Every 1980s UK Chart Number 1 Song! (1980-1989)

[@Media_Ranker]

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[@FloweredUp-n4t]

Ko one cares.

[@LondonCrusader]

I will hope all those at KZbin HQ took enough of the mRNA shots they promoted.

[@joseluisespinosa3997]

Creo hay un error en red red wine,fue después .

[@TimeladyV]

The 80s had such wide range of music, it was an awesome time to be a teenager.

[@AbhilashGregory1985]

Thank God for the 1980s music! Listening as a wonderful medicine in dark times! Thank you for the wonderful compilation!

[@Media_Ranker]

Such a great era wasnt it! Thanks for watching!

[@JonathanReynolds1]

I miss the 80s!!

[@jeromecabral192]

80s were the best years ever. Shopping malls, music, best decade ever

[@Gary-o4v]

So do i mate,we had ups & downs in the UK in the eighties,far better than now.Better music,cars,tv,film free to air football,Kenner superhero figures,world of sport,and no woke bollocks.gr73.

[@MusicData04]

That's the era when a lot of my favorite music came out. I remember listening to it all the time with my friends.

[@benchanhkjc]

who don’t

[@olvinjanoisin2255]

This is the soundtrack of my teens. Thanks for the memories it brought back, wonderful music, especially 1981 -1985.

[@Media_Ranker]

You grew up in a great era! Thanks for watching

[@thomHD]

The amount of incredible music to come out of the UK, especially in that period from about 1963-99, is just remarkable.

[@Media_Ranker]

Yeah definitely, especially bands, one thing we know how to do is bands lol. Cheers

[@rupertschwarz1176]

Everytime I listen to 80ties song I simply must appriciate the wide, wide rage of songs and styles. Never a dull moment. The next song is always very different.

[@sandradowling-horgan4221]

As an Aussie teenager all through the 80s, I really enjoyed the clips.. Most of the songs I remember, but some I had forgotten about. Good memories, from simpler times. Thanks 😊

[@Media_Ranker]

Thanks for watching

[@RonaldResuello-gf6yz]

I can therefore conclude that British taste of music is better than American's. It's diverse and representative.

[@bapples]

Agree except for Shakin’ Stevens. I don’t get the appeal

[@dasnutnock6408]

@@bapples”The Welsh Elvis”

[@kaymanuel7256]

Never doubted it. I'm 63. English music and TV has always been the best

[@ingobund3596]

I've always ❤d British music/charts more than American. I prefer that, music from the British Isles is the BEST overall. Eurocharts are very good as well, so much nice music over here, so it's not just the UK. And it's also bc British or European ppl permit & appreciate more bands from all over the world, not from EUR, the US & AUS only. America is mostly interested in its own, they don't really care about the rest, and even haven't ever heard about so many fantastic songs and bands, which were huge here, not from those 3 continents only. Just to name a few, who knows Ofra Haza or Mory Kanté over there? Big hits, who doesn't remember those! Sadly they've passed away quite a long time ago. And Enya they know bc of 9/11 only, but how fantastic was Orinoco Flow 13yrs earlier for instance, still ❤❤❤ it !!! They only get some music of the UK & AUS sometimes, mayB a bit of Latin too. Europeans can be so lucky by having such a gr8 variety of hits. I'm just havin' so many nice mems right now. I've even known The Firms' Star Trekkin and Harry Enfields' Loadsamoney 😂🤣, which isn't in here. Even got a T-Shirt of it when i was in the UK in '88, but have known it b4 already, that's why...cost loads. The 🙂 scene was also gr8. And last but not least i've (had) such a big crush on "Koilee"😊, she's so lovely. Greets from a 54yr "old" German...

[@jamespohl-md2eq]

@@ingobund3596Derp

[@scottyk200]

Brilliant effort putting all this together.

[@Media_Ranker]

Thanks Scotty!

[@LisaCurnow-r6o]

What a great decade the 80's was. I'd almost forgotten some of those songs

[@SiAnon]

18 minutes of pure time machine. Oh i miss the 80s so much it hurts sometimes.

[@Media_Ranker]

A brilliant decade for music wasnt it! Thanks for watching

[@SiAnon]

@@Media_Ranker It was my friend. Even my own kids realise the music was amazing. But they don't get the emotions and memories attached to a lot of songs. These songs hit those of us who lived it a lot different.

