UK Rock/Metal Charts (1980s and early '90s)

[Metalweb]

ITV Chart Show Rock Chart (31st August 1991)


Weirdly still no sign of either Dare or Swervedriver.

Richie Sambora's Ballad Of Youth at 10 (and played)
7 is Motley Crue's Primal Scream (also played) - both of these ignored by Kerrang!

Dare are at No.6 - blink and miss 'em!

Sambora and Crue enter rather belatedly in the next K issue...

[Metalweb]

14 Sep 91

01(01) (Everything I Do) I Do It For You - Bryan Adams [01]
02 (-) Primal Scream - Motley Crue [46]
03(16) Jet City Woman - Queensryche [53]
04(03) Hard To Handle - Black Crowes [58]
05 (-) Can't Give You More - Status Quo [41]
06 (-) Ballad Of Youth - Richie Sambora
07(02) More Than Words - Extreme [15]
08 (-) Call It Rock'nRoll - Great White [67]
09(05) You Could Be Mine - Guns N' Roses [47]
10 (-) Wild Hearted Son - Cult [40]
11(04) Enter Sandman - Metallica
12 (-) Can't Stop This Thing We Started - Bryan Adams [25]
13 (-) Slave To The Grind - Skid Row [43]
14(07) We Don't Need A Reason - Dare
15(19) Best I Can - Queensryche
16(06) Get In Line - Atom Seed
17(09) No One Can - Marillion
18 (-) Head Like A Hole - Nine Inch Nails [49]
19(18) Mix It Up - Dan Reed Network
20 (-) City Of Angels - RPLA
21(12) Hot Like Fire - Crash N' Burn
22(13) Bring The Noise - Anthrax ft Chuck D
23(08) This Is Not Love - Jethro Tull
24(14) I Do U - KingOfTheHill
25(15) Hey Stoopid - Alice Cooper
26(20) I Ain't Gonna Cry - Little Angels
27(10) Sandblasted - Swervedriver
28(22) Jealous Again / She Talks To Angels - Black Crowes
29(21) Baby Loves You - Enuff Z'Nuff
30(25) Don't Treat Me Bad - Firehouse
31(11) Give It To Me Good - Trixter
32(26) Rebel - Atom Seed
33(17) Get The Funk Out - Extreme
34(30) Wind Of Change - Scorpions
35(29) Kids In America - Lawnmower Deth
36 (-) You're The Voice - Heart [56]
37(28) Forever Young - Tyketto
38(23) All The Way From Memphis - Contraband
39(32) Monkey Business - Skid Row
40(35) Cover My Eyes - Marillion

[Blondini]

Dare are at No.6 - blink and miss 'em!

Sambora and Crue enter rather belatedly in the next K issue...

oh - i must have skipped the Crue thing too far! So they are!


NIN!

[Metalweb]

21 Sep 91

01(01) (Everything I Do) I Do It For You - Bryan Adams [01]
02 (-) Don't Cry - Guns N' Roses [08]
03(12) Can't Stop This Thing We Started - Bryan Adams [18]
04(10) Wild Hearted Son - Cult [53]
05(13) Slave To The Grind - Skid Row [63]
06(02) Primal Scream - Motley Crue
07(18) Head Like A Hole - Nine Inch Nails [45]
08(05) Can't Give You More - Status Quo [64]
09(07) More Than Words - Extreme [26]
10(04) Hard To Handle - Black Crowes
11(03) Jet City Woman - Queensryche
12(06) Ballad Of Youth - Richie Sambora
13(09) You Could Be Mine - Guns N' Roses
14(08) Call It Rock'n'Roll - Great White
15(36) You're The Voice - Heart [73]
16(11) Enter Sandman - Metallica
17(14) We Don't Need A Reason - Dare
18(15) Best I Can - Queensryche
19(27) Sandblasted - Swervedriver
20 (-) Baby Now I - Dan Reed Network [65]
21(16) Get In Line - Atom Seed
22(20) City Of Angels - RPLA
23(21) Hot Like Fire - Crash N' Burn
24(28) Jealous Again / She Talks To Angels - Black Crowes
25(17) No One Can - Marillion
26(25) Hey Stoopid - Alice Cooper
27(23) This Is Not Love - Jethro Tull
28(19) Mix It Up - Dan Reed Network
29(22) Bring The Noise - Anthrax ft Chuck D
30(26) I Ain't Gonna Cry - Little Angels
31(24) I Do U - KingOfTheHill
32(34) Wind Of Change - Scorpions
33(29) Baby Loves You - Enuff Z'Nuff
34(30) Don't Treat Me Bad - Firehouse
35(31) Give It To Me Good - Trixter
36(33) Get The Funk Out - Extreme
37(35) Kids In America - Lawnmower Deth
38(32) Rebel - Atom Seed
39(37) Forever Young - Tyketto
40(39) Monkey Business - Skid Row

