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Songs that charted higher in Ireland than in the UK

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,129 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Surprised Rhythm Nation & Escapade didnt make either Top 10... I remember them getting a lot of airplay / videoplay.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,674 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    10cc:

    The Dean and I - #10 in the UK, Number 1 in Ireland

    The Wall Street Shuffle - #10 in the UK, #9 in Ireland

    Art for Art's Sake - #5 in the UK, #4 in Ireland

    I'm Mandy Fly Me - #6 in the UK, #3 in Ireland

    The Things We Do for Love - #6 in the UK, #2 in Ireland

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,183 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    "The Dean and I", another song I wouldn't have guessed was an Irish #1.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 376 ✭✭rpirl


    All five singles from Fine Young Cannibals' The Raw and The Cooked

    'Don't Look Back', UK #34, Ire #10



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,674 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Andrew Gold:

    Never Let Her Slip Away - #5 in the UK, #2 in Ireland

    How Can This Be Love - #19 in the UK, #16 in Ireland

    Spooky Scary Skeletons - #55 in the UK, #35 in Ireland

    Donna Summer:

    Winter Melody - #27 in the UK, #20 in Ireland

    Love's Unkind - #3 in the UK, #2 in Ireland

    On the Radio - #32 in the UK, #18 in Ireland

    Cold Love - #44 in the UK, #30 in Ireland

    Love is in Control (Finger on the Trigger) - #18 in the UK, #14 in Ireland

    State of Independence - #14 in the UK, #10 in Ireland

    I Feel Love (Patrick Cowley Remixes) - #21 in the UK, #18 in Ireland

    I Don't Wanna Get Hurt - #7 in the UK, #3 in Ireland

    Love's About to Change my Heart - #20 in the UK, #11 in Ireland

    Bee Gees:

    First of May - #6 in the UK, #4 in Ireland

    Don't Forget to Remember - #2 in the UK, Number 1 in Ireland

    My World - #16 in the UK, #14 in Ireland

    Run to Me - #9 in the UK, #7 in Ireland

    You Should be Dancing - #5 in the UK, #4 in Ireland

    Love So Right - #41 in the UK, #14 in Ireland

    How Deep is Your Love - #3 in the UK, #2 in Ireland

    Too Much Heaven - #3 in the UK, #2 in Ireland

    Love You Inside Out - #14 in the UK, #6 in Ireland

    Spirits (Having Flown) - #16 in the UK, #14 in Ireland

    E.S.P. - #51 in the UK, #21 in Ireland

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,674 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Supersonic by Oasis - #31 in the UK, #24 in Ireland.

    I suppose I had better mention their rivals!

    Bang by Blur - #24 in the UK, #21 in Ireland. (Not much - I know!)

    Elton John:

    Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - #6 in the UK, #4 in Ireland

    Bennie and the Jets - #37 in the UK, #18 in Ireland

    Candle in the Wind (original version) - #11 in the UK, #8 in Ireland

    Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word - #11 in the UK, #3 in Ireland

    Part-time Love - #15 in the UK, #11 in Ireland

    Are You Ready for Love (original version) - #42 in the UK, #17 in Ireland

    Little Jeannie - #33 in the UK, #16 in Ireland

    I Saw Her Standing There - #40 in the UK, #13 in Ireland

    Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny) - #51 in the UK, #29 in Ireland

    I'm Still Standing - #4 in the UK, #2 in Ireland

    Kiss the Bride - #20 in the UK, #17 in Ireland

    Cold as Christmas (in the middle of the year) - #33 in the UK, #16 in Ireland

    Sad Songs (Say so Much) - #7 in the UK, #2 in Ireland

    Who Wears These Shoes? - #50 in the UK, #11 in Ireland

    Act of War (with Millie Jackson) - #32 in the UK, #11 in Ireland

    That's What Friends Are For (with others) - #16 in the UK, #7 in Ireland

    Nikita - #3 in the UK, Number 1 in Ireland

    Cry to Heaven - #47 in the UK, #22 in Ireland

    Heartache All Over the World - #45 in the UK, #24 in Ireland

    Slow Rivers (with Cliff Richard) - #44 in the UK, #25 in Ireland

    Candle in the Wind (live) - #5 in the UK, #4 in Ireland

    I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That - #30 in the UK, #25 in Ireland

