Entertainment For Lively Minds
Top 40 placings
Posted by Steve Hill on 29 April 2008 - 3:35pm.
I've been looking at http://www.everyhit.com/ which is an excellent U.K. top 40 information site.
Suprising how low in the charts some songs where in retrospect.
Michael Jackson - Thriller No.10
Bob Dylan - Knocking on heavens door - 14
Kate Bush - Hounds of love -18
R.e.m. - Losing my religion -19
Monkees - Last train to clarksville- 23
Prince - Rasberry beret - 25
Would have sworn that all of those were huge hits in their day due to radio play they still recieve.
Also, i know The Beatles released Yesterday and Back In The Ussr years after they split - they only reached 8 and 19 respectively.
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I suppose ...
...singles sold so many more copies in those days so anywhere up to mid 20s in chart still represented a substantial hit.
It's an old sore
there we 23 better songs out that week than last train to clarksville?
With "Thriller"..
..it was probably because it was the 4th single (I think) released from the album. Mega-budget, major-event promo video notwithstanding.
The only one I'm actually surprised about is The Monkees.