UK Singles Charts: 1984 (including chart panel sales)

[UnfazedPenguin]

On the 01 Sep 84 chart, I'm thinking that #50 and #51 should have been swapped round...? Or am I missing something? (probably the latter)

[kingofskiffle]

On the 01 Sep 84 chart, I'm thinking that #50 and #51 should have been swapped round...? Or am I missing something? (probably the latter)

Wonder if there are examples of prior where this happened differently and none where it happened like this again? (Thinking aloud.... I need to investigate the database!)

[braindeadpj]

On the 01 Sep 84 chart, I'm thinking that #50 and #51 should have been swapped round...? Or am I missing something? (probably the latter)

Yes, you'd have thought newcomer would trump climber. Did Gallup also have some stores to verify the results like BMRB did in the day? Possibly this suggested that the climber was outselling the new entry (probably by only a small amount otherwise they'd have investigated further) hence why the climber was listed at 50 and the new entry at 51 on the same panel sales??

[Robbie]

I've just checked the charts that kobyhadrian sent me and they are the same as posted here. Yes, the tie break should be the record with the greatest % increase in sales should be placed the highest with the result that a new entry should always be placed above a record climbing the chart.

[Robbie]

Yes, you'd have thought newcomer would trump climber. Did Gallup also have some stores to verify the results like BMRB did in the day? Possibly this suggested that the climber was outselling the new entry (probably by only a small amount otherwise they'd have investigated further) hence why the climber was listed at 50 and the new entry at 51 on the same panel sales??

Gallup checked the new entries, climbers etc with an additional 50 stores which they would use to check the top end of the chart, climbers and new entries. However if a record was performing much better in a chart panel shop than in the check panel then Gallup would, unless there were reasons not to do so (in store promotions, for example) deem that the record had failed the security check and would usually either reduce its panel sales to average it to the check panel, ignore some sales if they were concentrated to a particular area or shop, or exclude the record altogether. After the security checks had completed, the panel sales figures would then be subject to the usual chart rules on tiebreaking.

[UnfazedPenguin]

Interesting. I wonder whether the process of aggregating the raw sales data into the weekly report(s) was completely automatic, or whether the report was (partially) manually typed up. If that was the case, that could explain the odd incident like this.
It should be fairly easy to check if you have all the chart data in excel; just sort a chart first by panel sales, then by increase (where known), then by chart position as stated, and see if anything else ends up in a different order.

[Blondini]

On the 01 Sep 84 chart, I'm thinking that #50 and #51 should have been swapped round...? Or am I missing something? (probably the latter)

Motorhead denied a top 50 hit by Kevin The Gerbil! What an injustice!

[Robbie]

Interesting. I wonder whether the process of aggregating the raw sales data into the weekly report(s) was completely automatic, or whether the report was (partially) manually typed up. If that was the case, that could explain the odd incident like this.
It should be fairly easy to check if you have all the chart data in excel; just sort a chart first by panel sales, then by increase (where known), then by chart position as stated, and see if anything else ends up in a different order.

All I have is what kobyhadrian has sent to me. He has the original chart reports but they are simply a computer generated print out of chart position, panel sales, increase / decrease over last week etc (i.e. an automated report and not manually typed). The raw data would only have been held in Gallup's computer systems and they will be long lost now. That said, the figures on the chart report showing the % panel sales increase over last week should be enough to show if there was a Gallup error here. I can't check with kobyhadrian at the moment as he is on holiday.

[kingofskiffle]

The very few copies of the reports (4) I have from early 1983 show *** in place of percentage increase/decrease for new entries unless the record had been out for a while and was selling the previous week. For the case here I suspect that is not the case!

[braindeadpj]

Gallup checked the new entries, climbers etc with an additional 50 stores which they would use to check the top end of the chart, climbers and new entries. However if a record was performing much better in a chart panel shop than in the check panel then Gallup would, unless there were reasons not to do so (in store promotions, for example) deem that the record had failed the security check and would usually either reduce its panel sales to average it to the check panel, ignore some sales if they were concentrated to a particular area or shop, or exclude the record altogether. After the security checks had completed, the panel sales figures would then be subject to the usual chart rules on tiebreaking.

If the check panel showed for example, one additional sale to the climber compared with the new entry, would that have triggered an investigation or would they have just used that to rank the climber above the new entry? While it doesn't sound like it is an official rule, it could theoretically be a way to split ties - though I guess if they had used it to do so, then we'd be much more likely to see similar examples.
So as far as we know the check panel was only used to confirm the veracity of the panel sales?

[Robbie]

If the check panel showed for example, one additional sale to the climber compared with the new entry, would that have triggered an investigation or would they have just used that to rank the climber above the new entry? While it doesn't sound like it is an official rule, it could theoretically be a way to split ties - though I guess if they had used it to do so, then we'd be much more likely to see similar examples.
So as far as we know the check panel was only used to confirm the veracity of the panel sales?

The check panel was used to confirm the veracity of the panel sales but if the panel sales were deemed to be unrepresentative those panel sales could be downweighted.

Reading between the lines, the differences between the chart panel sales and the check panel data would have to be noticeably different. One sale difference isn't likely to lead to any action by Gallup. Plus once all checks had been made, the resulting panel sales figures should then be subject to whatever tiebreak mechansism was in place. It would be done automatically by the computer.

In 1984 Music Week published two articles on how the chart system worked, including how the check system operated. The two issues are available to download from worldradiohistory.com

29 September 1984: Charts: the inside story (pages 22 and 23) https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Mus...1984-09-29.pdf

6 October 1984: Charts: the inside story (Part 2 - checking each record) (pages 44 and 45 of the PDF) https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Mus...1984-10-06.pdf

The check panel was bigger than I thought. In the second article its size is given as 400 shops, of which a third were used each week. It had been 50 when Gallup first began to compile the charts in January 1983.

