The Retro Singles Chart - Wk 1

[Smurfie]

OK, so here's the idea.

The Retro Singles Chart will be a Top 30 list of all songs currently charting within the Top 200 singles which are more than one year old.

The chart will therefore follow this rule:

Tracks that will qualify in the Retro Singles Chart must have been available on Single or Digital Single format for at least one Calender Year.

Where the chart entry is an album track only, this will be included if the album is over one year old. Album tracks which later become available as a Physical or Digital Release will only be included from the latters release or forthcoming intended release date.

Any questions, please shout, and your feedback will be appreciated!



Retro Singles Chart – Week 1

For Week Ending: 08/12/07

TW/LW/Artist/Track/WOC

1 (NE) Elvis Presley – An American Trilogy (1 wk)
2 (NE) Mariah Carey – All I Want For Christmas Is You (1)
3 (NE) Phil Collins – In The Air Tonight (1)
4 (NE) Pogues ft Kirsty MacColl – Fairytale Of New York (1)
5 (NE) Christina Aguilera – Hurt (1)
6 (NE) Andy Williams – It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year (1)
7 (NE) Wham – Last Christmas (1)
8 (NE) Led Zeppelin – Stairway To Heaven (1)
9 (NE) Wizzard – I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (1)
10 (NE) Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars (1)
11 (NE) Ernie K-Doe – Here Come The Girls (1)
12 (NE) Shakin’ Stevens – Merry Christmas Everyone (1)
13 (NE) Band Aid –Do They Know It’s Christmas 84/89 (1)
14 (NE) Justice vs Simian – We Are Your Friends (1)
15 (NE) Peter Bjorn and John – Young Folks (1)
16 (NE) Massive Attack – Teardrop (1)
17 (NE) Michael Buble – Home (1)
18 (NE) Take That – Patience (1)
19 (NE) Killers – Mr Brightside (1)
20 (NE) Amy Winehouse – Rehab (1)
21 (NE) Chris Rea – Driving Home For Christmas (1)
22 (NE) Bing Crosby – White Christmas (1)
23 (NE) Perry Como – It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas (1)
24 (NE) Elvis Presley – Always On My Mind (1)
25 (NE) John & Yoko & the Plastic Ono Band w/t Harlem Community Choir – Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (1)
26 (NE) East 17 – Stay Another Day (1)
27 (NE) Led Zeppelin – Whole Lotta Love (1)
28 (NE) Led Zeppelin – Kashmir (1)
29 (NE) Paul McCartney – Wonderful Christmas Time (1)
30 (NE) Ronettes – Frosty The Snowman (1)

<sub>Number ones:

Wk 1: Elvis Presley - An American Trilogy</sub>

[ManicKangaroo]

Great job

[wonderwall]

nice one

[Jan]

WOW!!! This is fantastic!! Love the idea, thanks Stu and James, that's why the two of you are my good friends.
I hope the Andy Williams track make it to no.1!! I've got a softspot for his songs and voice thanks to my mom. Music to watch girls by and Where do i begin are both classics.
This chart will be my new favourate chart to watch from now on. Elvis will probably drop to at least 20-30 next week, glad it's coming to an end now.

[Jan]

I do like the Chris Rea and East 17 songs! Chris has an awesome voice.

[o]

Great idea, Mariah should take Elvis this week and stay above him for the foreseeable future! Have we got any songs that are close to this chart, in that they are almost a year old?

[ManicKangaroo]

I think Leona will be the next one

[ManicKangaroo]

andy said:

Great idea, Mariah should take Elvis this week and stay above him for the foreseeable future!

not necessarily - Pogues is out physically next week and could overtake her

[Paul]

Great idea. As it's Christmas soon, there is no issue, but it future weeks there may not be 30 tracks over a year old in the top 200

[ManicKangaroo]

That's why we settled on a top 30 - there should be at least 30 weekly

there are over 60 this week

[Smurfie]

There are also lots of other tracks which tend to turn up in the Top 200 as constant sellers, such as Numb/Encore, I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing, Insomnia, etc, plus I'm sure the Amy Winehouse singles aren't going to go away in a hurray.

[geek] Am most excited about it [/geek]

[Smurfie]

But all in all, thanks for the good positive reaction, and thanks to Mr Manic for the idea.

[o]

Woohoo, it's great when a plan comes together, and even better when someone offers to do it

[jerri]

I especially like Led Zeppelin – Stairway To Heaven , and East 17 - Stay Another Day

I almost missed White Christmas - Bing Crosby(loved the film too)

[Smurfie]

andy said:

Woohoo, it's great when a plan comes together, and even better when someone offers to do it

Cheers Andy. I'm looking forward to this being a permanent fixture here in Retro.

[TheThorne]

This is a brilliant idea and will certainly boost interest in Retro forum,ill be checking this every week