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[Gezza]

Hello All, back one again with a top 200 that will either delight or fill you with fear!

There'll be dance routines a go-go, standing up on key changes, a fair amount of flesh on show, and of course a string of TOTP, CD:UK and live performances to get all nostalgic about.

The period covered by this thread will be 1988-2004, and the sales tallies are actual sales (in 99%of the cases)!

Thanks to Music Week, Wikipedia, You Tube, "The 1000 UK number one hits" book, MFR, Polyhex and chart stats for their help in this.

Rules for Inclusion

This countdown only includes “solo” records by girl groups or boy bands so songs such as “Against All Odds” by Mariah Carey & Westlife WON’T feature.

The sales figures relate only to the period up to 2004 and DO NOT include any subsequent download figures.

GIRL GROUPS- relatively easy to define, all female groups with at least 3 members regardless of the genre they operate within.

BOY BANDS- A much more difficult genre to define than you might imagine. So obviously all members must be male, there must be at least 3 members in the group, operate mainly within the “pop” field and not be over 30 when they had their biggest stint of fame. Arguments could be had all day over whether or not such and such a group were a boy band or not so I’ve plumped for what I consider to be relatively safe options with one or two possibly contentious inclusions (mainly those calling themselves “vocal harmony groups”).


So sit back over the forthcoming couple of months, pin those old posters up and relive some of the more embarrassing teen moments of your life and yes you may SCREAM!