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I've always ❤d British music/charts more than American. I prefer that, music from the British Isles is the BEST overall. Eurocharts are very good as well, so much nice music over here, so it's not just the UK. And it's also bc British or European ppl permit & appreciate more bands from all over the world, not from EUR, the US & AUS only. America is mostly interested in its own, they don't really care about the rest, and even haven't ever heard about so many fantastic songs and bands, which were huge here, not from those 3 continents only. Just to name a few, who knows Ofra Haza or Mory Kanté over there? Big hits, who doesn't remember those! Sadly they've passed away quite a long time ago. And Enya they know bc of 9/11 only, but how fantastic was Orinoco Flow 13yrs earlier for instance, still ❤❤❤ it !!! They only get some music of the UK & AUS sometimes, mayB a bit of Latin too. Europeans can be so lucky by having such a gr8 variety of hits. I'm just havin' so many nice mems right now. I've even known The Firms' Star Trekkin and Harry Enfields' Loadsamoney 😂🤣, which isn't in here. Even got a T-Shirt of it when i was in the UK in '88, but have known it b4 already, that's why...cost loads. The 🙂 scene was also gr8. And last but not least i've (had) such a big crush on "Koilee"😊, she's so lovely. Greets from a 54yr "old" German...
The most interesting thing about this chart is it's as much a story of what was happening in the 80s as it is just about the songs. You can see from the #1s when John Lennon died, when the Hillsborough disaster was, or when certain films were out. I'm not sure that happens as much these days. The charts of the 2010s seem to have been completely immune to what's been going on in the country over the past decade or so.
Thats true, the only thing that springs to mind for the 2010s was i think there was a song for Grenfell? But other than some silly christmas songs (albeit for charity) i cant think of anything else. Cheers
I mean it does tend to happen when but its mostly when things blow up on TikTok now that streams are taken into account for the chart. For example Stranger Things causing Kate Bush's Running up that Hill to hit number 1. You also had songs like The Queen is Dead and God Save the Queen re-chart due to streaming increases following the death of the Queen.
@@ddlee84 yes, it still works where there is a single song to focus on, though it's harder because the convoluted streaming rules they have now weight against older songs. Honestly, the charts since streaming comes across more as a science experiment than an authorative record of what's popular. There were lots of examples of that in sales charts too, especially in the early 90s. Old songs like "Unchained Melody" by the Righteous Brothers and "Should I Stay or Should I Go" by the Clash made #1 through films & adverts. The three longest running number ones (Bryan Adams "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You", Wet Wet Wet "Love Is All Around" and Whitney Houston "I Will Always Love You") were all from films. When a death happens, you don't get the same concentration on a single song like you used to, since downloads became a thing, because anyone can download or stream pretty much any song now. When Elvis, John Lennon & Freddie Mercury died, there was a single record for people to buy that went to #1. In the first two cases, it had just been released before their death. By comparison, when Michael Jackson died, he didn't make #1, but his songs were all over the charts, because everyone had been downloading their own personal favourite, rather than everyone buying, say, "Man in the Mirror". Listening works differently to purchasing, so you don't get the same one week event where everyone goes out and buys a single and it shoots to #1. It took weeks for Kate Bush to climb up and I think they had to exempt her from the old song rule in the end. I think that's also why political and social events are not as represented any more.
I disagree. In the 2010s we had the song for Jo Cox (MP who was shot) and Don't look back in anger (Manchester Arena Bombing), somewhere only we know (Philippine Typhoon appear), Love me like you do (50 shades of Grey), See you again (death of paul walker), Bridge over troubled water (Grenfell). That about as much as you can see in the 80s. You just seemed to miss all of this in the 2010s.
As an Aussie teenager all through the 80s, I really enjoyed the clips.. Most of the songs I remember, but some I had forgotten about. Good memories, from simpler times. Thanks 😊
Everytime I listen to 80ties song I simply must appriciate the wide, wide rage of songs and styles. Never a dull moment. The next song is always very different.
It's funny seeing "Pass the Dutchie" and "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" back to back, two Caribbean-influenced songs that just so happen to feature their singers on trial in their music videos.
Don't Stand So Close To Me Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic Every Breath You Take Let's Dance Red Red Wine Imagine Woman All Around the World The Tide Is High Desire Do They Know It's Christmas? Pass the Dutchie Under Pressure True Ghost Town Don't You Want Me Hand On Your Heart Careless Whisper China In Your Hand Take My Breath Away The Winner Takes It All Karma Chameleon Down Under You Can't Hurry Love Heaven Is A Place On Earth
x The most British song on this video is "There's No One Quite Like Grandma" by St Winifred's School Choir! x It says a lot about how much the UK loves Christmas after seeing "Do They Know It's Christmas?" by Ban Aid is the best-selling song of the decade! x "Final Countdown" by Europe is the song that is played when the Nebraska Football team runs out onto the field!
There's a few gems in the late 80s, but the late 80s did see the birth of manufactured pop with Stock, Aitkin and Waterman. This then led to Simon Fuller and Simon Cowell jumping on the bandwagon, making loads of money and providing an assault our eardrums!
Makes me feel time sick. This was my era, 15-24 years old. Every song represents a memory, be it mates, girls, holidays, world events, school, jobs, nights out or even just the song itself. Every month during '81-'86 felt like a separate time that I can still differentiate today, whereas now, I couldn’t tell you the difference between any year of the 21st century. LOL. Even lows like the Chicken Song and Star Trekin' had their place. So sad that the charts basically died in the late ‘90s. Totally meaningless today. Would have preferred each song to have at least double the time in this video, but still so amazing to relive, and at least half the time I knew want was coming next, the memories are that strong from the best decade ever. Thank you for posting.
Well I have a problem with that. Just because modern music doesn't appeal to you doesn't mean today's generation won't have positive experiences and nostalgia for it.
@@giasfelfebrehberc Stick around. I bet in 20 years' time, the young generation then will hate the music of the 2020's as much as the Boomers, X-ers and Millennials do.
The 80s was the worst decade for music out of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. Not saying there wasn't good music around but all those other decades were better.
There's some wicked stuff in this list, for sure. I don't even know how some of these even got into the top 40 for a day. There's No One Quite Like Grandma?
