THE 1000 UK NUMBER ONE POLL - RESULTS

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!!!!

112 (147) Baby Love
116 (121) Hot Love
120 (128) Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)
126 (157) I Want To Hold Your Hand
128 (143) Video Killed The Radio Star
155 (200) Together We Are Beautiful (Fern Kinney Massive In Da House!)
158 (189) (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me
165 (191) All You Need Is Love
167 (196) The Ballad Of John & Yoko
172 (---) House Of The Rising Sun
177 (---) The Tide Is High (Blondie not Kitten)
178 (---) Imagine
190 (---) Spirit In The Sky (Norman Greenbaum, not Medics or Gates)

OUT:
Genie In The Bottle
Yellow Submarine / Eleanor Rigby
Respectable
The Special AKA Live! (EP)

1 Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys - 17/11/1966 - 1074 - 30
2 Ghost Town - The Specials - 11/07/1981 - 876 - 25
3 I Feel Love - Donna Summer - 23/07/1977 - 866 - 24
4 Heart Of Glass - Blondie - 03/02/1979 - 824 - 29
5 Billie Jean - Michael Jackson - 05/03/1983 - 824 - 25
6 Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush - 11/03/1978 - 820 - 23
7 Tainted Love - Soft Cell - 05/09/1981 - 749 - 19
8 West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys - 11/01/1986 - 736 - 23
9 Always On My Mind - Pet Shop Boys - 19/12/1987 - 727 - 23
10 The Model / Computer Love - Kraftwerk - 06/02/1982 - 657 - 20
11 Dancing Queen - Abba - 04/09/1976 - 640 - 19
12 Don't You Want Me - The Human League - 12/12/1981 - 629 - 23
13 Atomic - Blondie - 01/03/1980 - 565 - 23
14 Ignition (remix) - R Kelly - 17/05/2003 - 536 - 14
15 Into The Groove - Madonna - 03/08/1985 - 527 - 16
16 Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor - 03/02/1990 - 518 - 18
17 Uptown Top Ranking - Althea & Donna - 04/02/1978 - 510 - 19
18 Pump Up The Volume - M/A/R/R/S - 03/10/1987 - 493 - 19
19 I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye - 26/03/1969 - 488 - 15
20 Band Of Gold - Freda Payne - 19/09/1970 - 480 - 15
21 Can't Get You Out Of My Head - Kylie Minogue - 29/09/2001 - 477 - 18
22 Crazy In Love - Beyonce - 12/07/2003 - 477 - 18
23 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones - 09/09/1965 - 456 - 15
24 Reach Out I'll Be There - The Four Tops - 27/10/1966 - 439 - 15
25 Paint It, Black - The Rolling Stones - 26/05/1966 - 429 - 15
26 All The Things She Said - Tatu - 08/02/2003 - 428 - 15
27 Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood - 28/01/1984 - 405 - 17
28 Space Oddity - David Bowie - 08/11/1975 - 401 - 14
29 Freak Like Me - Sugababes - 04/05/2002 - 400 - 15
30 Geno - Dexy's Midnight Runners - 03/05/1980 - 400 - 11
31 Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen - 29/11/1975 - 398 - 13
32 Make It Easy On Yourself - The Walker Brothers - 23/09/1965 - 388 - 15
33 Under Pressure - Queen & David Bowie - 21/11/1981 - 379 - 10
34 Are Friends Electric? - Tubeway Army - 30/06/1979 - 372 - 12
35 Brass In Pocket - The Pretenders - 19/01/1980 - 369 - 13
36 Baby One More Time - Britney Spears - 27/02/1999 - 363 - 15
37 The Winner Takes It All - Abba - 09/08/1980 - 362 - 11
38 It's A Sin - The Pet Shop Boys - 04/07/1987 - 360 - 11
39 Metal Guru - T.Rex - 20/05/1972 - 343 - 11
40 Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners - 07/08/1982 - 341 - 13
