Okay christmas 1997 and it was a case of deja vu at the top of the chart in december 1997 with the spice girls getting their second successive christmas chart topper albeit with a slightly poorer song....anyone have any memories of this chart?? my main memory is that there were hardly any new xmas hits!!! :cry: but plenty of massive hits of their time including torn, angels, candle in the wind and barbie girl!!!

 

what does everyone think??

 

 

01. Spice Girls - Too Much

 

02. Teletubbies - Teletubbies Say Eh-Oh!

03. Various Artists - Perfect Day

04. All Saints - Never Ever

05. Janet Jackson - Together Again

06. Aqua - Barbie Girl

07. Robbie Williams - Angels

08. Natalie Imbruglia - Torn

09. Boyzone - Baby Can I Hold You/Shooting Star

10. Mase - Feel So Good

11. Elton John - Something About The Way You Look/Candle In The Wind

12. Steven Houghton - Wind Beneath My Wings

13. Barbra Streisand And Celine Dion - Tell Him

14. Vanilla - No Way No Way

15. Chicken Shed - I Am In Love With The World

16. Celine Dion - The Reason

17. Lutricia McNeal - Ain't That Just The Way

18. Reds United - Sing Up For The Champions!

19. Five - Slam Dunk (Da Funk)

20. Steps - 5, 6, 7, 8

21. Louise - Let's Go Round Again

22. Sheryl Crow - Tomorrow Never Dies

23. Backstreet Boys - As Long As You Love Me

24. Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing {1997}

25. Paul McCartney - Beautiful Night

26. The Seahorses - You Can Talk To Me

27. The Verve - Lucky Man

28. The PF Project Featuring Ewan McGregor - Choose Life

29. Bryan Adams - Back To You

30. Propellerheads And Shirley Bassey - History Repeating

31. Gala - Let A Boy Cry

32. Rakim - Guess Who's Back

33. U2 - If God Will Send His Angels

34. Sting And The Police - Roxanne '97

35. Levellers - Dogtrain

36. Fountains Of Wayne - I Want An Alien For Christmas

37. Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life

38. Aerosmith - Pink

39. Will Smith - Just Cruisin'

40. Blackstreet - (Money Can't) Buy Me Love

 

HOW DARE SPICE GIRLS DENY THE TELETUBBIES FROM A WELL DESERVED XMAS #1

Surely the biggest selling top 10 ever? Look at all those million sellers!

Back in the days before X Factor took over the Xmas no.1 spot. Those were the days!

did "No Way No Way" seriously get to No14? :blink:

 

at least people nowadays are paying about 50p-£1 to download rubbish off ITunes but that would have been people actually buying physical CD copies of that for about £3.99. The thought boggles the mind to think that anyone could actually like that and enough to get it that high in the chart at Christmas time when CD sales are usually quite high (well at that time anyway)

 

I just wonder if that was pulled along by some sort of campaign like we see nowadays, possibly to stop the Spice Girls in those days or something

Edited December 16, 201014 yr by Gerry1975

Hold on - Fountains Of Wayne had... OTHER SONGS?

:puke2: :puke2: Spice Girls

 

Teletubies deserved that number one I would definately be in the campaign to stop the Spi ...

 

hang on? Teletubies getting to number two WASN'T a campaign???? What a bad taste in music Britain had then.

Edited December 16, 201014 yr by *xmasG*

^ Yet what massive sales. I blame the children. No, I blame the parents for giving into their screaming crying brats demanding the song on CD. Then the parents being punished by their kids when they insisted on playing track 1 on repeat for 4 hours. :w00t: Who needed an X-Box back then? :lol:

was the Teletubbies similar to what happened a few years later when Eminem - Stan was stopped by a media campaign of "who wants this song at No1 when you can buy Bob?" by stuff like The Sun who basically kept pushing it as the alternative. Then again it did beat Westlife which was slightly amusing when they thought they were going to breeze to the top spot

 

then again I can't really see where the campaign could come against the Spice Girls, I'm guessing it was just the popularity of Teletubbies that year

was the Teletubbies similar to what happened a few years later when Eminem - Stan was stopped by a media campaign of "who wants this song at No1 when you can buy Bob?" by stuff like The Sun who basically kept pushing it as the alternative. Then again it did beat Westlife which was slightly amusing when they thought they were going to breeze to the top spot

 

then again I can't really see where the campaign could come against the Spice Girls, I'm guessing it was just the popularity of Teletubbies that year

 

Teletubbies were ridiculously popular in the UK - my newphew (now 13) was obsessed with them as a kid. At least his fave Teletubby was Dipsy. :rofl: Maybe there had been some media coverage at the time that the theme tune was being released. Also there were more Saturday morning kids TV shows like Live & Kicking which probably promoted the track.

