The 50 Best Selling UK Singles of 1976

It's 1976 with our countdown of the 50 best selling UK singles of the year, with the stories behind the songs and the artists who made them unforgettable.

The disco continues with hits for ABBA, The Manhattans, Tavares, The Real Thing, Tina Charles... but The Wurzels and Demis Roussos are also on the scene to balance things up!

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***UPDATE THU 10 OCTOBER 2024***

Had to remove the following entry (both video and audio) for the following due to copyright:
- No 7: ABBA, Fernando, from 17 minutes 24 seconds.
- Film now skips from end of No 8 to start of No 6.

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[TheRetroVaultChat]

Had to remove the following entry (both video and audio) for the following due to copyright:
- No 7: ABBA, Fernando, from 17 minutes 24 seconds.
- Film now skips from end of No 8 to start of No 6.

[michealfearn]

Loved that summer, my job, the music, birds, bikes, booze, don't care what anyone says loved everything about that decade 😊

[HughTrodden-mjbv]

I'm 68, this just made me 48 years younger again. 😂👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[stconstable]

That Summer was SUPER hot. Scorched grass and empty reservoirs.

[nipper]

Eighteen and the hottest summer . 76 was the best year of my life. Having fun, great music and no cares in the world.

[raythomas]

Why am I in tears ? I need to stop watching these ...😃

[stephenjerome]

1976 was a great year, fantastic music in the charts and that long hot summer will always be remembered. Tina Charles was fabulous in 1976. I believe Tina Charles was a session singer before she became a successful solo singer in her own right. Great memories here.

[AubMar]

Some wonderful music and memories as we tried to "grow up" through the seventies, it certainly put me right back into the escapades and adventures from those fantastic times. Thank you for all your work compiling these sets for us, really appreciated.

[duncanholding]

John Miles Music was One OF THE finest tunes in the history of music

[shirleydrury]

That was one hell of a summer!! Happy days!!❤❤

[boblilley]

Left school in 76 loved the music from the 70s.. even today john miles MUSIC is still one my favourites

[compostcorner]

Jeeez this took me back .Memories of some great times 🎶

[itsnowornever]

I was doing my duke of Edinburgh Award that year, we were camping in a farm in Farnborough Hampshire and the field opposite was on fire, i think that year was one of the hottest ever.
My days in a boarding school in Alton ( LMTC ) between 1970-76, how time flies it seems like only yesterday and yet on march 2 I'll be claiming my old age pension and people tend to be shocked when I tell them my age, some lady recently made me laugh when she thought i was 36, i have my dreams and memories and two lovely children to show for it, i wonder what ever happened to Linda penefold in Barnstaple, Caroline in Aldershot, Fiona in Folkestone, Debbie in bognor regies, it feels like I am in a time warp i am still listening to 60 and 70s music. I think i must be dreaming I'll wake up in a minute ❤

[LindseyWalton-zd]

I was 14 in October 76, very hot summer. Remember all these songs fab times xxx

[Mary-lxzs]

THE BEST SUMMER IN 1976 WE HAD WEEKS OF PERFECT SUNSHINE LOVED IT, I WAS 24 LOVED THE MUSIC LOVED EVERYTHING WE WERE CAREFREE AND HAPPY

[terryfung]

15 year week consisted of, youth club, Army Cadets, high school disco on Fridays and listening to the best music of the time on a dansette in my bedroom.
Thanks for the memories 👍

[MrMjp]

Thanks for putting this together.
For me, ‘76 was a year of approximately four emotional sections, roughly equating to the seasons, punctuated by the longest period of settled summer weather in recent history. Extreme highs and lows experienced in equal measure.
Probably my watershed year.

[martf]

Some Brilliant memories of the songs and the HOT HOT SUMMER OF 76
Thank You '

[terencemeikle]

Ah, Mississippi by Pussycat. I had a big crush on lead singer, Toni, and nearly fifty years later, it has not abated! ❤

[jeremyroberts]

What a fabulous year for funky, rock and some silly ones, morphing into punk. Great video....thank you!😊