Top 40 British Hits of the 80s

[at40petebattistini]

sorry for the grammatical error...........And THAT'S not a credible assessment.

[Deleted]

in 89 were songs hanging around a little longer on the chart? I mean I am sure it wasn't a HUGE difference, but one that could have swayed the chart in that way.

[Adrian]

If you are only looking at #1s, it would have the opposite effect. For both the Hot 100 and R&R, there was a greater turnover of #1s during the later 80s than the early 80s. And this is reflected in their rankings on the Summer special. As you notice, the songs from 1980-3 were generally ranked higher than songs in the late 80s.

Still, I think Pete has a point of keeping the show "current" for radio programmers. Several "summer" songs in the early 80s could've made it onto the countdown but were not featured on the show. According to R&R, Billy Joel's "It's Still Rock and Roll To Me" spent 4 weeks in the summer of 1980, Air Supply's "The One That You Love" spent 3 weeks in 1981, Toto's "Rosanna" spent 4 weeks in the summer of 1982 and Irene Cars's "Flashdance" spent 5 weeks in the early summer of 1983. Compare these to songs in the late 80s that only spent 1 week at the top: 1986: "Sledgehammer" and "There'll Be Sad Songs...."; 1987: "Shake Down"; 1988: "Dirty Diana" and "Pour Some Sugar On Me" and 1989: "Good Thing", "Toy Soldiers", "Batdance" and "Cold-Hearted".

I don't know if #1s from the late 80s actually spent more time on the Top 40 even though they had shorter runs at #1. But it does seem that the rankings of the special Summer show was somehow manipulated.

[Deleted]

They may have been manipulated, in fact they probably were. Once you start doing shows like "Women of the Rock Era" "Summer Hits of the 80's" "Top 40 songs with the word "the" in the title" or whatever else they did, you are basically begging for a fake chart in which the calculations are next to none.

[Hervard]

I finally got around to listening to the Top 40 Summer Hits special yesterday, so I can finally reply to this topic (I didn't want to spoil the surprise).

Anyway, Psychboy mentioned that there were several summer hits from the early 80s that didn't make it onto the show. It seems to me that the criteria was that a song had to have hit number one on or after June 21 in order to qualify. This is why songs like "Rosanna" and "Flashdance" did not make it, because they hit number one in early June. However, that doesn't quite explain why Billy Joel didn't make it. Even though it hit number one on June 20, that's really splitting hairs. Besides, "I Wanna Dance With Somebody Who Loves Me" made the cut and it first hit number one on June 19.
"The One That You Love" hit number one in July, so there's no reason that shouldn't have made it. There were also songs like "All Out Of Love" by Air Supply and "All Those Years Ago" by George Harrison that spent two weeks at number one, but I can see why they opted not to play those songs, since no station had touched those songs for years (though I did occasionally hear "All Out Of Love"). Still, that would have made the list a little more accurate (as would ranking the songs in order of weeks at number one, weeks in the Top Ten and weeks in the Top 40). If it was a matter of "appeasing radio programmers by keeping the list current", hey, there was a regular weekly show that they could play in place of the special. Many stations did, too, including B96. Not sure what WZZP did, because I didn't listen to Casey's Top 40 on that station, since they ran the show from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, while B96 ran the show from 8 to noon. Had I listened to it on WZZP, half the day would be gone!
I'm surprised nobody mentioned the biggest descepancy of them all, which would be the number one song. "Endless Love" did indeed spend many weeks at number one - five of them, to be exact. Yet, "Every Breath You Take" by the Police, spent eight weeks at number one - and more weeks in the Top Ten and Top 40 than "Endless Love". Maybe they just didn't want "Every Breath You Take" topping every single chart of the 1980s and switched the two around.
Psychboy also mentioned the possibility of songs having longer runs in the Top 40 in 1989 and the answer to that is no. Some of the one-week number one songs had cumulative weeks on the chart as low as eleven weeks! Songs didn't start having longer runs on the chart until around 1990, when two songs that only spent a single week on the chart (and one song that didn't even hit #1) were on the chart for seventeen weeks. Two years later, "Just Another Day" by Jon Secada was on the chart for 19 weeks, the longest run since "You're The One That I Want" by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John in 1978. In 1993, several songs spent 20 weeks on the chart. Then, of course, the plays-per-week era started up in 1994 and long runs became the norm.
Anyway, someday, I'll come up with what the chart should have looked like and post it here. My criteria will be that they had to have been number one on or around June 21, but they'll be listed even if they hit number one before then - just as long as their run went past or at least touched that date. This will enable songs like "Rosanna" and "Flashdance" to be included in the list, since I associate them with summer more than I do "Endless Love". Heck, when that hit number one, school had already started, for crying out loud! That's more of a fall hit than a summer hit to me. As Pyschboy mentioned in his second post in this topic, the criteria should have been any song that hit number one between Memorial Day and Labor Day. But I think there was a reason that Casey didn't give a time frame - simply because there wasn't one; it was at the discretion of whoever at Westwood One compiled the chart.
Well, anyway, I'll get that list posted as soon as I develop it.

