOVE AWAY Culture Club 20 ( 20 ) CHAIN REACTION Diana Ross
21 ( NEW ) DRIVING AWAY FROM HOME It’s Immaterial 22 ( 35 ) SOME PEOPLE Belouis Some 23 ( 16 ) KYRIE Mr. Mister 24 ( NEW ) RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES Wax 25 ( 47 ) SHELLSHOCK New Order 26 ( 68 ) TRAIN OF THOUGHT a-ha 27 ( 18 ) LOVE MISSILE F1-11 Sigue Sigue Sputnik 28 ( 43 ) IS YOUR LOVE STRONG ENOUGH Bryan Ferry 29 ( 34 ) DARE TO DREAM Viola Wills 30 ( 37 ) THESE DREAMS Heart
31 ( 26 ) THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES ON TV A-ha 32 ( 25 ) HEAVEN MUST BE MISSING AN ANGEL Tavares 33 ( 24 ) SILENT RUNNING Mike + The Mechanics 34 ( 40 ) SECRET LOVERS Atlantic Starr 35 ( NEW ) THE FINEST SOS Band 36 ( NEW ) WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY Janet Jackson 37 ( 22 ) THEME FROM NEW YORK NEW YORK Frank Sinatra 38 ( 49 ) MARLENE ON THE WALL Suzanne Vega 39 ( 30 ) EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD Tears For Fears 40 ( 33 ) MANIC MONDAY The Bangles
41 ( 21 ) CELEBRATE YOUTH Rick Springfield 42 ( 61 ) POWER OF LOVE/ DO YOU BELIEVE IN LOVE Huey Lewis & The News 43 ( 27 ) THE HONEY THIEF Hipsway 44 ( 38 ) SYSTEM ADDICT Five Star 45 ( 29 ) NO-ONE IS TO BLAME Howard Jones 46 ( 28 ) CANDYMAN Siouxsie & The Banshees 47 ( 62 ) CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE Lick The Tins 48 ( NEW ) STROLLIN’ ON Maxi Priest 49 ( 66 ) HI HO SILVER Jim Diamond 50 ( 36 ) ANOTHER NIGHT Aretha Franklin
51 ( 31 ) ONLY LOVE CAN BREAK YOUR HEART The Mint Juleps 52 ( 32 ) LIVE IT UP Mental As Anything 53 ( 52 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 54 ( 51 ) WEST END GIRLS Pet Shop Boys 55 ( 44 ) BEHIND THE MASK Greg Philinganes 56 ( 74 ) STICK AROUND Julian Lennon 57 ( 42 ) VOICES Russ Ballard 58 ( 45 ) LOVE IS WAR Brilliant 59 ( 67 ) HELLO DARLING Tippa Irie 60 ( 46 ) ELOISE The Damned
61 ( 41 ) JUST BUGGIN’ Whistle 62 ( 57 ) WE CAN WORK IT OUT/ DAY TRIPPER The Beatles 63 ( 58 ) LONELY THIS CHRISTMAS Mud 64 ( 48 ) HARLEM SHUFFLE The Rolling Stones 65 ( 39 ) THIS TIME Bryan Adams 66 ( NEW ) GALVESTON BAY Lonnie Hill 67 ( 59 ) IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD Tom Waits 68 ( 73 ) C’MON C’MON Bronski Beat 69 ( 56 ) JUST THE WAY YOU ARE/ SHE’S ALWAYS A WOMAN Billy Joel 70 ( 53 ) ONE DANCE WON’T DO Audrey Hall
71 ( NEW ) LOOK AWAY Big Country 72 ( NEW ) ALL THE THE THINGS SHE SAID Simple Minds 73 ( 60 ) WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH THE TOUGH GET GOING Billy Ocean 74 ( NEW ) IF YOU WERE A WOMAN (AND I WAS A MAN) Bonnie Tyler 75 ( 55 ) YOU’VE GOT THE POWER Win
Playlist Oldies Of The Week 1 BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 2 HOLD YOUR HEAD UP Argent 3 TOKOLOSHE MAN John Kongos
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Post by popchartfreak on Apr 9, 2018 15:03:05 GMT 1
6th April 1968
It's a first week on top for Tommy James major classic party rockin' anthem, a great vocal performance showing minimal lyrics aren't an issue for dancing wildly. In at 2, it's one of my all-time fave childhood records (well, it was obligatory in 1968 to love it if you were between 5 and 12, and especially for girls who loved ponies). It was the theme tune to children's TV The White Horses, one of the many European shows of the time (Yugoslavian/German in this case) and in it's many repeats over subsequent years the theme tune stayed fresh and popular, almost cult (see Trash Can Sinatras version). Still love it, unashamedly, such a toon!
Diana Ross & co grabbing another top 10, Glen also fluttering top-10-ward with his elusive album track, and Dionne Warwick's great Bacharach/David jaunty coffee-table classic is in at 10 - and indeed I do know the way to San Jose, I've been there. Head south from the Golden Gate Bridge is my advice. Guy Marks is bananas into the 30, and Gene Pitney is somewhere in the country just outside, and Peter Frampton herds his band into the 40, their 3rd hit, and just as fab as the first 2. Laura Nyro gets another top 40.
New entries lower down include, The Rascals back again, no longer Young, The Isley Brothers future-brilliant-cover for The Doobie Brothers in 1975, Take Me In Your Arms, and The Easybeats are also back - not quite AC/DC or even Flash & The Pan, though the latter certainly has it's roots in Hello How Are You - literally. Marvin & Tammi are back yet again with one better known song than the higher-charting of their two, and a blues goodie later covered by Santana to more fame and sales slips in - Black Magic Woman, a Peter Green early great song that sounds like it had been around for 40 years already. Arthur Conley and Classics IV do the clone-follow-up thing, and Spanky And Our Gang get all MOR schmaltzy at 75.