I was 12 when "PINK FLOYD'S: THE WALL" movie came out. My older brother loved it and we watched it on VHS (ya know, these things 📼). I liked the animated parts, hated the rest. I rewatched it in my 20's, that movie is criminally underrated!! I'm 54 now and when I revisit that film I'm transfixed!! It's such a good film...unless your a 12yr old me, then skip it.
Haha i am just old enough to remember videos and video stores, blockbuster and local ones, but i really need to get around to watching the full movie considering they are really my favourite band! Ive listened to the album countless times though. Cheers
@@Media_Ranker it's one I still need to get around to watching as well (and sounds like I've had longer to do so 😂 ) From the little I know of it, I think it's a film you're only going to get fully as an adult with some of the themes. It'd be nice if they screened it in cinemas again, perhaps for an anniversary.
Thanks, and I am suprised how many songs are totaly new to me, although I grew up in this time and was totally into music, but in germany, we had a total different chart.
Also crazy thinking back on how popular Jive Bunny was for 5 months in 1989. Three number 1s and 9 weeks at the top. And I think after those 3 it was all over. Viral sensation before it even was a thing.
@@Media_Ranker It was my friend. Even my own kids realise the music was amazing. But they don't get the emotions and memories attached to a lot of songs. These songs hit those of us who lived it a lot different.
Wow! So many songs that I didn't even know. Thanks for the discovery. But it's still criminal that we couldn't find in 1984, neither "I want to break free", nor "Forever young", nor "Smooth operator", nor "Neverending Story"!😮💨
The 80s started out with Dexys Midnight Runners, The Jam, and The Police but finished with Bros, Jason Donovan, and Jive Bunny. It was a great decade overall but I think a little bit of rot set in during the 1980s
Not when you think about it a bit more..... .........got it yet? 😊 ........... Everybody was buying the album that had it on, that little known one, "Thriller" I think 😁😁😁 And I mean everybody, I was about 14 at the time, so many kids at school got it for Christmas it was crazy- Billie Jean was released in January, and everyone else left went out and got the album when they heard it.
It obviously wasn't promoted properly. Also the charts were completely corrupt. Mass buying by record companies to promote their signed acts. In certain more valued areas. Check out Roger Cooks report on it.
@@alfredthegreat9543 Got it. The album spent 8 weeks at No. 1, 81 weeks in the Top 10, 260 weeks in the Top 100 (if I am reading the entry on Official Charts website). Astounding.
Quite a difference across the pond. I was a teen in Canada in the ‘80s, listened to the top 10 almost every night, but about 40% of these tunes I have never even heard and even some of the artists are unfamiliar to me. Probably a similar perspective looking back, with the 30% Canadian Content (CanCon) rules radio stations had to adhere to.
In the late 80s it was said "the 80s was the decade music forgot" as a play on the saying "the 70s was the decade fashion forgot". There were countless crap songs we've long since forgotten. Yet the greats will be remembered as some of the greatest from any decade.
Brought back some great memories sitting watching top of the pops , loving the great music of the 80s , I was 15 to 24 in the 80s ,fantastic era , so miss the 80s
I wonder that the Clash in the early '80s never had a n°1 single (or album) in the UK charts. I thought that for example " Sandinista ! " was a pretty successful record in Britain at those times
Yeah its funny that sometimes these iconic bands and artists never really had the chart success at the time that we think they must have done, im not sure they even had a top 5 single actually. Maybe Should I Stay Or Should I Go but that may have been a re release later on. Obviously doesnt change their legacy at all! Cheers
@@Media_Ranker "Should I Stay or Should I Go" made #1 in the early 90s, one of a few that made it because of adverts for Levi's ("Boombastic" by Shaggy is another)
London Calling #11 in January 1980 Daddy Was a Bank Robber #12 in August/September 1980 Should I Stay or Should I Go/Straight to Hell (double A side) #17 in October 1982 were the three nearest they got in the singles chart in the 80s - so not even a top 10 hit,astonishingly! Surely the London Calling album,and perhaps Give 'Em Enough Rope and Sandinista,got higher than that in the album charts?
This is the best video of it's kind for UK number 1s! A little request in future would be to keep the song sample legth consistent within the 5 seconds you have to avoid copyright. I would have sent it in for a streamer i watch, but i think the disparity with some songs having shorter sample times than others would be harder to convince him to watch it on stream. If you were to do a big project on every number 1 ever into one video i'd absolutely do my utmost to convince him to react on stream. Regardless i do sincerely enjoy and appreciate the video!
Thanks. I do manage to avoid it with an average clip time slightly longer than that ive found, theres always some i see if i can get away with or i have to trim after upload, which i would have with this but there is no copyright claim at all on this, same with all the videos. I only make them public after ive done all of that. Are they on Twitch cause i think thats less of an issue anyway isnt it? Who is the streamer if you dont mind me asking? I will likely do individual decades first now that ive started with the 80s and 2000s but i could potentially do that, would be a pretty long video though. My next video, possibly uploaded this evening, will be every Billboard number 1 by british artists which goes from 1962-2022. Cheers
This makes me so happy and so sad all at the same time! Happy because I was there and lived it, every song brings up some kind of memory but so sad as it’s gone and I can never go back, I guess that’s what makes it so great tho!!
I hear distinct phases. New romantic. Stock Aitken Waterman. The proliferation of music from the 60s in UK TV ads. The rise of house (Jack Your Body, Theme From S'Xpress and Pump Up The Volume stand out in particular). It's a fascinating chronology of the period. Practically a historical document.
Nothing beats the 80’s, funnily enough, a town called malice is about my hometown of Woking, my mum grew up on the same estate as Paul weller, my auntie even dated him before the jam got big
And the fact that some of the best music was kept off the top spot by some really questionable choices. My favourite has to be Ultravox Vienna being denied no. 1 status by flippin' Shaddap your face 😂
Im going to do every number 2 song too, maybe the same for each placement up to number 5, i actually think theres a chance those videos will be stronger overall too. Cheers
@@Media_Ranker sounds good - maybe for the "peaked at number 2" - you could name the song(S) that kept it from number one - is there a worse one than vienna being kept off by shaddap your face?