[Hervard]

psycboy said:

My personal opinion about an accompanying weekly show to go with the special is because of the increasing restrictive playlists of radio stations starting the mid-80s. I used to have off-air AT40 shows from smaller markets back in the mid-80s and they were already editing out the extras and LDDs. In fact, AT40 started this tradition with their special from 1986 (Giants Of Rock) and every one of their specials since then always had an accompanying weekly show. This way, radio stations can opt to not air the special if they didn't want to, and I suspect, many did not. Which makes it all the more intriguing that CT40 did not put out a weekly show to accompany their Million Sellers special, and that was in late 1990.

In most, if not all cases, these special shows were produced for holiday weekends and, in many of these cases, the show was played on the holiday (Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day) while the regular shows were on the weekend. U93, which ran AT40 back then, seemed to only play the shows for the Fourth Of July weekend. I have no idea whether or not they ran the shows on Memorial or Labor Day weekends, because I didn't know about them and, hence, didn't listen for them. But somehow, I don't think so, since U93 usually advertised the special shows several days before they were broadcast. I don't think they did whatever special there was on Labor Day, 1989, since they were celebrating their tenth anniversary around that time and were playing "Perfect Ten In A Row" blocks, sent in by listeners, who listed their ten favorite songs from the 80s. So that was interesting in itself, just like a countdown show. But I'm rambling off-topic.

One thing I can tell you is that the Top 40 Movie Hits of the 1980s contained several number one hits that received very little, if any, airplay on Top 40 stations, so it's possible that, by then, accuracy took precedence over appeasing radio programmers. Then again, had they manipulated the listing by omitting songs that hadn't been played for years, there wouldn't have been enough number one songs to produce an accurate chart, and they wanted to include nothing but songs that had hit number one. As stated before, there were exactly 40 number one movie songs in the 80s. "Batdance" was number 40, and that had spent only eleven weeks on the chart and I went through the charts of the 1980s looking at the number ones and couldn't find any other songs not featured on the countdown that were from movies. Of course, some of the songs that were on the countdown I had no idea were from movies, so it's entirely possible that there were a few other number one songs from the 80s that were from movie soundtracks, but somehow, I don't think so.

[Hervard]

Here is a listing of the Top 40 Movie Hits of the 1980s:

POS SONG/ARTIST/MOVIE/#1/10/40
1) Call Me/Blondie (American Gigolo) 6-10-15
2) Flashdance...What A Feeling/Irene Cara (Flashdance) 5-10-16
3) Endless Love/Richie & Ross (Endless Love) 5-11-14
4) Eye Of The Tiger/Survivor (Rocky III) 5-10-13
5) Take A Look At Me Now/Phil Collins (Against All Odds) 4-9-16
6) Hard To Say I'm Sorry/Chicago (Summer Lovers) 4-10-15
7) Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)/Christopher Cross (Arthur) 4/10/15
8) When Doves Cry/Prince (Purple Rain) 4-9-14
9) Say You Say Me/Lionel Richie(White Nights) 4-8-14
10) Let's Go Crazy/Prince (Purple Rain) 4-8-14
11) Footloose/Kenny Loggins (Footloose) 3-9-16
12) The Power Of Love/Huey Lewis & The News (Back To The Future) 3-9-15
13) Live To Tell/Madonna (At Close Range) 3-7-14
14) Ghostbuster/Ray Parker jr. (Ghostbusters) 3-8-13
15) Let's Hear It For The Boy/Deneice Williams (Footloose) 3-8-13
16) Up Where We Belong/Cocker & Warnes (And Officer And A Gentleman) 3-7-10
17) Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now/Starship (Mannequin) 2-9-15
18) Crazy For You/Madonna (Vision Quest) 2-9-15
19) I Just Called To Say I Love You/Stevie Wonder (Woman In Red) 2-7-14
20) Glory Of Love/Peter Cetera (The Karate Kid II) 2-9-14
21) Separate Lives/Phil Collins & Marylin Martin (White Nights) 2-8-14
22) Don't You (Forget About Me)/Simple Minds (The Breakfast Club) 2-7-14
23) Groovy Kind Of Love/Phil Collins (Buster) 2-7-13
24) Late In The Evening/Paul Simon (One Trick Pony) 2-8-13
25) La Bamba/Los Lobos (La Bamba) 2-7-12
26) Kokomo/The Beach Boys (Cocktails) 2-6-12
27) Two Hearts/Phil Collins (Buster) 2-6-12
28) Who's That Girl/Madonna (Who's That Girl) 2-6-11
29) Purple Rain/Prince (Purple Rain) 2-6-11
30) Maniac/Michael Sembello (Flashdance) 1-9-17
31) St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)/John Parr (St. Elmo's Fire) 1-8-15
32) Shakedown/Bob Seger (Beverly Hills Cop II)
33) (I've Had) The Time Of My Life/Medley & Warnes (Dirty Dancing) 1-6-13
34) A View To A Kill/Duran Duran (A View To A Kill) 1-7-13
35) Kiss/Prince (Under The Cherry Moon) 1-6-13
36) Rock On/Michael Damian (Dream A Little Dream) 1-7-13
37) The Rose/Bette Midler (The Rose) 1-7-13
38) When The Going Gets Tough.../Billy Ocean (Jewel Of The Nile) 1-5-12
39) Don't Worry Be Happy/Bobby McFerrin (Cocktails) 1-5-11
40) Batdance/Prince (Batman) 1-7-11

As you can see, they were pretty accurate with the rankings. Each song was listed in order of weeks at number one and ties were broken first with weeks in the Top 40. This is why I doubt that there were any other #1 movie songs from the 1980s that weren't listed here, since they were down to songs that spent a single week at number one and only eleven weeks on the chart, which was an unusually short chart run for a number one song as it is. The only other number one song from the 1980s I can think of that spent lesss than eleven weeks is "Truly" by Lionel Richie, and I don't believe it's from any motion picture.
Back to how ths chart was figured - I actuall have no idea how the remaining ties after weeks in the Top 40 were broken. It was obviously not weeks in the Top Ten, as seen from the stats I listed above. I'm wondering if they were just guessing to break the other ties. But nevertheless, it was more accurate than other specials such as the Top 40 Number Ones of the 1980s, Top 40 Summer Hits Of The 1980s, and so forth.
As you can see, many songs were included that never got any airplay on Top 40 stations back then. These include "Endless Love", "Arthur's Theme", "Late In The Evening", "Purple Rain", "The Rose" and "Batdance". And probably even more, but, since it's been sixteen years, I don't really remember what was still being played at CHR and what was not. I think it would have made more sense to kick off the countdown with "Don't Worry Be Happy", since, for one, it was in the Top Ten for two less weeks than "Batdance" and also, it was a song most people were familiar with. Of course, familiarity starting off a countdown is sort of a moot point. I'm not sure this was ever really an issue, but some people have said that it was. Nevertheless, I rather like it when a countdown show starts off with something that I've heard many many times before. But that's just me.
But this was indeed one of my favorite special shows. I kinda wish I would have taped this, but that's OK, since I don't really like some of the songs ("Rock On" is a great example of that!). I just liked the way that it was compiled instead of being carelessly thrown together. Whoever did the research on this did quite a good job.

[Adrian]

I suspect that the reason why the Top 40 Summer Hits had a less accurate chart than the Top 40 Movie Hits is because radio programmers by then might have complained about some of the more obscure songs on the Movies' Special, which was aired in March 1990, a few months before the Summer Special was aired. The Movies' Special was not aired on a holiday weekend and may not have had a regular show accompanying it.

A more trivial reason for the manipulation, at least at #1, is that "Endless Love" would tie in better with a summer theme than "Every Breath You Take".

These days, unless you're doing a year-end or decade-end show, it's hard to put out a special that accurately reflects the charts without running into trouble with tight playlists. And even my local CHR station pokes holes in the AT40 year-end show to fit its playlist.