1 ( 11 ) MONY MONY Tommy James & The Shondells 2 ( NEW ) WHITE HORSES Jacky 3 ( 1 ) SUNDOWN, SUNDOWN Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 4 ( 2 ) VALLERI The Monkees 5 ( 3 ) THE LEGEND OF XANADU Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 6 ( 10 ) IF I WERE A CARPENTER The Four Tops 7 ( 4 ) LADY MADONNA The Beatles 8 ( 14 ) FOREVER CAME TODAY Diana Ross & The Supremes 9 ( 6 ) HONEY Bobby Goldsboro 10 ( 15 ) ELUSIVE BUTTERFLY Glen Campbell
11 ( 5 ) DELILAH Tom Jones 12 ( 7 ) LA-LA MEANS I LOVE YOU The Delfonics 13 ( 8 ) YOUNG GIRL The Union Gap featuring Gary Puckett 14 ( 9 ) THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY Hugo Montenegro, His Orchestra & Chorus 15 ( 16 ) MASTER JACK Four Jacks And A Jill 16 ( 12 ) CAN’T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU Andy Williams 17 ( 17 ) ELUSIVE DREAMS Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 18 ( 13 ) ALONE AGAIN OR Love 19 ( NEW ) DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO SAN JOSE Dionne Warwick 20 ( 24 ) AIN’T NO WAY Aretha Franklin
21 ( 18 ) (SITTIN’ ON) THE DOCK OF THE BAY Otis Redding 22 ( 19 ) WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD Louis Armstrong 23 ( 23 ) SOME VELVET MORNING Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 24 ( 20 ) ME THE PEACEFUL HEART Lulu 25 ( 21 ) I’LL SAY FOREVER MY LOVE Jimmy Ruffin 26 ( 32 ) IF YOU DON’T WANT MY LOVE Robert John 27 ( 30 ) I CAN’T LET MAGGIE GO Honeybus 28 ( 22 ) IF THIS WORLD WERE MINE Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell 29 ( 25 ) WORDS The Bee Gees 30 ( 45 ) LOVING YOU HAS MADE ME BANANAS Guy Marks
31 ( 61 ) SOMEWHERE IN THE COUNTRY Gene Pitney 32 ( 27 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles 33 ( 28 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 34 ( 26 ) STEP INSIDE LOVE Cilla Black 35 ( 39 ) I’VE GOT YOU ON MY MIND Dorian Gray 36 ( 29 ) UNWIND Ray Stevens 37 ( 38 ) SOMETHING HERE IN MY HEART The Paper Dolls 38 ( 33 ) KITES Simon Dupree & The Big Sound 39 ( NEW ) I DON’T WANT OUR LOVING TO DIE The Herd 40 ( 53 ) SWEET BLINDNESS Laura Nyro
41 ( 31 ) ROSIE Don Partridge 42 ( 34 ) WE CAN FLY The Cowsills 43 ( 46 ) CONGRATULATIONS Cliff Richard 44 ( 35 ) I’M GONNA MAKE YOU LOVE ME Madeline Bell 45 ( 50 ) JENNIFER ECCLES The Hollies 46 ( 41 ) EVERLASTING LOVE The Love Affair 47 ( 43 ) WALK AWAY RENEE The Four Tops 48 ( 42 ) FOOL ON THE HILL The Beatles 49 ( 44 ) JACKIE Scott Walker 50 ( 36 ) THE SON OF HICKORY HOLLER’S TRAMP O.C. Smith
51 ( 40 ) CAPTAIN OF YOUR SHIP Reparata & The Delrons 52 ( 52 ) IF YOU CAN WANT Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 53 ( 47 ) WORLD The Bee Gees 54 ( 59 ) AND THE SUN WILL SHINE The Bee Gees 55 ( 51 ) MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR The Beatles 56 ( 60 ) 100 YEARS Nancy Sinatra 57 ( 37 ) AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS The Formations 58 ( 54 ) DAYDREAM BELIEVER The Monkees 59 ( NEW ) A BEAUTIFUL MORNING The Rascals 60 ( NEW ) TAKE ME IN YOUR ARMS (ROCK ME A LITTLE WHILE) The Isley Brothers
61 ( 64 ) THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM Glen Campbell 62 ( 48 ) MIGHTY QUINN Manfred Mann 63 ( 58 ) I AM THE WALRUS The Beatles 64 ( 66 ) DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW ABOUT ME? Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers 65 ( NEW ) HELLO HOW ARE YOU The Easybeats 66 ( NEW ) AIN’T NOTHING LIKE THE REAL THING Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell 67 ( 70 ) ELI’S COMING Laura Nyro 68 ( 63 ) DIFFERENT DRUM The Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt 69 ( NEW ) BLACK MAGIC WOMAN Fleetwood Mac 70 ( 72 ) RED RED WINE Neil Diamond
71 ( 55 ) PICTURES OF MATCHSTICK MEN Status Quo 72 ( NEW ) FUNKY STREET Arthur Conley 73 ( 75 ) SHOO-BE-DOO-BE-DOO-DA-DAY Stevie Wonder 74 ( NEW ) SOUL TRAIN Classics IV 75 ( NEW ) LIKE TO GET TO KNOW YOU Spanky & Our Gang
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Post by popchartfreak on Apr 9, 2018 8:24:08 GMT 1
8th April 2018
It's straight in for a 40th anniversary vinyl picture disc reissue on top - or rather the B side of Take A Chance On Me - just ahead of World Record Day when another Abba 1978 classic gets that treatment. Back in the day I didn't allow Abba B sides and album tracks in my charts (or any other acts) because my top 10's would have been Ed Sheeran invasions and there was too much to love equally as much. Well now streaming has pooed on that in the real charts, so have I changed my rules. So a huge fave in 1978 finally gets it's own chance to shine, having previously popped into my top 10 in 1999 during an Abba invasion sparked by a Box-set of rarity singles. I'm A Marionette was the key track in a mini-musical of The Album and The Movie. It would sound great in Mamma Mia 2, is all I'm suggesting...
So 44 years of Abba chart-toppers (pretty much all singles and as many album tracks) which stops a gloriously singalong cheesy country track from Kylie doing it (A Lifetime To Repair), but gives her a 3rd top 10 off Golden - along with another 3 new ones, making it a very greedy 6 scattered around the chart - it is a very good album though, most of the tracks stand out as potential singles. That's not all, though, it's been a very good week for new albums, 2 big ones from The Weeknd enter, 2 biggies from Eels, 2 from Lissie (all now having 3 in the list), 2 from Lisa Stansfield, and 2 from Kacey Musgraves. Phew!
I saw Kim Wilde headlining her first tour in decades with a new album Hear Come The Aliens, on Saturday, and rather fab she was too, really rocking it family-style with bruv Ricky and niece Scarlet. Some of the new stuff sounded as fab as the old classics, which gives a boost to Kandy Krush into the 20 some 37 years since show-closer stormer Kids In America. She is still as engaging as ever and a great back-catalogue to boot.
The mass invasion is bad news for a lot of records which fall or drop out prematurely when they should be climbing, but hey that's chart-life, if it's chockablock there's only 75 spots available! Meanwhile another album track (Lloyd Webber at 70) from Lana Del Ray enters, covering the Evita add-on for Madonna's film version, and I must say I much prefer Lana's reading. Meanwhile Florence covers Tiny Dancer for an Elton/Bernie multi-artist effort, a fab song that was not a hit single in the early 70's, and she has the best track on the album. That leaves only Alice Merton returning her No Roots to the chart a year on as it finally becomes a UK radio/chart presence. Better late than never.
