1989 Poll Winners
Smash Hits published the 'Eleventh Annual Readers Award Voting Form' in the 20th September -
4th October 1989 issue of Smash Hits.
The Voting Form was to be used to ask the readers what their favourites were from for the year 1989.
The Poll had categories such as Best Group, though to the Most Fanciable Human Being.
The results were then published in the 1st November - 14th November 1989 issue of the magazine.
This was also the 2nd year that the awards were broadcast live on BBC1.
Below is a list of the Winners and Runners Up from that year.
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Voting Form
The Categories for 1989 were as follows
1 - Best Group Of The Year
2 - Worst Group Of The Year
3 - Most Brilliant Haircut Of The Year
4 - Most Useless Haircut Of The Year
5 - Best TV Ad Of The Year
6 - Worst TV Ad Of The Year
7 - Best Film Of The Year
8 - Worst Film Of The Year
9 - Best DJ Of The Year
10 - Worst DJ Of The Year
11 - Best Music TV Programme Of The Year
12 - Worst TV Programme Of The Year
13 - Best Non-Music TV Of The Year
14 - Worst Non-Music TV Of The Year
15 - Best Dressed Person Of The Year
16 - Worst dressed Person Of The Year
17 - Most Wonderful Human Being Of The Year
18 - Most Fanciable Person Of The Year
19 - Event Of The Year
20 - Non-Event Of The Year
21 - Best Male Singer Of The Year
22 - Worst Male Singer Of The Year
23 - Best Female Singer Of The Year
24 - Most Fanciable Female Of The Year
25 - Worst Female Singer Of The Year
26 - Best Video Of The Year
27 - Worst Video Of The Year
28 - Most Very Horrible Thing Of The Year
29 - Best Single Of The Year
30 - Worst Single Of The Year
31 - Best Album Of The Year
32 - Worst Album Of The Year
33 - Most Promising New Act For 1988
34 - Biggest Prat Of The Year
35 - Least Promising New Act For 1988
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The Results for the 1989 Poll Winners Poll were published in the 1st November 1989 issue of the magazine.
Below are the winners (and Runners Up) for each Category
Results - Page 1
Results - Page 2
Results - Page 3
Results - Page 4
Results - Page 5
Results - Page 6
Results - Page 7
Results - Page 8
Results - Page 9
Results - Page 10
How The Stars Voted
Single Of The Year
Video Of The Year
Bros - Too Much
Poster
This Issue also came with a Free Double Sided Poster that featured The Smash Hits Poll Winners 1989 on one side.
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for more info on that poster click the link below
Poll Winners Party
This was the second year that the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party took place.
This time it was at London Arena - Docklands in London and was brought by Harvey Goldsmith Entertainments, Janet Street-Porter in association with Swatch.
The party was on Sunday 29th October 1989 and was broadcast on BBC1 at 3 pm. with a simultaneous broadcast on Radio 1.
Phillip Schofield presented the show.
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Contributors
Presenter - Phillip Schofield
Performance - Bros
Performance - Jason Donovan
Performance - Kylie Minogue
Performance - Neneh Cherry
Performance - Big Fun
Performance - Martika
Musicians - Soul II Soul
Appearance:
London Boys
Sonia
Transvision Vamp
New Kids on the Block
Executive Producer - Janet Street-Porter
Executive Producer - Harvey Goldsmith
Director - Phil Chilvers
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