    Sacrifice (original release) - #55 in the UK, #2 in Ireland

    Club at the End of the Street - #47 in the UK, #27 in Ireland

    You Gotta Love Someone - #33 in the UK, #16 in Ireland

    The One - #10 in the UK, #8 in Ireland

    Can You Feel the Love Tonight - #14 in the UK, #9 in Ireland

    Circle of Life - #11 in the UK, #9 in Ireland



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,183 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    The Martine McCutcheon version of "On the Radio" reached #7 in the UK, outcharting the original by wide margins. It only reached #18 here.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,674 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Oddly enough the same chart placing in Ireland as the original version!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,183 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    #17 here, only #28 in the UK. The Robbie Williams version reached #2 in the UK but only #6 here.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,674 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Never Let Her Slip Away by Undercover - #5 in the UK, #2 in Ireland

    I Wanna Stay With You by Undercover - #28 in the UK, #8 in Ireland

    The Bangles:

    If She Knew What She Wants - #31 in the UK, #23 in Ireland

    Going Down to Liverpool (reissue) - #56 in the UK, #21 in Ireland

    Walking Down Your Street - #16 in the UK, #4 in Ireland

    Following - #55 in the UK, #22 in Ireland

    Hazy Shade of Winter - #11 in the UK, #8 in Ireland

    In Your Room - #35 in the UK, #25 in Ireland

    Be With You - #23 in the UK, #14 in Ireland



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  • Posts: 4,229 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Chris re-recorded a lot of early material for his 1988 compilation New Light Through Old Windows including I Can Hear Your Heartbeat. Those versions tend to get played more often on radio than the originals. There was a good remastering campaign in 2019 which saw 2CD editions of Shamrock Diaries, On The Beach, Dancing With Strangers, The Road To Hell & Auberge. Plus a 3CD compilation called ERA1 covering the 1979-1984 material (B-sides, single edits, 12" mixes). Sadly nothing more since then.



  • Posts: 4,229 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Never Turn Away. My favourite single of theirs. #29 in Ireland, #70 in the UK. I bought three copies of it which presumably helped - two 7"s (one for my friend) and the 12".

    From their fifth single onwards, every 45 from The Smiths did better in Ireland than the UK. With one exception - Bigmouth Strikes Again which did not chart here. I remember due to Rough Trade distribution issues, it never arrived here until the end of the summer of 1986.

    William, It Was Really Nothing #8 vs #17 in UK

    How Soon Is Now? #5 vs #24

    Shakespeare's Sister #11 vs #26

    That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore #20 vs #49

    The Boy With The Thorn In His Side #15 vs #23

    Panic #7 vs #11

    Ask #9 vs #14

    Shoplifters Of The World Unite #7 vs #12

    Sheila Take A Bow #3 vs #10

    Girlfriend In A Coma #12 vs #13

    I Started Something I Couldn't Finish #13 vs #23

    Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me #17 vs #30

    Having said that, the number of sales needed to chart in Ireland were much lower. Sadly this type of information appears to be really closely guarded. As do format sales - in UK, US, Australia, Germany and Japan there are annual reports of physical sales figures (LP, CD, cassette, download, streaming). In Ireland these figures are like the Fourth Secret Of Fatima.



  • Posts: 4,229 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    There was an earlier single too - Ever Fallen In Love - originally on the Something Wild soundtrack that was also included on The Raw & The Cooked. It did one better in the UK though.

    I think that's one of the few albums with singles released in four successive years (there are a few albums with three year single cycles)

    1987 - Ever Fallen In Love

    1988 - She Drives Me Crazy

    1989 - Good Thing, Don't Look Back, I'm Not The Man I Used To Be

    1990 - I'm Not Satisfied



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 151 ✭✭gabria


    Yeah Sacrifice was a song I distinctly remember getting more airplay here in 1989 compared with its double a-side re-release year of 1990



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,183 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    Mad that both versions of NLHSA peaked at the same positions in both Ireland and Britain.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,674 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    I saw an article this morning online about Drive by The Cars. In the UK, it reached #5 on its first release and #4 on reissue. On one of those occasions, it reached #3 in Ireland (I don't know when and the Irish chart entries are not shown on Wikipedia).