[Metalweb]

28 Sep 91

01(02) Don't Cry - Guns N' Roses [17]
02(01) (Everything I Do) I Do It For You - Bryan Adams [01]
03(03) Can't Stop This Thing We Started - Bryan Adams [12]
04(07) Head Like A Hole - Nine Inch Nails [51]
05(05) Slave To The Grind - Skid Row
06(04) Wild Hearted Son - Cult
07(13) You Could Be Mine - Guns N' Roses
08(09) More Than Words - Extreme [34]
09(20) Baby Now I - Dan Reed Network
10(06) Primal Scream - Motley Crue
11(32) Wind Of Change - Scorpions [19]
12(15) You're The Voice - Heart
13(10) Hard To Handle - Black Crowes
14(08) Can't Give You More - Status Quo
15(12) Ballad Of Youth - Richie Sambora
16 (-) Raging EP - Beyond
17(14) Call It Rock'n'Roll - Great White
18(11) Jet City Woman - Queensryche
19(22) City Of Angels - RPLA
20 (-) No More Tears - Ozzy Osbourne [35]
21(19) Sandblasted - Swervedriver
22(17) We Don't Need A Reason - Dare
23(16) Enter Sandman - Metallica
24(21) Get In Line - Atom Seed
25(18) Best I Can - Queensryche
26(24) Jealous Again / She Talks To Angels - Black Crowes
27(27) This Is Not Love - Jethro Tull
28 (-) Shakedown - Three Hypnotics
29(23) Hot Like Fire - Crash N' Burn
30(25) No One Can - Marillion
31(26) Hey Stoopid - Alice Cooper
32(28) Mix It Up - Dan Reed Network
33(29) Bring The Noise - Anthrax ft Chuck D
34(33) Baby Loves You - Enuff Z'Nuff
35(34) Don't Treat Me Bad - Firehouse
36(36) Get The Funk Out - Extreme
37(35) Give It To Me Good - Trixter
38(38) Rebel - Atom Seed
39(39) Forever Young - Tyketto
40(37) Kids In America - Lawnmower Deth

[Metalweb]

5 Oct 91

01(01) Don't Cry - Guns N' Roses [29]
02(02) (Everything I Do) I Do It For You - Bryan Adams [01]
03(20) No More Tears - Ozzy Osbourne [32]
04(11) Wind Of Change - Scorpions [05]
05(03) Can't Stop This Thing We Started - Bryan Adams [15]
06(04) Head Like A Hole - Nine Inch Nails [66]
07 (-) Love's A Loaded Gun - Alice Cooper [38]
08(05) Slave To The Grind - Skid Row
09(06) Wild Hearted Son - Cult
10 (-) Dry Land - Marillion [34]
11(08) More Than Words - Extreme [54]
12(07) You Could Be Mine - Guns N' Roses
13(16) Raging EP - Beyond
14(13) Hard To Handle - Black Crowes
15(09) Baby Now I - Dan Reed Network
16 (-) Esse Quam Videri - Mordred
17(10) Primal Scream - Motley Crue
18 (-) Better - Screaming Jets
19(17) Call It Rock'n'Roll - Great White
20 (-) Ezy - Wolfsbane [68]
21(18) Jet City Woman - Queensryche
22(15) Ballad Of Youth - Richie Sambora
23(12) You're The Voice - Heart
24 (-) Whatever It Takes - Kiss Of The Gypsy
25(14) Can't Give You More - Status Quo
26 (-) Real Love - Dare [67]
27(23) Enter Sandman - Metallica
28(24) Get In Line - Atom Seed
29(21) Sandblasted - Swervedriver
30(25) Best I Can - Queensryche
31(28) Shakedown - Three Hypnotics
32 (-) Nobody Said It Was Easy - Four Horseman
33(19) City Of Angels - RPLA
34(31) Hey Stoopid - Alice Cooper
35(33) Bring The Noise - Anthrax ft Chuck D
36(30) No One Can - Marillion
37(22) We Don't Need A Reason - Dare
38(29) Hot Like Fire - Crash N' Burn
39(26) Jealous Again / She Talks To Angels - Black Crowes
40(27) This Is Not Love - Jethro Tull

[Blondini]

ITV Chart Show Rock Chart (21st September 1991)

Enter Sandman still top ten here (compared to Kerrang!'s #23).
Nine Inch Nails played on Saturday lunchtime telly! What an amazing moment this was!