[@Adamdow95]

Don't Stand So Close To Me Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic Every Breath You Take Let's Dance Red Red Wine Imagine Woman All Around the World The Tide Is High Desire Do They Know It's Christmas? Pass the Dutchie Under Pressure True Ghost Town Don't You Want Me Hand On Your Heart Careless Whisper China In Your Hand Take My Breath Away The Winner Takes It All Karma Chameleon Down Under You Can't Hurry Love Heaven Is A Place On Earth

[@gnu_andrew]

The most interesting thing about this chart is it's as much a story of what was happening in the 80s as it is just about the songs. You can see from the #1s when John Lennon died, when the Hillsborough disaster was, or when certain films were out. I'm not sure that happens as much these days. The charts of the 2010s seem to have been completely immune to what's been going on in the country over the past decade or so.

[@Media_Ranker]

Thats true, the only thing that springs to mind for the 2010s was i think there was a song for Grenfell? But other than some silly christmas songs (albeit for charity) i cant think of anything else. Cheers

[@gnu_andrew]

@@Media_Ranker yes this rings a bell, and maybe a few related to the pandemic. But most seem to be love songs these days.

[@ddlee84]

I mean it does tend to happen when but its mostly when things blow up on TikTok now that streams are taken into account for the chart. For example Stranger Things causing Kate Bush's Running up that Hill to hit number 1. You also had songs like The Queen is Dead and God Save the Queen re-chart due to streaming increases following the death of the Queen.

[@gnu_andrew]

@@ddlee84 yes, it still works where there is a single song to focus on, though it's harder because the convoluted streaming rules they have now weight against older songs. Honestly, the charts since streaming comes across more as a science experiment than an authorative record of what's popular. There were lots of examples of that in sales charts too, especially in the early 90s. Old songs like "Unchained Melody" by the Righteous Brothers and "Should I Stay or Should I Go" by the Clash made #1 through films & adverts. The three longest running number ones (Bryan Adams "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You", Wet Wet Wet "Love Is All Around" and Whitney Houston "I Will Always Love You") were all from films. When a death happens, you don't get the same concentration on a single song like you used to, since downloads became a thing, because anyone can download or stream pretty much any song now. When Elvis, John Lennon & Freddie Mercury died, there was a single record for people to buy that went to #1. In the first two cases, it had just been released before their death. By comparison, when Michael Jackson died, he didn't make #1, but his songs were all over the charts, because everyone had been downloading their own personal favourite, rather than everyone buying, say, "Man in the Mirror". Listening works differently to purchasing, so you don't get the same one week event where everyone goes out and buys a single and it shoots to #1. It took weeks for Kate Bush to climb up and I think they had to exempt her from the old song rule in the end. I think that's also why political and social events are not as represented any more.

[@Mick-f4e]

I disagree. In the 2010s we had the song for Jo Cox (MP who was shot) and Don't look back in anger (Manchester Arena Bombing), somewhere only we know (Philippine Typhoon appear), Love me like you do (50 shades of Grey), See you again (death of paul walker), Bridge over troubled water (Grenfell). That about as much as you can see in the 80s. You just seemed to miss all of this in the 2010s.

[@SuperJNG18]

It's funny seeing "Pass the Dutchie" and "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" back to back, two Caribbean-influenced songs that just so happen to feature their singers on trial in their music videos.

[@Media_Ranker]

I didnt even notice that element of their videos being the same youre right! lol cheers

[@ka5269]

Nostalgia overload!

[@aberamagold7509]

😂 you're right, it is.

[@sophiegeorge2816]

I was born in 77 so enjoyed listening to these and the memories they brought back

[@NickLaslett]

Cracked a huge smile every time the best selling song of the year graphic came up. I knew “Mistletoe & Wine” was coming, but I didn’t care. How can you not be proud to live in the UK during that decade and be there for so many cracking number 1’s. I believe “Shut up your face” kept Vienna by Ultravox off number 1. Paul Hardcastle’s 19, kept Duran Duran’s View to a kill off the top spot.

[@btetschner]

A+ video! LOVE IT! Awesome decade of songs there!

[@Media_Ranker]

Cheers, definitely a few strange ones too but i guess that goes for any decade. The 70s version of this coming soon

[@btetschner]

@@Media_Ranker Cheers, looking forward to it!

[@rjjcms1]

So am I.

[@kevintregunno9652]

Makes me feel time sick. This was my era, 15-24 years old. Every song represents a memory, be it mates, girls, holidays, world events, school, jobs, nights out or even just the song itself. Every month during '81-'86 felt like a separate time that I can still differentiate today, whereas now, I couldn’t tell you the difference between any year of the 21st century. LOL. Even lows like the Chicken Song and Star Trekin' had their place. So sad that the charts basically died in the late ‘90s. Totally meaningless today. Would have preferred each song to have at least double the time in this video, but still so amazing to relive, and at least half the time I knew want was coming next, the memories are that strong from the best decade ever. Thank you for posting.

