11 January 1980

Pos	LW	Weeks	Song		Artist
1	2	8	Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough	–	Michael Jackson
2	1	11	She’s in Love with You	–	Suzi Quatro
3	3	6	The Part of Me That Needs You Most	–	Exile
4	5	6	Crazy Little Thing Called Love	–	Queen
5	7	16	Boy Oh Boy	–	Racey
6	6	12	I Have a Dream	–	ABBA
7	4	7	Half the Way	–	Crystal Gayle
8	8	5	If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body (Would You Hold it Against Me)	–	Bellamy Brothers
9	11	13	El Lute/Gotta Go Home	–	Boney M
10	9	16	We Don’t Talk Anymore	–	Cliff Richard
11	16	9	Feels Like I’m in Love	–	Kelly Marie
12	13	10	Wanted	–	Dooleys
13	10	5	Breakfast in America	–	Supertramp
14	19	11	I’ll Never Love This Way Again	–	Dionne Warwick
15	12	4	Rise	–	Herb Alpert
16	15	4	Caravan Song	–	Barbara Dickson
17	14	9	Confusion	–	Electric Light Orchestra
18	20	2	Where Have All the Flowers Gone	–	Roy Bulkin
19	New	1	Friday on My Mind	–	Chilly
20	17	3	This is Your Lucky Day (The Girl Won’t Get Under)	–	Alan Price

After 4 weeks at number 2, Michael Jackson’s ‘Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough’ finally made that further 1 place climb to take the top spot. It was the 3^rd song to spend a record to date 4 consecutive weeks at 2 before moving into the top spot the following week. The previous 2 songs to do this were Peter Maffay’s ‘You’ and Wings’ ‘Mull Of Kintyre’. The previous number 1, Suzi Quatro’s ‘She’s In Love With You’, had been at number 1 for 7 weeks. It dropped to 2 this week.

We also saw the 7^th occasion when we had 2 biggest climbers by female acts as Kelly Marie’s ‘Feels Like I’m In Love’ moved up 5 from 16 to 11 and Dionne Warwick’s ‘I’ll Never Love This Way Again’ moved up from 19 to 14. This was, interestingly, the first time both the songs had seen falls before having this biggest climb and not only that, they had both picked up biggest faller awards previously. This was the second, and would be the last time, we would see 2 climbers that had both been fallers of the week before getting this climber award. Kelly Marie was the 3^rd act to twice feature as 1 of 2 females taking the biggest climber in the same week. The other 2 were Alicia Brides and Laurika Rauch, however, Marie was the first to managed this with 2 different songs. There were no other star raters this week.

There were 5 songs that shared the biggest faller award with all of them dropping 3 places. These were Alan Price’s ‘This Is Your Lucky Day (The Girl Won’t Get Under)’ (down to 20), ELO’s ‘Confusion’ (down to 17), Herb Alpert’s ‘Rise’ (down to 15), Supertramp’s ‘Breakfast In America’ (down to 13) and Crystal Gayle’s ‘Half The Way’ (down to 7).

Cliff Richard’s ‘We Don’t Talk Anymore’ and Racey’s ‘Boy Oh Boy’ continued their runs as the oldest in the charts. They were on 16 weeks and enjoying their 4^th week as the oldest.

Nils Logfren’s ‘Shine Silently’ was the only song to depart the chart this week. It had seen a run of 8 weeks and a peak of 15. This was the 3^rd song to spend 8 weeks in the charts and only peak at 15. Only Clive Risko’s ‘Bluest Heartache Of The Year’ had a lower peak for songs managing 8 weeks. It had peaked at 16. ‘Shine Silently’ would be Nils’ only SA chart hit but we would hear his guitar playing on our charts at a later date as part of Bruce Springsteen’s E-Street Band.

German act Chilly returned to the charts with their second hit ‘Friday on My Mind’. The song was a cover of a 1966 song that was a hit for Aussie band The Easybeats which had gone to 6 in the UK and 16 in the US. The song was written by Harry Vanda and George Young, the song writing duo that had brought us all of John Paul Young’s hits. This was their 10^th hit on our charts as song writers. Apart from The Easybeats’ version the UK had also seen a cover by a band called The Gents make 95 in 1986 and in 1987 Gary Moore took a cover version to 26. Apart from getting to 11 in Zimbabwe, I can’t find any other chart action for Chilly’s version which was the 23^rd song by a German act to chart and this put Germany in 6^th place on its own for hits by acts from a nation. They moved 1 ahead of the Australians who were on 22 hits and who dropped into 7^th place, the irony being that the composers of the song, Vanda and Young, were Aussies.

After dropping below 10 of the top 20 hits last weeks following a run of 56 weeks having at least half the charts, the groups were once again accounting for at least 10 of the top 20 as they moved back on to 10 hits.

We also saw our record run of weeks with only 1 act seeing a new highest position extend to 5 weeks. The last 3 weeks it had been Barbara Dickson’s ‘Caravan Song’ that had been giving her new highs, but this week it was the act that started this 5 week run that was once again the only one seeing a new high and that was Michael Jackson who moved up to his best chart position to date of 1. Jackson also celebrated reaching the 20 weeks in the chart mark. 12 of them had come with ‘Ben’ and so far 8 had come from ‘Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough’.

Cliff Richard caught up with The Hollies for weeks in the charts. Both acts we on 137 weeks and they sat tied 4^th overall. This was Cliff’s highest placing on this list since he sat tied 3^rd back in 1965 when the charts were only 5 weeks old (they were 762 weeks old now). Lower down the list we saw Boney M take 16^th place for themselves with 93 weeks. Billy Forrest and Tommy Roe on 92 weeks each, dropped into tied 17^th place.

Racey clocked up a 30^th consecutive week with at least 1 hit in the charts. 14 of these had been with just ‘Some Girls’, 5 had been with both ‘Some Girls’ and ‘Boy Oh Boy’ and then 11 had been with just ‘Boy Oh Boy’. They were the 14^th act to manage such a run and the last time an act had managed 30 consecutive weeks with at least 1 in the chart had been back in 1975 when George McCrae managed it.

This week would be the only one in the top 20 era where every single act represented would have at least 2 hits chart before the charts ended.

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