Martyn Lee's 80s Chart Show

poppickers2345 · 10/05/15 - 19:40

Hi folks

I am just wondering does anyone know when the new 80s chart show is starting Absolute 80s?

I hear a rumour it was this month.

thanks

CELT1987 · 10/05/15 - 20:06

Should be. Will be weekend when charts start on Friday.

poppickers2345 · 11/05/15 - 20:54

thanks for the information

FM Lover · 12/05/15 - 13:11

Sunday May 24th

Nailz · 14/05/15 - 00:02

I hope this is a proper chart and not the Absolute 80s playlist put in chart form.

CELT1987 · 24/05/15 - 16:01

2 chart years will be on. First is 1981. Looks like it won't be full top 40 played.

FM Lover · 24/05/15 - 16:09

CELT1987 wrote: »

2 chart years will be on. First is 1981. Looks like it won't be full top 40 played.

So not dissimilar to Pick of the Pops format then but featuring only 80's songs.
Still should be a good listen.

CELT1987 · 24/05/15 - 16:12

FM Lover wrote: »

So not dissimilar to Pick of the Pops format then but featuring only 80's songs.
Still should be a good listen.

Disapponted it's not full top 40 though.

midlandsfirst · 24/05/15 - 16:16

CELT1987 wrote: »

Disapponted it's not full top 40 though.

To be fair is it possible to fit the top 40 in 3 hours when allowing for adverts..

Steve

CELT1987 · 24/05/15 - 16:20

midlandsfirst wrote: »

To be fair is it possible to fit the top 40 in 3 hours when allowing for adverts..

Steve

Maybe that's why.

FM Lover · 24/05/15 - 16:27

midlandsfirst wrote: »

To be fair is it possible to fit the top 40 in 3 hours when allowing for adverts..

Steve

Doubtful, imagine there would be at least 5 or 6 songs wouod have to be missed.

wirewolf · 24/05/15 - 16:34

midlandsfirst wrote: »

To be fair is it possible to fit the top 40 in 3 hours when allowing for adverts..

Steve

According to their website, they played 14 songs between 3 and 4 this afternoon. Earlier on they played 15 in another hour. Ample time to fit 40 songs in if they wanted to. Not playing the full 40 does allow them to be selective in what they play though.

CELT1987 · 24/05/15 - 16:38

wirewolf wrote: »

According to their website, they played 14 songs between 3 and 4 this afternoon. Earlier on they played 15 in another hour. Ample time to fit 40 songs in if they wanted to. Not playing the full 40 does allow them to be selective in what they play though.

Which is what most suspected they'd do. Just play the usual songs from their playlist.

midlandsfirst · 24/05/15 - 16:42

Btw - talking of their recently player - what is this "bonus song". It says at 4.28pm there was a bonus song of The Kinks - Come Dancing???

Steve

wirewolf · 24/05/15 - 16:48

midlandsfirst wrote: »

Btw - talking of their recently player - what is this "bonus song". It says at 4.28pm there was a bonus song of The Kinks - Come Dancing???

Steve

I assume it's the 'extra' songs they play for people who listen online and are registered with the site while the rest of us are listening to ad breaks.

smiffj · 24/05/15 - 17:23

What chart source is he using, it aint the OCC or the NME, did he make one up.

CELT1987 · 24/05/15 - 17:53

smiffj wrote: »

What chart source is he using, it aint the OCC or the NME, did he make one up.

Thats what I thought, it's certainly not the Radio 1 top forty from 1981 & 1987.

smiffj · 24/05/15 - 17:59

CELT1987 wrote: »

Thats what I thought, it's certainly not the Radio 1 top forty from 1981 & 1987.

This is courtesy from Mark at Haven, he tweeted presenter

Martyn Lee @martlee we're trying something new, aggregating the playlist from across a month as opposed to a week. Would love feedback.

CELT1987 · 24/05/15 - 18:03

smiffj wrote: »

This is courtesy from Mark at Haven, he tweeted presenter

Martyn Lee @martlee we're trying something new, aggregating the playlist from across a month as opposed to a week. Would love feedback.

