THE 1000 UK NUMBER ONE POLL - RESULTS

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?

I placed it at #23. I LOVE IT!

This poll is super. Except that I funked it up. Look at these five amazing tracks I passed over by doing it quick so as not to spend all evening on the thing:

I Feel Love - Donna Summer
Sound Of The Underground - Girls Aloud
Voodoo Chile - Jimi Hendrix Experience
I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
Ticket To Ride - The Beatles

I still would have kept Do You Really Like It?, mind.

Unchained Melody (Gareth Gates) (1)

I'll own up. It's the only single I've ever bought two copies of, the first I ever bought on the day of release, and if you are mean about it I will mope and look crushed at you.

One of them being mine...

Also, I thought I voted for Moon River, but maybe it got chopped to make way for..err... The New Seekers.

Nice to see Fern Kinney in the top 200. Just.

Mike, did my vote get to you? Would have come from "Ian"??

I amazed at the songs I apparently overlooked, too, but as it turns out that didn't matter.

Hmm, don't remember this one, I thought.

Then I checked through it very rapidly, and decided it was familiar after all.

Except, looking again, I've realised that it slipped through the net - not having shown up on my webmail for some reason. (Or maybe I just missed it.)

Many apologies for that... and I do assure you that everyone else's e-mails WERE counted.

So... feeding Hobart's votes in, let's do an update. Back in a bit.

4(5) Heart Of Glass
5(4) Billie Jean

16(17) Nothing Compares 2 U
17(16) Uptown Top Ranking

20(22) Band Of Gold
21(21) Can't Get You Out Of My Head
22(20) Crazy In Love
23(26) (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

28(37) Space Oddity

35(38) Brass In Pocket

44(48) Ashes To Ashes
45(56) Bridge Over Troubled Water

57(62) The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore

82(106) Get Off My Cloud

93(112) These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

95(98) Sunday Girl

97(120) You Don't Have To Say You Love Me

Out of the Top 100:
Get It On
Total Eclipse Of The Heart
Professional Widow

...and Mr. Tambourine Man "bubbles under" at 104, up from 141.

What a cock-up!

Result!!!!