41 Jumpin' Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones - 19/06/1968 - 334 - 14
42 3AM Eternal - The KLF featuring Children of the Revolution - 02/02/1991 - 329 - 14
43 Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks - 07/07/1966 - 327 - 13
44 Ashes To Ashes - David Bowie - 23/08/1980 - 324 - 12
45 Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel - 28/03/1970 - 324 - 10
46 Stan - Eminem - 16/12/2000 - 317 - 13
47 Your Woman - White Town - 25/01/1997 - 316 - 11
48 Ticket To Ride - The Beatles - 22/04/1965 - 314 - 12
49 Firestarter - The Prodigy - 30/03/1996 - 309 - 10
50 Tears Of A Clown - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - 12/09/1970 - 300 - 11
51 Like A Prayer - Madonna - 25/03/1989 - 298 - 14
52 It's Over - Roy Orbison - 25/06/1964 - 297 - 12
53 Voodoo Chile - Jimi Hendrix Experience - 21/11/1970 - 297 - 9
54 Toxic - Britney Spears - 13/03/2004 - 291 - 15
55 Telstar - The Tornados - 14/10/1962 - 287 - 8
56 I'm Not In Love - 10cc - 28/06/1975 - 283 - 9
57 The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore - The Walker Brothers - 17/03/1966 - 276 - 11
58 You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) - Dead Or Alive - 09/03/1985 - 269 - 11
59 She Loves You - The Beatles - 12/09/1963 - 265 - 7
60 A Town Called Malice/Precious - The Jam - 13/02/1982 - 264 - 9
61 I'm A Believer - The Monkees - 19/01/1967 - 264 - 9
62 A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles - 23/07/1964 - 259 - 11
63 Brimful Of Asha - Cornershop - 28/02/1998 - 254 - 14
64 Sound Of The Underground - Girls Aloud - 28/12/2002 - 247 - 10
65 Don't Look Back In Anger - Oasis - 02/03/1996 - 247 - 7
66 Waterloo - Abba - 04/05/1974 - 245 - 8
67 I Feel Fine - The Beatles - 10/12/1964 - 244 - 8
68 Paperback Writer - The Beatles - 23/06/1966 - 242 - 8
69 Telegram Sam - T.Rex - 05/02/1972 - 242 - 7
70 99 Red Balloons - Nena - 03/03/1984 - 241 - 11
71 Without You - Nilsson - 11/03/1972 - 239 - 7
72 Vogue - Madonna - 14/04/1990 - 239 - 6
73 Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) - Spiller - 26/08/2000 - 236 - 11
74 Breathe - The Prodigy - 23/11/1996 - 234 - 10
75 Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus - Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - 11/10/1969 - 232 - 11
76 Stand By Me - Ben E. King - 21/02/1987 - 228 - 9
77 Block Rockin' Beats - The Chemical Brothers - 05/04/1997 - 225 - 8
78 Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out - The Beatles - 16/12/1965 - 225 - 8
79 Rock Your Baby - George McCrae - 27/07/1974 - 224 - 6
80 Maggie May - Rod Stewart - 09/10/1971 - 223 - 9
81 Call Me - Blondie - 26/04/1980 - 221 - 8
82 Get Off My Cloud - The Rolling Stones - 04/11/1965 - 218 - 8
83 You Really Got Me - The Kinks - 10/09/1964 - 218 - 8
84 Should I Stay Or Should I Go - The Clash - 09/03/1991 - 216 - 8
85 Theme From S'Express - S'Express - 30/04/1988 - 215 - 10
86 The Israelites - Desmond Dekker & The Aces - 16/04/1969 - 214 - 9
87 Hey Jude - The Beatles - 11/09/1968 - 211 - 9
88 Stand & Deliver - Adam & The Ants - 09/05/1981 - 209 - 7
89 The Sun Always Shines On TV - A-Ha - 25/01/1986 - 206 - 8
90 Doctorin' The Tardis - The Timelords - 18/06/1988 - 205 - 7
91 My Sweet Lord - George Harrison - 30/01/1971 - 205 - 6
92 Honky Tonk Women - The Rolling Stones - 23/07/1969 - 202 - 6
93 These Boots Are Made For Walkin' - Nancy Sinatra - 17/02/1966 - 201 - 8
