The Ultimate Averaged Chart - The BBC Chart Re-Imagined

[kingofskiffle]

I have a question. I have done a similar work to yourself, (although by no means as accurate), in relation to the US Charts of the 60s. In the absence of definitive data re sample sizes etc, I utilised a method similar to that employed by the BBC. Although my method for eliminating ties was much more ruthless, I still had to tolerate some tied positions. I am thinking of putting my work into book form and selling it as an ebook. This is something you should seriously consider in respect of your own magnificent effort which I have been following with great interest. If we did publish books containing our average charts, would we be in breach of copyright? Could we be subject to legal action? Have you ever considered this point? Once again your work is to be commended.

Several books exist on Amazon utilising data from the UK charts, both with and without the official charts company guidance. I would suggest that using the entire NME chart as is may be liable to copyright, but simply stating you used it would be fine. The records themselves are not subject to copyright as far as titles, etc go - unless you include images of the artwork. My view, am not a trained lawyer and this is not legal advice.

[Magician]

I have a question. I have done a similar work to yourself, (although by no means as accurate), in relation to the US Charts of the 60s. In the absence of definitive data re sample sizes etc, I utilised a method similar to that employed by the BBC. Although my method for eliminating ties was much more ruthless, I still had to tolerate some tied positions. I am thinking of putting my work into book form and selling it as an ebook. This is something you should seriously consider in respect of your own magnificent effort which I have been following with great interest. If we did publish books containing our average charts, would we be in breach of copyright? Could we be subject to legal action? Have you ever considered this point? Once again your work is to be commended.

[Richard M White]

What wonderful work Brian, and is now a very important point of reference as well. Congratulations

[MrTibbs]

For your info guys after a few weeks break I intend to start the next Extended RM project mid August so watch out for the new thread around that time.

[RokinRobinOfLocksley]

Brian, thanks again for all your hard dedicated work on this super duper thread !! I can't believe it's been 2 years on this adventure, wow !! Time sure does fly by, getting faster the older we get... So many good comments and thoughts and input by so many, it was a real historical educational experience for all of us. (I just wish Alan Smith had been here to party with us along the way. He's still out there, I heard from him about 2 months ago.)

[MrTibbs]

A big thank-you from me too.

If the British Library have put the RMs on microfilm by now your job will be a lot easier, as you'll be able to zap the pages to your email.

I never thought on that Splodj but I will find out for sure as that would make it quicker and easier. Thanks for that useful hint.

[Splodj]

A big thank-you from me too.

If the British Library have put the RMs on microfilm by now your job will be a lot easier, as you'll be able to zap the pages to your email.

[Robbie]

Thanks for the thread MrTibbs. It has been a great read. The amount of work you have put into the thread over the past two years has been immense and is much appreciated. Now, put your feet up and have a few weeks rest before you head down to London to obtain those dealer charts!

[MrTibbs]

Corrected David thanks.

[braindeadpj]

It should say 30 rather than 20 for the UAC on the bridging chart for the December 28th 1968 chart for Donovan.

[MrTibbs]

Thanks for sticking with it. It has totally been worthwhile. It's not just the 24 likes on the 1st post, it's the hundreds of likes throughout all these pages that show how much it has been appreciated.



I do hope you mean up to March 1962, wouldn't want you to miss a year of work

I do have one small, possibly cheeky, request. The only charts I am missing are the RM album charts so if you are scanning can you catch them as well

Yeah Brain I will scan the album charts too. I said March 61 because unfortunately RM stopped publishing the dealer charts then grrr

[BrainDamageII]

Thanks for sticking with it. It has totally been worthwhile. It's not just the 24 likes on the 1st post, it's the hundreds of likes throughout all these pages that show how much it has been appreciated.

.. and there they are guys, the UAC 1955 to 1969 week by week.

collect the remainder of the data till its conclusion in March 1961.

Yip ! It's about to happen !