[@Media_Ranker]

You definitely grew up in a great era! Thanks for watching!

[@ipudisciple]

The Chicken song? A low?? Go stick a deckchair up your nose, sir!

[@ninirossau2304]

funny thing is that star trekking sometimes pops into my head to put a smile on my face. always going forward cause we cant find reverse!

[@giasfelfebrehberc]

Well I have a problem with that. Just because modern music doesn't appeal to you doesn't mean today's generation won't have positive experiences and nostalgia for it.

[@v1e1r1g1e1]

@@giasfelfebrehberc Stick around. I bet in 20 years' time, the young generation then will hate the music of the 2020's as much as the Boomers, X-ers and Millennials do.

[@Thomass42]

Thanks, and I am suprised how many songs are totaly new to me, although I grew up in this time and was totally into music, but in germany, we had a total different chart.

[@davidthomas3826]

The 80s started out with Dexys Midnight Runners, The Jam, and The Police but finished with Bros, Jason Donovan, and Jive Bunny. It was a great decade overall but I think a little bit of rot set in during the 1980s

[@partyflockske]

i'm getting more and more nostalgic since a couple of weeks (in my 50's ) and it's so nice to make a trip back to the times that where simpeler :)

[@stevehensonuk]

The late 80s have a lot to answer for, the early 80s though? Fantastic

[@oc5297]

The brainrot. Late 80s is the best part of this.

[@EchoBeach501]

There's a few gems in the late 80s, but the late 80s did see the birth of manufactured pop with Stock, Aitkin and Waterman. This then led to Simon Fuller and Simon Cowell jumping on the bandwagon, making loads of money and providing an assault our eardrums!

[@t_albino]

Early 80s are my favourite, 1980-3 so much experimentation going on.

[@romystumpy1197]

​@@EchoBeach501I agree,

[@stevegee8010]

I agree. 1979 - 1984 were the best years for me with music. I guess that was the new wave era.

[@BecksW78]

I enjoyed this so much. Some I’d forgotten about so will seek them out to listen to again. Please do a 90s number 1 video as well!

[@Media_Ranker]

Thank you! Ive just done the 70s one (early access on my Patreon now) but the 90s will now be the next one. Cheers

[@igblocks3406]

ABBA, George Michael, Rick Astley, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Madonna, Kylie Minogue Is The Best!! So Great Songs!!

[@OnlyGoodMusic_]

David Bowie!

[@Schlermie]

There's some wicked stuff in this list, for sure. I don't even know how some of these even got into the top 40 for a day. There's No One Quite Like Grandma?

[@Media_Ranker]

Yeah definitely some strange ones here lol. Thanks for watching

[@craigs71]

The song Shaddap You Face kept the great Ultravox song Vienna of the top spot, some things never changes it would seem.

[@Schlermie]

Argh! That's criminal!

[@Jackson_Blagg]

I saw your pinned comment. I hope you’re still doing well for yourself, I definitely appreciate this type of content!

[@Media_Ranker]

Appreciate it Jackson! Yeah doing well thanks i am still managing to get some work for my old man so i can do this while working around that. Actually my next video now will be the 90s version of this. Cheers

[@gargantuk]

Very well put together. The same thing for the 70s would be much appreciated...👏👏

[@Media_Ranker]

Thanks! The 70s will be the next one of these, coming soon

[@stingersplash]

Also crazy thinking back on how popular Jive Bunny was for 5 months in 1989. Three number 1s and 9 weeks at the top. And I think after those 3 it was all over. Viral sensation before it even was a thing.

[@Media_Ranker]

Yeah and as that was just before my time i only learned about it when i made this video lol it was quite random really! Thanks for watching

[@btetschner]

x The most British song on this video is "There's No One Quite Like Grandma" by St Winifred's School Choir! x It says a lot about how much the UK loves Christmas after seeing "Do They Know It's Christmas?" by Ban Aid is the best-selling song of the decade! x "Final Countdown" by Europe is the song that is played when the Nebraska Football team runs out onto the field!

[@onehopeonequest]

That has made my heart sing. Thank you.

[@mediamike693]

++++++OH YES MUSICLLY 🎵🎸🎶+++1980-81 HAD IT+++🤩🤣🤩+++LOVED IT+++🎶🎺🥁+++ROCK ON+++

[@presstodelete1165]

Wow, that brought back so many moments, thankyou.

[@Media_Ranker]

Thanks for watching!

