Pop Professor

It's your nightly challenge to your cryptic pop music knowledge.
Hear it and get involved just after 9, Monday to Thursday on Real Evenings with David Heane.
And some of the most recent questions are here - perfect for catching someone you know out!
Here's the latest one:
52 this week, who was the first British female solo singer to have a number one album in the UK? It happened in 1980.
Kate Bush.
And some recent ones:
Brindsley Forde is the lead singer of which band, who had a UK number one hit in the 80s? (the song was also a top 5 hit for someone else in the 90s)
Aswad (Don't Turn Around also a hit for Ace Of Base).
Number one today in 1979, Boomtown Rats with I Don't Like Mondays. Another song with another day of the week in the title had been number one a few weeks before - which song?
Sunday Girl
The biggest selling single in the UK in the whole of the 00s had a tv show connection - which song?
Evergreen - Will Young (Pop Idol)
This weekend in 1987, Madonna was number one in the UK for the fifth time with a song which shared its name with a top 3 hit for someone else earlier in the 80s. Which song?
Who's That Girl? (Eurythmics)
Marking Belgium's national day, which Belgian act had a number 2 hit in the UK in 1989 and another number 2 hit in the UK in 1990 as well?
Technotronic.
UB40 and which band share the record for the most weeks by a group on the charts in the 80s (214 wks in total)?
Madness
The biggest selling soundtrack from an animated movie was number one in the USA on this day in 1994 - which film?
The Lion King
Which American male superstar was number one in the UK album charts on the day of Live Aid, but turned down the chance to perform as he "didn't realise how big it would be"?
Bruce Springsteen.
Who's the only female solo artist to top the UK album charts in 4 consecutive decades?
Kylie (80s, 90s, 00s, and now 2010s with Aphrodite)
53 years old on 9/7, name the artist who sang on the biggest selling single in the UK in 1981 - the song returned to the UK's top 5 in 1991.
Marc Almond - (Soft Cell, Tainted Love)
Who are the biggest selling "boyband" of all time, shifting a whopping 120million records?
Backstreet Boys
Name the female artist who had the best selling album of 2001 and 2003 in the UK - those albums were the 2nd and 7th best-sellers of the whole of the noughties.
Dido
Westlife and The Beatles share the record for the most UK number one hits in a row (7). Who is second on that list with 6?
Spice Girls.
Which Girls Aloud cover version hit single was originally a UK number one hit single for Tiffany in the 80s?
I Think We're Alone Now - Tiffany.
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