I've extracted the articles from both Music Week issues and have combined them into one PDF: https://www.dropbox.com/s/i91rf61lnc...Story.pdf?dl=0

[kingofskiffle]

I am wondering if it is an error in that specific chart - or a chart rule we don't know. All data below relates to the period Jan 1983-Nov 1984 (including charts not yet posted - but I will not spoil future charts)


With a few exceptions, such as below (8 Sep 1984)

NE	141	26	Warp 9	Master Of The Mix
NE	141	26	Chelsea F.C. Championship Squad	Back On The Ball
RE	143	26	Candido	Jingo
RE	144	26	Cruella De Ville	Hong Kong Swing
NE	145	26	Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers	We Need Some Money (Bout Money)
167	146	26	Michael Jackson	Thriller
122	***	26	Lydia Murdock	Love On The Line

new entries always come before climbers when sales are tied. Past Sep 1983, tied sales do not occur in the Top 20 - indeed only a four week run (27 Aug-24 Sep 1983) feature tied sales in the Top 20.

Ties occur in the Top 40 (21-40) much more frequently with the New entry always above the other records - 4 cases where the order is NE and then climber, 3 where it is NEW and then faller, which you would expect the NEW to be above the fall.

In all cases - except this one - when a tie occurs in the Top 50 the NEW is placed above the climber.

Getting to the lower end of the chart it changes, as in the sales figures below 100 you get tiny variations anyway and in those cases the fact that the record is new to the 200 may not mean it is new to Gallup (i.e. was present last week) and thus percentage increase can be calculated.

Hope all this helps!

[Robbie]