[@stevemcelmy9354]

Wow great songs but surprising some of the iconic 80s tunes that never made #1. Aha Take me on, U2 WTSHNN, Ultravox Vienna..

[@benchanhkjc]

the 80’s was so good

[@seanharrigan6365]

It's definitely interesting to hear what the UK was listening to in the 80s. This is definitely the pop chart. So many UK bands succeeded in America, and we're non-existent on this list.

[@Media_Ranker]

Yeah one thing i've learned with this is that the songs that get to number 1 don't necessarily represent the songs that will have actual longevity, and the artists who made them too. I'm sure that's not unique to the UK though really. Cheers

[@BillyRamamonjindraibe]

Wow! So many songs that I didn't even know. Thanks for the discovery. But it's still criminal that we couldn't find in 1984, neither "I want to break free", nor "Forever young", nor "Smooth operator", nor "Neverending Story"!😮‍💨

[@JontyMaster]

Star Trekkin across the universe 😂

[@Media_Ranker]

One of a few bizarre ones here, id never heard that before doing this lol. Thanks for watching

[@rjjcms1]

Boldly going forward 'cos we can't find reverse!

[@gillclapham9683]

Brought back some great memories sitting watching top of the pops , loving the great music of the 80s , I was 15 to 24 in the 80s ,fantastic era , so miss the 80s

[@Media_Ranker]

The 80s was just before my time but i can tell that was the best era for Top Of The Pops, or at least it seems that way! Cheers

[@joshuah9109]

I was 12 when "PINK FLOYD'S: THE WALL" movie came out. My older brother loved it and we watched it on VHS (ya know, these things 📼). I liked the animated parts, hated the rest. I rewatched it in my 20's, that movie is criminally underrated!! I'm 54 now and when I revisit that film I'm transfixed!! It's such a good film...unless your a 12yr old me, then skip it.

[@Media_Ranker]

Haha i am just old enough to remember videos and video stores, blockbuster and local ones, but i really need to get around to watching the full movie considering they are really my favourite band! Ive listened to the album countless times though. Cheers

[@gnu_andrew]

@@Media_Ranker it's one I still need to get around to watching as well (and sounds like I've had longer to do so 😂 ) From the little I know of it, I think it's a film you're only going to get fully as an adult with some of the themes. It'd be nice if they screened it in cinemas again, perhaps for an anniversary.

[@michaelkremser1107]

Unbelievable good songs, thanks for uploading

[@Media_Ranker]

Thanks for watching

[@silverfox8801]

That was 18 minutes well spent!👍👍

[@Media_Ranker]

Thanks! Next one of these will be the 70s, coming soon

[@paddylynch2908]

This is the best video of it's kind for UK number 1s! A little request in future would be to keep the song sample legth consistent within the 5 seconds you have to avoid copyright. I would have sent it in for a streamer i watch, but i think the disparity with some songs having shorter sample times than others would be harder to convince him to watch it on stream. If you were to do a big project on every number 1 ever into one video i'd absolutely do my utmost to convince him to react on stream. Regardless i do sincerely enjoy and appreciate the video!

[@Media_Ranker]

Thanks. I do manage to avoid it with an average clip time slightly longer than that ive found, theres always some i see if i can get away with or i have to trim after upload, which i would have with this but there is no copyright claim at all on this, same with all the videos. I only make them public after ive done all of that. Are they on Twitch cause i think thats less of an issue anyway isnt it? Who is the streamer if you dont mind me asking? I will likely do individual decades first now that ive started with the 80s and 2000s but i could potentially do that, would be a pretty long video though. My next video, possibly uploaded this evening, will be every Billboard number 1 by british artists which goes from 1962-2022. Cheers

[@dasnutnock6408]

The 80s was the best decade for pop music. There can be no argument.

[@Media_Ranker]

Yeah i think most would agree really! Cheers

[@davidchalk8883]

Except from the people who know it qas the 6çs, or the ones who think it was the 70s😅

[@dasnutnock6408]

@@davidchalk8883 I'd say the 60s was most revolutionary, 70s was best for rock and the 80s for pop

[@Philliben1991]

The 80s was the worst decade for music out of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. Not saying there wasn't good music around but all those other decades were better.

[@WallyPyneoil]

@@Philliben1991 You know, of course. The definitive opinion.

[@DanielEarlester]

These songs would be number 1 for weeks these days

[@TheWatch2024OO]

Some of these songs bring back some memories!

[@ETIKUT99]

This makes me so happy and so sad all at the same time! Happy because I was there and lived it, every song brings up some kind of memory but so sad as it’s gone and I can never go back, I guess that’s what makes it so great tho!!

