March 23, 201114 yr Are we just counting Top 10 hits/successful albums? Because the last time (before 'Do You Know (Ping Pong Song)' - Still one of the most creative and genius ideas for a pop song, ever imo!) Enrique (seeing as you mentioned him) had a top 10 hit, was with 'Escape' back in 2002. 5 Years later he hits the top 10 again with DYK(PPS), but he had Top 20 hits for the rest of 2002/2003... Although I guess 2003-2007 is still quite a big gap... You're forgetting about Enrique & Kelis' Top 5 hit 'Not In Love' in 2004? ;)
March 23, 201114 yr Author Also, I've just remembered Hanson and their totally random top 10 hit with Penny & Me back in 2005. Even taking into account the dire sales climate, surely there weren't so many people interested in a Hanson comeback to make this go top 10?! It's a bit like Gareth Gates coming back with a hit now. Well, clearly there weren't so many people who cared after all, as the follow-up Lost Without Each Other only got to #39. Maybe people just really liked the song *shrug* I know you always write it off as a fluke but I'm sure I remember there being a certain degree of hype aound the song at the time. I want to say it featured prominently on The OC or something (which was a big deal at the time) but I can't be certain. All I know is that my sister bought it on single and had been anticipating it for a few weeks beforehand. Even I recall seeing the video a LOT on the music channels in the weeks leading up to the release. Katrina was a good example, ESC acts have been known a few times to pull off such feats as the BBC usually insist on using complete has-beens looking for one last shot at success, the aformentioned Scooch being the next best example. Daz Sampson *could* be included as well as he sung the vocals on Kung Fu Fighting with Bus Stop in 1998 and then appeared in the top ten again with Teenage Life 8 years later, but then he was also one half of Uniting Nations who took Out Of Touch to the top ten the year before that, so it's a bit of a grey area.
March 23, 201114 yr Lulu: 1986: Shout [Remix] #51 1986: My Boy Lollipop #89 1993: Independence #11 1993: Let Me Wake Up In Your Arms #51 1993: Relight My Fire #1 Sandie Shaw: 1969: Think It All Over #42 1984: Hand In Glove #27 Lisa Roxanne: 2001: No Flow #18 2010: Yeo Valley Rap #71 Peter Andre: 1998: Kiss The Girl #9 2004: Mysterious Girl #1 And then another gap... 2004: The Right Way #14 2009: Behind Closed Doors #4
March 23, 201114 yr A few more... Johnny Logan 1980: What's Another Year #1 1987: Hold Me Now #2 The Smurfs :lol: 1978: Christmas In Smurfland #19 1996: I'v Got A Little Puppy #4
March 23, 201114 yr I know you always write it off as a fluke but I'm sure I remember there being a certain degree of hype aound the song at the time. I want to say it featured prominently on The OC or something (which was a big deal at the time) but I can't be certain. All I know is that my sister bought it on single and had been anticipating it for a few weeks beforehand. Even I recall seeing the video a LOT on the music channels in the weeks leading up to the release. Katrina was a good example, ESC acts have been known a few times to pull off such feats as the BBC usually insist on using complete has-beens looking for one last shot at success, the aformentioned Scooch being the next best example. Daz Sampson *could* be included as well as he sung the vocals on Kung Fu Fighting with Bus Stop in 1998 and then appeared in the top ten again with Teenage Life 8 years later, but then he was also one half of Uniting Nations who took Out Of Touch to the top ten the year before that, so it's a bit of a grey area. Haha, I don't know. I remember you saying before that Dana Rayne was more surprising to you a few weeks earlier, but that wasn't a surprise to me as it was definitely one of the releases that week I had heard the most in advance. But with Hanson I don't recall hearing it much on either the radio or music channels at the time. But then I always found the song mind-numbingly boring so perhaps I didn't notice it in the background on many occasions, who knows :lol: My sisters were more into acts like 50 Cent and Eminem than Hanson, anyway - although I did find them quite useful in forecasting what urban songs would be big here in the next month or so, as they usually had them playing several weeks in advance. But yeah, to me when Hanson popped up into the top 10 it was a big surprise. Though I was even more surprised that it blocked Ashlee Simpson, which I HAD heard quite a lot at the time, and combined with the fact it was irritatingly catchy I was sure it would be fighting for the final top 5 spot that week along with Lovefreekz. So to see it come in at #11 behind Hanson of all bands was definitely a minor shock to me. The charts were so ridiculously unpredictable in early 2005, though, so I definitely had a few minor shocks before that :lol: Anyway, moving back on to the right track of this topic: your comment about has-beens entering the UK national final show and thus Eurovision has just reminded me of another act who qualifies for this thread - Shakin' Stevens, who returned to the chart in 2005 with his "winners single" after winning the ITV show Hit Me Baby One More Time. His last chart entry before that was I'll Be Home For Christmas in 1991. So that's a 14 year gap between chart appearances. Edited March 23, 201114 yr by superbossanova
March 23, 201114 yr The Righteous Brothers 1969 You've Lost The Lovin' Feelin' No10 1990- Unchained Melody- No1
March 23, 201114 yr Leo Sayer Prolific in the 70's, couple of minor hits in the early 80's #1 in 2006 with 'Thunder In My Heart Again'
March 23, 201114 yr Guns N' Roses Sympathy For The Devil - No 9 in Jan 1995 Chinese Democracy - No 27 in Nov 2008 The Verve Lucky Man - No 7 in Dec 1997 Love Is Noise - No 4 in Aug 2008 Gorillaz Tomorrow Comes Today - No 33 in Mar 2002 Feel Good Inc - No 2 in 2005 Doncomatic - No 37 in Nov 2010
March 23, 201114 yr Steve Winwood is another one - charted with Spencer Davis Group and Traffic in the 60s, had a solo career in the 80s, then he made a 'comeback' with Eric Prydz in 2004!
March 24, 201114 yr Lulu: 1986: Shout [Remix] #51 1986: My Boy Lollipop #89 1993: Independence #11 1993: Let Me Wake Up In Your Arms #51 1993: Relight My Fire #1 Don't forget the big album success 'Together' (2002, her only Top 10 album) and 'We've Got Tonight' with Ronan Keating, a no. 4 single Dec 2002.
March 24, 201114 yr Gorillaz Tomorrow Comes Today - No 33 in Mar 2002 Feel Good Inc - No 2 in 2005 Doncomatic - No 37 in Nov 2010 They had more hits later in 2005 (and I think one in 2006?), but that's still quite a big gap.
March 25, 201114 yr Author Forgot about Sash! With My Own Eyes in 2000 and Raindrops in 2008 was rather a massive gap, especially for a dance act who has no particular fanbase to speak of.
March 25, 201114 yr They had more hits later in 2005 (and I think one in 2006?), but that's still quite a big gap. Yes El Mananna no 27 in 2006 - Doncamatic - no 37 2010 that should be :hithead: Edited March 25, 201114 yr by GAV
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