@@Media_Ranker I've been waiting for someone to make videos for the number 3s,number 4s and number 5s for ages! Should be very interesting. Did you know that the first revealing of the new chart (Top 40) used to be on Radio 1 at lunchtime on a Tuesday? I tried to always find a way of catching that if I could. It used to start at 12.45 after Newsbeat and was hosted for many years by Paul Burnett. The format was that he played the single at number,then number 4,then number 3 and then number 2. Then (with some background music presumably of his choosing) he would read aloud through the entire Top 40 from bottom to top,starting at number and finishing at number 1. Then,in the last three or four minutes before 1 o'clock he would play the number 1. In the hour between 1 o'clock and 2 o'clock he would play all the new entries and climbers in the Top 40. I remember listening to the new chart on my parent's living room stereo many times (if on holiday from school or college and at home) in the late 70s and early 80s. There was this one time at the start of 1981 when they played numbers 5,4,3 and 2 in that order as usual (Just Like Starting Over,Ant Music,Stop the Cavalry and Happy Xmas War is Over),and we hadn't had the previous week's number 1 yet,which was There's No-one Quite Like Grandma so I was thinking "oh no that's going to be bloody number 1 again!" Then the reading up of the new Top 40 got from 40 all the way to number 7 and we hadn't had Imagine by John Lennon,which had flown back into the charts the previous week straight in at number 9 following the sad events of a couple of weeks previously. Was it number 6 then? No,There's No-one Quite Like Grandma crashed from number 1 down to number 6 and Imagine was number 1 instead! The Sunday played-in-full Top 40 rundown was the chart first revealed on the previous Tuesday (or Wednesday if straight after a Bank Holiday) and shown on Top of the Pops on the Thursday evening. This was handy if there was a particular songs or songs that (because you didn't have the cash to buy them) you wanted to record them off the radio during the Sunday rundown as if you knew what number they were already you could be all poised and ready for them. This arrangement changed to one more failair today when advances in information technology enabled them to compile the chart more quickly and efficiently and make the Sunday rundown (two days earlier than was the case before) the first revealing of the new Top 40 from late September 1987 onwards.
@@danielroach5415 it was actually John Lennon's "Woman" that kept it off #1 to begin with, but everyone remembers "Shaddap Your Face" replacing Lennon and Ultravox not getting a look in. I don't think there are any where it's such a clear cut case of a critically acclaimed song being blocked by an obvious novelty record. The closest I can think of is Robson & Jerome stopping numerous songs getting to #1 in the 90s, including "Common People" by Pulp and "Wonderwall" by Oasis. I was quite pleased when "Mr Blobby" blocked Take That from #1, but I imagine plenty of teenage girls were not.
Niceeeee...looks weird to me that all those years UK had not even one Depeche Mode song as their n.1 at any week and that M.J. was not as popular as Madonna
Yeah, Queen and Elton John were also a surprise for me when it comes to lack of number 1s. Both would have many top 10s and top 5s though i imagine, ill be doing of videos of every number 2 etc too. Cheers
That's true.. Crossed my mind regarding Queen as well but I said.. Can't be for artists like these that were participating in Live aid even (meaning they were already tops of the tops) to not be amongst n.1 🤔 Seems crazy, at least 😅
Quite remarkable that so many great songs only made it for one or two, maybe three, weeks. Also remarkable that so many classic songs were replaced by absolute train wrecks.
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Before watching this video I braced myself for some great songs from my youth (and for some horrible ones too). Songs like Respectable from Mel and Kim, and Tiffany's I think we're alone now and Belinda Carlisle's Heaven is a Place on Earth had virtually disappeared from my memory 😁
Brilliant music and memories. Scott Aitken Waterman contributed to the demise of the decade towards the end…however glimmers of hope began again with The Stone Roses and then Brit Pop saved the day in the nineties finally silencing all the ‘grunge’. Some of the best bands of the eighties in my opinion didn’t have number ones: The Cure, The Smiths, Joy Division, Simple Minds, Jesus & Mary Chain, Echo and the Bunnymen, New Order, Talking Heads, Iron Maiden, Dire Straits, Stone Roses.
Hi! Very cool compilation. Can you perhaps tell me from which video the "Stand and Deliver" (Adam and the Ants) snippet is? That would be great! Keep up the cool work.
Thanks! That was on youtube but i actually couldnt find a video that had loud enough audio, so i had to dub the audio from spotify behind the video from youtube. Cheers
@@Media_Ranker many thanks for the quick reply. I'll try to find the vid on YT then. Still in love with Adam Ant and his music after more than fourty years, so it's always fun to see him and his vids somewhere. Thanks again and greetings from Germany.
I thought the HouseMartin’s “Caravan of love” 12:54 missed out on being the UK Christmas #1 by Jackie Wilson “Reet Petite”. 13:00 But according to the dates in this video, it looks like The Housemartins were the UK Christmas number one.
@@Media_Ranker thank you for responding, but that wasn’t my question. I had stayed, that per the video, that the Housemartins were number one for one week. But ny question was: Who was the “Christmas number one” in 1986? When I was visiting England at Christmas time in 1986, I was told that the Housemartin’s just “Missed out” on being the Christmas number one. (but the dates in this video don’t correspond with that statement)
@@MikeCee7 My bad i didnt realise thats what you were directly asking. I think it can be how the weekly charts are/were recorded as the day of the week that the chart was announced has changed before. For this list i was working with it was saturday to saturday so The Housemartins were number 1 from saturday 20th then Reet Petite took it from Saturday 27th December. But i dont know if it was actually announced on a different day at the time etc. I did see something that said Reed Petite made Jackie Wilson the first ever posthumous christmas number 1 though. Cheers
@@Media_Ranker Thanks for your reply. So I only can assume, that in the UK, they must choose their number one song sometime in the middle of the week(?) So on some day after (December 20, 1986) and
95% absolute classics. One or two that have not stood the test of time perhaps (Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley for example), and a couple which are remembered but no longer played (The Crowd, Ferry Aid, Band Aid II), but otherwise it totally wiped the fragmented post-Millennium charts off the floor.
Yeah and when you think of all the massive 80s songs, by massive artists, that are still played today that didnt get to number 1 at the time too! Cheers
@@Media_RankerThe family have been playing transvision vamp recently They were really good at the time and underrated Also bloodhound gang But yeah setting sons was probably the best jam album and little boy soldiers was fantastic at the time Try bringing an LP stuffed down the front of your leather jacket riding a Yamaha ypvs 350 at over 100 miles an hour I was very lucky that it didn't break lol
School children were boycotting classes and using the line WE DON'T NEED NO EDUCATION etc in their chants. The apartheid censor board then banned the album for sale and broadcasts 😔
@@TrevorMoses312 Oh right i didnt know about that at all. Fair play to the kids for doing it originally though, im sure Pink Floyd liked that even if they then couldnt sell any albums there!
