UK Top 50 Singles Chart - 21 February 1976

Retro Countdown: 1979-02-10 UK Top 40

Retro Countdown: 1979-02-10 UK Top 40 by Owen Andrew on Mixcloud

Top 50 UK Singles Chart - 6 November 1976

Ritchie Family, Rick Dees, The Who, Abba, Average White Band and more.

Top 50 Singles Chart - 31 January 1976

Top 50 Singles Chart - 31 January 1976 by Crystal on Mixcloud

Lower Charts January 3rd 1970

The pop charts in the 1970s were a huge part of life. In fact, people would queue  at a local shop to buy a vinyl record. Now with the downloads the younger generations have no idea what we loved and adored when the pop charts came out. Some of the greatest songs never even made the top twenty during the 1970s as it was such a huge competition of talent.

So now we present a new series of articles taking a look at some of the charts from the 1970s, showing some of the amazing singles in the charts between numbers 40 and 21 in the BBC charts of that time.

Let's take a look at January 3rd 1970.

Hits from the UK Top 40 Singles Chart for the Week Ending 29th January 1977

SwitchBack - 24 Jan 16 by Andrew Spokes on Mixcloud

Retro Countdown: 1972-02-26 UK Top 40

UK Top 40: 6th April 1974

More from 1974

UK Top 50 Chart - 4 April 1970

UK Top 50 Chart - 16 February 1974

more from 1974

 

UK TOP 40 : 15th MAY 1976

UK Top 75 Singles Chart - 13 May 1978

Chart of the year 1974 - Tom Browne

Solid Gold Sixty - Tom Browne Chart of the Year - 1974 - PART 1 BBC Radio 1 Sunday 29th December 1974

UK Top 50 Singles Chart - 17 May 1975

The Full Top 50 singles chart from 17 May 1975 – Disco and classic rock were doing well. The Goodies, Wombles, the Glitter Band, a couple of 1960s re-releases and two Tammys are in this chart.

UK TOP 40 22-28 MAY 1977

UK TOP 40 SINGLES CHART FOR W/E 28TH MAY 1977 featuring hits from Rod Stewart, The Trammps, 10CC, Marvin Gaye, Boz Scaggs, Stevie Wonder, Kenny Rogers, Barbra Streisand, Bryan Ferry, Elkie Brooks, Andrew Gold, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Heatwave, The Stranglers...

UK Top 40: 27th May 1978

Back to 1978 we go this week, for the Top 40 of w/e 27th May. Saturday Night Fever was still going strong, and Grease gave us a new entry that was set to be a future No. 1. You'll hear both sides of Boney M's classic single (not officially a double-A side, but both songs were played on the radio), and other popular artists were Darts, David Soul, Blondie, Ian Dury, and look out for some late 70s punk from Plastic Bertrand, The Stranglers, The Boomtown Rats and X-Ray Spex. There's Eurovision entries for the UK (we didn't win) and Israel (they did), and lots more great memories besides.

Tony Blackburn's first Top 40 - 2nd September 1979

Tony Blackburn's first Top 40 - 2nd September 1979

UK Top 40 Singles Chart - 9 June 1979

Welcome to 1979, where disco is still doing well with Donna Summer, the full length version of McFadden and Whitehead and Sister Sledge. New wave with Lene Lovich, Skids and the Monks. Also features the debut single from Tubeway Army/Gary Numan and many other great classics from this month. Enjoy the retro experience from this 1979 time machine.

UK Top 40: 5th June 1976

From exactly 40 years ago comes this chart from June 1976. We get to hear The Wurzels...oooh arrrr!! Also Cliff Richard, Wings, Gladys Knight, The Rolling Stones, Dolly Parton, and the British Eurovision winners of that year, Brotherhood Of Man.

UK TOP 40 01-07 JUNE 1975

UK TOP 40 SINGLES CHART FOR W/E 7TH JUNE 1975 featuring hits from Barry White, The Carpenters, Kraftwerk, Desmond Dekker, Bay City Rollers, Mud, Status Quo, Elvis Presley, Showaddywaddy, Tammy Wynette, The Osmonds, Hot Chocolate and more...