looked unlikely but, the Look Of Love by ABC finally reaches the number one spot, the longest climb ever, 28 nonconsecutive weeks!
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Popjustice Retrochart - January 1983 - w/e 22/01/83
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US Billboard Hot 100 w/e 22/01/83
0101 01 12 Down Under Men At Work SECOND WEEK AT NUMBER ONE
0202 02 12 The Girl Is Mine Michael Jackson/Paul McCartney
0303 03 13 Dirty Laundry Don Henley
0405 04 13 Sexual Healing Marvin Gaye
0507 05 13 Africa Toto
0604 01 15 Maneater Daryl Hall And John Oates
0708 07 19 Baby, Come To Me Patti Austin with James Ingram
0809 08 17 Rock The Casbah Clash
0906 01 21 Mickey Toni Basil
1010 10 16 Heartbreaker Dionne Warwick
Chart Entries
#29 1 All Right Christopher Cross
#47 1 Billie Jean Michael Jackson
#73 1 The Blues Randy Newman And Paul Simon
#78 1 Fall In Love With Me Earth, Wind And Fire
#79 1 Come On Eileen Dexy's Midnight Runners
#80 1 Lies Thompson Twins
#86 1 Love Me Again John Hall Band
#88 1 It's Raining Men Weather Girls
#90 1 The One That Really Matters Survivor
Billboard Magazine 22/01/83
Billboard 200 Albums Business As Usual Men At Work ELEVENTH WEEK AT NUMBER ONE
Billboard Adult Contemporary Baby Come To Me Patti Austin & James Ingram NEW NUMBER ONE
Billboard Dance / Disco Tracks Top 80 Thriller (all cuts) Michael Jackson NEW NUMBER ONE
Billboard Hot Soul Singles The Girl Is Mine Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney SECOND WEEK AT NUMBER ONE
Cashbox Magazine 22/01/83
Cashbox Singles Chart Down Under Men At Work NEW NUMBER ONE
Cashbox Album Chart Business As Usual Men At Work
Black Contemporary Singles Chart Put It In A Magazine Sonny Charles
Black Contemporary Album Thriller Michael Jackson
Radio & Records Magazine 21/01/83
Black Radio Airplay Top 30 Bad Boy Ray Parker Jnr.
Contemporary Hit Radio Top 30 Down Under Men At Work
Adult Contemporary Top 30 Heart To Heart Kenny Loggins
AOR Hot Tracks Top 60 Hungry Like The Wolf Duran Duran
All Right by Christopher Cross debuted at #29, which is one of the higher debuts of the entire decade, which is strange because it never made the top 10.
He did seem very popular in the US with the last album. Didn't he get Grammies and all sorts? Being a big established act does tend to lead to high entries but the peak is all down to the song...
Ha ! A case of the ALL US Stations wanting to be the first to get their hands on and air the single - and then realising it's not a good single as his previous stuff!
The HMV Retrochart is ready for uploading. Let's start with the makers and shakers - are these songs in your Retrochart yet?
Number 48 - new entry for The Beatles who return after 20 years with "Please Please Me":
Number 48 - new entry for The Beatles who return after 20 years with "Please Please Me":
Number 46 - new entry for Prince who returns with a new band "The Revolution" after a long absence and a new single called "1999":
Number 45 - new entry for The Thompson Twins who return with "Love on your side" - watch out for the "In the name of love" synth riff!
Number 44 - New entry: Bauhaus return with "Lagaritija Nick":
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Number 42 - New entry for Central Line who are back with their cover of "Nature Boy":
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Number 40 - new entry - out of Cubland and into the HMV Retrochart for Indeep and "Last night a DJ saved my life" - is that a "Chic" riff I hear?
Number 38 - new entry for Dire Straits who do their best "Beach Boys" on "Twisting by the pool":
Number 37 - new entry for U2 who return after a long absence with a brand new single "New Year's Day":
Number 30 - new entry for Echo and the Bunnymen who also return after a long absence with "The Cutter" (Coldplay were listening closely!)
