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Read about each song that topped the charts in Ireland at irishnumberones.com Every Friday: the new Irish charts and 'Mr Brightside'-Watch! Also on Instagram, Threads, Mastodon Written & posted by @aidancurran17.bsky.social #SpéirGhorm

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Aw-rait! Number one in Ireland this week in October 1988: U2 with 'Desire' irishnumberones.com/2022/03/30/u...

U2 – ‘Desire’

24 September 1988 Dunk a-dunk a-dunk, a-dunk-dunk! That’s the Bo Diddley beat, a staple of rock music since the man himself popularised it in the ’50s, and a proven crowd-pleaser. For e…

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The life of a showguy. This week's 'Mr Brightside'-Watch:

🔽 DOWN one place to no. 87
🔽 379 weeks in total on the Irish charts
🔽 NEVER a no. 1 in Ireland
🔽 NEVER even in the Irish top 40

Chart data: IRMA www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdG...

The Killers - Mr. Brightside (Official Music Video)

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'The Fate Of Ophelia' is Taylor Swift's fourth no. 1 single in Ireland. Only one behind Dustin now!

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☘️ This week's Irish singles chart! 💿
As expected, a clean sweep of the top three for Taylor Swift:
1️⃣ 'The Fate Of Ophelia' www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko70...
2️⃣ 'Opalite'
3️⃣ 'Elizabeth Taylor'

I pause to note these are tracks 1, 3 and 2 on the album. Chart data: www.officialcharts.com/charts/irish...

Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia (Official Music Video)

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 15h

I remember it as a voiceover by Pat Kenny riffing on the lyric "his welfare is my concern" so I assume it was for Concern.

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Yes! I'd forgotten that!

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RIP Diane Keaton, who as well as being a fantastic Oscar-winning actor also directed the video for Belinda Carlisle's 'Heaven Is A Place On Earth': irishnumberones.com/2022/03/17/b...

Belinda Carlisle – ‘Heaven Is A Place On Earth’

16 January 1988 The video for ‘Heaven Is A Place On Earth’ was directed by Diane Keaton! The lucky guy smooching with Belinda Carlisle in the video is the lucky guy who happens to be he…

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 23h

The only way is up: check out every song that topped the charts in Ireland during 1988 at Irish Number Ones. Content warning: Chris De Burgh irishnumberones.com/by-date/#1988

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 23h

One moment in time: Ireland's top ten singles this week in October 1988. Source: www.ukmix.org/forum/chart-...

Ireland's top ten singles this week in October 1988. Source: https://www.ukmix.org/forum/chart-discussion/chart-analysis/32931-irish-charts-1988-to-1990?p=997523#post997523

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Born this week in October 1988: Calum Scott, first known for a dreary Britain's Got Talent folk-pop cover of Robyn's sad-banger epic 'Dancing On My Own' in 2015 but who got to no. 1 in Ireland in 2021 with something a bit hipper: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoP2...

Lost Frequencies ft. Calum Scott - Where Are You Now (Official video)

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 23h

Albums released in October 1988 include Bug by Dinosaur Jr, including the much-loved alt-rock classic that gave its name to an equally-loved indie club night in Cork: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV2k...

Dinosaur Jr - Freak Scene

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Number one in America this week in October 1988: not Irish but living in Dublin www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Xi...

Def Leppard - Love Bites

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Also new and Irish in our top thirty this week in October 1988: A House with 'I'll Always Be Grateful' www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJO6...

I'l always be grateful. Late Late Show

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And if anyone doesn't know the 50/50 cashback ad... youtu.be/c6IDO6M4Occ?...

5050 Cashback

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Enya's 'Anywhere Is': www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVf-...

Anywhere Is (2009 Remaster)

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Here in Ireland Enya is best known for 'Orinoco Flow' and the one that sounds like the "50-50 cashback!" gas ad, but worldwide there's an estimated 68 tracks that sample her 1986 tune 'Boadicea'. '90s kids should recognise at least one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Tq...

Boadicea (2009 Remaster)

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Enya's first album, in 1985, was the soundtrack to a rom-com set in Paris. You can tell it was a British film about France because it's called... www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zqN...

Enya - The Frog Prince - 08 The Frog Prince

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 1d

New entry at a mere no. 30 in the Irish charts this week in October 1988 before soon becoming an unlikely UK and Irish number one: 'Orinoco Flow' by Enya irishnumberones.com/2022/03/30/e...

Enya – ‘Orinoco Flow’

22 October 1988 If Bono in his quieter moments must feel like an unloved prophet in his own country, not to mention a ‘pox’ in his home city, how must his Killiney neighbour Enya feel? …

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Womack & Womack were childhood friends, then uncle and niece by marriage when Cecil Womack's brother Bobby married Sam Cooke's widow Barbara (the mother of Linda Womack, née Cooke), and finally husband and wife. Clear?

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One of the great sad bangers, moving up the Irish charts this week in October 1988: Womack & Womack with the fantastic 'Teardrops' www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8AO...

Womack & Womack - Teardrops (Official Music Video)

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The long note held for 18 seconds by Bill Withers at the end of 'Lovely Day' is certainly impressive, but not even close to the world record: www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-record...

A studio recording of singer/songwriter/”vocal coach to the stars” Tee Green (UK) performing the Benard Ighner standard “Everything Must Change” contains a same-pitch vocal note that stretches to 39 seconds. The lung-busting note, recorded at a private studio in Hornchurch, Essex, UK, on 27 March 2011, lasts three seconds longer than American singer Melba Moore’s 36-second effort at the end of “The Other Side of the Rainbow”, the title track of her 1982 studio album.

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Also in the Irish top ten this week in October 1988: Bill Withers with a down-with-the-kids remix of 'Lovely Day' that was surely unwarranted www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2Wr...

Bill Withers - Lovely Day (Sunshine Mix) - Top of the Pops 1988

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Climbing into the Irish top ten this week in October 1988: 'A Little Respect' by Erasure' www.youtube.com/watch?v=x34i...

Erasure - A Little Respect (Official HD Music Video)

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A bit of late-'80s funk-era Duran in our top ten this week in October 1988: 'I Don't Want Your Love' www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAAC...

Duran Duran - I Don't Want Your Love (Official Music Video)

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Cheer up, love, give us a smile! Top ten in Ireland this week in October 1988: the hellish 'Don't Worry Be Happy' www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-di...

Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy (Official Music Video)

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Six number one singles in Ireland, still topping the charts into the '90s: here's the story of how Jason Donovan then went and blew it irishnumberones.com/2022/05/08/j...

Jason Donovan – ‘Any Dream Will Do’

27 June 1991 What’s this, an ’80s revival already? Well, actually Jason was still having hits at the start of the ’90s – in fact, up to this point in mid-1991 he has more Ir…

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