15 September 1984

Twk	Lwk	Wks	Title	Artist	Sales
1	1	4	I Just Called To Say I Love You	Stevie Wonder	12590
2	2	7	Careless Whisper	George Michael	5759
3	6	4	Ghostbusters	Ray Parker Jr.	3719
4	3	17	Agadoo	Black Lace	3349
5	4	6	Like To Get To Know You Well	Howard Jones	2832
6	5	6	Passengers (Re-Mix)	Elton John	2683
7	7	6	Dr. Beat	Miami Sound Machine	2603
8	NE	1	Pride (In The Name Of Love)	U2	2548
9	11	7	Big In Japan	Alphaville	2150
10	8	11	Self Control	Laura Branigan	1985
11	12	3	Master And Servant	Depeche Mode	1836
12	9	4	I'll Fly For You	Spandau Ballet	1826
13	15	3	Madam Butterfly (Un Bel Di Vedremo)	Malcolm McLaren	1812
14	32	2	Lost In Music	Sister Sledge	1612
15	21	4	Talking In Your Sleep	Bucks Fizz	1278
16	10	8	Whatever I Do (Wherever I Go)	Hazell Dean	1006
17	13	14	Two Tribes	Frankie Goes To Hollywood	929
18	14	5	Mother's Talk	Tears For Fears	912
19	26	3	Hot Water	Level 42	897
20	18	45	White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)	Grandmaster & Melle Mel	874
21	17	3	William, It Was Really Nothing	The Smiths	869
22	16	11	Stuck On You	Trevor Walters	768
23	NE	1	A Letter To You	Shakin' Stevens	753
24	28	3	Sunset Now	Heaven 17	695
25	20	8	Some Guys Have All The Luck	Rod Stewart	693
26	38	2	Torture	Jacksons	658
27	19	14	What's Love Got To Do With It	Tina Turner	646
28	37	6	Tour De France (Remix)	Kraftwerk	612
29	22	45	Relax	Frankie Goes To Hollywood	611
30	29	6	I Need You	Pointer Sisters	538
31	27	6	Are You Ready (Vocal)	Break Machine	528
32	24	12	When Doves Cry	Prince	527
33	48	2	Tesla Girls	O.M.D.	506
34	39	3	All I Need Is Everything / Jump	Aztec Camera	424
35	23	20	On The Wings Of Love	Jeffrey Osborne	404
36	31	10	The More You Live, The More You Love	A Flock Of Seagulls	396
37	33	6	Girl You're So Together	Michael Jackson	377
38	NE	1	Human Racing	Nik Kershaw	364
39	25	5	2 Minutes To Midnight	Iron Maiden	350
40	41	6	Mr. Solitaire (Panther Remix)	Animal Nightlife	341
41	46	4	Forest Fire	Lloyd Cole And The Commotions	339
42	30	8	Sunglasses	Tracey Ullman	336
43	47	3	Magic Touch	Rose Royce	328
44	34	8	It's A Hard Life	Queen	321
45	NE	1	Smooth Operator	Sade	320
46	56	4	She Bop	Cyndi Lauper	318
47	43	2	Heaven's On Fire	Kiss	316
48	51	3	Cath / Will She Always Be Waiting	The Bluebells	302
49	53	3	Unity (Part 1 - The Third Coming)	Afrika Bambaataa And The Godfather Of Soul James Brown	295
50	35	10	Love Songs Are Back Again	Band Of Gold	278
51	72	3	What I Like Most About You Is Your Girlfriend	The Special AKA	257
52	36	11	Closest Thing To Heaven	The Kane Gang	251
53	62	4	Waiting For The Love Boat	The Associates	232
54	40	10	Everybody's Laughing	Phil Fearon & Galaxy	224
55	63	5	The Girl From Ipanema	Astrud Gilberto	222
56	NE	1	Better Be Good To Me	Tina Turner	218
57	44	14	Tossing And Turning	Windjammer	198
58	61	5	You Get The Best From Me (Say, Say, Say)	Alicia Myers	193
59	NE	1	The Medicine Song	Stephanie Mills	190
60	89	2	Rikki Don't Lose That Number	Tom Robinson	187
61	79	2	Don't Blame It On Love	Shakatak	187
62	75	7	What Is Life?	Black Uhuru	184
63	42	5	You're Never Too Young	The Cool Notes	180
64	73	5	Somebody	Junior	177
65	45	11	Down On The Street	Shakatak	170
66	49	10	Hole In My Shoe	neil	160
67	50	10	You Think You're A Man	Divine	159
68	54	3	Love Glove	Visage	158
69	57	3	You Have	Marc Almond	157
70	93	2	Lap Of Luxury	Jethro Tull	156
71	83	5	Another Silent Day	The Adventures	152
72	NE	1	Touch By Touch	Diana Ross	149
73	68	3	Encore	Cheryl Lynn	144
74	55	7	Just The Way You Like It	The S.O.S. Band	143
75	80	9	Cccan't You See…	Vicious Pink	141
***	60	13	Stuck On You	Lionel Richie	131
***	59	26	Time After Time	Cyndi Lauper	129
***	58	3	Killed By Death	Motörhead	128
76	84	2	Unexpected Song	Sarah Brightman	120
***	67	15	Eyes Without A Face	Billy Idol	120
***	69	17	Wake Me Up Before You Go Go	Wham!	111
77	***	13	Love Resurrection	Alison Moyet	107
78	66	11	Sister Of Mercy	Thompson Twins	103
***	78	5	I Can Dream About You (Edited Version)	Dan Hartman	100
***	52	14	I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me	Nik Kershaw	100
79	NE	1	Rain Forest	Paul Hardcastle	99
***	71	6	Empty Rooms	Gary Moore	98
***	***	8	In The Country	The Farmer's Boys	95
80	NE	1	When The Wild Calls	Swans Way	94
81	98	2	On The Wings Of A Nightingale	The Everly Brothers	93
***	***	7	Nervous Shakedown	AC/DC	91
***	***	13	Breakin'... There's No Stopping Us	Ollie & Jerry	90
***	74	9	The Day Before You Came	Blancmange	89
82	NE	1	Acceleration	Bill Nelson	85
83	102	4	Burning Bush (Testify)	Savage Progress	84
***	64	8	Summer Holiday	Kevin The Gerbil	80
84	91	4	Original Sin	The Senate	79
***	***	16	Smalltown Boy	Bronski Beat	79
***	82	4	You Keep Me Coming Back (Edited Version)	The Brothers Johnson	79
85	94	79	Blue Monday	New Order	78
86	90	11	Guardian Angel	Nino De Angelo	78
***	***	6	You Are My Melody (Edit.)	Change	76
87	76	11	State Of Shock	Jacksons with lead vocals by Michael Jackson & Mick Jagger	76
***	***	13	Jump (For My Love)	Pointer Sisters	74
***	77	5	Castles In Spain	The Armoury Show	74
***	***	5	The Ink In The Well	David Sylvian	74
88	86	8	Eternally Grateful	Janet Kay	72
***	***	10	Seven Seas	Echo And The Bunnymen	71
***	87	8	Tinseltown In The Rain	The Blue Nile	70
***	***	5	17 (Vocal)	Rick James	70
***	***	14	Hot Hot Hot (Hotter Mix '84)	Arrow	70
89	97	3	Re-Ron	Gil Scott-Heron	69
***	85	5	The Only Flame In Town	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	67
90	99	6	Breakout	Kelly	65
***	***	5	Lady Shine (Shine On)	T. H. S. - The Horne Section	65
***	70	5	Masquerade (Vocal)	Evelyn Thomas	65
***	65	13	Young At Heart	The Bluebells	65
91	105	3	Creep	The Fall	64
***	***	11	Lament	Ultravox	64
***	***	12	Hand On My Heart	Shriekback	64
92	118	2	Kangaroo	This Mortal Coil	63
93	121	3	Girl From Baiaha (Toda Menina Baiaha)	Gilberto Gil	61
***	81	4	Big City Nights	The Scorpions	60
94	96	17	Dancing In The Dark	Bruce Springsteen	59
***	***	13	Come Back	The Mighty Wah!	59
***	***	7	99½	Carol Lynn Townes	58
***	88	3	Don't Stop Runnin'	Y & T	56
***	***	7	Banana Banana	King Kurt	55
***	92	15	Only When You Leave	Spandau Ballet	54
***	***	8	There Are More Snakes Than Ladders	Captain Sensible	54
95	100	3	Sucker For Love (I'm A Sucker For Your Love) US Mix	B-Biz-R	53
***	***	18	Thinking Of You	Sister Sledge	53
96	117	6	International	Thomas Leer	52
97	***	7	The Ecstacy Of Flight (I Love The Night)	Chris de Burgh	51
98	107	3	Walking On A Highwire	Marseille	51
99	103	3	Universal Rhythm	Ralph MacDonald	51
***	***	6	Don't Take My Coconuts	Kid Creole & The Coconuts	51
100	***	4	Dead And Buried	Alien Sex Fiend	50
101	NE	1	I Can't Let You Go	Haywoode	49
102	101	2	Weekends (How Come We Always End Up Here?)	The Mighty Wah!	49
***	***	5	There Goes My Baby	Donna Summer	49
103	***	18	Perfect Skin	Lloyd Cole And The Commotions	46
104	***	9	Whose Side Are You On?	Matt Bianco	46
***	***	16	Farewell My Summer Love	Michael Jackson	46
***	***	7	Hardrock	Herbie Hancock	46
***	***	8	Black Stations/White Stations	M + M	46
105	141	2	Back On The Ball	Chelsea F.C. Championship Squad	45