This week's highest new entry comes in at Number 24 for Kajagoogoo. They're EMI Records latest signing and big things are expected from them. This is their debut single called "Too shy":
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Number 9 up from 12 go The The with "Uncertain smile":
HMV Retrochart
W/e 23rd January 1983
TW LW WoC HP Title Artist Mstream UK
1 4 3 1 DOWN UNDER Men at Work 2
2 1 8 1 YOU CAN'T HURRY LOVE Phil Collins 1
3 2 8 2 I CONFESS The Beat N/A
4 10 3 4 STEPPIN' OUT Joe Jackson 8
5 19 2 5 ELECTRIC AVENUE Eddy Grant 4
6 9 5 6 THE STORY OF THE BLUES Wah! 3
7 8 6 7 HEARTACHE AVENUE The Maisonettes 7
8 3 7 3 UNDER ATTACK Abba 42
9 12 8 9 UNCERTAIN SMILE The The N/A
10 15 3 10 EUROPEAN FEMALE The Stranglers 9
11 16 6 11 OH DIANE Fleetwood Mac 26
12 7 9 5 OUR HOUSE Madness 10
13 11 8 7 BUFFALO GALS Malcolm McLaren 11
14 5 9 4 HYMN Ultravox 18
15 39 2 15 THE CHINESE WAY Level 42 35
16 6 9 1 TIME (CLOCK OF THE HEART) Culture Club 17
17 14 9 3 FRIENDS Shalamar 30
18 27 3 18 HOLD ME TIGHTER IN THE RAIN Billy Griffin 28
19 28 3 19 I HAVE THE TOUCH Peter Gabriel N/A
20 23 8 18 I FEEL LOVE (PATRICK COWLEY REMIX) Donna Summer 22
21 24 6 21 GLORIA Laura Branigan 20
22 30 3 22 WHAM RAP! Wham! 41
23 22 9 15 GOING HOME Patrick Cowley N/A
24 NEW 1 24 TOO SHY Kajagoogoo 33
25 37 2 25 SIGN OF THE TIMES The Belle Stars 19
26 21 17 1 MADWORLD Tears For Fears 83
27 20 10 1 MIRROR MAN The Human League 57
28 13 8 6 WHERE THE HEART IS Soft Cell 92
29 18 12 8 SHE BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE Thomas Dolby N/A
30 NEW 1 30 THE CUTTER Echo and the Bunnymen 27
31 26 7 21 CHANGES Imagination 40
32 42 2 32 UP WHERE WE BELONG Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes 31
33 38 3 33 IN THE NAME OF LOVE Sharon Redd 38
34 25 15 2 YOUNG GUNS (GO FOR IT) Wham! 29
35 17 11 11 BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES Modern Romance 14
36 45 2 36 ONE ON ONE Hall and Oates 70
37 NEW 1 37 NEW YEAR'S DAY U2 23
38 NEW 1 38 TWISTING BY THE POOL Dire Straits 24
39 31 13 10 GREAT SOUTHERN LAND Icehouse N/A
40 NEW 1 40 LAST NIGHT A DJ SAVED MY LIFE Indeep 65
41 48 2 41 CHRISTIAN China Crisis 63
42 NEW 1 42 NATURE BOY Central Line 55
43 50 2 43 SHINY SHINY Haysi Fantayzee 61
44 NEW 1 44 LAGARITIJA NICK Bauhaus 48
45 NEW 1 45 LOVE ON YOUR SIDE The Thompson Twins 79
46 NEW 1 46 1999 Prince 80
47 41 3 41 THE MORE I SEE (THE LESS I BELIEVE) The Fun Boy Three N/A
48 NEW 1 48 PLEASE PLEASE ME The Beatles 32
49 33 11 9 SOMEONE SOMEWHERE (IN SUMMERTIME) Simple Minds N/A
50 49 12 7 THE GIRL IS MINE Michael Jackson & Paul Mcartney 100
Joe Jackson shoots up from 10 to 4 this week with the brilliant "Steppin' out":
Congratulations to Men at Work who are the new HMV Retrochart Number One with "Down Under":
Cubfile:
Men at Work manage to topple Phil Collins from the top with their smash hit “Down under” – it’s up to Number Two on the UK Mainstream Chart and is likely to do the same next week. Other climbers this week inside the top ten include Joe Jackson, Eddy Grant, Wah!, The Maisonettes, The The and The Stranglers. Heading down are The Beat (who spent four weeks at Numeber Two with “I Confess”) and Abba.
