| TW | LW | Weeks | Song | Artist | |
| 1 | 1 | 9 | Hak Hom Blokkies | – | David Kramer |
| 2 | 2 | 9 | One Day in Your Life | – | Michael Jackson |
| 3 | 3 | 6 | You Drive Me Crazy | – | Shakin’ Stevens |
| 4 | 6 | 5 | Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around | – | Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers |
| 5 | 4 | 8 | Chariots of Fire (Titles) | – | Vangelis |
| 6 | 12 | 3 | Queen of Hearts | – | Juice Newton |
| 7 | 5 | 10 | Chequered Love | – | Kim Wilde |
| 8 | 8 | 4 | Amour | – | Baron Longfellow |
| 9 | 10 | 3 | How ’bout Us | – | Champaign |
| 10 | 20 | 2 | Urgent | – | Foreigner |
| 11 | 7 | 6 | Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain | – | Maria Tyl |
| 12 | 9 | 11 | Tequila Sheila | – | Mac Davis |
| 13 | 11 | 7 | It’s Hard to be Humble | – | Mac Davis |
| 14 | 16 | 3 | If You Go, I’ll Follow You | – | Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner |
| 15 | New | 1 | Memory | – | Elaine Paige |
| 16 | 17 | 3 | A Woman Needs Love (Just Like You Do) | – | Ray Parker Jr. |
| 17 | New | 1 | I Really Love You | – | Phil Seymour |
| 18 | 13 | 9 | Being with You | – | Smokey Robinson |
| 19 | 14 | 16 | Bette Davis Eyes | – | Kim Carnes |
| 20 | 18 | 5 | Winning | – | Santana |
Bubbling under (thanks to Kevin Farquhason for the info):
| Jim Steinman | Rock ‘n Roll Dreams Come Through (Official bubble) |
| ELO | Hold On Tight |
| Bernie Paul | Oh No No |
| Cliff Richard | Wired For Sound |
| Jon English | Get Your Love Right |
| David Scobie | Taking The Easy Way Home |
| Keith Marshall | Only Crying |
David Kramer’s ‘Hak Hom Blokkies’ became the 15th local song to spend at least 4 weeks at 1 and was the first Afrikaans song to manage this. The only other 2 Afrikaans songs to top the chart so far, Des Lindberg’s ‘Die Gezoem Van Die Bye’ and Glenys Lynn’s ‘Ramaja’, both managed 3 weeks at 1. It should be mentioned that ‘Ramaja’ was the only pure Afrikaans track of these 3 with the other 2 having a mixture of English and Afrikaans lyrics. Michael Jackson’s ‘One Day In Your Life’ spent a 3rd week at 2.
Foreigner’s ‘Urgent’ took the climber of the week award as it leapt up 10 places from 20 to 10. This was the 97th time overall and the 7th time in the 80s that we had seen a song climb 10 or more in a week. It was Foreigner’s second time with the climber award, having picked it up once with their previous hit, ‘Double Vision’. Juice Newton’s ‘Queen Of Hearts’ was the only other star rater this week. It climbed 6 from 12 to 6.
Smokey Robinson’s ‘Being With You’ and Kim Carnes ‘Bette Davis Eyes’ shared the faller of the week award as they both fell 5 to land at 18 and 19 respectively.
Kim Wilde’s 9 weeks run with 2 in the charts came to an end as ‘Kids In America’ left the top 20 this week. It had been with us for 15 weeks and spent 1 week at 1. Her other hit, ‘Chequered Love’ was sitting at 5.
We also bid farewell to the song that was the oldest on last week’s chart, Joe Dolan’s ‘More And More’. It had spent 16 weeks in the top 20 and spent 3 of those at 1. He had now had 5 chart toppers with ‘Lady In Blue’ spending the most weeks at 1 of the 5 as it managed 6 weeks there. ‘More And More’ along with ‘Hush Hush Maria’ had managed the second most weeks at 1 of his songs. There was still 1 more hit to come for the Irishman. This was the 23rd week we had lost 2 previous chart toppers from the top 20. So far we had never lost more than 2 in a week.
Kim Carnes’ ‘Bette Davis Eyes’ on 15 weeks was the new oldest on the chart.
The first new entry was the 4th song from an Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical to make the charts. We had seen ‘One More Angel In Heaven’ from ‘Joseph & The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat’, ‘Don’t Cry for Me Argentina’ from ‘Evita’ and ‘Take That Look Off Your Face’ from ‘Tell Me On A Sunday’. This week we saw ‘Memory’ from Lloyd-Webber’s ‘Cats’ make the charts and the version that made the top 20 was by the Elaine Paige who played the role of Grizabella (the cat that sings the song in the play) in the original London production. Paige was cast for the part after Judi Dench, who was originally meant to take the role, snapped her Achilles tendon during rehearsals. Paige’s version would go to number 6 in the UK, 33 in New Zealand and would top the Radio 5 charts.
The second new entry was Phil Seymour’s ‘I Really Love You’. Seymour was an American singer who did backing vocals for Dwight Twilley and Tom Petty. ‘I Really Love You’ would not worry the charts around the world other than ours, but another song called ‘Precious To Me’ from Phil’s debut album which also included ‘I Really Love You’, would get to 22 in the US. ‘I Really Love You’ would make it to number 2 on the Radio 5 Charts. Sadly Phil would die from cancer in the August on 1993, he was only 41 years old.
‘I Really Love You’ was the 250th song by a solo American male to make our charts. It had taken 221 weeks for the latest 50 to chart and this was the slowest 50 for them, beating the 205 weeks it took for them to move from 50 to 100. Their first 50 was the quickest, taking only 107 weeks to accumulate.
The US acts in the top 20 increased by 1 this week to total 13 out of the top 20. The last time there had been this many in the charts in a week was 70 weeks previously on 30 May 1980.
We also witnessed the 35th time an act had sat in adjacent positions in the charts as Mac Davis’ ‘Tequila Sheila’ was at 12 and his ‘It’s Hard To be Humble’ was at 13. This was only the 4th time a US male act had managed this.
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