106	126	3	Five Live (EP)	The Truth	45
***	***	23	High Energy (Vocal)	Evelyn Thomas	44
107	111	2	Restless	Flesh For Lulu	43
108	104	4	Crazee-Ee-Pee (Single 12 Inch)	Mama's Boys	43
***	***	13	All Of You	Julio Iglesias And Diana Ross	43
109	NE	1	Shine, Shine	Barry Gibb	42
***	***	6	We Rock	Dio	42
110	95	17	Pearl In The Shell	Howard Jones	41
***	***	8	Dum Dum Girl	Talk Talk	40
111	NE	1	I Get Romantic	Booker Newberry III	39
112	RE	5	If Ever You're In My Arms Again	Peabo Bryson	39
113	NE	1	Last Plane (One Way Ticket)	Clint Eastwood & General Saint	37
113	NE	1	Tenderness	General Public	37
115	108	3	Club Underworld	Cerrone	37
***	***	5	I Wanna Be Somebody	W.A.S.P.	37
116	RE	2	Simple	Johnny Mathis	36
117	150	23	I Want To Break Free	Queen	36
***	***	16	Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now	The Smiths	36
***	***	5	Taxman	Rockwell	36
118	110	41	Ain't Nobody	Rufus And Chaka Khan	35
***	***	5	Go West (Crazy Spinning Circle)	The Cult	35
***	***	12	To France	Mike Oldfield, Vocals: Maggie Reilly	34
119	122	45	This Charming Man	The Smiths	33
***	***	16	Change Of Heart (Edit.)	Change	33
120	116	5	Intimate Connection	Kleeer	33
***	***	4	Menergy	Sylvester	33
121	NE	1	The A Team	Mike Post	32
122	164	28	Hello	Lionel Richie	32
123	145	2	We Need Some Money (Bout Money)	Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers	32
***	***	4	Mama Weer All Crazee Now	Quiet Riot	32
***	***	15	Absolute	Scritti Politti	31
124	114	3	Slip Away (Vocal)	Skool Boyz	31
***	***	12	Sweet Somebody	Shannon	31
***	***	8	State Of Independence (Edited Version)	Jon & Vangelis	31
125	NE	1	All Men Play On 10	Manowar	30
126	153	62	(Sexual) Healing	Marvin Gaye	30
127	144	4	Hong Kong Swing	Cruella De Ville	30
***	***	13	Beat Street Breakdown - Part I	Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five	30
128	151	16	Red Guitar	David Sylvian	29
***	***	13	Waiting In Vain	Bob Marley & The Wailers	29
***	***	7	Pale Blue Eyes (Edited Version)	Paul Quinn And Edwyn Collins	29
129	RE	20	Love Wars (edit.)	Womack & Womack	28
130	NE	1	Do What You Do	Charged G.B.H.	28
131	149	16	Thieves Like Us	New Order	27
132	146	44	Thriller	Michael Jackson	27
***	***	8	Guilty	Paul Hardcastle, Vocal by Kevin Henry	27
***	***	8	Ain't No Sunshine (Peedar Edit)	Sivuca	27
133	129	4	She's Fresh (Remix Version)	Rock Steady Crew	27
134	127	3	Fire Me Up	Roman Holliday	27
***	***	7	Storm Of Light	Working Week	27
***	***	21	The Reflex	Duran Duran	27
135	136	8	Self Control (Part 1)	R.A.F	26
136	NE	1	Come And Get My Lovin'	Barbara Fowler	25
137	***	9	Take	The Colourfield	25
138	***	13	Leave A Tender Moment Alone / Goodnight Saigon	Billy Joel	25
139	171	3	I Didn't Mean To Turn You On	Cherrelle	25
***	***	12	Life On Your Own	Human League	25
140	NE	1	Escape (I Need A Break)	Whodini	24
141	RE	18	Each And Every One	Everything But The Girl	24
142	185	75	Eye Of The Tiger	Survivor	24
143	***	10	Don't Go Lose It Baby	Hugh Masekela	24
144	169	14	Just For Old Time's Sake	Foster And Allen	24
145	143	34	Jingo	Candido	24
***	125	3	This Boy Loves The Sun	David Austin	24
146	106	31	Kiss Me (U.S. Remix)	Tin Tin	24
***	***	6	I'll Wait (Edit.)	Van Halen	24
147	NE	1	With All My Love	Barbara Roy	23
148	RE	44	New Song	Howard Jones	23
149	***	5	Work In Progress (EP)	Robert Wyatt	23
150	182	24	People Are People	Depeche Mode	23
151	170	17	TV Dinners (edit.)	ZZ Top	23
152	***	6	A Doll That's Made In Japan	Steve Hackett	23
***	***	5	Footsteps At My Door	Helen And The Horns	23
153	RE	4	Looks That Kill	Mötley Crüe	22
***	***	8	Cockney Translation	Smiley Culture	22
***	***	7	Today's Your Lucky Day (Peedar Edit)	Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes featuring Nikko	22
154	133	2	Where Does That Boy Hang Out	David Lasley	22
***	132	6	L.A. Is My Lady	Frank Sinatra with Quincy Jones and Orchestra	22
***	***	5	Shining Star	Precinct	22
***	***	14	Talking Loud And Clear	Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark	22
***	***	6	Reggae Movement	Jimmy Cliff	22
***	115	6	With You	Ingram	22
155	112	43	Searchin'	Hazell Dean	22
156	NE	1	Theme From The A-Team	Orchestra Conducted By Daniel Kane	21
157	***	5	Good Day	The Kinks	21
***	***	5	On A Night Like This	The Shadows	21
***	***	6	Sing And Shout	Second Image	21
158	109	9	Mine	Everything But The Girl	21
159	NE	1	Garden Of The Arcane Delights (EP)	Dead Can Dance	20
160	RE	32	Fields Of Fire (400 Miles)	Big Country	20
161	168	39	Superman (Gioca Jouer)	Black Lace	20
***	***	5	Him	Simone [Kelsall]	20
***	***	9	SOS My Imagination	Bruce Foxton	20
162	130	3	25 Years	The Catch	20
***	119	28	Hide And Seek	Howard Jones	20
***	123	3	No Favors	Temper	20
163	NE	1	Passion Fruit	The Shillelagh Sisters	19
164	RE	41	True	Spandau Ballet	19
165	***	10	Brown Sugar	The Rolling Stones	19
166	***	14	Those First Impressions	Associates	19
167	***	14	I Found Lovin' (L.P. Version)	The Fatback Band	19
168	156	2	This Time Baby	Jackie Moore	19
***	155	22	Somebody Else's Guy	Jocelyn Brown	19
***	***	5	Dynamite	Jermaine Jackson	19
169	139	56	Love Will Tear Us Apart	Joy Division	19
170	138	2	Midnight Lover	Margie Joseph	19
171	134	2	Holiday	Chiefs Of Relief	19
172	124	17	You're The Best Thing / The Big Boss Groove	The Style Council	19
173	NE	1	Easy Love	Vikki Benson	18
174	RE	9	The Heart Of Rock + Roll	Huey Lewis And The News	18
175	RE	15	So Tired	Ozzy Osbourne	18
176	RE	5	Sex Machine	The Flying Lizards	18
177	RE	24	Girls Just Want To Have Fun	Cyndi Lauper	18
178	198	14	(The Best Part Of) Breakin' Up (Special Remix)	Roni Griffith	18
179	196	31	What Difference Does It Make?	The Smiths	18
***	***	46	Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don't Stop) (Edited Version)	Man Parrish	18
180	166	7	Caught In The Act (Vocal)	Earlene Bentley	18
181	147	22	One Love / People Get Ready	Bob Marley & The Wailers	18
***	135	24	Automatic	Pointer Sisters	18
***	128	11	I Love Men	Eartha Kitt	18
182	RE	14	Borderline (Edit.)	Madonna	17
183	RE	12	The Whodini Electro E.P. (EP)	Whodini	17
184	NE	1	You Are The One	Alec Khaoli	17
185	RE	14	Thin Line Between Love And Hate	Pretenders	17
186	189	3	Ge Me More	Chevi	17
***	***	15	Get Your Feet Out Of My Shoes	The Boothill Foot-Tappers	17
***	***	22	Jam On It	Newcleus	17
187	141	2	Master Of The Mix	Warp 9	17
***	***	6	Abele Dance	Manu Dibango	17
***	137	14	Thanks For The Night	The Damned	17
***	***	17	Sad Songs (Say So Much)	Elton John	17
***	113	19	Break Dance Party	Break Machine	17
188	NE	1	It Hurts	One The Juggler	16
188	NE	1	Black Butterfly	Deniece Williams	16
190	RE	41	Rockit	Herbie Hancock	16
191	RE	7	Wait	Wang Chung	16
192	RE	13	Reggae Night	Jimmy Cliff	16
193	RE	13	When Am I Going To Make A Living	Sade	16
194	184	63	Postman Pat	Ken Barrie	16
195	174	22	Let's Hear It For The Boy	Deniece Williams	16
196	173	13	Dance Me Up	Gary Glitter	16
***	159	4	Invitation	Life Force	16
***	***	18	Susanna	The Art Company	16
197	NE	1	Close To Me	Bobby King featuring Alfie Silas	15
198	RE	8	Couldn't Stand A Day	Re-Flex	15
199	RE	16	I Scare Myself	Thomas Dolby	15
200	RE	13	Hand In Glove	Sandie Shaw	15