1 NEW 1 1 I’M A MARIONETTE Abba 170000 2 NEW 2 1 A LIFETIME TO REPAIR Kylie Minogue 115000 3 1 1 3 YOU’RE SO COOL Jonathan Bree 303000 4 2 1 9 BEST DAYS Lissie 719000 5 5 5 6 BEND Ria Mae 226300 6 3 1 10 ALL THE STARS Kendrick Lamar and SZA 871350 7 8 7 4 MAKE YOUR OWN KIND OF MUSIC Paloma Faith 122300 8 4 4 4 STOP ME FROM FALLING Kylie Minogue 216000 9 14 9 2 NOTHING TO REGRET Robinson 74000 10 15 10 8 CAPITAL LETTERS Hailee Steinfeld featuring BoodPop 197800
11 6 6 8 STARCROSSED LOSERS The Fratellis 270100 12 12 3 11 SAY SOMETHING Justin Timberlake featuring Chris Stapleton 570000 13 21 13 2 RAINING GLITTER Kylie Minogue 51750 14 11 11 5 SANCTIFY Years & Years 142100 15 30 15 4 KANDY KRUSH Kim Wilde 63400 16 9 4 9 LET ME GO Hailee Steinfeld featuring Florida Georgia Line & watt 379200 17 NEW 17 1 SWEET SCORCHED EARTH Eels 23000 18 10 10 5 IN DEEP LOVE Beca 160000 19 19 19 10 RHIANNON (ALBUM VERSION) Fleetwood Mac 179600 20 NEW 20 1 HURT YOU The Weeknd featuring Gesaffelstein 20000
21 17 14 7 LULLABY Sigala & Paloma Faith 135600 22 13 6 7 MAKE ME FEEL Janelle Monae 245100 23 7 3 4 PANINARO (ITALIAN REMIX) Pet Shop Boys 214250 24 16 1 9 MONSTERS Saara Aalto 869000 25 NEW 25 1 CALL OUT MY NAME The Weeknd 18750 26 18 18 3 YARADA LIJ Mikael Seifu 59500 27 29 27 4 TIME IN A BOTTLE Lykke Li 60200 28 NEW 28 1 YOU ARE THE SHINING LIGHT Eels 18300 29 22 18 5 LUCID DREAM Owl City 87700 30 NEW 30 1 EVERY LITTLE PART OF ME Kylie Minogue 18000
31 31 31 2 WHITE FLAG Bishop Briggs 35800 32 32 32 5 VINCENT Don McLean 80400 33 20 20 3 SLIGHTLY ALL THE TIME Garden City Movement 56450 34 24 9 6 KILLER Pete Tong Heritage Orchestra featuring Seal 157850 35 35 35 2 INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT Robbie Williams 35000 36 NEW 36 1 MUSIC’S TOO SAD WITHOUT YOU Kylie Minogue & Jack Savoretti 17400 37 37 37 3 SAY AMEN (SATURDAY NIGHT) Panic! At The Disco 41700 38 25 25 5 HANDERNA MOT HIMLEN Petra Marklund 84100 39 23 5 12 TIL I’M DONE Paloma Faith 379750 40 40 40 5 TWO DIVIDED BY ZERO Pet Shop Boys 59100
41 27 5 11 THE DECONSTRUCTION Eels 347350 42 NEW 42 1 EVERYTHING Lisa Stansfield 13750 43 33 2 10 PRAY FOR ME The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar 492700 44 NEW 44 1 CASTLES Lissie 13250 45 26 12 7 HEART TO BREAK Kim Petras 163650 46 28 28 6 LOVE TO LOVE YOU BABY Rosemary Martins 97200 47 44 3 16 ON OUR WAY HOME Empire Of The Sun 724350 48 41 1 11 ANYONE WHO KNOWS WHAT LOVE IS (WILL UNDERSTAND) Irma Thomas 703750 49 47 1 18 UNTIL YOU COME BACK TO ME (THAT’S WHAT I’M GONNA DO) Aretha Franklin with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 1005150 50 NEW 50 1 YOU MUST LOVE ME Lana Del Ray 12000
51 42 42 5 YOU ARE THE REASON (DUET VERSION) Calum Scott & Leona Lewis 64350 52 52 52 4 IN THE NIGHT Pet Shop Boys 35400 53 53 53 3 SOMEONE OUT THERE Rae Morris 28700 54 NEW 54 1 HIGH HORSE Kacey Musgraves 11000 55 51 51 2 FLAMES David Guetta & Sia 22550 56 NEW 56 1 SINCERELY YOURS Kylie Minogue 10600 57 34 12 9 MEANT TO BE Bebe Rexha featuring Florida Georgia Line 188800 58 NEW 58 1 CRAZY GIRL Lissie 10200 59 NEW 59 1 TINY DANCER Florence + The Machine 10100 60 36 4 9 FEEL LIKE I DO Disclosure & Al Green 322050
61 46 46 6 MUTINY Think Up Anger featuring Crazy Vocal 52100 62 62 62 3 PARADISE George Ezra 20000 63 49 49 4 FLOWER OF THE UNIVERSE Sade 31200 64 75 64 2 LADY POWERS Vera Blue 12100 65 50 5 28 FEEL IT STILL Portugal. The Man 756050 66 66 66 3 BLAZE UP Mai Lan 19200 67 38 14 8 IT’S MY HOUSE MIKA 165550 68 60 1 20 HOW CAN I BE SURE David Cassidy 1019100 69 NEW 69 1 BILLIONAIRE Lisa Stansfield 6200 70 63 63 4 STORM SuRie 25600
71 39 39 4 BLACK AND BLUE (WARRIOR) Paloma Faith & Sia 49150 72 48 20 8 ALL FALLS DOWN Alan Walker featuring Noah Cyrus & Digital Farm Animals 108700 73 55 25 6 SLIDE LPX 82600 74 NEW 74 1 NO ROOTS Alice Merton 5200 75 NEW 75 1 SPACE COWBOY Kacey Musgraves 5000
DROP OUTS 43 33 4 NOT ABOUT YOU HAIKU HANDS 62200 45 18 10 THESE DAYS Rudimental featuring Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen 184750 54 10 11 NEVER Embrace featuring Kerri Watt 297900 56 56 3 NAKED AND SACRED Maria Naylor 26500 57 22 7 SAY YEAH Kishi Bashi 109350 58 8 12 FOR YOU Liam Payne & Rita Ora 273350 59 29 6 NEXT TO ME Imagine Dragons 83400 61 1 19 I KNOW YOU Craig David featuring Bastille 672250 64 33 5 NO EXCUSES Meghan Trainor 65650 65 65 4 HOLY WAR Rainbow Kitten Surprise 24000 67 67 1 STAY Shakespear’s Sister 6600 68 68 2 YOU & I Asmik Shiroyan 11600 69 24 6 SUICIDE GIRLS DANCE CAIN 85450 70 70 1 KOTO Cloze 6000 71 71 1 FLY TO PARADISE Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir 4 5800 72 60 5 A PLACE IN THE SUN UB40 featuring Ali, Astro & Mickey 36200 73 56 5 WHAT GOOD IS LOVE Paul Rey 35500 74 74 1 FEDERKLEID FAUN 5200
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Post by popchartfreak on Apr 6, 2018 11:11:45 GMT 1
1st April 1986
It's a first week on top for the brilliant E=MC2, presiding over a rapid-moving upper-chart and sluggish lower-end. George Michael rockets up to 8 with his gorgeously touching A Different Corner, as 50's oldie Peter Gunn gives Duane Eddy an updated 80's top 10, his first since 1975, while Sam Cooke gets his first top 10 with the Jeans-advert oldie, and still definitive version of the much-covered song.
Stevie Wonder is Overjoyed at just missing the top 10, and Queen are magic at 13, with Stevie Nicks making it 2 top 20's in a row. Heart get that elusive top 40 at last, as Bryan Adams adds to his, and Atlantic Starr leap up. Highest new entry is a Shellshocked New Order, as Tom Waits gruffly enters in the neighbourhood, trombones blazing. Jim Diamond extends his run to 4 years since PhD topped the chart, a-ha get a third, Bronski Beat a 5th-ish, Julian Lennon a 4th (or so), and Jermaine Jackson a 6th or 7th or 8th solo (I can't be arsed to look it up) but a whole plethora of Jackson 5 tracks on top of that.
