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The Fab 40 (or Fab Forty) was the playlist for the station Wonderful Radio London. Also known as Big L, [1] Wonderful Radio London was a pirate radio station that operated from the MV Galaxy about three-and-a-half miles out from the coast of Frinton-on-Sea, Essex. [2]
The Fab 40 was the weekly playlist and was broadcast each Sunday as a chart based entirely on airplay. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] The station closed on 14 August 1967 when the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act 1967 came into effect, [ 21 ] [ 24 ] Later, rivals to the official chart would factor airplay into their charts.
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Some 30–40 years after they were in use, meticulous attempts were made to reconstruct the Fab 40 charts by Radio London Ltd. These drew on surviving lists prepared between 1965 and 1967, at Radio London's offices at 17 Curzon Street in London and informal ones compiled at the time by listeners, although there were sometimes discrepancies between the "official" list and the records that were ...
List of UK Singles Downloads Chart number ones of the 2020s; F. List of Fab 40 number-one singles; I. List of UK Independent Singles Chart number ones of the 1980s;
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List of albums which have spent the most weeks on the UK Albums Chart; List of artists with the most UK Albums Chart top tens; List of artists with the most UK singles chart top tens; List of best-selling albums of the 2000s (decade) in the United Kingdom; List of best-selling albums of the 2010s in the United Kingdom
Rage Against the Machine's 1992 single "Killing in the Name" outsold Joe McElderry in 2009 following a successful Facebook campaign against this trend. [14] This made them the first group to get a Christmas number one with a download-only single, and resulted in the most download sales in a single week in UK chart history. [14]