Strange that " prince" never reached number one in The UK during the 80's , also I notice that Michael Jackson's Thriller had only Billie Jean at number , also George Michael 's faith had no number one single in The UK !
Yeah with so much great music in the 80s you would think a lot more of those classics we still love would have got to number 1 at the time! Especially from artists like Queen and Elton John. Cheers
Wow! There are no classic rock songs of Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Van Halen, Guns N' Roses, ect. No Prince, Cyndi Lauper, Janet Jackdon, even many of Michael Jackson's hits like Beat It, Bad, Smooth Criminal, Man in the mirror, ect.
Yeah its interesting that the big artists with the most longevity, and songs that still get so much play now, weren't necessarily the biggest hits at the time in terms of actually topping the charts! Cheers
As I suspected, the rot started in the mid to late 80s. There was huge variety in the songs in the early 80s. By the late 80s it was all about image and the variety started to dry up. Massive nostalgia hit for the early 80s. Zero for the late 80s.
Truly great thank you too. As others have said the early and mid 80s were alright by the late 80s music in general had changed into the 90s i guess. But the 80s really were as good as the 70s had been though too.
Thanks, yeah the 80s truly were great and a lot of the best songs wouldnt have even got to number 1! The next one of these i do will be the 70s. That should be coming in the next 10 days or so. Cheers!
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I can therefore conclude that British taste of music is better than American's. It's diverse and representative.
Agree except for Shakin’ Stevens. I don’t get the appeal
@@bapples”The Welsh Elvis”
Never doubted it. I'm 63. English music and TV has always been the best
I've always ❤d British
music/charts more than American.
I prefer that, music from the British Isles is the BEST overall. Eurocharts are very good as well, so much nice music over here, so it's not just the UK.
And it's also bc British or European ppl permit & appreciate more bands from all over the world, not from EUR, the US & AUS only. America is mostly interested in its own, they don't really care about the rest, and even haven't ever heard about so many fantastic songs and bands, which were huge here, not from those 3 continents only. Just to name a few, who knows
Ofra Haza or Mory Kanté over there? Big hits, who doesn't remember those! Sadly they've passed away quite a long time ago. And Enya they know bc of 9/11 only, but how fantastic was Orinoco Flow 13yrs earlier for instance, still ❤❤❤ it !!!
They only get some music of the UK & AUS sometimes, mayB a bit of Latin too.
Europeans can be so lucky by having such a gr8 variety of hits. I'm just havin' so many nice mems right now. I've even known The Firms' Star Trekkin and Harry Enfields' Loadsamoney 😂🤣, which isn't in here. Even got a T-Shirt of it when i was in the UK in '88, but have known it b4 already, that's why...cost loads.
The 🙂 scene was also gr8.
And last but not least i've (had) such a big crush on "Koilee"😊, she's so lovely.
Greets from a 54yr "old" German...
@@ingobund3596Derp
I miss the 80s!!
80s were the best years ever. Shopping malls, music, best decade ever
The 80s had such wide range of music, it was an awesome time to be a teenager.
Thank God for the 1980s music!
Listening as a wonderful medicine in dark times!
Thank you for the wonderful compilation!
Such a great era wasnt it! Thanks for watching!
The most interesting thing about this chart is it's as much a story of what was happening in the 80s as it is just about the songs. You can see from the #1s when John Lennon died, when the Hillsborough disaster was, or when certain films were out.
I'm not sure that happens as much these days. The charts of the 2010s seem to have been completely immune to what's been going on in the country over the past decade or so.
Thats true, the only thing that springs to mind for the 2010s was i think there was a song for Grenfell? But other than some silly christmas songs (albeit for charity) i cant think of anything else. Cheers
@@Media_Ranker yes this rings a bell, and maybe a few related to the pandemic. But most seem to be love songs these days.
I mean it does tend to happen when but its mostly when things blow up on TikTok now that streams are taken into account for the chart. For example Stranger Things causing Kate Bush's Running up that Hill to hit number 1. You also had songs like The Queen is Dead and God Save the Queen re-chart due to streaming increases following the death of the Queen.
@@ddlee84 yes, it still works where there is a single song to focus on, though it's harder because the convoluted streaming rules they have now weight against older songs. Honestly, the charts since streaming comes across more as a science experiment than an authorative record of what's popular.
There were lots of examples of that in sales charts too, especially in the early 90s. Old songs like "Unchained Melody" by the Righteous Brothers and "Should I Stay or Should I Go" by the Clash made #1 through films & adverts. The three longest running number ones (Bryan Adams "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You", Wet Wet Wet "Love Is All Around" and Whitney Houston "I Will Always Love You") were all from films.
When a death happens, you don't get the same concentration on a single song like you used to, since downloads became a thing, because anyone can download or stream pretty much any song now. When Elvis, John Lennon & Freddie Mercury died, there was a single record for people to buy that went to #1. In the first two cases, it had just been released before their death. By comparison, when Michael Jackson died, he didn't make #1, but his songs were all over the charts, because everyone had been downloading their own personal favourite, rather than everyone buying, say, "Man in the Mirror".
Listening works differently to purchasing, so you don't get the same one week event where everyone goes out and buys a single and it shoots to #1. It took weeks for Kate Bush to climb up and I think they had to exempt her from the old song rule in the end. I think that's also why political and social events are not as represented any more.
I disagree. In the 2010s we had the song for Jo Cox (MP who was shot) and Don't look back in anger (Manchester Arena Bombing), somewhere only we know (Philippine Typhoon appear), Love me like you do (50 shades of Grey), See you again (death of paul walker), Bridge over troubled water (Grenfell). That about as much as you can see in the 80s. You just seemed to miss all of this in the 2010s.
The amount of incredible music to come out of the UK, especially in that period from about 1963-99, is just remarkable.
Yeah definitely, especially bands, one thing we know how to do is bands lol. Cheers
This is the soundtrack of my teens. Thanks for the memories it brought back, wonderful music, especially 1981 -1985.
