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They were first revealed on BBC Radio 1 on 1 January 1990, with the "Top 80 of the 80s" counted down and played between 12:35 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. by DJs Alan Freeman and Mark Goodier. [2] The top eighty best-selling singles of the decade were also printed in the music magazine Record Mirror in the issue dated 6 January 1990. [1]
Absolute Radio 80s launched at 7.00 pm on 4 December 2009, replacing Absolute Xtreme. [1]The marketing plan for Absolute 80s started with targeted sampling at 80s events such as Madness, Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode at the O2 Arena, Erasure at the NEC Birmingham and Simple Minds at the Wembley Arena.
This data was compiled on Monday and given to the BBC on Tuesday to be announced on BBC Radio 1 at lunchtime and later published in Music Week. [1] On 4 January 1983, the chart was taken over by Gallup who expanded the chart from the Top 75 to the Top 100 [2] and began the introduction of computerised tills which automated the data collection ...
Heart 80s is a national digital radio station owned and operated by Global as a spin-off from Heart.The station broadcasts from studios at Leicester Square in London.. Launched on 14 March 2017, Heart 80s is a rolling music service playing non-stop “feel good” music from the 1980s.
The withdrawal of the Big Top 40 from their stations leads Bauer Radio to roll out the UK Chart Show across the Hits Radio network, built on the Sunday afternoon show introduced on Hits Radio Manchester in 2018, [15] whilst Wireless Group begins its own weekly show across its FM network, the Total Access Top 40, hosted by Olivia Jones. [16]
Bates has continued to present his old radio feature The Golden Hour as a programme on Now 80s, [16] with some episodes billed as Simon Bates' New Golden Hour and others appearing on Now 70s. In addition to a number of former BBC Radio 1 disc jockeys, the channel has featured many popstars from the era, such as T'Pau's Carol Decker, presenting ...
Unlike other decades, no decade-end charts for the 1990s for either singles or albums were broadcast on BBC Radio 1 at the end of 1999, and no detailed lists were published in the UK music trade magazine Music Week. Gallup's sales figures were not made available to its successors, and Millward Brown's sales data from 1994 to 1996 were later ...
Elton John scored his first solo number one in 1990. After more than a decade without a hit, Meat Loaf topped the charts for the first time in 1993. Danish pop band Aqua scored three consecutive number ones with one of the UK's biggest selling singles "Barbie Girl" in 1997, and the follow up's "Doctor Jones" and "Turn Back Time" in 1998 making them one of the most successful bands this decade.