chart listing courtesy of kobyhadrian

[beat47]

Vikki Benson @ 173 with Easy Love a cover of the Bucks Fizz album track from Are You Ready 1982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeeSKaJQmGE

[MrTibbs]

It comes as a revelation to me just how far ahead number one sales can be over the closest competition at times. Stevie Wonder has a massive sales figure which is double that of number two and over three times as many as number three

[Robbie]

It comes as a revelation to me just how far ahead number one sales can be over the closest competition at times. Stevie Wonder has a massive sales figure which is double that of number two and over three times as many as number three

Those are massive sales for IJCTSILY. With panel sales of 12,590 that equates to market sales (x17 multiplier) of 214,030, the highest so far of 1984.

[Gambo]

And such a terrible, corny song, hardly representative of the sophisticated musical oeuvre and massive influential impact Stevie Wonder had and still seems to have on artists today! I guess the grannies were out in their droves buying it, or possibly the kiddies, but I never remember anyone saying they liked it (at least not admitting to it if they did!).

Speaking of the kids, it's delightfully nostalgic to find Mike Post's 'The A-Team' finally get its first chart appearance, at No 121, although I've hitherto been unaware of a rival orchestral version of the theme conducted by one Daniel Kane appearing 35 compressed positions beneath it. You can't beat the original as far as I'm concerned. Its enduring and continued usage as a soundbed for adverts etc must've made Post a millionaire by now just on that track alone.

[Blondini]

And such a terrible, corny song, hardly representative of the sophisticated musical oeuvre and massive influential impact Stevie Wonder had and still seems to have on artists today! I guess the grannies were out in their droves buying it, or possibly the kiddies, but I never remember anyone saying they liked it (at least not admitting to it if they did!).

Speaking of the kids, it's delightfully nostalgic to find Mike Post's 'The A-Team' finally get its first chart appearance, at No 121, although I've hitherto been unaware of a rival orchestral version of the theme conducted by one Daniel Kane appearing 35 compressed positions beneath it. You can't beat the original as far as I'm concerned. Its enduring and continued usage as a soundbed for adverts etc must've made Post a millionaire by now just on that track alone.

It's from the same soundtrack album. But it's credited to Daniel Caine not Kane. Both versions bookend the album but it doesn't designate an artist other than the composers Mike Post and Pete Carpenter. https://www.discogs.com/release/2122...Original-Score

Here's the Post single https://www.discogs.com/release/2397...ost-The-A-Team
Here's a video for it that i've never seen before! This version has a band feel to it.

Here's the one that is credited to Daniel Caine (not Kane) but credits both Mike Post and Pete Carpenter on the sleeve as composers. https://www.discogs.com/release/6615...rom-the-A-Team

It's a bit confusing. Why on earth would they release 2 different singles when they could put both versions on the same single?

As you can see - both releases are filed under Mike Post on Discogs. https://www.discogs.com/artist/255674-Mike-Post

So they could have had a bigger hit with this if they'd put both versions together! The orchestral one is on a UK label Indiana Records, the band version is on RCA. The score soundtrack is on Indiana.

EDIT:

On further inspection, it seems that score album does not contain the RCA version of the theme. On Spotify, it has a short and a long version of the orchestral version bookending the album (a 1999 release). https://open.spotify.com/album/7fEr0hk3Z5rO5bQ752FAhB

The band version must have been a promotional tool for the series. It is on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/album/0piS1MJ1406FkEu6mgGxI9

Was it ever actually in the show??
Here's a clip of the opening and closing credits and it's not there:

[Gambo]

I've been musing for a while now on the obvious comparison between these Gallup compressed Top 200 full chart reports and the uncompressed Top 200s published in 'Hit Music' in the early Millward Brown era (kindly being posted by ChartMark over on his thread). I often wondered what the 'actual' Top 200 chart would look like if positions were attributed to all the starred-out singles, and it's notable how many more we songs get to see charting in these reports than we do with HM issues, as the real extent of the Gallup report rankings are nearer a Top 300, sometimes longer, but HM was always pegged to the first 200. One of the overarching revelations made apparent thanks to those kindly posting these reports is the number of excluded records each week; it's way more than I'd envisaged would be likely for this period of singles history. So the chart would look considerably different had no exclusion rules based on sales declines been in place. There definitely would be a glut of older singles hanging around longer and pushing down up-and-coming new ones - very much the argument in use again today with regards to the compression of the current weekly charts.