[Metalweb]

12 Oct 91 ???

19 Oct 91 ???

26 Oct 91

01(01) Wind Of Change - Scorpions [03]
02(02) (Everything I Do) I Do It For You - Bryan Adams [01]
03(03) Decadence Dance - Extreme [73]
04(14) Top Of The World - Van Halen
05 (-) The Show Must Go On - Queen [19]
06(06) Love's A Loaded Gun - Alice Cooper
07 (-) Seasons In The Abyss - Slayer [51]
08(05) No More Tears - Ozzy Osbourne
09(08) Don't Cry - Guns N' Roses
10(04) Dry Land - Marillion
11(07) Can't Stop This Thing We Started - Bryan Adams
12(09) Head Like A Hole - Nine Inch Nails
13 (-) Seeing Things - Black Crowes [72]
14 (-) Cult Of Personality - Living Colour [68]
15(11) Real Love - Dare
16 (-) Straight To The Heart - Bad English
17(10) Ezy - Wolfsbane
18 (-) Edison's Medicine - Tesla
19(15) More Than Words - Extreme
20(28) Enter Sandman - Metallica
21(12) Get A Leg Up - John Mellencamp
22(13) Wild Hearted Son - The Cult
23(16) Nobody Said It Was Easy - Four Horsemen
24(19) Sandblasted - Swervedriver
25(17) Esse Quam Videri - Mordred
26(21) Hard To Handle - Black Crowes
27(18) You Could Be Mine - Guns N' Roses
28(25) Jet City Woman - Queensryche
29(20) Primal Scream - Motley Crue
30(24) Better - Screaming Jets
31(27) Slave To The Grind - Skid Row
32(32) Can't Give You More - Status Quo
33(30) Ballad Of Youth - Richie DSambora
34(23) Raging EP - Beyond
35(22) I'll Fight For You - Foreigner
36(26) Baby Now I - Dan Reed Network
37(29) You're The Voice - Heart
38(34) Shakedown - Thee Hypnotics
39(31) Whatever It Takes - Kiss Of The Gypsy
40(33) Hot Like Fire - Crash N' Burn

[Blondini]

Nice to see Queen re-instated.

[Metalweb]

2 Nov 91

01(05) The Show Must Go On - Queen [16]
02(01) Wind Of Change - Scorpions [06]
03(02) (Everything I Do) I Do It For You - Bryan Adams [04]
04(07) Seasons In The Abyss - Slayer
05(13) Seeing Things - Black Crowes
06(03) Decadence Dance - Extreme
07(18) Edison's Medicine - Tesla
08(14) Cult Of Personality - Living Colour [67]
09(06) Love's A Loaded Gun - Alice Cooper
10(16) Straight To The Heart - Bad English
11(04) Top Of The World - Van Halen
12(08) No More Tears - Ozzy Osbourne
13 (-) If I Say - KingOfTheHill
14(09) Don't Cry - Guns N' Roses
15(11) Can't Stop This Thing We Started - Bryan Adams
16(17) Ezy - Wolfsbane
17(15) Real Love - Dare
18(10) Drt Land - Marillion
19(12) Head Like A Hole - Nine Inch Nails
20(19) More Than Words - Extreme
21(20) Enter Sandman - Metallica
22(21) Get A Leg Up - John Mellencamp
23(24) Sandbalasted - Swervedriver
24(23) Nobody Said It Was Easy - Four Horsemen
25(25) Esse Quam Videri - Mordred
26(33) Ballad Of Youth - Richie Sambora
27(27) You Could Be Mine - Guns N' Roses
28(26) Hard To Handle - Black Crowes
29(29) Primal Scream - Motley Crue
30(22) Wild Hearted Son - Cult
31(28) Jet City Woman - Queensryche
32(32) Can't Give You More - Status Quo
33(31) Slave To The Grind - Skid Row
34(30) Better - Screaming Jets
35(34) Raging EP - Beyond
36(35) I'll Fight For You - Foreigner
37(37) You're The Voice - Heart
38(36) Baby Now I - Dan Reed Network
39(38) Shakedown - Thee Hypnotics
40(39) Whatever It Takes - Kiss Of The Gypsy

