CZB's Chart, Month 405 (May) - 8 new breakers, 4 new hits !

[CZB]

Well, I accidentally dropped another clanger at the beginning of the month, regarding the clue to the mystery year for January's second retro chart.....

Milk and Sugar previously revived John Paul Young’s “Love Is In The Air” - and could do likewise with the former number one by Vaya Con Dios, “Nah Neh Nah”

Milk and Sugar previously revived John Paul Young’s “Love Is In The Air” - and could do likewise with the former number one by Vaya Con Dios from 1990, “Nah Neh Nah”

So, the mention of the year disappeared completely from the final posting - but it's 1990. Which was, for me, a year of two halves! From January until June, I was working excessively long hours (a total of over three hundred in February alone, I remember - and I don't think it was much less than that in some of the others) securing the last promotion I would ever achieve. However, this arguably depended upon - and certainly coincided with - my agreeing to a six-month secondment to London from July to December. Luckily, that was in a role which, in complete contrast, there was absolutely no overtime, and not even any travel out of the office. So I was regularly able to visit other record shops in the centre of the capital on whatever were the late night shopping days, including a huge branch of HMV! - as well as the usual ones at home, to which I returned on most of the weekends. And while I was home, I picked up cassette recordings of the week's chart shows of the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands, plus the Europarade, to take back to London - those from weekdays depending on several radio cassette recorders and timer-switches, which I would set up with more tapes for the next week. In my absence, my parents or my sister then only had to switch each one on at the wall-socket on the appropriate morning - as on more infrequent earlier occasions when I was working away. Those timer-switches proved extremely handy in enabling me to still hear all the chart-shows (barring the occasional recording failure!) over the seven years or so during which I was working (more than) full-time.

It may be that CD singles and/or albums had begun to become available at this point in other countries - although I don't remember seeing any, even in London, back then. And It wouldn't be until 1993 that I bought any. However, the 7" single continued to be a popular format across most of Europe, while 12" single releases also seemed to be on the increase, and LPs were still plentiful, if either of the other formats proved impossible to track down. So 1990 is possibly the most "complete" year of my music collection. I obtained all of my top hundred of 1990 on CD at various points in the two decades since then - having already bought, mostly at the time, ninety-five on 7" single (all except numbers 25, 42, 43, 44 and 80), and ninety-five on 12" single or LP (all except numbers 24, 27, 29, 78 and 80). In Ireland, however, I gather that the cassette single had inexplicably taken off in a big way.....indeed, my number 80 track of the year was a number one there on that format alone, with no vinyl edition at all. That latter disappointment for me was, unfortunately, a sign of things to come in the years ahead.....

Despite the relative ease of availability of physical formats of my favourite tracks of twenty-one years ago, there are rather more that are now nowhere to be seen on YouTube, compared with other surrounding and more recent years. Nine are, unfortunately, not there - but I had to admit total defeat only with four of them (numbers 43, 44, 77 and 78 - and the last of those is a song that also appears in another version much higher up). The other five are more well-known compositions - indeed, all but one of them had previously reached my chart, or at least the breakers, for other acts. And there is quite a choice of alternative versions of them available on YouTube - so, just this once, and to fill the usual six hours today, I have included substitutes for these five. For the two instrumentals at numbers 16 and 42, I think I have found reasonably close approximations for what should really be there. But, in complete contrast, special guest singers - all of whom have reached the top end of my chart at least once in more recent years with other singles - are filling in for the other unavailable (and, for the majority of readers, probably unheard-of) acts at numbers 19, 46 and 94..... I hadn't heard any of these very different interpretations before today - though I found them all quite "interesting" in their own way! - and the same can be said for the German version I have included for the track at number 58.

So, without further ado, here is the complete countdown of my top hundred of 1990:

How many 1990 tracks reached my monthly chart? .....Seventy-seven - so twenty-three of the best breakers and other singles I bought from that year have made up the quota.

How many reached the top ten? .....Twenty-nine - including two entries from the Eurovision Song Contest, a few chart-toppers from the UK or other countries, and the only George Michael track I've ever liked!

How many went all the way to number one? .....Only four - and one of those didn't get there until seventeen years later, at about the point at which I first began this thread!

And who has two of the top three of the year? .....Well, it's an act whose best work is currently making something of a return to a few continental charts, and may yet spread to others!





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01 01 10 NAH NEH NAH Vaya Con Dios
02 01 12 LITTLE SISTER LEAVING TOWN Tanita Tikaram
03 02 09 WHAT'S A WOMAN? Vaya Con Dios
04 02 09 BANDIDO Azucar Moreno ##
05 02 11 TONIGHT New Kids On The Block
06 06 11 A LITTLE TIME The Beautiful South ##
07 02 12 RITMO DE LA NOCHE Mystic ##
08 04 10 A SONG GOES OUT AROUND THE WORLD Egon Egemann
09 03 09 WORKING MAN Rita MacNeil
10 07 10 HEAL THE PAIN George Michael
11 03 09 PROMISE ME Beverley Craven
12 08 11 HOW TO DANCE Bingo Boys featuring Princessa
13 08 12 KING OF THE ROAD Proclaimers
14 01 07 BIRDHOUSE IN YOUR SOUL They Might Be Giants ##
15 08 10 ALTOGETHER NOW Farm
16 04 08 THE CAN CAN Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers
17 04 07 MY SMILE WILL BE YOUR SHADOW Marianne Rosenberg

18 05 09 I USETA LOVER Saw Doctors
19 07 10 YES SIR, I CAN BOOGIE Raffaella [ Sung here by SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR ]
20 02 07 JEALOUSY Pet Shop Boys
21 06 07 BETTER THE DEVIL YOU KNOW Kylie Minogue
22 07 08 SHOW ME HEAVEN Maria McKee
23 14 09 MOOI WAS DIE TIJD Corry Konings
24 12 09 LA CUMBIA Sailor
25 01 09 GOODBYE BZN ##
26 05 06 INFINITY (1990's TIME FOR THE GURU) Guru Josh
27 04 07 EMMERDALE SUITE Woodlands Orchestra
28 05 07 FROM A DISTANCE Bette Midler
29 16 07 VERGEET M'N NAAM Corry Konings
30 09 08 THE GREASE MEGAMIX John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John ##
31 19 09 HANKY PANKY Madonna
32 07 07 CRAZY FOR YOU David Hasselhoff

33 15 07 RITMO DE LA NOCHE Lorca
34 11 07 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS / DAAR GAAT ZE Clouseau
35 16 06 CRYING IN THE RAIN Aha
36 13 06 STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER Candy Flip
37 14 06 SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE Liam Reilly
38 16 07 RHYTHM OF THE RAIN Jason Donovan
39 17 07 HELP ME BZN
40 18 08 WHERE DOES MY HEART BEAT NOW? Celine Dion
41 18 05 NOTHING COMPARES TO YOU Sinead O'Connor
42 04 04 ANDANTE "ELVIRA MADIGAN" London Philharmonia / Berdien Stenberg ##
43 11 04 THE MYTHMAKERS THEME Mark Ayres ##
44 12 04 I MYTH YOU Mark Ayres
45 30 06 FRENTE A FRENTE Chico et Roberta
46 25 06 IT'S ALL OVER NOW, BABY BLUE Dreadful Great [ Sung here by MARIANNE FAITHFULL ]
47 21 05 INSIEME 1992 Toto Cutugno
48 30 07 BECAUSE I LOVE YOU Stevie B
49 18 05 ANOTHER NIGHT Jason Donovan

50 18 05 DU SAGST DU LIEBST MICH Sound Convoy
51 29 05 MORE THAN WORDS Extreme
52 32 04 TEARS ON MY PILLOW Kylie Minogue
53 35 05 WE ALMOST GOT IT TOGETHER Tanita Tikaram
54 32 06 WOMAN TO WOMAN Beverley Craven
55 31 04 SO HARD Pet Shop Boys
56 40 07 SADENESS Enigma
57 41 06 RELEASE ME Wilson Phillips
58 42 04 YOU'RE IN LOVE Wilson Phillips
59 43 04 HITCHIN' A RIDE Sinitta
60 41 03 DING DONG Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung
61 44 03 SOMMER SOMMER (YEPPA) BZN
62 39 01 OVER THE HILLS BZN
63 41 02 SUMMERS MAGIC Mark Summers
64 42 03 RITMO DE LA NOCHE Chocolate

65 36 03 IT'S ON YOU MC Sar and the Real McCoy
66 41 02 KISSING GATE Sam Brown
67 42 02 WHOSE LAW IS IT ANYWAY? Guru Josh
68 49 04 HOLDING ON Beverley Craven
69 41 03 THE GREAT SONG OF INDIFFERENCE Bob Geldof
70 44 02 ITSY BITSY TEENY WEENY YELLOW POLKA DOT BIKINI Bombalurina
71 50 04 END OF THE WORLD Sonia
72 44 02 MINDWORKS Sam Brown
73 48 01 CAN CAN YOU PARTY Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers
74 50 02 RIVERS OF BELIEF Enigma
75 48 01 LA COLEGIALA Sandra Reemer
76 50 01 SAXUALITY Candy Dulfer
77 50 01 WETTEN DASS Mara Laurien
78 --- ---- WORKING MAN Kathy Durkin
79 --- ---- VERDAMMT, ICH LIEB' DICH Matthias Reim
80 --- ---- THE BY ROAD TO GLENROE Mick Lalley
81 --- ---- FOOTSTEPS FOLLOWING ME Frances Nero
82 --- ---- THE LUV HIT-MEDLEY / MEGAMIX Luv'
83 --- ---- ONE MORE TRY Timmy T

