In Retrospect

If I had the power, perhaps in an alternate timeline, the Top 40 would have been quite different...

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Number
1 Up by 2

Would I Lie to You?
Eurythmics
From the album: Be Yourself Tonight
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
8
Number
2 Down by 1

88 Lines About 44 Women
The Nails
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
14
Number
3 Up by 1

Raspberry Beret
Prince & The Revolution
From the album: Around the World In a Day
Peak
3
Weeks
4
Number
4 Down by 2

How Soon is Now?
The Smiths
From the album: Meat Is Murder, Hatful of Hollow
Peak
1 (for 4 weeks)
Weeks
18
Number
5

Pretty Persuasion
R.E.M.
From the album: Reckoning
Peak
4
Weeks
23
Number
6

Johnson's Aeroplane
INXS
From the album: The Swing
Peak
1 (for 2 weeks)
Weeks
25
Number
7 Up by 2

Don't You (Forget About Me)
Simple Minds
From the album: The Breakfast Club (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Peak
7
Weeks
16
Number
8 Down by 1

Relax
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
From the album: Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Peak
1 (for 4 weeks)
Weeks
21
Number
9 Down by 1

Obsession
Animotion
From the album: Animotion
Peak
6
Weeks
20
Number
10

Smalltown Boy
Bronski Beat
From the album: The Age Of Consent
Peak
8
Weeks
25
Number
11 Up by 1

Some Like It Hot
The Power Station
From the album: The Power Station
Peak
11
Weeks
13
Number
12 Up by 1

Don't Come Around Here No More
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
From the album: Southern Accents
Peak
12
Weeks
11
Number
13 Up by 1

Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Tears for Fears
From the album: Songs from the Big Chair
Peak
13
Weeks
11
Number
14 Up by 1

In Shreds
The Chameleons
From the album: What Does Anything Mean? Basically
Peak
14
Weeks
19
Number
15 Up by 1

Things Can Only Get Better
Howard Jones
From the album: Dream Into Action
Peak
15
Weeks
10
Number
16 Up by 1

When You Were Mine
Cyndi Lauper
From the album: She's So Unusual
Peak
16
Weeks
13
Number
17 Up by 1

Forever Young
Alphaville
From the album: Forever Young
Peak
17
Weeks
10
Number
18 Down by 7

Tenderness
General Public
From the album: All the Rage
Peak
3
Weeks
29
Number
19 Up by 2

Voices Carry
'Til Tuesday
From the album: Voices Carry
Peak
19
Weeks
8
Number
20 Up by 2

The Unforgettable Fire
U2
From the album: The Unforgettable Fire
Peak
20
Weeks
9
Number
21 Up by 2

Going Down to Liverpool
The Bangles
Peak
21
Weeks
7
Number
22 Up by 2

Black Cars
Gino Vannelli
Peak
22
Weeks
6
Number
23 Up by 10

People Are People
Depeche Mode
From the album: Some Great Reward
Peak
23
Weeks
3
Number
24 Up by 4

We Close Our Eyes
Go West
From the album: Go West
Peak
24
Weeks
14
Number
25 Up by 5

Heartbeat City
The Cars
From the album: Heartbeat City
Peak
25
Weeks
7
Number
26 Up by 3

Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
From the album: Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Peak
26
Weeks
9
Number
27 Up by 4

Crazy In The Night (Barking At Airplanes)
Kim Carnes
Peak
27
Weeks
5
Number
28 Down by 8

Bongo Bongo
The Steve Miller Band
Peak
15
Weeks
17
Number
29 Up by 7

A View to A Kill
Duran Duran
From the album: A View to A Kill (Soundtrack Album)
Peak
29
Weeks
4
Number
30 Down by 5

Save a Prayer
Duran Duran
From the album: Rio
Peak
14
Weeks
19
Number
31 Down by 5

The Beautiful Ones
Prince
From the album: Purple Rain (Soundtrack)
Peak
12
Weeks
23
Number
32 Down by 5

Computer Blue
Prince & The Revolution
From the album: Purple Rain (Soundtrack)
Peak
12
Weeks
27
Number
33 Debut

You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
Dead Or Alive
From the album: Youthquake
Peak
33
Weeks
1
Number
34 Up by 1

One Night in Bangkok
Murray Head
From the album: Chess
Peak
34
Weeks
6
Number
35 Up by 3

In My House
Mary Jane Girls
From the album: Only Four You
Peak
35
Weeks
6
Number
36 Down by 17

Blasphemous Rumours
Depeche Mode
From the album: Some Great Reward
Peak
1 (for 3 weeks)
Weeks
28
Number
37 Down by 3

No Mercy
The Stranglers
Peak
22
Weeks
25
Number
38 Up by 1

Days Are Numbers (The Traveller)
The Alan Parsons Project
From the album: Vulture Culture
Peak
38
Weeks
7
Number
39 Up by 1

Every Time You Go Away
Paul Young
From the album: The Secret of Association
Peak
39
Weeks
5
Number
40 Up by 2

She Sells Sanctuary
The Cult
From the album: Love
Peak
40
Weeks
3
Number
41

Satisfaction Guaranteed
The Firm
From the album: The Firm
Peak
41
Weeks
6
Number
42 Up by 3

