Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas’ No. 1 on Hot 100 for 7th Week as ‘Dandelion’ Debuts Atop Billboard 200 Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” adds a seventh week at No. 1 on the Hot 100, while her newest single, “Be Her,” joins it in the top five.

🗽 In other news from America, it's now seven weeks in total for 'Choosin' Texas' by Ella Langley as the US number one: www.billboard.com/lists/ella-l...

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Guilty feet have got no rhythm. Check out all of Ireland's chart-topping singles of 1984 at Irish Number Ones: irishnumberones.com/by-date/#1984

Ireland's top ten singles on 15 April 1984: https://www.ukmix.org/forum/chart-discussion/chart-analysis/32125-irish-charts-1982-to-1984?p=984877#post984877

Ireland's top ten this week in April 1984: unfortunate but timely song title at no. 4 for that big-budget nostalgia-washing music biopic in all the ads lately. Source: www.ukmix.org/forum/chart-...

Sugababes - Red Dress (Promo Video) YouTube video by SugababesVEVO

Born in April 1984: Amelle from Sugababes v.3. Not even getting into the Irish top ten in 2006 (twenty years ago!) despite being Sugababes and Xenomania: 'Red Dress' www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LPq...

Laura Branigan - Self Control (Official Music Video) YouTube video by RHINO

Released this week in April 1984 and soon to reach no. 2 in Ireland: Laura Branigan's epic 'Self Control', with an equally-dramatic video directed by William Friedkin www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP0_...

Kenny Loggins - Footloose (Official Video) YouTube video by KennyLogginsVEVO

Loggins successful. Number one in the US this week in April 1984... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltrM...

The Way Old Friends Do YouTube video by Philomena Begley - Topic

One for our friends in Ulster. A top twenty hit in Ireland this week in April 1984 for the queen of country & Irish, Philomena Begley, with 'The Way Old Friends Do', which I hadn't realised was an ABBA song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAM2...

JOE DOLAN - Sometimes When We Touch YouTube video by Anna Oppermann (ann-ann)

Want something crap and Irish from Ireland's top thirty this week in April 1984? Course you do! Apartheid-era South Africa's favourite Irish pop star with a generationally dreadful song, presented here in live concert Sweat-O-Vision: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM68...

Willie Nelson - Always On My Mind (Official Video) YouTube video by WillieNelsonVEVO

Thankfully, Willie Nelson has had a proper chart hit single in Ireland, reaching no. 8 here in 1982 with a genuinely nice, and what may be the second-best, version of 'Always On My Mind' www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7f1...

Willie Nelson, Julio Iglesias - To All The Girls I've Loved Before (Official Video) YouTube video by WillieNelsonVEVO

Two versions of the same song in the same week's Irish charts always spells trouble. This week in April 1984: a local version by Cork singer Tony Stevens along with the big-budget duet of 'To All The Girls I've Loved Before' by Willie Nelson and Pepé Le Pew www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVq0...

Chaka Khan – ‘I Feel For You’ 17 November 1984 Apparently it happened by accident during production. It was probably clear to everyone involved, though, that they had struck gold. And that’s how we have one of the great i…

Chaka tops the Irish charts later in 1984 with a famous pop intro, a brilliant single, and the only Prince song to go to number one in Ireland or in the UK in the '80s irishnumberones.com/2022/02/08/c...

Rufus and Chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody [HD Remaster] (Official Video) YouTube video by Chaka Khan

A new entry in the Irish top twenty this week in April 1984: a band called Rufus and a singer with the first of her two iconic hits that year: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNir...

Bananarama - Robert De Niro's Waiting (Official Video) YouTube video by London Records

You talkin' Italian to me? Also in Ireland's top ten this week in April 1984: Bananarama with 'Robert De Niro's Waiting' www.youtube.com/watch?v=H87y...

And board games!

The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men (Official Video) YouTube video by TheWeatherGirlsVEVO

Wet. Top ten in Ireland this week in April 1984: The Weather Girls with the uproarious 'It's Raining Men' www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5aZ...

