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#211 Post by Tenlow »

PSBForTheMasses wrote:I just learned some interesting facts about PSB singles' chart positions:

Can You Forgive Her was number two in France.
I am Stupid was number two in France.
Paninaro was number one in France in 1986 :o
Flamboyant was number two in Sweden and France.
DJ Culture was number four in France :shock:
Minimal was number one in France :shock: :shock: :shock:

There are some interesting stastical figures but Paninaro number one in France?

What's the source for all this? All very unlikely to say the least ;)
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Tenlow wrote:
PSBForTheMasses wrote:I just learned some interesting facts about PSB singles' chart positions:

Can You Forgive Her was number two in France.
I am Stupid was number two in France.
Paninaro was number one in France in 1986 :o
Flamboyant was number two in Sweden and France.
DJ Culture was number four in France :shock:
Minimal was number one in France :shock: :shock: :shock:

There are some interesting stastical figures but Paninaro number one in France?

What's the source for all this? All very unlikely to say the least ;)

Ah sorry the source of course:

http://tsort.info/music/my2uxy.htm

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PSBForTheMasses wrote:
Tenlow wrote:
PSBForTheMasses wrote:I just learned some interesting facts about PSB singles' chart positions:

Can You Forgive Her was number two in France.
I am Stupid was number two in France.
Paninaro was number one in France in 1986 :o
Flamboyant was number two in Sweden and France.
DJ Culture was number four in France :shock:
Minimal was number one in France :shock: :shock: :shock:

There are some interesting stastical figures but Paninaro number one in France?

What's the source for all this? All very unlikely to say the least ;)

Ah sorry the source of course:

http://tsort.info/music/my2uxy.htm
Thanks. Not a very reliable source it seems, though. Many positions are wrong as well (e.g. New York City boy was #16 here in Germany and not #20 and "Home and dry" was #12 and not #23 to name only two examples). Also, Pet Shop Boys haven't been successful in France in ages, there is simply no way "Minimal" was #1 there. Not even close. Only if it was in some minor chart (dance chart or whatever) but definitely not in the actual French charts.
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#214 Post by JSDOUVRES »

Tenlow wrote:
PSBForTheMasses wrote:I just learned some interesting facts about PSB singles' chart positions:

Can You Forgive Her was number two in France.
I am Stupid was number two in France.
Paninaro was number one in France in 1986 :o
Flamboyant was number two in Sweden and France.
DJ Culture was number four in France :shock:
Minimal was number one in France :shock: :shock: :shock:

There are some interesting stastical figures but Paninaro number one in France?

What's the source for all this? All very unlikely to say the least ;)
Absolute garbage, having lived in France for 9 years I can tell you that those facts are complete and utter nonsense, don't believe stupid web sites basically. The only PSB related song to get to number one was I'm not scared by Eighth Wonder. West end girls didn't even get to number one in France. Always on my mind was a pretty big top 10 hit too but that's about it.

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Hmm... not sure where you got these, but I think they're largely wrong. I've got:
- Sweden: Suburbia #6, What Have I Done to Deserve This #2, So Hard #3, Being Boring #16, Flamboyant #44
- France: Can You Forgive Her - don't know. Go West was #2 though. Flamboyant #81. Not sure about I'm with Stupid, Minimal or DJ Culture, but I don't think they ever had anything anywhere near as successful as Go West. I'd say it was very unlikely that Paninaro was a hit there, as I don't think it was released
- New Zealand: Heart #1
- Ireland: What Have I Done to Deserve This #1, Heart #1
- Belgium has two charts, so it's always a bit confusing when you're talking about hits there
- Poland: no idea

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rollo wrote: - Poland: no idea
No official singles chart....and never was. But there is a very popular and famous chart compiled by listeners of Radio 3 (exists from 1983)

http://www.lp3.pl/alpt.phtml?m=12&w=389 (number of chart, number of weeks, number of weeks in top 30, peak, and three last colums of points statistics) - here you can find PSB entries. Unfortunately, their recent music didn't chart ;( "Winner" and "Levcing" were both on the voting list, but eventually failed, probably because of lack of airplay. On the other hand "Leaving" was a big hit in so called web- and blogosphere (for example number 2 on mycharts.pl general chart).
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#217 Post by Disco. »

Discography is a re-entry this week at #185, its 138th week in the UK Top 200.

