UK Hi-NRG Chart April, 22, 1987

[Energyguy]

The official UK HI-NRG/Eurobeat chart as at April, 22, 1987
(Taken from the RECORD MIRROR Magazine).

TW LW
1 2 I GOT YOU COVERED EARLENE BENTLEY NIGHTMARE 12"
2 5 I NEED A MAN MAN 2 MAN/P ZONE US RECCA 12"
3 30 FASCINATED COMPANY B BLUEBIRD 12"
4 10 LESS THAN LOVERS.... SCOTT STRYKER NIGHTMARE 12"
5 3 LAY IT ON THE LINE ELAINE CHARLES CANADIAN SIZZLE 2"
6 1 GOLD DIGGER LIME US TSR 12"
7 8 BAILA BOLERO FUN FUN GERMAN CHIC 12"
8 12 LOVE IS IN THE AIR STEVE ALLEN GERMAN RUSH 12"
9 18 STANDING/CROSSROADS EVELYN THOMAS NIGHTMARE 12"
10 4 I FEEL LOVE COMING MODERN ROCKETRY US MEGATONE 12"
11 27 LOVE CHILD JAMIE DEAN UPTOWN RECORDS 12"
12 15 FALLING/GREAT HEIGHT MILTON BROWN NIGHTMARE 12"
13 22 UP THE LADDER JOHN KYDD US ALTAIR 12"
14 20 I KNOW WHAT YOUR AFTER ROCHELLE FLEMING GOLD CLEFT 12"
15 - LOVE FLIGHT 109 SONIA GRIER US RCA 12"
16 21 RAINSTORM EASTBOUND EXPRESSWAY PASSION 12"
17 6 FASTER THAN THE EYE...CELENA DUNCAN NIGHTMARE 12"
18 - LATIN FIRE FANCY METRONOME 12"
19 11 ELECTRICA SALSA OFF SONET 12"
20 9 GYPSY QUEEN GYPSY & QUEEN CANADIAN POWER 12"
21 16 TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT GRACE KENNEDY NIGHTMARE 12"
22 13 BOOM BOOM PAUL LEKAKIS CHAMPION 12"
23 RE LOOK BACK OVER.... ARCHIE BELL/DRELLS NIGHTMARE 12"
24 - I`M A MAN DAMIEN JUST PASSION 12"
25 14 OXYGEN BLUE AUGUST PROJECT PROMO 12"*
26 - ROCK YOUR BABY O CHIO BROWN MAGNET 12"
27 23 JUST ANOTHER RUMOUR TYRONE ASHLEY NIGHTMARE GOLD 12"
28 7 NO MR BOOM BOOM BODY HEAT CANADIAN SIZZLE 12"
29 - DO YOU WANNA FUNK? LIAN ROSS GERMAN CHIC 12"
30 - MOVIN` ON CAROLYN HARDING US EMERGENCY 12"

[Magnifique]

...Memories of the 80's. Great idea to post these charts.

...and I have a question: "Standing at the Crossroads" (Evelyn Thomas) was released on a 12" ??????? Was it an extended version or a remix?

[Energyguy]

Originally Posted by Magnifique

...Memories of the 80's. Great idea to post these charts.

...and I have a question: "Standing at the Crossroads" (Evelyn Thomas) was released on a 12" ??????? Was it an extended version or a remix?

STANDING AT THE CROSSROADS originally appeared on Evelyn`s second album (the title track). Ian Levine liked it so much that when he formed NIGHTMARE RECORDS he remixed it and released it in 12" format as the 1987 remix.

[marmite7]

Grrr - just look at all those Nightmare placings! As if

[SandraDee]

O god I love Carolyn Harding's 'Movin On'; I s'pose it's early house/garage really but I won't hold that against it! It was when house still had proper songs & was just updated disco really. I rushed out to get this 12" as soon as I heard it!

[Energyguy]

Originally Posted by SandraDee

O god I love Carolyn Harding's 'Movin On'; I s'pose it's early house/garage really but I won't hold that against it! It was when house still had proper songs & was just updated disco really. I rushed out to get this 12" as soon as I heard it!

Yeah, its a superb track I also love the B-side track "memories"

[gunbuck]

So was this the type of chart that led to Record Mirror dropping the Hi-NRG chart? I.E. It was allegedly rigged to highlight a certain label/producer's work?

[marmite7]

Originally Posted by gunbuck

So was this the type of chart that led to Record Mirror dropping the Hi-NRG chart? I.E. It was allegedly rigged to highlight a certain label/producer's work?

I can't belive you'd even suggest that Gun

[Energyguy]

Originally Posted by marmite7

I can't belive you'd even suggest that Gun

I think it "got scrapped" at some point in 1988.. I recall james Hamilton saying something like.."Unfortunately we have had to cancel the weekly HI-NRG chart due to rigging of certain chart placings..Sorry to our readers but to be honest this chart did not really mean much anyway"..
Its a pity it did get scrapped as it did have its uses when it came to tracking down new releases.

[john davis]

I've got the exact record mirror in front of me right now, and you can see what James Hamilton was talking about !!!!.

More or less every week you would see 2,3 maybe even 4 Nightmare Records(as an example !!!) tracks in the top ten.
In my opinion this was never a true example of a nationwide Hi-NRG chart,even though it was a great guideline to what was happening at the time.

Does anyone think there could of been a better way of publishing a "truer" chart ?.

[marmite7]

You couldn't do it by sales alone that's for sure, so I suppose DJ playlist returns were the only way, but as we all know Mr Levine had a hand it in somewhere - killing off the hi-nrg chart by his own over-promotion

I used to buy loads of record but always made a point to purchase each n every track which reached number one (ended up with a few bloopers imho, as I've never liked EG Daily - Love In The Shadows, or Bertrice Reading's You're Gonna Suffer), but once every Nightmare tune seemed to peak at the top, regardless of quality............I gave up.