The new, improved Popsearch is back! This facility will allow you to search the Poptastic! database of UK chart hits for all the hits by your favourite artist, together with Top 40 entry date and peak positions! Or do you remember the title, or part of the title of a song, but don't know who did it? You can find out here!

Which years are covered?

Almost every hit since 1980 is there. In addition to a full archive for 1980-2000, I have now updated Popsearch to cover almost all top 20 hits for 2001. The minor hits from that year will follow later; details of the hits thus far added can be found here .
Thanks to Christian Pierre for providing the 1994/96/99 info, periods where I was missing several charts and therefore unable to complete the Popsearch! database, and also a few odd missing minor hits from 1992/93/97.

How to use...

Simply put the title, or a word of the title, in the "Title" box and the artist, or a word of the artist in the "artist" box and press Enter or click Go! If you simply want to list all the hits by a particular artist, leave the "Title" box blank. Similarly, if you want to list all the hits containing the word "acid", for example, put it in the title box and leave the artist box blank.

Note that you can narrow the search by clicking the box adjacent to the title and artist boxes. For example, rather than having all the hits of Shabba Ranks displayed when you enter "Abba", you can just list Abba's hits. To reset it, click the box again.
In a new feature, you can also restrict searches to one particular year.

Hints: If you don't have any luck, try just one word from the title or artist. Problems might occur if you type in the whole title as I may have, on a few instances, cut off some of the title - e.g the bits in brackets. Another possibility is the presence of "The" in the artist name e.g The Smiths. Another source of confusion is spaces - e.g. if "Guns n'(space)Roses" doesn't give you anything, try leaving the space after the apostrophe out. Also try "informalised" names if the full name doesn't work, such as ELO, OMD and Sam Fox (what a combination :) ) rather than Electric Light Orchestra, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and Samantha Fox.

Also note that the character '&' is never used. You should always use the word 'and'.

Other than that, let me know if you find any glaring errors in the database. I've tried my best to keep it error free, but with such a lot of data the odd error is, unfortunately, bound to creep in. Also, expect the odd acerbic comment on a record I didn't like :)

Technical NOTE: This is a new interactive-form version of Popsearch. The original version was an applet but the old Netscape (version 3) is still more widespread than I thought, so several people were having problems with it. Also applets are rather slow compared to interactive forms. So this should be much quicker and more reliable!

Also on site...

See the Poptastic main page! - chart commentaries, complete no.1 lists and more... And go to my home page...

Nick Whitelegg