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PSBForTheMasses wrote:I just learned some interesting facts about PSB singles' chart positions:

Being Boring was number one in Sweden in December 1990 :shock: .
Rent was number one in Poland in December 1987.
Domino Dancing was number one in Poland in October 1988.
So Hard was number one in Sweden in November 1990.
Suburbia was number one in Sweden, Poland, Belgium and KROQ (whatever this is)
Heart was a three-week number one in Ireland.
Heart was number one in New Zealand.
Can You Forgive Her was number two in France.
I am Stupid was number two in France.
Paninaro was number one in France in 1986 :o
Flamboyant was number two in Sweden and France.
DJ Culture was number four in France :shock:
Minimal was number one in France :shock: :shock: :shock:
What Have I Done to Deserve this was number one in Sweden and Ireland.



There are some interesting stastical figures but Paninaro number one in France?
Spain:

Number one: It's a sin (2 weeks), Always on my mind (11 weeks, yes 11 weeks) and Domingo Dancing (1 week). Heart and Go West were Number 2.

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#219 Post by Disco. »

Discography is at #177 this week, up from #185. It has spent 139 weeks in the Top 200.

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#220 Post by Disco. »

Discography is at #193 in the Top 200 this week, it has spent 140 weeks in the Top 200 now.

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nickname wrote:
PSBForTheMasses wrote:I just learned some interesting facts about PSB singles' chart positions:

Being Boring was number one in Sweden in December 1990 :shock: .
Rent was number one in Poland in December 1987.
Domino Dancing was number one in Poland in October 1988.
So Hard was number one in Sweden in November 1990.
Suburbia was number one in Sweden, Poland, Belgium and KROQ (whatever this is)
Heart was a three-week number one in Ireland.
Heart was number one in New Zealand.
Can You Forgive Her was number two in France.
I am Stupid was number two in France.
Paninaro was number one in France in 1986 :o
Flamboyant was number two in Sweden and France.
DJ Culture was number four in France :shock:
Minimal was number one in France :shock: :shock: :shock:
What Have I Done to Deserve this was number one in Sweden and Ireland.



There are some interesting stastical figures but Paninaro number one in France?
Spain:

Number one: It's a sin (2 weeks), Always on my mind (11 weeks, yes 11 weeks) and Domingo Dancing (1 week). Heart and Go West were Number 2.
Re: Always On My Mind: The Spanish have good taste, it is my all-time favourite song, not only the best PSB song. 8)

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PSBForTheMasses wrote:
nickname wrote:
PSBForTheMasses wrote:I just learned some interesting facts about PSB singles' chart positions:

Being Boring was number one in Sweden in December 1990 :shock: .
Rent was number one in Poland in December 1987.
Domino Dancing was number one in Poland in October 1988.
So Hard was number one in Sweden in November 1990.
Suburbia was number one in Sweden, Poland, Belgium and KROQ (whatever this is)
Heart was a three-week number one in Ireland.
Heart was number one in New Zealand.
Can You Forgive Her was number two in France.
I am Stupid was number two in France.
Paninaro was number one in France in 1986 :o
Flamboyant was number two in Sweden and France.
DJ Culture was number four in France :shock:
Minimal was number one in France :shock: :shock: :shock:
What Have I Done to Deserve this was number one in Sweden and Ireland.



There are some interesting stastical figures but Paninaro number one in France?
Spain:

Number one: It's a sin (2 weeks), Always on my mind (11 weeks, yes 11 weeks) and Domingo Dancing (1 week). Heart and Go West were Number 2.
Re: Always On My Mind: The Spanish have good taste, it is my all-time favourite song, not only the best PSB song. 8)
The thing is "Always on my mind" got the top and it was there some weeks before "Together Forever" by Rick Astley was #1 three weeks and after that, "Always on my mind" returned to #1 again.

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#223 Post by Disco. »

Discography #163 this week up 30 places. 141 weeks in Top 200 now.

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#224 Post by PSBForTheMasses »

Disco. wrote:Discography #163 this week up 30 places. 141 weeks in Top 200 now.
This album should have a kind of spell over people. People ditch PopArt or Ultimate but constantly for the sake of Discography. The same is true for Amazon US. Discography is a constant seller there.

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#225 Post by Disco. »

Discography #177 this week. 142 weeks and counting.

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