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The 19 September 2009 issue of the UK music trade magazine Music Week included a special supplement to celebrate its 50th anniversary. It contained updated charts of the top twenty best-selling singles of each decade of the magazine's existence, based on the most recent information available from the Official Charts Company (OCC).
[2] [3] This list shows singles that peaked in the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart during 1980, as well as singles which peaked in 1979 and 1981 but were in the top 10 in 1980. The entry date is when the single appeared in the top 10 for the first time (week ending, as published by the Official Charts Company, which is six days after the chart ...
16 September – Kate Bush becomes the first British female artist to reach number one in the UK album charts. 20 September – Ozzy Osbourne's debut album Blizzard of Ozz is released in the UK. 25 November – ABBA score the last of their nine number-one singles in the UK singles chart with "Super Trouper".
[1] [2] The chart was based entirely on sales of physical singles from retail outlets and announced on Tuesday until October 1987, when the Top 40 was revealed each Sunday, due to the new automated process. [3] During the 1980s there were a total of 191 singles which took the UK chart number 1 spot. [4]
In 1983 in the UK, music magazine Record Mirror championed the gay underground sound and began publishing a weekly Hi-NRG Chart. [23] Hi-NRG also entered the mainstream with hits in the UK singles chart, such as Hazell Dean's "Searchin' (I Gotta Find a Man)" and Evelyn Thomas's "High Energy".
The UK singles chart was first compiled in 1969. However, the records and statistics listed here date back to 1952 because the Official Charts Company counts a selected period of the New Musical Express chart (only from 1952 to 1960) and the Record Retailer chart from 1960 to 1969 as predecessors for the period prior to 11 February 1969, where multiples of competing charts coexisted side by side.
This list shows albums that peaked in the Top 10 of the UK Albums Chart during 1980, as well as albums which peaked in 1979 and 1981 but were in the top 10 in 1980. The entry date is when the album appeared in the top ten for the first time (week ending, as published by the Official Charts Company, which is six days after the chart is announced).
Gallup continued to compile the UK charts throughout the 1980s until January 1994. At the end of 1989 Gallup compiled the list of the best-selling singles of the 1980s, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 1, published in the music magazine Record Mirror, and published again in the book Guinness Hits of the 80s. No detailed equivalent list for the ...