Clearly it would take ages to do this manually for every chart so-far posted from Jan '83 to Sep '84 (I don't have any wizzy database to automate it for me), so I won't be attempting to transpose all these charts into a 'HM' format. However, oddly enough a chum happened to ask me a few days ago "what was in the charts this week in 1984?" Of course once upon a time I'd only have had the Top 75 to offer him from my own records, or possibly the Top 100 with the (bottom quartile affected by the exclusion rule) from the OCC's archive. But now I was able to provide a full Top 200 courtesy of this thread! I decided though that I'd only present the 'true' 200 rather than the expanded listing from the whole report, partly because the enquirer isn't au fait with stuff like exclusion rules and it is just more meaningful to them if I provide a straightforward ranking of the actual best-selling singles that week, as they'd automatically expect a true rather than manipulated set of positions. It was an opportunity to add in 'missing' positions for starred-out songs and end up with an example HM-style chart.

I have posted the result below - with apologies to Robbie for interrupting his flow of posting new charts each day. I had to do the exercise twice, in order to ensure the previous week's positions were 'real' too and not compressed, although the weeks on chart count is of course for all weeks spent in the expanded full report and so stretch well-beyond the real 200th biggest seller threshold. I don't know how representative this particular week is, but broadly, it showed that with every ten or so rungs down the chart below No 75, roughly around ten 'real' positions were being lost, so that what was really the 90th bestseller was officially around 80th in compressed terms, and so on down to the point where the compressed No 200 equated to around the real 300 - indicating around 100 records being excluded below 75.

Uncompressed Top 200 Singles for Week ending Saturday 23 June 1984 (sales period Monday 11 to Saturday 16 June 1984)

