March 20, 201114 yr +15 Olive +12 Spice Girls - Mama/WDYTYA +10 Spice Girls - SUYL +8 No Doubt +6 White Town +5 Puff Daddy +4 Will Smith +3 Various Artists +2 Tori Amos +1 Eternal -2 Elton John, from blocking some amazing tracks I liked
March 20, 201114 yr BS was beaten by the first week of Puff Daddy :arrr: so it was essentially also overlooked by a death at the time :o shame it probably would've got there if it weren't for B.I.G's death :( although thats a classic too imo :D
March 20, 201114 yr BS was beaten by the first week of Puff Daddy :arrr: Indeed this is true. At least 'Bittersweet Symphony' helped kick those dreadful Hanson brothers further away from #1. Then again, I was gobsmacked when 'I'll Be Missing You' did go to #1 (I didn't really follow the news to know about the death of Notorious B.I.G. at the time). A bit like when 'Killing Me Softly' by The Fugees went straight to #1 in 1996 - didn't see either of those happening, yet both eventually became tracks I liked.
March 20, 201114 yr Indeed this is true. At least 'Bittersweet Symphony' helped kick those dreadful Hanson brothers further away from #1. Then again, I was gobsmacked when 'I'll Be Missing You' did go to #1. A bit like when 'Killing Me Softly' by The Fugees went straight to #1 in 1996 - didn't see either of those happening, yet both eventually became tracks I liked. Neither did Woolies - I remember them thinking that the Verve would be #1 and they had Puff at #6!
March 20, 201114 yr Elton John blocked some great songs off the #1 spot too :( too true, Dario G- Sunchyme being the main injustice :cry: Edited March 20, 201114 yr by chart wizard
March 20, 201114 yr too true, Dario G- Sunchyme being the main injustice :cry: And Sash - Stay (his best song imo) and Oasis - Stand By Me :angry:
March 20, 201114 yr And Sash - Stay (his best song imo) and Oasis - Stand By Me :angry: Personally, I regard 'Ecuador' as Sash!'s best single closely followed by 'Mysterious Times' and 'Encore Une Fois'. I never got the big deal with 'Stay'.
March 20, 201114 yr Personally, I regard 'Ecuador' as Sash!'s best single closely followed by 'Mysterious Times' and 'Encore Une Fois'. I never got the big deal with 'Stay'. It's all about Stay and Mysterious Times for me! Though I do love Ecuador! and Encore Une Fois :heart:
March 20, 201114 yr Stay is my favorite Sash track from the 90s along with Move Mania :D My least favourite is easily Encore Une Fois, overrated to the extreme Sunchyme was the biggest injustice though, since it spent 2 weeks behind Elton
March 20, 201114 yr Stay is my favorite Sash track from the 90s along with Move Mania :D Sunchyme was the biggest injustice though, since it spent 2 weeks behind Elton Non-consecutive too, making it all the more of an injustice!
March 20, 201114 yr And Sash - Stay (his best song imo) and Oasis - Stand By Me :angry: :angry: Stand By Me is my all time favorite song! Both are :heart:
March 20, 201114 yr Songs to spend 2 weeks or more at #2 in 1997: No Mercy - Where Do You Go Sash! - Ecuador Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Brightman - Time To Say Goodbye Chumbawamba - Tubthumping Dario G - Sunchyme Natalie Imbruglia - Torn
March 20, 201114 yr Elton stopping Sunchyme from #1 is among the worst chart injustices ever. (All of which seem to involve dance songs being held off by $h!te songs) The Prodigy's only #2 peaker, Everybody In The Place, was held off by the re-release of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody - I don't count that as an injustice though as Bohemian Rhapsody is among the best songs ever.
March 20, 201114 yr + 15 White Town – Your Woman + 12 No Doubt – Don’t Speak + 10 Olive – You’re Not Alone + 8 U2 - Discotheque + 6 Aqua – Barbie Girl + 5 Tori Amos – Professional Widow + 4 Hanson - Mmmbop + 3 Michael Jackson – Blood on the Dancefloor + 2 Spice Girls - Mama + 1 Spice Girls – Spice Up Your Life -2 Gary Barlow – Love Won’t Wait
March 20, 201114 yr Oh, and talking of injustice, Chumbawamba's Tubthumping was kept off #1 by Men In Black - FOR 3 WEEKS! -_-
March 20, 201114 yr A great year for music. 1) No Doubt ‘Don’t Speak’ 2) The Verve ‘The Drugs Don’t Work’ 3) Puff Daddy and Faith Evans ‘I’ll Be Missing You’ 4) Eternal feat. BeBe Winans ‘I Wanna Be The Only One’ 5) Spice Girls ‘Too Much’ 6) Spice Girls ‘Mama/Who Do You Think You Are’ 7) Tori Amos ‘Professional Widow (It’s Got To Be Big)’ 8) White Town ‘Your Woman’ 9) Aqua ‘Barbie Girl’ 10) R Kelly ‘I Believe I Can Fly’ -2 Teletubbies ‘Teletubbies Say Eh-Oh! Edited March 20, 201114 yr by Dannyboy
March 20, 201114 yr Nothing has ever, or will ever, top Robson and Jerome preventing 'Common People'.
March 20, 201114 yr Nothing has ever, or will ever, top Robson and Jerome preventing 'Common People'. Simply Red preventing Sorted for E's and Wizz?
March 20, 201114 yr ^that same duo beating Wonderwall comes pretty close :( wow, Torn, Tubthumping, Sunchyme and Bittersweet Symphony- this was quite a year for classic number 2s :o
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