James' Blog - Chart Rewind

A visit to the Christmas chart of 1988. One with a lot of fond memories and some very famous singles to boot. Here's the very first part, as announced on the Radio One chart show on Boxing Day 1988.

So it comes to this. The ten biggest selling singles for Christmas 1986. And a Number One single which caught absolutely everyone by surprise.

Our wander through the 1986 Christmas chart has reached the Top 20. This bit may contain unacceptable levels of Des O'Connor. Of all people.

Songs 30-21 from the Christmas chart of 1986. And this is where it starts to get really memorable.

Taking a trip back in time to December 1986 and the Christmas chart of that year, as broadcast by Radio One.

The 90s come to an end. The millennium turns. Everyone argues as to whether it is the end of the century or not. And Westlife and Cliff duke it out for the right to close out the year at the top of the charts.

The Top 20 of the Christmas chart of 1999, and a charity collaboration you had all forgotten about.

Our wander through the Christmas chart of 1999 reaches the Top 30 and stumbles across some former Eastenders and a former Spice Girl.

A wander through the hits and other surrounding matters from December 1999 as the Christmas chart takes on a very end of the millennium flavour.

This was a great chart. A fantastic set of songs. And enormous fun to count them down again. Here's the Top 10 from Easter 1989.

Here is the middle section of the singles chart as unveiled by Radio One on Easter Sunday 1989.

Funny how some charts coincide with special holidays. Easter 1989 was a happy time for me and produced some fantastic music as well. Enjoy a song by song countdown of that chart, as broadcast that day by Radio One.