I would like to see more of the German, Swedish and Dutch.

Most of these didn't reach particularly high positions in the December 1981 charts, but I assume that's because most of the ones that did entered the chart in November (or earlier).

Is that the Grinch in the garden?

This must be the shortest video Francis has uploaded 😮

80’s top of the pops theme at the end 😮

Gosh so many Xmas 🎄 songs, some bad, good and awful 😮

Awesome thanks

christina agulerra looks good in that Lady Marmelade vid. not bad, for a wigr.

Das war ja nur schei...

nirvana being #1 ..........some of these songs SUCK.

way too much R & B and Hard Rock

0:24 10:00 10:35 Iconic Classic NZ Songs.

Dubstar ❤

Mike Berry from Are You Being Served. I didn't know he was once a pop star.

Dolly Dots! 🙌🏼

Merry Christmas Francis. Hope you had a wonderful day. Thank you for an excellent video. A very memorable list of songs here and a strong line up (apart from Gary Glitter). Dorothy's entry is the theme to 'Blind Date' hosted by the late Cilla Black. Corona...you became a star...in 2020 😂 My favourites are the beautiful environmentalist ballad from Michael Jackson. I remember my sister copying the bit with the dirt in the garden 😂😂 An underrated Christmas tune from Queen, the excellent 60s cover of 'Wonderwall' by Mike Flowers Pops. Mary J's excellent cover. Brilliant underrated comeback from The Beatles. The wonderful Luther / Janet duet and Prince's excellent 'Gold'. Throw in the beautiful Mariah / Boys II Men Duet.

I can't get my head around the Backstreet boys being around for 30 years

2 releases for Morrissey within the same month. I've learnt that with "Sunny" it was a previous label trying to cash in on the release of his Southpaw Grammar album by releasing a standalone single. Love "Free As A Bird" by The Beatles, I think that should have been No.1, but funnily enough it was held off by the very artist who owned the publishing rights to the Beatles songs. That's a different version of Tosh by Fluke, the best version I heard was the remix known as the Dosh remix (was it Curtis Mantronik who mixed that?) that I heard on "The Best...Album...In The World...Ever!" comp that year.

Joyeux Noël, Francis. Tous mes vœux. This chart reminds me of my first Christmas in a new house, getting satellite television for the first time and watching hour after hour of MTV Europe... Much to the annoyance of my parents. Good times.

This is like traveling back in time. Although I live in Norway some of these songs (if not all of them) were played here on radio and/or on MTV.

Thanks for doing this :)

I was 11 years old when these songs were in the charts.

- In subsequent 1996 re-releases, Faithless's Insomnia would reach #3 and Backstreet Boys' hit #8. - Just The One was the last of four Levellers' singles to peak at #12. (Only their debut EP did better, hitting #11).

Faithless "Insomnia" The Peak was #3 not #27

I was born on the 19th that year

Uk singles charts from 1995 completed

The birth of my brother!

Pefect job!

An interesting combination of countries… is there a particular reason?

1:10 I do own Madonna except for that song, so I'd really love her song and her dance routine in the music video.

High School

PT109, made during a time when movies, books and songs were made to show pride and admiration in the sitting President.

1991 was magic year

1:24 BIG TIME RUSH ❤

7:38 Hmm.... So I've never heard that song in my life.

Thank you Francis for an interesting video on the Dutch and Swedish top 20s in 1982. 👍 Excellent to see charts of other countries. Risque didn't sing on their songs (I knew this from a Dutch bf I had). Chattanooga would have been top 5 for Sweden in Eurovision 1982. Lisa Öhman would have done top 10 too. Chips' song rips off 'Waterloo'. They made the wrong choice. Glad 'I Love Rock n Roll' was #1 in both of those countries. That Doris D and the Pins song is a guilty pleasure 😂 June Lodge had an interesting career later on. Her voice (talking and singing) was used (and still is) for children's education tapes in her native Jamaica! The difference I have noticed is, Sweden quite with the times in their charts where with the Netherlands has a few 'schlager' influenced songs...although kudos for reggae in theirs but will take the chance with an out there #1 like the excellent 'Private Investigations'. I love 'Do You Really Want To Hurt Me'. Glad both countries appreciated ABBAs underrated gem 'The Day Before You Come'. Such a dark and touching song.

This is great, could you do this for the rest of the top 20 hit singles of the 80's from Sweden/Netherlands from 83 and then 1984 etc 😀 Please???

As a Dutchie I'm ashamed of 80% of the Dutch music.. Its soooo bad..Only like Doe Maar, T Goede Doel en Tower.

Once again I see songs of high artistic value being overtaken by ones that appeal to the masses...

Funny to see that Bolland and bolland had a huge hit in Sweden and in their home country, the Netherlands.. the song did nothing... At least not this version

Lots of British artists.

B-Movie's Nowhere Girl was a huge hit in Spain, one of the most famous here in those years.

michael bolton is the best .

The singer of "Boer Harms", Henk de Roo, passed away yesterday (20-12-2024) at age 69

6:37 Melfest eternal classic. Love this. 12/10.

Only a couple of Italian songs if I didn't see wrong. Both by Albano and Romina Power. Then there is a cover (Perikles) of the song "Sarà perché ti amo" that I had never listened to. In Italy I counted about 80 songs that reached the Top 20. Among the most successful I don't see "Paradise" by Phoebe Cates which reached first place in Italy (which I knew had been successful only in Italy) and one of the very first Italo-Disco songs to be successful, that is "Masterpiece" by Gazebo.

horrible number 1

No bob seger

Big radio fan in the 80s, and I have no recollection of the song at #159. Wikipedia shows that it never charted - are you sure that's the correct song?

Uff... Your Nightmare