UK Top Singles of the 1990s

These pages list of the Top 100 UK Singles of each year in the 1990's, as researched and pulbished at the Dotmusic chat site by the user Anorak. He is now compiling a list for all of the 1990's, including a Top 3000 of the Decade. If I get other lists from him, I will pulbish them too. As of June 1999, the original posts can be found by clicking here. If other years have been posted to this topic, but not published here, mail me, and I'll try to add them. Thanks, again Anorak, for the work.

I make no guarantee as to the accuracy of information on these pages, But here is Anorak's explanation of how he came up with the rankings: "The formula is a simple one in which in any given week, the number of points for the No.1 are double the points for No.2, triple the points for No.3 etc. Thus a record spending one week at No.20 will get the same amount of points as a record spending two weeks at No.40. The value 40320 points was chosen for #1 as it allows all positions in the Top Ten to score whole numbers of points." Hence, the Scoring for each week would look like this:

Pos	Points	Pos	Points	Pos	Points	Pos	Points
#1	40320	11	3665	21	1920	31	1301
#2	20160	12	3360	22	1833	32	1260
#3	13440	13	3102	23	1753	33	1222
#4	10080	14	2880	24	1680	34	1186
#5	8064	15	2688	25	1613	35	1152
#6	6720	16	2520	26	1551	36	1120
#7	5760	17	2372	27	1493	37	1090
#8	5040	18	2240	28	1440	38	1061
#9	4480	19	2122	29	1390	39	1034
#10	4032	20	2016	30	1344	40	1008

As a personal note, while I don't think this method would translate well to North American charts, where songs tend to have a longer chart life, it's probably reasonable for the the more volatile UK Charts. More charts as soon as I can get 'em.

1990	1991	1992	1993	1994
1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
All 90's: 1-500	All 90's: 501-1000

If you enjoy chart trivia, you may want to vist my own website, RockGolf, The World-Wide Pop Music Game. Each week there's one pop music question where the answer is a song title or artist name. But there are several correct answers. The trick is to try to find answer that has the lowest combination of chart peak and duplications.