UK Chart - Week ending 1980/02/09

TW LW LW? Movement Title Artist Songwriter Producer Label Catalogue Number Peak Peak Icon WOC Chart Progress This Week Ultimate Peak Ulimate WOC
1 1 Steady The Special A.K.A. Live! (EP) ( Too Much Too Young / Guns Of Navarone / Longshot Kick De Bucket / The Liquidator / Skinhead Moonstomp ) The Specials Unknown Unknown 2 Tone - 1 ◄ 3 ██████ 1 10
2 10 Up 8 Coward Of The County Kenny Rogers Roger Bowling/Billy Edd Wheeler Larry Butler United Artists UP 614 2 ↑ 3 █████ 1 12
3 4 Up 1 I'm In The Mood For Dancing The Nolans Ben Findon/Mike Myers/Robert Puzey Ben Findon/Mike Myers Epic - 3 ◄ 8 ██████████ 3 15
4 3 Down 1 My Girl Madness Mike Barson Unknown Stiff BUY 62 3 ↓ 6 ████████████ 3 10
5 5 Steady It's Different For Girls Joe Jackson Joe Jackson Unknown A&M - 5 ◄ 5 ███████████ 5 9
6 7 Up 1 Babe Styx Dennis DeYoung Dennis DeYoung/John Panozzo/Chuck Panozza A&M - 6 ◄ 6 ████████████ 6 10
7 2 Down 5 Brass In Pocket The Pretenders Unknown Chris Thomas Real - 1 ↓ 13 ███████████████ 1 17
8 14 Up 6 Someone's Looking At You The Boomtown Rats Unknown Unknown Ensign - 8 ↑ 3 ██████ 4 9
9 6 Down 3 With You I'm Born Again Billy Preston & Syreeta Unknown Unknown Motown - 2 ↓ 9 ████████████████ 2 11
10 9 Down 1 Green Onions Booker T. & The MG's Al Jackson Jr./Steve Cropper/Lewis Steinberg/Booker T. Jones Unknown Atlantic - 7 ↓ 9 ███████████████ 7 12
11 12 Up 1 7 Teen The Regents M Sheller/D Pew Unknown Rialto TREB 111 11 ◄ 8 █████████████ 11 12
12 15 Up 3 I Hear You Now Jon & Vangelis Jon Anderson/Vangelis Unknown Polydor - 12 ↑ 6 ██████████ 8 11
13 20 Up 7 Living By Numbers New Musik Tony Mansfield Unknown GTO - 13 ◄ 4 ██████████ 13 8
14 8 Down 6 Please Don't Go KC And The Sunshine Band Harry Wayne ‘KC’ Casey/Richard Finch Harry Wayne Casey/Richard Finch T.K. 1035 3 ↓ 10 ████████████████ 3 12
15 40 Up 25 Captain Beaky / Wilfred The Weasel Keith Michell Jeremy Lloyd/Jim Parker Hugh Murphy Polydor POSP 106 15 ↑ 3 ██████ 5 10
16 11 Down 5 I Wanna Hold Your Hand Dollar Unknown Unknown Carrere - 9 ↓ 12 █████████████████ 9 14
17 13 Down 4 Better Love Next Time Dr. Hook Keith/Pippin/Slate Unknown Capitol CL 16112 8 ↓ 6 ███████████████ 8 8
18 37 Up 19 And The Beat Goes On The Whispers Leon Sylvers/Stephen Shockley/William Shelby Unknown Solar - 18 ↑ 2 ███ 2 12
19 18 Down 1 Spacer Sheila And B Devotion Unknown - Carrere - 18 ↓ 12 █████████████████ 18 14
20 30 Up 10 Save Me Queen Brian May Unknown EMI EMI 5022 20 ↑ 2 ██████ 11 6
21 29 Up 8 Three Minute Hero Selecter Unknown Unknown 2 Tone - 21 ↑ 2 ██████ 16 6
22 19 Down 3 Jazz Carnival Azymuth Bertrami/Conte/Malheiros Unknown Milestone MSP 101 19 ↓ 5 ████████████ 19 8
23 27 Up 4 Escape (The Pina Colada Song) Rupert Holmes Rupert Holmes - Infinity - 23 ◄ 5 ██████████████ 23 7
24 22 Down 2 Buzz Buzz A Diddle It Matchbox Frank Slay/Bob Crewe Peter Collins Magnet MAG 157 22 ↓ 4 ██████████ 22 8
