Thirty Years Ago, January 1st, 1980, the weekly 1050 Chum top 30 chart is clogged with pop rock tunes with the one-off new wave tune making it in by mistake. It's just under 2 years from new wave/pop hits pushing out the classic rock from the charts. The city is Toronto. There is no internet. Computers are called Pets. The concept of an import record is rare. Vinyl and Cassette tapes are the medium. Radio dominates what we listen too. For us, illegal downloading is taping songs off the radio onto maxell cassette tapes. I'm nine years old and haven't even discovered what music is. It won't be until about 1981 that a punk rock chick named Joan Jett belts out I Love Rock and Roll on a friends portable cassette player as we play ball hockey on the street. This will be the beginning of me being sucked into pop music culture and discovering the historic 1050 Chum chart. Which then led to trips to Sam the Record Man, A&As, and Music World to track down the latest 7 Inch record or the full length cassette tape. The chart has been around for years but for me this is about the eighties. Follow along as we see the likes of the Thompson Twins, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Culture Club, Naked Eyes, OMD, Men At Work, Howard Jones, Michael Jackson, Men Without Hats, Duran Duran, Wham, Split Enz and Madonna dominate the charts. This is the 80s.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

1050 Chum Chart Saturday April 2, 1983 Thirty Years Later

If only I had the Ron Hall Chum 1050 Chum Book. Alittle confusing this week as the chart is all over the place with its numbering. Michael Jackson remains at number 1 for another week while Beat It makes it into the top 10 at the same time. Styx holds at number 2. Duran Duran freezes at number 3. Journey moves into the top 5 with Separate Ways. It must have been the video which propelled it into the high echelons of the chart. Not sure who else rounds out the top 5. Maybe the Pretenders?


 

NB.. Unfortunately due to poor archiving the Chart is missing one track and the numbering is wonky. But note there was only four new entries this week.
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