I do hope you mean up to March 1962, wouldn't want you to miss a year of work

I do have one small, possibly cheeky, request. The only charts I am missing are the RM album charts so if you are scanning can you catch them as well

[braindeadpj]

Thanks again for creating this thread and seeing it through to the end. What a mammoth undertaking. Hopefully, I caught most (all?) of the errors for you....
Glad to hear you're going to be able to get to London sooner rather than later in preparation for your next mammoth project!
I'll certainly miss checking this thread every day (though of course the Record Mirror thread will take its place once started :-))!

[MrTibbs]

.. and there they are guys, the UAC 1955 to 1969 week by week. I hope I have achieved what I set out to do just over 2 years ago, revisit history, take the BBC charts, add another level to make them more robust, re-compile them to remove errors, and deliver an averaged chart fit for that era.

That was my role, but it was by no means a one man show. I need to thank every one of you 24 guys who liked and followed this thread from beginning to end. 24 likes is a fantastic achievement on this site. The thread to date has over 130,000 views. In my wildest hopes at the outset I never believed I would achieve anything near that but you all made sure it happened.

I do need to take this opportunity at the end of this thread to single out and sincerely thank a few names in particular who put their shoulder to the wheel and advised me, supported me through thick, thin, moments of frustration with data etc to make it to the end of this journey.

RokinRobin - Without him this project would simply not have happened. He devised the spreadsheet for it and amended it along the way as necessary for changes. He also offered hints and tips along the way on what data might be useful in the thread.
Kingofskiffle - Assisted me with technical help for the thread, advised me as I progressed on chart matters, and gave various mentions to the UAC in his excellent '70 Years Of UK Singles Charts' books
Kjell - Supplied me with missing chart data and gave lots of practical advice.
Braindeadpj - This is the guy with a sharp eye for detail without whom some errors would have slipped through the net. He was my safety net for any errors I missed and advised me on corrections needed to ensure the UAC is spot on on accuracy.
Splodj - Possesses a wealth of background music knowledge, facts, and interesting anecdotes and shared these with us on a daily basis to enrich the chart numbers being presented and make it much more interesting.

Many others contributed almost daily too, Robbie, Brian, Membrane, Gambo, Metal, to name but a few and there are so many others who made valuable contributions along the way. To each and every one of you a big, big, thanks for following and 'liking' this.

So this thread ends, but, give me a few weeks to get my breath back and then I'll be back too with a brand new thread 'The Record Mirror Dealer Return Chart' listing every record charted by a dealer and submitted to RM. This will replace my earlier rather crude version which was compiled using a notebook and calculator as the new version will be spreadsheet led with a potential for a Top 50 and possibly Top 100 but not fixed to those numbers if titles exceed those.
It's a massive undertaking as by the mid fifties I will be drawing data from around 60 dealer charts, all to be input with every record appearing on them.

FINALLY, some breaking news for you. As you know I had to put this project on hold due to delays in getting to London and due to Covid for two years to extract the raw data from The Newspaper Library as I only currently have the first year of data.
Well I can now advise it is about to happen. I'm now booked to go down for 5 days from 1st August this year to collect the remainder of the data till its conclusion in March 1961.

Yip ! It's about to happen !

[kingofskiffle]

Absolutely awesome and huge thanks for starting this and finishing it all off. Over 200 pages, and 130,000 views is one of our biggest topics ever here, so thank you for this mammoth project.

[MrTibbs]

