THE 1000 UK NUMBER ONE POLL - RESULTS

followed by:
#184 Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford

Number of #1 hits by Westlife: 12.

JUSTICE IS DONE.

46. Ticket To Ride (314)
58. She Loves You (265)
61. A Hard Day's Night (259)
67. I Feel Fine (244)
68. Paperback Writer (242)
78. Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out (225)
86. Hey Jude (211)
93. Help! (197)
129. Hello Goodbye (149)
157. I Want To Hold Your Hand (129)
160. Can't Buy Me Love (128)
169. Lady Madonna (119)
173. Get Back (115)
191. All You Need Is Love (102)
196. The Ballad Of John & Yoko (100)
197. Yellow Submarine / Eleanor Rigby (100)
426. From Me To You (24)

None of Geri Halliwell's 4 #1 hits polled a single vote.

Awesome that this was the highest.

No hits from 1992-1996 charted in the top 100. Other than that, at least one hit per year featured from 1962 to 2004.

Top years: 1966 and 1980, each with six entries.

Glad to see three others voted for "Mouldy Old Dough", but sad not to see "Float On" or "Pass the Dutchie" in there.

I'm rather surprised that "Coz I Love You" wasn't the highest Slade one; it's stupendous.

Hits of Take That:
244 Back For Good (72,5) - for me, the low placing for this was one of the major shockers.
271 Relight My Fire (60,2)
391 Never Forget (30,1)
408 Everything Changes (27,1)
Zero: Babe, How Deep Is Your Love, Pray, Sure.

(Also amazed that Pray scored zero.)

The next oldest:
250. Secret Love - Doris Day (16/04/54) 69 points, 2 votes

The newest song to poll, excluding Jailhouse Rock:
341. I'll Stand By You - Girls Aloud (27/11/04) 41 points, 2 votes

Followed by:
488. Vertigo - U2 (20/11/2004) 13 points, 1 vote

Best placing for 1992:
280. Would I Lie To You? - Charles & Eddie (57,2)

Best placing for 1993:
271. Relight Me Fire - Take That featuring Lulu (60,2)

Best placing for 1994:
245. Let Me Be Your Fantasy - Baby D (72,3)

Best placing for 1995:
127. Some Might Say - Oasis (150,5)

Best placing for 1996:
126. Setting Sun - Chemical Brothers (151,6)

If we'd done the poll one week later "Goodies" could have been a pretty big factor...

I'm surprised at the low placing of Baby D. I always thought ILM had much love for early 90s dance.

Agreed. I also can't help but feel that "Goodies" is actually the 997th Number One, and that we've got 3 more to go.

It would've been at least No 5 on my list, top 3 if I was in the right mood.

Fuck's sake...

Madness had loads of top ten hits but only one number one, I think.

Oh, fairly boring I'm afraid:

1. Good Vibrations (3)

2. Ghost Town, Billie Jean, Wuthering Heights, Always On My Mind, Dancing Queen, Atomic, Uptown Top Ranking, Band Of Gold, Don't Look Back In Anger (2)

11. I Feel Love, The Model, Into The Groove, I Heard It Through The Grapevine, Can't Get You Out Of My Head, Paint It Black, Under Pressure, Come On Eileen, Ticket To Ride, Tears Of A Clown, It's Over, I Feel Fine, Paperback Writer, Telegram Sam, Maggie May, My Sweet Lord, Pure Shores, Name Of The Game, Yes Sir I Can Boogie, I Feel For You, Dub Be Good To Me, Setting Sun, Born To Make You Happy, Rock Me Amadeus, Super Trouper, Glad All Over, The Final Countdown, Unchained Melody (Gareth Gates) (1)

1. Name Of The Game - Abba (#103)
2. You've Lost That Loving Feeling - Righteous Brothers (#109)
3. Good Vibrations - Beach Boys (#1)
4. Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel (#56)
5. Band Of Gold - Freda Payne (#22)

Whoo! There I was thinking I was a boring consensualist (my top four - in the top five) but I voted for both of these.

Tell you what... here's the whole final scoreboard. Note that I haven't bothered re-arranging tied positions below the Top 200, so positions beyond that are approximate only.

Right. Who did this?