94 Pure Shores - All Saints - 26/02/2000 - 200 - 9
95 Sunday Girl - Blondie - 26/05/1979 - 198 - 9
96 Help! - The Beatles - 05/08/1965 - 197 - 9
97 You Don't Have To Say You Love Me - Dusty Springfield - 28/04/1966 - 196 - 7
98 Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury & The Blockheads - 27/01/1979 - 196 - 7
99 Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival - 20/09/1969 - 192 - 9
100 Cum On Feel The Noize - Slade - 03/03/1973 - 192 - 7
101 Get It On - T.Rex - 24/07/1971 - 191 - 11
102 Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler - 12/03/1983 - 187 - 6
103 Professional Widow - Tori Amos - 18/01/1997 - 185 - 7
104 Mr Tambourine Man - The Byrds - - 184 - 6
105 Never Ever - All Saints - 17/01/1998 - 180 - 8
106 Two Tribes - Frankie Goes To Hollywood - 16/06/1984 - 177 - 8
107 Name Of The Game - Abba - 05/11/1977 - 175 - 6
108 Going Underground / Dreams Of Children - The Jam - 22/03/1980 - 174 - 9
109 Yes Sir I Can Boogie - Baccara - 29/10/1977 - 174 - 6
110 Ring My Bell - Anita Ward - 16/06/1979 - 172 - 8
111 What A Wonderful World / Cabaret - Louis Armstrong - 24/04/1968 - 172 - 6
112 Baby Love - The Supremes - 19/11/1964 - 171 - 7
113 You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - The Righteous Brothers - 04/02/1965 - 170 - 8
114 I Feel For You - Chaka Khan - 10/11/1984 - 170 - 6
115 Knowing Me Knowing You - Abba - 02/04/1977 - 169 - 6
116 Hot Love - T.Rex - 20/03/1971 - 166 - 6
117 Don't Stop Movin' - S Club 7 - 05/05/2001 - 166 - 6
118 Yeah - Usher featuring Lil' Jon & Ludacris - 27/03/2004 - 165 - 7
119 Have I The Right - The Honeycombs - 27/08/1964 - 164 - 7
120 Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - 22/02/1975 - 161 - 7
121 World In Motion - EnglandNewOrder - 09/06/1990 - 161 - 7
122 Praise You - Fatboy Slim - 16/01/1999 - 161 - 7
123 Mmm Bop - Hanson - - 160 - 6
124 Oops!...I Did It Again - Britney Spears - 13/05/2000 - 159 - 7
125 Back To Life (How Ever Do You Want Me) - Soul II Soul featuring Caron Wheeler - 24/06/1989 - 155 - 8
126 I Want To Hold Your Hand - The Beatles - 12/12/1963 - 155 - 8
127 Dub Be Good To Me - Beats International featuring Lindy Layton - 03/03/1990 - 154 - 8
128 Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles - 20/10/1979 - 154 - 8
129 Take A Chance On Me - Abba - 18/02/1978 - 154 - 6
130 You Don't Know Me - Armand Van Helden - - 153 - 6
131 Setting Sun - The Chemical Brothers - - 151 - 6
132 Some Might Say - Oasis - - 150 - 5
133 Hello Goodbye - The Beatles - 06/12/1967 - 149 - 5
134 Little Sister / His Latest Flame - Elvis Presley - 09/11/1961 - 149 - 4
135 Lose Yourself - Eminem - 14/12/2002 - 148 - 6
136 2 Become 1 - Spice Girls - - 148 - 5
137 Mama Weer All Crazee Now - Slade - 09/09/1972 - 145 - 6
138 Wannabe - Spice Girls - 27/07/1996 - 145 - 5
139 See My Baby Jive - Wizzard - 19/05/1973 - 145 - 5
140 The Drugs Don't Work - The Verve - 13/09/1997 - 143 - 5
141 Killing Me Softly - The Fugees - 08/06/1996 - 142 - 6
142 A Little Less Conversation - Elvis vs JXL - 22/06/2002 - 142 - 5
143 (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice - Amen Corner - 12/02/1969 - 142 - 4
144 Sugar Sugar - The Archies - 25/10/1969 - 141 - 6
145 Heart - The Pet Shop Boys - 09/04/1988 - 141 - 5
146 Let's Dance - David Bowie - 09/04/1983 - 138 - 7
