From the end of May 1976 until the beginning of January 1994, chart success around western Europe was measured by the
Europarade - "The Chart Of The Charts"! Compiled in the earlier years by TROS-Radio, and in the later ones by SR-1, it was broadcast on these and other radio stations around Europe, and published (occasionally) in various magazines. In 2008 (with very much appreciated help and contributions from others!) a team of three forum members - cavefan, CZB and francisplaiy - posted here virtually the whole of those 917 weekly charts (and several year-end charts too) - primarily from the notes we had made while listening to those chart shows way back then. These can be found in the following six threads. each of which covers a three-year period.
1976 to 1979 - http://ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52561
1980 to 1982 - http://ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52562
1983 to 1985 - http://ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52563
1986 to 1988 - http://ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52564
1989 to 1991 - http://ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52565
1992 to 1994 - http://ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52566
More details of the compilation method can be found on those threads. However, for the majority of the period the chart was a top forty, based on the top fifteen positions of each of eleven national charts - Austria (A), Belgium (B), Switzerland (CH), Germany (D), Denmark (DK), Spain (E), France (F), the United Kingdom (GB), Italy (I), Ireland (IRL) and the Netherlands (NL). The charts were weighted equally on a points system, with each number one receiving 15 points, each number 2 receiving 14 points - and so on, down to each number 15 receiving one point. The total points scored, up to a maximum of 165, determined the Europarade positions - with records scoring the same points total ranked alphabetically by title. (This happened only rarely at the top end of the chart - but frequently at the bottom end, especially when hits had 15 / 14 / 13 points by scoring in the top three in one country, without charting anywhere else at all!)
So it all came to an end just over fifteen years ago - and various other ways of compiling pan-European charts have been used since then. However, we all wondered how the Europarade would have progressed, if it had continued to be compiled in exactly the same way as previously - and we are convinced that such an approach would have continued to be as good a measure of chart success across the continent as it always was.
Now, in 2009, we have begun a new series of threads, continuing from where we finished at the beginning of 1994 - setting out for each week the "Europarade" that
would have been compiled in the years since then, if the same rules had continued to be applied. We are compiling them all ourselves, using the weekly national charts that can be found around the internet and in our own archives. So it is likely to take somewhat longer - as this time we're doing
all the work, not just transcribing the completed charts from our notes and other sources!
Each of the new threads will cover
five years - and (although we may be filling in for each other from time to time) we will mainly take care of one period each:
francisplaiy will be covering
1994 to 1998 .......and is currently approaching the end of 1997! That thread is here:
http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=60376
cavefan will be dealing with
1999 to 2003, in a thread that is "coming soon" / "in preparation";
And I,
CZB, have already completed
2004 to 2008, here:
http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=61099
So now the Europarade continues into 2009, in this new thread. It should hopefully only take a few weeks to produce and post the weekly charts for the year so far, then - from 23rd August, probably - the new
current Europarade will be added each week! Comments are welcome, especially when we reach the present, and the chart will reveal week-by-week just what is currently performing well (or not!) in which parts of Western Europe.
