Not a bad christmas chart compared to last year....pity the spice girls got to no1 again tho with an even worse song than the last year.but with that they did become the first act since the beatles to have 3 christmas no1s in a row which is some achievement. the chef from south park entered just behind at no2 and the massive selling 'believe' by cher was top 5.

 

any memories or sales info would be greatly appreciated!!

 

 

 

Singles Chart For Week Up To 26/12/1998

 

01. Spice Girls - Goodbye :)

 

02. Chef - Chocolate Salty Balls (PS I Love You) :)

03. Denise And Johnny - Especially For You

04. Cher - Believe

05. B*Witched - To You I Belong

06. Steps - Heartbeat/Tragedy

07. The Honeyz - End Of The Line

08. Bryan Adams Featuring Melanie C - When You're Gone

09. Billie Piper - She Wants You

10. Jane McDonald - Cruise Into Christmas :)

11. Will Smith - Miami

12. Jay-Z - Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)

13. Emilia - Big Big World

14. Mariah Carey And Whitney Houston - When You Believe

15. Boyzone - I Love The Way You Love Me

16. Ace Of Base - Always Have, Always Will

17. The Vengaboys - Up And Down

18. Aqua - Good Morning Sunshine

19. Robbie Williams - No Regrets/Antmusic

20. Alda - Girls Night Out

21. Trubble - Dancing Baby (Ooga-Chaka)

22. Blackstreet And Mya Featuring Mase And Blinky Blink - Take Me There

23. Celine Dion And R Kelly - I'm Your Angel

24. The Beautiful South - Dumb

25. All Saints - War Of Nerves

26. Savage Garden - I Want You '98

27. Aerosmith - I Don't Want To Miss A Thing

28. Lutricia McNeal - The Greatest Love You'll Never Know

29. Five - Until The Time Is Through

30. Slade vs Flush - Merry Xmas Everybody '98 :)

31. Fat Les - Naughty Christmas (Goblin In The Office) :)

32. Madonna - The Power Of Good-Bye/Little Star

33. Brandy - Have You Ever?

34. The Corrs - So Young

35. Sash! Featuring Shannon - Move Mania

36. Leann Rimes - Blue

37. Manic Street Preachers - The Everlasting

38. Barefoot Man - Big Panty Woman

39. The Tamperer Featuring Maya - If You Buy This Record Your Life Will Be Better

40. Bing Crosby - White Christmas {1998} :) :o

 

This is the first Christmas chart I actually listened to/followed. Good times. Not the most exciting battle (bar the closeness of the top 2) but still has a place in my heart for that reason [/cheesyness]

 

Also, Denise & Johnny was the first single I actually owned!! :blush: How embarrassing.

 

Best songs in the chart: Ace of Base at #16 (how on earth was this not a huge hit!? :no: Mind you, they were way out of relevance by then), Cher at #4, Robbie Williams at #19, All Saints at #25 and Madonna at #32. Lots of nice Wintery ballads here!