You grew up in a great era! Thanks for watching
As an Aussie teenager all through the 80s, I really enjoyed the clips.. Most of the songs I remember, but some I had forgotten about. Good memories, from simpler times. Thanks 😊
Thanks for watching
Everytime I listen to 80ties song I simply must appriciate the wide, wide rage of songs and styles. Never a dull moment. The next song is always very different.
It's funny seeing "Pass the Dutchie" and "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" back to back, two Caribbean-influenced songs that just so happen to feature their singers on trial in their music videos.
I didnt even notice that element of their videos being the same youre right! lol cheers
ABBA, George Michael, Rick Astley, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Madonna, Kylie Minogue Is The Best!! So Great Songs!!
David Bowie!
Don't Stand So Close To Me
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Every Breath You Take
Let's Dance
Red Red Wine
Imagine
Woman
All Around the World
The Tide Is High
Desire
Do They Know It's Christmas?
Pass the Dutchie
Under Pressure
True
Ghost Town
Don't You Want Me
Hand On Your Heart
Careless Whisper
China In Your Hand
Take My Breath Away
The Winner Takes It All
Karma Chameleon
Down Under
You Can't Hurry Love
Heaven Is A Place On Earth
x The most British song on this video is "There's No One Quite Like Grandma" by St Winifred's School Choir!
x It says a lot about how much the UK loves Christmas after seeing "Do They Know It's Christmas?" by Ban Aid is the best-selling song of the decade!
x "Final Countdown" by Europe is the song that is played when the Nebraska Football team runs out onto the field!
The late 80s have a lot to answer for, the early 80s though? Fantastic
The brainrot. Late 80s is the best part of this.
There's a few gems in the late 80s, but the late 80s did see the birth of manufactured pop with Stock, Aitkin and Waterman. This then led to Simon Fuller and Simon Cowell jumping on the bandwagon, making loads of money and providing an assault our eardrums!
Early 80s are my favourite, 1980-3 so much experimentation going on.
@@EchoBeach501I agree,
I agree. 1979 - 1984 were the best years for me with music. I guess that was the new wave era.
Brilliant effort putting all this together.
Thanks Scotty!
Nostalgia overload!
😂 you're right, it is.
Makes me feel time sick. This was my era, 15-24 years old. Every song represents a memory, be it mates, girls, holidays, world events, school, jobs, nights out or even just the song itself. Every month during '81-'86 felt like a separate time that I can still differentiate today, whereas now, I couldn’t tell you the difference between any year of the 21st century. LOL.
Even lows like the Chicken Song and Star Trekin' had their place.
So sad that the charts basically died in the late ‘90s. Totally meaningless today.
Would have preferred each song to have at least double the time in this video, but still so amazing to relive, and at least half the time I knew want was coming next, the memories are that strong from the best decade ever. Thank you for posting.
You definitely grew up in a great era! Thanks for watching!
The Chicken song? A low?? Go stick a deckchair up your nose, sir!
funny thing is that star trekking sometimes pops into my head to put a smile on my face. always going forward cause we cant find reverse!
Well I have a problem with that.
Just because modern music doesn't appeal to you doesn't mean today's generation won't have positive experiences and nostalgia for it.
@@giasfelfebrehberc Stick around. I bet in 20 years' time, the young generation then will hate the music of the 2020's as much as the Boomers, X-ers and Millennials do.
I enjoyed this so much. Some I’d forgotten about so will seek them out to listen to again. Please do a 90s number 1 video as well!
Thank you! Ive just done the 70s one (early access on my Patreon now) but the 90s will now be the next one. Cheers
1980 0:01
1981 2:21
1982 4:10
1983 6:15
1984 7:50
1985 9:13
1986 11:06
1987 13:00
1988 14:51
1989 16:40
1990 18:21
i'm getting more and more nostalgic since a couple of weeks (in my 50's ) and it's so nice to make a trip back to the times that where simpeler :)
The 80s was the best decade for pop music. There can be no argument.
Yeah i think most would agree really! Cheers
Except from the people who know it qas the 6çs, or the ones who think it was the 70s😅
@@davidchalk8883 I'd say the 60s was most revolutionary, 70s was best for rock and the 80s for pop
The 80s was the worst decade for music out of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. Not saying there wasn't good music around but all those other decades were better.
@@Philliben1991 You know, of course. The definitive opinion.
There's some wicked stuff in this list, for sure. I don't even know how some of these even got into the top 40 for a day.
There's No One Quite Like Grandma?
Yeah definitely some strange ones here lol. Thanks for watching
The song Shaddap You Face kept the great Ultravox song Vienna of the top spot, some things never changes it would seem.
Argh! That's criminal!
We really were spoilt back then.
I was 12 when "PINK FLOYD'S: THE WALL" movie came out. My older brother loved it and we watched it on VHS (ya know, these things 📼). I liked the animated parts, hated the rest. I rewatched it in my 20's, that movie is criminally underrated!! I'm 54 now and when I revisit that film I'm transfixed!! It's such a good film...unless your a 12yr old me, then skip it.
Haha i am just old enough to remember videos and video stores, blockbuster and local ones, but i really need to get around to watching the full movie considering they are really my favourite band! Ive listened to the album countless times though. Cheers
@@Media_Ranker it's one I still need to get around to watching as well (and sounds like I've had longer to do so 😂 ) From the little I know of it, I think it's a film you're only going to get fully as an adult with some of the themes. It'd be nice if they screened it in cinemas again, perhaps for an anniversary.
Thanks, and I am suprised how many songs are totaly new to me, although I grew up in this time and was totally into music, but in germany, we had a total different chart.
What a great decade the 80's was. I'd almost forgotten some of those songs
Very well put together. The same thing for the 70s would be much appreciated...👏👏
Thanks! The 70s will be the next one of these, coming soon
Still the best decade imo - Madonna , MJ , Prince and Belinda Carlisle were my faves
I miss the 80s especially queen 😢
Too many novelty records (as in every decade), yes, Nick Berry, you're in that list.
A+ video!
LOVE IT! Awesome decade of songs there!
Cheers, definitely a few strange ones too but i guess that goes for any decade. The 70s version of this coming soon
@@Media_Ranker Cheers, looking forward to it!
So am I.
