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Which of the 55 singles featured on SMASH is the most forgettable... in the sense that sometimes you forget it was even released as a single at all?

I don't mean in the sense of being a weak song necessarily - just that when you think of the Pet Shop Boys canon, it's rarely foremost in...

I found some old VHS video cassettes in my loft at the weekend. Every time something PSB related was on the TV, I would stick my cassette in and wait, my fingers hovering over the record button. You may well have done the same. The result is four x three-hour cassettes, some more full than others,...

« We are starting work early this year on the 2025 edition of Annually , which, as always, will include a selection of your letters answered by Chris and Neil.
So if you have a question for them, email it to info@beckerbrown.com with Annually letters in the subject line by next Monday, 7th...

80’s sales and chart info for Pet Shop Boys

1985
‘West End Girls’
The 68th best-selling single of 1985.
228,701 copies sold.
The top 13 selling singles sold over 500, 000 copies in 1985. By comparison, in 1987 (Pet Shop boys ‘imperial phase’?) only the top 7 singles managed those kinds of...

Myself (Graham) and Dog (Chris) have made the brave (or foolish!) move to record a series of Pet Shop Boys fan podcasts.

Prior to recording, we had only met once ‘on a wet Wednesday night’ in a pub near where we both live in West Yorkshire in the north of England. But we thought it might be fun...

Mark Springer/Neil Tennant/Sacconi String Quartet
I fell into a deep sleep of reason Everything broken and hence when I woke up from that deep sleep of reason it all made sense”

A Unique Artistic Partnership. Release Date: Apr 25, 2025

Discs: 2

This project represents a distinct and carefully...

As some of you may know, some enthusiasts at the UK Mix forum recently got their hands on the actual chart data used by Gallup to compile the UK singles chart in the 1980s and early 1990s. What's interesting is that it revealed for the first time the estimated weekly sales of each single along with...