Shakin’ Stevens – ‘You Drive Me Crazy’ 23 May 1981 Ireland had three Shaky number ones in 1981 but the UK had only two; this one was also kept off the top of the latter charts by ‘Stand And Deliver’. What’s more, it wa…

Five number ones, five at no. 2... in the '80s the top of the Irish charts was Shaky's manor. And yet each of those singles were demonstrably crap: irishnumberones.com/2022/01/09/s...

Shakin' Stevens - A Love Worth Waiting For YouTube video by ShakinStevensVEVO

And also kept off the Irish number one spot by Lionel Richie's 'Hello' in April 1984: Shaky with his usual ol' shite www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep0v...

Culture Club - It's A Miracle YouTube video by CultureClubVEVO

By George! Also kept off the Irish number one spot by Lionel Richie's 'Hello' in April 1984: Culture Club with 'It's A Miracle' www.youtube.com/watch?v=YewV...

Depeche Mode - People Are People YouTube video by DepecheModeVEVO

Why should it be? Kept off the Irish number one spot by Lionel Richie's 'Hello' this week in April 1984: young fellas Depeche Mode with 'People Are People' www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzGn...

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A van with Lino Richie on the side

Dancing on the ceiling, carpet on the floor. Yes, Lino Richie is a real Dublin trader and I've seen their van around town myself:

Sculpture of a person's head

The sculpture from the video for 'Hello' by Lionel Richie is now on permanent display in Dublin:

Lionel Richie – ‘Hello’ 31 March 1984 Has any other well-known song ever been so fatally undermined by its own promo video as Lionel Richie’s ‘Hello’? If you’ve not yet had the pleasure—and it awai…

Howya, head! Number one in Ireland this week in April 1984: Lionel Richie with 'Hello' and THAT video... irishnumberones.com/2022/02/01/l...

Justin Bieber's Beauty And A Beat bags new Official Singles Chart peak following Coachella set Get on his incline! Off the back of Justin Bieber’s career-spanning headline slot at Coachella festival last weekend, Beauty And A Beat ft. Nicki Minaj clai

🇬🇧 Eight weeks in total for Sam Fender and Olivia Dean with 'Rein Me In' as the UK number one, while Biebs and Katseye get a Coachella bounce: www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/j...

Aotearoa-New Zealand singles charts: https://aotearoamusiccharts.co.nz/charts/singles

🥝 Never fear, Antip-O-Dean fans: 'Man I Need' remains at number one in Aotearoa-New Zealand. 28 total weeks (twenty-eight!) at the top there, holding off 'Rein Me In' by Sam Fender and... Olivia Dean: aotearoamusiccharts.co.nz/charts/singles

Screenshot of Australia's top five singles: https://www.aria.com.au/charts/singles-chart/2026-04-20

🪃 'Rein Me In' by Sam Fender and Olivia Dean has now also gone to number one in Australia, deposing 20-week chart-topper 'Man I Need' by... Olivia Dean: www.aria.com.au/charts/singl...

Not to be a begrudger like all of you, but U2's Easter Lily EP, after one week at no. 26, has now fallen right out of Ireland's top 100 albums. (Their 2006 singles compilation is at no. 91) www.irma.ie#chartTab2

The Killers - Mr. Brightside (Official Music Video) YouTube video by TheKillersVEVO

This week's 'Mr Brightside'-Watch

🔽 DOWN 16 places to no. 82
🔽 401 weeks in total on the Irish charts
🔽 NEVER number one in Ireland
🔽 NEVER even in the Irish top 40

Big drop there: could 400 weeks be the limit of your love? www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdG... Chart data: IRMA

This week's Irish top ten: https://www.irma.ie/#chartTab1

This week's Irish top ten: 'Killeagh' falling back slightly (but not gone away!) and you all know Dominic Fike www.irma.ie#chartTab1