The 20th of February 1973
Official U.K. Albums Chart results from Sunday the 18th to Saturday the 24th of February 1973
Cut-off for sales figures was up to the end of Saturday the 17th of February
Results counted from Sunday the 18th,
announced on Tuesday the 20th,
and broadcast on B.B.C. Radio 1 on Sunday the 25th of February 1973.
Slade
Slayed?
At No.9, on the “The Top 50 U.K. Albums Chart” on my 1st Birthday, is Slade with “Slayed?”.
If there was a contender for the album most played at a Christmas house party in 1972,..
…then this album would probably take it.
Slade were at the top of their game at this point, with a live album also frequenting this same chart rundown, the Wolverhampton and Walsall wonders were hitting everything out of the park.
They’d released this album just in time for Christmas and it came in straight at No.5.
By the new year, it would climb straight to the top of the pile on the 7th of January, a summit it would come back to for two further weeks in a row, beginning on the 21st of January and ending after the 3rd of February.
After this week, the album will jump out of the Top 10 for a week, landing at No.14, before jumping back into the Top 10 again for four further weeks which will take it up to the end of March.
As the album travels into April, it will land back at No.14 once again, this time staying there for two weeks, but then this time dropping outside the Top 20 to spend another couple of weeks at No.23.
Further gradual slides will follow before it eventually leaves the chart after the 26th of May.
The album will revisit at the lower end of the chart for a week in June, and July.
At the end of the latter, it will return once more for a more solid run, taking in a five week run through into August, before a couple more week-long appearances. The first of those closing out the summer, and the last in mid-September, completing an overall chart appearance of 34 weeks.
I’ve created my own separate playlists for both Sides 1 and 2 of this album with (I hope) the correct versions and the original track sequencing order for the U.K. release.
Side 1
Side 2
Many thanks go to the following YouTube Channels for providing the chance to hear this music once again.
Please show your appreciation by visiting their channel:
The Top 50 U.K. Singles Chart Playlist for the week of my 1st Birthday:
The Top 50 U.K. Singles Chart Playlist for the day I was born:
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