This week’s highest new entry comes from EMI’s brand new signing Kajagoogoo who debut at Number 24 with their first single “Too shy”
The longest runner on the chart are Tears For Fears with “Madworld” who go down from 21 to 26 after 17 weeks.
Next Week could see new entries from Rockers Revenge, Lionel Richie, Toto, The Undertones, Mike Khan and Michael Jackson – stay tuned!
W/e 23rd January 1983
TW LW WoC HP Title Artist Mstream UK
1 4 3 1 DOWN UNDER Men at Work 2
2 1 8 1 YOU CAN'T HURRY LOVE Phil Collins 1
3 2 8 2 I CONFESS The Beat N/A
4 10 3 4 STEPPIN' OUT Joe Jackson 8
5 19 2 5 ELECTRIC AVENUE Eddy Grant 4
6 9 5 6 THE STORY OF THE BLUES Wah! 3
7 8 6 7 HEARTACHE AVENUE The Maisonettes 7
8 3 7 3 UNDER ATTACK Abba 42
9 12 8 9 UNCERTAIN SMILE The The N/A
10 15 3 10 EUROPEAN FEMALE The Stranglers 9
11 16 6 11 OH DIANE Fleetwood Mac 26
12 7 9 5 OUR HOUSE Madness 10
13 11 8 7 BUFFALO GALS Malcolm McLaren 11
14 5 9 4 HYMN Ultravox 18
15 39 2 15 THE CHINESE WAY Level 42 35
16 6 9 1 TIME (CLOCK OF THE HEART) Culture Club 17
17 14 9 3 FRIENDS Shalamar 30
18 27 3 18 HOLD ME TIGHTER IN THE RAIN Billy Griffin 28
19 28 3 19 I HAVE THE TOUCH Peter Gabriel N/A
20 23 8 18 I FEEL LOVE (PATRICK COWLEY REMIX) Donna Summer 22
21 24 6 21 GLORIA Laura Branigan 20
22 30 3 22 WHAM RAP! Wham! 41
23 22 9 15 GOING HOME Patrick Cowley N/A
24 NEW 1 24 TOO SHY Kajagoogoo 33
25 37 2 25 SIGN OF THE TIMES The Belle Stars 19
26 21 17 1 MADWORLD Tears For Fears 83
27 20 10 1 MIRROR MAN The Human League 57
28 13 8 6 WHERE THE HEART IS Soft Cell 92
29 18 12 8 SHE BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE Thomas Dolby N/A
30 NEW 1 30 THE CUTTER Echo and the Bunnymen 27
31 26 7 21 CHANGES Imagination 40
32 42 2 32 UP WHERE WE BELONG Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes 31
33 38 3 33 IN THE NAME OF LOVE Sharon Redd 38
34 25 15 2 YOUNG GUNS (GO FOR IT) Wham! 29
35 17 11 11 BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES Modern Romance 14
36 45 2 36 ONE ON ONE Hall and Oates 70
37 NEW 1 37 NEW YEAR'S DAY U2 23
38 NEW 1 38 TWISTING BY THE POOL Dire Straits 24
39 31 13 10 GREAT SOUTHERN LAND Icehouse N/A
40 NEW 1 40 LAST NIGHT A DJ SAVED MY LIFE Indeep 65
41 48 2 41 CHRISTIAN China Crisis 63
42 NEW 1 42 NATURE BOY Central Line 55
43 50 2 43 SHINY SHINY Haysi Fantayzee 61
44 NEW 1 44 LAGARITIJA NICK Bauhaus 48
45 NEW 1 45 LOVE ON YOUR SIDE The Thompson Twins 79
46 NEW 1 46 1999 Prince 80
47 41 3 41 THE MORE I SEE (THE LESS I BELIEVE) The Fun Boy Three N/A
48 NEW 1 48 PLEASE PLEASE ME The Beatles 32
49 33 11 9 SOMEONE SOMEWHERE (IN SUMMERTIME) Simple Minds N/A
50 49 12 7 THE GIRL IS MINE Michael Jackson & Paul Mcartney 100
Joe Jackson shoots up from 10 to 4 this week with the brilliant "Steppin' out":
Congratulations to Men at Work who are the new HMV Retrochart Number One with "Down Under":
Cubfile:
Men at Work manage to topple Phil Collins from the top with their smash hit “Down under” – it’s up to Number Two on the UK Mainstream Chart and is likely to do the same next week. Other climbers this week inside the top ten include Joe Jackson, Eddy Grant, Wah!, The Maisonettes, The The and The Stranglers. Heading down are The Beat (who spent four weeks at Numeber Two with “I Confess”) and Abba.