Edited December 19, 201014 yr by superbossanova

01. Spice Girls - Goodbye

02. Chef - Chocolate Salty Balls (PS I Love You)

03. Denise And Johnny - Especially For You

04. Cher - Believe

05. B*Witched - To You I Belong

06. Steps - Heartbeat/Tragedy

07. The Honeyz - End Of The Line

08. Bryan Adams Featuring Melanie C - When You're Gone

09. Billie Piper - She Wants You

10. Jane McDonald - Cruise Into Christmas

11. Will Smith - Miami

12. Jay-Z - Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)

13. Emilia - Big Big World

14. Mariah Carey And Whitney Houston - When You Believe

15. Boyzone - I Love The Way You Love Me

16. Ace Of Base - Always Have, Always Will

17. The Vengaboys - Up And Down

18. Aqua - Good Morning Sunshine

19. Robbie Williams - No Regrets/Antmusic

20. Alda - Girls Night Out

21. Trubble - Dancing Baby (Ooga-Chaka)

22. Blackstreet And Mya Featuring Mase And Blinky Blink - Take Me There

23. Celine Dion And R Kelly - I'm Your Angel

24. The Beautiful South - Dumb

25. All Saints - War Of Nerves

26. Savage Garden - I Want You '98

27. Aerosmith - I Don't Want To Miss A Thing

28. Lutricia McNeal - The Greatest Love You'll Never Know

29. Five - Until The Time Is Through

30. Slade vs Flush - Merry Xmas Everybody '98

31. Fat Les - Naughty Christmas (Goblin In The Office)

32. Madonna - The Power Of Good-Bye/Little Star

33. Brandy - Have You Ever?

34. The Corrs - So Young

35. Sash! Featuring Shannon - Move Mania

36. Leann Rimes - Blue

37. Manic Street Preachers - The Everlasting

38. Barefoot Man - Big Panty Woman

39. The Tamperer Featuring Maya - If You Buy This Record Your Life Will Be Better

40. Bing Crosby - White Christmas {1998}

 

I bought/have 16 of those that i have highlighted in bold on cd single.

01. Spice Girls - Goodbye

04. Cher - Believe

05. B*Witched - To You I Belong

06. Steps - Heartbeat/Tragedy

07. The Honeyz - End Of The Line

08. Bryan Adams Featuring Melanie C - When You're Gone

09. Billie Piper - She Wants You

14. Mariah Carey And Whitney Houston - When You Believe

19. Robbie Williams - No Regrets/Antmusic

26. Savage Garden - I Want You '98

27. Aerosmith - I Don't Want To Miss A Thing

32. Madonna - The Power Of Good-Bye/Little Star

34. The Corrs - So Young

 

Loved all these!!!

 

2 weeks later Steps were #1 weren't they?

This is a truly incredible chart, and like Superbossanova, the first xmas chart I listened to, in fact I only started listening to the chart weekly from the first week of November 1998 onwards - trying to keep track of Cher, The Corrs and Ace of Base!

 

01. Spice Girls - Goodbye

04. Cher - Believe One of my favourite songs of all time, what a career revival!

05. B*Witched - To You I Belong Beautiful song, their best by a mile

06. Steps - Heartbeat/Tragedy

07. The Honeyz - End Of The Line Love this and it takes me right back to late 1998, been unfairly forgotten about though :(

08. Bryan Adams Featuring Melanie C - When You're Gone

09. Billie Piper - She Wants You

11. Will Smith - Miami

13. Emilia - Big Big World

14. Mariah Carey And Whitney Houston - When You Believe

15. Boyzone - I Love The Way You Love Me One of my favourite Boyzone songs, love the strings in it

16. Ace Of Base - Always Have, Always Will Amazing song, the first single I bought for myself, so feelgood!

17. The Vengaboys - Up And Down

18. Aqua - Good Morning Sunshine

19. Robbie Williams - No Regrets/Antmusic

20. Alda - Girls Night Out This was rather hilarious 'and we'll always have a reunion, when we're married and cooking an onion' :D

23. Celine Dion And R Kelly - I'm Your Angel

25. All Saints - War Of Nerves

26. Savage Garden - I Want You '98

27. Aerosmith - I Don't Want To Miss A Thing

28. Lutricia McNeal - The Greatest Love You'll Never Know

29. Five - Until The Time Is Through

32. Madonna - The Power Of Good-Bye/Little Star Stunning song, the best on the Ray Of Light album imo

34. The Corrs - So Young :wub: The first single I owned (it was bought for me though)

35. Sash! Featuring Shannon - Move Mania

37. Manic Street Preachers - The Everlasting

40. Bing Crosby - White Christmas {1998}

Goodbye was Spice Girls second fastest selling single selling 381,000 just beating Chef (373,000). The top 5 were all over 120,000 and you needed 50000 sales to make the top 10.

goodbye for me is the best of the spice girls 3 xmas number 1's. the 'look for the rainbow in every storm, fly like an angel heaven sent to me' line is beautiful.

