Thursday, January 14, 2021

2021 Dates

Fri 13 Aug Stone Valley South, Ware
Sun 15 Aug Roundhouse Music Festival, Dagenham
Sat 25 Sep Let's Rock Norwich
Tue 12 Oct The Hawth, Crawley
Thu 14 Oct London Palladium (support Gabi Garbutt & The Illuminations)

The Boomtown Rats - UK Singles Discography


  • Rats UK Discography with UK label/tracks/entry date/highest chart position/positions made/weeks on chart thanks to polyhex.com. Non-UK catalogue numbers have been added where known.

1977

ENY4 Looking After No.1/Born To Burn/Barefootin' (live) (NL Mercury 6008 507)
  • 27-Aug-1977
  • 11
  • 47-28-17-13-{11}-14-15-34-25
  • 9 weeks
  • ENY9 Mary of the 4th Form/Do The Rat (NL Mercury 6008 513)
  • 19-Nov-1977
  • 15
  • 44-23-20-{15}-15-16-16-21-36
  • 9 weeks
  • 1978

    ENY13  She's So Modern/Lying Again (NL Mercury 6008 521)
    • 15-Apr-1978
    • 12
    • 23-19-15-15-{12}-14-17-33-39-61-70
    • 11 weeks
    ENY14 Like Clockwork/How Do You Do ? (NL Mercury 6008 526) FLEXIPOP3 D.U.N. L.A.O.G.H.A.I.R.E.*
  • 17/June/1978
  • 6
  • 54-26-13-8-{6}-6-6-8-15-26-36-52-73
  • 13 weeks


  • ENY16
    Rat Trap/So Strange (NL Mercury 6008 530)
  • 14/Oct/1978
  • 1
  • 22-9-7-3-2-{1}-1-2-5-13-28-28-37-50-73
  • 15 weeks
  • 1979

    ENY30 I Don't Like Mondays/It's All The Rage (NL Mercury 6008 550)

  • 21/July/1979
  • 1
  • 15-{1}-1-1-1-2-2-8-16-24-55-74
  • 12 weeks

  • I Don't Like Mondays
  • Entry Date - 19/Feb/2005 
  • Highest Chart Position - 22
  • 31-{22}-32R(20)
  • 3 weeks on chart

  • ENY33
    Diamond Smiles/Late Last Night (NL Mercury 6008 553)
  • 17/Nov/1979
  • 13
  • 35-23-{13}-15-16-27-27-43-53-72
  • 10 weeks
  • 1980

    ENY34/ENY3412 Someone's Looking at You/When The Night Comes (NL Mercury 6008 555)

  • 26/Jan/1980
  • 4
  • 45-14-8-{4}-7-14-22-50-62
  • 9 weeks
  • BONGO1 Banana Republic/Man at the Top

  • 22/Nov/1980
  • 3
  • 23-9-{3}-5-7-11-11-13-30-52-74
  • 11 weeks
  • 1981

    BONGO2 The Elephants Graveyard (Guilty) /Real Different

  • 31/Jan/1981
  • 26
  • 40-{26}-27-32-42-46
  • 6 weeks

  • MER 87 Never in a Million Years/Don't Talk To Me
    • 12/Dec/1981
    • 62
    • {62}-62-70-70
    • 4 weeks

    1982

    MER91 House on Fire/Europe Looked Ugly
    MERX91 House on Fire (dub mix)/Europe Looked Ugly

  • 20/Mar/1982
  • 24
  • 66-44-30-{24}-26-29-42-71
  • 8 weeks
  • MER106 Charmed Lives/No Hiding Place
    MER1062 Nothing Happened Today (Live)/A Storm Breaks (Instrumental)
    MERX106 Charmed Lives/A Storm Breaks (Instrumental)

  • FAILED TO CHART
  • 1984

    MER154/MERX154 Tonight/Precious Times/Walking Downtown**
    • 18/Feb/1984
    • 73
    • {73}-76-83
    • 3 weeks

    MER163/MERX163 Drag Me Down/An Icicle In the Sun/Up All Night (extended)**
    (Special Edition 12") Drag Me Down/Rat Trap/She's So Modern

  • 05/May/1984
  • 50
  • 90-81-56-{50}-66
  • 5 weeks
  • MER179/MERT179/MERX179 Dave/Hard Times/Banana Republic (Live)**/Close As You'll Ever Be (Live)**

  • 24/Nov/1984
  • 81
  • {81}-84-96
  • 3 weeks
  • 1985

    MER184/MERX184 A Hold of Me/Never In A Million Years/Say Hi To Mick**

  • 09/Feb/1985
  • 78
  • 84-{78}
  • 2 weeks
  • 1994

    VERCD87 I Don't Like Mondays/Looking After No.1/Mary of the 4th Form/She's So Modern
    VERDD87 I Don't Like Mondays/Rat Trap/Someone's Looking At You/Banana Republic
    VER87 I Don’t Like Mondays/Born To Burn/Do The Rat

  • 02/July/1994
  • 38
  • {38}-53
  • 2 weeks
  • * - D.U.N. L.A.O.G.H.A.I.R.E. was the B-side to Like Clockwork in Ireland, but released as a cover mount Flexi Disc in the UK

    ** - 12" Only

    In the US, I Don't Like Mondays was their ONLY hit! If you can call number 73 a hit. It entered on 2nd February 1980 and peaked at 73 after entering at 91.

    • I Don't Like Mondays
    • 2/Feb/1980
    • 73
    • 91-80-75-{73}-92
    • 5 weeks

    Tracks in bold were not on any of the recent re-released albums in 2005.

    Tracks in italics have mixes/lyrics that differ from the re-released album.

    2020

    Trash Glam Baby/There’s No Tomorrow Like Today - 7"/download/stream

    • 14/Feb/2020
    • FAILED TO CHART

    Here’s A Postcard (Hot Mix) - Stream only

    • 21/Aug/2020
    • FAILED TO CHART