Little By Little
Robert Plant
From the album: Shaken 'n' Stirred
Peak
42
Weeks
3
Number
43 Up by 3

All You Zombies
The Hooters
From the album: Nervous Night
Peak
43
Weeks
3
Number
44 Down by 12

Less Cities, More Moving People
The Fixx
From the album: Phantoms
Peak
8
Weeks
27
Number
45 Down by 8

Lay Your Hands on Me (Original UK Version 1984)
Thompson Twins
Peak
5
Weeks
27
Number
46 Up by 3

The Perfect Kiss
New Order
From the album: Low-Life
Peak
46
Weeks
2
Number
47 Up by 3

Nemesis
Shriekback
Peak
47
Weeks
2
Number
48 Debut

Loving The Alien
David Bowie
From the album: Tonight
Peak
48
Weeks
1
Number
49 Debut

Johnny Come Home
Fine Young Cannibals
From the album: Fine Young Cannibals
Peak
49
Weeks
1
Number
51 Debut

Get It On (Bang A Gong)
The Power Station
From the album: The Power Station
Peak
51
Weeks
1

Dropouts

Number
43 Dropout

Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid
Daryl Hall and John Oates
From the album: Big Bam Boom
Peak
30
Weeks
10
Number
44 Dropout

Love & Pride
KING
Peak
16
Weeks
20
Number
47 Dropout

I Want You
Lindsey Buckingham
Peak
2
Weeks
29
Number
48 Dropout

The Riddle
Nik Kershaw
From the album: The Riddle
Peak
15
Weeks
21

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Date

June 8, 1985

Songs

50

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3 1 Eurythmics – “Would I Lie to You?” 1(×1) 8

1 2 The Nails – “88 Lines About 44 Women” 1(×1) 14

4 3 Prince & The Revolution – “Raspberry Beret” 3 4

2 4 The Smiths – “How Soon is Now?” 1(×4) 18

5 5 R.E.M. – “Pretty Persuasion” 4 23

6 6 INXS – “Johnson's Aeroplane” 1(×2) 25

9 7 Simple Minds – “Don't You (Forget About Me)” 7 16

7 8 Frankie Goes To Hollywood – “Relax” 1(×4) 21

8 9 Animotion – “Obsession” 6 20

10 10 Bronski Beat – “Smalltown Boy” 8 25

12 11 The Power Station – “Some Like It Hot” 11 13

13 12 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – “Don't Come Around Here No More” 12 11

14 13 Tears for Fears – “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” 13 11

15 14 The Chameleons – “In Shreds” 14 19

16 15 Howard Jones – “Things Can Only Get Better” 15 10

17 16 Cyndi Lauper – “When You Were Mine” 16 13

18 17 Alphaville – “Forever Young” 17 10

11 18 General Public – “Tenderness” 3 29

21 19 'Til Tuesday – “Voices Carry” 19 8

22 20 U2 – “The Unforgettable Fire” 20 9

23 21 The Bangles – “Going Down to Liverpool” 21 7

24 22 Gino Vannelli – “Black Cars” 22 6

33 23 Depeche Mode – “People Are People” 23 3

28 24 Go West – “We Close Our Eyes” 24 14

30 25 The Cars – “Heartbeat City” 25 7

29 26 Frankie Goes To Hollywood – “Welcome to the Pleasuredome” 26 9

31 27 Kim Carnes – “Crazy In The Night (Barking At Airplanes)” 27 5

20 28 The Steve Miller Band – “Bongo Bongo” 15 17

36 29 Duran Duran – “A View to A Kill” 29 4

25 30 Duran Duran – “Save a Prayer” 14 19

26 31 Prince – “The Beautiful Ones” 12 23

27 32 Prince & The Revolution – “Computer Blue” 12 27

NE 33 Dead Or Alive – “You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)” 33 1

35 34 Murray Head – “One Night in Bangkok” 34 6

38 35 Mary Jane Girls – “In My House” 35 6

19 36 Depeche Mode – “Blasphemous Rumours” 1(×3) 28

34 37 The Stranglers – “No Mercy” 22 25

39 38 The Alan Parsons Project – “Days Are Numbers (The Traveller)” 38 7

40 39 Paul Young – “Every Time You Go Away” 39 5

42 40 The Cult – “She Sells Sanctuary” 40 3

41 41 The Firm – “Satisfaction Guaranteed” 41 6

45 42 Robert Plant – “Little By Little” 42 3

46 43 The Hooters – “All You Zombies” 43 3

32 44 The Fixx – “Less Cities, More Moving People” 8 27

37 45 Thompson Twins – “Lay Your Hands on Me (Original UK Version 1984)” 5 27

49 46 New Order – “The Perfect Kiss” 46 2

50 47 Shriekback – “Nemesis” 47 2

NE 48 David Bowie – “Loving The Alien” 48 1

NE 49 Fine Young Cannibals – “Johnny Come Home” 49 1

NE 51 The Power Station – “Get It On (Bang A Gong)” 51 1

DROPOUTS:

43 -- Daryl Hall and John Oates – “Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid” 30 10

44 -- KING – “Love & Pride” 16 20

47 -- Lindsey Buckingham – “I Want You” 2 29

48 -- Nik Kershaw – “The Riddle” 15 21

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