1995 Results:

 

01 Take That 'Back For Good' 269

02 Coolio feat. LV 'Gangsta's Paradise' 256 (more 15s)

03 Livin' Joy 'Dreamer' 256

04 Oasis 'Some Might Say' 237

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05 Blur 'Country House' 196

06 Take That 'Never Forget' 195

07 Michael Jackson 'Earth Song' 135

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08 Céline Dion 'Think Twice' 127

09 Simply Red 'Fairground' 117

10 Rednex 'Cotton Eyed Joe' 110

11 Shaggy 'Boombastic' 80

12 The Outhere Brothers 'Boom Boom Boom' 76

13 Michael Jackson 'You Are Not Alone' 61

14 Cher, Neneh Cherry & Chrissie Hynde with Eric Clapton 'Love Can Build a Bridge' 52

15 The Outhere Brothers 'Don't Stop (Wiggle Wiggle)' 14

16 Robson and Jerome 'I Believe / Up on the Roof' 7

17 Robson and Jerome 'Unchained Melody / The White Cliffs of Dover' -12

 

Final Round:

 

+374 1992 Shakespears Sister 'Stay'

+351 1992 Snap! 'Rhythym is a Dancer'

+313 1994 Baby D 'Let Me Be Your Fantasy'

+297 1990 Sinéad O'Connor 'Nothing Compares 2 U'

+296 1992 The Shamen 'Ebeneezer Goode'

+296 1993 Culture Beat 'Mr. Vain'

+286 1993 Ace of Base 'All That She Wants'

+283 1990 Madonna 'Vogue'

+281 1991 The KLF feat. The Children of the Revolution '3AM Eternal'

+269 1995 Take That 'Back For Good'

+264 1994 East 17 'Stay Another Day'

+256 1995 Coolio feat. LV 'Gangsta's Paradise'

+256 1995 Livin' Joy 'Dreamer'

+245 1994 Whigfield 'Saturday Night'

+238 1991 Michael Jackson 'Black or White'

+238 1992 Tasmin Archer 'Sleeping Satellite'

+237 1995 Oasis 'Some Might Say'

+236 1991 Enigma 'Sadeness Part 1'

+233 1994 D:Ream 'Things Can Only Get Better'

+230 1993 Meat Loaf 'I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)'

+229 1990 Beats International 'Dub Be Good To Me'

+224 1990 Snap! 'The Power'

+219 1991 The Clash 'Should I Stay or Should I Go'

+218 1993 2 Unlimited 'No Limit'

 

Wildcard Round:

 

+213 1991 Queen 'Bohemian Rhapsody/These Are The Days Of Our Lives'

+210 1993 Gabrielle 'Dreams'

+199 1990 Adamski feat. Seal 'Killer'

+196 1995 Blur 'Country House'

+195 1995 Take That 'Never Forget'

+180 1993 Take That 'Pray'

+169 1992 Erasure 'Abba-esque EP'

+168 1993 The Bluebells 'Young at Heart'

+167 1991 Chesney Hawkes 'The One And Only'

+156 1992 Charles and Eddie 'Would I Lie To You?'

+155 1994 Take That 'Everything Changes'

+153 1992 Jimmy Nail 'Ain't No Doubt'

+151 1990 Maria McKee 'Show Me Heaven'

+151 1991 Cher 'The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)'

+151 1994 Mariah Carey 'Without You'

+148 1990 Englandneworder 'World In Motion'

+140 1994 Doop 'Doop'

+135 1995 Michael Jackson 'Earth Song'

 

This is a 90s number ones rate using every song that hit number 1 in the 1990s. What will happen is there will be 10 rounds, the first being 1990, then 1991 etc. up to round 10 which will be 1999. After the 10 rounds, the top 4 from every year will then be put together for one final rate which will make up a top 40 of the decade.

 

How you rate the songs; you do not rate every song that hit number one, you just rate your ten favourites and your least favourite. You give +15 points to your favourite song, and the rest are as follows; This is to hopefully stop ties from happening inside the top 3.

 

+15 Favourite Song

+12 2nd Favourite Song

+10 3rd Favourite Song

+08 4th Favourite

+06 5th Favourite

+05 6th Favourite

+04 7th Favourite

+03 8th Favourite

+02 9th Favourite

+01 10th Favourite

 

-02 Least Favourite, or Most Hated depending on what way you look at it

 

Below are the songs you need to rate from. You have 2 days for every round to rate. DanielGaGa should be back to carry on the rest of the game sometime on Sunday but the time is obviously up to him.