So it's like an average of the best sellers in May, that makes sense now.

Isambard Brunel · 24/05/15 - 18:37

smiffj wrote: »

This is courtesy from Mark at Haven, he tweeted presenter

Martyn Lee @martlee we're trying something new, aggregating the playlist from across a month as opposed to a week. Would love feedback.

Is this a monthly show?

spursboy68 · 24/05/15 - 18:39

Does anybody know if stations have to pay OCC for using retro charts? Always wanted to know. Thanks.

smiffj · 24/05/15 - 18:40

Isambard Brunel wrote: »

Is this a monthly show?

Looks like it, every hit.com has a May 1981 Monthly chart, nothing like what they played.

Top 40 Hits of May 1981
1 Adam & The Ants Stand And Deliver
2 Starsound Stars On 45
3 Shakin' Stevens You Drive Me Crazy
4 Ennio Morricone Chi Mai (Theme From 'Life And Times Of David Lloyd George')
5 Bucks Fizz Making Your Mind Up
6 Madness Grey Day
7 Kim Wilde Chequered Love
8 Ten Pole Tudor Swords Of A Thousand Men
9 REO Speedwagon Keep On Loving You
10 Sugar Minott Good Thing Going
11 Tottenham Hotspur FA Cup Final Squad Ossie's Dream (Spurs Are On Their Way To Wembley)
12 The Jacksons Can You Feel It
13 The Nolans Attention to Me
14 Keith Marshall Only Crying
15 The Stray Cats Stray Cat Strut
16 Spandau Ballet Musclebound / Glow
17 Quincy Jones Al No Corrida (I-No-Ko-Ree-Da)
18 Graham Bonnet Night Games
19 Eddy Grant Can't Get Enough Of You
20 Shakin' Stevens This Ole House
21 Kim Carnes Bette Davis Eyes
22 Sheena Easton When He Shines
23 The Human League The Sound Of The Crowd
24 Barry Manilow Bermuda Triangle
25 Whitesnake Don't Break My Heart Again
26 The Whispers It's A Love Thing
27 The Beat Drowning / All Out To Get You
28 The Teardrop Explodes Treason (It's Just A Story)
29 Thin Lizzy Killers Live EP
30 Department S Is Vic There
31 Saxon And The Band Played On
32 Landscape Einstein A-Go-Go
33 Smokey Robinson Being With You
34 Toyah I Want To Be Free
35 The Undertones It's Going To Happen
36 Stevie Wonder Lately
37 Bad Manners Just A Feeling
38 Gillan New Orleans
39 Champaign How 'Bout Us
40 Vangelis Chariots Of Fire

CELT1987 · 24/05/15 - 18:55

Isambard Brunel wrote: »

Is this a monthly show?

Weekly.

wilson500 · 24/05/15 - 19:13

I was disappointed. It was just another couple of hours of music radio.

No special imagining for the programme (although there was a familiar music bed that crept in).
Nothing amazing from the presenter just "that was - this is".

Obviously 80s music, but nothing 80s about the presentation.
A trick missed I feel.

FM Lover · 24/05/15 - 19:21

wilson500 wrote: »

I was disappointed. It was just another couple of hours of music radio.

No special imagining for the programme (although there was a familiar music bed that crept in).
Nothing amazing from the presenter just "that was - this is".

Obviously 80s music, but nothing 80s about the presentation.
A trick missed I feel.

Too many songs missed, especially from the 87 chart. Think only half the Top 10 played.
Surprised that Born To Run (live) was missed, would have thought that was bang in target for Absolute listeners.

Martyn started to use Bruno's infamous countdown bed but after afew bars in morphed into something else.

As soon as I heard it ID'ed as 'the chart of May 87, etc I guessed it was an average sales chart.

darnall42 · 25/05/15 - 17:55

for all the hype sorunding the show,it was a letdown (Just a extended golden hour not a propper chart show) shan't be listening again - i'll stick with tony blackburn and richard green's shows

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