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Official Top 40 best-selling songs of 1989

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1989 saw 18 songs reach the summit of the Official Singles Chart, and the biggest of them all was Ride On Time by Black Box.

The Italo-house group topped the chart for six weeks with their breakout hit, scoring 849,000 sales to become the year's best-selling song, according to Official Charts Company data and revealed on Channel 5's Britain's Favourite 80s Songs.

The dance hit was surrounded in controversy; the first version on the track used a vocal sample from the 1980 single Love Sensation by Loleatta Holloway, which had not been cleared.

Legal action swiftly followed, and the single was reissued with rerecorded vocals long-rumoured to be by then-unknown Heather Small, who later found fame as the frontwoman of M People.

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