He will, he said, also continue to write pop singles.

This week, the magazine began using the same system to compute the sales of pop singles.

The prize recognises the best British pop singles over the past year.

At the urging of his voice coach, he recorded three unreleased pop singles in 1982.

In the US, 6,540 pop singles and 4,057 albums were released.

The song was one of the first pop singles to use flanging, an effect that can be heard in the bridge section after each chorus.

It was one of the most successful pop singles of its time, despite exceeding the then standard length for radio play.

By the summer of 1973, the station had indeed become Top 40, complete with fast-talking announcers and teen pop singles.

Overall, he thinks that "This is one of the most deliberately polished pop singles of the year."