[Metalweb]

9 Nov 91

01 (-) The Unforgiven - Metallica [35]
02(01) The Show Must Go On - Queen [23]
03(03) (Everything I Do) I Do It For You - Bryan Adams [04]
04(02) Wind Of Change - Scorpions [10]
05(04) Seasons In The Abyss - Slayer
06(05) Seeing Things - Black Crowes
07(08) Cult Of Personality - Living Colour
08(07) Edison's Medicine - Tesla
09(06) Decadence Dance - Extreme
10(13) If I Say - KingOfTheHill
11(12) No More Tears - Ozzy Osbourne
12(09) Love's A Loaded Gun - Alice Cooper
13(10) Straight To The Heart - Bad English
14(14) Don't Cry - Guns N' Roses
15(11) Top Of The World - Van Halen
16(15) Can't Stop This Thing We Started - Bryan Adams
17(24) Nobody Said It Was Easy - Four Horsemen
18(16) Ezy - Wolfsbane
19(19) Head Like A Hole - Nine Inch Nails
20(23) Sandblasted - Swervedriver
21(18) Dry Land - Marillion
22(17) Real Love - Dare
23(25) Esse Quam Videri - Mordred
24(20) More Than Words - Extreme
25(22) Get A Leg Up - John Mellencamp
26(28) Hard To Handle - Black Crowes
27(21) Enter Sandman - Metallica
28(26) Ballad Of Youth - Richie Sambora
29(29) Primal Scream - Motley Crue
30(27) You Could Be Mine - Guns N' Roses
31(31) Jet City Woman - Queensryche
32(30) Wild Hearted Son - Cult
33(33) Slave To The Grind - Skid Row
34(34) Better - Screaming Jets
35(35) Raging EP - Beyond
36(32) Can't Give You More - Status Quo
37(37) You're The Voice - Heart
38(36) I'll Fight For You - Foreigner
39(39) Shakedown - Thee Hypnotics
40(38) Baby Now I - Dan Reed Network

[Blondini]

you've changed KingOfTheHill to QueenOfTheHill! and Four Horsemen to Four Horseman



ITV Chart Show - Rock Chart (2nd November 1991)

Metallica new at 4, Queen top

some mediocre stuff in the chart but Nirvana are on the horizon...

[Metalweb]

QueenOfTheHill....how weird....

[Metalweb]

Nirvana arriving sooner than expected!

16 Nov 91 ???

23 Nov 91 ???

30 Nov 91

01(03) Hole Hearted - Extreme [12]
02(04) Wasted Time - Skid Row [34]
03(01) The Unforgiven - Metallica [70]
04(08) So Tell Me Why - Poison [39]
05(20) There Will Never Be Another Tonight - Bryan Adams [35]
06(02) Sin - Nine Inch Nails
07(10) Touch You - Mind Funk
08 (-) Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana [09]
09 (-) Send Me An Angel - Scorpions [27]
10 (-) Some Lie 4 Love - LA Guns [61]
11(09) Wind Of Change - Scorpions
12 (-) Early Warning - Baby Animals
13(05) (Everything I Do) I Do It For You - Bryan Adams [36]
14 (-) I Heard It Through The Grapevine - FM
15(06) The Show Must Go On - Queen
16 (-) Evil Twin - Love / Hate [59]
17(07) Seasons In The Abyss - Slayer
18 (-) Mama I'm Coming Home - Ozzy Osbourne [46]
19(16) Don't Cry - Guns N' Roses
20(21) Head Like A Hole - Nine Inch Nails
21(15) Decadence Dance - Extreme
22(11) Cult Of Personality - Living Colour
23(29) Enter Sandman - Metallica
24(14) Edison's Medicine - Tesla
25(12) If I Say - KingOfTheHill
26(13) Seeing Things - Black Crowes
27(25) Nobody Said It Was Easy - Four Horsemen
28(23) Esse Quam Videri - Mordred
29(19) No More Tears - Ozzy Osbourne
30(27) Sandblasted - Swervedriver
31(31) More Than Words - Extreme
32(18) Man In The Moon - Scream
33(22) Love's A Loaded Gun - Alice Cooper
34(24) Top Of The World - Van Halen
35(17) Straight To The Heart - Bad English
36(28) Hard To Handle - Black Crowes
37(26) Ezy - Wolfsbane
38(30) Dry Land - Marillion
39(32) Real Love - Dare
40(36) Primal Scream - Motley Crue

[Blondini]

Baby Animals did make the UK 100 but i can't recall the position. 90 ish i think. Looks like it might be a new entry here from outside the top 40 last week.