TW	LW	WOC	Title	Artist	Panel Sales (x17)
1	1	2	Two Tribes	Frankie Goes To Hollywood	11756
2	2	5	Wake Me Up Before You Go Go	Wham!	3466
3	4	4	Smalltown Boy	Bronski Beat	2948
4	18	2	I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me	Nik Kershaw	2258
5	11	33	Relax	Frankie Goes To Hollywood	2046
6	3	3	Only When You Leave	Spandau Ballet	2011
7	8	5	Sad Songs (Say So Much)	Elton John	1959
8	15	4	Farewell My Summer Love	Michael Jackson	1796
9	5	11	High Energy (Vocal)	Evelyn Thomas	1783
10	7	5	Pearl In The Shell	Howard Jones	1423
11	14	6	Thinking Of You	Sister Sledge	1392
12	20	6	Susanna	The Art Company	1279
13	10	4	Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now	The Smiths	1256
14	6	6	Dancing With Tears In My Eyes	Ultravox	1179
15	12	31	Searchin'	Hazell Dean	1092
16	9	10	Let's Hear It For The Boy	Deniece Williams	1026
17	13	5	You're The Best Thing / The Big Boss Groove	The Style Council	1003
18	16	10	I Feel Like Buddy Holly	Alvin Stardust	996
19	26	4	Change Of Heart (Edit.)	Change	893
20	21	4	So Tired	Ozzy Osbourne	883
21	36	33	White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)	Grandmaster & Melle Mel	795
22	33	3	Absolute	Scritti Politti	726
23	39	2	Talking Loud And Clear	Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark	705
24	NE	1	Jump (For My Love)	Pointer Sisters	700
25	17	4	One Better Day	Madness	694
26	23	5	Rough Justice	Bananarama	655
27	19	9	The Reflex	Duran Duran	648
28	22	11	I Want To Break Free	Queen	640
29	40	2	I Wanna Be Loved / Turning The Town Red	Elvis Costello And The Attractions	609
30	27	5	Infatuation (edit.)	Rod Stewart	602
31	31	4	Love All Day	Nick Heyward	594
32	24	12	Automatic	Pointer Sisters	485
33	25	4	Red Guitar	David Sylvian	475
34	NE	1	Stuck On You	Lionel Richie	465
35	NE	1	Breakin'... There's No Stopping Us	Ollie & Jerry	453
36	62	14	Time After Time	Cyndi Lauper	441
37	30	7	Break Dance Party	Break Machine	409
38	37	5	Dancing In The Dark	Bruce Springsteen	383
39	28	12	Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)	Phil Collins	380
40	45	6	Perfect Skin	Lloyd Cole And The Commotions	378
41	NE	1	Waiting In Vain	Bob Marley & The Wailers	346
42	29	10	Love Wars (edit.)	Womack & Womack	341
43	32	14	Footloose	Kenny Loggins	317
44	52	2	Those First Impressions	Associates	304
45	70	2	Doin' It In A Haunted House	Yvonne Gage	300
46	43	3	Thanks For The Night	The Damned	283
47	34	10	One Love / People Get Ready	Bob Marley & The Wailers	268
48	82	3	Dance Me Up	Gary Glitter	262
49	NE	1	Leave A Tender Moment Alone / Goodnight Saigon	Billy Joel	255
50	66	2	What's Love Got To Do With It	Tina Turner	249
51	35	6	Going Down Town Tonight	Status Quo	236
52	54	4	The Boy Who Came Back	Marc Almond	233
53	46	2	Body And Soul / Train	The Sisters Of Mercy	233
54	NE	1	Young At Heart	The Bluebells	228
55	NE	1	Love Resurrection	Alison Moyet	227
56	51	3	Feels So Real (Won't Let Go) (Edit.)	Patrice Rushen	219
57	38	5	When Am I Going To Make A Living	Sade	216
58	56	4	Borderline (Edit.)	Madonna	206
59	58	4	We're Not Gonna Take It	Twisted Sister	205
60	143	2	I Found Lovin' (L.P. Version)	The Fatback Band	195
61	57	5	Illuminations	Swans Way	194
62	44	8	Each And Every One	Everything But The Girl	193
63	41	11	Locomotion	Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark	188
64	49	4	Thin Line Between Love And Hate	Pretenders	185
65	NE	1	When Your 'Ex' Wants You Back	Surface	166
66	71	2	Man On Fire	Roger Taylor	163
67	68	3	Tell Me Why	Bobby Womack	162
68	75	4	The Ghost In You	The Psychedelic Furs	160
69	RE	8	On The Wings Of Love	Jeffrey Osborne	157
70	63	10	The Wind Beneath My Wings	Lee Greenwood	154
71	59	4	(I Love You) When You Sleep	Tracie	150
72	47	17	Stay With Me Tonight	Jeffrey Osborne	149
73	76	2	Jammin' In America	The Gap Band	135
74	81	3	Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young	Jim Steinman & Fire Inc	134
75	80	8	The Lebanon	Human League	134
76	50	10	Somebody Else's Guy	Jocelyn Brown	134
77	60	16	Hello	Lionel Richie	129
78	64	4	Venceremos - We Will Win (7'' Bossa Version)	Working Week	129
79	55	24	Just Be Good To Me	The S.O.S. Band	127
80	108	3	Eyes Without A Face	Billy Idol	126
81	NE	1	Come Back	The Mighty Wah!	123
82	NE	1	Don't Let Nobody Hold You Down	L. J. Reynolds	123
83	42	4	Dazzle	Siouxsie And The Banshees	122
84	NE	1	Beat Street Breakdown - Part I	Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five	121
85	69	4	Walk Through The Fire	Peter Gabriel	121
86	61	29	Ain't Nobody	Rufus And Chaka Khan	121
87	107	2	Tossing And Turning	Windjammer	120
88	85	3	In The River	I Level	118
89	102	2	(The Best Part Of) Breakin' Up (Special Remix)	Roni Griffith	117
90	87	11	Dancing Girls (Remixed Version)	Nik Kershaw	114
91	67	10	The Longest Time	Billy Joel	113
92	99	2	Rat Race	Hi Tension	111
93	92	2	Mr Groove / Lady You Are (Edited Version)	One Way	110
94	73	10	Major Tom (Coming Home) (Edit.)	Peter Schilling	109
95	48	8	I'll Be Around (Pedro Edit)	Terri Wells	108
96	NE	1	Loves Crashing Waves	Difford & Tilbrook	107
97	65	11	Don't Tell Me	Blancmange	105
98	72	4	Too Much Trouble	Limahl	105
99	79	5	Agadoo	Black Lace	103
100	90	10	(When You're) Young And In Love	The Flying Pickets	101
101	74	5	I Wanna Make You Feel Good	The System	101
102	NE	1	Up Around The Bend	Hanoi Rocks	99
103	101	4	Animal (F..k Like A Beast)	W.A.S.P.	98
104	53	7	Love Lies Lost	Helen Terry	98
105	NE	1	Dissidents	Thomas Dolby	95
106	78	9	Robin (The Hooded Man)	Clannad	95
107	84	7	Tell Me If You Still Care	The S.O.S. Band	94
108	132	2	Back In The Old Country	Tom Robinson	91
109	NE	1	Oh! Brother	The Fall	90
110	96	3	What I Want	Dead Or Alive	89
111	91	7	Assassing (Edited Version)	Marillion	88
112	83	14	To All The Girls I've Loved Before	Julio Iglesias & Willie Nelson	87
113	122	16	I'm Falling	The Bluebells	86
114	161	2	Just For Old Time's Sake	Foster And Allen	84
115	97	17	Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)	Scritti Politti	84
116	NE	1	One Million Kisses	Rufus & Chaka Khan	81
117	88	5	Latin Electrica	Latin Electrica	81
118	100	7	High On Emotion	Chris de Burgh	80
119	134	2	Be My Number Two	Joe Jackson	77
120	114	4	No Time To Stop Believing In Love	Daisy Chain	74
121	98	4	Oh Sherrie	Steve Perry	71
122	89	5	European Queen (No More Love On The Run)	Billy Ocean	71
123	109	8	Extraordinary Girl	The O'Jays	64
124	77	7	Half A Man And Half A Boy	Nick Lowe	63
125	116	15	Dr. Mabuse	Propaganda	61
126	120	7	Sweetest Sweetest	Jermaine Jackson	61
127	111	11	Love Games	Belle And The Devotions	61
128	93	5	Peace On Earth	Snowy White	61
129	153	4	Turn To Gold	David Austin	59
130	136	2	Boys (Do Fall In Love)	Robin Gibb	59
131	118	9	Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops	Cocteau Twins	59
132	135	6	Breakdance	Irene Cara	57
133	112	5	Murder / Thieves Like Us (Instrumental)	New Order	56
134	113	5	The Body Electric	Rush	56
135	95	3	I Love You, Suzanne	Lou Reed	54
136	189	2	I'm In A Different World	Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin	53
137	NE	1	And I Don't Love You	Smokey Robinson	49
138	159	2	All Fired Up	Fastway	49
139	117	67	Blue Monday	New Order	48
140	110	13	You Take Me Up	Thompson Twins	48
141	NE	1	No Man Is An Island	Warp 9	47
142	RE	23	Jingo	Candido	47
143	157	3	Get Your Feet Out Of My Shoes	The Boothill Foot-Tappers	47
144	127	9	Uprock	The Rock Steady Crew	47
145	125	6	State Of Love	Imagination	47
146	121	2	Coming Out Of Hiding	Pamala Stanley	47
147	103	9	Emergency (Dial 999)	Loose Ends	47
148	115	7	What Presence?!	Orange Juice	47
149	124	2	Don't I Ever Cross Your Mind Sometime (Radio Version)	Barbara Mason	46
150	104	7	Romancing The Stone	Eddy Grant	46
151	126	4	Rocket To Your Heart	Lisa	43
152	145	6	Panama	Van Halen	43
153	162	9	Thieves Like Us	New Order	41
154	86	6	Diggi Loo - Diggi Ley	The Herreys	41
155	123	6	Spiritwalker	The Cult	41
156	144	21	Kiss Me (U.S. Remix)	Tin Tin	40
157	94	9	Love Me Tender	Roland Rat Superstar	40
158	128	4	Sign On The Dotted Line…	JB's All Stars	40
159	203	32	Thriller	Michael Jackson	39
160	147	22	Street Dance (Vocal)	Break Machine	39
161	105	13	Ocean Deep / Baby You're Dynamite	Cliff Richard	39
162	NE	1	Love Of My Dreams	Yvonne Gage	38
163	151	2	Marvellous Guy	Girltalk	38
164	149	11	Sneaking Out The Backdoor / Matt's Mood	Matt Bianco	38
165	138	15	Nelson Mandela	The Special AKA	38
166	119	4	Building On A Strong Foundation	The Questions	36
167	160	8	Love & Pride	King	36
168	172	14	It's A Miracle	Culture Club	35
169	168	15	People Are People	Depeche Mode	34
170	129	4	To All The Girls I've Loved Before	Engelbert Humperdinck	34
171	173	22	What Difference Does It Make?	The Smiths	33
172	155	34	This Charming Man	The Smiths	33
173	140	4	Every Single Night	Universe	33
174	NE	1	Da Do Run Ron	Spitting Image	32
175	137	3	Baby Don't Break Your Baby's Heart	Kashif	31
176	NE	1	All Of You	Julio Iglesias And Diana Ross	30
177	174	17	Robert De Niro's Waiting	Bananarama	29
178	131	10	You Don't Love Me	Marilyn	29
179	106	11	(When You Say You Love Somebody) In The Heart	Kool & The Gang	29
180	NE	2	Hot Hot Hot (Hotter Mix '84)	Arrow	28
181	NE	2	Heart Begin To Beat	Savage Progress	28
182	195	12	Dancing In The Sheets	Shalamar	28
183	148	8	Drag Me Down	The Boomtown Rats	28
184	146	3	Hip Hop Beat (Kid's Rap)	The Rapologists	28
185	142	6	Hip Hop Bommi Bop	The Increadible T. H. Scratchers Starring Freddy Love	28
186	274	13	I Scare Myself	Thomas Dolby	27
187	267	2	You In The Night	Fashiøn	27
188	221	8	Holding Out For A Hero	Bonnie Tyler	27
189	166	8	So Many Men, So Little Time	Miquel Brown	27
190	188	15	That's The Way (I Like It)	Dead Or Alive	27
191	175	12	Give Me Tonight	Shannon	27
192	217	22	Jump	Van Halen	26
193	191	9	Don't Waste Your Time (Remix)	Yarbrough & Peoples	26
194	180	19	Your Love Is King	Sade	26
195	176	30	It's Raining Men	The Weather Girls	26
196	152	8	Turn Your Back On Me	Kajagoogoo	26
197	278	14	Living On Video	Trans-X	25
198	265	14	Leave It (Remix)	Yes	25
199	202	6	The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight	Dominatrix	25
200	171	19	Hide And Seek	Howard Jones	25