1 ( 8 ) E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite 2 ( 1 ) CALLING AMERICA Electric Light Orchestra 3 ( 3 ) YOU TO ME ARE EVERYTHING (REMIX) The Real Thing 4 ( 6 ) ROCK ME AMADEUS Falco 5 ( 5 ) LIVIN’ DOLL Cliff Richard & The Young Ones 6 ( 2 ) DIGGING YOUR SCENE The Blow Monkeys 7 ( 4 ) HOUNDS OF LOVE Kate Bush 8 ( 62 ) A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael 9 ( 22 ) PETER GUNN Art Of Noise & Duane Eddy 10 ( 23 ) WONDERFUL WORLD Sam Cooke
11 ( 26 ) OVERJOYED Stevie Wonder 12 ( 9 ) LOVE COMES QUICKLY Pet Shop Boys 13 ( 38 ) A KIND OF MAGIC Queen 14 ( 16 ) ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS David Bowie 15 ( 11 ) MOVE AWAY Culture Club 16 ( 12 ) KYRIE Mr. Mister 17 ( 18 ) KISS Prince & The Revolution 18 ( 7 ) LOVE MISSILE F1-11 Sigue Sigue Sputnik 19 ( 21 ) TALK TO ME Stevie Nicks 20 ( 10 ) CHAIN REACTION Diana Ross
21 ( 17 ) CELEBRATE YOUTH Rick Springfield 22 ( 30 ) THEME FROM NEW YORK NEW YORK Frank Sinatra 23 ( 29 ) TOUCH ME Samantha Fox 24 ( 14 ) SILENT RUNNING Mike + The Mechanics 25 ( 15 ) HEAVEN MUST BE MISSING AN ANGEL Tavares 26 ( 20 ) THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES ON TV A-ha 27 ( 19 ) THE HONEY THIEF Hipsway 28 ( 28 ) CANDYMAN Siouxsie & The Banshees 29 ( 36 ) NO-ONE IS TO BLAME Howard Jones 30 ( 25 ) EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD Tears For Fears
31 ( 13 ) ONLY LOVE CAN BREAK YOUR HEART The Mint Juleps 32 ( 32 ) LIVE IT UP Mental As Anything 33 ( 24 ) MANIC MONDAY The Bangles 34 ( 40 ) DARE TO DREAM Viola Wills 35 ( 35 ) SOME PEOPLE Belouis Some 36 ( 27 ) ANOTHER NIGHT Aretha Franklin 37 ( 45 ) THESE DREAMS Heart 38 ( 31 ) SYSTEM ADDICT Five Star 39 ( 42 ) THIS TIME Bryan Adams 40 ( 66 ) SECRET LOVERS Atlantic Starr
41 ( 41 ) JUST BUGGIN’ Whistle 42 ( 33 ) VOICES Russ Ballard 43 ( 64 ) IS YOUR LOVE STRONG ENOUGH Bryan Ferry 44 ( 44 ) BEHIND THE MASK Greg Philinganes 45 ( 34 ) LOVE IS WAR Brilliant 46 ( 39 ) ELOISE The Damned 47 ( NEW ) SHELLSHOCK New Order 48 ( 43 ) HARLEM SHUFFLE The Rolling Stones 49 ( 50 ) MARLENE ON THE WALL Suzanne Vega 50 ( 37 ) ROCK ME TONIGHT Freddie Jackson
51 ( 49 ) WEST END GIRLS Pet Shop Boys 52 ( 55 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 53 ( 46 ) ONE DANCE WON’T DO Audrey Hall 54 ( 75 ) HAVE YOU EVER HAD IT BLUE The Style Council 55 ( 51 ) YOU’VE GOT THE POWER Win 56 ( 48 ) JUST THE WAY YOU ARE/ SHE’S ALWAYS A WOMAN Billy Joel 57 ( 59 ) WE CAN WORK IT OUT/ DAY TRIPPER The Beatles 58 ( 58 ) LONELY THIS CHRISTMAS Mud 59 ( NEW ) IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD Tom Waits 60 ( 60 ) WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH THE TOUGH GET GOING Billy Ocean
61 ( 52 ) POWER OF LOVE/ DO YOU BELIEVE IN LOVE Huey Lewis & The News 62 ( 70 ) CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE Lick The Tins 63 ( 57 ) DON’T WASTE MY TIME Paul Hardcastle 64 ( 61 ) THE CAPTAIN OF HER HEART Double 65 ( 68 ) COME HELL OR WATERS HIGH Dee C. Lee 66 ( NEW ) HI HO SILVER Jim Diamond 67 ( NEW ) HELLO DARLING Tippa Irie 68 ( NEW ) TRAIN OF THOUGHT a-ha 69 ( 71 ) UNDER A RAGING MOON Roger Daltrey 70 ( 69 ) I’M YOUR MAN Wham!
71 ( 74 ) BORDERLINE Madonna 72 ( 63 ) IT’S ALRIGHT (BABY’S COMING BACK) Eurythmics 73 ( NEW ) C’MON C’MON Bronski Beat 74 ( NEW ) STICK AROUND Julian Lennon 75 ( NEW ) DO YOU REMEMBER ME Jermaine Jackson
1st April Playlist Oldies
1 TEENAGE DREAM T.Rex 2 I CAN’T WAIT Stevie Nicks 3 HE’S GONNA STEP ON YOU AGAIN John Kongos
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Post by popchartfreak on Apr 5, 2018 17:46:58 GMT 1
30th March 1968
It's a first week on top for the second Number One of 1968 for Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood, and Nancy's 5th in total. Sundown Sundown was not a single, which is rather a bad record company decision considering it's as good as anything Lee Hazelwood ever created. Boo!
The Four Tops get yet another top 10, very much the default position for the Tops in my charts during 1966-68, and Young Girl drops a bit in the week that NME named it one of the 10 most-unplayable tracks in 2018, on a par with Gary Glitter and The Rolling Stones Some Girls album. Nonsense of course, the man clearly says the girl has put on make-up, hidden her age, and looked much older leading him on, and soon as he finds out he says she should p*ss off back to her mother "before things go too far", so not actually guilty of anything - which is more than Bill Wyman, the still-played Jerry Lee Lewis and the still-played R. Kelly can say with their 14/15-year-old partners/wives.
In at 11, it's Tommy James classic Mony Mony, the 14th of the 16 Big Hits album tracks I keep mentioning, so good Billy idol covered it in 1987 and it charted in my 1975 charts on reissue to boot. His best record to date, still exciting played loud. In at 15, the first of 2 album tracks from Glen Campbell's latest album of mostly covers - his fab version of the already fab Bob Lind, & Val Doonican, sublime song Elusive Butterfly. Another Singapore radio track we recorded on reel-to-reel - frankly anything Glen Campbell was recorded right off in our household, including his version of The Impossible Dream, a right theatrical stormer from Man Of La Mancha, better known by Jack Jones or Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine.
In at 45, it's a belated UK 1978 novelty hit which I found amusing, and unusually one that bears repeat plays before the novelty wears off - it's quite a clever loving-pastiche of the crooner-era records, and was a minor US and Australian hit in 1968, Loving You Has Made Me Bananas from Guy Marks, who popped up on Top Of The Pops in 1978 a decade late to the party. Laura Nyro's second album is out, with a future-single stand-out track on hold till September, and her single-only Robert Kennedy-inspired single-only June track anthem yet to come, so that leaves the best two other tracks to enter my charts, Eli's Coming a future hit for Three Dog Night, serial covers band, a sort of Showaddywaddy without the nostalgia. And the fun.
Fab Gene Pitney back as always with class, an obscure soul goodies, an MOR track, and a Stevie Wonder minor hit make up the other newies.
1 ( 4 ) SUNDOWN, SUNDOWN Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 2 ( 2 ) VALLERI The Monkees 3 ( 3 ) THE LEGEND OF XANADU Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 4 ( 6 ) LADY MADONNA The Beatles 5 ( 1 ) DELILAH Tom Jones 6 ( 7 ) HONEY Bobby Goldsboro 7 ( 11 ) LA-LA MEANS I LOVE YOU The Delfonics 8 ( 5 ) YOUNG GIRL The Union Gap featuring Gary Puckett 9 ( 8 ) THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY Hugo Montenegro, His Orchestra & Chorus 10 ( 17 ) IF I WERE A CARPENTER The Four Tops
