However it does have competition coming from a new entry this week that being "Especially For You" by Kylie & Jason. I'll talk more about the song's quality later but it's here through strong sales...probably from people who are looking at this song through a Scott and Charlene from Neighbours lens.
All this saw the final number one of 1988 "Don't Worry, Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin slip two places to number three...I don't have an opinion either way about this one...I guess I tolerate it to a degree?
Stuck at number four is 1927's "If I Could", a song that I actually really like and happy to see it doing well!
Slipping two places to number five is the bland "Groovy Kind of Love" by Phil Collins. We've got more Phil Collins to get to later in the new entries.
In better news, 'Handle With Care" by supergroup The Traveling Wilbury climbed two places to number six. Yeah, this song is great so nice to see it in the top ten.
It pushed past "The Only Way is Up" by Yazz and The Plastic Population which slipped two places to number seven because yeah...about time...
There's another new arrival in the top ten this time thanks to Womack & Womack with "Teardrops" rising five places to number eight.
Transvision Vamp stay steady this week with "I Want Your Love" at number nine while rounding out the top ten is the second top ten entry for Jason Donovan with "Nothing Can Divide Us" down three places to number ten.
Gains
"She Makes My Day" by Robert Palmer rose six places to break into the top twenty at number 20 while "Put A little Love In Your Heart" by Annie Lennox and Al Green climbed from 22 to 19.
"Stand Up for Your Love Rights" by Yazz looks to be following in the steps of "Only Way is Up" as it rose from 29 to 22 this week while "Love Bites" by Def Leppard climbed ten places to 23 and "Angel of Harlem" by U2 got a major boost from 42 to 25.
Rick Astley's "She Wants to Dance With Me" jumped from 41 to 36.
Losers
So it's been a busy week on the losers as former hits of 1988 start making their way out, let's begin with "Let's Stick Together (Westside '88 Remix)" by Bryan Ferry which tumbled eleven places to 49 (I'm fine with this as I really cannot stand the original at all).
"Domino Dancing" by Pet Shop Boys is finally showing some signs of exhaustion down from 39 to 46 while "Love, Truth and honesty' by Bananarama got hit with a twelve place drop to number 44.
The Angels have their "Finger on the Trigger" of a chart exit as their single tumbled from 34 to 41.
"Two Strong Hearts" by John Farnham might be starting to experience heart failure as it tumbled eleven places to 39 while "All I Do" by Daryl Braithwaite slipped from 23 to 37. "Stop Your Fussin'" by Toni Childs fussed down fifteen places to 35, it wasn't a good week for Toni as her other hit "Don't Walk Away" slipped from 17 to 29
Robert Palmer's massive hit in 1988, "Simply Irresistible" took a ten place hit to 34 while "Desire" by U2 suffered the biggest fall of the week down from 16 to 33.
New Entries
So we're starting 1989 off with eight new entries to the singles chart so let's begin our look at these with...oh good lord....
48. "A Cuppla Days" by Con The Fruiterer
So we're starting off on a weird note and I get the feeling that this song was inspired in part thanks to Comedy Company cast mate Kylie Mole having traction on the chart in 1988 that we get this from Company's fruit and vege shop owner Con Dickaletus aka Con the Fruiterer. The music certainly fits for the song and the lyrics are all about managing a fruit and vege shop and are pretty dang funny, look, it's a silly comedy novelty song that got here by the fact that the Comedy Company is popular and even if I don't see sticking around, I can't hate it, it's good fun.
43. "Two Hearts" by Phil Collins
Okay so after a novelty song...we get a new single from an artist who solo is utterly mediocre...I'm sorry but I've just never ever cared for a Phil Collins song outside of Genesis and "Groovy Kind of Love" is the sort of song I'd expect from a guy whose hits include "Against All Odds" and "In the Air Tonight" so anyway how's his latest single from his 1988 album "Buster"? Well I'll say this...it's nice to hear a more upbeat song than the maudlin "Groovy Kind of Love", it's got a bit of a soul vibe that kind of works in the song's favour in terms of giving it some groove and even if the handclaps can get annoying...I'm fine with this right now.
42. "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" by The Proclaimers
A Scottish duo for whom this song is their lead single from their 1988 album "Sunshine on Leith", the song was apparently written while waiting to attend a Sottish football game in Aberdeen but you know what? This song winds up being fantastic...that hook is enough to get stuck in your head for days on end as The Proclaimers say they will always be there for their significant other and walk to the ends of the earth even if they have to go 500 miles or more to do anything for their partners...definitely a lot of fun. Check this out.
38. "Smooth Criminal' by Michael Jackson
Okay, so the new single from Michael Jackson with it being the seventh for his 1987 album "Bad" and well yeah, this is awesome even if I don't think it's the best single from "Bad', MJ's charisma still shines here over that memorable riff as the lyrics tell the story of a woman who was attacked by a man labelled as a 'smooth criminal and the chorus making sure this woman named Annie (apparently inspired by the name of the CPR mannequin at the time) and the screams from Michael fit here too and he knows enough to play up the suspense so yeah...this is a really damn good song!
28. "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" by Poison
So now we've got American band Poison dipping into power ballad mode and while the instrumentation does feel powerful even i a little overwrought, the lyrics just feel really flat. The song was inspired by lead singer Bret Michaels ringing his girlfriend from a laundromat only to find out his girlfriend was cheating on him which only makes this song feel even weirder, this just doesn't resonate for me at all...there's no anger or rage here. This doesn't do a thing for me at all, I'm moving on from this.
21. "Imagine" by John Lennon and The Plastic Ono Band
Okay this song is from John's 1971 album of the same name, a kind of bare bones piano ballad where John Lennon asks for people to imagine the world without particular things and I have to be honest here, the song just feels like an empty vessel...yes, it might want to preach the ideal of peace but it's got this weirdly empty way of doing so and I'm not sure that lyrically the song achieves what it sets out to do, it's not precisely bad but it's a song that's strong enough to make me care either way.
16. "Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi" by Kylie Minogue
(I Do Not Know Why)
So here's the fourth single from Kylie Minogue's debut album "Kylie" and well, I kind of like this one? Yeah it's got drum machines, synthesisers and some minor guitar riffs and Kylie sounds the best she has on any of the singles here than she has on any of the previous three singles however it's the content of this song that does a lot of the heavy lifting where Kylie wonders why she still loves and wants this asshole given he is never with her and off doing something else without calling her to let her know and leaving her feeling stood up and let down...I'll take this unlike...
2. "Especially for You" by Kylie & Jason
Well this collab between Kylie Minogue and Jason Donavan seemed inevitable considering that their characters Charlene Mitchell and Scott Robinson got married on Neighbours in 1987 and honestly this song has got to be the most awkward duet I've ever heard especially as it''s the pair of them crooning back and forth about how they've missed each other while they've been apart and with these two, it can tend to come across as kind of weirdly saccharine or really uncomfortably awkward and to a degree corny....it's not my thing.
Howver it's not the worst of the week with that going to "Every Rose Has It's Thorn" by Poison. I'm going to give dishonourable mention to "Imagine" by John Lennon...sorry...I'm just not a huge fan of how empty that song is.
As for the best...we do have some options here. I'm giving best of the week to "Smooth Criminal" by Michael Jackson with "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" by The Proclaimers just edging out "Two Hearts" by Phil Collins for the honourable mention.
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