84 --- ---- NOTHING COMPARES 2U MXM
85 --- ---- SAMURAI Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung
86 --- ---- DON'T WORRY Kim Appleby
87 --- ---- GET HERE Oleta Adams
88 --- ---- I CAN'T STAND IT Twenty 4 Seven featuring Captain Hollywood
89 --- ---- I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT YOU Londonbeat
90 --- ---- A BETTER LOVE Londonbeat
91 --- ---- ICE ICE BABY Vanilla Ice
92 --- ---- SEVEN LITTLE GIRLS (SITTING IN THE BACK SEAT) Bombalurina
93 --- ---- ARE YOU DREAMING Twenty 4 Seven
94 --- ---- HEART OF GLASS Anneka Larsen [ Sung here by LILY ALLEN ]
95 --- ---- CAN'T HELP MYSELF 2 Brothers On The Fourth Floor
96 --- ---- LA SERENISSIMA DNA
97 --- ---- NIGHT OWLS Vaya Con Dios
98 --- ---- PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Julian Lloyd Webber
99 --- ---- VARIATIONS 1-4 Julian Lloyd Webber
100 -- ---- THE SHOOP SHOOP SONG (IT'S IN HIS KISS) Cher

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[ Corrected 24/01/2011 - CALM THE RAGE Terry Ronald drops out, and more than half the tracks move down a place, as the number 48 was accidentally omitted! ]

[ Corrected again 16/08/2011 - MISS OTIS REGRETS Kirsty MacColl and the Pogues, JUST SAY HELLO Rene Froger and KuSSE DER NACHT Andrea Jurgens drop out, and everything that was at 24 or lower moves down to accomodate the numbers 24, 29 and 58 that were previously also accidentally omitted! ]

[Benny]

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01 01 10 NAH NEH NAH Vaya Con Dios
02 01 12 LITTLE SISTER LEAVING TOWN Tanita Tikaram
03 02 09 WHAT'S A WOMAN? Vaya Con Dios
05 02 11 TONIGHT New Kids On The Block
06 06 11 A LITTLE TIME The Beautiful South
15 08 10 ALTOGETHER NOW Farm
16 04 08 THE CAN CAN Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers
21 06 07 BETTER THE DEVIL YOU KNOW Kylie Minogue
22 07 08 SHOW ME HEAVEN Maria McKee
25 05 06 INFINITY (1990's TIME FOR THE GURU) Guru Josh
27 05 07 FROM A DISTANCE Bette Midler
28 09 08 THE GREASE MEGAMIX John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John ##
29 19 09 HANKY PANKY Madonna
33 16 06 CRYING IN THE RAIN Aha
36 16 07 RHYTHM OF THE RAIN Jason Donovan
38 18 08 WHERE DOES MY HEART BEAT NOW? Celine Dion
39 18 05 NOTHING COMPARES TO YOU Sinead O'Connor
46 30 07 BECAUSE I LOVE YOU Stevie B
48 29 05 MORE THAN WORDS Extreme
53 40 07 SADENESS Enigma
75 --- ---- VERDAMMT, ICH LIEB' DICH Matthias Reim
79 --- ---- ONE MORE TRY Timmy T
82 --- ---- DON'T WORRY Kim Appleby
84 --- ---- I CAN'T STAND IT Twenty 4 Seven featuring Captain Hollywood
85 --- ---- I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT YOU Londonbeat
96 --- ---- THE SHOOP SHOOP SONG (IT'S IN HIS KISS) Cher

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1990 was a great year, many classics in your list, even "Verdammt ich lieb Dich" by Matthias Reim, one of the longest running number 1 singles ever in Germany.

[irishguy28]

Vaya Con Dios is turning up everywhere lately! Lol.

I have to say, though - having become aware of the Milk & Sugar remix before hearing the original of "Hey", I find the original a bit slow and plodding in comparison!

Bandido was one of the best Eurovision tracks of the 90s. And that mix-up at the start of their performance! Very funny. I wonder why you didn't show their ESC performance, or the actual video?

I always found NKOTB's "Tonight" a bit slow and plodding, too - not their best.

I know the track "Ritmo de la Noche", as it got quite a bit of play on 2FM, particularly by Tony Fenton - though if it was actually in 1990 or not, I can't remember. And it wasn't this Mystic version - if I remember correctly, the version played was by BabyO or something like that...So this Mystic was an early Simon Cowell artist? OMG!!! Come back Sinitta, all is forgiven! I also don't know the versions by Lorca or Chocolate.
(Edit: Here's the version I know from the radio, by Baby O. It's a "meatier" sounding production)

I didn't particularly like Rita MacNeill's "Working Man" at the time, though I did appreciate that it was a good and nice song. It has grown on me a lot in the intervening time. And of course I also know Kathy Durkan's cover.

We spoke recently about Beverley Craven's "Promise Me" - good to see it so high. It was my #15 of 1990, and #57 of 1991. I should perhaps have charted it higher. Great song, and she has a lovely voice. I read recently on her Wikipedia entry that she had a brush with breast cancer, but am glad to report she beat it. I also loved "Woman To Woman" and "Holding On".

"How to Dance" was another track I heard quite often on 2FM, but it never became a hit in Ireland!

3 great songs back to back - Proclaimers, They Might Be Giants, and particularly The Farm (my #17 of 1990, with Groovy Train at #40). I'd love to be able to go back in time and experience the Manchester scene of 1989/1990! Or even to just have visited the Hacienda once, before its demise.

The Saw Doctors! What a huge hit that was! My sister bought the single - on cassette, naturally. Interesting how you noted that you didn't notice any CD singles back in 1990, even in London. 1990 was the year when I really began following the charts religiously, having been confined to bed with flu over the Christmas holidays in 1989, and hearing the Top 100 of the 1980s being broadcast on BBC Radio 1 (back in the days when it was still on Medium Wave and could easily be picked up all over Ireland). Between that and the other various decade and annual countdowns (which were in abundance that year, as licensed local radio had only just launched during 1989 - my new local station, Radio South, broadcast their own Top 50 of the decade later on New Year's Eve, with positions 41-50 populated with what was obviously their own choice of what should be included, but the Top 40 identical to what had gone out on BBC Radio One earlier in the day. I noted all of them down, I must try and dig them out next time I'm at home). In my experience, the major format in Ireland was overwhelmingly cassette, and all of my purchases up until 1995 would be on cassette, with the occasional vinyl when only a 7" was available.

Kylie's "Better The Devil You Know" is far and away my favourite track of hers, and in my opinion, the best S/A/W production, hands down. It was my #7 of the year, and it should have been a Number 1 in both the UK and Ireland, but shockingly wasn't! Looking back, it's somewhat strange to consider that she had only a solitary week at Number 1 in the UK in all of the 1990s, and that was with the rather feeble "Tears On My Pillow".

Maria McKee's "Show Me Heaven" was a good track, though I hated the movie it appeared in. It only made #89 on my year-end chart. At the time, Maria was living on Casimir Avenue in Harold's Cross in Dublin, a street where friends of mine from college would live some years later after college (and long after she'd moved on).

I loved Guru Josh's "1990", much more than the recent revival. It only made #90 on my year-end chart, which does look very low. Glad to see you also charted "Whose Law Is It Anyway?"

I liked Bette's version of "From A Distance", but still preferred Nanci Griffith's original from a couple of years earlier, her only Top 10 hit, though she was a frequent visitor to Ireland and often appeared on TV and was regularly played on the radio in the mid-to-late 1980s.

I still remember that Madonna's "Hanky Panky" set a record on my new personal chart (which I started only in 1990) by posting the biggest jump to Number 1 - from Number 10 - though I think it had a lot to do with having won the "I'm Breathless" album on a competition on 2FM. It didn't even make my Top 100 for the year! Madonna was also the first artist to achieve a second Number One on my chart, after the much-more successful Vogue had topped the chart for several weeks. Shame that's missing from your year-end rundown!



I loved Celine Dion's "Where Does My Heart Beat Now", which I picked up on 7" at my local record store when it was a hit in Ireland in 1991. It was my #10 on the 1991 countdown.

It will probably come as no surprise when I say that Sinead's "Nothing Compares 2U" was my #1 of 1990. Enough said.

I haven't heard Stevie B's "Because I Love You" in so, so long. Even at the time, I always thought it sounded a bit weak and feeble with its tinny piano. I had discovered it on the R&R Magazine US Top 40 that used to be broadcast on Radio 1 on Saturday afternoons - but didn't like it much more when it became a Valentine's Day hit on this side of the Atlantic the following year.

Extreme's "More Than Words" was a great song, which I charted in 1991.

I loved Enigma's "Sadeness", which was my #1 of 1991. I loved the MCMXC ad album, and still enjoy their/his work. "Return To Innocence" made #2 on my 1994 countdown. Good to see "Rivers Of Belief" listed too.


"So Hard" has always been a favourite among the PSB's mostly excellent output. Wilson Phillips' "Release Me" was a good song, I was surprised that it didn't do as well over here as in the US.

Our German teacher used to supply us with German magazines, so I was aware of Matthias Reim. I never liked "Verdammt ich lieb Dich" much though - which I heard on the Europarade as broadcast by German station SR1 - though listening to it again now, it's better than I remembered. There was another huge German Number 1 from around that same time that I got to know from the same two sources and that I couldn't stand - Kate Yanai's 'Bacardi Feeling".

Although I loved Glenroe, I couldn't stand Miley's song. Still awful!

Frances Nero's "Footsteps.." was a great song! It only made #97 on my 1991 list though.

Oleta Adams' sublime "Get Here" is shockingly low! It was my #2 for 1991.

DNA's "La Serenissima" is a great track, and I had never seen its video before, so thanks for including it. I had always LOVED the original by Rondo Veneziano, and particularly its video, which I saw many times as a child on TV without knowing what it was, but knowing it was somehow connected to the whole Venice in Peril project. Hearing the DNA track back in 1990 reminded me of something I had long forgotten!


