Top of the Pops LPs

 

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