That was 18 minutes well spent!👍👍
Thanks! Next one of these will be the 70s, coming soon
Also crazy thinking back on how popular Jive Bunny was for 5 months in 1989. Three number 1s and 9 weeks at the top. And I think after those 3 it was all over. Viral sensation before it even was a thing.
Yeah and as that was just before my time i only learned about it when i made this video lol it was quite random really! Thanks for watching
18 minutes of pure time machine. Oh i miss the 80s so much it hurts sometimes.
A brilliant decade for music wasnt it! Thanks for watching
@@Media_Ranker It was my friend. Even my own kids realise the music was amazing. But they don't get the emotions and memories attached to a lot of songs. These songs hit those of us who lived it a lot different.
Wow! So many songs that I didn't even know. Thanks for the discovery.
But it's still criminal that we couldn't find in 1984, neither "I want to break free", nor "Forever young", nor "Smooth operator", nor "Neverending Story"!😮💨
The 80s started out with Dexys Midnight Runners, The Jam, and The Police but finished with Bros, Jason Donovan, and Jive Bunny. It was a great decade overall but I think a little bit of rot set in during the 1980s
Billie Jean for 1 week is crazy
"Beat It" peaking at #3 is crazier.
Not when you think about it a bit more.....
.........got it yet? 😊
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Everybody was buying the album that had it on, that little known one, "Thriller" I think 😁😁😁 And I mean everybody, I was about 14 at the time, so many kids at school got it for Christmas it was crazy- Billie Jean was released in January, and everyone else left went out and got the album when they heard it.
It obviously wasn't promoted properly. Also the charts were completely corrupt. Mass buying by record companies to promote their signed acts. In certain more valued areas.
Check out Roger Cooks report on it.
It was probably Dexys knocked it off the charts and it did in the US.
@@alfredthegreat9543 Got it. The album spent 8 weeks at No. 1, 81 weeks in the Top 10, 260 weeks in the Top 100 (if I am reading the entry on Official Charts website). Astounding.
Quite a difference across the pond. I was a teen in Canada in the ‘80s, listened to the top 10 almost every night, but about 40% of these tunes I have never even heard and even some of the artists are unfamiliar to me. Probably a similar perspective looking back, with the 30% Canadian Content (CanCon) rules radio stations had to adhere to.
In the late 80s it was said "the 80s was the decade music forgot" as a play on the saying "the 70s was the decade fashion forgot". There were countless crap songs we've long since forgotten. Yet the greats will be remembered as some of the greatest from any decade.
Brought back some great memories sitting watching top of the pops , loving the great music of the 80s , I was 15 to 24 in the 80s ,fantastic era , so miss the 80s
The 80s was just before my time but i can tell that was the best era for Top Of The Pops, or at least it seems that way! Cheers
Played Drums all my life 8 pice db Pearl with paiste rude cymbals love this channel 🏴🏴🏴🏴 come on ENGLAND SUNDAY ❤👍👍
I was born in 77 so enjoyed listening to these and the memories they brought back
I wonder that the Clash in the early '80s never had a n°1 single (or album) in the UK charts. I thought that for example " Sandinista ! " was a pretty successful record in Britain at those times
Yeah its funny that sometimes these iconic bands and artists never really had the chart success at the time that we think they must have done, im not sure they even had a top 5 single actually. Maybe Should I Stay Or Should I Go but that may have been a re release later on. Obviously doesnt change their legacy at all! Cheers
@@Media_Ranker "Should I Stay or Should I Go" made #1 in the early 90s, one of a few that made it because of adverts for Levi's ("Boombastic" by Shaggy is another)
London Calling #11 in January 1980
Daddy Was a Bank Robber #12 in August/September 1980
Should I Stay or Should I Go/Straight to Hell (double A side) #17 in October 1982
were the three nearest they got in the singles chart in the 80s - so not even a top 10 hit,astonishingly! Surely the London Calling album,and perhaps Give 'Em Enough Rope and Sandinista,got higher than that in the album charts?
Star Trekkin across the universe 😂
One of a few bizarre ones here, id never heard that before doing this lol. Thanks for watching
Boldly going forward 'cos we can't find reverse!
I was teenager in 80’s
Very lucky to grow up with 80s music! Thanks for watching
Good for you 😅😅😅
I was too, but only 81 and 82.
Odd but fun time.
This is the best video of it's kind for UK number 1s!
A little request in future would be to keep the song sample legth consistent within the 5 seconds you have to avoid copyright.
I would have sent it in for a streamer i watch, but i think the disparity with some songs having shorter sample times than others would be harder to convince him to watch it on stream. If you were to do a big project on every number 1 ever into one video i'd absolutely do my utmost to convince him to react on stream.
Regardless i do sincerely enjoy and appreciate the video!
Thanks. I do manage to avoid it with an average clip time slightly longer than that ive found, theres always some i see if i can get away with or i have to trim after upload, which i would have with this but there is no copyright claim at all on this, same with all the videos. I only make them public after ive done all of that. Are they on Twitch cause i think thats less of an issue anyway isnt it? Who is the streamer if you dont mind me asking?
I will likely do individual decades first now that ive started with the 80s and 2000s but i could potentially do that, would be a pretty long video though. My next video, possibly uploaded this evening, will be every Billboard number 1 by british artists which goes from 1962-2022. Cheers
This makes me so happy and so sad all at the same time! Happy because I was there and lived it, every song brings up some kind of memory but so sad as it’s gone and I can never go back, I guess that’s what makes it so great tho!!
Yeah definitely! Thanks for watching
I hear distinct phases.
New romantic.
Stock Aitken Waterman.
The proliferation of music from the 60s in UK TV ads.
The rise of house (Jack Your Body, Theme From S'Xpress and Pump Up The Volume stand out in particular).
It's a fascinating chronology of the period. Practically a historical document.
The 60s songs thing was not as good as the 70s 50s revival, IMHO.
Defintely. You could literally pick the year just by the style of music. Early 80s Ska and post punk/new wave.
The jam greatest band ever & Weller is still having number 1 albums 42 years later 👍
They really are/were brilliant, they should definitely be at the same global standing as a lot of big British bands! Cheers
I loved this !!!! The best decade of my life
Thanks for watching, the 80s was a great decade, even better than what was in this too actually!
