Bruno Brookes UK Top 40 10th April 1994

[Tom]

Seems like we've all copied down the chart at some point The net's been a great place over the years being able to track down and copy the Top 40. First it was the Poptastic site which had all the old charts listed on the site until it had to be taken down for copyright reasons. That was in 1999/2000, and now we have Kingofskiffle who's posted them all on UKMix.

[Tom]

Marcella Detroit falls 12, I Believe now at #32
People are still discovering the sound of Enigma, now spending a 12th week in the chart with Return To Innocence and falling 14 places to #31

[Tom]

Here's a quick recap
NE 40 Gin Blossoms - Found Out About You
30 39 K7 - Hi-de-ho
36 38 EYC - The Way You Work It
18 37 Little Angels - Ten Miles High
29 36 Cranberries - Linger
23 35 Bon Jovi - Dry County
22 34 Worlds Apart - Could It Be I'm Falling In Love
27 33 Roxette - Sleeping In My Car
20 32 Marcella Detroit - I Beleive
17 31 Enigma - Return To Innocence

So not too exciting too far just 1 NE, but it gets better

[Tom]

The Bee Gees are back, How To Fall In Love Part 1 goes straight in at #30

They celebrated 100 million record sales on TOTP a couple of weeks ago. They made their debut chart appearance 27 years ago (1967) and this is their 26th hit in the UK all told.

[Tom]

Taylor Gayne! lol gets a new entry at this week's #29

She had 2 hits in 1988, Tell It To My Heart and Prove Your Love. But she had to wait until last year for her 3rd with Can't Get Enough Of Your Love. Now she's back with I'll Wait at #29.

This was one of the songs I taped from the chart at the time It should have climbed into the Top 20 at least imo, instead it went down the following week Maybe I should have bought it rather than taped it

[Tom]

Kate Bush with a new entry at #28 (The Red Shoes)

The 3rd hit from the album "The Red Shoes" and her 22nd in total. Tomorrow sees the release of a 10 minute long dance version of that track (probably the main reason why it climbed to #21 next week I imagine).

[Tom]

Paul Weller not a good week for him, he's down 16 to 27 with Hung Up.
And Blur are next falling 10 places to #26 (Girls And Boys)Classic!

You can hear tracks from Blur's new album exclusively on 1FM's Evening Session all this week 7-9pm.

[Tom]

A new entry at 25 for Francis Ruffelle with Lonely Symphony.

100k people voted for that song to represent the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest. Had they all really liked it that much and actually bought the record it would now be at No 1 (umm bit of a hint there as to how much the No 1 sold this week?

To be fair Eurovision wasn't for a few weeks and I doubt most ppl knew the song was even out yet although #25 was its peak position!

[Tom]

The Tubular Bells radio edit of Gotta Lotta Love, Ice T climbing 7 at 24

[Tom]

Here's something completely different and a new entry for Daniel O'Donnell, Singing the Blues at #23

That track made chart history back in 1957 when it topped the charts first for Guy Mitchell, then for Tommy Steele and then again for Guy Mitchell.

[Tom]

At 22 its down 1 for Roachford, Only To Be With You

[Tom]

And here's a new entry for Terrorvision at #21

[Tom]

Here's another recap
NE 30 Bee Gees - How To Fall In Love Part 1
NE 29 Taylor Dayne - I'll Wait
NE 28 Kate Bush - The Red Shoes
11 27 Paul Weller - Hung Up
16 26 Blur - Girls And Boys
NE 25 Francis Ruffelle - Lonely Symphony
31 24 Ice T - Gotta Lotta Love
NE 23 Daniel O'Donnell - Singing the Blues
21 22 Roachford - Only To Be With You
NE 21 Terrorvision - Oblivion

So 7 NE and 1 Climber so far

[Tom]

Desree gets a climber of 13 places, You Gotta Be at this new position #20

This was the biggest climber this week for one of the most charted songs of the 90s.

[Tom]

Down 5 at 19 Degrees Of Motion - Shine On
JX - Son Of A Gun down 3 at 18 - Ahhhh what a TUNE! This was the other song I taped, and was my 2nd favourite song this week

[Tom]

And climbing 9 this week Black Machine, How Gee at #17

Black Machine were born in France and Nigeria. They now all live in Italy and the band are huge in South America where this track has sold over half a million copies.

[Tom]

Here's a new entry for Loveland vs Darlene Lewis, Let the Music Lift You Up straight in at #16

Toni Braxton climbs 10 with Another Sad Love Song now at #15 (This was 5 minutes long!)

The Pet Shop Boys get a new entry at #14, Liberation

They've had 22 consecutive Top 40 hits to date and on target to overtake the current record of hits by a duo held by The Everley Brothers which stands at 28.

(Incidentally this was this week's highest new entry. By this stage it was rare not to have a new entry in the Top 10.)

[Robbie]

tro1 said:

Seems like we've all copied down the chart at some point The net's been a great place over the years being able to track down and copy the Top 40. First it was the Poptastic site which had all the old charts listed on the site until it had to be taken down for copyright reasons. That was in 1999/2000, and now we have Kingofskiffle who's posted them all on UKMix.

I feel a bit responsible for the fantastic Poptastic site getting into trouble... I remember coming across the site and all the charts and for weeks copying and pasting them all. I then put a link to the site on dotmusic, in the Chart Forum. 3 weeks later the owner received a letter telling him to take all the charts down. Now it could have been co-incidence, but as Dot was regularly monitored by CIN / OCC, I somehow doubt it...

[Tom]

Oh dear by this stage I was starting to miss the girl I really liked at school, who was my best friend. As a result quite a few of the songs coming up reminded me of her so I'll put them together and quickly move on

Down 4 to 13 Mariah Carey - Without You
And on TOTP last week, as you may have seen ( I do seem to remember this vaguely) Bitty McLean climbing 7 to #12 with Dedicated To The One I Love
Salt N Pepa and En Vogue are down 1 to 11 (Whatta Man)
D-Ream falls 4 places, Ur The Best Thing now at #10 - Its weird I still prefer this 94 remix, but its only the 93 original that I ever hear nowadays
And climbing 3 this week Haddaway at #9, Rock My Heart
And down 1 place this week goes Madonna to this new position #8

[Tom]

robbie said:

tro1 said:

Seems like we've all copied down the chart at some point The net's been a great place over the years being able to track down and copy the Top 40. First it was the Poptastic site which had all the old charts listed on the site until it had to be taken down for copyright reasons. That was in 1999/2000, and now we have Kingofskiffle who's posted them all on UKMix.

I feel a bit responsible for the fantastic Poptastic site getting into trouble... I remember coming across the site and all the charts and for weeks copying and pasting them all. I then put a link to the site on dotmusic, in the Chart Forum. 3 weeks later the owner received a letter telling him to take all the charts down. Now it could have been co-incidence, but as Dot was regularly monitored by CIN / OCC, I somehow doubt it...

Oh really, that probably explains it, for ages he'd been putting them up on his site and then suddenly I noticed they'd been taken down. It came as a complete surprise, its a shame the site's no longer up. The only thing that still exists is the Popsearch facility which is great for those chart runs!

I actually emailed him for Top 40 shows once and he said he had some from summer of 1991 but I think he was a bit wary of sending any to me. He started going back 15 years rather 10 years for his commentaries but then stopped because his opinions had changed. I think it was more of a time issue, it became more difficuklt to keep it updated I think.