Another great night of reminiscing, thanks!!!

[Blondini]

05 02 11 TONIGHT New Kids On The Block
06 06 11 A LITTLE TIME The Beautiful South
11 03 09 PROMISE ME Beverley Craven
15 08 10 ALTOGETHER NOW Farm
20 02 07 JEALOUSY Pet Shop Boys
21 06 07 BETTER THE DEVIL YOU KNOW Kylie Minogue
25 05 06 INFINITY (1990's TIME FOR THE GURU) Guru Josh
39 18 05 NOTHING COMPARES TO YOU Sinead O'Connor
52 31 04 SO HARD Pet Shop Boys
53 40 07 SADENESS Enigma
59 41 02 SUMMERS MAGIC Mark Summers
82 --- ---- DON'T WORRY Kim Appleby
84 --- ---- I CAN'T STAND IT Twenty 4 Seven featuring Captain Hollywood
87 --- ---- ICE ICE BABY Vanilla Ice
89 --- ---- ARE YOU DREAMING Twenty 4 Seven
92 --- ---- LA SERENISSIMA DNA




26 04 07 EMMERDALE SUITE Woodlands Orchestra
This was a single?

97 --- ---- MISS OTIS REGRETS Kirsty MacColl and the Pogues
This was a top 100 UK single in late 1990 - from the AIDS charity Cole Porter covers album Red Hot and Blue. You could have asked Dustin to add it on Retro Charts! It's an interesting album - i've charted U2's awesome version of Night and Day from it, as well as Neneh Cherry's hit I've Got You Under My Skin and the Deborah Harry/ Iggy Pop version of Well Did You Evah! Though i'm not as keen on this song, despite the names involved.

[CZB]

1990 was a great year, many classics in your list, even "Verdammt ich lieb Dich" by Matthias Reim, one of the longest running number 1 singles ever in Germany.

Indeed - that spent an incredible sixteen weeks at number one there, a total never since matched, and only once previously beaten! As you probably know, Boney M’s “Rivers of Babylon” had been there for seventeen weeks.

I preferred a 1992 reworking with amended words by Sound Convoy - top twenty in my chart, but I don’t think that had any sales success anywhere.....

......AAAARGH! I’ve just checked, and it reached number 14 in the Austrian charts.......in 1990! At some stage I’m going to have to revise the 1990 posting, and the earlier posting covering 1992, to move that.....

05 02 11 TONIGHT New Kids On The Block
06 06 11 A LITTLE TIME The Beautiful South
...(etc etc)

I think everything you quoted was a UK hit! There were a lot more of them in my chart in this year than in many more recent years.....

97 --- ---- MISS OTIS REGRETS Kirsty MacColl and the Pogues
This was a top 100 UK single in late 1990 - from the AIDS charity Cole Porter covers album Red Hot and Blue.

I didn’t discover this one until many years later - maybe it was featured on “TOTP2”, or another programme more specifically about Kirsty MacColl? I only then became aware of its poor UK singles chart performance, and obtained it on 7” and CD - but I hadn’t known about that album! Thanks - I will look out for the LP version becoming available cheaply.

26 04 07 EMMERDALE SUITE Woodlands Orchestra
This was a single?

It was on the B-side of the UK hit from that year by one of the stars of “Emmerdale” (or at that point, it might still have been a “....Farm”) - Malandra Burrows, with “Just This Side Of Love”. That was one of only, as far as I can tell, eighteen other singles I bought from 1990 that just missed out on a place in the top hundred......

Madonna was also the first artist to achieve a second Number One on my chart, after the much-more successful Vogue had topped the chart for several weeks. Shame that's missing from your year-end rundown!

.....and “Vogue” was another of the eighteen that just missed out!

Kylie's "Better The Devil You Know" is far and away my favourite track of hers, and in my opinion, the best S/A/W production, hands down. It was my #7 of the year, and it should have been a Number 1 in both the UK and Ireland, but shockingly wasn't! Looking back, it's somewhat strange to consider that she had only a solitary week at Number 1 in the UK in all of the 1990s, and that was with the rather feeble "Tears On My Pillow".

And Kylie also missed out with “Step Back In Time”, which I thought was a rather more feeble release from her - but at a time when they all seemed to perform about equally well in the UK charts!

Vaya Con Dios is turning up everywhere lately! Lol.

I have to say, though - having become aware of the Milk & Sugar remix before hearing the original of "Hey", I find the original a bit slow and plodding in comparison!

Best not check out too much of their other output, then - I think, among their album tracks, there are many that could certainly fit that description! “Nah Neh Nah” was probably their most uptempo number - but of course Milk and Sugar have speeded it up a bit more.

Bandido was one of the best Eurovision tracks of the 90s. And that mix-up at the start of their performance! Very funny. I wonder why you didn't show their ESC performance, or the actual video?

I was tempted to include the Eurovision performance - even including the marvellously entertaining false start! - but, with a lot of longer tracks in the fourth and fifth hours, I had seventeen left to include in the final hour, so I went for the shortest and best-quality version I could see. That video seems familiar - but I’m not sure where I recognise it from. Maybe there was still a pair of “Eurovision Preview” programmes ahead of the contest on BBC1 in 1990, in one of which it appeared - although there came a point, I think around then, when those were discontinued.....

I know the track "Ritmo de la Noche", as it got quite a bit of play on 2FM, particularly by Tony Fenton - though if it was actually in 1990 or not, I can't remember. And it wasn't this Mystic version - if I remember correctly, the version played was by BabyO or something like that...So this Mystic was an early Simon Cowell artist? OMG!!! Come back Sinitta, all is forgiven! I also don't know the versions by Lorca or Chocolate.
(Edit: Here's the version I know from the radio, by Baby O. It's a "meatier" sounding production)

I hadn’t previously known of Simon Cowell’s involvement with it, nor the revelation, with that YouTube link, that it was “only screened ONCE on tv before it was pulled because of a story about the "singer" in the UK Sunday Scandal Sheets - er - Newspapers - the "singer" was not the singer but a beauty found by Simon dancing in a night club to front the record... she was replaced...”. If that is so, then that once must have been when I saw it - on a breakfast show, I think it was. Later, it competed with the Lorca and Chocolate versions in the Dutch charts - all three were in there at the same time. While I thought the Mystic version was far superior to the others, it was Chocolate that the Dutch preferred.

I think the Mystic version might have been re-released in the UK, but still flopped - however, there were two further, and equally unsuccessful, attempts to bring the song to the charts here. The first was indeed that one by Baby O - and the second was Grand Fiesta. I bought these two as well, both of which also reached the top twenty in my chart. I have the former in 1991, and the latter in 1997 - as those are (I hope!) the dates on the records/CDs. Although it’s quite possible that the actual release of either one might have been up to a year later.

The Saw Doctors! What a huge hit that was! My sister bought the single - on cassette, naturally. Interesting how you noted that you didn't notice any CD singles back in 1990, even in London.... In my experience, the major format in Ireland was overwhelmingly cassette, and all of my purchases up until 1995 would be on cassette, with the occasional vinyl when only a 7" was available.

"I Useta Lover" had a long, long chart run in Ireland back then, including seven weeks at number one:

19 13 09 08 07 03 02 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 02 02 03 07 04 08 02 02 03 04 05 14 17 19 XX XX 23 11 12 18 16 14 17

Cassette singles seemed to become popular in the UK in the early 1990s too - but the only ones I ever bought were for 10p-25p each from bargain bins or record fairs. It might have been the fault of the various hi-fis, radio cassette recorders and other players I had, but somehow none of the pre-recorded songs ever sounded as if they were going at quite the right speed.....
I almost had “N17” as a breaker in 1990’s top hundred as well as “I Useta Lover” - until I very belatedly discovered that it had been a re-release from 1989! Roxette’s “It Must Have Been Love” was also there until last week - that had to move to another even earlier year......

I liked Bette's version of "From A Distance", but still preferred Nanci Griffith's original from a couple of years earlier, her only Top 10 hit, though she was a frequent visitor to Ireland and often appeared on TV and was regularly played on the radio in the mid-to-late 1980s.

.....the same year, indeed, as Nanci Griffith’s “From A Distance” - 1987. I too preferred her version over Bette Midler’s. As they currently appear at 150 and 713 respectively in my overall ranking, expect Nanci to be in a somewhat higher position when I feature 1987 at some point in the months ahead!

.....Actually, I’ve just noticed how many other 1987 tracks are ahead of “From a Distance”
That seems an especially good year, which will hopefully come up sooner rather than later!




Thanks again to everyone for all the comments!

[Tiger]

01 01 10 NAH NEH NAH Vaya Con Dios
04 02 09 BANDIDO Azucar Moreno ##
14 01 07 BIRDHOUSE IN YOUR SOUL They Might Be Giants ##
15 08 10 ALTOGETHER NOW Farm

22 07 08 SHOW ME HEAVEN Maria McKee
27 05 07 FROM A DISTANCE Bette Midler
29 19 09 HANKY PANKY Madonna

33 16 06 CRYING IN THE RAIN Aha
36 16 07 RHYTHM OF THE RAIN Jason Donovan
38 18 08 WHERE DOES MY HEART BEAT NOW? Celine Dion
39 18 05 NOTHING COMPARES TO YOU Sinead O'Connor
48 29 05 MORE THAN WORDS Extreme

52 31 04 SO HARD Pet Shop Boys
53 40 07 SADENESS Enigma
54 41 06 RELEASE ME Wilson Phillips

83 --- ---- GET HERE Oleta Adams

85 --- ---- I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT YOU Londonbeat
87 --- ---- ICE ICE BABY Vanilla Ice[/b]

Hmmm Vaya Con Dios' song was always classic so a remix of it can't be bad

[CZB]

......AAAARGH! I’ve just checked, and it reached number 14 in the Austrian charts.......in 1990! At some stage I’m going to have to revise the 1990 posting, and the earlier posting covering 1992, to move that.....