[Hervard]

psycboy said:

I suspect that the reason why the Top 40 Summer Hits had a less accurate chart than the Top 40 Movie Hits is because radio programmers by then might have complained about some of the more obscure songs on the Movies' Special, which was aired in March 1990, a few months before the Summer Special was aired. The Movies' Special was not aired on a holiday weekend and may not have had a regular show accompanying it.

The Movies' special did indeed have a regular show accompanying it. I know this for a fact, because I heard every CT40 show in March, and they were all regular weekly shows. I guess your theory about CT40 getting flack about obscure songs on the Movies' special is feasible, but there are several songs that were shafted that are hardly obscure, the most obvious being "It's Still Rock & Roll To Me". Yet "Endless Love" was #1. Who played that anymore?

psycboy said:

A more trivial reason for the manipulation, at least at #1, is that "Endless Love" would tie in better with a summer theme than "Every Breath You Take".

Elaborate, please.

psycboy said:

These days, unless you're doing a year-end or decade-end show, it's hard to put out a special that accurately reflects the charts without running into trouble with tight playlists. And even my local CHR station pokes holes in the AT40 year-end show to fit its playlist.

You see, that defeats the whole purpose of playing a year-end show. It is a listing of the year's biggest hits. PDs don't seem to realize that countdown shows are NOT REGULAR PROGRAMMING!! It's not like they're going to lose listeners if they play a few obscure songs. In fact, they might lose them, especially diehard countdown fans, if they play different songs in place of songs on the countdown. If the show is so bad that it doesn't fit their playlist, let's see, they could, like drop the show and pick up on something that fits their playlist better. I'm assuming that your CHR show either leans rhythmic and edits out the rock/alternative songs, or it leans Hot AC and edits out the hip/hop songs. There are countdown shows in both formats. They might as well cancel their subscription to AT40 and pick up on one of those shows. Rhythmic countdowns include Ellen K's Rhythm Top 40 Countdown or the rhythmic version of Dees. If the station is Hot AC, there is the Hot AC version of AT40 and AT20 with Casey Kasem. But taking a CHR countdown and poking holes in it to fit the playlist is just wrong. Just because your station never played it doesn't mean that everyone will turn off their radio if it's played on the countdowns.

[Adrian]

ulij20 said:

psycboy said:

I suspect that the reason why the Top 40 Summer Hits had a less accurate chart than the Top 40 Movie Hits is because radio programmers by then might have complained about some of the more obscure songs on the Movies' Special, which was aired in March 1990, a few months before the Summer Special was aired. The Movies' Special was not aired on a holiday weekend and may not have had a regular show accompanying it.

The Movies' special did indeed have a regular show accompanying it. I know this for a fact, because I heard every CT40 show in March, and they were all regular weekly shows. I guess your theory about CT40 getting flack about obscure songs on the Movies' special is feasible, but there are several songs that were shafted that are hardly obscure, the most obvious being "It's Still Rock & Roll To Me". Yet "Endless Love" was #1. Who played that anymore?

As far as 80s songs were concerned, I don't know what Top 40 radio programmers considered obscure back in 1990. Frankly, I would think that they would stay away from any early 80s songs by then. The truth is that we will never know how the CT40 staff created the Summer Hits special.

ulij20 said:

Elaborate, please.

If you listen to the story leading to the #1 song "Endless Love", Casey ties in (and I am recalling this from memory) with the idea of summer romance. It's harder to tie in with the theme of summer for "Every Breath You Take", considering that the song isn't even about love to begin with.

ulij20 said:

You see, that defeats the whole purpose of playing a year-end show. It is a listing of the year's biggest hits. PDs don't seem to realize that countdown shows are NOT REGULAR PROGRAMMING!! It's not like they're going to lose listeners if they play a few obscure songs. In fact, they might lose them, especially diehard countdown fans, if they play different songs in place of songs on the countdown. If the show is so bad that it doesn't fit their playlist, let's see, they could, like drop the show and pick up on something that fits their playlist better. I'm assuming that your CHR show either leans rhythmic and edits out the rock/alternative songs, or it leans Hot AC and edits out the hip/hop songs. There are countdown shows in both formats. They might as well cancel their subscription to AT40 and pick up on one of those shows. Rhythmic countdowns include Ellen K's Rhythm Top 40 Countdown or the rhythmic version of Dees. If the station is Hot AC, there is the Hot AC version of AT40 and AT20 with Casey Kasem. But taking a CHR countdown and poking holes in it to fit the playlist is just wrong. Just because your station never played it doesn't mean that everyone will turn off their radio if it's played on the countdowns.