[@Media_Ranker]

Yeah definitely! Thanks for watching

[@roomullan3050]

I loved this !!!! The best decade of my life

[@Media_Ranker]

Thanks for watching, the 80s was a great decade, even better than what was in this too actually!

[@Alessandro-1977]

I wonder that the Clash in the early '80s never had a n°1 single (or album) in the UK charts. I thought that for example " Sandinista ! " was a pretty successful record in Britain at those times

[@Media_Ranker]

Yeah its funny that sometimes these iconic bands and artists never really had the chart success at the time that we think they must have done, im not sure they even had a top 5 single actually. Maybe Should I Stay Or Should I Go but that may have been a re release later on. Obviously doesnt change their legacy at all! Cheers

[@gnu_andrew]

@@Media_Ranker "Should I Stay or Should I Go" made #1 in the early 90s, one of a few that made it because of adverts for Levi's ("Boombastic" by Shaggy is another)

[@rjjcms1]

London Calling #11 in January 1980 Daddy Was a Bank Robber #12 in August/September 1980 Should I Stay or Should I Go/Straight to Hell (double A side) #17 in October 1982 were the three nearest they got in the singles chart in the 80s - so not even a top 10 hit,astonishingly! Surely the London Calling album,and perhaps Give 'Em Enough Rope and Sandinista,got higher than that in the album charts?

[@aaronlegg1702]

Nothing beats the 80’s, funnily enough, a town called malice is about my hometown of Woking, my mum grew up on the same estate as Paul weller, my auntie even dated him before the jam got big

[@Media_Ranker]

Never would have guessed it was Woking lol but thats very cool! Cheers

[@angelinemayaaa]

i live in woking too!!

[@jamesheath7601]

1980 0:01 1981 2:21 1982 4:10 1983 6:15 1984 7:50 1985 9:13 1986 11:06 1987 13:00 1988 14:51 1989 16:40 1990 18:21

[@paulbox9350]

The jam greatest band ever & Weller is still having number 1 albums 42 years later 👍

[@Media_Ranker]

They really are/were brilliant, they should definitely be at the same global standing as a lot of big British bands! Cheers

[@NickLaslett]

Just a comment for context, the UK music scene was very much album artists and single artists. For example Dire Straits did not score a number 1 from Brothers in Arms, but the album was huge and everybody bought that instead, same with Pink Floyd’s, U2, Iron Maiden, etc. Whereas a band like Madness were very much a singles act.

[@akwk2712]

Now I can make an 80’s no.1 playlist on Spotify, thanks 👍

[@Media_Ranker]

Thanks, i will also be making playlists for all the videos...at some point lol. Cheers

[@mandicamunak2001]

Love these lists, so many memories ❤

[@Media_Ranker]

Thanks for watching. The same video for the 1970s coming very soon!

[@cassandraduran9056]

I was teenager in 80’s

[@Media_Ranker]

Very lucky to grow up with 80s music! Thanks for watching

[@aberamagold7509]

Good for you 😅😅😅 I was too, but only 81 and 82. Odd but fun time.

[@IanAnthonyMartin]

Too many novelty records (as in every decade), yes, Nick Berry, you're in that list.

[@entropybentwhistle]

Quite a difference across the pond. I was a teen in Canada in the ‘80s, listened to the top 10 almost every night, but about 40% of these tunes I have never even heard and even some of the artists are unfamiliar to me. Probably a similar perspective looking back, with the 30% Canadian Content (CanCon) rules radio stations had to adhere to.

[@Ordinaryman9999]

I was 9-19 y.o. during this decade so this music hade a big impact.

[@debbieatkinson6072]

Brings back so many memories 😊

[@jonosmith4919]

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[@NathanLWHughes]

We really were spoilt back then.

[@t_albino]

And the fact that some of the best music was kept off the top spot by some really questionable choices. My favourite has to be Ultravox Vienna being denied no. 1 status by flippin' Shaddap your face 😂

[@LiamMonticelli]

Some would say the same of Last Christmas Vs Do They Know It's Christmas.

[@mattaff1]

some great memories whilst watching. spitting image gave me a huge smile

[@LiamMonticelli]

I hear distinct phases. New romantic. Stock Aitken Waterman. The proliferation of music from the 60s in UK TV ads. The rise of house (Jack Your Body, Theme From S'Xpress and Pump Up The Volume stand out in particular). It's a fascinating chronology of the period. Practically a historical document.

[@WallyPyneoil]

The 60s songs thing was not as good as the 70s 50s revival, IMHO.

[@brianandrea3249]

Defintely. You could literally pick the year just by the style of music. Early 80s Ska and post punk/new wave.