 

Bob The Builder beating Westlife was genius. At least Eminem 'Stan' did get to no. 1 - well deserved at the time. Again, parents would've rushed to buy a copy for those kids who liked Bob The Builder.

considering you had to pay £3-4 for the CD, I guess campaigns weren't so "plastic" (is that the right word?) as they are now when it's some faceless person on a Facebook group going on about multibuying a song so it can beat a reality TV contestant. Back then it was people actually going out to buy the singles so there wasn't as much multibuying as you can do on with computers nowadays

 

There was a face behind the RATM campaign for last year but it was pretty much as plastic as the ones this year when it was just people multibuying a song to do the exact same. I might like the song but I couldn't see the point in downloading it 10-20 times and wasting money like that

Teletubbies had already been No.1 for two weeks, and with much bigger sales than the Spice Girls, so could have been the all-important Xmas No.1 had the single been delayed a bit.

did "No Way No Way" seriously get to No14? :blink:

 

at least people nowadays are paying about 50p-£1 to download rubbish off ITunes but that would have been people actually buying physical CD copies of that for about £3.99. The thought boggles the mind to think that anyone could actually like that and enough to get it that high in the chart at Christmas time when CD sales are usually quite high (well at that time anyway)

 

I just wonder if that was pulled along by some sort of campaign like we see nowadays, possibly to stop the Spice Girls in those days or something

It was played loads on The Box at the time and they did quite a few promotional appearances so not that surprising. Plus cheesy pop was well in in 1997 and despite the general awfulness of the record it was quite catchy! :lol: The public will buy anything if it's catchy and well-promoted, trust me. I wonder how many people bought it as a joke too? I would imagine a few people. I have it on Now 39 (which despite that dodgy inclusion is still probably the best one in the entire series) myself! I've heard the group actually got quite a lot of ridicule at the time for being so generally... talentless, haha. To be fair, their other single wasn't that bad... in that you can listen to it without laughing, at least.

 

Anyway, this is quite a poor chart from (imo) a good time. Some classics in the top ten and a few good tracks lower down but apart from that not much to write home about at all...

Teletubbies had already been No.1 for two weeks, and with much bigger sales than the Spice Girls, so could have been the all-important Xmas No.1 had the single been delayed a bit.

 

Spice Girls were lucky to be #1 for Xmas 1997. Teletubbie's two weeks at no. 2 behind Spice Girls had them selling extremely well.

 

07.12.97 Teletubbies Teletubbies Say "Eh Oh" 317,000

14.12.97 Teletubbies Teletubbies Say "Eh Oh" 230,000

21.12.97 Spice Girls Too Much 252,000 (Teletubbies sold 241,000)

28.12.97 Spice Girls Too Much 218,000 (Teletubbies sold 202,000)

 

Teletubbies sold 990k in December 1997 alone - it became a million seller in January 1998.

Don't forget that most CD singles were £1.99 in their first week to help get the artists to #1.

Spice Girls were lucky to be #1 for Xmas 1997. Teletubbie's two weeks at no. 2 behind Spice Girls had them selling extremely well.

 

07.12.97 Teletubbies Teletubbies Say "Eh Oh" 317,000

14.12.97 Teletubbies Teletubbies Say "Eh Oh" 230,000

21.12.97 Spice Girls Too Much 252,000 (Teletubbies sold 241,000)

28.12.97 Spice Girls Too Much 218,000 (Teletubbies sold 202,000)

 

Teletubbies sold 990k in December 1997 alone - it became a million seller in January 1998.

I never knew it was so close :o

I thought the 202k figure was from Xmas week? :unsure: Not sure what the 241k was from - not the week after obviously...

38. Aerosmith - Pink

 

<3 <3 <3

The number one wasn't a particularly massive seller - Too Much sold 252,000 copies - but the top 5 all sold over 100,000 copies and the top 10 sold over 50,000. It was the first time the entire top 40 had sold over 10,000 copies since official records had been kept.

 

The top 10 consisted of 6 singles that either had sold or were about to sell a million copies. Sales were massive at the time!

massive sales for the teletubbies for nearly a month - a million seller!!!