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Record Mirror was a British weekly music newspaper. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located

It competed with New Musical Express, Disc & Music Echo, Sounds, and Melody Maker, but had the smallest circulation of the UK consumer music weeklies and was considered to be the least important of the genre. The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a Popular music Magazine in the United Kingdom which has been Sounds was a British Music paper, published weekly from October 10, 1970 &ndash April 6, 1991 Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was according to its publisher IPC Media, the world's oldest weekly Music Newspaper The first ever UK album chart was published in Record Mirror in 1956, and in the 1980s it was the only music paper to carry the official UK singles and album charts. The UK Albums Chart is a list of Albums ranked by sales in the United Kingdom. Events The Malt Shop Era Begins With Love Is Strange By Mickey & Sylvia January 1 - Blue Suede Shoes The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company (OCC on behalf of the British record industry

In an effort to boost sales it changed to a Smash Hits-style glossy magazine format in 1982, but ceased publication in April 1991, with sister publication Sounds closing in the same week (of the above mentioned publications only NME survives today. This article is about a magazine For the compilation album by Jimi Hendrix, see Smash Hits (album. Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) ) Its final cover stars were Transvision Vamp. In its final years it veered wildly from being a largely humourless imitation of Smash Hits to attempting to gain credibility as the magazine of record for the emerging rave and acid scene.

Record Mirror was continued as a four-page supplement in Music Week, driven by the chart section, although in later years the supplement concentrated solely on dance music. Music Week is a trade paper for the UK record industry Founded in 1959 as Record Retailer, it was relaunched on 18 March 1972 as The RM dance charts were later incorporated into Music Week itself.

The Record Mirror is mentioned in the song "Last of the Skinheads" and "Bring Back the Skins" (Both versions of the same song) by Judge Dread as being as he regarded "the best thing about". For the comic book character see Judge Dredd Alexander Minto Hughes ( 2 May 1945 - 13 March 1998 The reggae page was also mentioned.

Contents

Features

Articles and features in a typical edition of Record Mirror were as follows:

===Babble Johnny Dee's late 1980s star-spotting gossip pages also feature a number of comedy articles such as:

DJ Directory

Also known as BPM in earlier editions and edited by James Hamilton

Charts

As well as the above listed charts:

See also

Dance-pop is a style of Electronic dance music and a subgenre of Pop music that evolved from Disco, circa 1981 that combines dance beats with a pop Hi-NRG (High Energy is a type of high-speed Electronic dance music which was popular in Nightclubs in the late 1970s and 1980s The Billboard charts are music sales airplay and digital ranking reports distributed to the general public by Billboard magazine The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company (OCC on behalf of the British record industry Hit Music is a weekly British chart newsletter sister publication to Music Week. Music Week is a trade paper for the UK record industry Founded in 1959 as Record Retailer, it was relaunched on 18 March 1972 as
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