[@leebob4654]

The uk has always been a good judge for great music.

[@kentune38]

That was fantastic

[@Media_Ranker]

Cheers! Next one will be the 70s, coming soon!

[@ravusursi893]

This is the soundtrack to my life! Love it!

[@Media_Ranker]

Thanks for watching

[@ravusursi893]

@@Media_Ranker Thanks for posting! 👍🏻

[@kruel2802]

Got rickrolled, thank you.

[@percyivegotabluerinse4467]

Great compilation, many thanks. I'm sure Reet Petite was 1986 Christmas number one and not Caravan of Love as the dates suggest.

[@80sandretrogubbins25]

Apart from 1983 which I seem not to remember too well, this is a great memento especially the cherished 1980-85 period.

[@Media_Ranker]

I actually have a specific video on that year, lots of great songs. Also have one for 1984 too. Thanks for watching

[@lawrencenjawe9875]

Before watching this video I braced myself for some great songs from my youth (and for some horrible ones too). Songs like Respectable from Mel and Kim, and Tiffany's I think we're alone now and Belinda Carlisle's Heaven is a Place on Earth had virtually disappeared from my memory 😁

[@sarahpagett9191]

I miss the 80s especially queen 😢

[@ridikerous]

OMG 1980 alone was a ride...Kenny Rogers...a kid's choir...

[@garycambridge5513]

Still the best decade imo - Madonna , MJ , Prince and Belinda Carlisle were my faves

[@ShadowNightWarrior]

Whitney. She's underrated.

[@MikeCee7]

I thought the HouseMartin’s “Caravan of love” 12:54 missed out on being the UK Christmas #1 by Jackie Wilson “Reet Petite”. 13:00 But according to the dates in this video, it looks like The Housemartins were the UK Christmas number one.

[@Media_Ranker]

Yeah only for one week though, then from the end of December Reet Petite was number 1 for 4 weeks. Cheers

[@MikeCee7]

@@Media_Ranker thank you for responding, but that wasn’t my question. I had stayed, that per the video, that the Housemartins were number one for one week. But ny question was: Who was the “Christmas number one” in 1986? When I was visiting England at Christmas time in 1986, I was told that the Housemartin’s just “Missed out” on being the Christmas number one. (but the dates in this video don’t correspond with that statement)

[@Media_Ranker]

@@MikeCee7 My bad i didnt realise thats what you were directly asking. I think it can be how the weekly charts are/were recorded as the day of the week that the chart was announced has changed before. For this list i was working with it was saturday to saturday so The Housemartins were number 1 from saturday 20th then Reet Petite took it from Saturday 27th December. But i dont know if it was actually announced on a different day at the time etc. I did see something that said Reed Petite made Jackie Wilson the first ever posthumous christmas number 1 though. Cheers

[@MikeCee7]

@@Media_Ranker Thanks for your reply. So I only can assume, that in the UK, they must choose their number one song sometime in the middle of the week(?) So on some day after (December 20, 1986) and

[@akihikoenomoto6696]

Back to the 80'S

[@brantnuttall]

little known fact. Jive Bunny was used by DJ's when they were "doing the jive bunny" because the record was long enough!

[@crichards3533]

When getting to no1 was all about physical sales. Loved the 80s great music and the birth of my obsession with Madonna ❤

[@lorddarlo6194]

Duran Duran, UB40, Spandau Ballet all from Birmingham. Brum is massive the Specials from Coventry to the Midlands overall is massive

[@adamali813]

Good stuff, but Thriller, Beat It, Ghostbusters, and Take on me, were missing in 1984?

[@Media_Ranker]

Yeah surprisingly none of those actually got to number one in the UK. Cheers

[@80sandretrogubbins25]

Take On Me reached #2 in the UK.

[@yettsoman4364]

Got RickRolled in 87!😂

[@НикитаРозвод]

Billie Jean for 1 week is crazy

[@shankarsiv]

"Beat It" peaking at #3 is crazier.

[@alfredthegreat9543]

Not when you think about it a bit more..... .........got it yet? 😊 ........... Everybody was buying the album that had it on, that little known one, "Thriller" I think 😁😁😁 And I mean everybody, I was about 14 at the time, so many kids at school got it for Christmas it was crazy- Billie Jean was released in January, and everyone else left went out and got the album when they heard it.

[@johnmc3862]

It obviously wasn't promoted properly. Also the charts were completely corrupt. Mass buying by record companies to promote their signed acts. In certain more valued areas. Check out Roger Cooks report on it.

[@johnmc3862]

It was probably Dexys knocked it off the charts and it did in the US.

