80’s sales and chart info for Pet Shop Boys

1985
‘West End Girls’
The 68th best-selling single of 1985.
228,701 copies sold.
The top 13 selling singles sold over 500, 000 copies in 1985. By comparison, in 1987 (Pet Shop boys ‘imperial phase’?) only the top 7 singles managed those kinds of...

Sorry if this has been a topic before, but living in Canada, as I do, you don't often hear PSB except perhaps the odd radio play of West End girls on a retro radio station, or similarly popular Please/Actually era songs in various stores (What have I done to deserve this? and Always on my mind pop up from time to time).

Today I was really...

Not sure if this is on or off topic, but should work here anyway:

Lets share songs that sound like Pet Shop Boys songs. It could be a small part of the song, just the melody, or the song taken as a whole.

Here is Mood Ring by Debbie Harry: (youtube audio sounds worse than usual lately IMO)

It's...

We swept into Moscow in Gorbachev’s limousine’: Neil Tennant’s love affair with Russia – before the ‘cancer of Putin’

In the true PSB spirit of celebrating negativity rather than positivity, what are Neil's worst lyics?

How about the tautological Planes taking off to fly from Hold On?

I see Periodic Table of Synthpop is (cheekily) offering up Nonetheless Instrumentals for download - official versions reserved for record company use, rather than AI recreations.

8 April 2020

Dreamworld rescheduled

In light of recent government advice in relation to the ongoing situation and threat of COVID-19 globally, Pet Shop Boys’ Dreamworld tour can no longer commence as planned in May 2020 and the dates are being rescheduled. The European leg of the tour was...

Out now: