80s Hi – NRG & Eurobeat

UK EUROBEAT CHART-TOPPERS 1987

James Hamilton’s ‘The Hammy Awards’ For Hi-NRG 1987

PRODUCERS OF THE YEAR: Stock Aitken Waterman (in a Pop Dance stylee)

Hi-NRG ARTISTES OF THE YEAR: Man To Man/Man Two Man/Man 2 Man

RUNNERS UP: Bananarama, Eria Fachin, Celena Duncan

Hi-NRG HIT OF 1987/ RECORD AT NUMBER ONE FOR LONGEST: Eria Fachin ‘Savin’ Myself’ (Canadian Power/Saturday), 13 weeks

Hi-NRG LABELS OF THE YEAR: 1 (-) Nightmare, 2 (-) CBS, 3 (-) Canadian Power, 4 (3=) London, 5 (1) Passion (however, in a breakdown of the year-end chart, of its 36 UK-released “hits”, none of the 16 on Nightmare reached the national top 100 whereas 16 of the 20 on other labels did)

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO?: Record Shack (2 in ’86, actually retired from releasing Hi-NRG in ’87), Sublime (3=)