[@shankarsiv]

@@alfredthegreat9543 Got it. The album spent 8 weeks at No. 1, 81 weeks in the Top 10, 260 weeks in the Top 100 (if I am reading the entry on Official Charts website). Astounding.

[@Kunigun]

Want All This in My Library as Playlist!

[@Media_Ranker]

Definitely planning to make all the videos into Spotify playlists and some point soon, someone might beat me to it though. Cheers

[@ChimpingBulldog]

Great... shaddupya face was no.1 the week i was born.

[@Media_Ranker]

Lol that is unfortunate! Well its unfortunate that song was ever number 1 at all really! Cheers

[@jaysmith2858]

Joe Dolce stopped Vienna by Ultravox topping the charts. One of the biggest travesties in the history of the UK music charts. Anybody who bought Shaddap You Face should have automatically been thrown into a padded cell, or at least put on some kind of register/watchlist for loons.

[@CIMAmotor]

@@Media_Ranker Especially when it kept the superb Vienna by Ultravox at number 2!

[@t_albino]

Brilliant! I was looking for a video like this. Can you do one for the 60s 70s 90s too?

[@Media_Ranker]

Thanks! Yep all coming soon, 2010s too, but the next one will be the 70s. Cheers

[@fredrikgustafson3135]

Quite remarkable that so many great songs only made it for one or two, maybe three, weeks. Also remarkable that so many classic songs were replaced by absolute train wrecks.

[@TheIppoippo]

Context: I was born in November 1976. I'm watching this. 1984 is an incredible year! 86-88 is also strong.

[@Media_Ranker]

It really was i actually have a video specifically on all the big songs that came out in 1984 if you want to check that out. Thanks for watching

[@TheWorldofGood79]

Three of the four No.1's by The Jam actually entered at No.1 Going Underground, Town Called Malice & Beat Surrender. Start entered at No. 3 before getting to No.1. The Jam also hold a unique record for having the two biggest selling import singles in the uk. That's Entertainment got to No.21 in 1981 on German import & Just Who is the 5 O'clock Hero got to No.8 in 1982 on Dutch import.

[@brantnuttall]

14:03 YES! The best song!

[@fishyc150]

In the late 80s it was said "the 80s was the decade music forgot" as a play on the saying "the 70s was the decade fashion forgot". There were countless crap songs we've long since forgotten. Yet the greats will be remembered as some of the greatest from any decade.

[@jr-ox2vp]

Niceeeee...looks weird to me that all those years UK had not even one Depeche Mode song as their n.1 at any week and that M.J. was not as popular as Madonna

[@Media_Ranker]

Yeah, Queen and Elton John were also a surprise for me when it comes to lack of number 1s. Both would have many top 10s and top 5s though i imagine, ill be doing of videos of every number 2 etc too. Cheers

[@jr-ox2vp]

That's true.. Crossed my mind regarding Queen as well but I said.. Can't be for artists like these that were participating in Live aid even (meaning they were already tops of the tops) to not be amongst n.1 🤔 Seems crazy, at least 😅

[@rjjcms1]

@@Media_Ranker You'd be right about that. Plus loads for MJ.

[@NickLaslett]

@@Media_Ranker Yes, so many classic No.2 songs

[@danielroach5415]

pretty consistent there - barely a dozen that I didn't like, mostly from 87-89

[@Media_Ranker]

Im going to do every number 2 song too, maybe the same for each placement up to number 5, i actually think theres a chance those videos will be stronger overall too. Cheers

[@danielroach5415]

@@Media_Ranker sounds good - maybe for the "peaked at number 2" - you could name the song(S) that kept it from number one - is there a worse one than vienna being kept off by shaddap your face?

[@robertrosalez6560]

I don't agree early 80's was bad I like late 80's

[@rjjcms1]

