Christmas Number Ones Of The 80s

To that end here s our list of the top 10 christmas songs from the 1980s.

Christmas number ones of the 80s. Novelty songs charity songs or songs with a christmas theme have regularly been at the top of christmas charts. The uk singles chart is the official record chart in the united kingdom. Here is a complete list of the number one christmas songs for the entire decade and some of the stories behind them. Until 1983 it was compiled weekly by the british market research bureau bmrb on behalf of the british record industry with a two week break each christmas.

St winifreds school choir theres no one quite like grandma no one quite like grandma was an instant hit back in 1980. Throw em on today and make your celebration a bit edgier 10. Let s look back at every official christmas number 1 single in the uk. It managed to push john lennon of the tops spot but only for two weeks.

The ramones merry christmas i don t wanna fight tonight 89. Sixty six records including forty seven number ones were classified platinum in the 1990s and three other songs released in the 1990s were classified as platinum in the subsequent decade. Over a third 36 voted the 80s into the top spot with the 1987 hit from the pogues and kirsty maccoll s fairytale in new york voted the nation s favourite christmas song. Bucking the trend of christmas singles staying at the top of the charts for 4 weeks this song lasted 2 weeks.

Uk watch part 3. Traditionally the volume of record sales in the uk peaks at christmas with the christmas number one being considered especially prestigious more. In the united kingdom christmas number ones are singles that are top of the uk singles chart in the week in which christmas day falls. Every number one of the eighties.

The thought of 80s gamers waking on a cold christmas morning and finding one of the games below in their stocking is almost enough to fill us with seasonal cheer. In the battle of the decades the 1970s received a quarter of the votes 25 followed by the 1990s with one in ten 10. Thirty records from the decade sold over one million units. All number 1s are special but the festive chart topper is the ultimate prize.

There was nothing quite like the anticipation of playing a hot new release for the first time especially when most formats of the 80s forced gamers to wait between 5 10 minutes while they loaded tape read errors permitting.