I suppose if anything this exercise demonstrated that while instinctively I'll never feel comfortable with any deliberate distortion of chart rankings due to arbitrarily-imposed restrictions and rules, often their purpose is all-too-evident and if one wants a more dynamic chart giving profile to newer tracks and move emphasis away from older 'has-beens', then they are reasonably effective at moving things upward. If one can tolerate the artifice, it makes for a more engaging ranking.

[kingofskiffle]

I agree with your point above Gambo and I do have the uncompressed ranking for all the charts sent me by Robbie that come from kobyhadrian in the database as I have to to ensure that the order of the *** is maintained. The largest is 22 Oct 1983 with 305 uncompressed positions (so 105 starred out) - although my data is only complete for now till 3 Nov 1984 was that's all I have added up to this point. The smallest is actually 7 Jan 1984 with just 3 starred out. Between 22 Jan 1983 and 3 Nov 1984 (The period with starred out records in the database) the average is 66.67 starred out tracks a week. For 1984 that is 69.8 starred out a week, so roughly 70 as you say.

[Blondini]

I had to edit my above post as i fell down a rabbit hole.

[Blondini]

According to Wikipedia that score album contains re-recordings so isn't even an actual soundtrack! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_A-Team
I should have looked here first, obviously.

The original main theme composed by Mike Post and Pete Carpenter^[42] (in a performance credited to Post) was released on the vinyl LP Mike Post – Television Theme Songs (Elektra Records E1-60028Y, 1982) and again on the Mike Post – Mike Post LP (RCA Records AFL1-5183, 1984), both long out-of-print; however, this was not the same version of the theme as heard on-screen. The theme, as heard on seasons two through four (including the opening narration and sound effects), was also released on TVT's Television's Greatest Hits: 70s and 80s. A 7-inch single of the song credited to Post was released on RCA in 1984.^[43]

The French version of the song had lyrics, which mirrored the spoken description of the show in the English opening credits.^[44] The theme has been ranked among the best TV themes ever written, with TV weatherman Al Roker sharing that opinion, and using the song to "get jazzed up" in the morning.^[42]

Though no original music other than the theme has been released, in 1984 EMI issued an album of re-recorded material from the series conducted by Daniel Caine (reissued by Silva Screen on compact disc in 1999, SILVAD 3509).

Great to see Dead Can Dance charting!

[Robbie]

No need to apologise Gambo, it's good to see the uncompressed chart so thanks for posting. On the chart I posted today (15 September 1984) there are 94 starred out records, so 5 more than from the chart you posted. Lonnie sends me a spreadsheet which includes data that I don't post here due to space constraints. In addition to the label and catalogue number there's also the positions on what would be the uncompressed charts. However I must admit I've not fully looked at the uncompressed charts so wasn't expecting to see around 90 records excluded.

[Metalweb]

Speaking of the kids, it's delightfully nostalgic to find Mike Post's 'The A-Team' finally get its first chart appearance, at No 121, although I've hitherto been unaware of a rival orchestral version of the theme conducted by one Daniel Kane appearing 35 compressed positions beneath it. You can't beat the original as far as I'm concerned. Its enduring and continued usage as a soundbed for adverts etc must've made Post a millionaire by now just on that track alone.

It's certainly an enduring tune!

About twenty years ago I was on the jury during a trial in which a mobile phone playing an 'A-Team' ringtone constituted a crucial piece of evidence....

[UnfazedPenguin]

The Smiths' first handful of singles (TCM in partic) are loitering around still... I wonder will they have 18 singles in the 200 by Sep 1987?