Nothing beats the 80’s, funnily enough, a town called malice is about my hometown of Woking, my mum grew up on the same estate as Paul weller, my auntie even dated him before the jam got big
Never would have guessed it was Woking lol but thats very cool! Cheers
Wow, that brought back so many moments, thankyou.
Thanks for watching!
Got rickrolled, thank you.
Wow great songs but surprising some of the iconic 80s tunes that never made #1. Aha Take me on, U2 WTSHNN, Ultravox Vienna..
The uk has always been a good judge for great music.
When Madonna was absolutely beautiful.
She was never beautiful. Not even remotely.
@Mind-your-own-beeswax Well I think she was.
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Unbelievable good songs, thanks for uploading
Thanks for watching
Apart from 1983 which I seem not to remember too well, this is a great memento especially the cherished 1980-85 period.
I actually have a specific video on that year, lots of great songs. Also have one for 1984 too. Thanks for watching
Duran Duran, UB40, Spandau Ballet all from Birmingham. Brum is massive the Specials from Coventry to the Midlands overall is massive
Some of these songs bring back some memories!
Good stuff, but Thriller, Beat It, Ghostbusters, and Take on me, were missing in 1984?
Yeah surprisingly none of those actually got to number one in the UK. Cheers
Take On Me reached #2 in the UK.
And the fact that some of the best music was kept off the top spot by some really questionable choices. My favourite has to be Ultravox Vienna being denied no. 1 status by flippin' Shaddap your face 😂
Some would say the same of Last Christmas Vs Do They Know It's Christmas.
Now I can make an 80’s no.1 playlist on Spotify, thanks 👍
Thanks, i will also be making playlists for all the videos...at some point lol. Cheers
pretty consistent there - barely a dozen that I didn't like, mostly from 87-89
Im going to do every number 2 song too, maybe the same for each placement up to number 5, i actually think theres a chance those videos will be stronger overall too. Cheers
@@Media_Ranker sounds good - maybe for the "peaked at number 2" - you could name the song(S) that kept it from number one - is there a worse one than vienna being kept off by shaddap your face?
I don't agree early 80's was bad I like late 80's
@@Media_Ranker I've been waiting for someone to make videos for the number 3s,number 4s and number 5s for ages! Should be very interesting.
Did you know that the first revealing of the new chart (Top 40) used to be on Radio 1 at lunchtime on a Tuesday? I tried to always find a way of catching that if I could. It used to start at 12.45 after Newsbeat and was hosted for many years by Paul Burnett. The format was that he played the single at number,then number 4,then number 3 and then number 2. Then (with some background music presumably of his choosing) he would read aloud through the entire Top 40 from bottom to top,starting at number and finishing at number 1. Then,in the last three or four minutes before 1 o'clock he would play the number 1. In the hour between 1 o'clock and 2 o'clock he would play all the new entries and climbers in the Top 40.
I remember listening to the new chart on my parent's living room stereo many times (if on holiday from school or college and at home) in the late 70s and early 80s. There was this one time at the start of 1981 when they played numbers 5,4,3 and 2 in that order as usual (Just Like Starting Over,Ant Music,Stop the Cavalry and Happy Xmas War is Over),and we hadn't had the previous week's number 1 yet,which was There's No-one Quite Like Grandma so I was thinking "oh no that's going to be bloody number 1 again!" Then the reading up of the new Top 40 got from 40 all the way to number 7 and we hadn't had Imagine by John Lennon,which had flown back into the charts the previous week straight in at number 9 following the sad events of a couple of weeks previously. Was it number 6 then? No,There's No-one Quite Like Grandma crashed from number 1 down to number 6 and Imagine was number 1 instead!
The Sunday played-in-full Top 40 rundown was the chart first revealed on the previous Tuesday (or Wednesday if straight after a Bank Holiday) and shown on Top of the Pops on the Thursday evening. This was handy if there was a particular songs or songs that (because you didn't have the cash to buy them) you wanted to record them off the radio during the Sunday rundown as if you knew what number they were already you could be all poised and ready for them.
This arrangement changed to one more failair today when advances in information technology enabled them to compile the chart more quickly and efficiently and make the Sunday rundown (two days earlier than was the case before) the first revealing of the new Top 40 from late September 1987 onwards.
@@danielroach5415 it was actually John Lennon's "Woman" that kept it off #1 to begin with, but everyone remembers "Shaddap Your Face" replacing Lennon and Ultravox not getting a look in.
I don't think there are any where it's such a clear cut case of a critically acclaimed song being blocked by an obvious novelty record. The closest I can think of is Robson & Jerome stopping numerous songs getting to #1 in the 90s, including "Common People" by Pulp and "Wonderwall" by Oasis. I was quite pleased when "Mr Blobby" blocked Take That from #1, but I imagine plenty of teenage girls were not.
Context: I was born in November 1976. I'm watching this. 1984 is an incredible year! 86-88 is also strong.
It really was i actually have a video specifically on all the big songs that came out in 1984 if you want to check that out. Thanks for watching
some great memories whilst watching. spitting image gave me a huge smile
Brings back so many memories 😊
Niceeeee...looks weird to me that all those years UK had not even one Depeche Mode song as their n.1 at any week and that M.J. was not as popular as Madonna
Yeah, Queen and Elton John were also a surprise for me when it comes to lack of number 1s. Both would have many top 10s and top 5s though i imagine, ill be doing of videos of every number 2 etc too. Cheers
That's true.. Crossed my mind regarding Queen as well but I said.. Can't be for artists like these that were participating in Live aid even (meaning they were already tops of the tops) to not be amongst n.1 🤔 Seems crazy, at least 😅
@@Media_Ranker You'd be right about that. Plus loads for MJ.
OMG 1980 alone was a ride...Kenny Rogers...a kid's choir...
Love these lists, so many memories ❤
Thanks for watching. The same video for the 1970s coming very soon!
When getting to no1 was all about physical sales.
Loved the 80s great music and the birth of my obsession with Madonna ❤
Brilliant! I was looking for a video like this. Can you do one for the 60s 70s 90s too?
Thanks! Yep all coming soon, 2010s too, but the next one will be the 70s. Cheers
Quite remarkable that so many great songs only made it for one or two, maybe three, weeks. Also remarkable that so many classic songs were replaced by absolute train wrecks.
A lot of remakes...
This is the soundtrack to my life! Love it!