  • Posts: 4,229 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Drive's chart success in Ireland was twofold

    Entered the chart on 07/10/1984

    15 - 03 - 04 - 07 - 14 - 30

    And then after Live Aid, came back on 25/08/1985

    08 - 05 - 05 - 13 - 17 - 19

    The track was compiled on The Hits Album (November 1984) and then again on Hits 3 (November 1985)

    UK Mix forum is good for Irish Charts - see this thread https://www.ukmix.org/forum/chart-discussion/chart-analysis/10872551-irish-chart-discussions-index



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,674 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Forget About You by The Motors - #13 in the UK, #10 in Ireland

    Public Image Ltd.:

    Flowers of Romance - #24 in the UK, #19 in Ireland

    This is Not a Love Song - #5 in the UK, #3 in Ireland

    Rise - #11 in the UK, #10 in Ireland

    The Beat

    Hands Off…. She's Mine - #9 in the UK, Number 1 in Ireland

    Too Nice to Talk To - #7 in the UK, #6 in Ireland

    Drowning - #22 in the UK, #18 in Ireland

    Can't Get Used to Losing You - #3 in the UK, #2 in Ireland



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,183 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    "Hands Off… She's Mine" is another song I wouldn't've guessed was an Irish #1. Even more impressive as it spent only 2 weeks in the Irish charts!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,674 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Madness:

    Shut Up - #7 in the UK, #3 in Ireland

    Cardiac Arrest - #14 in the UK, #4 in Ireland

    Our House - #5 in the UK, #3 in Ireland

    Tomorrow's Just Another Day/Madness (is All in the Mind) - #8 in the UK, #2 in Ireland

    Wings of a Dove - #2 in the UK, Number 1 in Ireland

    Michael Caine - #11 in the UK, #3 in Ireland

    One Better Day - #17 in the UK, #8 in Ireland

    Yesterday's Men - #18 in the UK, #7 in Ireland

    Uncle Sam - #21 in the UK, #17 in Ireland

    Sweetest Girl - #35 in the UK, #29 in Ireland

    (Waiting) for the Ghost Train - #24 in the UK, #19 in Ireland 

    House of Fun (re-issue) - #40 in the UK, #27 in Ireland



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,674 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Simple Minds:

    Glittering Prize - #16 in the UK, #11 in Ireland

    Someone Somewhere in Summertime - #36 in the UK, #19 in Ireland

    Waterfront - #13 in the UK, #5 in Ireland

    Speed Your Love to Me - #20 in the UK, #9 in Ireland

    Up on The Catwalk - #27 in the UK, #16 in Ireland

    Don't You (Forget About Me) - #7 in the UK, #3 in Ireland

    Alive and Kicking - #7 in the UK, #2 in Ireland

    Sanctify Yourself - #10 in the UK, #4 in Ireland

    All the Things She Said - #9 in the UK, #4 in Ireland

    Ghost Dancing - #13 in the UK, #3 in Ireland

    Promised You a Miracle (live) - #19 in the UK, #8 in Ireland

    This is Your Land - #13 in the UK, #6 in Ireland

    Kick It In - #15 in the UK, #6 in Ireland

    The Amsterdam EP - #18 in the UK, #11 in Ireland

    Let there Be Love - #6 in the UK, #5 in Ireland

    See the Lights - #20 in the UK, #16 in Ireland

    Boomtown Rats - As you might expect, a good few of their singles were a bit higher in the Irish charts. A big surprise was that their first UK Number 1 - Rat Trap - did not make it to Number 1 in Ireland.

    Lookin' After Number 1 - #11 in the UK, #2 in Ireland

    Mary of the 4th Form - #15 in the UK, #12 in Ireland

    She's So Modern - #12 in the UK, #10 in Ireland

    Like Clockwork - #6 in the UK, #5 in Ireland

    Diamond Smiles - #13 in the UK, #3 in Ireland

    Someone's Looking at You - #4 in the UK, #2 in Ireland

    The Elephant's Graveyard (Guilty) - #26 in the UK, #7 in Ireland

    House on Fire - #24 in the UK, #19 in Ireland



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,674 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Kate Bush:

    The Man with a Child in His Eyes - #6 in the UK, #3 in Ireland

    Hammer Horror - #44 in the UK, #10 in Ireland

    Army Dreamers - #16 in the UK, #14 in Ireland

    December Will be Magic - #29 in the UK, #13 in Ireland

    Cloudbusting - #20 in the UK, #13 in Ireland

    Hounds of Love - #18 in the UK, #12 in Ireland

    The Big Sky - #37 in the UK, #15 in Ireland

    Don't Give Up (with Peter Gabriel) - #9 in the UK, #4 in Ireland

    Experiment IV - #23 in the UK, #12 in Ireland

    The Sensual World - #12 in the UK, #6 in Ireland

    This Woman's Work - #25 in the UK, #20 in Ireland

    Speaking of Peter Gabriel - as well as Don't Give Up:

    Games without Frontiers - #4 in the UK, #3 in Ireland

    Sledgehammer - #4 in the UK, #3 in Ireland

    Big Time - #13 in the UK, #11 in Ireland

    Red Rain - #46 in the UK, #27 in Ireland

    Steam - #10 in the UK, #7 in Ireland



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,183 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    I don't think Gabriel ever had a UK top 3 hit, did he? His old band Genesis never got higher than #4 in their homeland.