Atlanta's Top 40 station, Star 94, is HAC leaning and used to air Rick Dees' HAC countdown. But even then, it was already poking holes in the show. It then switched to airing the CHR version, and of course, it still poked holes, maybe more so than before. Ryan Seacrest used to work for the station so there was probably some (weird) logical notion that it should pick up AT40 when Seacrest took over, which it did. They probably aired these 2 countdown shows to compete with cross-town Q100, which is mainstream CHR, even though around 25% of the songs on the countdowns don't fit Star's playlist. So far, Premiere doesn't seem to mind (or care) about the edits and neither do the listeners.

[Hervard]

Just for the heck of it, I compiled my own Top 40 Summer Hits of the 80s special. There are actually two versions of the list that I came up with, but the one posted below is what the Summer Hits countdown might have looked had Westwood One not received flak about playing obscure songs. That is if that actually happened; I doubt that it did since playing somewhat obscure songs back in 1990 wasn't as much of a problem as it is now and besides, the Top 40 of the 1980s was rather poorly put together, favoring songs from the latter half of the decade, and that was broarcast before the Top 40 Movie Hits of the 1980s.
But regardless of that, I believe figured out the time frame that they used to compile the list. It looks as though a song had to hit #1 by June 21 or so. There was one song, "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" by Whitney Houston that hit the top on the June 19, 1987 chart, but it spent three weeks on top, so that's why it made the list. For this reason, I decided to include "It's Still Rock & Roll To Me" by Billy Joel, since it topped the chart on June 20, 1980. "No One Is To Blame" by Howard Jones hit #1 on the same date in 1986 but, since it only spent a single week at #1, that disqualified it. On the other end of the spectrum, a song that was number one in September was included if and only if it first hit #1 in August. "Missing You" by John Waite just barely made the list, as the song hit number one on August 31, 1984. So it pretty much depended on how the calendar went during each year and some songs were slighted by this luck of the draw phenomenon.
There were 48 number one songs during the summer months (well, with the time frame used). Six of those songs were from 1980 and 1981, so that explains why those songs didn't make it (Hmm, 1980 and 1981 being slighted. Something very familiar about that...) The other two were songs from 1984, but, since both spent one week at the top, that's probably why they didn't make it (since the list they compiled was roughly ranked by weeks spent at number one) but I'll bet both songs were right outside the chart, since they were hardly obscure.
Anyway, here is the list that I came up with:

1) Every Breath You Take/The Police
2) Endless Love/Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
3) Eye Of The Tiger/Survivor
4) Hard To Say I'm Sorry/Chicago
5) Sailing/Christopher Cross
6) When Doves Cry/Prince
7) It's Still Rock & Roll To Me/Billy Joel*
8) The One That You Love/Air Supply*
9) The Power Of Love/Huey Lewis & The News
10) I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)/Whitney Houston
11) Roll With It/Steve Winwood
12) Ghostbusters/Ray Parker, jr.
13) Right Here Waiting/Richard Marx
14) Monkey/George Michael
15) Shout/Tears For Fears
16) Magic/Olivia Newton-John*
17) Missing You/John Waite
18) Slow Hand/Pointer Sisters
19) The Flame/Cheap Trick
20) The Glory Of Love/Peter Cetera
21) Alone/Heart
22) Higher Love/Steve Winwood
23) If You Don't Know Me By Now/Simply Red
24) Papa Don't Preach/Madonna
25) Sussudio/Phil Collins
26) All Out Of Love/Air Supply*
27) Invisible Touch/Genesis
28) La Bamba/Los Lobos
29) All Those Years Ago/George Harrison*
30) Who's That Girl/Madonna
31) Maniac/Michael Sembello
32) Cold-Hearted/Paula Abdul
33) Every Time You Go Away/Paul Young
34) Sledgehammer/Peter Gabriel
35) Pour Some Sugar On Me/Def Leppard
36) Theme From "Greatest American Hero" (Believe It Or Not)/Joey Scarbury*
37) Shakedown/Bob Seger
38) The Reflex/Duran Duran
39) There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)/Billy Ocean
40) Raspberry Beret/Prince

