Official Top 40 best-selling songs of 1992

hahaha exactly. A real chart with real songs from real artists of all different genres. When people used to actually go in and buy a record. Another world. Unlike the joke of the charts nowadays which no one even cares about.

Every week since they started doing the 80s has been a joy to watch! The songs you loved, the songs you couldn't stand, the (few) songs you'd forgotten.

Most certainly is as the song peaked #03 and spent 3 weeks inside the TOP 10. I'm almost sure that NME was publishing the TOP 100 back in 1992 and that "Erotica" was 60 something. The song was released in October and even returned to UK TOP 75 in 1993 so does have some sales that aren't counted for Year End Chart of 1992.

Thanks for the informative response, really interesting !

Any year end TOP 10 song means already monster hit. All these TOP 40 hits were really big hits.

Generally, sales tended to be lower in the spring and summer months in the early/mid-90s, so a long number one then wouldn't tend to sell as much as a two- or three-week number one from October onwards.

It was pretty good for it to be TOP 40! The song peaked #02 and only spent 3 weeks inside the TOP 10 region. I'm sure she will have a few more TOP 40 Year End UK hits later this decade. "Without You" may even be a TOP 10 year end as was her only #01 during the 90's in UK and spent more weeks inside the TOP 10. "I'll Be There" was released in June and didn't return to the charts in 1993.

Thanks NunO for that info..much appreciated..I forgot ages ago..most singles never last long inside Top 40 then dropped very fast..

Back in 1994,the year-ending chart position for "without you "was 7th.

So it should be the same. They seem to be re-publishing the original year end charts with original sales from year of release only.

As Makis said, Without You was the seventh best-seller in the UK in 1994. It was actually number 6 until the last few days (and was announced as so on New Year's Day 1995 when they used to count down the Top 40 of every year) until Bon Jovi's Always overtook it with a few more Christmas sales.

All I Want For Christmas Is You was number 14 for 1994 (but was 17 on New Year's Day when they announced the 1994 chart). These two singles were the first Mariah singles to sell over 300,000. I'll Be There was kept off number one by Erasure and then fell quickly.

Fantasy was about number 37 in 1995 if my memory serves me correct. It was in the top 10 for 5 weeks from mid-September (4-4-6-6-9-12-14-33-38).

Also, Music Box was the best-selling of 1994 until the last week of December when Bon Jovi (I think it was) and the Beautiful South's greatest hits albums overtook it.