ALISON MOYET (UK)

Born: 18 June 1961
Real name: Geneviève Alison Jane Ballard (née Moyet)

Alison was born in Billericay, a town a little to the east of London and not too far from Basildon where Vince Clark and Depeche Mode hailed from. She would be in a number of different bands in the 70’s and would team up with Vince Clarke, after he left Depeche Mode, to form Yazoo. They produced 2 albums together which went to 2 and 1 respectively on the UK charts. They would also see 6 singles make the UK charts with ‘Only You’s peak of 2 being their best showing. When Clarke decided to disband Yazoo, Alison left Mute records (which had been Depeche Mode’s and Yazoo’s label and Clarke would stay with the label for his future bands, The Assembly and Erasure) and signed to CBS. She teamed up with the production team of Swain & Jolley for her first album. Swain & Jolley had seen success producing Imagination and Bananarama. Her first album, ‘Alf’ would top the UK charts and produce 3 charting singles. She would end up seeing 19 UK chart hits with ‘That Ole Devil Called Love’ giving her a best peak of 2. In 2008 she would reunite with Vince Clarke for some live Yazoo shows.

Date of entry	Song	Peak (weeks at 1)	Weeks
25-Jan-1985	All Cried Out	7	13
08-Mar-1987	Is This Love?	2	26
24-Mar-1988	Love Letters	11	15
		Total hits	3
		Total weeks	54

Biggest climber awards	0
Star rater climbs	11
Biggest fallers	1
Weeks with oldest in the charts	0
Longest run in the charts (weeks)	26
Weeks with more than 1 in the charts	0
Biggest gap between hits (weeks)	97
Top 30 points ranking	150
Top 20 points ranking	=174
Top 30 points	881
Top 20 points	408

Hits as a member of Yazoo:

Date of entry	Song	Peak (weeks at 1)	Weeks
03-Dec-1982	Don’t Go	9	16
22-Jul-1983	Nobody’s Diary	6	16
		Total hits	2
		Total weeks	32

Total chart involvement:

Number of hits	5
Weeks	86