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Pet Shop Boys Chart - History Singles All chart-entries in the Top 100 Peak:1 Peak:1 Peak: 1 Germany / United Kindom / U S A Pet Shop Boys No. of Titles Positions Pet Shop Boys are an English synth-pop duo, Peak Tot. T10 #1 Tot. T10 #1 formed in London in 1981 and consisting of 1 49 14 4 560 108 19 Neil Tennant (lead vocals, keyboards, 1 49 22 4 307 67 12 occasional guitar) and Chris Lowe (keyboards, 1 12 5 1 141 19 1 vocals). 1 53 24 5 1.008 194 32 ber_covers_singles Germany U K U S A Singles compiled by Volker Doerken Date Peak WoC T10 Date Peak WoC T10 Date Peak WoC T10 1 West End Girls 12/1985 2 18 8811/1985 1 2117 03/1986 1 20 7 2 Love Comes Quickly 03/1986 17 14 03/1986 19 9 08/1986 62 8 3 Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money) 07/1986 25 10 05/1986 11 8 05/1986 10 16 1 4 Suburbia 10/1986 2 17 1010/1986 8 9 4 12/1986 70 10 5 It's A Sin 07/1987 1 6 19 1006/1987 1 3 11 609/1987 9 19 2 6 What Have I Done To Deserve This? 08/1987 4 14 6508/1987 2 9 12/1987 2 18 5 ► Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield 7 Rent 11/1987 10 15 1110/1987 8 10 8 Always On My Mind 12/1987 1 6 21 9612/1987 1 4 14 03/1988 4 15 4 9 Heart 04/1988 1 4 17 7604/1988 1 3 10 10 Domino Dancing 09/1988 3 17 9309/1988 7 11 10/1988 18 14 11 Left To My Own Devices 12/1988 9 14 5211/1988 4 8 01/1989 84 3 12 It's Alright 07/1989 3 16 7307/1989 5 8 13 So Hard 10/1990 3 20 9310/1990 4 6 10/1990 62 8 14 Being Boring 12/1990 13 18 11/1990 20 8 15 How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously? 02/1991 93 3 16 Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes 04/1991 7 17 5303/1991 4 8 05/1991 72 7 Off You) 17 Jealousy 06/1991 20 14 06/1991 12 5 18 DJ Culture 10/1991 19 12 10/1991 13 5 19 Was It Worth It? 12/1991 19 14 12/1991 24 4 20 Can You Forgive Her? 06/1993 17 19 06/1993 7 8 2 21 Go West 10/1993 1 3 26 1509/1993 2 15 5 22 I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing 02/1994 37 17 12/1993 13 8 23 Liberation 05/1994 51 15 04/1994 14 5 24 Absolutely Fabulous 06/1994 6 8 3 ► Absolutely Fabulous 25 Yesterday When I Was Mad 10/1994 72 6 09/1994 13 5 26 Paninaro '95 08/1995 39 10 08/1995 15 5 27 Paninaro '95 [4th Format] 09/1995 89 1 28 Before 05/1996 45 10 05/1996 7 7 1 29 Se A Vida É (That's The Way Life Is) 08/1996 18 21 08/1996 8 9 1 30 Single Bilingual 12/1996 77 10 11/1996 14 5 31 A Red Letter Day 03/1997 55 9 03/1997 9 4 1 32 Somewhere 07/1997 70 4 07/1997 9 5 1 33 I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Any More 08/1999 23 9 07/1999 15 7 34 New York City Boy 10/1999 16 14 10/1999 14 6 35 You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk 01/2000 29 9 01/2000 8 5 1 36 Home And Dry 04/2002 12 8 03/2002 14 8 37 I Get Along 07/2002 31 3 07/2002 18 3 38 London 10/2002 39 4 39 Miracles 12/2003 20 9 11/2003 10 4 1 40 Flamboyant 04/2004 43 8 04/2004 12 4 41 I'm With Stupid 05/2006 29 9 05/2006 8 4 1 Pet Shop Boys Status: 01.03.2019 Page 1 of 4 Pet Shop Boys 42 Minimal 08/2006 63 3 08/2006 19 3 43 Numb 11/2006 72 1 10/2006 23 3 44 She's Madonna 03/2007 4 18 7 03/2007 16 3 ► Robbie Williams With Pet Shop Boys 45 Love etc. 03/2009 12 16 03/2009 14 4 46 Did You See Me Coming? 07/2009 49 5 06/2009 21 2 47 Beautiful People 10/2009 65 1 48 Pet Shop Boys Christmas [EP] 12/2009 35 3 12/2009 40 2 49 Together 11/2010 60 2 12/2010 58 1 50 Winner 08/2012 60 2 08/2012 86 1 51 Leaving 10/2012 35 1 10/2012 44 1 52 Memory Of The Future 01/2013 68 1 53 Thursday 11/2013 61 1 ► Pet Shop Boys feat. Example 1 1985 2 1 1 2 1986 17 19 62 3 1986 25 11 10 4 1986 2 8 70 5 1987 1 1 9 6 1987 4 2 2 7 1987 10 8 8 1987 1 1 4 9 1988 1 1 10 1988 3 7 18 11 1988 9 4 84 12 1989 3 5 13 1990 3 4 62 14 1990 13 20 15 1991 93 16 1991 7 4 72 Pet Shop Boys Status: 01.03.2019 Page 2 of 4 Pet Shop Boys 17 1991 20 12 18 1991 19 13 19 1991 19 24 20 1993 17 7 21 1993 1 2 22 1993 37 13 23 1994 51 14 24 1994 6 25 1994 72 13 26 1995 39 15 27 1995 89 28 1996 45 7 29 1996 18 8 30 1996 77 14 31 1997 55 9 32 1997 70 9 33 1999 23 15 34 1999 16 14 35 2000 29 8 36 2002 12 14 37 2002 31 18 38 2002 39 39 2003 20 10 40 2004 43 12 Pet Shop Boys Status: 01.03.2019 Page 3 of 4 Pet Shop Boys 41 2006 29 8 42 2006 63 19 43 2006 72 23 44 2007 4 16 45 2009 12 14 46 2009 49 21 47 2009 65 48 2009 35 40 49 2010 60 58 50 2012 60 86 51 2012 35 44 52 2013 68 53 2013 61 Volker Doerken, Wuppertal, Germany // Contact: [email protected] // lots of videos on Facebook: hits-100 Pet Shop Boys Status: 01.03.2019 Page 4 of 4.
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