It’s déjà vu all over again in this week’s album chart as Cliff Richard‘s new oldies set Just… Fabulous Rock ‘n’ Roll enters the chart at number 4, one place above Elvis Presley’s latest repackaging. That’ll please him. David Bowie‘s … read more
A remarkable display of consistency from Bon Jovi as This House Is Not For Sale becomes their fifteenth consecutive top five hit album, entering today at number 5; incredibly their last album not to reach the top five was Slippery … read more
This month’s Virtual C90 includes new music from Madness, Bon Jovi, Status Quo and Chas & Dave, plus the usual mix of ’80s hits, misses and mixes. Enjoy! read more
Now very much in the twilight of their career, Status Quo enter the chart at number 7 with their latest acoustic set Aquostic II – That’s a Fact! just behind Phil Collins‘ The Singles which drops from 2 to 6. … read more
Every Saturday in our podcast-style-radio-show-thing Off The Chart, Steve Binnie and Julian Sparrow look at the chart from the corresponding week in one of the ’80s years and play the songs you don’t normally hear on a chart rundown. They … read more
In our new midweek podcast Tracey Binnie takes us through the ’80s alphabetically, with a little help and/or hindrance from obscure fact maestro Steve. Each edition of Alphabet Street features an hour or so of acts whose names begin with … read more
New Releases Paul Young releases a new album Good Thing while Phil Collins continues his Take A Look At Me Now series of reissues with newly expanded editions of 1985’s No Jacket Required and his 2002 set Testify. If you’ve … read more
“Welcome to Top of the Pops! Some 19 million people every week tune in to see some of the top acts of 1981 on this show!” That’s what Mike Read tells us, and as one of the co-authors of the … read more
Chart Watch Not much in the way of ’80s music in the charts this week, apart from David Bowie still hogging six positions in the album chart with Best of Bowie (#4), Nothing Has Changed (#20), ★ (#22), Hunky Dory … read more
Chart Watch David Bowie‘s grip on the album chart is beginning to loosen, with only Best of Bowie still in the top ten at number 4, although Nothing Has Changed (#15) and ★ (#17) are still in the top twenty … read more
Chart Watch David Bowie still has six albums in the top 100, with Best of Bowie holding steady at number 2 and his other compilation Nothing Has Changed at 13 just ahead of ★ at 14. Also still selling are … read more
This month we remember those we have lost in the past few weeks, including David Bowie, Lemmy from Motörhead, Colin Vearncombe from Black and John Bradbury of the Specials. There’s also new music from Megadeth and ABC and the usual … read more
