elab49
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ORIGINAL: Rhubarb So this year (November) the chart will be 60 years old. I know that singles are passé now, that you aren't supposed to like them, that only kids buy them (I still buy them) because piracy is all the rage and whatever, but I still love the singles chart. Like the Oscars, it does not always represent the best of what is out there, but what it does represent is what is popular. I was possibly the last generation who sat by the radio listening to the actual chart countdown, taping off the songs (onto CASSETTE!) and getting excited when my favourites went up, or went in at number one. I still do listen to the top 40 countdown, and I still get annoyed when someone boring is ahead of someone I deem good. Anyway, what better way to celebrate 60 years, I thought, than by doing a list of the top 60 songs that have got to number 1! but then i tried making a short list and A LOT OF REALLY GREAT SONGS have got to number one, which might surprise you, but it is kind of true. So I thought, A lot of really bad songs have also got to number one - wouldn't it be interesting to go through EVERY SINGLE NUMBER ONE OF ALL TIME! That way you can all kind of join in and remark at the madness the country was going through at the time. Along the way there will be shocks (not actual shocks as you could use the internet to look up what's coming next, but who was expecting a SPOILERS Kraftwerk number one?), thrills, spills and lots of arguing. A little about me: The first single I ever bought was The Offspring's Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) - it got to number one. The first song I had bought for me as a birthday present was The Spice Girls Who Do You Think You Are. This also got to number one. I had less success later. I used to have a series of tapes of them all, and most of the top 10s, accumulated for various pop quizzes and things. Which was a damned sight harder pre-internet downloads and mainly vinyl (I spent weekends in Beanos in Croydon ). Even spent time putting them all on a spreadsheet for ease of use - again, bloody redundant work with t'er internet. I also kept a ton of 50s stuff in there too - the chart domination of Winifred Atwell, etc.
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