No…but when I think about ….now I do!
80s Top 10 Sales- Week By Week- 1984-1985
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No…but when I think about ….now I do!
The Latin mix of 'All I Need Is Everything' is feisty.
22ND SEPTEMBER
Romping home again to an easy victory, Stevie Wonder’s “I Just Called To Say I Love You” sold a stellar 222,000 copies over the course of last week, that brings the total to 856,000 copies in 5 weeks with a very real prospect that the song will make the million mark as early as next week. The soundtrack debuts at No 2 this week unable to dislodge “Now 3”.
Whether it gets there before or after George Michael is debatable though, he falls 2-3 with “Careless Whisper” on a sale of 107,000 which brings its total haul to 935,000, almost certainly a million seller next week. It’s also the first time the No 3 track has sold in excess of 100,000 since November 1982 when Tears For Fears sold 136,000 copies of “Mad World”. It’s overtaken by Ray parker Jr who really shifted the units after TOTP this week in the end coming in with 113,000 buyers- It’s hard to imagine that Wonder won’t be at No 1 next week.
[video=youtube;QwOU3bnuU0k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwOU3bnuU0k[/video]
Back in 1979 Sister Sledge scored a No 17 hit with “Lost In Music” which this year gets a workover from Nile Rogers whose work with Diana Ross and Duran Duran has proved chart gold over recent years. Of course the original was also a Rogers/ Edwards creation but this version features additional backing vocals from a certain Simon Le Bon and Andy Taylor which might help to account for the top 10 position of this track. The song has already outperformed the original as it arrives 14-7 (39,000) and follows on from the release of “Thinking Of You” which was also from the 1979 album “We Are Family” but wasn’t released until May this year and unexpectedly peaked at No 11, the album is getting a re-issue next week.
Their fourth album is just a fortnight away but Depeche Mode can relax as the second single from it “Master And Servant” becomes their fifth top 10 single, and a second one on the trot. The song of course has run into some controversy with its rather risqué lyrics and S & M sound effects but it has managed to slip pass the BBC censor making onto both Radio 1 and TOTP, perhaps they’ve learned from the Frankie episode? At any rate it is struggling as it nudges 11-9 (34,000).
U2 fly 8-4 (59,000) to score their first Top 5 single which must please them, whilst Miami Sound Machine finally improve 7-6 (46,000) thanks in part to TOTP, and Alphaville improve, but only just, 9-8 (34,000). Meanwhile Black Lace slip 4-5 but hold up saleswise on 49,000,that makes their total 497,000.
Romping home again to an easy victory, Stevie Wonder’s “I Just Called To Say I Love You” sold a stellar 222,000 copies over the course of last week, that brings the total to 856,000 copies in 5 weeks with a very real prospect that the song will make the million mark as early as next week. The soundtrack debuts at No 2 this week unable to dislodge “Now 3”.
Whether it gets there before or after George Michael is debatable though, he falls 2-3 with “Careless Whisper” on a sale of 107,000 which brings its total haul to 935,000, almost certainly a million seller next week. It’s also the first time the No 3 track has sold in excess of 100,000 since November 1982 when Tears For Fears sold 136,000 copies of “Mad World”. It’s overtaken by Ray parker Jr who really shifted the units after TOTP this week in the end coming in with 113,000 buyers- It’s hard to imagine that Wonder won’t be at No 1 next week.
[video=youtube;QwOU3bnuU0k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwOU3bnuU0k[/video]
Back in 1979 Sister Sledge scored a No 17 hit with “Lost In Music” which this year gets a workover from Nile Rogers whose work with Diana Ross and Duran Duran has proved chart gold over recent years. Of course the original was also a Rogers/ Edwards creation but this version features additional backing vocals from a certain Simon Le Bon and Andy Taylor which might help to account for the top 10 position of this track. The song has already outperformed the original as it arrives 14-7 (39,000) and follows on from the release of “Thinking Of You” which was also from the 1979 album “We Are Family” but wasn’t released until May this year and unexpectedly peaked at No 11, the album is getting a re-issue next week.