11 ( NEW ) MONY MONY Tommy James & The Shondells 12 ( 10 ) CAN’T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU Andy Williams 13 ( 9 ) ALONE AGAIN OR Love 14 ( 18 ) FOREVER CAME TODAY Diana Ross & The Supremes 15 ( NEW ) ELUSIVE BUTTERFLY Glen Campbell 16 ( 25 ) MASTER JACK Four Jacks And A Jill 17 ( 20 ) ELUSIVE DREAMS Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 18 ( 14 ) (SITTIN’ ON) THE DOCK OF THE BAY Otis Redding 19 ( 13 ) WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD Louis Armstrong 20 ( 12 ) ME THE PEACEFUL HEART Lulu
21 ( 15 ) I’LL SAY FOREVER MY LOVE Jimmy Ruffin 22 ( 16 ) IF THIS WORLD WERE MINE Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell 23 ( 19 ) SOME VELVET MORNING Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 24 ( 34 ) AIN’T NO WAY Aretha Franklin 25 ( 21 ) WORDS The Bee Gees 26 ( 27 ) STEP INSIDE LOVE Cilla Black 27 ( 23 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles 28 ( 24 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 29 ( 39 ) UNWIND Ray Stevens 30 ( 40 ) I CAN’T LET MAGGIE GO Honeybus
31 ( 22 ) ROSIE Don Partridge 32 ( 50 ) IF YOU DON’T WANT MY LOVE Robert John 33 ( 29 ) KITES Simon Dupree & The Big Sound 34 ( 30 ) WE CAN FLY The Cowsills 35 ( 31 ) I’M GONNA MAKE YOU LOVE ME Madeline Bell 36 ( 26 ) THE SON OF HICKORY HOLLER’S TRAMP O.C. Smith 37 ( 46 ) AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS The Formations 38 ( 44 ) SOMETHING HERE IN MY HEART The Paper Dolls 39 ( 55 ) I’VE GOT YOU ON MY MIND Dorian Gray 40 ( 33 ) CAPTAIN OF YOUR SHIP Reparata & The Delrons
41 ( 35 ) EVERLASTING LOVE The Love Affair 42 ( 36 ) FOOL ON THE HILL The Beatles 43 ( 37 ) WALK AWAY RENEE The Four Tops 44 ( 38 ) JACKIE Scott Walker 45 ( NEW ) LOVING YOU HAS MADE ME BANANAS Guy Marks 46 ( 47 ) CONGRATULATIONS Cliff Richard 47 ( 42 ) WORLD The Bee Gees 48 ( 28 ) MIGHTY QUINN Manfred Mann 49 ( 32 ) LITTLE GREEN APPLES Roger Miller 50 ( 56 ) JENNIFER ECCLES The Hollies
51 ( 45 ) MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR The Beatles 52 ( 57 ) IF YOU CAN WANT Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 53 ( NEW ) SWEET BLINDNESS Laura Nyro 54 ( 51 ) DAYDREAM BELIEVER The Monkees 55 ( 43 ) PICTURES OF MATCHSTICK MEN Status Quo 56 ( 48 ) I’LL BE YOUR BABY TONIGHT Bob Dylan 57 ( 61 ) IF I ONLY HAD TIME John Rowles 58 ( 54 ) I AM THE WALRUS The Beatles 59 ( 62 ) AND THE SUN WILL SHINE The Bee Gees 60 ( 63 ) 100 YEARS Nancy Sinatra
61 ( NEW ) SOMEWHERE IN THE COUNTRY Gene Pitney 62 ( 64 ) SIT WITH THE GURU The Strawberry Alarm Clock 63 ( 58 ) DIFFERENT DRUM The Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt 64 ( NEW ) THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM Glen Campbell 65 ( 68 ) SUZANNE Leonard Cohen 66 ( NEW ) DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW ABOUT ME? Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers 67 ( 41 ) KISS ME GOODBYE Petula Clark 68 ( 74 ) (YOU KEEP ME) HANGIN’ ON Joe Simon 69 ( 65 ) MASSACHUSSETS (THE LIGHTS GO OUT IN) The Bee Gees 70 ( NEW ) ELI’S COMING Laura Nyro
71 ( 49 ) THE RADIO SONG The Parade 72 ( 73 ) RED RED WINE Neil Diamond 73 ( 59 ) DON’T STOP THE CARNIVAL The Alan Price Set 74 ( NEW ) GOIN’ AWAY The Fireballs 75 ( NEW ) SHOO-BE-DOO-BE-DOO-DA-DAY Stevie Wonder
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Post by popchartfreak on Apr 3, 2018 21:38:17 GMT 1
1st april 2018
It's a first week on top for the haunting You're So Cool, giving New Zealander Jonathan Bree his first solo hit and first chart-topper. He's actually made my chart before, as co-vocalist & producer on Princess Chelsea's The Cigarette Song a couple of years ago, both tracks also having fab arty videos which he was behind. Talented! Meanwhile Paloma Faith grabs yet another quick top 10 hit with her lively version of Mama Cass' 1969 minor hit up 30 places to 8.
Highest new entry is pop goodie from Robinson at 14, while Kylie gets a second in the 40 with grat track and obvious future single Raining Glitter in at 21. Kim Wilde gets a 2nd top 40 of 2018, I am hoping to see her at the weekend again, and Robbie is back with the lead track off his fan-club-only album of bonus tracks B sides & bits n pieces. Sia's back with David Guetta, Flames isn't quite Titanium, but it's not bad for over half-a-decade on.
1 8 1 2 YOU’RE SO COOL Jonathan Bree 218000 2 1 1 8 BEST DAYS Lissie 654000 3 2 1 9 ALL THE STARS Kendrick Lamar and SZA 816350 4 6 4 3 STOP ME FROM FALLING Kylie Minogue 168000 5 7 5 5 BEND Ria Mae 166300 6 9 6 7 STARCROSSED LOSERS The Fratellis 243100 7 3 3 3 PANINARO (ITALIAN REMIX) Pet Shop Boys 195000 8 38 8 3 MAKE YOUR OWN KIND OF MUSIC Paloma Faith 72300 9 4 4 8 LET ME GO Hailee Steinfeld featuring Florida Georgia Line & watt 354200 10 10 10 4 IN DEEP LOVE Beca 138000
11 11 11 4 SANCTIFY Years & Years 113100 12 5 3 10 SAY SOMETHING Justin Timberlake featuring Chris Stapleton 535000 13 13 6 6 MAKE ME FEEL Janelle Monae 225600 14 NEW 14 1 NOTHING TO REGRET Robinson 29000 15 15 15 7 CAPITAL LETTERS Hailee Steinfeld featuring BoodPop 155800 16 12 1 8 MONSTERS Saara Aalto 850000 17 14 14 6 LULLABY Sigala & Paloma Faith 115850 18 24 18 2 YARADA LIJ Mikael Seifu 41000 19 19 19 9 RHIANNON (ALBUM VERSION) Fleetwood Mac 158600 20 25 20 2 SLIGHTLY ALL THE TIME Garden City Movement 38750
21 NEW 21 1 RAINING GLITTER Kylie Minogue 19750 22 18 18 4 LUCID DREAM Owl City 69500 23 16 5 11 TIL I’M DONE Paloma Faith 362650 24 17 9 5 KILLER Pete Tong Heritage Orchestra featuring Seal 149250 25 28 25 4 HANDERNA MOT HIMLEN Petra Marklund 66900 26 21 12 6 HEART TO BREAK Kim Petras 150650 27 20 5 10 THE DECONSTRUCTION Eels 333350 28 30 28 5 LOVE TO LOVE YOU BABY Rosemary Martins 84450 29 40 29 3 TIME IN A BOTTLE Lykke Li 41800 30 50 30 3 KANDY KRUSH Kim Wilde 36400
31 NEW 31 1 WHITE FLAG Bishop Briggs 17900 32 32 32 4 VINCENT Don McLean 62600 33 22 2 9 PRAY FOR ME The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar 479200 34 26 12 8 MEANT TO BE Bebe Rexha featuring Florida Georgia Line 178400 35 NEW 35 1 INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT Robbie Williams 17500 36 31 4 8 FEEL LIKE I DO Disclosure & Al Green 312050 37 64 37 2 SAY AMEN (SATURDAY NIGHT) Panic! At The Disco 24400 38 23 14 7 IT’S MY HOUSE MIKA 158950 39 44 39 3 BLACK AND BLUE (WARRIOR) Paloma Faith & Sia 43350 40 48 40 4 TWO DIVIDED BY ZERO Pet Shop Boys 42100