25 36 Up 11 Baby I Love You The Ramones Phil Spector/Ellie Greenwich/Jeff Barry Unknown Sire - 25 ↑ 3 ██████ 8 9
26 52 Up 26 Riders In The Sky The Shadows Unknown Unknown EMI - 26 ↑ 3 █████ 12 12
27 62 Up 35 Carrie Cliff Richard Terry Britten/B.A. Robertson Terry Britten/Cliff Richard EMI - 27 ↑ 2 ████ 4 10
28 35 Up 7 The Plastic Age The Buggles Trevor Horn/Geoff Downes The Buggles Island WIP 6540 28 ↑ 3 ███████ 16 8
29 23 Down 6 Too Hot Kool & The Gang G Brown/Kool/The Gang Eumir Deodata Mercury KOOL 8 23 ↓ 4 ██████████ 23 8
30 31 Up 1 Jane Jefferson Starship Unknown Unknown Grunt FB 1750 30 ↑ 3 ██████ 21 9
31 21 Down 10 Spirits (Having Flown) Bee Gees Barry Gibb/Robin Gibb/Maurice Gibb Unknown RSO RSO 52 16 ↓ 6 █████████████████ 16 7
32 25 Down 7 We Got The Funk Positive Force Unknown Unknown Sugarhill - 18 ↓ 8 █████████████████ 18 9
33 47 Up 14 Underpass John Foxx Unknown Unknown Virgin - 33 ↑ 3 ███████ 31 8
34 16 Down 18 London Calling The Clash Unknown Unknown CBS CBS 8087 11 ↓ 9 ██████████████████ 11 10
35 N/E New Entry Rock With You Michael Jackson Michael Jackson/Rod Temperton Unknown Epic - 35 ↑ 1 ██ 7 9
36 32 Down 4 Strange Little Girl Sad Cafe Unknown Unknown RCA - 32 ↓ 4 ████████████████ 32 5
37 17 Down 20 Tears Of A Clown / Ranking Full Stop The Beat Henry Cosby/Stevie Wonder/Smokey Robinson Unknown 2 Tone CHS TT 6 6 ↓ 10 ██████████████████ 6 11
38 34 Down 4 Mama's Boy Suzi Quatro Suzi Quatro/Len Tuckey Mike Chapman RAK RAK 303 34 ↓ 4 ████████████████ 34 5
39 45 Up 6 Music Makes You Feel Like Dancing Brass Construction L Payton Jeff Lane United Artists - 39 ◄ 3 ██████████ 39 6
40 53 Up 13 Dance Stance Dexy's Midnight Runners Unknown Unknown Oddball Productions - 40 ◄ 4 █████████████ 40 6
41 44 Up 3 Caravan Song Barbara Dickson Mike Batt Mike Batt Epic EPC 8103 41 ◄ 4 ███████████ 41 7
42 46 Up 4 Are You Ready Billy Ocean Ken Gold/Billy Ocean Ken Gold GTO GT 259 42 ◄ 4 ███████████ 42 7
43 26 Down 17 I Have A Dream ABBA Bjorn Ulvaeus/Benny Andersson Bjorn Ulvaeus/Benny Andersson Epic EPC 8088 2 ↓ 9 ██████████████████ 2 10
44 70 Up 26 Maybe Tomorrow The Chords Unknown Unknown Polydor - 44 ↑ 2 ████████ 40 5
45 56 Up 11 Motorbike Beat The Revillos Unknown Unknown Dindisc - 45 ◄ 3 ██████████ 45 6
46 N/E New Entry So Good To Be Back Home Again The Tourists Peet Coombes Unknown Logo - 46 ↑ 1 ██ 8 9
47 60 Up 13 Touch Too Much AC/DC Angus Young/Malcolm Young/Bon Scott Robert John "Mutt" Lange Atlantic K 11435 47 ↑ 2 ████ 29 9
48 N/E New Entry Games Without Frontiers Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel Unknown Charisma - 48 ↑ 1 █ 4 11
49 39 ● Down 10 Got To Love Somebody Sister Sledge Bernard Edwards/Nile Rodgers Nile Rodgers/Bernard Edwards Atlantic/Cotillion K 11404 34 ↓ 4 ████████████████████ 34 4
50 24 Down 26 Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) Pink Floyd Roger Waters Bob Ezrin/David Gilmour/James Guthrie/Roger Waters Harvest - 1 ↓ 11 ██████████████████ 1 12
