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UK singles chart number ones UK singles chart 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Other charts Melody Maker – 1956–1969 Melody Maker – 1970s Melody Maker – 1980s NME – 1960s NME – 1970s NME – 1980s Record Mirror (1955–1962) Miscellaneous charts 1952–1969 Miscellaneous charts 1969–1988 Related Official Charts Company Christmas number one Melody Maker was a ...
Lists of Melody Maker number-one singles, from the British publication of the same name, are grouped as follows: List of Melody Maker number-one singles from 1956 to 1969; List of Melody Maker number-one singles of the 1970s; List of Melody Maker number-one singles of the 1980s
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UK singles chart number ones UK singles chart 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Other charts Melody Maker – 1956–1969 Melody Maker – 1970s Melody Maker – 1980s NME – 1960s NME – 1970s NME – 1980s Record Mirror (1955–1962) Miscellaneous charts 1952–1969 Miscellaneous charts 1969–1988 Related Official Charts Company Christmas number one NME (or New Musical ...
Gallup would continue to compile the single and album charts for a few more years past the elimination of NME and Melody Maker ' s independently compiled charts after the 14 May 1988 issues and their switching starting the next week to charts compiled by the Market Research Information Bureau., [1] until 30 June 1990 when the British ...
Melody Maker (7 September 1968 issue). The Melody Maker (MM) was slow to cover rock and roll and lost ground to the New Musical Express (NME), which had begun in 1952. MM launched its own weekly singles chart (a top 20) on 7 April 1956, [9] and an LPs charts in November 1958, two years after the Record Mirror had published the first UK Albums Chart. [10]
The Jam achieved four number ones during the 1980s, with three of them - "Going Underground", "Town Called Malice" and "Beat Surrender" - entering the chart at number one. In 1980 ABBA scored their two most recent number ones, their last being Super Trouper. John Lennon was murdered in 1980, and three of his singles reached number one ...
In the 1970s, the required number of sales needed to top the chart was roughly 150,000. [2] During 1992, when few releases were reaching number one, sales of CD singles were low: songs needed to sell only 60–70,000 each week to remain at the top. [3]