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending January 4th 1969								NME	MM	RR	Total
Last	This		The Sound Survey				Stores	200	250	85	Points
Week	Week		The Top 30 Singles Chart				BBC		TOP	30	Scored
1	1	Lily The Pink - The Scaffold					1	1	1	2	15965
4	2	Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations					2	2	2	3	15430
8	3	Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da - The Marmalade					3	3	5	1	14650
2	4	One Two Three O'Leary - Des O'Connor					4	4	3	8	14355
3	5	Ain't Got No..I Got Life - Nina Simone					5=	5	4	7	13990
5	6	I'm The Urban Spaceman - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band					5=	6	5	5	13710
6	7	Sabre Dance - Love Sculpture					7=	7	7	6	12925
12	8	Albatross - Fleetwood Mac					7=	8	8	4	12645
10	9	Race With The Devil - The Gun					9	10	9	11	11400
9	10	May I Have The Next Dream With You - Malcolm Roberts					10	9	10	16	10925
7	11	The Good The Bad And The Ugly - Hugo Montenegro					11	10	11	15	10560
11	12	I'm A Tiger - Lulu					12	12	12	13	10080
13	13	A Minute Of Your Time - Tom Jones					14=	13	13	17	9290
17	14	Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield					13	17	14	9	8920
15	15	Private Number - William Bell and Judy Clay					14=	14	15	14	8845
16	16	Love Child - Diana Ross and The Supremes					17	15	16	18	8055
24	17	Something's Happening - Herman's Hermits					16	16	18	10	8035
14	18	Breaking Down The Walls Of Heartache - The Bandwagon					18	24	17	19	5920
22	19	Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da - The Bedrocks					19	18	23	20	5535
19	20	Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley					22	20	20	26	5375
23	21	If I Knew Then What I Know Now - Val Doonican					21	19	22	23	5330
21	22	Elenore - The Turtles					24	22	21	25	4810
18	23	This Old Heart Of Mine - The Isley Brothers					23	26	19	22	4765
NEW	24	For Once In My Life - Stevie Wonder					20	23	28	12	3965
27	25	Stop Her On Sight (SOS) - Edwin Starr					25	21	25		3500
20	26	Eloise - Barry Ryan					29=		24		1750
29	27	Don't Forget To Catch Me - Cliff Richard					26	29	29	21	1750
30	28	Atlantis - Donovan					27	25	30	28	1705
25	29	Quick Joey Small - The Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus					28		26	27	1590
26	30	Those Were The Days - Mary Hopkin							27	29	1170
		I'm In A Different World - The Four Tops						27			800
		On Mother Kelly's Doorstep - Danny La Rue						28			600
		Please Don't go - Donald Peers					29			24	595
		Fox On The Run - Manfred Mann						30			200
		Toy - The Casuals								30	85
28		I Shall Be Released - The Tremeloes

[MrTibbs]

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending December 28th 1968								NME	MM	RR	Total
Last	This		The Sound Survey				Stores	200	250	85	Points
Week	Week		The Top 30 Singles Chart				BBC		TOP	30	Scored
1	1	Lily The Pink - The Scaffold						1	1	1	16050
3	2	One Two Three O'Leary - Des O'Connor						2	2	4	15345
2	3	Ain't Got No..I Got Life - Nina Simone						4	2	3	15030
4	4	Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations						3	4	2	14815
6	5	I'm The Urban Spaceman - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band						5	5	6	13825
8	6	Sabre Dance - Love Sculpture						6	6	5	13460
5	7	The Good The Bad And The Ugly - Hugo Montenegro						7	6	8	13005
14	8	Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da - The Marmalade						8	9	7	12140
7	9	May I Have The Next Dream With You - Malcolm Roberts						9	8	11	11850
11	10	Race With The Devil - The Gun						10	10	10	11235
9	11	I'm A Tiger - Lulu						11	10	13	10780
16	12	Albatross - Fleetwood Mac						12	13	9	10170
13	13	A Minute Of Your Time - Tom Jones						13	12	14	9795
10	14	Breaking Down The Walls Of Heartache - The Bandwagon						15	13	12	9315
19	15	Private Number - William Bell and Judy Clay						14	18	16	7925
18	16	Love Child - Diana Ross and The Supremes						16	16	21	7600
20	17	Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield						18	17	20	7035
12	18	This Old Heart Of Mine - The Isley Brothers						21	15	19	7020
17	19	Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley						20	18	17	6640
15	20	Eloise - Barry Ryan						19	20	18	6255
21	21	Elenore - The Turtles						27	21	15	4660
28	22	OB-La-Di-Ob-La-Da - The Bedrocks						17	26	30	4135
22	23	If I Knew Then What I Know Now - Val Doonican						26	22	22	4015
30	24	Something's Happening - Herman's Hermits						24	23	28	3655
23	25	Quick Joey Small - The Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus						25	24	25	3460
24	26	Those Were The Days - Mary Hopkin						28	24	24	2945
25	27	Stop Her On Sight (SOS) - Edwin Starr						23	27		2600
29	28	I Shall Be Released - The Tremeloes						22		29	1970
26	29	Don't Forget To Catch Me - Cliff Richard						30	28	26	1375
RE	30	Atlantis - Donovan						29		23	1080
		All Along The Watchtower - The Jimi Hendrix Experience							28		750
		For Once In My Life - Stevie Wonder							30	27	590
		* MM did not compile a chart this week so an average position was taken of likely chart position for this non compiled week by taking a mid point position between the chart for 21st December 1968 and the chart for 4th January 1969 for MM in order to compile a 'bridging' chart for the week of 28th December 1968 to compile the Ultimate Averaged Chart.
		** The BBC did not compile a chart for this week.

