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10 Mar 2005, 04:09

I wonder if anyone could tell me how many weeks New Orders single Ceremony, released in 1981, was in the UK charts for?

10 Mar 2005, 04:12

Three days.

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10 Mar 2005, 04:24

Are you absolutely sure it wasn't three and a half?

10 Mar 2005, 04:49

5 weeks, peaking at number 34. Though I'm sure the same amount of sales today would make it number 1 for three months.

10 Mar 2005, 08:32

Was that for the green/bronze cover or the blue & white one?

10 Mar 2005, 08:52

As far as the TOTP top 40 was concerned it was 3 weeks, starting 14 march '81 positions: 39, 34, 39.

The NME top 30 showed it for 4 weeks, also starting 14-3-81 positions: 29, 20, 21, 27.

(Number ones during that period were Roxy Music with Jealous Guy & Shakin' Stevens with This Ole House)

This would have been the original (green) slieve, as the : 'Cream/blue sleeve, re-recorded in September 1981 when Gillian Gilbert joined the Band' - so says this site!