THE PJOPS RETROCHART
We are taking a trip down memory lane
The Rules
- This is a retrochart which commenced week ending 5 January 1980.
- This week is week ending 26 July 1980. Your deadline is MIDNIGHT Saturday 16 July.
- Post in the thread or start a new conversation with me with your top 10/20/100 songs of each week.
- Each week I will post a list of new entries and releases that are eligible to chart and links to international charts.
- The list will not be exhaustive and you are free to add any more obscure songs on your personal list released up to that date (within the prior 6 months) or songs contemporaneously charting on international charts. If you do I would appreciate any links to evidence the release date or chart history to update the archive.
- You are free to use your own personal charts from the time (if you have them) or create an updated list for this chart.
- Please rank your songs from your favourite downwards. (eg #1 down to #100)
- Your #1 gets 100 points, #2 gets 99 points etc
- The weekly PJOPS Retrochart is compiled from accumulated points each week.
- It would be fantastic if you could regularly contribute lists but understandably there may be weeks you can not. If someone fails to contribute towards a weekly chart their previous week’s choices will be frozen and contribute to the chart but the points will be halved. This is to prevent wild fluctuations in chart positions depending on contributions.
Retrochart Top Ten w/e 26/07/80
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04 01 04 Babooshka Kate Bush NEW NUMBER ONE
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02 01 07 Xanadu Olivia Newton-John
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01 01 03 Upside Down Diana Ross
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03 03 05 Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division
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05 05 06 Use It Up & Wear It Out Odyssey
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07 06 07 Play The Game Queen
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41 07 02 Burning Car John Foxx
HIGHCLIMBER
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06 05 06 Could You Be Loved Bob Marley
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30 09 04 Sleepwalk Ultravox
HIGHCLIMBER
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08 02 13 Messages OMD
We are taking a trip down memory lane


- This is a retrochart which commenced week ending 5 January 1980.
- This week is week ending 26 July 1980. Your deadline is MIDNIGHT Saturday 16 July.
- Post in the thread or start a new conversation with me with your top 10/20/100 songs of each week.
- Each week I will post a list of new entries and releases that are eligible to chart and links to international charts.
- The list will not be exhaustive and you are free to add any more obscure songs on your personal list released up to that date (within the prior 6 months) or songs contemporaneously charting on international charts. If you do I would appreciate any links to evidence the release date or chart history to update the archive.
- You are free to use your own personal charts from the time (if you have them) or create an updated list for this chart.
- Please rank your songs from your favourite downwards. (eg #1 down to #100)
- Your #1 gets 100 points, #2 gets 99 points etc
- The weekly PJOPS Retrochart is compiled from accumulated points each week.
- It would be fantastic if you could regularly contribute lists but understandably there may be weeks you can not. If someone fails to contribute towards a weekly chart their previous week’s choices will be frozen and contribute to the chart but the points will be halved. This is to prevent wild fluctuations in chart positions depending on contributions.

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Diana Ross loses the top spot after one week and Kate Bush grabs her chance at the throne!
Kate Bush's current single seemed to have been "unavailable" in a particular PJ region for the last couple of weeks, while there have been some delays receiving chart return information from other PJ regions lately. Could this be an explanation in the yo-yo-ing of some singles in the chart over the last few weeks?
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