The other eight songs that hit #1 during the summer:
Stuck On You/Lionel Richie*
Dancing In The Dark/Bruce Springsteen*
A View To A Kill/Duran Duran
Toy Soldiers/Martika
Good Thing/Fine Young Cannibals
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For/U2
Batdance/Prince
Dirty Diana/Michael Jackson

As you can see, "Stuck On You" and "Dancing In The Dark" probably came very close to the list since in 1990, they were hardly obscure. The Springsteen song wasn't anyway, and it still is not, since I hear it practically every weekend on Sunny 101.5's Totally 80s Weekends. They should have put the two songs on the list instead of songs like "Batdance" and "Dirty Diana" because both were only on the charts for eleven weeks and besides, what station was still playing those songs?
Anyway, I hope to somehow get my hands on the Top 40 British Hits Of The 80s, since that one sounds interesting.

[Hervard]

ulij20 said:

As you can see, they were pretty accurate with the rankings. Each song was listed in order of weeks at number one and ties were broken first with weeks in the Top 40. This is why I doubt that there were any other #1 movie songs from the 1980s that weren't listed here, since they were down to songs that spent a single week at number one and only eleven weeks on the chart, which was an unusually short chart run for a number one song as it is. The only other number one song from the 1980s I can think of that spent lesss than eleven weeks is "Truly" by Lionel Richie, and I don't believe it's from any motion picture.

I take that back, as I just thought of at least one movie hit that wasn't featured on this list. That would be "Love On The Rocks" by Neil Diamond, from "The Jazz Singer." That song was at number one for a week, before John Lennon's "Starting Over" cut its #1 run short. That song spent twelve weeks on the chart and, since ties seemed to be broken by weeks on the chart before weeks in the Top Ten, that song should have made it. Obscurity would likely have nothing to do with it, because there were many songs that radio no longer touched anymore by 1990...

ulij20 said:

Songs like "Endless Love", "Arthur's Theme", "Late In The Evening", "Purple Rain", "The Rose" and "Batdance". And probably even more, but, since it's been sixteen years, I don't really remember what was still being played at CHR and what was not.

[Shannon Lynn]

Has anyone come forth that actually has a copy of this show? Ev Swain has a scan of the labels of one of the LPs from this set on his website but he doesn't have the program. He said one sold on eBay a few years ago. I am trying to locate vinyl versions of this program, the CT40 Movie's Special and the CT40 Dance Hits Special. I remastered all of the other specials from original vinyl.

[Shannon Lynn]

While I am still searching for a vinyl set for the Movies Special and Dance Hits Special, the vinyl for the British Hits Special has surfaced and I'm remastering it. So far, here is how far I have gotten....

40 Red Red Wine - UB40
39 You Keep Me Hangin' On - Kim Wilde
38 Addicted To Love - Robert Palmer
37 Mony Mony - Billy Idol
36 She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals
35 The Reflex - Duran Duran
34 Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard
33 Wild Wild West - Escape Club
32 Owner Of A Lonely Heart - Yes
Extra - Top British Hit Of 60's - Hey Jude - Beatles
31 Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley
30 Do You Really Want To Hurt Me - Culture Club

[Shannon Lynn]

and through #12........

40 Red Red Wine - UB40
39 You Keep Me Hangin' On - Kim Wilde
38 Addicted To Love - Robert Palmer
37 Mony Mony - Billy Idol
36 She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals
35 The Reflex - Duran Duran
34 Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard
33 Wild Wild West - Escape Club
32 Owner Of A Lonely Heart - Yes
Extra - Top British Hit Of 60's - Hey Jude - Beatles
31 Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley
30 Do You Really Want To Hurt Me - Culture Club
29 Two Hearts - Phil Collins
28 Invisible Touch - Genesis
27 Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham
26 King Of Pain - Police
25 Love Bites - Def Leppard
24 West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
23 A Groovy Kind Of Love - Phil Collins
22 Higher Love - Steve Winwood
21 Careless Whisper - Wham
20 If You Don't Know Me By Now - Simply Red
19 Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears
18 I Just Died In Your Arms - Cutting Crew
17 Sussudio - Phil Collins
16 Missing You - John Waite
15 Shout - Tears For Fears
Extra - Top British Hit Of 70's - Don't Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John & Kiki Dee
14 Woman - John Lennon
13 Monkey - George Michael
12 Money For Nothing - Dire Straits