Thanks for watching
@@Media_Ranker Thanks for posting! 👍🏻
For anyone who is confused about DD/MM/YY
1979 -
15-12 December-January
1980 -
19-2 January-February
9 February
16-23 February
1-8 March
15 March
22-5 March-April
12-19 April
26-3 April-May
10-17 May
Before watching this video I braced myself for some great songs from my youth (and for some horrible ones too). Songs like Respectable from Mel and Kim, and Tiffany's I think we're alone now and Belinda Carlisle's Heaven is a Place on Earth had virtually disappeared from my memory 😁
Back to the 80'S
Brilliant music and memories. Scott Aitken Waterman contributed to the demise of the decade towards the end…however glimmers of hope began again with The Stone Roses and then Brit Pop saved the day in the nineties finally silencing all the ‘grunge’. Some of the best bands of the eighties in my opinion didn’t have number ones: The Cure, The Smiths, Joy Division, Simple Minds, Jesus & Mary Chain, Echo and the Bunnymen, New Order, Talking Heads, Iron Maiden, Dire Straits, Stone Roses.
Hi! Very cool compilation. Can you perhaps tell me from which video the "Stand and Deliver" (Adam and the Ants) snippet is? That would be great! Keep up the cool work.
Thanks! That was on youtube but i actually couldnt find a video that had loud enough audio, so i had to dub the audio from spotify behind the video from youtube. Cheers
@@Media_Ranker many thanks for the quick reply. I'll try to find the vid on YT then. Still in love with Adam Ant and his music after more than fourty years, so it's always fun to see him and his vids somewhere. Thanks again and greetings from Germany.
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I thought the HouseMartin’s “Caravan of love” 12:54 missed out on being the UK Christmas #1 by Jackie Wilson “Reet Petite”. 13:00 But according to the dates in this video, it looks like The Housemartins were the UK Christmas number one.
Yeah only for one week though, then from the end of December Reet Petite was number 1 for 4 weeks. Cheers
@@Media_Ranker thank you for responding, but that wasn’t my question. I had stayed, that per the video, that the Housemartins were number one for one week.
But ny question was: Who was the “Christmas number one” in 1986?
When I was visiting England at Christmas time in 1986, I was told that the Housemartin’s just “Missed out” on being the Christmas number one. (but the dates in this video don’t correspond with that statement)
@@MikeCee7 My bad i didnt realise thats what you were directly asking. I think it can be how the weekly charts are/were recorded as the day of the week that the chart was announced has changed before. For this list i was working with it was saturday to saturday so The Housemartins were number 1 from saturday 20th then Reet Petite took it from Saturday 27th December. But i dont know if it was actually announced on a different day at the time etc. I did see something that said Reed Petite made Jackie Wilson the first ever posthumous christmas number 1 though. Cheers
@@Media_Ranker Thanks for your reply. So I only can assume, that in the UK, they must choose their number one song sometime in the middle of the week(?) So on some day after (December 20, 1986) and
95% absolute classics.
One or two that have not stood the test of time perhaps (Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley for example), and a couple which are remembered but no longer played (The Crowd, Ferry Aid, Band Aid II), but otherwise it totally wiped the fragmented post-Millennium charts off the floor.
Yeah and when you think of all the massive 80s songs, by massive artists, that are still played today that didnt get to number 1 at the time too! Cheers
Seeing going underground from the jam was fantastic to me at 14
That song just gets better and better, The Jam do generally actually, aged very well! Cheers
@@Media_RankerThe family have been playing transvision vamp recently
They were really good at the time and underrated
Also bloodhound gang
But yeah setting sons was probably the best jam album and little boy soldiers was fantastic at the time
Try bringing an LP stuffed down the front of your leather jacket riding a Yamaha ypvs 350 at over 100 miles an hour
I was very lucky that it didn't break lol
Woman by John Lennon was number 1 the day I was born. Definitely preferable to Shaddap You Face which came right after 😅
Lol yeah definitely! That timing worked out. Cheers
it was so goood. amazing diversirty unlike today. Thank god for 80s uk music. when music was music
0:08 The very first UK #1 single of the 1980s
why don't they make music like this anymore?
I think theyve made all the songs, in every variation lol in fact i think they were discussing that already at the end of the 80s! Cheers
The first one was banned in South Africa 😔
Pink Floyd? How come? Cheers
School children were boycotting classes and using the line WE DON'T NEED NO EDUCATION etc in their chants. The apartheid censor board then banned the album for sale and broadcasts 😔
@@TrevorMoses312 Oh right i didnt know about that at all. Fair play to the kids for doing it originally though, im sure Pink Floyd liked that even if they then couldnt sell any albums there!
That was fantastic
Cheers! Next one will be the 70s, coming soon!
Strange that " prince" never reached number one in The UK during the 80's , also I notice that Michael Jackson's Thriller had only Billie Jean at number , also George Michael 's faith had no number one single in The UK !
Because singles were literally by record companies to promote their artists. It was a scam. none could stop it, it wasn't illegal.
A bunch of weird songs mixed with a few real great ones
Yeah with so much great music in the 80s you would think a lot more of those classics we still love would have got to number 1 at the time! Especially from artists like Queen and Elton John. Cheers
Wow! There are no classic rock songs of Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Van Halen, Guns N' Roses, ect. No Prince, Cyndi Lauper, Janet Jackdon, even many of Michael Jackson's hits like Beat It, Bad, Smooth Criminal, Man in the mirror, ect.
Yeah its interesting that the big artists with the most longevity, and songs that still get so much play now, weren't necessarily the biggest hits at the time in terms of actually topping the charts! Cheers
As I suspected, the rot started in the mid to late 80s. There was huge variety in the songs in the early 80s. By the late 80s it was all about image and the variety started to dry up. Massive nostalgia hit for the early 80s. Zero for the late 80s.
Too many strange songs at the top of that good years
Truly great thank you too. As others have said the early and mid 80s were alright by the late 80s music in general had changed into the 90s i guess. But the 80s really were as good as the 70s had been though too.
And well done for putting this altogether of course great too
Thanks, yeah the 80s truly were great and a lot of the best songs wouldnt have even got to number 1! The next one of these i do will be the 70s. That should be coming in the next 10 days or so. Cheers!
@Media_Ranker thanks look forward to the 70s then too.
Got RickRolled in 87!😂
La Isla Bonita the greatest summer song of them all