The shadows - unpublished chart positions
Posted: 16 Nov 2018, 12:59
First off hello everyone, i've been on the board for a while but not posted, so hello
For reasons I'm not even sure of, apart from being a self confessed pop quiz trainspotter (i do have a life really!) I started looking into the chart positions of singles that didn't make the published chart (top 30, 40, 50, 75) of the time and so aren't in the Guinness Book. For the Shads and related I believe the following are correct -
Saturday Dance - 31
Tomorrow's Cancelled - 57
Goodnight Dick (HM) - 52
London's Not Too Far (HM) - 52
Love Deluxe - 80
Themes From Eastenders & Howards Way - 86
Shadowmix - 81
Telstar and The theme from Missing also charted in the top 100 but at that time the 'next 25' was listed alpahabetically so exact positions are unknown.
Do any of you more knowledgable people know of any others? As the Shads were on TV fairly regularly some people must have bought the singles, it's always been strange to me that they suddenly just stopped having hits, and then didn't even make the top 100 at all after 1982, but they must have made positions in the top 200 at least?
(part of it might be explained by the fact they stopped doing exclusive B sides, which is why my dad didn't buy any singles after 'Diamonds' except for a couple that might have appeared before the album - so if a lot of core fans did the same there were not enough casual buyers to push the singles into the chart)
and of the two that did make the top 100, they're the worst possible singles offerings that even the hardest of hardcore fans would hesitate to pay for twice!
Over to the real stat fiends... :0)
For reasons I'm not even sure of, apart from being a self confessed pop quiz trainspotter (i do have a life really!) I started looking into the chart positions of singles that didn't make the published chart (top 30, 40, 50, 75) of the time and so aren't in the Guinness Book. For the Shads and related I believe the following are correct -
Saturday Dance - 31
Tomorrow's Cancelled - 57
Goodnight Dick (HM) - 52
London's Not Too Far (HM) - 52
Love Deluxe - 80
Themes From Eastenders & Howards Way - 86
Shadowmix - 81
Telstar and The theme from Missing also charted in the top 100 but at that time the 'next 25' was listed alpahabetically so exact positions are unknown.
Do any of you more knowledgable people know of any others? As the Shads were on TV fairly regularly some people must have bought the singles, it's always been strange to me that they suddenly just stopped having hits, and then didn't even make the top 100 at all after 1982, but they must have made positions in the top 200 at least?
(part of it might be explained by the fact they stopped doing exclusive B sides, which is why my dad didn't buy any singles after 'Diamonds' except for a couple that might have appeared before the album - so if a lot of core fans did the same there were not enough casual buyers to push the singles into the chart)
and of the two that did make the top 100, they're the worst possible singles offerings that even the hardest of hardcore fans would hesitate to pay for twice!
Over to the real stat fiends... :0)