This is a truly incredible chart, and like Superbossanova, the first xmas chart I listened to, in fact I only started listening to the chart weekly from the first week of November 1998 onwards - trying to keep track of Cher, The Corrs and Ace of Base!

I started listening in June 1998, when 3 Lions was #1! So that's 20/06/1998, when I was just about to turn 7 y.o :o Mind you, I didn't enter my chart-freakish phase until the start of 1999. I started way young either way, lol. Strange child I was. Needless to say I'm not as bad as I was then (outside of this forum anyway :D)

 

Good picks, by the way!

 

And thanks for the sales, Fiesta! I knew about the top two sales but good to see sales were massive pretty much across the board.

Goodbye is one of my favourite Spice Girl songs its beautiful!

Its sales as of June 09 are 862,524

If anyone has more up to date figures please post!

38. Barefoot Man - Big Panty Woman

 

This sounds like it is possibly the most terrible (non-X Factor) song in the history of existance. Christmas does funny things to people.

 

 

A lot of variety in this Christmas chart. Oh how I miss it.

 

 

goodbye for me is the best of the spice girls 3 xmas number 1's. the 'look for the rainbow in every storm, fly like an angel heaven sent to me' line is beautiful.

Goodbye is one of my favourite Spice Girl songs its beautiful!

Its sales as of June 09 are 862,524

If anyone has more up to date figures please post!

2 Become 1 >>>> Goodbye >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Too Much

 

If only they released Viva Forever instead of Too Much at Xmas then that would be a flawless trio of Xmas #1s :( Although I still like Too Much quite a bit.

not a sg fan but 2 become 1 is the xmassy classic ferom them, always hear it every year even tho it technically not a no1!!

 

also, why was bing cosby @ no40?

I like/know:

 

01. Spice Girls - Goodbye ^_^

 

02. Chef - Chocolate Salty Balls (PS I Love You) :D :lol:

04. Cher - Believe :wub:

06. Steps -Tragedy :P

08. Bryan Adams Featuring Melanie C - When You're Gone :)

11. Will Smith - Miami ^_^

12. Jay-Z - Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem) ^_^

14. Mariah Carey And Whitney Houston - When You Believe :mellow:

19. Robbie Williams - No Regrets/Antmusic :mellow:

27. Aerosmith - I Don't Want To Miss A Thing :wub: :wub: :wub:

34. The Corrs - So Young :wub:

40. Bing Crosby - White Christmas {1998} :wub: :wub:

 

I can't really get excited about it though :( I prefer the novelty songs in the charts :P and:

 

2 become 1>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Goodbye>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Too Much

 

they were all pretty good, but the Spice Girls had better songs, I liked all their 90s stuff though, their 2000 material was p*** poor though

 

 

Edited December 20, 201014 yr by chart wizard

not a sg fan but 2 become 1 is the xmassy classic ferom them, always hear it every year even tho it technically not a no1!!

What? :blink:

:rofl: didnt even read that post before i sent it half asleep!!!

 

what i meant to say was that 2 become 1 is my fav christmas no1 by them and it is played every year on the music channels!! :lol:

:rofl: didnt even read that post before i sent it half asleep!!!

 

what i meant to say was that 2 become 1 is my fav christmas no1 by them and it is played every year on the music channels!! :lol:

Aaah! That makes more sense :P

 

I agree :D

I can't really get excited about it though :( I prefer the novelty songs in the charts :P and:

Excited about what? :unsure: There's loads of 'novelty' songs in this chart...

Edited December 20, 201014 yr by superbossanova

Suck all my chocolate salty balls! Put'em in your mouth and suck'em!

 

E-P-I-C!

 

South Park wasn't yet shown in my country back then, so when I first saw the video for CSB on MTV, it was the first time ever I came across the show.

Edited December 20, 201014 yr by N-S

Excited about what? :unsure: There's loads of 'novelty' songs in this chart...

 

there are some Christmas charts that have a great mix of songs I love and novelty songs which I also love- I dont know an awful lot of these, and there are still some 'novelty' songs, but I preferred other years personally :(

Edited December 21, 201014 yr by chart wizard