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Official Singles Chart on 21/5/1969

21 May 1969 - 27 May 1969

The Official UK Singles Chart reflects the UK’s biggest songs of the week, based on audio and video streams, downloads, CDs and vinyl, compiled by the Official Charts Company. The UK Top 40 is broadcast on BBC Radio 1 and MTV, the Top 100 is published exclusively on OfficialCharts.com. View the biggest songs of 2024 so far.

 

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Institute for Music Research

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No 39. The label of Buddah 201048 shows the artist is 'The Edwin Hawkins Singers'.

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Neil Morgenstern

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Get Back is by The Beatles with Billy Preston. Not "Preston". The lead singer from the Ordinary Boys has nothing to do with it.. (He wasn't born until 1982!)

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Neil Morgenstern

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Tied positions at #36, #40 and #47 suggests either sales were extremely low at the time or the sample of shops they used was very small (thus leading to the same number sampled) or some other means to compile the chart like combining two existing ones.

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Phil Davis

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From their own "history of the charts" Neil -

<<1969 – the BBC and Record Retailer join forces to revolutionise the UK’s chart compilation process. The two organisations commission the British Market Research Bureau (BMRB) to compile the UK’s charts on their behalf – these are the first true industry-recognised charts and are referred to as the UK’s “official” charts for the first time.
These charts are initially compiled from a panel of 250 record shops, who log their sales by hand and submit their totals by post.>>

Their chart is in a mess from the beginning of 1969 with many instances of the same record occupying two separate positions on the chart, several records indicated as re-entries when they have been in the chart for weeks, and at least one week where there are 49 records in the 'top 50' chart and no obvious way of telling which record has been omitted. A sad case of a company pooling several charts together as one; calling themselves 'Official'; and making a complete mess of things in the process.