 

1996:

 

1. George Michael 'Jesus to a Child'

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8. Gina G 'Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit'

9. Baddiel & Skinner & The Lightning Seeds 'Three Lions'

10.

11. Gary Barlow 'Forever Love'

12.

13.

14. Fugees 'Ready or Not'

15.

16. The Chemical Brothers 'Setting Sun'

17.

18.

19. Robson and Jerome 'What Becomes of the Brokenhearted / Saturday Night at the Movies / You'll Never Walk Alone'

20.

21.

22.

23. Dunblane 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door / Throw These Guns Away'

24.

+15 The Prodigy - Firestarter

+12 Fugees - Killing Me Softly

+10 Baddiel & Skinner & The Lightning Seeds - Three Lions

+8 Spice Girls - 2 Become 1

+6 George Michael - Jesus to a Child

+5 The Prodigy - Breathe

+4 Fugees - Ready or Not

+3 Gina G - Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit

+2 Babylon Zoo - Spaceman

+1 Spice Girls - Say You'll Be There

 

-2 Deep Blue Something - Breakfast at Tiffany's

Right.

 

15 Breathe (insert large amounts of :wub: here)

12 Firestarter (insert large amounts of :wub: here)

(insert large amounts of ... here)

10 Breakfast At Tiffany's

8 Don't Look Back In Anger

6 Ooh Aah... Just A Little Bit

5 Killing Me Softly

4 Words

3 How Deep Is Your Love

2 Three Lions

1 Setting Sun (default, I love The Chem Bros but haven't heard this)

 

-2 2 Become 1 :puke:

+15 Babylon Zoo 'Spaceman'

+12 Spice Girls '2 Become 1'

+10 Spice Girls 'Wannabe'

+08 Gina G 'Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit'

+06 Mark Morrison 'Return of the Mack'

+05 The Prodigy 'Breathe'

+04 Oasis 'Don't Look Back in Anger'

+03 The Prodigy 'Firestarter'

+02 Deep Blue Something 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'

+01 Spice Girls 'Say You'll Be There'

 

-02 Peter Andre 'Flava'

 

15 - Oasis - "Don't Look Back In Anger"

12 - Deep Blue Something - "Breakfast At Tiffany's"

10 - Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds - "Three Lions"

Three all-time classic number ones. Big, Big drop off after these...

 

8 - Babylon Zoo - "Spaceman"

6 - Spice Girls - "2 Become 1"

5 - Gina G - "Ooh Ahh... Just A Little Bit"

4 - Spice Girls - "Wannabe"

3 - George Michael - "Jesus to a Child"

2 - Mark Morrison - "Return Of The Mack"

1 - Spice Girls - "Say You'll Be There"

 

-2 Prodigy - "Firestarter" - Quite how this has become so entrenched as a classic number one I've no idea.

 

 

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Richard

+15 Oasis "Don't Look Back In Anger"

+12 The Prodigy "Firestarter"

+10 The Chemical Brothers "Setting Sun"

+08 George Michael "Fastlove"

+06 The Prodigy "Breathe"

+05 Baddiel & Skinner & The Lightning Seeds "Three Lions"

+04 The Spice Girls "2 Become 1"

+03 George Michael "Jesus To A Child"

+02 The Fugees "Ready Or Not"

+01 Robson And Jerome "What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted" <<Sorry in advance for this! I thought this was one of the "Gruesome Twosome's better efforts!

 

-02 The Spice Girls "Wannabe"<<This almost went to Mark Morrison's "Return Of The Mack" for preventing the Manic Street Preachers entering at No.1 with "A Design For Life"!! Grrrr!

-2 Prodigy - "Firestarter" - Quite how this has become so entrenched as a classic number one I've no idea.

 

DIE

 

(at least it wasn't Breathe I guess)

Edited March 18, 201114 yr by Bray

+15 Gina G ooh aah just a little bit

+12 Gary Barlow forever love

+10 The Prodigy firestarter

+08 Oasis dont look back in anger

+06 Take That how deep is your love

+05 The Prodigy breathe

+04 Spice Girls 2 become 1

+03 Babylon Zoo spaceman

+02 Deep Blue Something Breakfast at Tiffanys

+01 Fugees 'Killing Me Softly'

 

-02 George Michael jesus to a child

 

 

 

Woo, apart from Richard both Breathe and Firestarter have got points from everyone :D Maybe they will both qualify after all.

Two -2s for the Spice Girls already :o At least the hate will be fairly split.

 

I genuinely have no idea what's going to happen this round.

 

-2 Prodigy - "Firestarter" - Quite how this has become so entrenched as a classic number one I've no idea.