Their fourth album is just a fortnight away but Depeche Mode can relax as the second single from it “Master And Servant” becomes their fifth top 10 single, and a second one on the trot. The song of course has run into some controversy with its rather risqué lyrics and S & M sound effects but it has managed to slip pass the BBC censor making onto both Radio 1 and TOTP, perhaps they’ve learned from the Frankie episode? At any rate it is struggling as it nudges 11-9 (34,000).
U2 fly 8-4 (59,000) to score their first Top 5 single which must please them, whilst Miami Sound Machine finally improve 7-6 (46,000) thanks in part to TOTP, and Alphaville improve, but only just, 9-8 (34,000). Meanwhile Black Lace slip 4-5 but hold up saleswise on 49,000,that makes their total 497,000.
Gezza76 - how much did Elton John's "Passengers" sell at number ten?
I love Lost in music. I love the "It's a lot like life" bit in Master and servant, sampled in this song :
Co. Ro. feat. Taleesa - Because The Night
[video=youtube;krGa9ORpeEI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krGa9ORpeEI[/video]
Co. Ro. feat. Taleesa - Because The Night
[video=youtube;krGa9ORpeEI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krGa9ORpeEI[/video]
34,000
Now things are picking up nicely again...U2, Sister Sledge, Alphaville and Depeche....
Plus a host of brilliant records lower down the Top 40.
Plus a host of brilliant records lower down the Top 40.
Great to see Depeche Mode back in the top ten again. After having quite a good track record, it sadly takes them another 6 years to get back in there. Shocking really when you think of some of the singles released in that period, shake the disease, Stripped, Strangelove, Never let me down again and Personal Jesus.
I really enjoyed this track!
w/e 22nd Sep 1984 - such a great top ten and it's wonderful to see the top 3 selling over 100k each!
and now for some records peaking outside the top ten this week:
At number 18 are Level 42 and the brilliant "Hot water" - we are now in "Now 4" territory!
[video=youtube;TKN52YetGxU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKN52YetGxU[/video]
and now for some records peaking outside the top ten this week:
At number 18 are Level 42 and the brilliant "Hot water" - we are now in "Now 4" territory!
[video=youtube;TKN52YetGxU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKN52YetGxU[/video]
Peaking at number 21 and as usual through their lyrics giving us a history lesson:
OMD and "Tesla Girls"
[video=youtube;GH7MwYBdSvM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH7MwYBdSvM[/video]
OMD and "Tesla Girls"
[video=youtube;GH7MwYBdSvM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH7MwYBdSvM[/video]
Peaking at number 24 on their second chart run are Kraftwerk and "Tour De France"
[video=youtube;dY1XZ02x0jo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY1XZ02x0jo[/video]
[video=youtube;dY1XZ02x0jo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY1XZ02x0jo[/video]
What a weird top 10. Great tracks like U2 and Depeche Mode alongside pap like Black Lace and Stevie Wonder.
To be fair the UK charts have always been a mixed bag in terms of quality and taste. I'm probably being biased, but I felt things got a lot worse in terms of poor records doing well over decent ones in the coming 2 decades compared to the eighties. one or two duds out of ten is pretty good going really.
It all started to go to shit around the end of 1986.
Yes - in many ways the UK charts became irrelevant for me by the end of 1989.
I keep chart logs/books for 1990 to 1995 but I hardly ever look at them/refer to them as much as I do for my 1979 to 1989 ones!
I keep chart logs/books for 1990 to 1995 but I hardly ever look at them/refer to them as much as I do for my 1979 to 1989 ones!
Really? That bad that quickly, surely not. Were the top tens more 50/50 in quality. I think I tend to block out the shit when I think of 80s but I suppose for every Two Tribes there is probably a Lady Red.
Well, the tail end of 1986 seemed to mark a definite shift away from the kind of records and bands that had happily made the charts on a regular basis since the late 70s. A more plastic kind of sound (not just SAW by any means). That's where it began, but of course it took until the early 90s to really take hold in a continually negative way. You used to be able to "hear" a hit, if something was clearly a well constructed, and extremely commercial record (regardless of if it was to your own taste). Things just sounded like hits, and generally (90% of the time) actually were. The last ones I can think of of that vein were Joyride and River Of Dreams in 1991 and 1993.