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On we go, then. And, as 2009 begins, there are only a few new entries, including Adele with the best track from her album, "19" - however, it's not the UK or Ireland in which that's doing really well! But there's no change in the top three since the last Europarade of 2008:
4th January 2009
01 01 09 IF I WERE A BOY - BEYONCE
(A12/B11/CH12/D10/DK10/F11/GB13/I9/IRL13/NL14)
02 02 10 HOT ´N´ COLD - KATY PERRY (A15/B9/CH14/D15/DK15/GB7/I14/NL15)
03 03 10 WOMANIZER - BRITNEY SPEARS (A10/B14/CH8/DK11/F15/GB5/I4/IRL12)
04 06 07 HUMAN - KILLERS (A9/CH9/D11/DK8/GB6/IRL5/NL12)
05 04 17 INFINITY 2008 - GURU JOSH PROJECT (A4/B13/CH10/DK14/F13/NL5)
06 05 15 SO WHAT - PINK (A11/B6/CH11/D9/DK3/F12/GB1/NL3)
07 09 13 ALLEIN, ALLEIN / ALENE - POLARKREIS 18 (VS NEPHEW) (A14/D14/DK12)
08 08 05 RUN - LEONA LEWIS (CH13/GB14/IRL9)
09 28 03 SOBER - PINK (A8/CH7 /D13/NL6)
10 10 02 HALLELUJAH - ALEXANDRA BURKE (GB15/IRL15)
11 12 12 AYO TECHNOLOGY - MILOW (B10/NL13)
12 15 02 BROKEN STRINGS - JAMES MORRISON / NELLY FURTADO (CH3/GB12/NL8)
13 11 10 LIVE YOUR LIFE - T.I. FEATURING RIHANNA (A5/CH5/IRL4/NL7)
14 07 37 THIS IS THE LIFE - AMY MACDONALD (A7/CH2/D12)
15 14 05 GLüCK - HERBERT GRöNEMEYER (A13/D7)
16 16 05 GREATEST DAY - TAKE THAT (GB10/IRL10)
17 13 02 HALLELUJAH - JEFF BUCKLEY (GB9/IRL8)
18 20 03 USE SOMEBODY - KINGS OF LEON (GB11/IRL6)
19 Re 02 I HATE THIS PART - PUSSYCAT DOLLS (A6/B5/D3/IRL2)
20 17 10
DAS FEYR VO DR SEHNSUCHT - JODLERKLUB WIESENBERG / FRANCINE J (CH15)
21 18 02 HOME - TOM HELSEN AND GEIKE ARNAERT (B15)
22 23 09 NOVEMBRE - GIUSY FERRERI (I15)
23 24 05 PIECES OF A DREAM - ANASTACIA (E15)
24 22 05 AH, SI TU POUVAIS FERMER TA GUEULE - PATRICK SEBASTIEN (F14)
25 33 10 LEMON POP (EP) - COOPER (E14)
26 36 02 WHERE DID MY MONEY GO - PAT SHORTT (IRL14)
27 Re 06 INVECE NO - LAURA PAUSINI (I13)
28 32 08 KOMMER IGEN - NIK AND JAY (DK13)
29 27 03 QUEEN SINGLES COLLECTION 1 - QUEEN (E13)
30 38 44 BE MINE - CAST OF HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL (E12)
31 ---- 01 MERAVIGLIOSO - NEGRAMERO (I12)
32 ---- 01 WALK AND DON'T HOLD BACK - DIRK (B12)
33 29 11 ALLA MIA ETA - TIZIANO FERRO (I11)
34 Re 05 CELEBRATE / THE NIGHT OF THE WAR - DORO (E11)
35 39 09 HERO - X FACTOR FINALISTS (IRL11)
36 ---- 01 MAKE YOU FEEL MY LOVE - ADELE (NL11)
37 Re 03 DI QUE SI - NANCYS RUBIAS (E10)
38 Re 02 MISS INDEPENDENT - NE-YO (NL10)
39 Re 11 WHEN I GROW UP - PUSSYCAT DOLLS (F10)
40 21 06 WOW! (UNA STAR COSÌ VERA) - LUCA BUTERA (I10)
Eurobusters:
01 - COME MUSICA - JOVANOTTI (I)
02 - DO IT, DRUNKED - MATCH STATISTICS (E)
03 - LE SUPER MEGAMIX - BEBE LILLY (F)
04 - ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS SONG - GERALDINE MCQUEEN (GB)
05 - DAY N NITE - KID CUDI VS CROOKERS (B)
06 - BIS ZUM SCHLUSS - CURSE MIT SILBERMOND (D)
07 - I BELIEVE IN X-MAS - POPSTARS (A)
08 - PAS PÅ MIKKEL - PAPRIKA STEEN AND MICHAEL CARØ (DK)
09 - BOYFRIEND - ALPHABEAT (NL)
10 - SINGLE LADIES (PUT A RING ON IT) - BEYONCÉ (IRL)
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