41 29 1 10 ANYONE WHO KNOWS WHAT LOVE IS (WILL UNDERSTAND) Irma Thomas 691450 42 43 42 4 YOU ARE THE REASON (DUET VERSION) Calum Scott & Leona Lewis 52600 43 33 33 4 NOT ABOUT YOU HAIKU HANDS 62200 44 34 3 15 ON OUR WAY HOME Empire Of The Sun 711850 45 39 18 10 THESE DAYS Rudimental featuring Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen 184750 46 53 46 5 MUTINY Think Up Anger featuring Crazy Vocal 44600 47 45 1 17 UNTIL YOU COME BACK TO ME (THAT’S WHAT I’M GONNA DO) Aretha Franklin with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 993050 48 37 20 7 ALL FALLS DOWN Alan Walker featuring Noah Cyrus & Digital Farm Animals 103100 49 66 49 3 FLOWER OF THE UNIVERSE Sade 24000 50 62 5 27 FEEL IT STILL Portugal. The Man 749050
51 NEW 51 1 FLAMES David Guetta & Sia 11750 52 68 52 3 IN THE NIGHT Pet Shop Boys 23900 53 69 53 2 SOMEONE OUT THERE Rae Morris 17450 54 35 10 11 NEVER Embrace featuring Kerri Watt 297900 55 36 25 5 SLIDE LPX 77200 56 59 56 3 NAKED AND SACRED Maria Naylor 26500 57 42 22 7 SAY YEAH Kishi Bashi 109350 58 49 8 12 FOR YOU Liam Payne & Rita Ora 273350 59 41 29 6 NEXT TO ME Imagine Dragons 83400 60 57 1 19 HOW CAN I BE SURE David Cassidy 1012700
61 58 1 19 I KNOW YOU Craig David featuring Bastille 672250 62 75 62 2 PARADISE George Ezra 12400 63 63 63 3 STORM SuRie 19600 64 46 33 5 NO EXCUSES Meghan Trainor 65650 65 70 65 4 HOLY WAR Rainbow Kitten Surprise 24000 66 72 66 2 BLAZE UP Mai Lan 12400 67 NEW 67 1 STAY Shakespear’s Sister 6600 68 74 68 2 YOU & I Asmik Shiroyan 11600 69 52 24 6 SUICIDE GIRLS DANCE CAIN 85450 70 NEW 70 1 KOTO Cloze 6000
71 NEW 71 1 FLY TO PARADISE Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir 4 5800 72 60 60 5 A PLACE IN THE SUN UB40 featuring Ali, Astro & Mickey 36200 73 56 56 5 WHAT GOOD IS LOVE Paul Rey 35500 74 NEW 74 1 FEDERKLEID FAUN 5200 75 NEW 75 1 LADY POWERS Vera Blue 5000
DROP OUTS 27 27 2 SUBURBIA (THE FULL HORROR) Pet Shop Boys 35900 47 3 10 I WISH I KNEW YOU The Revivalists 395500 51 7 9 BIG AS I CAN DREAM/ COMEBACK SSION 289450 54 54 4 FRIENDS Marshmello featuring Anne-Marie 39200 55 49 4 MY NAME IS RUIN Gary Numan 43700 61 51 4 FEELING GOOD Strobe! featuring KIDDO 41100 65 65 5 WANT YOU BACK 5 Seconds Of Summer 33200 67 34 6 LABYRINTH MONDO GROSSO featuring Hikari Mitsushima 71600 71 4 12 WHERE WE GO P!nk 329400 73 3 18 LIST OF PEOPLE (TO TRY AND FORGET) Tame Impala 603050
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Post by popchartfreak on Mar 28, 2018 19:57:02 GMT 1
25th March 1986
2 weeks on top for ELO as The Real Thing hit the top 3 for the first time, outdoing their original 1976 peak. Cliff & The Comics go top 5 outrageously leapfrogging the brilliant underrated Pet Shop Boys stuck at 9, and Falco enters the top 10, but the biggest news is the fabulous instant top 10 for highest new entry E=MC2, a haunting rhythmic raprock track from Big Audio Dynamite aka Mick Jones from The Clash & friends. I love the rhythm, the lyrics, the snippets from cult movies and the hook. It still sounds like nothing before or since.
Duane Eddy gets his first top 30 entry in 11 years, and Sam Cooke gets his chart debut with Wonderful World, the early 60's minor UK chart hit much-covered at the time, and now used in a Jeans advert which sent it into overdrive chartwise 24 years late. As poor Sam had been very late for 20 years already, it was long overdue, though I would have preferred his greatest single (see my Playlist Oldies of the week).
Stevie Wonder is top 30, and in a case of "I couldve sworn I never ever liked that track" Sam Fox is at 29 proving my memory has been conveniently rewritten as I don't rate it much at all these days. Howard Jones gets another top 40, and Queen debut with one of their great tracks from the very dark Highlander movie - quite a contrast to the joy of A Kind Of Magic, one of my mums favourite records. Viola Wills enters at 40 with one I don't remember, some 7 years after one I do - her cover of Trini Lopez' Gonna Get Along Without You Now.
Heart finally get a substantial chart entry years late, with the fab These Dreams, and George Michael has a second solo single with the still-heartbreakingly brilliant A Different Corner, understated, sincere and immensely moving, still his greatest creation for me. If anyone had doubts that he was a major talent up to this point, think again. Bryan Ferry keeps the tracks coming 13 years since his first solo, Atlantic Starr smooth in, Roger Daltrey also has 13 years of solo success, and The Style Council have another goodie in at 75. Which leaves Lick The Tins quirky clanky cover of the much-hit-covered Elvis chart-topper, as done last by The Stylistics in 1976.
1 ( 1 ) CALLING AMERICA Electric Light Orchestra 2 ( 3 ) DIGGING YOUR SCENE The Blow Monkeys 3 ( 7 ) YOU TO ME ARE EVERYTHING (REMIX) The Real Thing 4 ( 4 ) HOUNDS OF LOVE Kate Bush 5 ( 17 ) LIVIN’ DOLL Cliff Richard & The Young Ones 6 ( 12 ) ROCK ME AMADEUS Falco 7 ( 2 ) LOVE MISSILE F1-11 Sigue Sigue Sputnik 8 ( NEW ) E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite 9 ( 9 ) LOVE COMES QUICKLY Pet Shop Boys 10 ( 8 ) CHAIN REACTION Diana Ross
11 ( 10 ) MOVE AWAY Culture Club 12 ( 24 ) KYRIE Mr. Mister 13 ( 13 ) ONLY LOVE CAN BREAK YOUR HEART The Mint Juleps 14 ( 5 ) SILENT RUNNING Mike + The Mechanics 15 ( 6 ) HEAVEN MUST BE MISSING AN ANGEL Tavares 16 ( 16 ) ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS David Bowie 17 ( 26 ) CELEBRATE YOUTH Rick Springfield 18 ( 18 ) KISS Prince & The Revolution 19 ( 20 ) THE HONEY THIEF Hipsway 20 ( 14 ) THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES ON TV A-ha
21 ( 29 ) TALK TO ME Stevie Nicks 22 ( 47 ) PETER GUNN Art Of Noise & Duane Eddy 23 ( NEW ) WONDERFUL WORLD Sam Cooke 24 ( 11 ) MANIC MONDAY The Bangles 25 ( 19 ) EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD Tears For Fears 26 ( 45 ) OVERJOYED Stevie Wonder 27 ( 15 ) ANOTHER NIGHT Aretha Franklin 28 ( 50 ) CANDYMAN Siouxsie & The Banshees 29 ( RE ) TOUCH ME Samantha Fox 30 ( 35 ) THEME FROM NEW YORK NEW YORK Frank Sinatra
31 ( 22 ) SYSTEM ADDICT Five Star 32 ( 32 ) LIVE IT UP Mental As Anything 33 ( 23 ) VOICES Russ Ballard 34 ( 37 ) LOVE IS WAR Brilliant 35 ( 38 ) SOME PEOPLE Belouis Some 36 ( 54 ) NO-ONE IS TO BLAME Howard Jones 37 ( 40 ) ROCK ME TONIGHT Freddie Jackson 38 ( NEW ) A KIND OF MAGIC Queen 39 ( 28 ) ELOISE The Damned 40 ( NEW ) DARE TO DREAM Viola Wills
41 ( 21 ) JUST BUGGIN’ Whistle 42 ( 49 ) THIS TIME Bryan Adams 43 ( 48 ) HARLEM SHUFFLE The Rolling Stones 44 ( 62 ) BEHIND THE MASK Greg Philinganes 45 ( NEW ) THESE DREAMS Heart 46 ( 31 ) ONE DANCE WON’T DO Audrey Hall 47 ( 41 ) ONE STEP Kissing The Pink 48 ( 39 ) JUST THE WAY YOU ARE/ SHE’S ALWAYS A WOMAN Billy Joel 49 ( 46 ) WEST END GIRLS Pet Shop Boys 50 ( 75 ) MARLENE ON THE WALL Suzanne Vega
