Top Pops (newspaper)
 Cover of Top Pops issue 9 (7 November 1967) | |
| Categories | Music newspaper |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Monthly, later fortnightly, later weekly |
| First issue | May 1967 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Top Pops, not to be confused with Top of the Pops, was a British weekly pop music newspaper which was published in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Top Pops was founded initially as a three-weekly publication by Woodrow Wyatt in May 1967, becoming fortnightly in November 1967 and weekly in June 1968. It was unusual for including colour content from its first issue, but found it hard to compete with its rivals, partly because it was initially based in Abingdon, not London. On 20 September 1969 the paper was rebranded. by the then incumbent editor John Halsall, Top Pops & Music Now and subsequently became Music Now after a staff buyout in March 1970. In May 1971 the newspaper ceased publication.[1]
Top Pops was based in London in Fleet Street from the very first copy edited by Colin Bostock-Smith. In 1968 it was partly published in German, Sweden, Norway and Denmark with pages in these countries languages. At all times it was printed by Papers & Publications (Printers) Ltd in Banbury Oxfordshire.(a company owned by Woodrow Wyatt MP) It was initially conceived as a circulation booster for the five weekly provincial newspapers when these papers had an insert called the Monkees Special which sold over 100,000 copies and kept the printing works at Banbury busy for over a month. Jeff Tarry took over as editor in early 1968 but the costs of producing this paper meant that Woodrow Wyatt could no longer finance it. Peter Norman was the General Manager until late 1969.
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- ↑ Smith, Alan. "Every No.1 in the 1960s is listed from all the nine different magazine charts!". Dave McAleer. Archived from the original on May 10, 2011. Retrieved 1 July 2012.