I have now corrected this mistake by moving DU SAGST DU LIEBST MICH Sound Convoy into 1990 - it should have been the number 48 of that year, so fifty-two tracks drop down one place each, and CALM THE RAGE Terry Ronald falls out of the top 100. I have also removed Sound Convoy from my 1992 top 100, posted here - so sixty-four tracks there move up a place each, and I WANNA BE A KENNEDY U96 comes back in at number 100.




I have also taken the opporunity to update and correct the previously-posted year-end charts for 1988 and 1989. The release from the latter year of SOMETHING'S JUMPING IN YOUR SHIRT Malcolm McLaren recently scored a few additional points by re-entering my monthly chart - it climbs two places to number 73. And the recent re-entry of PERFECT Fairground Attraction means it climbs ten places to become my number 38 of 1988. Previously occupying that position erroneously was DON'T GO Hothouse Flowers - which I have now removed - it will reappear in 1987 in due course! With everything else that occupied numbers 49 to 100 of 1988 moving up a place, there is room for a new number 100 of 1988 - and it's:

THE RACE Yello.

While briefly revisiting these four years, I also checked to see if any of the tracks previously not available on YouTube had since been added - and just three have been, which I have now edited in. They're all in 1989:

70 30 05 LET'S PARTY Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers
78 31 03 SPIN ME AROUND Zeon Jones
81 43 03 COUNTDOWN Countdown All Star Band




As always, if anyone spots anything else in any of the yearly charts that looks wrong, don't hesitate to mention it!




A new chart will follow in about a week's time - and I think I've almost already decided on what February's Record of the Month will be.....

[irishguy28]

I have an idea about what that record may be, too!!!

[CZB]

It's a new month.....but is it a new number one?








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CZB'S TOP FORTY -------------- Month 378 --------------- FEBRUARY 2011
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01 01 03 HELLO Martin Solveig featuring Dragonette
02 13 02 BIG WORLD Jacqueline (Govaert)
03 05 03 STUCK Caro Emerald
04 03 03 COOLER COULEUR Crookers featuring Yelle
05 02 03 BARBRA STREISAND Duck Sauce
06 09 04 NOT GIVING UP ON LOVE Armin Van Buuren vs Sophie Ellis-Bextor
07 14 04 A MOMENT OF MADNESS Katie Melua
08 07 05 BROMANCE Tim Berg
09 08 06 A HAPPY PLACE Katie Melua
10 ---- 01 HIGHER Taio Cruz and Kylie Minogue [Highest New Entry] ##

11 04 03 SING WITH A SWING DKS
12 10 07 THAT MAN Caro Emerald
13 06 04 TAKE IT OFF Regi and Kaya Jones
14 15 04 BACK IT UP Caro Emerald
15 20 02 CATCH YOUR FALL Clokx ##
16 40 02 RIVIERA LIFE Caro Emerald [Rapid Riser]
17 12 03 WHO OWNS MY HEART Miley Cyrus ##
18 21 04 THIS PRETTY FACE Amy MacDonald
19 11 06 ROCKET TO URANUS Vengaboys featuring Perez Hilton ##
20 22 04 TE QUIERO Stromae

21 19 07 COME HOME Amatorski ##
22 17 05 FULL FOCUS Armin Van Buuren
23 37 02 UNENDLICHE SINFONIE Polarkreis 18
24 16 04 ALL FOR YOU Ace Of Base ##
25 ---- 01 KENTISH TOWN WALTZ Imelda May
26 18 06 FIRE WITH FIRE Scissor Sisters
27 25 07 WE NO SPEAK AMERICANO Yolanda Be Cool featuring D-Cup
28 24 06 ONE Swedish House Mafia
29 28 09 BITTERSWEET Sophie Ellis-Bextor ##
30 26 09 ALORS ON DANSE Stromae

31 27 08 ALEJANDRO (DON'T CALL MY NAME) Lady GaGa
32 ---- 01 SPARK Amy MacDonald
33 23 05 OVERRATED Jacqueline (Govaert) [Fastest Faller] ##
34 31 08 BUBBLE BATH The Swiss
35 ---- 01 WHO'S THAT CHICK David Guetta featuring Rihanna
36 29 10 GYPSY Shakira ##
37 ---- 01 I WANNA Bob Sinclar and Sahara featuring Shaggy
38 32 03 EVIDENT UTENSIL Chairlift
39 38 11 A NIGHT LIKE THIS Caro Emerald [Longest Laster] ##
40 39 09 HAVEN'T MET YOU YET Michael Buble
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TOP 40 BREAKERS:
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01 [ 00 ] CHASING DREAMS Sebastian Cruz featuring Miryel [Chartbuster] ##
02 [ 04 ] OH NO Marina and the Diamonds
03 [ 06 ] THE POPE OF DOPE Party Harders vs The Subs
04 [ 05 ] DANCE THE WAY I FEEL Ou Est Le Swimming Pool
05 [ 07 ] NEED YOU NOW Lady Antebellum
06 [ 09 ] LOVE Inna
07 [ 13 ] I'M IN LOVE Alex Gaudino
08 [ 17 ] THE FLOOD Katie Melua
09 [ 00 ] NITON (THE REASON) Eric Prydz
10 [ 22 ] FORGET YOU Cee Lo Green

11 [ 30 ] THE RAIN Markus Schulz
12 [ 14 ] AMAZING Inna
13 [ 15 ] CROSSFIRE Brandon Flowers
14 [ 35 ] STAY Hurts
15 [ 28 ] TAKE OVER CONTROL Afrojack featuring Eva Simons
16 [ 19 ] GOOD TIMES Roll Deep featuring Jodie Connor
17 [ 21 ] 10 MINUTES Inna
18 [ 23 ] KICKSTARTS Example
19 [ 25 ] FEED THE HORSE Fagget Fairys
20 [ 24 ] HEARTBEAT Enrique Iglesias featuring Nicole Scherzinger

21 [ 27 ] WONDERFUL LIFE Hurts
22 [ 32 ] DANCE IN THE DARK Lady GaGa
23 [ 31 ] LA SERENISSIMA Mike Candys featuring Jack Holiday
24 [ 40 ] RAPTURE Nadia Ali / Iio
25 [ 00 ] INDESTRUCTIBLE Robyn
26 [ 00 ] COMING HOME Diddy Dirty Money featuring Skylar Grey
27 [ 29 ] YOU'LL ALWAYS FIND ME IN THE KITCHEN AT PARTIES Jona Lewie
28 [ 00 ] SUNDAY Hurts
29 [ 36 ] RUNAWAY Mason
30 [ 38 ] (HEY) NAH NEH NAH (Milk and Sugar vs) Vaya Con Dios

31 [ 00 ] OGNI TANTO Gianna Nannini
32 [ 00 ] LOVE LOVE Amy MacDonald
33 [ 00 ] SISTER MARIE SAYS OMD
34 [ 39 ] WEST END GIRLS Pet Shop Boys
35 [ 00 ] DIRTY TALK Wynter Gordon
36 [ 00 ] WHERE DO I START? Chicane
37 [ 00 ] LOCA Shakira featuring El Cata
38 [ 00 ] DELIRIOUS Michael Mind Project
39 [ 00 ] SATURDAY Basshunter
40 [ 00 ] TIK TOK Bob Sinclar featuring Sean Paul
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Number one three years ago: A-A-A-ANTHEM Regi and Bart Peeters
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Number one eight years ago: LET THIS PARTY NEVER END Mark'Oh
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Number one sixteen years ago: LIVING IN DANGER Ace Of Base
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Number one twenty-four years ago: MAMMA TOLD ME Fantastique
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In January, the top twelve were all non-movers - but the only hit remaining in the same position in February is the number one, as Martin Solveig and Dragonette spend a third month at the top with “Hello”. Among ten climbers this time, two Dutch ladies are now its strongest challengers. Although Jacqueline Govaert’s former Chartbuster “Overrated” is the fastest of twenty-four fallers, her follow-up “Big World” has become a much bigger success in my chart, racing up eleven places to number two - while Caro Emerald’s latest hit in Holland, after being “Stuck” at number five, climbs to number three. Her first single, “Back It Up”, belatedly became the Rapid Riser only last month - but now advances just one further position, to number 14. However, she is once again the Rapid Riser - this time with “Riviera Life”, which moves all the way up from number 40 to number 16. With “That Man” down two places at 12, she now has four tracks in the top twenty - and still five in the top forty, as longest laster “A Night Like This” slides one place to number 39 in its eleventh appearance.

Meanwhile, Katie Melua now has two hits in my top ten for the first time, as “A Moment of Madness” climbs seven more places to number seven, overtaking “A Happy Place” - and the highest of five new entries has also found a place there, as “Higher” debuts at number ten. It’s the first hit for Taio Cruz, and the sixteenth for Kylie Minogue. Another collaboration gives David Guetta his fifth hit and Rihanna her second, as “Who’s That Chick” arrives at 35 - and it’s a chart debut for Imelda May ten places higher, with “Kentish Town Waltz”. The other two newcomers are by artists who also add a new breaker this month - Bob Sinclar’s fourth hit is “I Wanna”, and he could earn his fifth with a reworking of 2 Unlimited’s “No Limit”, “Tik Tok”. His greatest success to date on my chart was “What I Want”, from 2007 - which peaked at number 13. In the same year Amy MacDonald released an album producing three hits - “This Is The Life“, “Mr Rock and Roll“ and “Run“. From her follow-up album, “This Pretty Face” recently became her fourth, and moves up another three places to number 18; “Spark” is now her fifth, new at 32; and in the months ahead “Love Love” may yet be the sixth!

