The Popjustice Retrochart 100 - February 1985 - w/e 16/02/85 DEADLINE FRIDAY 10 FEBRUARY 23:59

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01 01 01 06 I Want To Know What Love Is Foreigner FOURTH WEEK AT NUMBER ONE
02 02 02 11 Like A Virgin Madonna
03 03 03 23 Careless Whisper George Michael
04 05 04 04 Easy Lover Philip Bailey & Phil Collins
05 04 01 10 Do They Know It's Christmas Band Aid
06 06 06 03 Loverboy Billy Ocean
07 07 07 03 Solid Ashford & Simpson
08 09 08 03 One Night In Bangkok Murray Head
09 --- 09 01 I Know Him So Well Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson
10 --- 10 01 Method Of Modern Love Hall & Oates

 

01 01 01 07 I Know Him So Well Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson 136,000 SECOND WEEK AT NUMBER ONE
02 02 02 06 Love & Pride King 102,000
03 04 03 07 Solid Ashford & Simpson 75,000
04 06 04 13 Dancing In The Dark Bruce Springsteen 61,000
05 03 01 11 I Want To Know What Love Is Foreigner 59,000
06 05 02 05 1999 / Little Red Corvette Prince 52,000
07 18 07 02 Things Can Only Get Better Howard Jones 47,000
08 07 07 08 Atmosphere Russ Abbot 42,000
09 10 09 13 Close (To The Edit) Art Of Noise 38,000
10 13 10 05 A New England Kirsty MacColl 33,000

Chart Entries
#42 Just Another Night Mick Jagger
#52 Let Me Down Easy The Stranglers
#64 Do What You Do Jermaine Jackson
#65 Shaft Van Twist
#69 (No Matter How High I Get) I Will Still Be Looking Up To You Wilton Felder ft Bobby Womack & introducing Alltrina Gayson
#72 Sign Of The Times Grandmaster Flash
#73 Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag Silent Underdog

Further UK charts and stats can be found here.

 

01 03 01 09 Careless Whisper George Michael NEW NUMBER ONE
02 01 01 11 I Want To Know What Love Is Foreigner
03 02 02 13 Easy Lover Phillip Bailey & Phil Collins
04 04 04 12 Loverboy Billy Ocean
05 07 05 10 Method Of Modern Love Hall & Oates
06 08 06 13 Neutron Dance Pointer Sisters
07 16 07 05 Can't Fight This Feeling REO Speedwagon
08 11 08 11 The Heat Is On Glenn Frey
09 05 05 14 Boys Of Summer Don Henley
10 13 10 05 California Girls David Lee Roth

Chart News
#54 I'm On Fire Bruce Springsteen
#65 Rhythm Of The Night DeBarge
#72 Lucky Greg Kihn
#80 Kiss And Tell Isley/Jasper/Isley
#84 Let's Talk About Me Alan Parsons Project
#87 Bongo Bongo Steve Miller
#95 New Attitude Patti LaBelle

Further US charts and stats can be found here.

 

01 01 01 10 Like A Virgin Madonna SECOND WEEK AT NUMBER ONE
02 02 01 23 Ghostbusters Ray Parker Jr.
03 04 03 07 I Want To Know What Love Is Foreigner
04 05 04 07 Everything She Wants / Last Christmas Wham!
05 03 03 07 Do They Know Its Christmas Band Aid
06 08 06 08 Shout Tears For Fears
07 06 06 09 The Power Of Love Frankie Goes To Hollywood
08 07 01 23 I Just Called To Say I Love You Stevie Wonder
09 11 09 04 Loverboy Billy Ocean
10 09 03 15 When The Rain Begins To Fall Jermaine Jackson & Pia Zadora

Chart Entries
#43 This Is Not America David Bowie & Pat Metheny Group
#54 Things Can Only Get Better Howard Jones
#60 Woodpeckers From Space Video Kids
#83 Love Like Blood Killing Joke
#84 You're The Inspiration Chicago
#88 How Soon Is Now The Smiths
#94 Patrick Pacard Lady Lily
#96 Personality Eugene Wilde
100 You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) Dead Or Alive


Further european charts and stats can be found here.