[MrTibbs]

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending January 6th 1968								NME	MM	RR	Total
Last	This		The Sound Survey				Stores	200	250	85	Points
Week	Week		The Top 30 Singles Chart				BBC		TOP	30	Scored
1	1	Hello Goodbye - The Beatles					1	1	1	1	16050
4	2	Magical Mystery Tour (EP) - The Beatles					2	2	4	2	15015
2	3	If The Whole World Stopped Lovin' - Val Doonican					4	3	2	8	14805
3	4	I'm Coming Home - Tom Jones					3	4	3	3	14780
8	5	Thank U Very Much - The Scaffold					6	7	5	4	13595
9	6	Daydream Believer - The Monkees					6	5	6	6	13575
6	7	Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart - Gene Pitney					8	8	7	7	12640
10	8	Walk Away Renee - The Four Tops					7	6	11	5	12210
11	9	World - The Bee Gees					9	9	10	12	11265
5	10	Careless Hands - Des O'Connor					11	10	9	14	11145
12	11	Kites - Simon Dupree and The Big Sound					10	11	12	9	10620
7	12	Let The Heartaches Begin - Long John Baldry					13	14	8	15	10510
17	13	The Ballad Of Bonnie And Clyde - Georgie Fame					12	12	14	10	9835
14	14	Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush - Traffic					14	13	16	11	9050
13	15	Everybody Knows - The Dave Clark Five					15	16	13	17	8690
16	16	All My Love - Cliff Richard					18	15	17	18	7805
15	17	The Last Waltz - Engelbert Humperdinck					19	19	15	16	7675
18	18	In And Out Of Love - Diana Ross and The Supremes					16	17	18	13	7580
24	19	The Other Man's Grass - Petula Clark					17	18	20	21	6200
19	20	Tin Soldier - The Small Faces					20	22	19	19	5820
20	21	Love Is All Around - The Troggs					23	23	22	26	4275
22	22	Jackie - Scott Walker					21	21	26	22	4015
25	23	Big Spender - Shirley Bassey					24	27	21	24	3895
23	24	There Must Be A Way - Frankie Vaughan					26	24	24	30	3235
21	25	I Feel Love Coming On - Felice Taylor					25	25	25	25	3210
28	26	Susannah's Still Alive - Dave Davies					22	20		20	3135
26	27	So Tired - Frankie Vaughan					27		23	27	2340
NEW	28	Paradise Lost - The Herd					28		28	23	1430
29	29	Soul Man - Sam and Dave					29		27	28	1255
27	30	Baby Now That I've Found You - The Foundations					30	26			1000
		Zabadak - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich						28	30		850
		I Only Live To Love You - Cilla Black							29	29	670
30		There Is A Mountain - Donovan						29			400
		Chain Of Fools - Aretha Franklin						30			200

[MrTibbs]

