I agree with you, I was about to make the same comparison. Difference being that I liked it (although not enough to buy it) but I LOVED the XTM song, which I bought half way through it's completely bizarre 3 months yo-yoing between 8-12 chart run, although probably because at heart it was a Eurovision winner :lol:

 

But indeed, I'm surprised they didn't claim for damages, I read somewhere that she was from the US, which seems like an odd breeding ground for what seems like a cheap Eurocheese anthem.

 

I don't think I had anything but the main 4 channels in 2005 so I never saw or heard it anywhere, it felt like it just appeared in the top ten one week :lol: Even so, even if The Box hammered that type of song now, with no radio support it would get nowhere.

Yeah, the Box did indeed use to sometimes be able to make a hit almost on their own back then. Although they had a pretty appalling hit rate as I remember loads of complete and utter flops they pushed like Northern Line, Boom!!, Girl Thing, Sara Gorge - a haven of late 90s/early 00s flopstars!

 

I'm pretty sure it wasn't supported by Radio 1, so it was probably one of the last songs that The Box could actually take some credit for in making a hit, I guess.

 

15.Xzibit - Hey Now (Mean Muggin' :unsure: wasn't this Keri Hilson's first UK appearance

It was indeed. Although I don't think she was credited, was she?

 

And yeah, I do recall some people having big expectations for Lovefreekz. Soul Central (#41 on this chart) was also widely tipped to be a #1 hit by some but only got to #6. Then there was Sunset Strippers only a couple of weeks after this chart - a lot of "predicted" #1 dance hits in early 2005, but none of them quite made it! Those damn Elvis re-releases screwed everyone up :kink:

Yeah, the Box did indeed use to sometimes be able to make a hit almost on their own back then. Although they had a pretty appalling hit rate as I remember loads of complete and utter flops they pushed like Northern Line, Boom!!, Girl Thing, Sara Gorge - a haven of late 90s/early 00s flopstars!

 

They've surely got to take most of the credit for Moi Lolita by Alizee hitting the top ten! I can't imagine Radio 1 were hammering a French pop song!?! And I don't expect Vanessa Amorosi's Absolutely Everybody would have gone top ten without them either.

 

I certainly remember their impact in the late 90's/early 00's, indeed The Box was the first place I went for new music before I started frequently using the internet.

They've surely got to take most of the credit for Moi Lolita by Alizee hitting the top ten! I can't imagine Radio 1 were hammering a French pop song!?! And I don't expect Vanessa Amorosi's Absolutely Everybody would have gone top ten without them either.

 

I certainly remember their impact in the late 90's/early 00's, indeed The Box was the first place I went for new music before I started frequently using the internet.

You're probably right there about Alizée - I remember hearing it quite a bit back then somewhere, but I can't specifically remember where, but I didn't listen much to the radio back then, anyway. They definitely helped LOADS of pop acts, though. It's definitely not a coincidence that during the peak of its popularity the charts were quite pop-dominated.

 

I think on a similar case, Las Ketchup were also shunned by radio, but rotated constantly on pretty much every music channel. Was hard to escape it at one point!

 

Probably their most famous is the Spice Girls, though, as they were apparently the first channel to ever play Wannabe, and then it quickly became their most-requested video. I'm not sure whether I quite believe that but I've heard it from quite a few sources - I just find it hard to believe they were ever big enough to kick start such a phenomenom :o I didn't watch The Box back then being only 5 years old, plus we only first got digital TV in 1999!

 

Indeed, I used to watch their new music show every week (on Friday afternoons, iirc!) and usually switched over to The Box whenever I was allowed to watch TV :D

You're probably right there about Alizée - I remember hearing it quite a bit back then somewhere, but I can't specifically remember where, but I didn't listen much to the radio back then, anyway. They definitely helped LOADS of pop acts, though. It's definitely not a coincidence that during the peak of its popularity the charts were quite pop-dominated.

 

I think on a similar case, Las Ketchup were also shunned by radio, but rotated constantly on pretty much every music channel. Was hard to escape it at one point!

 

Probably their most famous is the Spice Girls, though, as they were apparently the first channel to ever play Wannabe, and then it quickly became their most-requested video. I'm not sure whether I quite believe that but I've heard it from quite a few sources - I just find it hard to believe they were ever big enough to kick start such a phenomenom :o I didn't watch The Box back then being only 5 years old, plus we only first got digital TV in 1999!

 

Indeed, I used to watch their new music show every week (on Friday afternoons, iirc!) and usually switched over to The Box whenever I was allowed to watch TV :D

 

Wow! We first got digital TV in 2008!!! :o

Wow! We first got digital TV in 2008!!! :o

What's with the wow? You make it sound like I'm abnormal! :lol: We were actually quite behind with it, I remember being jealous for ages because loads of my friends had it and we didn't, and then we finally managed to make my parents cave in and get it in the end.

Well, I knew our family was behind with Digital TV (we're behind with everything, in terms of technology :(), but I dunno, just a weird thought that you got it almost a decade before me!!!

We got The Box in 1999 and I fell in love with it instantly. Rather than buy CD singles I'd phone up, request a song, wait for it to appear and then video it. Laughable in the days of Youtube/iTunes/Spotify now!

 

Nowadays it just plays random videos and you can't phone them anymore. When did it stop being a request channel? I *think* it still was at the time of this chart in 2005...