The UK Top 50 Poll of 1989

The worst songs here are unusually bad while the best ones are still quite good. I quite like "Like a Prayer", but my vote goes to "Crackers International" since it contained "Stop!".

This seems to need some bumping (Or was 1989 that bad?)

It was. "Pump Up The Jam" for me, though, but it wasn't easy to find something decent.

Back To Life, Like a Prayer and Eternal Flame are the only real classics here.

'french kiss' sometimes sounds like the perfect house track. the orgasm/slow down kinda spoils it but otherwise it's hard to beat.

"French Kiss" is kind of great for those of us who have no interest in danceability in electronica. :)

Horrible, horrible list! One of the worst years for chart pop. I'm gonna have to go with Black Box.

An impulse vote for KonKan, but by rights it probably should have been "Back To Life", "Like A Prayer" or "This Time I Know It's For Real".

I always thought that KonKan was a blatant rip off of New Order, but no-one ever seemed to say so, until Barney mentioned it many years later.

Anyroad, I voted: Sydney Youngblood If Only I Could . It's a great track of that kind of thing.

I am no fan of 1989 myself, but personally found it a slight step in the right direction after 87-88. Anyway, I consider 87-91 one of the weakest ever eras for music. At least after 1963.

What Mike said.

Mark my office nine am tomorrow sharp.

i can't understand why you're not all voting for new kids on the block

Sydney Youngblood EWW EWW EWW! Adding pop vocals to perfectly good house tracks (in this case Raze "Break 4 Love") is rarely a good idea (see also Degrees In Motion/Gat Decor).

Oh, I did not know that.

Transfer mine to KonKan then...

Rock... Freak.... (from Rock Freak)

THAT'S RIGHT!! (from Get up and Boogie, Silver Convention)

For ages (before it got in the charts) I thought "If Only I Could" was Rick Astley.

Still, Sydney was a better singing squaddie than Robson and Jerome.

"Like A Prayer" over "This Time I Know It's For Real," "Back To Life," "French Kiss," and "You Got It."

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Where is Band Aid II band?

That version of "Do They Know It's Christmas" stayed in the Top 40 for around 4 weeks, I believe. It may have been a number one, but surely not an impressive chart performance anyway.

On a sales basis it was the year's ninth biggest seller. Half a million advance orders for a start.

True. Lots of sales in one week or two, as usual close to Christmas. This chart is based upon calculating positions over a longer time period though, which awards longivety over short term sales.

This will also mean that the charts from the second half of the 90s will probably look considerably different from the list of #1s. Mainly containing those hits that developed over time ("Wonderwall", "Bitter Sweet Symphony", "Children") rather than those who went straight to number one and then dropped after a week or two.

I guess a lot of sales happened after the final chart of the year (covering 23rd December and the days up to 1st Jan) for that particular tune...

This is just so bad that I can't bring myself to vote for anything.

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