Tag: Pop Charts Britannia
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Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top Ten – Part 2
One of the questions I was asked in Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top Ten was why so many people used to tape songs off the radio? Was there more romance surrounding the charts back then? Part of the answer was for practical reasons. We didn’t have much money back then. I wouldn’t…
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Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top Ten
2012 marks the 60th Anniversary of the day the NME produced the first list of best-selling songs in the UK. Topping the charts that day – effectively the first number one hit in the UK – was Al Martino. Prior to this chart of record sales, there was a music chart – but one which…
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Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years Of The Top Ten – A Preview
The good people of the BBC have posted a clip on their website of Friday’s Pop Charts Britannia documentary which marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Charts. In the clip, you can see me make an idiot of myself trying to tape the charts from 1983 on an unfeasibly large boom-box. There’s a bit more…
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Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top Ten
This is just a quick word about the BBC4 Documentary Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top Ten. Regular readers may recall that I am set to feature in this documentary which looks at the romance of the charts on the 60th anniversary of the very first NME chart. Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years…
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Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top 10: How Blogging Has Landed Me A Part On A BBC Music Documentary
The Diamond Jubilee of 2012: Celebrating an ageing, old fashioned but much loved institution that for the most part unites Britain in dewy-eyed nostalgia, even though we know the idea of it itself is somewhat outdated and is hardly in keeping with Modern Britain. No, not the Queen or the Royal Family, I’m talking about…
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