Missing from the recent chart(s): Manic Street Preachers, Slade, Tin Machine https://www.officialcharts.com/chart...19911103/7501/
Catherine Wheel - Black Metallic (not the mess that OCC has credited it as) https://www.officialcharts.com/chart...19911117/7501/


In actual proper UK chart terms, Nirvana actually went straight in at the top, knocking off Bryan Adams after a 22 week run!

[Robbie]

I've got positions 76-200 for the UK charts for this week in 1991 (30/11/91). 'Early Warning' by Baby Animals is at #102, down from #84. Neither 'Sin' by Nine Inch Nails or 'Touch You' by Mind Funk are in there. 'Head Like A Hole' by NIN is there though, at #161, down from #125. The above mentioned 'Black Metallic' by Catherine Wheel is down to #99.

[Metalweb]

7 Dec 91

01(08) Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana [07]
02(01) Hole Hearted - Extreme [23]
03(09) Send Me An Angel - Scorpions [41]
04(02) Wasted Time - Skid Row [66]
05(04) So Tell Me Why - Poison
06(16) Evil Twin - Love / Hate
07(10) Some Lie 4 Love - LA Guns
08(18) Mama I'm Coming Home - Ozzy Osbourne [61]
09 (-) Driven By You - Brian May [14]
10(03) The Unforgiven - Metallica
11(05) There Will Never Be Another Tonight - Bryan Adams [52]
12(06) Sin - Nine Inch Nails
13(07) Touch You - Mind Funk
14(15) The Show Must Go On - Queen [34]
15(14) I Heard It Though The Grapevine - FM
16(12) Early Warning - Baby Animals
17(21) Decadence Dance - Extreme
18 (-) Rock 'Til You Drop - Status Quo
19(17) Seasons In The Abyss - Slayer
20(24) Edison's Medicine - Tesla
21(20) Head Like A Hole - Nine Inch Nails
22(22) Cult Of Personality - Living Colour
23(26) Seeing Things - Black Crowes
24(13) (Everything I Do) I Do It For You - Bryan Adams [63]
25(27) Nobody Said It Was Easy - Four Horsemen
26(19) Don't Cry - Guns N' Roses
27(23) Enter Sandman - Metallica
28(28) Esse Quam Videri - Mordred
29(25) If I Say - KingOfTheHill
30(30) Sandblasted - Swervedriver
31(29) No More Tears - Ozzy Osbourne
32(33) Love's A Loaded Gun - Alice Cooper
33(31) More Than Words - Extreme
34(32) Man In The Moon - Scream
35(35) Straight To The Heart - Bad English
36 (-) Wild In The Streets - Diamond Head
37(34) Top Of The World - Van Halen
38(37) Ezy - Wolfsbane
39(36) Hard To Handle - Black Crowes
40(40) Primal Scream - Motley Crue

[Blondini]

I've got positions 76-200 for the UK charts for this week in 1991 (30/11/91). 'Early Warning' by Baby Animals is at #102, down from #84. Neither 'Sin' by Nine Inch Nails or 'Touch You' by Mind Funk are in there. 'Head Like A Hole' by NIN is there though, at #161, down from #125. The above mentioned 'Black Metallic' by Catherine Wheel is down to #99.

wow - Sin fell off the 200 after 2 weeks? Might have been limited edition - there was a 9 inch single of it that i used to have. I regret selling it when i was skint. Great cover of Queen's Get Down Make Love on it, which was added to a reissue of Pretty Hate Machine in 2010.

[Robbie]

wow - Sin fell off the 200 after 2 weeks? Might have been limited edition - there was a 9 inch single of it that i used to have. I regret selling it when i was skint. Great cover of Queen's Get Down Make Love on it, which was added to a reissue of Pretty Hate Machine in 2010.