@@Media_Ranker I've been waiting for someone to make videos for the number 3s,number 4s and number 5s for ages! Should be very interesting. Did you know that the first revealing of the new chart (Top 40) used to be on Radio 1 at lunchtime on a Tuesday? I tried to always find a way of catching that if I could. It used to start at 12.45 after Newsbeat and was hosted for many years by Paul Burnett. The format was that he played the single at number,then number 4,then number 3 and then number 2. Then (with some background music presumably of his choosing) he would read aloud through the entire Top 40 from bottom to top,starting at number and finishing at number 1. Then,in the last three or four minutes before 1 o'clock he would play the number 1. In the hour between 1 o'clock and 2 o'clock he would play all the new entries and climbers in the Top 40. I remember listening to the new chart on my parent's living room stereo many times (if on holiday from school or college and at home) in the late 70s and early 80s. There was this one time at the start of 1981 when they played numbers 5,4,3 and 2 in that order as usual (Just Like Starting Over,Ant Music,Stop the Cavalry and Happy Xmas War is Over),and we hadn't had the previous week's number 1 yet,which was There's No-one Quite Like Grandma so I was thinking "oh no that's going to be bloody number 1 again!" Then the reading up of the new Top 40 got from 40 all the way to number 7 and we hadn't had Imagine by John Lennon,which had flown back into the charts the previous week straight in at number 9 following the sad events of a couple of weeks previously. Was it number 6 then? No,There's No-one Quite Like Grandma crashed from number 1 down to number 6 and Imagine was number 1 instead! The Sunday played-in-full Top 40 rundown was the chart first revealed on the previous Tuesday (or Wednesday if straight after a Bank Holiday) and shown on Top of the Pops on the Thursday evening. This was handy if there was a particular songs or songs that (because you didn't have the cash to buy them) you wanted to record them off the radio during the Sunday rundown as if you knew what number they were already you could be all poised and ready for them. This arrangement changed to one more failair today when advances in information technology enabled them to compile the chart more quickly and efficiently and make the Sunday rundown (two days earlier than was the case before) the first revealing of the new Top 40 from late September 1987 onwards.

[@gnu_andrew]

@@danielroach5415 it was actually John Lennon's "Woman" that kept it off #1 to begin with, but everyone remembers "Shaddap Your Face" replacing Lennon and Ultravox not getting a look in. I don't think there are any where it's such a clear cut case of a critically acclaimed song being blocked by an obvious novelty record. The closest I can think of is Robson & Jerome stopping numerous songs getting to #1 in the 90s, including "Common People" by Pulp and "Wonderwall" by Oasis. I was quite pleased when "Mr Blobby" blocked Take That from #1, but I imagine plenty of teenage girls were not.

[@hughwilloughby8590]

95% absolute classics. One or two that have not stood the test of time perhaps (Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley for example), and a couple which are remembered but no longer played (The Crowd, Ferry Aid, Band Aid II), but otherwise it totally wiped the fragmented post-Millennium charts off the floor.

[@Media_Ranker]

Yeah and when you think of all the massive 80s songs, by massive artists, that are still played today that didnt get to number 1 at the time too! Cheers

[@culture-education]

Top artists ❤❤❤

[@somethingelse4878]

Seeing going underground from the jam was fantastic to me at 14

[@Media_Ranker]

That song just gets better and better, The Jam do generally actually, aged very well! Cheers

[@somethingelse4878]

@@Media_RankerThe family have been playing transvision vamp recently They were really good at the time and underrated Also bloodhound gang But yeah setting sons was probably the best jam album and little boy soldiers was fantastic at the time Try bringing an LP stuffed down the front of your leather jacket riding a Yamaha ypvs 350 at over 100 miles an hour I was very lucky that it didn't break lol

[@ValerieHumbert-w8y]

Would it be possible to make a video of the same kind on different continents?

[@Media_Ranker]

Definitely want to with other nations, not every country has as easy access to chart records though. There might be an overall chart for Europe for each decade, i could do every European number 1 if there is for example. Cheers

[@sanchoodell6789]

4:28 That's where *Cold Play's* *"Talk"* riff was ripped off from!

[@Media_Ranker]

It must be an official sample or interpolation they got permission for, if not im sure they probably got sued lol. Cheers

[@safeashouses211]

@@Media_Ranker They asked permission. There are a couple of versions of this story. One is that they got a one-worded reply that simply said, "Yes". Another one is that the reply was, "Yes, you can use it, and thank you very much for asking my permission, unlike that bastard Jay-Z".

[@Media_Ranker]

@@safeashouses211 Oh right i didnt know that, didnt know Jay-Z sampled them too!

[@80sandretrogubbins25]

Chris Martin wrote to Ralf Hutter in German to ask permission.

[@PetraNaefcke]

Hi! Very cool compilation. Can you perhaps tell me from which video the "Stand and Deliver" (Adam and the Ants) snippet is? That would be great! Keep up the cool work.

[@Media_Ranker]

Thanks! That was on youtube but i actually couldnt find a video that had loud enough audio, so i had to dub the audio from spotify behind the video from youtube. Cheers

[@PetraNaefcke]

@@Media_Ranker many thanks for the quick reply. I'll try to find the vid on YT then. Still in love with Adam Ant and his music after more than fourty years, so it's always fun to see him and his vids somewhere. Thanks again and greetings from Germany.