Wham! - Make it Big (1984)

Fantastic failed to make the final rundown but this was their defining statement, and one of the most confident albums of the first half of the Eighties. Make It Big was always going to be just that, with each side opening with a No. 1 single: Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go begins Side 1, and Freedom starts Side 2. There’s also Everything She Wants and... not much else: with eight tracks, this has to be the shortest six-times platinum album ever released.