The top 40 singles chart the first time it featured REM (w/e 17/6/89):
1 Jason Donovan - Sealed With A Kiss
2 Cliff Richard - The Best Of Me
3 Soul II Soul - Back To Life (However Do You Want Me)
4 Sinitta - Right Back Where We Started From
5 Madonna - Express Yourself
6 Guns N’ Roses - Sweet Child O’ Mine
7 Natalie Cole - Miss You Like Crazy
8 Cyndi Lauper - I Drove All Night
9 Donna Summer - I Don’t Wanna Get Hurt
10 Neneh Cherry - Manchild
11 The Beautiful South - Song For Whoever
12 D:Mob - It Is Time To Get Funky
13 Lynne Hamilton - On The Inside
14 Gerry Marsden, Paul McCartney, Holly Johnson And The Christians - Ferry Cross The Mersey
15 Transvision Vamp - The Only One
16 Double Trouble And The Rebel MC - Just Keep Rockin’
17 Fuzzbox - Pink Sunshine
18 Kylie Minogue - Hand On Your Heart
19 Tone Loc - Funky Cold Medina
20 Bananarama - Cruel Summer
21 London Boys - Requiem
22 Donna Allen - Joy And Pain
23 Bobby Brown - Every Little Step
24 Paula Abdul - Forever Your Girl
25 Edelweiss - Bring Me Edelweiss
26 Cappella - Helyom Halib
27 Sam Brown - Can I Get A Witness?
28 REM - Orange Crush
29 Tom Petty - I Won’t Back Down
30 Clannad With Bono - In A Lifetime
31 The Bangles - Be With You
32 Roxette - The Look
33 Placido Domingo And Jennifer Rush - Til I Loved You
34 Karyn White - Superwoman
35 Malcolm McLaren And The Bootzilla Orchestra - Waltz Darling
36 Vixen - Love Made Me
37 New Model Army - Green And Grey
38 The Bangles - Eternal Flame
39 Living In A Box - Gatecrashing
40 Gladys Knight - Licence To Kill(Chris ‘not that one’ Brown has compiled a Spotify playlist of the first REM top 100 entry)
(Source: sweeping-the-nation)