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending December 30th 1967								NME	MM	RR	Total
Last	This		The Sound Survey				Stores	200	250	85	Points
Week	Week		The Top 30 Singles Chart				BBC		TOP	30	Scored
1	1	Hello Goodbye - The Beatles						1	1	1	16050
2	2	If The Whole World Stopped Lovin' - Val Doonican						3	2	4	15145
4	3	I'm Coming Home - Tom Jones						4	3	3	14780
7	4	Magical Mystery Tour (EP) - The Beatles						2	7	2	14265
6	5	Careless Hands - Des O'Connor						5	4	11	13650
5	6	Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart - Gene Pitney						9	6	5	12860
3	7	Let The Heartaches Begin - Long John Baldry						12	4	8	12505
10	8	Thank U Very Much - The Scaffold						8	7	9	12470
12	9	Daydream Believer - The Monkees						7	10	7	12090
16	10	Walk Away Renee - The Four Tops						6	13	10	11285
9	11	World - The Bee Gees						11	9	15	10860
11	12	Kites - Simon Dupree and The Big Sound						13	12	14	9795
8	13	Everybody Knows - The Dave Clark Five						14	11	16	9675
14	14	Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush - Traffic						16	14	12	8865
15	15	The Last Waltz - Engelbert Humperdinck						17	15	13	8330
13	16	All My Love - Cliff Richard						19	16	6	8275
23	17	The Ballad Of Bonnie And Clyde - Georgie Fame						10	20	18	8055
17	18	In And Out Of Love - Diana Ross and The Supremes						15	17	17	7890
19	19	Tin Soldier - The Small Faces						20	18	19	6470
18	20	Love Is All Around - The Troggs						21	19	27	5340
20	21	I Feel Love Coming On - Felice Taylor						25	21	21	4550
24	22	Jackie - Scott Walker						18	26	28	4105
22	23	There Must Be A Way - Frankie Vaughan						24	24	20	4085
NEW	24	The Other Man's Grass - Petula Clark						22	25	24	3895
26	25	Big Spender - Shirley Bassey						26	23	22	3765
25	26	So Tired - Frankie Vaughan							21	23	3180
21	27	Baby Now That I've Found You - The Foundations						27	28	25	2060
29	28	Susannah's Still Alive - Dave Davies						23		30	1685
30	29	Soul Man - Sam and Dave							26		1250
28	30	There Is A Mountain - Donovan						29	29		900
27		Zabadak - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich						28	30		850
		La Derniere Valse - Mireille Mathieu								26	425
		Autumn Almanac - The Kinks						30			200
		I Only Live To Love You - Cilla Black								29	170
		* MM did not compile a chart this week so an average position was taken of likely chart position for this non compiled week by taking a mid point position between the chart for 23rd December 1967 and the chart for 6th January 1968 for MM in order to compile a 'bridging' chart for the week of 30th December 1967 to compile the Ultimate Averaged Chart.
		** The BBC did not compile a chart this week.

[MrTibbs]

