My Birthday Number Ones
It's my 34th birthday today (16th Feb) so to celebrate (ain't I the proper party animal lol) here is a list of everything that was number one on the official singles chart on my birthday. Until 1987 new charts were unveiled first on a Tuesday, From late 1987 until July 2015 the new charts were unveiled two days earlier on the Sunday immediately following the Saturday at the end of the sales week. Since July 2015 the new charts were unveiled on the Friday immediately following the Thursday at the end of the sales week. In each case the listed number one is the one most recently announced on the day of my birthday. The week ending date refers to the Saturday after the sales week until 2015 and the Thursday after the sales week thereafter.
1983 (W/E 19th Feb) Kajagoogoo - Too Shy
1984 (W/E 18th Feb) Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
1985 (W/E 16th Feb) Elaine Paige and Barbra Dickson - I Know Him So Well
1986 (W/E 15th Feb) Billy Ocean - When The Going Get's Tough, The Tough Get Going
1987 (W/E 14th Feb) Aretha Franklin and George Michael - I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)
1988 (W/E 20th Feb) Kylie Minogue - I Should Be So Lucky
1989 (W/E 18th Feb) Marc Almond ft Special Guest Star Gene Pitney - Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart
1990 (W/E 17th Feb) Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
1991 (W/E 16th Feb) Simpsons - Do The Bartman
1992 (W/E 22nd Feb) Shakespear's Sister - Stay
1993 (W/E 20th Feb) 2 Unlimited - No Limit
1994 (W/E 19th Feb) Mariah Carey - Without You
1995 (W/E 18th Feb) Celine Dion - Think Twice
1996 (W/E 17th Feb) Babylon Zoo - Spaceman
1997 (W/E 22nd Feb) No Doubt - Don't Speak
1998 (W/E 21st Feb) Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On
1999 (W/E 20th Feb) Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away
2000 (W/E 19th Feb) Oasis - Go Let It Out
2001 (W/E 17th Feb) Atomic Kitten - Whole Again
2002 (W/E 16th Feb) Enrique Iglesias - Hero
2003 (W/E 22nd Feb) T.a.T.u. - All The Things She Said
2004 (W/E 21st Feb) Sam & Mark - With A Little Help From My Friends
2005 (W/E 19th Feb) U2 - Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
2006 (W/E 18th Feb) Meck ft Leo Sayer - Thunder In My Heart (Again)
2007 (W/E 17th Feb) Mika - Grace Kelly
2008 (W/E 16th Feb) Basshunter ft DJ Mental Theo's Bazzheadz - Now You're Gone
2009 (W/E 21st Feb) Lily Allen - The Fear
2010 (W/E 20th Feb) Helping Haiti - Everybody Hurts
2011 (W/E 19th Feb) Jessie J ft B.o.B. - Price Tag
2012 (W/E 18th Feb) Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know
2013 (W/E 16th Feb) Macklemore & Ryan Lews ft Wanz - Thrift Shop
2014 (W/E 22nd Feb) Clean Bandit ft Jess Glynne - Rather Be
2015 (W/E 21st Feb) Ellie Goulding - Love Me Like You Do
2016 (W/E 18th Feb) Lukas Graham - 7 Years
2017 (W/E 16th Feb) Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You
2018 (W/E 22nd Feb) Drake - God's Plan
2019 (W/E 21st Feb) Ariana Grande - Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored
A real smorgasboard of tastes and sounds there, which is your favourite?
Page Last Updated - 16/02/2019