Record Mirror Boystown Disco Hi-NRG Chart 23rd October 1982
Billboard Hot Dance Chart 23rd October 1982
It’s quite interesting to compare the Billboard Hot Dance Chart with the UK and European Hi-NRG and Italo Charts. The Billboard Dance chart would often have a very good showing of Hi-NRG, as well as Synth Pop tracks, unlike the British mainstream dance clubs, which focussed their music policy mainly on soul and black music. In this Billboard chart, there are tracks from Sharon Redd, Nasty Girls, Bobby ‘O’, Nancy Martin and Patrick Cowley & Sylvester that, apart from Sharon Redd, remained firmly in the gay clubs in the UK, that mostly failed to get any mainstream interest or play at all. Some of the rock and synth pop tracks, like Toni Basil’s ‘Mickey’ and Billy Idol’s ‘White Wedding’ from this chart would also find their way into Boystown Disco D J sets, especially in the larger American gay clubs.
80s Hi - NRG & Eurobeat 
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