51 ( 25 ) YOU’VE GOT THE POWER Win 52 ( 33 ) POWER OF LOVE/ DO YOU BELIEVE IN LOVE Huey Lewis & The News 53 ( 27 ) IF YOU WERE HERE TONIGHT Alexander O’Neal 54 ( 42 ) CANNONBALL Supertramp 55 ( 55 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 56 ( 36 ) LOVE IS THE DRUG Grace Jones 57 ( 30 ) DON’T WASTE MY TIME Paul Hardcastle 58 ( 57 ) LONELY THIS CHRISTMAS Mud 59 ( 56 ) WE CAN WORK IT OUT/ DAY TRIPPER The Beatles 60 ( 44 ) WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH THE TOUGH GET GOING Billy Ocean
61 ( 43 ) THE CAPTAIN OF HER HEART Double 62 ( NEW ) A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael 63 ( 58 ) IT’S ALRIGHT (BABY’S COMING BACK) Eurythmics 64 ( NEW ) IS YOUR LOVE STRONG ENOUGH Bryan Ferry 65 ( 63 ) SHEEP The Housemartins 66 ( NEW ) SECRET LOVERS Atlantic Starr 67 ( 34 ) HEARTACHE NUMBER 9 Hot Chocolate 68 ( 69 ) COME HELL OR WATERS HIGH Dee C. Lee 69 ( 61 ) I’M YOUR MAN Wham! 70 ( NEW ) CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE Lick The Tins
71 ( NEW ) UNDER A RAGING MOON Roger Daltrey 72 ( 72 ) LIVING IN ANOTHER WORLD Talk Talk 73 ( 52 ) RISE PIL 74 ( 64 ) BORDERLINE Madonna 75 ( NEW ) HAVE YOU EVER HAD IT BLUE The Style Council
Oldies 1 SUNSHINE The Archies 2 BANG A BOOMERANG Abba 3 YOU SEND ME Sam Cooke
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Post by popchartfreak on Mar 26, 2018 15:06:39 GMT 1
23rd March 1968
It's a first week on top for The Voice in one of his biggest Foghorn performances, melodrama with a capital M. Tom Jones would certainly have topped my chart in 1965 (had I been charting) and It's Not Unusual did eventually top my chart on its UK reissue in 1987, as did Delilah in the 90's. Green Green Grass Of Home and What's New Pussycat would also have been big as they were both kiddie faves too. Delilah is also on the 16 Big Hits album I keep mentioning, and replaces another track on top from it, as the 13th of the 16 tracks enters as highest newie at 25 for Four Jacks & A Jill, and the worldwide hit (except the UK) Master Jack. I'd never heard of it till dad bought the album, and rather liked it. It's still sweet.
There's a Motown invasion of the top 20, not to mention a Nancy & Lee invasion, and Aretha launches straight into the 40 with a great ballad new to me, the way better B Side of the track not in my chart, backed with amazing vocals from Whitney Houston's mom Cissy, who's Sweet Inspirations just dropped out of my chart. Another very familiar Hollies hit pops in, and 2 songs better known to me in covers: Cook & Greenaways hit machine song for Dorian Gray, Neil Diamond's future UB40 monster, and also Archie Bell & The Drells Tighten Up, a band I went huge on 1972 when Here I Go Again was just fabulous.
1 ( 4 ) DELILAH Tom Jones 2 ( 2 ) VALLERI The Monkees 3 ( 3 ) THE LEGEND OF XANADU Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 4 ( 6 ) SUNDOWN, SUNDOWN Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 5 ( 1 ) YOUNG GIRL The Union Gap featuring Gary Puckett 6 ( 8 ) LADY MADONNA The Beatles 7 ( 13 ) HONEY Bobby Goldsboro 8 ( 5 ) THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY Hugo Montenegro, His Orchestra & Chorus 9 ( 7 ) ALONE AGAIN OR Love 10 ( 15 ) CAN’T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU Andy Williams
11 ( 9 ) LA-LA MEANS I LOVE YOU The Delfonics 12 ( 16 ) ME THE PEACEFUL HEART Lulu 13 ( 11 ) WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD Louis Armstrong 14 ( 12 ) (SITTIN’ ON) THE DOCK OF THE BAY Otis Redding 15 ( 10 ) I’LL SAY FOREVER MY LOVE Jimmy Ruffin 16 ( 20 ) IF THIS WORLD WERE MINE Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell 17 ( 38 ) IF I WERE A CARPENTER The Four Tops 18 ( 40 ) FOREVER CAME TODAY Diana Ross & The Supremes 19 ( 14 ) SOME VELVET MORNING Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood 20 ( 24 ) ELUSIVE DREAMS Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood
21 ( 19 ) WORDS The Bee Gees 22 ( 17 ) ROSIE Don Partridge 23 ( 21 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles 24 ( 22 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 25 ( NEW ) MASTER JACK Four Jacks And A Jill 26 ( 18 ) THE SON OF HICKORY HOLLER’S TRAMP O.C. Smith 27 ( 32 ) STEP INSIDE LOVE Cilla Black 28 ( 30 ) MIGHTY QUINN Manfred Mann 29 ( 28 ) KITES Simon Dupree & The Big Sound 30 ( 23 ) WE CAN FLY The Cowsills
31 ( 29 ) I’M GONNA MAKE YOU LOVE ME Madeline Bell 32 ( 27 ) LITTLE GREEN APPLES Roger Miller 33 ( 25 ) CAPTAIN OF YOUR SHIP Reparata & The Delrons 34 ( NEW ) AIN’T NO WAY Aretha Franklin 35 ( 31 ) EVERLASTING LOVE The Love Affair 36 ( 33 ) FOOL ON THE HILL The Beatles 37 ( 34 ) WALK AWAY RENEE The Four Tops 38 ( 35 ) JACKIE Scott Walker 39 ( 50 ) UNWIND Ray Stevens 40 ( 48 ) I CAN’T LET MAGGIE GO Honeybus
41 ( 26 ) KISS ME GOODBYE Petula Clark 42 ( 39 ) WORLD The Bee Gees 43 ( 37 ) PICTURES OF MATCHSTICK MEN Status Quo 44 ( 55 ) SOMETHING HERE IN MY HEART The Paper Dolls 45 ( 42 ) MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR The Beatles 46 ( 58 ) AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS The Formations 47 ( 51 ) CONGRATULATIONS Cliff Richard 48 ( 52 ) I’LL BE YOUR BABY TONIGHT Bob Dylan 49 ( 53 ) THE RADIO SONG The Parade 50 ( 56 ) IF YOU DON’T WANT MY LOVE Robert John
51 ( 45 ) DAYDREAM BELIEVER The Monkees 52 ( 36 ) MY GIRL Otis Redding 53 ( 41 ) NO REGRETS Tom Rush 54 ( 49 ) I AM THE WALRUS The Beatles 55 ( NEW ) I’VE GOT YOU ON MY MIND Dorian Gray 56 ( NEW ) JENNIFER ECCLES The Hollies 57 ( 62 ) IF YOU CAN WANT Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 58 ( 54 ) DIFFERENT DRUM The Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt 59 ( 47 ) DON’T STOP THE CARNIVAL The Alan Price Set 60 ( 44 ) SCARBOROUGH FAIR (CANTICLE) Simon & Garfunkel
61 ( 68 ) IF I ONLY HAD TIME John Rowles 62 ( 73 ) AND THE SUN WILL SHINE The Bee Gees 63 ( 66 ) 100 YEARS Nancy Sinatra 64 ( 64 ) SIT WITH THE GURU The Strawberry Alarm Clock 65 ( 59 ) MASSACHUSSETS (THE LIGHTS GO OUT IN) The Bee Gees 66 ( 46 ) JENNIFER JUNIPER Donovan 67 ( 60 ) ONE Harry Nilsson 68 ( 71 ) SUZANNE Leonard Cohen 69 ( 70 ) THE INNER LIGHT The Beatles 70 ( 72 ) PARTY PEOPLE Solomon Burke
71 ( 74 ) U.S. MALE Elvis Presley 72 ( 67 ) BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX Glen Campbell 73 ( NEW ) RED RED WINE Neil Diamond 74 ( NEW ) (YOU KEEP ME) HANGIN’ ON Joe Simon 75 ( NEW ) TIGHTEN UP Archie Bell & The Drells
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Post by popchartfreak on Mar 26, 2018 9:06:05 GMT 1
25th March 2018
It's a first chart-topper for Lissie and her fab fab melody and vocal, as 2 great videos charge Ria Mae up to 8, and a new entry from Jonathan Bree which has to be seen, 60's pastiche and a haunting song. Beca goes top 10 with me and no-one else in the world who does personal charts (I expect!) which is a shame.
