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1987 Poll Winners

Smash Hits published the Ninth Annual Readers Award Voting Form' in the 23rd September -

6th October 1987 issue of Smash Hits.

 

The Voting Form was to be used to ask the readers what their favourites were from for the year 1987.  

 

The Poll had  categories such as Best Group, though to the Most Fanciable Human Being.

 

The results were then published in the 16th December - 29th December 1987 issue of the magazine.

 

Below is a list of the Winners and Runners Up from that year.

Voting Form

23rd September - 6th October 1987

Page 82 - Smash Hits - 23rd September - 6th October 1987 - Wet Wet Wet, Rick Astley, Pepsi

7th October - 20th October 1987

Page 68 - Smash Hits - Issue 230 - 7th - 20th October 1987 - Bananarama, Curiosity Killed
Page 83 - Smash Hits - 23rd September - 6th October 1987 - Wet Wet Wet, Rick Astley, Pepsi

The Categories for 1987 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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Below are the winners for each Category

 

Please Note:

It says that this is the Eighth Smash Hits Poll Results.  As the First one was printed in 1979 then this makes it the Ninth Smash Hits Poll Results.

Results - Page 1

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Results - Page 2

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Results - Page 14

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How The Stars Voted

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Posters

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Single of The Year

Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up

Video of The Year

Michael Jackson - Bad

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