I didn't realise it has been a top 75 hit. I notice its chart run was 35-47. On week 3 it was most likely removed from the charts under the then exclusion rule which applied to records below number 75:

3: Exclusions

3.1 Singles Chart: Positions 76-200
A single which, in the normal course of events, would appear between positions 76 and 200 of the combined Singles Chart is excluded if its sales have fallen for two or more consecutive weeks AND have fallen by more than 20% in the past week. Once excluded in this way, a record will only re-appear in the chart if its sales increase. Records excluded by this rule are shown on the printed chart report with their sales index and asterisks (***) in place of a chart position.


The above chart rule (the original "starred out" rule) was in place from 8 January 1983 (when Gallup took over chart compilation duties) until 16 April 2005 (the last singles chart to be compiled based purely on physical sales)

[Blondini]

^ i figured that is what had happened to it in the top 100. But i didn't know they excluded them from the top 200 as well! (i think i did see this mentioned once, actually but i forgot it applied to the whole top 200)

So when Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit mysteriously dropped from 32 out of the top 75 did that actually drop completely off the top 200??


Sadly i can't find any ITV Chart Show rock charts for December 91. I suspect this might be Nirvana's label getting any uploads removed. I did a "Chart Show Nirvana" search and got nothing from the years 91 to 93.

[Robbie]

^ i figured that is what had happened to it in the top 100. But i didn't know they excluded them from the top 200 as well! (i think i did see this mentioned once, actually but i forgot it applied to the whole top 200)

So when Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit mysteriously dropped from 32 out of the top 75 did that actually drop completely off the top 200??

I only have 2 top 200 charts from 1991 / 1992, one from 30/11/91 and the other from 16/05/92. For Nirvana, it depends by how much its sales fell when it dropped from number 32. If by 20+% then it would have just vanished from the top 200.

The 16/05/92 chart has an interesting entry at number 181 - 'Dreams' by Gabrielle. I'm assuming this must be the original version with the 'Fast Car' sample. The catalogue number of the single is Victim VIC33. Also in the same chart is the original version of 'Searching' by China Black on Big One Records (#142).

[Blondini]

i think i did see that top 100 on display in a store and Teen Spirit did drop out of the top 100. All this time i've held on to the notion that it dropped to 101.

There's been no explanation as to why it suddenly vanished and had such a huge drop in sales. Nevermnd did climb up to the top ten region at this point and the focus was on that at the end of the year but it still looks strange. It's not like the Boyzone single that was purposely excluded when it had been at a similar position because of a b-side that was also on the next single that the label wanted to release.


So a #200 "hit" in those days was in reality probably about 200 places lower! Imagine being an artist being told the news.

[Robbie]

The chart where 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' vanished from the top 75 from #32 is the one where there were 33 new entries. The single was probably forced out by the sheer weight of new entries that week

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart...19920105/7501/

The only other single that week to fall off the chart from inside the top 40 was 'I'll Be Home This Christmas' by Shakin' Stevens. After Christmas had passed it wasn't a suprise to see the latter vanish but it is puzzling about the Nirvana single.

[kingofskiffle]

In this case it may still be within the Top 200. Whilst Robbie is right, ChartsPlus (not the current version, but one that ran from mid 1991 to late 1994) printed a Top 200, which seems to be uncompressed. Thats the source of the 2 Top 200's Robbie has. My understanding is that the ChartsPlus team re-numbered the chart. Hit Music certainly did. For example, on 23 Dec 1995 Listen Me Tic (Woyoi) by Ini Kamoze was at 138 (new entry) on the Compressed Singles 200. I have this from work on the new version of ChartsPlus. Hit Music printed this entry at 197. Numbers 198-200 where not in the Compressed chart (all fallers). So that gives you some idea of the scale of entries that would make the non compressed chart.

For comparison on 23 Dec 1995

Compressed
110 falling, 17 climbing, 7 non-movers, 33 New and 33 RE.

Not compressed
137 falling, 29 climbing, 5 non-movers, 25 New and 4 RE.

[Robbie]

^
The top 200 charts published in the original chartsPlus were probably the official (i.e with exclusions) charts due to the fact there are so many records re-entering the chart suggesting they were doing so as a result of recording a sales increase after having previously been excluded. From what I can see, Hit Music only published the uncompressed version of the top 200 from February 1994, when Millward Brown took over chart compilation duties. Indeed, during the Gallup era Hit Music only published a top 100 and numbers 76 to 100 during this period would appear to be compiled using the exclusion rule. From a quick observation, so few records with 3+ weeks on the chart drop into the 76-100 part of the chart during that period that it suggests the exclusion rule was in place.