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Looking forward to #justiceforamillionmilesaway

Thanks guys and I’m sorry we are a couple of weeks behind now hoping to catch up!

Entry: 17/11/84 Chart run: 198-190-187-152-58-55-53-52-45-43-19-19-09-08-07-01 @cityofdoomsday N/A @Epic Chocolat #17 9 @Eric Generic #1 2 @Hairycub1969 #1 2 @phoenix123 #1 SECOND WEEK AT NUMBER ONE @WoW73 #9 NEW Four months after first charting Dead or Alive ascend to the summit here...

Entry: 01/12/84 Chart run: 170-162-143-135-121-101-32-09-05-02-02-01-01-02 @cityofdoomsday #1 SECOND WEEK AT NUMBER ONE @Epic Chocolat N/A @Eric Generic #18 6 @Hairycub1969 #11 4 @phoenix123 #20 15 @WoW73 #1 2 Billy Ocean is toppled after a fortnight at the summit. It peaked at US #2 last...

Entry: 17/11/84 Chart run: 67-60-52-49-48-42-44-45-46-46-34-23-17-16-07-05-03 @cityofdoomsday #27 21 @Epic Chocolat N/A @Eric Generic #11 18 @Hairycub1969 #4 13 @phoenix123 #9 14 @WoW73 #34 36 He may be on the way to a UK top ten climbing 22-13 this week, here it's now a top three hit...

Entry: 19/01/85 Chart run: 154-14-05-03-03-02-04 @cityofdoomsday N/A @Epic Chocolat 11 5 @Eric Generic #32 23 @Hairycub1969 #5 5 @phoenix123 #7 4 @WoW73 #36 38 Phil Collins misses out on a fourth chart topper dropping 2-4 this week.

Entry: 09/02/85 Chart run: 45-05 @cityofdoomsday #28 40 @Epic Chocolat N/A @Eric Generic #23 NEW @Hairycub1969 #30 NEW @phoenix123 #5 NEW @WoW73 #6 8 Madonna wastes no time in vaulting 45-5 as this week's highest climber after only a fortnight charted. It enters at UK #24 this week while...

Entry: 10/11/84 Chart run: 84-75-68-63-56-43-33-30-23-16-11-04-06-05-04-03-06 @cityofdoomsday #13 8 @Epic Chocolat N/A @Eric Generic #29 20 @Hairycub1969 #24 20 @phoenix123 #29 19 @WoW73 #11 12 Ashford & Simpson reached a peak last week on both the retrochart and UK chart. They slide on...

Entry: 26/01/85 Chart run: 66-30-17-10-10-07 @cityofdoomsday #48 53 @Epic Chocolat N/A @Eric Generic #15 21 @Hairycub1969 #22 23 @phoenix123 #3 6 @WoW73 #39 43 The Commodores climb three spots 10-7. It's a similar story on the UK chart as they move 9-6 and in the US it jumps 44-33.

Entry: 08/12/84 Chart run: 35-27-07-06-05-01-01-01-01-01-02-06-08 @cityofdoomsday #33 25 @Epic Chocolat #25 19 @Eric Generic #40 31 @Hairycub1969 OUT @phoenix123 #22 12 @WoW73 #2121 Former chart toppers Foreigner continue to fall.

Entry: 15/12/84 Chart run: 221-181-159-137-112-111-40-14-07-09-09-09 @cityofdoomsday #5 3 @Epic Chocolat N/A @Eric Generic #2 3 @Hairycub1969 #7 16 @phoenix123 #30 20 @WoW73 N/A Hall & Oates are still stuck at #9 but make a rare surprise entry to the UK top 40 moving 41-33 this week.

Entry: 03/11/84 Chart run: 186-196-165-149-139-132-123-109-98-49-29-26-12-03-04-05-04-10 @cityofdoomsday OUT 72 @Epic Chocolat #15 7 @Eric Generic #9 5 @Hairycub1969 #19 11 @phoenix123 #4 3 @WoW73 N/A Bryan Adams misses out on a UK top ten hit yet again, spending an entire month at #11...

#58 NEW ENTRY #56 CHART ENTRY #50 CHART ENTRY #41 CHART ENTRY #29 HIGHEST NEW ENTRY 11 08 03 10 I Know Him So Well Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson 12 12 12 06 This Is Not America David Bowie & Pat Metheny Group 13 14 13 04 How Soon Is Now The Smiths...

#77 NEW ENTRY #74 CLIMBER - UP 11 PLACES #73 NEW ENTRY #66 RE-ENTRY #62 HIGHCLIMBER - UP 30 PLACES 51 38 36 07 …(And That's No Lie) Heaven 17 52 39 10 07 Julia Eurythmics 53 64 53 02 We Close Our Eyes Go West 54 51 51 05 Cruising Sinitta 55 41 02 12...

Still struggling with the formatting since the forum refresh and I don't know why.

Welcome to The Popjustice Retrochart 100 for week-ending 2 March 1985! ★ PLATINUM - GOLD - SILVER I Know Him So Well Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) Dead Or Alive out 76 05 36 I'm So Excited Pointer Sisters out 165 22 22 Such A...

The holy grail is surely the “banned” performance of What Do I Have To Do? Looking at that list I’m sure there is enough there for a TOTP “unaired” special. Maybe on an anniversary or something?

Slightly off topic (I’ve lost track of TOTP recently) there seem to be a lot of 90s retrospectives on channel 5 recently. Just watching one on 1990 and it’s made me google both lead singers for Soup Dragons (Sean Dickson) and EMF (James Atkin) and I read that they both came out as gay...

Someone new hopefully!

Indeed! I suspect this may happen more often if the big artists get their transatlantic releases synched. Madonna, Phil Collins, Wham! The releases are all over the shop at the moment. But then again…. they would peak much more quickly in the UK than the US!