KMEN British Pop Top Ten

The KMEN British Pop Top Ten (sometimes was known as K/MEN British Pop Ten) was a feature on Peel's shows on KMEN (John Ravencroft as he was known on the station) between 1966 and 1967 on Saturday afternoons. It is not currently known whether Peel played all the songs in the top ten on his show or a few of the songs or only counted them down. The KMEN British Pop Top Ten doesn't seem to based on the charts by the Record Retailer, which was used by the official UK Singles Chart at that time, but instead probably based on the NME charts. Peel may have had copies of the NME sent from the UK to America, when doing the charts. Peel later claimed he manipulated the charts to include favourite records of his own - although available KMEN charts provide little evidence of this until late 1966, when "Parchman Farm/Key To Love" by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. The "Ready, Steady, Who" EP and the Creation's "Painter Man", none of them Top 10 entries in the UK, feature in the listing.

The British Pop Ten Charts were also published along with other charts on KMEN's weekly radio newspaper called the Kmentertainer.

List Of KMEN British Pop Top Ten (at their week endings)
18 Feb 1966
 * 1) Overlanders: Michelle
 * 2) Spencer Davis: Keep On Running
 * 3) Herb Albert: Spanish Flea
 * 4) Beatles: We Can Work It Out / Day Tripper
 * 5) Herman's Hermit: A Must To Avoid
 * 6) Cilla Black: Love's Just A Brpoken Heart
 * 7) Ken Dodd: The River
 * 8) Four Seasons: Let's Hang On
 * 9) Walker Brothers: My Ship Is Coming In
 * 10) Crispian St. Peters: You Were On My Mind

25 Feb 1966