51 42 ● Down 9 Sara Fleetwood Mac Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac/Richard Dashut/Ken Calliat Warner Brothers - 37 ↓ 8 ████████████████████ 37 8
52 64 Up 12 Sit Down And Cry Errol Dunkley Unknown Unknown Scope - 52 ◄ 2 █████████████ 52 3
53 N/E New Entry Singing The Blues Dave Edmunds Unknown Unknown Swansong - 53 ↑ 1 ██ 28 8
54 58 Up 4 Skinhead Moonstomp Symarip Naismith/Ellis Unknown Trojan - 54 ◄ 2 █████████████ 54 3
55 N/E New Entry Martian Hop Rocky Sharpe And The Replays Unknown Unknown Chiswick - 55 ◄ 1 █████ 55 4
56 74 Up 18 Don't Stop The Feeling Roy Ayers Unknown Unknown Polydor - 56 ◄ 2 █████████████ 56 3
57 N/E New Entry Take That Look Off Your Face Marti Webb Andrew Lloyd Webber/Don Black Andrew Lloyd Webber Polydor - 57 ↑ 1 █ 3 12
58 N/E New Entry Out Of Control Angelic Upstarts Unknown Unknown Warner Brothers - 58 ◄ 1 ██████ 58 3
59 33 ● Down 26 Rapper's Delight Sugarhill Gang Bernard Edwards/Nile Rodgers - Sugarhill SHL 101 3 ↓ 11 ████████████████████ 3 11
60 50 ● Down 10 Wonderland Commodores Unknown Unknown Motown - 40 ↓ 4 ████████████████████ 40 4
61 49 ● Down 12 Young Blood UFO Unknown Unknown Chrysalis - 36 ↓ 5 ████████████████████ 36 5
62 43 ● Down 19 Day Trip To Bangor Fiddler's Dram Unknown Unknown Dingles - 3 ↓ 9 ████████████████████ 3 9
63 66 ● Up 3 Black Orchid Stevie Wonder Unknown Unknown Motown - 63 ◄ 3 ████████████████████ 63 3
64 41 ● Down 23 Paradise Bird / The Letter Amii Stewart Unknown Unknown Atlantic/Hansa K 11424 39 ↓ 4 ████████████████████ 39 4
65 55 Down 10 Free Bird EP (Sweet Home Alabama / Double Trouble) Lynyrd Skynyrd Ed King/Gary Rossington/L Marinel/M Shafer/Ronnie Van Zant/R Wachtel/RJ Richie/W Zevon Unknown MCA - 31 ↑ 12 ███████████ 21 21
66 N/E New Entry Right In The Socket Shalamar Unknown Unknown Solar - 66 ↑ 1 ███ 44 6
67 38 ● Down 29 I Only Want To Be With You The Tourists Mike Hawker/Ivor Raymonde Unknown Logo - 4 ↓ 14 ████████████████████ 4 14
68 N/E New Entry Red Frame White Light Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Unknown Unknown Dindisc - 68 ↑ 1 ██████████ 67 2
69 N/E New Entry TV The Flying Lizards Unknown Unknown Virgin - 69 ↑ 1 ███ 43 6
70 N/E New Entry We Got The Groove The Players Association Unknown Unknown Vanguard - 70 ↑ 1 ██████ 61 3
71 72 ● Up 1 Quote Goodbye Quote Carolyne Mas Unknown Unknown Mercury - 71 ◄ 2 ████████████████████ 71 2
72 28 ● Down 44 Is It Love You're After Rose Royce Unknown Unknown Whitfield - 13 ↓ 13 ████████████████████ 13 13
73 N/E New Entry Turning Japanese The Vapors David Fenton Unknown United Artists - 73 ↑ 1 █ 3 13
74 73 ● Down 1 Way Of The World Cheap Trick Unknown Unknown Epic - 73 ↓ 2 ████████████████████ 73 2
75 65 ● Down 10 One Step Beyond... Madness Cecil Campbell Unknown Stiff BUY 56 7 ↓ 14 ████████████████████ 7 14