147 Flat Beat - Mr Oizo - - 138 - 4
148 Mouldy Old Dough - Lieutenant Pigeon - 14/10/1972 - 138 - 4
149 Every Liitle Thing She Does Is Magic - The Police - 14/11/1981 - 137 - 4
150 All Or Nothing - The Small Faces - - 135 - 7
151 Don't Speak - No Doubt - 22/02/1997 - 134 - 7
152 Lola's Theme - Shapeshifters - 24/07/2004 - 134 - 7
153 Concrete And Clay - Unit Four Plus Two - 08/04/1965 - 134 - 5
154 Jack Your Body - Steve 'Silk' Hurley - 24/01/1987 - 134 - 4
155 Together We Are Beautiful - Fern Kinney - 15/03/1980 - 133 - 5
156 Ride On Time - Black Box - - 133 - 4
157 The Power Of Love - Frankie Goes To Hollywood - 08/12/1984 - 132 - 7
158 (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me - Sandie Shaw - 22/10/1964 - 131 - 7
159 Eternal Flame - The Bangles - 15/04/1989 - 131 - 4
160 I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Bobbie Gentry - 18/10/1969 - 129 - 4
161 I Don't Want To Talk About It / First Cut Is The Deepest - Rod Stewart - 21/05/1977 - 129 - 4
162 Can't Buy Me Love - The Beatles - 02/04/1964 - 128 - 5
163 Do You Really Want To Hurt Me - Culture Club - - 128 - 5
164 I Don't Like Mondays - The Boomtown Rats - - 127 - 4
165 All You Need Is Love - The Beatles - - 126 - 4
166 Cars - Gary Numan - - 125 - 5
167 The Ballad Of John & Yoko - The Beatles - - 125 - 5
168 Born To Make You Happy - Britney Spears - 29/01/2000 - 125 - 3
169 Black Coffee - All Saints - - 123 - 5
170 Killer - Adamski - - 122 - 6
171 Oh Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison - 08/10/1964 - 122 - 5
172 House Of The Rising Sun - The Animals - - 121 -
173 More Than A Woman - Aaliyah - 19/01/2002 - 120 - 5
174 Lady Madonna - The Beatles - 27/03/1968 - 119 - 5
175 Blue Moon - The Marcels - 04/05/1961 - 119 - 3
176 Independent Women Part 1 - Destiny's Child - 02/12/2000 - 118 - 4
177 The Tide Is High - Blondie - - 117 -
178 Imagine - John Lennon - 10/01/1981 - 116 -
179 Rock Me Amadeus - Falco - - 116 - 4
180 Get Back - The Beatles with Billy Preston - - 115 - 4
181 I'm Still Waiting - Diana Ross - 21/08/1971 - 114 - 4
182 Round Round - Sugababes - 24/08/2002 - 114 - 4
183 All Around The World - Oasis - 24/01/1998 - 114 - 3
184 School's Out - Alice Cooper - 12/08/1972 - 113 - 3
185 Cumberland Gap - Lonnie Donegan - 12/04/1957 - 112 - 4
186 You Wear It Well - Rod Stewart - 02/09/1972 - 112 - 4
187 Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel - 14/04/1979 - 111 - 4
188 Start - The Jam - 06/09/1980 - 111 - 3
189 Double Barrel - Dave & Ansel Collins - 01/05/1971 - 110 - 5
190 Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum - - 110 -
191 It's Not Unusual - Tom Jones - - 109 - 3
192 Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford - 20/01/1956 - 108 - 4
193 Runaway - Del Shannon - - 107 - 4
194 Lady (Hear Me Tonight) - Modjo - - 107 - 4
195 A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum - 08/06/1967 - 106 - 6
196 Cos I Luv You - Slade - - 106 - 5
197 Ready Or Not - The Fugees - 21/09/1996 - 104 - 5
198 Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart - Marc Almond with Gene Pitney - - 101 - 4
199 Night Fever - The Bee Gees - - 101 - 4
200 Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley - - 100 - 5

There. Let that be an end to it. My work is done.

I've had to remove all the images and the spreadsheet. Bandwidth issues. Oh dear.