This week’s highest new entry comes from EMI’s brand new signing Kajagoogoo who debut at Number 24 with their first single “Too shy”
The longest runner on the chart are Tears For Fears with “Madworld” who go down from 21 to 26 after 17 weeks.
Next Week could see new entries from Rockers Revenge, Lionel Richie, Toto, The Undertones, Mike Khan and Michael Jackson – stay tuned!
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1983 - The Stats:
The Number Ones:
W/E Artist Title
01-Jan-83 Culture Club Time (Clock of the heart)
08-Jan-83 Phil Collins You can't hurry love
15-Jan-83 Phil Collins you can't hurry love
22-Jan-83 Men at Work Down Under
The Number Twos:
Artist Title Peak
The Beat I Confess 3 weeks in Jan
The Number Ones:
W/E Artist Title
01-Jan-83 Culture Club Time (Clock of the heart)
08-Jan-83 Phil Collins You can't hurry love
15-Jan-83 Phil Collins you can't hurry love
22-Jan-83 Men at Work Down Under
The Number Twos:
Artist Title Peak
The Beat I Confess 3 weeks in Jan
Around the time of the 90's you would see top 10 debuts all the time, but it was unusual in the 80's. Thriller debuted at #20 in 1984 but it was around for quite a few weeks on the radio, before it was finally released as a single. The only other song I can think of that debuted really high in the 80's that missed the top 10 was "It's Raining Again" by Supertramp.
Had this been released in 1979 or 1980 it would have been a top 10 hit in the U.S. but, it wasn't,sometimes timing is everything.
EG's TOP40 RETROCHART: Week Ending 22nd January 1983
EG's Chartdust: A new #1, 8 entries, lots of big climbers.....the New Year has properly started this week.Joe Jackson gets a 2nd Retrochart #1, almost exactly 3 years after his first, It's Different For Girls, was top of the pile in early February 1980. Steppin' Out's reign may be shortlived, with Eddy Grant revving up to #2 after just a fortnight on the chart. Wah! climb to #3 but they are some distance behind the top 2.
Three of the 8 singles debuting this week are inside the Top 20, lead by U2 at #13. It looks like being the track which finally propels them onto the next level, after a few minor chart hits in 1980 and 1981. Likewise, the latest Level 42 single gives them a #23 entry, by far their most impressive performance yet.
EG's Chartdust: A new #1, 8 entries, lots of big climbers.....the New Year has properly started this week.Joe Jackson gets a 2nd Retrochart #1, almost exactly 3 years after his first, It's Different For Girls, was top of the pile in early February 1980. Steppin' Out's reign may be shortlived, with Eddy Grant revving up to #2 after just a fortnight on the chart. Wah! climb to #3 but they are some distance behind the top 2.
Three of the 8 singles debuting this week are inside the Top 20, lead by U2 at #13. It looks like being the track which finally propels them onto the next level, after a few minor chart hits in 1980 and 1981. Likewise, the latest Level 42 single gives them a #23 entry, by far their most impressive performance yet.