However, there are three acts with even more impressive lists of past hits that they could also be about to extend. Shakira is looking for an eighth success with “Loca”, Chicane might secure a ninth chart entry with “Where Do I Start?”, and OMD are seeking an eleventh hit with “Sister Marie Says”. It’s seventeen and a half years since they last appeared in the breakers - but someone else is back after an even longer absence. “Ogni Tanto” was recently in the top three in Italy for 54-year-old Gianna Nannini, and it could become her fifth hit in my chart. Her best placing as a solo artist was number 24 - with the 1987 recording “I Maschi” - but three years later her duet with Edoardo Bennato, “Un’Estate Italiana”, reached my top ten. Eric Prydz also reached my top ten - indeed, the top five - rather more recently with “Pjanoo”, and could be on the way there again with “Niton”, the second highest of a total of fourteen new breakers this month.

“Indestructible” might be a second top forty hit for Robyn - her 2007 UK number one with Kleerup, “With Every Heartbeat”, being the first - while others still awaiting a first entry are Basshunter, Wynter Gordon, Hurts, the Michael Mind Project, and Diddy Dirty Money featuring Skylar Grey, whose current UK top five hit is possibly the first ever breaker that might be described as “urban”. I feel, however, that I would like it much more without the male voice - presumably Diddy - endlessly drivelling in the background of the otherwise nicely tuneful song..... And it’s another collaboration that is guaranteed to be a new entry in my March 2011 top forty. An Utrecht-based songwriter and producer - no relation to last month’s Chartbuster Taio! - teams up with a female vocalist born in Ijsselsteijn for a track that was a recent Radio 538 Dance Smash in their homeland - but which unfortunately didn’t go on to become a hit. Sounding strangely reminiscent of a few late 1990’s releases, my Record of the Month for February 2011 is Sebastian Cruz featuring Miryel, with “Chasing Dreams”.

[irishguy28]

Not the ChartZBuster that I had expected!

Now that Caro Emerald is holding down 4 positions in the Top 20 - is that a record?

Mike Candy's version of La Serenissima is good - but it didn't need the "electro" breakdown, I feel...

[Tiger]

01 01 03 HELLO Martin Solveig featuring Dragonette
03 05 03 STUCK Caro Emerald
05 02 03 BARBRA STREISAND Duck Sauce
06 09 04 NOT GIVING UP ON LOVE Armin Van Buuren vs Sophie Ellis-Bextor

12 10 07 THAT MAN Caro Emerald
14 15 04 BACK IT UP Caro Emerald
16 40 02 RIVIERA LIFE Caro Emerald [Rapid Riser]
17 12 03 WHO OWNS MY HEART Miley Cyrus ##
18 21 04 THIS PRETTY FACE Amy MacDonald

23 37 02 UNENDLICHE SINFONIE Polarkreis 18
26 18 06 FIRE WITH FIRE Scissor Sisters
27 25 07 WE NO SPEAK AMERICANO Yolanda Be Cool featuring D-Cup

31 27 08 ALEJANDRO (DON'T CALL MY NAME) Lady GaGa
32 ---- 01 SPARK Amy MacDonald
36 29 10 GYPSY Shakira ##
38 32 03 EVIDENT UTENSIL Chairlift
39 38 11 A NIGHT LIKE THIS Caro Emerald [Longest Laster] ##
40 39 09 HAVEN'T MET YOU YET Michael Buble
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TOP 40 BREAKERS:
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02 [ 04 ] OH NO Marina and the Diamonds
05 [ 07 ] NEED YOU NOW Lady Antebellum
07 [ 13 ] I'M IN LOVE Alex Gaudino
10 [ 22 ] FORGET YOU Cee Lo Green

12 [ 14 ] AMAZING Inna
13 [ 15 ] CROSSFIRE Brandon Flowers
14 [ 35 ] STAY Hurts
15 [ 28 ] TAKE OVER CONTROL Afrojack featuring Eva Simons

22 [ 32 ] DANCE IN THE DARK Lady GaGa
26 [ 00 ] COMING HOME Diddy Dirty Money featuring Skylar Grey
30 [ 38 ] (HEY) NAH NEH NAH (Milk and Sugar vs) Vaya Con Dios

32 [ 00 ] LOVE LOVE Amy MacDonald
33 [ 00 ] SISTER MARIE SAYS OMD
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Number one sixteen years ago: LIVING IN DANGER Ace Of Base
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I like how you love Caro Emerald

[Benny]

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CZB'S TOP FORTY -------------- Month 378 --------------- FEBRUARY 2011
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01 01 03 HELLO Martin Solveig featuring Dragonette
10 ---- 01 HIGHER Taio Cruz and Kylie Minogue
18 21 04 THIS PRETTY FACE Amy MacDonald
20 22 04 TE QUIERO Stromae
23 37 02 UNENDLICHE SINFONIE Polarkreis 18
31 27 08 ALEJANDRO (DON'T CALL MY NAME) Lady GaGa
32 ---- 01 SPARK Amy MacDonald
35 ---- 01 WHO'S THAT CHICK David Guetta featuring Rihanna
36 29 10 GYPSY Shakira
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TOP 40 BREAKERS:
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04 [ 05 ] DANCE THE WAY I FEEL Ou Est Le Swimming Pool
05 [ 07 ] NEED YOU NOW Lady Antebellum
13 [ 15 ] CROSSFIRE Brandon Flowers
14 [ 35 ] STAY Hurts
21 [ 27 ] WONDERFUL LIFE Hurts
22 [ 32 ] DANCE IN THE DARK Lady GaGa
26 [ 00 ] COMING HOME Diddy Dirty Money featuring Skylar Grey
28 [ 00 ] SUNDAY Hurts
30 [ 38 ] (HEY) NAH NEH NAH (Milk and Sugar vs) Vaya Con Dios
35 [ 00 ] DIRTY TALK Wynter Gordon

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Number one sixteen years ago: LIVING IN DANGER Ace Of Base
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Many great songs, especially in the Top 40 Breakers, my favourite ones are the two singles by Hurts and "Dirty Talk" by Wynter Gordon.
Plus a great number one sixteen years ago, a song that I also liked a lot at that time

[CZB]

Not the ChartBuster that I had expected!

I was wondering what you thought it would be.....I don't remember even hinting anywhere about anything else I might have been about to choose!

Now that Caro Emerald is holding down 4 positions in the Top 20 - is that a record?

That's a challenging question, as multiple entries by the same act in the same chart are by no means uncommon! But, as far as the top twenty is concerned, this seems to be fairly rare. In the last couple of days, I think I have checked out all the likely suspects, and this feat has only previously been achieved by four other artists - two of them in a variety of guises. However, three of these foor acts also went one better - with five appearances in my top twenty at the same time, at least once!




Most recently, three years ago - in charts I originally posted on the first page of this thread:

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Month 342 - February 2008
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01 01 02 A-A-A-ANTHEM Regi and BP
05 02 06 I FAIL Regi and Scala
10 05 05 SUNRISE Milk Inc.
16 21 02 TONIGHT Milk Inc. ##
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Month 343 - March 2008
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01 01 03 A-A-A-ANTHEM Regi and BP
11 16 03 TONIGHT Milk Inc. ##
15 05 07 I FAIL Regi and Scala
19 10 06 SUNRISE Milk Inc.
20 40 02 LARGER THAN LIFE Regi, Wout and Caren Meynen
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As Regi (Penxten) was also part of Milk Inc, he had four, then five appearances, with two of these alongside collaborations with other artists.




Fifteen years earlier.....

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Month 170 - October 1993
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07 07 04 ELDORADO Simon May ##
10 08 04 WHEN YOU GO AWAY Johnny Griggs
16 24 02 I'LL ALWAYS BELIEVE IN YOU Sharon Benson
18 26 03 I'LL ALWAYS BELIEVE IN YOU Simon May ##
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.....there were vocal and instrumental themes from both "EastEnders" and "Eldorado" in my top twenty - all of which involved Simon May, as he also provided the backing music for the other two vocalists!




In the previous decade, several other singles and album tracks joined a Eurovision winning song.....

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Month 38 - September 1982
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02 02 02 TAKE AWAY THE HEARTACHES / MEINE KLEINE FREIHEIT Nicole ##
06 04 06 A LITTLE PEACE / EIN BISSCHEN FRIEDEN Nicole ##
08 07 10 FLIEG' NICHT SO HOCH, MEIN KLEINER FREUND Nicole
20 --- 01 BUTTERFLY / PAPILLON Nicole
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Month 39 - October 1982
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02 02 03 TAKE AWAY THE HEARTACHES / MEINE KLEINE FREIHEIT Nicole ##
04 20 02 BUTTERFLY / PAPILLON Nicole
09 08 11 FLIEG' NICHT SO HOCH, MEIN KLEINER FREUND Nicole
10 06 07 A LITTLE PEACE / EIN BISSCHEN FRIEDEN Nicole ##
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Month 40 - November 1982
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02 04 03 BUTTERFLY / PAPILLON Nicole
06 02 04 TAKE AWAY THE HEARTACHES / MEINE KLEINE FREIHEIT Nicole ##
09 09 12 FLIEG' NICHT SO HOCH, MEIN KLEINER FREUND Nicole
19 --- 01 A SONG OF LOVE / EIN LIED FüR ALLE, DIE SICH LIEBEN Nicole
20 10 08 A LITTLE PEACE / EIN BISSCHEN FRIEDEN Nicole ##
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Month 41 - December 1982
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02 02 04 BUTTERFLY / PAPILLON Nicole
04 19 02 A SONG OF LOVE / EIN LIED FüR ALLE, DIE SICH LIEBEN Nicole
06 06 05 TAKE AWAY THE HEARTACHES / MEINE KLEINE FREIHEIT Nicole ##
09 09 13 FLIEG' NICHT SO HOCH, MEIN KLEINER FREUND Nicole
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Month 42 - January 1983
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02 04 03 A SONG OF LOVE / EIN LIED FüR ALLE, DIE SICH LIEBEN Nicole
04 02 05 BUTTERFLY / PAPILLON Nicole
06 06 06 TAKE AWAY THE HEARTACHES / MEINE KLEINE FREIHEIT Nicole ##
09 09 14 FLIEG' NICHT SO HOCH, MEIN KLEINER FREUND Nicole
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Month 43 - February 1983
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02 02 04 A SONG OF LOVE / EIN LIED FüR ALLE, DIE SICH LIEBEN Nicole
06 04 06 BUTTERFLY / PAPILLON Nicole
12 06 07 TAKE AWAY THE HEARTACHES / MEINE KLEINE FREIHEIT Nicole ##
16 09 15 FLIEG' NICHT SO HOCH, MEIN KLEINER FREUND Nicole
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But the bar was already set very high, right back at the beginning.....

