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Loving the show so far - apart from cutting off Hey Jude
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If both double 'A side' songs by Boney M hadn't been played then Tony wouldn't have had to cut 'Hey Jude' short & waffle over some of the songs.
Re 1981 : Up until December 31st 1981,Soft Cells 'Tainted Love' was the biggest seller of that year.Human Leagues 'Don't You Want Me' was in the chart only for December of 1981,but as it was still charting high in the first part of 1982 its cumulative sales eventually overtook 'Tainted Love' by tens of thousands,making it the biggest selling song released in 1981.
It depends whether this POTP list is based on the sales of the songs from just each year in question OR overall sales up until 2012.
It would be more interesting to play songs that just failed to hit the top 20, eg all the No 21's over the years - it would still throw up some good songs, but many that are seldom heard.
But that's probably just me!
Every countdown of this sort over the last 30 years has "Tainted Love" as the biggest selling single of 1981. (Until today of course!
It'll be confirmed on any web search.
As someone else has mentioned the criteria could be the biggest selling single released in the relevant year including sales up to 2012.
I don't think this should be the case. It should just be the biggest seller of each individual year Janaury 1st -December 31st.
He he, I know, Al Martino was 9 weeks at No.1 whilst Vera spent 1 week at No.10!!!
I always thought that Mary Hopkin's "Those Were The Days" was the biggest seller of '68.
I noticed this error too. Tainted Love is definately the biggest selling single of 1981. Dont You Want Me had its sales split between December 1981 and january 1982. It probably did outsell Tainted love but not before the end of 1981. Sounds like they have included the sales from early 1982 to me.
Yes, 'Don't You Want Me' comfortably ahead when you count all its sales into '82. Begs the question - if they were counting split year sales what about 'Bohemian Rhapsody'?
No it won't
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_singles_by_year_(UK))
Looks like part 2 of this show will be rubbish.
Martino was a 9 week No.1 whereas Vera only spent a week at No.10. Definately an inaccuracy.
http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-biggest-selling-single-of-every-year-revealed-1952-1985-1699/
But yes, the best seller of 1981 was 'Tainted Love' with sales of just under a million. 'Don't You Want Me' hadn't even topped 900,000 sales by the end of 1981 and was unofficially the third best seller when sales to the end of the year are factored in. In the official end of year chart compiled at the time, with a pre-Christmas cut off point and two weeks of missing sales the single was even lower, at number 21. 'Tainted Love' was again the number 1 in that official list.
Saying that,the blurb for next Saturdays show states that a Cliff Richard song will be played,Mistletoe & Wine being his biggest selling song from 1986 to 2012..selling way more than his only other 2 festive chart-toppers 'Saviours Day' & 'Millenium Prayer' which made #1 in December 1990 & December 1999.
Thanks Robbie. I thought I was losing my mind for a while!!
Any ideas on the Vera Lynn placing. Surely there's no way that "Auf Wiedersehn Sweetheart" was the biggest seller of '52 considering it's, almost non-existent, chart run!
Yep Sam. If they were doing it accurately then Cliff would be the biggest seller of '88. K&J spent the last 4 weeks of '88 at No.2 then the first 3 weeks of '89 at No.1.
This is only from memory at the time but if I recall correctly "Especially For You" ended up around No.6 and No.23 on the best sellers over both years. But with combined sales would have been No.1.
No I agree with you.
My Dad sometimes listens to POTP and I'll listen to it if I'm visiting him on a Saturday - today though he gave it a miss as he prefers the usual format.
As you say, 'best selling' singles have usually been played to death over the years anyway. What makes the usual format enjoyable is hearing songs that rarely get played or that you'd forgotten about.
Best selling singles can often be cr*p anyway (Westlife, Boyzone, Brotherhood of Man etc..) and does anyone really want to hear those Wet Wet Wet or Bryan Adams songs yet again?
I think these sort of charts should definitely be done only once or twice a year, if at all, but each to their own.
I have to agree with your Dad, this show should have been done as a separate, stand alone show or maybe spread out during this week over 4 consecutive nights in the 10-11pm slot
The second part is going to sound really bad with some of the rubbish that sold in the late 90s/2000s so I think I'll give it a miss!!
Agreed !
Robson & Jerome,Band Aid 20,Tony Christie,Eminem & Bob The Builder for starters.
It's a very hit and miss list coming up this Saturday.
For me there's only the bestsellers from 1998, 2006 & (my guilty pleasure-easure-easure from 2007) that I regard as original worthy classics.
This source has David Soul as the runner up of '77.
http://www.popreport.co.uk/chart_history/77_main.php
For 30 years this has been accepted fact, so why the change now?