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending January 8th 1966								NME	MM	DISC	RR	Total
Last	This		The Sound Survey				Stores	200	250	100	85	Points
Week	Week		The Top 30 Singles Chart				BBC			TOP	30	Scored
1	1	Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out - The Beatles					1	1	1	1	1	19050
4	2	Keep On Running - The Spencer Davis Group					2	2	2	2	5	18160
2	3	The River - Ken Dodd					3	3	3	3	4	17695
3	4	The Carnival Is Over - The Seekers					4	4	4	4	3	17230
6	5	My Ship Is Coming In - The Walker Brothers					5	5	5	5	6	16425
7	6	Tears - Ken Dodd					6	6	7	9	7	15240
10	7	Merry Gentle Pops - The Barron Knights					7	11	6	6	9	14620
9	8	Rescue Me - Fontella Bass					10	7	8	8	13	14380
5	9	Wind Me Up - Cliff Richard					8	9	10	11	2	14115
17	10	Till The End Of The Day - The Kinks					9	10	9	7	10	13885
14	11	Let's Hang On - The Four Seasons					11	8	11	10	8	13655
13	12	To Whom It Concerns - Chris Andrews					13	14	12	12	15	11410
8	13	1 2 3 - Len Barry					12	12	15	13	11	11300
16	14	A Hard Day's Night - Peter Sellers					14	15	13	15	16	10575
12	15	My Generation - The Who					15	13	16	19	12	10165
11	16	Maria - P J Proby					16	17	14	16	14	9995
25	17	A Must To Avoid - Herman's Hermits					17	16	18	14	19	8970
19	18	Spanish Flea - Herb Alpert					19	18	19	18	21	7750
15	19	A Lover's Concerto - The Toys					18	23	17	17	17	7690
18	20	My Girl - Otis Redding					20	21	20	20	20	6785
22	21	I Left My Heart In San Francisco - Tony Bennett					21	18	23	22	25	6010
27	22	England Swings - Roger Miller					22=	21	21	21		5500
29	23	If I Needed Someone - The Hollies					22=	24	24	24	22	4615
20	24	The War Lord - The Shadows					24		22	23	23	3730
NEW	25	Bye Bye Blues - Bert Kaempfert					26	20	29	25		3300
21	26	Princess In Rags - Gene Pitney					25	29	26	28	18	3055
26	27	Yesterday Man - Chris Andrews					27	30	25		24	2295
NEW	28	The Very Thought Of You - Tony Bennett					28	26		29	26	1625
23	29	You Make It Move - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich					30	25				1200
24	30	Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan							28		28	1005
		Rubber Soul (LP) - The Beatles					29			26		500
		Thunderball - Tom Jones							27			1000
		Midnight To Six Man - The Pretty things						27				800
		Hello Dolly - The Bachelors						28				600
		Take Me For What I'm Worth - The Searchers							30		27	590
		Mirror Mirror - Pinkerton's Assorted Colours								27		400
		Get Off Of My Cloud - The Rolling Stones									29	170
		You Were On My Mind - Crispian St Peters								30		100
		Is It Really Over - Jim Reeves									30	85

[MrTibbs]

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending January 1st 1966								NME	MM	DISC	RR	Total
Last	This		The Sound Survey				Stores	200	250	100	85	Points
Week	Week		The Top 30 Singles Chart				BBC			TOP	30	Scored
1	1	Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out - The Beatles					1	1	1	1	1	19050
3	2	The River - Ken Dodd					2	2	2	2	3	18330
2	3	The Carnival Is Over - The Seekers					3	3	3	3	3	17780
10	4	Keep On Running - The Spencer Davis Group					4	4	4	8	10	16235
4	5	Wind Me Up - Cliff Richard					5	6	7	4	2	16165
7	6	My Ship Is Coming In - The Walker Brothers					6	8	5	6	5	15810
6	7	Tears - Ken Dodd					7	5	6	10	5	15760
5	8	1 2 3 - Len Barry					8	9	8	5	8	14705
11	9	Rescue Me - Fontella Bass					9	7	11	7	11	13900
16	10	Merry Gentle Pops - The Barron Knights					10	10	9	9	15	13260
9	11	Maria - P J Proby					11	12	10	13	13	12380
8	12	My Generation - The Who					13	13	13	16	8	11555
12	13	To Whom It Concerns - Chris Andrews					12	14	12	11	15	11510
14	14	Let's Hang On - The Four Seasons					15	11	15	17	7	11440
13	15	A Lover's Concerto - The Toys					16	17	16	12	13	9980
24	16	A Hard Day's Night - Peter Sellers					14	15	14	14	22	9915
15	17	Till The End Of The Day - The Kinks					17	16	17	15	11	9800
20	18	My Girl - Otis Redding					18=	21	20	18	19	7070
23	19	Spanish Flea - Herb Alpert					18=	20	18	21	26	6875
19	20	The War Lord - The Shadows					20	25	19	20	18	6405
17	21	Princess In Rags - Gene Pitney					21	28	22	19	17	5240
28	22	I Left My Heart In San Francisco - Tony Bennett					23=	22	25	28	24	4195
25	23	You Make It Move - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich					22	19	28	24		3850
18	24	Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan					25		24	22	21	3500
NEW	25	A Must To Avoid - Herman's Hermits					26	18	30		24	3445
21	26	Yesterday Man - Chris Andrews					30	24	27		20	3335
30	27	England Swings - Roger Miller					27	29	21			2900
NEW	28	The Water Is Over My Head - The Rockin' Berries					23=	23	29	23		2900
29	29	If I Needed Someone - The Hollies							23		23	2680
27	30	You've Got To Be Cruel To Be Kind - Unit 4 + 2					29	27	26	29		2250
		Is It Really Over - Jim Reeves						26			26	1425
		Take Me For What I'm Worth - The Searchers								26		500
		Tell Me Why - Elvis Presley								27		400
		The Very Thought Of You - Tony Bennett						30			30	285
		Get Off Of My Cloud - The Rolling Stones									28	255
		Don't Bring Me Your Heartaches - Paul and Barry Ryan									29	170
		Don't Fight It - Wilson Pickett								30		100
		Rubber Soul (LP) - The Beatles					28			25		600
		*RR did not compile a chart this week so an average position was taken of likely chart position for this non compiled week by taking a mid point position between the chart for 25th December 1965 and the chart for 8th January 1966 for RR in order to compile a 'bridging' chart for the week of 1st January 1966 to compile the Ultimate Averaged Chart.