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Month 1 - August 1979
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04 --- 01 MARY'S BOY CHILD / OH MY LORD Boney M
07 --- 01 PAINTER MAN Boney M
08 --- 01 HOORAY HOORAY IT'S A HOLI-HOLIDAY Boney M
11 --- 01 BROWN GIRL IN THE RING Boney M
13 --- 01 RASPUTIN Boney M
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Month 2 - September 1979
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04 04 02 MARY'S BOY CHILD / OH MY LORD Boney M
06 07 02 PAINTER MAN Boney M
07 08 02 HOORAY HOORAY IT'S A HOLI-HOLIDAY Boney M
11 11 02 BROWN GIRL IN THE RING Boney M
15 13 02 RASPUTIN Boney M
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Month 3 - October 1979
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06 06 03 PAINTER MAN Boney M
07 04 03 MARY'S BOY CHILD / OH MY LORD Boney M
08 07 03 HOORAY HOORAY IT'S A HOLI-HOLIDAY Boney M
11 11 03 BROWN GIRL IN THE RING Boney M
18 15 03 RASPUTIN Boney M
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Month 4 - November 1979
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05 07 04 MARY'S BOY CHILD /OH MY LORD Boney M
06 06 04 PAINTER MAN Boney M
09 08 04 HOORAY HOORAY IT'S A HOLI-HOLIDAY Boney M
16 11 04 BROWN GIRL IN THE RING Boney M
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[Blondini]

Oh great - now Stay and Wonderful Life will hog the Pop Chart for ages (WL has already had about 18 months on there - it may now break a longevity record, if GaGa doesn't!)

Nice to see OMD as well as Hurts.

[irishguy28]

Not the ChartBuster that I had expected!

I was wondering what you thought it would be.....I don't remember even hinting anywhere about anything else I might have been about to choose!

CZB - don't edit my quotes! I wrote it as ChartZBuster for a reason!!!

[Tiger]

07 --- 01 PAINTER MAN Boney M
08 --- 01 HOORAY HOORAY IT'S A HOLI-HOLIDAY Boney M
13 --- 01 RASPUTIN Boney M

[CZB]

CZB - don't edit my quotes! I wrote it as ChartZBuster for a reason!!!

Oops! Sorry - now I see it!

I thought I must have accidentally hit a "Z" while preparing the reply.....

[CZB]

Bob Sinclar’s fourth hit is “I Wanna”.....His greatest success to date on my chart was “What I Want”, from 2007 - which peaked at number 13.

“Indestructible” might be a second top forty hit for Robyn - her 2007 UK number one with Kleerup, “With Every Heartbeat”, being the first.....

A double clue to the first retro year to be featured in February - as today I took a six-hour voyage back to my favourites of just four years ago, using the YouTube links below.

So,what of the year 2007? Well, it was.....not very different from 2011, really! Then, as now, I was regularly tuning in for the weekly chart shows of the UK (on BFBS rather than the Superstation), Ireland (on 2FM rather than Raidio RiRa), Belgium (on Radio Donna rather than MNM), Germany (VIVA) and the Netherlands (Radio 538) - so I originally discovered most of the tracks here in one or more of these hit-parades. But there are also some entries (and one rejected entry) from the Eurovision Song Contest of that year - and even a few that had little or no sales or other success anywhere! Those include cover versions of former hits and breakers - as, this being one of the most recent years I have featured here, several new interpretations of old songs continued to impress me over more original output.

Meanwhile, I was in only my second year on UKMIX - and, although I was mainly posting about the Irish chart (not even the original Europarade threads had begun by then!) I started this thread at the beginning of August. Several of the tracks listed here may therefore be familiar to long-term readers - and the full chart-runs of many can indeed be seen in the monthly charts I posted on its earliest pages. However, to complete a top hundred, I have had to dip into the other singles I bought back then, but which weren't quite good enough even to reach the breakers - as ninety of 2007's releases qualified. Sixty-three of them made it through into the top forty......twenty-two reached the top ten......but only two (one virtually, the other entirely, lyrics-free) got to number one. So surely one of these two will turn out to be my top single of 2007.....or will they? Without further ado, let's find out.....








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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CZB'S TOP HUNDRED OF 2007 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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01 01 10 DISCO VOLANTE Ida Engberg
02 01 11 A-A-A-ANTHEM Regi and Bart Peeters
03 03 12 IF YOU WERE A SAILBOAT Katie Melua ## ( plus....her own parody version! )
04 04 10 BABY WHEN THE LIGHT David Guetta featuring Cozi
05 06 11 JUST BREATHE Lizzy Pattinson
06 11 13 NEW SOUL Yael Naim ##
07 05 10 IN MY ARMS Kylie Minogue ##
08 06 10 ONGELUKKIG Fixkes
09 03 10 BUILT TO LAST Melee
10 04 11 HEATER Samim
11 02 10 MUSIC BOX DANCER DJ Schwede
12 08 11 VOYAGE VOYAGE Kate Ryan ##
13 02 12 KVRAAGETAAN Fixkes
14 03 11 UNINVITED Freemasons featuring Bailey Tzuke

15 02 09 I FAIL Regi featuring Scala
16 05 10 ABOUT YOU NOW Sugababes
17 06 10 MR ROCK AND ROLL Amy MacDonald
18 05 09 SEE YOU AGAIN Miley Cyrus ##
19 03 09 MORUMBI Tocadisco
20 11 10 WHEN I'M HERE WITH YOU Sarah Nixey ##
21 13 14 CAN'T GET OVER September ##
22 13 11 WHAT I WANT Bob Sinclar featuring Fireball
23 05 08 SUNRISE Milk Inc.
24 02 08 STRAIGHT 2 THE TOP 2 Fabiola featuring Katie Michaelson
25 14 09 FUN FUN FUN Dada Life
26 06 06 OVERPOWERED Roisin Murphy
27 06 07 BUCOVINA Ian Oliver featuring Shantel
28 11 08 TONIGHT Milk Inc. ##
29 12 07 FLYING THE FLAG (FOR YOU) Scooch ##
30 21 09 TOMORROW CAN WAIT Dyce

31 13 07 DIVINE IDYLLE Vanessa Paradis
32 17 08 WHAT HURTS THE MOST Cascada
33 17 07 NANTES Beirut
34 13 07 THE WORRYING KIND Ark ##
35 30 04 LA REVOLUCION SEXUAL La Casa Azul
36 15 06 SHE'S GOT THAT LIGHT Straight Flush
37 12 06 TONIGHT THE STREETS ARE OURS Richard Hawley
38 12 06 BUBBLY Colbie Caillat ##
39 22 09 RISE UP Yves Larock
40 13 05 BOTTLE IT UP Sara Bareilles
41 17 06 BRUISED WATER Chicane featuring Natasha Bedingfield
42 20 07 THIS IS THE LIFE Amy MacDonald
43 22 08 FREEFALL Jeckyll and Hyde
44 21 06 WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT Robyn With Kleerup
45 17 05 BREAK UP Kim Sozzi
46 20 05 LES DJINNS Djuma Soundsystem
47 21 06 TOGETHER Bob Sinclar featuring Steve Edwards
48 27 06 PERFECT (EXCEEDER) Mason vs Princess Superstar

49 24 05 CASTLES IN THE SKY Liz Kay
50 22 04 THE ONE Sylver
51 21 05 LOVE SONG Sara Bareilles
52 22 05 DELIRIOUS David Guetta featuring Tara McDonald
53 23 04 THE SWEETEST ASS IN THE WORLD Alex C featuring Y-ass
54 15 03 BARBIE GIRL Sam and Amanda ##
55 29 03 PROMISE ME Axel Coon
56 33 05 IF THE LIGHTS GO OUT Katie Melua
57 36 05 INSANITY John Marks
58 32 04 ME SO HORNY DJ Porny
59 34 03 HAPPY ENDING Mika
60 34 03 PAPER PLANES M.I.A.
61 32 03 EVIDENT UTENSIL Chairlift
62 38 03 RUN Amy MacDonald
63 38 03 THE QUESTION IS WHAT IS THE QUESTION Scooter
64 55 ---- DO IT AGAIN Chemical Brothers
65 62 ---- FOUNDATIONS Kate Nash

66 65 ---- APOLOGIZE Timbaland presents OneRepublic
67 66 ---- THE WORLD IS OUTSIDE Ghosts
68 80 ---- POISON PRINCE Amy MacDonald
69 82 ---- BACK IN MY HEAD Tegan and Sara
70 82 ---- TIME FLIES Jeckyll and Hyde
71 86 ---- HOLD ME TILL THE END DT8 Project featuring Andrea Britton
72 87 ---- KISS MY TRANCE Subs
73 90 ---- SAVING MY FACE KT Tunstall
74 92 ---- TURN THE TIDE Manian featuring Aila
75 92 ---- YOU'RE NOT ALONE Liz Kay
76 95 ---- BECAUSE I LOVE YOU Groove Coverage
77 95 ---- HEAVEN Manian featuring Aila
78 98 ---- I WANT CANDY Melanie C
79 101 -- VAMPIRES ARE ALIVE DJ Bobo
80 104 -- READY FOR THE FLOOR Hot Chip
81 105 -- LET ME KNOW Roisin Murphy
82 105 -- NOTHING AT ALL Chiara

