Our 1980s Top Twenty Chart Poll
Round Nineteen Results
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel 38% v 62% Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears For Fears
Fairytale of New York - The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl 44% v 56% Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
Eternal Flame - Bangles 44% v 56% Down Under - Men at Work
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes 39% v 61% Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler 44% v 56% Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel
The final round of voting today and it looks as if the averages could play a major role in deciding who qualifies for our 1956-1999 Top Twenty Chart Poll.
Two of these three records will qualify. Here’s the position going into the final round.
Fourteen Wins
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman average 56.5
Purple Rain - Prince average 56.5
Thirteen Wins
Let’s Dance - David Bowie average 56