1987 UK Official Charts Number One Hits SURVIVOR (Semi-Final - Vote to SAVE)

[Haiku Rewrites]

History repeats itself! Having finished 4th in the 1988 Survivor, Pet Shop Boy's "Always On My Mind" takes the same place again in this 1987 Survivor. Fourth best it is!

Results:
04. Pet Shop Boys - Always on My Mind (19th December) - Quarter-Final (42.5% to evict)
05. Mel & Kim - Respectable (28th March) - Round 6 (25.0% to save)
06. Starship - Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now (9th May) - Round 5 (57.1% to evict)
07. Aretha Franklin & George Michael - I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) (7th February) - Round 4 (28.1% to save)
08. Madonna - Who’s That Girl (25th July) - Round 4 (18.8% to save)
09. Bee Gees - You Win Again (17th October) - Round 3 (50.0% to evict)
10. T’Pau - China In Your Hand (14th November) - Round 3 (53.8% to evict)
11. Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (29th August) - Round 3 (57.7% to evict)
12. Michael Jackson & Siedah Garrett - I Just Can’t Stop Loving You (15th August) - Round 2 (44.0% to evict)
13. Los Lobos - La Bamba (1st August) - Round 2 (68.0% to evict)
14. Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley - Jack Your Body (24th January) - Round 2 (72.0% to evict)
15. Ben E. King - Stand By Me (21st February) - Round 1 (23.3% to save)
15. M|A|R|R|S - Pump Up The Volume (3rd October) - Round 1 (23.3% to save)
17. Boy George - Everything I Own (14th March) - Round 1 (16.7% to save)
18. Jackie Wilson - Reet Petite (3rd January) - Round 1 (6.7% to save)
19. Ferry Aid - Let It Be (4th April) - Round 1 (0.0% to save)
19. The Firm - Star Trekkin' (20th June) - Round 1 (0.0% to save)

Three acts remain going for the two spots in the Final!

In the Semi-Final, you are VOTING FOR YOUR FAVOURITE to claim one of the two places in the Final. Cast your votes now!

 

[Vicky the Vole]

It's like choosing between my children!

 

[SvalaWuzRobbed]

Top 3 talk about SOPHIE'S CHOICE

 

[disneyteletubby]

Brilliant last 3 but I'm sure of the one I Iove best.

Spoiler: A little story

I think I discovered the song not long after Whitney Houston died, 2012-ish. In Year 6, a couple of years later, there was a tea party for about 4 of us with our primary school headteacher (I think she said she's around a year older than Whitney was). Anyway, she played I Will Always Love You on her laptop, and I decided to request I Wanna Dance With Somebody and whilst none of the others seemed to want to dance, I gladly stood up and danced along with my headteacher to this uplifting song.

Now it's in 4K

 

[straightorbroken]

La Isla Bonita is a sigh of pop bliss.

 

[Ill Advised]

So close!!

 

[Halli]

omg
Really close!!
i have cry.

 

[Funky]

It's gonna end up with the final I expected originally, but in the later rounds it was looking like It's A Sin was going to dump La Isla Bonita at this point. I guess not.