83 105 -- THE SALMON DANCE Chemical Brothers
84 108 -- CHASING PAVEMENTS Adele
85 109 -- DOKTORSPIELE Alex C featuring Y-Ass
86 114 -- IMITATION Melee
87 114 -- UNTIL I DIE September
88 118 -- MISSING Delano and Crockett
89 122 -- LIEVELINGSDIER Fixkes
90 125 -- MADEMOISELLE JULIETTE Alizee
91 ---- --- POP GOES MY HEART Hugh Grant
92 ---- --- I'LL KILL HER Soko
93 ---- --- ALL THAT'S LEFT Stash
94 ---- --- ANDERS Trust
95 ---- --- WONDERWOMAN Leaf
96 ---- --- HOLIDAY Patrick Jumpen
97 ---- --- WILD Monique Smit
98 ---- --- NO CONSPIRACY AT ALL Sioen
99 ---- --- JE T'AIME PORNY DJ Porny
100 -- --- KUSJESDAG K3

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[Benny]

12 08 11 VOYAGE VOYAGE Kate Ryan
16 05 10 ABOUT YOU NOW Sugababes
17 06 10 MR ROCK AND ROLL Amy MacDonald
38 12 06 BUBBLY Colbie Caillat ##
42 20 07 THIS IS THE LIFE Amy MacDonald
44 21 06 WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT Robyn With Kleerup
51 21 05 LOVE SONG Sara Bareilles]
62 38 03 RUN Amy MacDonald
65 62 ---- FOUNDATIONS Kate Nash
66 65 ---- APOLOGIZE Timbaland presents OneRepublic
68 80 ---- POISON PRINCE Amy MacDonald
84 108 -- CHASING PAVEMENTS Adele

I have to admit that 2007 was not exactly one of my favourite year's in music, but there are still some great songs in your list, for example all the single releases from Amy's "This Is The Life" album, "About You Now" by the Sugababes and "Love Song" by Sara Bareilles.

[irishguy28]

I'm not at all surprised that Ida Engberg made it to Number !


16 ABOUT YOU NOW Sugababes

Definitely one of their best.

26 OVERPOWERED Roisin Murphy
81 LET ME KNOW Roisin Murphy


Great picks.

29 FLYING THE FLAG (FOR YOU) Scooch ##

I really think this was one of the UK's worst selections ever - sorry!

33 NANTES Beirut

As it happens, this was entered earlier today in this month's Forum Song Contest!!!!

43 FREEFALL Jeckyll and Hyde
70 TIME FLIES Jeckyll and Hyde

Really liked these 2

44 WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT Robyn With Kleerup

One of the very few Robyn tracks I actually like - and it took quite a while for it to grow on me.

48 PERFECT (EXCEEDER) Mason vs Princess Superstar

A mashup that turned out to be greater than the sum of its parts. I still love it!

60 PAPER PLANES M.I.A.

Great track!

71 HOLD ME TILL THE END DT8 Project featuring Andrea Britton

Another good choice...

[CZB]

“Ogni Tanto” was recently in the top three in Italy for 54-year-old Gianna Nannini, and it could become her fifth hit in my chart. Her best placing as a solo artist was number 24 - with the 1987 recording “I Maschi”

So, for this month's second journey hack in time, the year is 1987 - the last in which I ever sat any exams, and also a unique one as far as my monthly charts were concerned. And these events are directly related - at the age of 23, I took the five final exams required for me to qualify as a Chartered Accountant. These were in the middle of December, and failing more than one would mean having to resit them all six months later, with less time available for study. And even failing one, with two further opportunities to pass, would have been costly and damaging to my future prospects.

For these reasons, I concentrated very fully on revision for these exams in the last six or seven weeks leading up to them - which meant that the Europarade, and the weekly chart shows of the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria (and most of the television programmes I regularly watched), were recorded for me to catch up on over the Christmas and New Year break. And I compiled no monthly chart in December 1987 - so there were only eleven for that year!

There was, however, another logical reason for a break at that point - as my first chart had been in August 1979, the one for November 1987, eight years and four months later, was.....the 100th! And (purely coincidentally....,?) exactly seven hundred singles had entered those one hundred charts. So, one of the first projects I set about in those early weeks of 1988, in evenings on which I no longer needed to study, was to compile my first combined chart, the "all-time" top 700!

Pausing only to mention that, luckily (and, it could be argued, unexpectedly) I passed all five papers, enabling my career to continue for.....very nearly five more years! - it's time to reveal my favourite tracks of twenty-four years ago. I spent five and a half hours today listening, via the below YouTube links, to the eighty-eight of those now available there - one of the lowest totals to date, unfortunately. And it only took as long as that because there are several very lengthy tracks right at the top end - I can't remember any other annual charts I have posted so far in which only thirteen fitted into the final hour!

Regrettably, this is also the first featured year in which the number one has not been available - here, I could only substitute one of the other hits from the Irish (and 20% Scottish) group who had many very high-ranking songs in the earliest years of my chart. They make two other appearances in my 1987 list - including the number five of the year with a cover version of an earlier Vader Abraham composition. Do you know who they are yet.....? But they're not the only act with two in the top ten of the year - the UK's Christmas number one, another cover version, is one of two tracks there for a certain internationally successful London duo.

Further down my chart of 1987, there are ten other cover versions of earlier hits.....twelve more acts with two or more hits each.....seven of this year's Eurovision Song Contest entries (and another song that was memorably featured at the following year's event!).....ten other songs in languages other than English.....three television theme tunes.....two instrumentals.....and one of Stock, Aitken and Waterman's worst flops! Ninety-five reached the top fifty.....thirty-nine got to the top ten.....and five made it all the way to number one. From the very well-known to the almost completely unknown, here they all are!








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01 01 09 LONELY IN LONDON The Fureys and Davey Arthur ##
02 11 14 KEEPING THE DREAM ALIVE / SOLANG MANN TRAUME... (Munchener) Freiheit
03 02 10 MYFANWY David Essex
04 04 10 IT'S A SIN Pet Shop Boys
05 01 08 RED ROSE CAFE The Fureys and Davey Arthur
06 01 07 TOY BOY Sinitta
07 02 08 ALWAYS ON MY MIND Pet Shop Boys

08 01 09 THE BLACK SHEEP Foster and Allen
09 06 09 HIT MIX Fun Fun
10 01 08 BALLA BALLA Francesco Napoli
11 05 14 EVERLASTING LOVE Sandra ##
12 02 07 MORNING GLORY Foster and Allen ##
13 03 12 FROM A DISTANCE Nanci Griffith
14 08 09 BRING BACK (SHA NA NA) Mixed Emotions

15 02 08 PUISSANCE ET GLOIRE Herbert Leonard
16 02 08 STAR TREKKIN' The Firm ##
17 07 08 YOU CAUGHT MY EYE Judy Boucher
18 03 11 ELLA ELLE L'A France Gall
19 05 07 PART OF ME (WILL ALWAYS BE IN LOVE WITH YOU) Foster and Allen
20 05 07 WHAT A NIGHT (PARTY NIGHT) Dolly Dots
21 07 06 JET AIRLINER Modern Talking
22 06 07 HOT GIRL Sabrina
23 02 07 NUTCRACKER Berdien Stenberg
24 05 07 MAGGIE The Fureys and Davey Arthur

25 07 10 LAZY BUMS / BUMPER'S SONG (SHIR HABATLANIM) Datner and Kushnir
26 09 06 HOLIDAY The Other Ones ##
27 10 07 TOGETHER FOREVER Rick Astley
28 06 08 THE LOCOMOTION Kylie Minogue
29 09 07 IN A HUNDRED YEARS Modern Talking
30 14 07 BOYS (SUMMERTIME LOVE) Sabrina
31 08 08 I SHOULD BE SO LUCKY Kylie Minogue
32 04 06 LASS DIE SONNE IN DEIN HERZ / LET THE SUNSHINE IN YOUR HEART Wind ##
33 05 07 LIFE IS LIFE Laibach ##

34 06 07 (SOMETHING INSIDE) SO STRONG Labi Siffre
35 10 07 CALL ME Spagna
36 04 05 NOTHING'S GONNA STOP ME NOW Samantha Fox
37 12 10 FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl ##
38 18 08 BARCELONA Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe
39 06 06 HERE'S TO THE FUTURE Keff McCulloch featuring the Lorells
40 14 11 UND WENN DIE NACHT KOMMT Nicole
41 17 06 CHINA IN YOUR HAND T'Pau
42 19 07 COULD'VE BEEN Tiffany

43 09 06 THE POWER OF LOVE Laura Branigan
44 09 05 JOE LE TAXI Vanessa Paradis
45 18 06 DIDN'T WE ALMOST HAVE IT ALL Whitney Houston
46 12 04 LOVE IN THE FIRST DEGREE Bananarama
47 15 06 MEET ME AT THE PILLAR Jim McCann
48 12 06 I WANNA DANCE / JA SAM ZA PLES Novi Fosili
49 21 06 KUSS DIE HAND, SCHONE FRAU Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung
50 14 06 I NEED YOU Daniel O'Donnell

51 13 05 G.T.O. Sinitta
52 18 06 JULIAN Mandy Winter
53 19 08 DON'T GO Hothouse Flowers
54 15 05 I LIE AND I CHEAT Won Ton Ton
55 20 06 AMORE BZN
56 22 06 THE WISHING WELL Various Artists
57 22 05 OH L'AMOUR Dollar
58 24 05 LET YOUR SUN SHINE Frank Ashton and Mariska van Kolck
59 15 05 DOCTOR WHO Keff McCulloch