[MrTibbs]

Here are the remaining 'bridging' charts and then .. the project is complete.

[MrTibbs]

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending January 4th 1964							BBC	NME	MM	Disc	RR
Last	This						Chart	Chart	Chart	Chart	Chart
Week	Week	Title and Artist						Total Chart Positions			30
1	1	I Want To Hold Your Hand - The Beatles					1	1	1	1	1
2	2	Glad All Over - The Dave Clark Five					2	2	2	2	2
3	3	She Loves You - The Beatles					3	3	3	3	3
4	4	Dominique - The Singing Nun					6=	5	4	7	7
7	5	I Only Want To Be With You - Dusty Springfield					5	4	7	5	6
5	6	You Were Made For Me - Freddie and The Dreamers					4	8	5	4	4
8	7	Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa - Gene Pitney					6=	6	6	6	5
6	8	Secret Love - Kathy Kirby					8	7	8	8	9
12	9	Swinging On A Star - Big Dee Irwin					9	9	9	12	11
20	10	Hippy Hippy Shake - The Swinging Blue Jeans					10	9	12	10	13
9	11	Maria Elena - Los Indios Tabajaras					11	11	11	15	8
13	12	I Wanna Be Your Man - The Rolling Stones					13	12	10	16	15
10	13	Don't Talk To Him - Cliff Richard					12	12	14	11	10
11	14	Geronimo - The Shadows					15	14	13	20	12
14	15	Twist And Shout (EP) - The Beatles					16	17	16	13	15
15	16	You'll Never Walk Alone - Gerry and The Pacemakers					18	16	15	18	16
19	17	Kiss Me Quick - Elvis Presley					17	15	19	14	14
18	18	Chris Sandford - Not Too Little Not Too Much					19	22	18	19	18
23	19	Stay - The Hollies					21	18	21	28	17
17	20	The Beatles Hits (EP) - The Beatles					20	19	24	17	20
16	21	I'll Keep You Satisfied - Billy J Kramer and The Dakotas					22	23	20	21	21
25	22	We Are In Love - Adam Faith					23	21	22	24	20
24	23	Money - Bern Elliot and The Fenmen					24	26	17		19
22	24	All I Want For Christmas Is A Beatle - Dora Bryan					25	27	23	27	24
21	25	It's Almost Tomorrow - Mark Wynter					26	24	25	25	30
29	26	Do You Really Love Me Too - Billy Fury					28	25	29	22
26	27	If I Ruled The World - Harry Secombe					27		26	26	22
27	28	I (Who Have Nothing) - Shirley Bassey					29		28		25
NEW	29	What To Do - Buddy Holly							27		28
NEW	30	At The Palace - Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett					30=	28			26
30		Do You Hear What I Hear - Bing Crosby					30=			23
		Blue Bayou / Mean Woman Blues - Roy Orbison									23
		Country Boy - Heinz								29	27
28		Hungry For Love - Johnny Kidd and The Pirates						30	30
		The Beatles No 1 (EP) - The Beatles						29
		From Russia With Love - Matt Monro									29
		I'm In Love - The Fourmost								30
		With The Beatles (LP) - The Beatles						20		9