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Richard

Because it's wildly different to any other #1, because it was funny seeing a song like that at the top, because The Prodigy are very well loved within their genre :lol: I don't know. Just some reasons that spring to mind.

 

Woo, apart from Richard both Breathe and Firestarter have got points from everyone :D Maybe they will both qualify after all.

Are you going to be tracking their points throughout? :lol:

 

 

15 The Prodigy 'Firestarter'

12 Spice Girls 'Wannabe'

10 The Prodigy 'Breathe'

08 The Chemical Brothers 'Setting Sun'

06 Fugees 'Killing Me Softly'

05 Oasis 'Don't Look Back in Anger'

04 Fugees 'Ready or Not'

03 Spice Girls 'Say You'll Be There'

02 Dunblane 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door / Throw These Guns Away'

01 Mark Morrison 'Return of the Mack'

 

-2 Gina G 'Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit'

+15 Oasis 'Don't Look Back in Anger'

+12 The Prodigy 'Firestarter'

+10 Deep Blue Something 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'

+8 The Prodigy 'Breathe'

+6 Spice Girls '2 Become 1'

+5 Babylon Zoo 'Spaceman'

+4 Fugees 'Killing Me Softly'

+3 George Michael 'Jesus to a Child'

+2 Dunblane 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door / Throw These Guns Away'*

+1 Baddiel & Skinner & The Lightning Seeds 'Three Lions'

 

-2 Peter Andre 'Flava'

 

*had no idea about that tragic massacre! reading the description of the video i was in shock! RIP to all the lost souls!

I hope Gina G does reasonably well in this round,i loved it in its day and still like it plus it would have won eurovision had televoting been part of eurovision at that time, there are some very strong number 1 1's in this round and im also thrilled to see the prodigy do so well so far, shame gary barlow ont though.

I'm not going to miss the chance to give top marks to the UK's greatest Eurovision entry (imo)!

 

+15 Gina G 'Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit'

+12 Spice Girls '2 Become 1'

+10 Spice Girls 'Say You'll Be There'

+8 Oasis 'Don't Look Back in Anger'

+6 Boyzone 'A Different Beat'

+5 Baddiel & Skinner & The Lightning Seeds 'Three Lions'

+4 Deep Blue Something 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'

+3 Spice Girls 'Wannabe'

+2 Fugees 'Killing Me Softly'

+1 Boyzone 'Words'

 

-2 Robson and Jerome 'What Becomes of the Brokenhearted / Saturday Night at the Movies / You'll Never Walk Alone'

Good to see another maximum score for Gina G

Good to see another maximum score for Gina G

 

As if I was going to give it to anybody else :lol: It's one of my all time favourite songs, and certainly one of my favourite UK #1's!

 

I echo what you said about the televoting being cruelly absent in 1996, the juries were completely out of touch. I loved The Voice (my 3rd favourite of 1996) but for a start Den Vilda was a far better 'new age' entry and Gina G was better than both of them :drama:

Even though i was happy with ireland to win in 1996 i was supporting gina g as i loved the song and i was shocked it didnt do better on the night.

DIE

 

(at least it wasn't Breathe I guess)

 

 

To be honest, I barely remember "Breathe". I went back and listened to all of the tracks on the list that I have in my collection (about 75% of them) and it still washed straight over me. Not like or dislike, just an ocean of averageness.

 

And is it really OK to shout "DIE" to a fellow poster just because of a difference of opinion?

 

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Richard

A bumper year for number ones. This was the start of a sea-change in chart music; build and build and build a track before sale to dump it as high in the charts as possible (hence the silly number of number ones). Luckily, this was also a vintage year for chart music!

 

+15 Gina G - Ooh Aah... Just A Little Bit (Sorry but this was (and still is) an absolute belter and guilty pleasure. I can't believe I'm rating this higher than the mighty Prodge but ah well!)

+12 The Prodigy - Breathe

+10 Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun

+8 The Prodigy - Firestarter

+6 Mark Morrison - Return Of The Mack

+5 George Michael - Fast Love

+4 Spice Girls - Wannabe

+3 Spice Girls - Say You'll Be There

+2 Spice Girls - 2 Become 1

+1 Fugees - Killing Me Softly

 

-2 Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffanys (god I truly despise this song!)

Edited March 18, 201114 yr by ScottyEm

Even though i was happy with ireland to win in 1996 i was supporting gina g as i loved the song and i was shocked it didnt do better on the night.

 

8th was a complete and utter insult, I'd have been ok if it had come 2nd or 3rd I guess...at least it went on to become a huge worldwide hit (US included)!