60 27 05 LOVE IS IN THE AIR Steve Allen
61 07 02 HE USED TO GIVE ME ROSES Stacy Rae ##
62 29 04 FUNKY TOWN Pseudo Echo
63 17 04 THE IRISH ROVER The Pogues and the Dubliners
64 20 06 ON Y VAS Meri D. Marshall
65 26 05 ALL OUT OF LOVE Sandra Reemer
66 23 04 WORZEL'S WARNING Jon Pertwee
67 06 03 SILENT NIGHT Stevie Nicks
68 24 05 I MASCHI Gianna Nannini
69 24 04 THE TIMEWARP Damien

70 21 04 DU BIST ALLES Andreas Martin
71 23 04 FIRE NIGHT / SATA SALAMAA Vicky Rosti
72 30 04 EN LILLE MELODI / A SIMPLE LITTLE SONG Anne-Cathrine
73 34 04 CROSS MY BROKEN HEART Sinitta
74 38 04 YOU WIN AGAIN Bee Gees
75 34 03 SONIC BOOM BOY Westworld
76 39 03 TAKE GOOD CARE OF HER Daniel O'Donnell
77 37 03 MY SIDE OF THE ROAD Daniel O'Donnell
78 40 03 I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW Tiffany
79 35 03 SONG FOR MARIA Brendan Shine
80 45 03 SWEETHEART, DARLING, MY DEER Mixed Emotions

81 43 04 YOU ARE MY WORLD Communards
82 35 03 HEY MATTHEW Karel Fialka
83 48 03 CAN'T LET GO Vicky Brown
84 40 02 ANYTHING FOR YOU Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine
85 47 03 I KNOW HIM SO WELL Whitney and Cissy Houston
86 44 02 WAT BEN IK BLIJF DAT ER LIEFDE BESTAAT Conny Vandembos
87 45 02 SAILING HOME Piet Veerman
88 45 01 HOLD ME NOW Johnny Logan
89 49 01 BOG EYED JOG Ray Moore

90 46 01 SONG FOR THE WORLD Nicole
91 47 01 SOLDIERS OF LOVE Liliane St Pierre
92 47 01 TALKING OF LOVE Anita Dobson
93 49 01 I WANNA DANCE Take It Easy
94 49 01 TALK TO ME ("DAMON AND DEBBIE") Annabel Lamb / Dani Ali
95 50 01 THE LAST TIME Agnetha Faltskog
96 --- ---- I COME UNDONE Jennifer Rush
97 --- ---- LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac
98 --- ---- MARINO WALTZ Sheehan/Howard
99 --- ---- SHATTERED GLASS Laura Branigan
100 - ---- NOTHING'S GONNA STOP US NOW Starship

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[Benny]

04 04 10 IT'S A SIN Pet Shop Boys
07 02 08 ALWAYS ON MY MIND Pet Shop Boys
11 05 14 EVERLASTING LOVE Sandra
13 03 12 FROM A DISTANCE Nanci Griffith
18 03 11 ELLA ELLE L'A France Gall
27 10 07 TOGETHER FOREVER Rick Astley
28 06 08 THE LOCOMOTION Kylie Minogue
31 08 08 I SHOULD BE SO LUCKY Kylie Minogue
38 18 08 BARCELONA Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe
41 17 06 CHINA IN YOUR HAND T'Pau
43 09 06 THE POWER OF LOVE Laura Branigan
44 09 05 JOE LE TAXI Vanessa Paradis
45 18 06 DIDN'T WE ALMOST HAVE IT ALL Whitney Houston
74 38 04 YOU WIN AGAIN Bee Gees
85 47 03 I KNOW HIM SO WELL Whitney and Cissy Houston
88 45 01 HOLD ME NOW Johnny Logan
97 --- ---- LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac
100 - ---- NOTHING'S GONNA STOP US NOW Starship

Many fantastic songs in 1987, especially by the Pet Shop Boys, Kylie, France Gall, the Bee Gees & Fleetwood Mac

[sneakythesnake]

1987 was fantastic: Pet Shop Boys, France Gall, Westworld, Spagna, Vanessa Paradis, Dollar...Loved Rick Astley(In my defence I was only 14 at the time! )

EAV -Kuss Die Hand Schoene Frau.
I lived in Austria from 1987 to 1989 so I actually remember this song! I never thought I'd hear it again!!

[Tiger]

04 04 10 IT'S A SIN Pet Shop Boys
06 01 07 TOY BOY Sinitta
07 02 08 ALWAYS ON MY MIND Pet Shop Boys

11 05 14 EVERLASTING LOVE Sandra

27 10 07 TOGETHER FOREVER Rick Astley
30 14 07 BOYS (SUMMERTIME LOVE) Sabrina
31 08 08 I SHOULD BE SO LUCKY Kylie Minogue

36 04 05 NOTHING'S GONNA STOP ME NOW Samantha Fox
37 12 10 FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl
38 18 08 BARCELONA Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe
41 17 06 CHINA IN YOUR HAND T'Pau
42 19 07 COULD'VE BEEN Tiffany

44 09 05 JOE LE TAXI Vanessa Paradis
45 18 06 DIDN'T WE ALMOST HAVE IT ALL Whitney Houston
46 12 04 LOVE IN THE FIRST DEGREE Bananarama

73 34 04 CROSS MY BROKEN HEART Sinitta
74 38 04 YOU WIN AGAIN Bee Gees
78 40 03 I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW Tiffany

88 45 01 HOLD ME NOW Johnny Logan

97 --- ---- LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac
99 --- ---- SHATTERED GLASS Laura Branigan
100 - ---- NOTHING'S GONNA STOP US NOW Starship

Starship and Laura Branigan are so oftenly ignored

[Blondini]

2007: Woo Tegan and Sara!


1987 was a pivotal year for me! It was when i got well into charts (though before i made my own) so i'll enjoy looking through yours...


Freiheit great (the original and the famous English version).

Essex - that should have been bigger - it was his last single to be played on Radio 1.

It's a Sin - awesome!
Toy Boy good.
Always On My Mind brilliant!
Sandra's cover ought to have bigger in UK.

Star Trekkin' brilliant!
Ella Elle L'a great.
Jet Airliner i've not heard before - it's good (Of course UK people only know Modern Talking for Brother Louie).

Sabrina - you really think Hot Girl is better than Boys? Not even her twin delights kept me watching beyond two minutes of that clip. Boys is a classic.
Kylie - i'd put Lucky well above Loco.

Laibach had an almost-hit in UK with that slightly retitled cover of Opus! (It was played on The Chart Show's Indie Chart and really stood out - they didn't show the bare chest beginning!)

Siffre a great song.
Spagna good.
Sam Fox good and indeed better than Starship's similar title (also good). Her success in America was astounding.

Pogues/ Kirsty awesome.
Barcelona good and a highly unusual top 5 hit!
T'Pau - China great though i thought Heart and Soul was a lot better. Carol Decker is one of the Alltime Great Wastes of Talent as her group were pretty useless shortly afterwards and she's recorded next to nothing solo.

Branigan's cover is good but nothing beats Jennifer Rush (especially Celine).
Joe Le Taxi .
A decent Whitney ballad though i'm AMAZED that you don't chart I Wanna Dance With Somebody .
Nanas great.
GTO good.
Don't Go good.

Won Ton Ton (named after a silly Michael Winner film about a dog!) was good - should have been bigger (was #81 in UK in 88). You missed the actual video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aQvFJ5M ... re=related

The Wishing Well was credited to GOSH! (Great Ormond Street Hospital) and was OK.

"The Wishing Well" is a charity single released in 1987 to raise money for the redevelopment of the Great Ormond Street Hospital via its (GOSH) Wishing Well appeal.[1] The song featured an ensemble line-up of pop stars under the name GOSH! The single reached No.22 in early 1988.[2]

[edit] Line-up
Boy George, Dollar, Grace Kennedy, Hazel O'Connor, Noddy Holder and Peter Cox were lead vocalists. A number of celebrity guests were brought in to perform the chorus including Jimmy Nail, Hollywood Beyond, Uriah Heep, Showaddywaddy, The Sweet, Hot Chocolate, Bonnie Langford, Sylvester McCoy, Caron Keating, Roland Rat and Andy Crane.

Oddly, it was Opportunity Knocks winner and owner of her own TV show Grace Kennedy's only hit record!

Dollar a great Erasure cover (not as good as the original, mind).
Not one of the best Dr Who reworks (it has no bass!).

Pseudo Echo a great cover.
The Irish Rover - people have to see this amazing moment they were on TOTP! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woHSh8MTdBg
I was agog at how ugly Shane was - how did such a scruffian get on that show?

Meri D sounds good first listen.
Worzel's Warning? I didn't know there were OTHER Worzel songs as well as the first single?
All i could find on Discogs were that single and this album: http://www.discogs.com/Jon-Pertwee-Feat ... se/2512483

Time Warp was fun.
Bee Gees god.

LOVED Sonic Boom Boy! Shame they never really made it.
I Think We're Alone Now great.
Communards, Fialka great.
One of Estefan's best ballads.
Little Lies brilliant! Here's the actual video: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x182lx ... lies_music

Anita Dobson - really not good! Interestingly, her 1987 Christmas single (#79 "hit") featured not only Brian May but John Deacon and was originally set to be a Queen single until they did Thank God It's Christmas instead. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SunTrA_0bEg

Jennifer Rush (#94 in UK) was one of many singles that deserved better for her.
Shattered Glass too - in UK it got to #78. And here's the (better quality) video for it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhs8_CBS ... re=related