[MrTibbs]

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending December 28th 1963								NME	MM	DISC	RR	Total
Last	This		The Sound Survey				Stores	100	150	50	30	Points
Week	Week		The Top 30 Singles Chart				BBC			TOP	30	Scored
1	1	I Want To Hold Your Hand - The Beatles					1	1	1	1	1	9900
3	2	Glad All Over - The Dave Clark Five					3	2	2	3	6	9400
2	3	She Loves You - The Beatles					2	4	2	2	2	9370
7	4	Dominique - The Singing Nun					5	3	5	5	7	8720
4	5	You Were Made For Me - Freddie and The Dreamers					7	8	4	4	3	8540
5	6	Secret Love - Kathy Kirby					4	5	6	8	4	8310
6	7	I Only Want To Be With You - Dusty Springfield					6	6	7	7	5	8080
10	8	Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa - Gene Pitney					8	7	8	10	9	7560
8	9	Maria Elena - Los Indios Tabajaras					10	10	9	6	10	7280
9	10	Don't Talk To Him - Cliff Richard					9	11	10	9	8	6940
11	11	Geronimo - The Shadows					12	14	11	11	11	6300
16	12	Swinging On A Star - Big Dee Irwin					11	9	14	14	15	6080
15	13	I Wanna Be Your Man - The Rolling Stones					14	12	11	21	14	5910
13	14	Twist And Shout (EP) - The Beatles					13	13	15	13		5622
12	15	You'll Never Walk Alone - Gerry and The Pacemakers					16	19	13	15	12	5270
14	16	I'll Keep You Satisfied - Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas					18	22	16	18	13	4340
18	17	The Beatles Hits (EP) - The Beatles					21	20	19	16		4031
21	18	Not Too Little Not Too Much - Chris Sandford					20	21	18	20	18	3890
24	19	Kiss Me Quick - Elvis Presley					17	17	24	12	16	3850
NEW	20	Hippy Hippy Shake - The Swinging Blue Jeans					22	18	19	25	23	3640
17	21	It's Almost Tomorrow - Mark Wynter					24	24	19	19	22	3370
20	22	All I Want For Christmas Is A Beatle - Dora Bryan					19	16	23	26	20	3280
22	23	Stay - The Hollies					23	25	22	27	17	2570
19	24	Money - Bern Elliot and The Fenmen					27		17		19	2460
29	25	We Are In Love - Adam Faith					26	23	26	24	27	2020
27	26	If I Ruled The World - Harry Secombe					25	27	26	22	21	1900
23	27	I (Who Have Nothing) - Shirley Bassey					28	29	25	29	25	1380
25	28	Hungry For Love - Johnny Kidd and The Pirates					29		28		24	660
NEW	29	Do You Really Love Me Too - Billy Fury					30	26				500
NEW	30	Do You Hear What I Hear - Bing Crosby								23		400
		Country Boy - Heinz						30		28	28	340
		At The Palace - Wilfred Brambell and Harry H. Corbett						28				300
28		Blue Bayou / Mean Woman Blues - Roy Orbison							30		26	300
26		The Beatles No 1 (EP) - The Beatles							29			300
		What To Do - Buddy Holly									29	60
30		Deep Purple - Nino Tempo and April Stevens								30		50
		Sugar And Spice - The Searchers									30	30
		With The Beatles (LP) - The Beatles					15	15		17		2300
		*MM did not compile a chart this week so an average position was taken of likely chart position for this non compiled week by taking a mid point position between the chart for 21st December 1963 and the chart for 4th January 1964 for MM in order to compile a 'bridging' chart for the week of 28th December to compile the Ultimate Averaged Chart.

[kjell]

They’re interesting and you’re working so fast that I barely get time to paint the house in between. There is one tiny bit that can’t be solved by these charts, and that is the hit that would have charted at the bottom of the original charts if they didn’t skip those weeks. The main issue here is that your in between charts are a whole lot better than using frozen charts which not only recapture certainly wrong positions but often also wrong number of weeks.