The rest of the chart is Paloma and Pet Shop Boys oldies chock-a-block, Panic! At The Disco are back for a 12th year of chart-bothering, and Mai Lan gets a solo entry to add to her big top 3 track 2 years ago with M83.
1 2 1 7 BEST DAYS Lissie 539000 2 1 1 8 ALL THE STARS Kendrick Lamar and SZA 731350 3 5 3 2 PANINARO (ITALIAN REMIX) Pet Shop Boys 145000 4 4 4 7 LET ME GO Hailee Steinfeld featuring Florida Georgia Line & watt 309200 5 3 3 9 SAY SOMETHING Justin Timberlake featuring Chris Stapleton 500000 6 8 6 2 STOP ME FROM FALLING Kylie Minogue 103000 7 22 7 4 BEND Ria Mae 106300 8 NEW 8 1 YOU’RE SO COOL Jonathan Bree 48000 9 10 9 6 STARCROSSED LOSERS The Fratellis 188100 10 13 10 3 IN DEEP LOVE Beca 96000
11 18 11 3 SANCTIFY Years & Years 76100 12 7 1 7 MONSTERS Saara Aalto 825000 13 6 6 5 MAKE ME FEEL Janelle Monae 193600 14 20 14 5 LULLABY Sigala & Paloma Faith 92850 15 16 15 6 CAPITAL LETTERS Hailee Steinfeld featuring BoodPop 128800 16 11 5 10 TIL I’M DONE Paloma Faith 343400 17 9 9 4 KILLER Pete Tong Heritage Orchestra featuring Seal 130250 18 30 18 3 LUCID DREAM Owl City 50000 19 29 19 8 RHIANNON (ALBUM VERSION) Fleetwood Mac 137600 20 12 5 9 THE DECONSTRUCTION Eels 314950
21 15 12 5 HEART TO BREAK Kim Petras 132150 22 17 2 8 PRAY FOR ME The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar 461500 23 14 14 6 IT’S MY HOUSE MIKA 141750 24 NEW 24 1 YARADA LIJ Mikael Seifu 19000 25 NEW 25 1 SLIGHTLY ALL THE TIME Garden City Movement 18750 26 19 12 7 MEANT TO BE Bebe Rexha featuring Florida Georgia Line 160800 27 35 27 2 SUBURBIA (THE FULL HORROR) Pet Shop Boys 35900 28 39 28 3 HANDERNA MOT HIMLEN Petra Marklund 48150 29 23 1 9 ANYONE WHO KNOWS WHAT LOVE IS (WILL UNDERSTAND) Irma Thomas 677450 30 38 30 4 LOVE TO LOVE YOU BABY Rosemary Martins 66150
31 21 4 7 FEEL LIKE I DO Disclosure & Al Green 294650 32 42 32 3 VINCENT Don McLean 44800 33 40 33 3 NOT ABOUT YOU HAIKU HANDS 48700 34 27 3 14 ON OUR WAY HOME Empire Of The Sun 697600 35 24 10 10 NEVER Embrace featuring Kerri Watt 286900 36 25 25 4 SLIDE LPX 66400 37 28 20 6 ALL FALLS DOWN Alan Walker featuring Noah Cyrus & Digital Farm Animals 90700 38 64 38 2 MAKE YOUR OWN KIND OF MUSIC Paloma Faith 24300 39 26 18 9 THESE DAYS Rudimental featuring Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen 171750 40 67 40 2 TIME IN A BOTTLE Lykke Li 23600
41 31 29 5 NEXT TO ME Imagine Dragons 73300 42 32 22 6 SAY YEAH Kishi Bashi 98950 43 44 43 3 YOU ARE THE REASON (DUET VERSION) Calum Scott & Leona Lewis 38850 44 45 44 2 BLACK AND BLUE (WARRIOR) Paloma Faith & Sia 26250 45 41 1 16 UNTIL YOU COME BACK TO ME (THAT’S WHAT I’M GONNA DO) Aretha Franklin with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 980450 46 33 33 4 NO EXCUSES Meghan Trainor 58550 47 34 3 10 I WISH I KNEW YOU The Revivalists 395500 48 66 48 3 TWO DIVIDED BY ZERO Pet Shop Boys 25100 49 37 8 11 FOR YOU Liam Payne & Rita Ora 263150 50 68 50 2 KANDY KRUSH Kim Wilde 18400
51 36 7 9 BIG AS I CAN DREAM/ COMEBACK SSION 289450 52 47 24 5 SUICIDE GIRLS DANCE CAIN 79250 53 60 53 4 MUTINY Think Up Anger featuring Crazy Vocal 31800 54 56 54 4 FRIENDS Marshmello featuring Anne-Marie 39200 55 49 49 4 MY NAME IS RUIN Gary Numan 43700 56 61 56 4 WHAT GOOD IS LOVE Paul Rey 30100 57 54 1 18 HOW CAN I BE SURE David Cassidy 1002700 58 46 1 18 I KNOW YOU Craig David featuring Bastille 664750 59 71 59 2 NAKED AND SACRED Maria Naylor 15900 60 62 60 4 A PLACE IN THE SUN UB40 featuring Ali, Astro & Mickey 30600
61 51 51 4 FEELING GOOD Strobe! featuring KIDDO 41100 62 59 5 26 FEEL IT STILL Portugal. The Man 737050 63 74 63 2 STORM SuRie 12400 64 NEW 64 1 SAY AMEN (SATURDAY NIGHT) Panic! At The Disco 7100 65 65 65 5 WANT YOU BACK 5 Seconds Of Summer 33200 66 75 66 2 FLOWER OF THE UNIVERSE Sade 11800 67 48 34 6 LABYRINTH MONDO GROSSO featuring Hikari Mitsushima 71600 68 70 68 2 IN THE NIGHT Pet Shop Boys 12400 69 NEW 69 1 SOMEONE OUT THERE Rae Morris 6200 70 72 70 3 HOLY WAR Rainbow Kitten Surprise 17000
71 52 4 12 WHERE WE GO P!nk 329400 72 NEW 72 1 BLAZE UP Mai Lan 5600 73 58 3 18 LIST OF PEOPLE (TO TRY AND FORGET) Tame Impala 603050 74 NEW 74 1 YOU & I Asmik Shiroyan 5200 75 NEW 75 1 PARADISE George Ezra 5000
DROP OUTS 43 8 17 BANDALA The Partridge Family featuring David Cassidy & Shirley Jones 361000 50 36 6 MEXICO Mexican Institute Of Sound 80200 53 19 8 POP DON’T STOP Kim Wilde featuring Ricky Wilde 131450 55 13 9 THE LAST OF THE REAL ONES Fall Out Boy 184200 57 26 8 ISTANBUL IS SLEEPY The Liminanas featuring Anton Newcombe 107400 63 50 7 DEEPER nervous_testpilot 59650 69 5 18 PHASES Alma & French Montana 561350 73 73 2 DON’T MAKE ME WAIT Sting featuring Shaggy 10400
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Post by popchartfreak on Mar 23, 2018 10:22:06 GMT 1
streaming sites have loads of old and new stuff not available and as they have yet to make a profit I dont want to be in the situation where I suddenly have a chunk of my musical life not available to me when I want it and where I want it, in good quality, if they go belly up. So I still download, buy CD's and have thousands of vinyl. FRinstance the new TOTP 3-CD range has some fab stuff on it, from 1974 through 1986 year by year, £5 for 60 tracks and I never have to worry about renting them, I own them.
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