I'm looking to download/acquire the top 100 UK songs for certain years in the 80's/90's, as listed on this site:-

http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1989.shtml

Does anyone know how I would go about this?

^ I wouldn't want to use that site for the Top 100 of each year: Something About The Way You Look/Candle In The Wind is the biggest selling single of *all time*, yet isn't No1 in that site's countdown for 1997 (and it was released that September, so its sales weren't spread over two years).

Nearly every single YE chart on that website is wrong for the 90s.

Best website for UK charts is http://www.officialcharts.com/archive/

That link takes you to every official UK chart since they began. However, if you want the official year end charts the best place to go would be Wikipedia (British Music pages).

That's all very well but doesn't answer my question as to how I can download these songs?

well you could buy them on iTunes etc or you could stream them in a playlist or you can pirate them, noone will give you a link for that here.

Basically pirating is more hassle than it saves you as I bet I could find a playlist with all the songs you want. Here is my list of 1989 songs for example has 394 in it, although It is my taste and misses big hits I dont like. Just take the ones you want and put them in a new playlist, and any I dont have you would probably find easy. I have one like this for 1986-1990 with other years to come.

https://open.spotify.com/user/thorne...fGUEvGYslX1S5A

If you want to pirate you are about 10 years late, it will be a laborious task finding all these but you probably could, Google is your friend. I remember in the Limewire days people did compile lists like this into one file.

Oh and some songs are just lost in time, there are a few you just cant anywhere unless you get the vinyl or cd. Oh and you can always get the music of YouTube as well.

I'm not on Spotify, but can you download these songs so you can put them on a USB drive?

Well Spotify is the easiest option, any other way will cost you a lot of money or time but yes eventually either legally or illegally you can download the songs and put them on a USB drive. Legally easy to find just go to iTunes or Amazon, illegally you will need to search dubious corners of the web and risk malware,popups and annoyware but yes you could do it.

But if you want the cheapest grey area solution you need to download the audio from youtube videos,there are lots of apps and addins to browsers that can do this for you. Make a playlist of the videos for all the songs you want then download the audio one by one. Cant help you anymore as I said its legally grey.