Bryan Adams & Ryan Adams

I'm reminded again of how meaningless the charts are nowadays.
"Summer 69" only hit 42 in the uk charts. "It's only love" tina turner hit 29.
Yet pretty much everyone knows them. Stuff in the charts now, number 1,2,3,4,5 .. who gives a **** and few know now what they are never mind in 30 years!

Who publishes their music? Apple?

I'm reminded again of how meaningless the charts are nowadays.
"Summer 69" only hit 42 in the uk charts. "It's only love" tina turner hit 29.
Yet pretty much everyone knows them. Stuff in the charts now, number 1,2,3,4,5 .. who gives a **** and few know now what they are never mind in 30 years!

In 1977 Bowie's 'Heroes' peaked at #24 in the UK charts, meaning that week, there were 23 'better' songs being bought in the UK

There hasn't been 23 better songs in the entire history of pop music.

The charts are lame and always will be.

it was more or less what was selling out of a selected few retailers

if bowie fans went to local record shops and otters went to woollies
then whatever the otters were being fed on radio 1 was higher in
the charts.


bryan adams summer of 69 was somewhat restricred on beeb playlists given the
meaning of the song.

j

If you Google "Ron Atkinson birthday", you get:

Rowan Atkinson/Date of birth
6 January 1955
age 64 years

October 77

    1    David Soul    Silver Lady
    2    La Belle Epoque    Black Is Black
    3    Baccara    Yes Sir I Can Boogie
    4    Danny Mirror    I Remember Elvis Presley
    5    Rod Stewart    You're In My Heart
    6    Emotions    Best Of My Love
    7    Elvis Presley    Way Down
    8    Stranglers    No More Heroes
    9    Meco    Star Wars Theme
    10    Patsy Gallant    From New York To LA
    11    Ram Jam    Black Betty
    12    Meri Wilson    Telephone Man
    13    Yes    Wonderous Stories
    14    Status Quo    Rockin' All Over The World
    15    Space    Magic Fly
    16    Donna Summer    I Remember Yesterday
    17    Giorgio    From Here To Eternity
    18    Yvonne Elliman    I Can't Get You Out Of My Mind
    19    Donna Summer    Down Deep Inside
    20    Carpenters    Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft
    21    Jean Michel Jarre    Oxygene Part IV
    22    Leo Sayer    Thunder In My Heart
    23    Nazareth    Hot Tracks EP
    24    Sex Pistols    Holiday In The Sun
    25    David Bowie    Heroes
    26    Carly Simon    Nobody Does It Better
    27    George Benson    Greatest Love Of All
    28    Boomtown Rats    Looking After Number One
    29    David Essex    Cool Out Tonight
    30    Rose Royce    Do Your Dance


Writing for NME on its release, Charlie Gillett slated the record, saying: "Well he had a pretty good run for our money, for a guy who was no singer. But I think his time has been and gone, and this just sounds weary. Then again, maybe the ponderous heavy riff will be absorbed on the radio, and the monotonous feel may just be hypnotic enough to drag people into buying it. I hope not."[23] Despite the poor review it featured at number 6 in the NME's end of year critics poll for 1977.[24]

1    David Soul    Silver Lady
    2    La Belle Epoque    Black Is Black
    3    Baccara    Yes Sir I Can Boogie
    4    Danny Mirror    I Remember Elvis Presley
    5    Rod Stewart    You're In My Heart
    6    Emotions    Best Of My Love
    7    Elvis Presley    Way Down
    8    Stranglers    No More Heroes
    9    Meco    Star Wars Theme
    10    Patsy Gallant    From New York To LA
    11    Ram Jam    Black Betty
    12    Meri Wilson    Telephone Man
    13    Yes    Wonderous Stories
    14    Status Quo    Rockin' All Over The World
    15    Space    Magic Fly
    16    Donna Summer    I Remember Yesterday
    17    Giorgio    From Here To Eternity
    18    Yvonne Elliman    I Can't Get You Out Of My Mind
    19    Donna Summer    Down Deep Inside
    20    Carpenters    Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft
    21    Jean Michel Jarre    Oxygene Part IV
    22    Leo Sayer    Thunder In My Heart
    23    Nazareth    Hot Tracks EP
    24    Sex Pistols    Holiday In The Sun
    25    David Bowie    Heroes
    26    Carly Simon    Nobody Does It Better
    27    George Benson    Greatest Love Of All
    28    Boomtown Rats    Looking After Number One
    29    David Essex    Cool Out Tonight
    30    Rose Royce    Do Your Dance


got all the ones in bold...

Apr 27, 2019 -- 10:47AM, screaming from beneaththewaves wrote:

If you Google "Ron Atkinson birthday", you get:Rowan Atkinson/Date of birth6 January 1955age 64 years

That's what we call a thick lazy blogger

Apr 27, 2019 -- 8:35AM, Hanx wrote:

I'm reminded again of how meaningless the charts are nowadays."Summer 69" only hit 42 in the uk charts. "It's only love" tina turner hit 29.Yet pretty much everyone knows them. Stuff in the charts now, number 1,2,3,4,5 .. who gives a **** and few know now what they are never mind in 30 years!In 1977 Bowie's 'Heroes' peaked at #24 in the UK charts, meaning that week, there were 23 'better' songs being bought in the UKThere hasn't been 23 better songs in the entire history of pop music.The charts are lame and always will be.

Charts reflect current popularity and aren't a measure of how popular the song will remain decades down the road. I dont think such a tool exists. You can't conveniently pick a legendary song, open the charts for the year it was released in, call out all the songs above it and say oh that chart certainly didn't work. Rankings are like that most of the times.

If you look at the first chart (which is during DISCO FEVAHHHHH!!!!!) I'd say :

    3    Baccara    Yes Sir I Can Boogie
    7    Elvis Presley    Way Down
    8    Stranglers    No More Heroes
    11    Ram Jam    Black Betty
    14    Status Quo    Rockin' All Over The World
    20    Carpenters    Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft
    21    Jean Michel Jarre    Oxygene Part IV

are probably all songs people not born then would know reasoanblly well now?

BTW I had to google this and this is just a 70s gem :)
    9    Meco    Star Wars Theme ?????????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOp04pxm7ro

It's the Star Wars music in a bold loud big band style with a disco beat and a load of dancers
dancing to it. There's not much more 70s than that!

Lol and Donny has it (and a very statistically significant number of the ones I picked)!