  • Posts: 4,229 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Games Without Frontiers & Sledgehammer both reached #4 in UK.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,183 ✭✭✭its_steve116




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,674 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


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  • Posts: 4,229 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Jason Donovan

    Nothing Can Divide Us #3 vs #5 in UK

    Every Day (I Love You More) #1 vs #2

    When You Come Back To Me #1 vs #2 - CHRISTMAS VIBES

    Hang On To Your Love #3 vs #8

    Another Night #6 vs #9

    Rhythm Of The Rain #6 vs #18

    I'm Doing Fine #9 vs #22

    RSVP #8 vs #17 - GREAT PRODUCTION



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 376 ✭✭rpirl


    From the new millennium (more or less)

    Bic Runga

    'Get Some Sleep' - UK #78, Ire. #27

    That was in 2004 but 'Get Some Sleep' is a 2002 single

    'Sway' - UK #83, Ire. #26

    UK entry is from 1998 but ours from 2004, about six months after her other 'hit' - 'Sway' is a 1997 single



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,674 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Siouxsie & The Banshees:

    Candyman - #34 in the UK, #21 in Ireland

    This Wheel's on Fire - #14 in the UK, #13 in Ireland (yeah, I know - not much difference!)

    Kiss Them for Me - #32 in the UK, #29 in Ireland

    Nirvana:

    Sliver - #77 in the UK, #23 in Ireland

    Come as You Are - #9 in the UK, #7 in Ireland

    Lithium - #11 in the UK, #5 in Ireland

    In Bloom - #28 in the UK, #7 in Ireland

    All Apologies/Rape Me - #32 in the UK, #20 in Ireland

    Pearl Jam:

    Alive - #16 in the UK, #13 in Ireland

    Jeremy - #15 in the UK, #10 in Ireland

    Daughter - #18 in the UK, #4 in Ireland

    Dissident - #14 in the UK, #7 in Ireland

    Spin the Black Circle - #10 in the UK, #6 in Ireland

    Not for You - #34 in the UK, #26 in Ireland



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,674 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Paul McCartney (with and without Wings):

    Give Ireland Back to the Irish - #16 in the UK, Number 1 in Ireland

    Listen to What the Man Said - #6 in the UK, #4 in Ireland

    Silly Love Songs - #2 in the UK, Number 1 in Ireland

    With a Little Luck - #5 in the UK, #3 in Ireland

    I've Had Enough - #42 in the UK, #11 in Ireland

    Old Siam Sir - #35 in the UK, #29 in Ireland

    Getting Closer - #60 in the UK, #24 in Ireland

    Waterfalls - #9 in the UK, #4 in Ireland

    The Girl is Mine (with Michael Jackson) - #8 in the UK, #4 in Ireland

    Spies Like Us - #13 in the UK, #8 in Ireland

    Press - #25 in the UK, #15 in Ireland

    Only Love Remains - #34 in the UK, #20 in Ireland

    Once Upon a Long Ago - #10 in the UK, #4 in Ireland

    My Brave Face - #18 in the UK, #6 in Ireland

    Figure of Eight - #42 in the UK, #25 in Ireland

    Put it There - #5 in the UK, #3 in Ireland

    FourFiveSeconds (with Rhianna and Kanye West) - #3 in the UK, Number 1 in Ireland

    While I am at it, here are three I found for fellow ex-Beatle George Harrison:

    All those Years Ago - #13 in the UK, #4 in Ireland

    Got My Mind Set on You - #2 in the UK, Number 1 in Ireland

    When We Was Fab - #25 in the UK, #24 in Ireland (only slight I know!)

    Simply Red:

    Money's Too Tight (to Mention) - #13 in the UK, #9 in Ireland

    Holding Back the Years (re-issue) - #2 in the UK, Number 1 in Ireland

    Open Up the Red Box - #61 in the UK, #28 in Ireland

    Infedelity - #31 in the UK, #13 in Ireland

    It's Only Love - #13 in the UK, #7 in Ireland

    You've Got It - #46 in the UK, #14 in Ireland

    Something Got Me Started - #11 in the UK, #8 in Ireland

    Thrill Me - #33 in the UK, #30 in Ireland

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