 

01 02 01 16 Ghostbusters Ray Parker Jr. FOURTH WEEK AT NUMBER ONE
02 01 01 16 When The Rain Begins To Fall Jermaine Jackson & Pia Zadora
03 03 03 15 Careless Whisper George Michael
04 08 04 07 Square Rooms Al Corley
05 07 01 16 I Just Called To Say I Love You Stevie Wonder
06 05 05 16 Un Autre Monde Telephone
07 04 01 16 Besoin De Rien, Envie De Toi Peter et Sloane
08 10 08 07 Like A Virgin Madonna
09 09 07 15 The War Song Culture Club
10 06 06 15 (Long Is The Road) American Jean-Jacques Goldman

Chart Entries
#16 Why Bronski Beat
#40 L'amour en héritage Nana Mouskouri
#46 She Bop Cyndi Lauper
#47 Easy Lover Philip Bailey & Phil Collins

 

01 01 01 07 Shout Tears For Fears THIRD WEEK AT NUMBER ONE
02 03 02 08 Easy Lover Philip Bailey & Phil Collins
03 02 01 08 One Night In Bangkok Murray Head
04 05 04 05 Do What You Do Jermaine Jackson
05 04 03 08 Solid Ashford & Simpson
06 50 06 02 This Is Not America David Bowie & Pat Metheny Group
07 06 06 09 I Want To Know What Love Is Foreigner
08 07 07 04 Loverboy Billy Ocean
09 43 09 02 Ik meen't Andre Hazes
10 11 10 03 Let It All Blow Dazz Band

Chart Entries
#23 Treat Her Like A Lady The Temptations
#31 Yaki Taki Oowah! Gigantjes
#32 You're The Inspiration Chicago
#34 I Know Him So Well Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson
#36 The Old Man Down The Road John Fogarty
#49 California Girls Davi Lee Roth
#50 When The Snow Falls Ten Sharp

 

01 02 01 05 I Want To Know What Love Is Foreigner NEW NUMBER ONE
02 01 01 08 Do They Know It's Christmas Band Aid
03 03 03 09 Last Christmas Wham!
04 04 01 13 Like A Virgin Madonna
05 05 04 09 The Power Of Love Frankie Goes To Hollywood
06 06 06 08 Sexcrime (1984) Eurythmics
07 10 07 10 We Belong Pat Benatar
08 17 08 04 The Riddle Nik Kershaw
09 07 05 13 Together In Electric Dreams Giorgio Moroder & Phil Oakey
10 08 08 11 Shout To The Top The Style Council

Chart Entries
#29 Daylight JIMMY BARNES
#35 Everything She Wants WHAM!
#43 I Should Have Known Better JIM DIAMOND
#44 Everything Must Change PAUL YOUNG
#49 The Old Man Down the Road JOHN FOGERTY

 

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Let's make a start on this week's HMV Retrochart - are these songs in your Retrochart yet?
The Makers and Shakers:
Number 49 - new entry for David Lee Roth who has left Van Halen for a solo career and covered The Beach Boys' "California Girls":

 

Number 48 - new entry from Cubland to the Retrochart is the wonderful T.C.Curtis and "You should have known better":

 

This week's highest new entry comes in at Number 42 for U2 and "A sort of homecoming" - which hasn't got a UK single release date yet - but is getting lots of Cubplay!

 

Dead or Alive have taken TEN weeks but they've finally managed to reach the top ten as they leap from 26 to 9 this week with "You spin me round (like a record)":

Full chart run:
50-48-46-45-42-39-35-30-26-9

 

Heaven 17 taken as half as long (five weeks) to make the top ten as ...(And that's no lie)" climbs from 16 to 7 this week: