on the topic of number 2s, last year really was quite a year for losses of number 1- K'Naan probably would've got a week had Katy Perry not released California Gurls the week after Shout's last week at number 1, Love The Way You Lie would've been number 1 without the Flo rida vs Saturdays fiasco, and it would've probably been number 1 the next week but Green Light held it off the first week then it probably would've got a week, but Dynamite held it off! :lol:

 

also You Got The Dirtee Love probably would've got a week even after Haiti, but then Jason Derulo overtook it midweek and then the BRITs effect wore off

Edited June 13, 201114 yr by Chart Wizard

on the topic of number 2s, last year really was quite a year for losses of number 1- K'Naan probably would've got a week had Katy Perry not released California Gurls the week after Shout's last week at number 1, Love The Way You Lie would've been number 1 without the Flo rida vs Saturdays fiasco, and it would've probably been number 1 the next week but Green Light held it off the first week then it probably would've got a week, but Dynamite held it off! :lol:

 

also You Got The Dirtee Love probably would've got a week even after Haiti, but then Jason Derulo overtook it midweek and then the BRITs effect wore off

 

And Ellie Goulding would have got quite a few weeks at number one if The X Factor didn't exist :lol:

The ones that say whoever could've had a longer run at #01 if they didn't release is stupid, I mean, that's like saying Nicola Roberts could've been #01 this week if it wasn't for the 26 singles in front of her.

Quite honestly, I'd never heard OMG until listening to the End-Of-Year chart. At least not that I remember.

 

I am thankful that I was spared that long.

 

Really?!?! :o That's a bit on the other end of the spectrum. I mean, I did feel OMG was quite popular. I heard it quite a lot, and the song featured in my life a fair bit for about 6 months. :lol: I just didn't feel it was the 5th biggest song of the year. More like the 30th or something. :lol:

 

But not hearing it at all!!! :o :o :o

Really?!?! :o That's a bit on the other end of the spectrum. I mean, I did feel OMG was quite popular. I heard it quite a lot, and the song featured in my life a fair bit for about 6 months. :lol: I just didn't feel it was the 5th biggest song of the year. More like the 30th or something. :lol:

 

But not hearing it at all!!! :o :o :o

 

Well, I might have heard it but not remembered it. I remember hearing Wavin Flag, Nothin On You, Good Times, Telephone, Pass Out and all the other big guns from around that time, but OMG is one that slipped past my net. That and Stereo Love. Of course, I know them now, but I can't remember hearing OMG at all. DJ Got Us Falling In Love was the bigger Usher 2010 song for me.

I remember it being big at one point last year at my school although people did move onto ridin solo quite soon afterwards and that did seem bigger than OMG at my school. OMG might have been so big because of two reality TV shows performances which were about 4/5 months apart which helped keeped it's sales up and probably that helped it to go 5 on the end of year rather than somewhere between 7-10

Well, I might have heard it but not remembered it. I remember hearing Wavin Flag, Nothin On You, Good Times, Telephone, Pass Out and all the other big guns from around that time, but OMG is one that slipped past my net. That and Stereo Love. Of course, I know them now, but I can't remember hearing OMG at all. DJ Got Us Falling In Love was the bigger Usher 2010 song for me.

 

Stereo Love was a weird one for me too actually. It charted quite early in the year at #4 I think. I heard the song at the time, liked it, but didn't hear much of it anywhere. Then travel forward 2 or 3 months, and the song was EVERYWHERE!! I guess it was a combination of good weather, Heart FM playlisting it (full-on shocker! :o) and it being on a trillion compilation albums at the time. :lol:

 

I remember it being big at one point last year at my school although people did move onto ridin solo quite soon afterwards and that did seem bigger than OMG at my school. OMG might have been so big because of two reality TV shows performances which were about 4/5 months apart which helped keeped it's sales up and probably that helped it to go 5 on the end of year rather than somewhere between 7-10

 

Ridin' Solo was also a massive hit in my school. "Massive" doesn't really do it justice tbh. It was so popular. And over such a long time aswell. People were playing and singing it constantly from like December 2009 all the way to like August 2010. It was crazy! :D One of my favourite songs of 2010. :wub:

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If it wasn't for Bryan Adams, Scorpions, Oceanic, Salt-n-Pepa, 2 Unlimited, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Kiri Ti Kanawa, Julian Lennon, Zoe, The Prodigy and Utah Saints then Love To Hate You by Erasure could have been #1 for a few weeks. :(

Stereo Love was a weird one for me too actually. It charted quite early in the year at #4 I think. I heard the song at the time, liked it, but didn't hear much of it anywhere. Then travel forward 2 or 3 months, and the song was EVERYWHERE!! I guess it was a combination of good weather, Heart FM playlisting it (full-on shocker! :o) and it being on a trillion compilation albums at the time. :lol:

 

I went to Spain for a week in May/June last year, and Stereo Love was played all the time! That and All the Lovers, that is!

 

This has all gone completly off topic! :lol:

If it wasn't for Bryan Adams, Scorpions, Oceanic, Salt-n-Pepa, 2 Unlimited, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Kiri Ti Kanawa, Julian Lennon, Zoe, The Prodigy and Utah Saints then Love To Hate You by Erasure could have been #1 for a few weeks. :(

 

You just named 11 acts then! :lol: I think we are looking for songs that could of been number one if it wasn't for one or two songs, or something X Factor/BGT related or a charity release! :P

The ones that say whoever could've had a longer run at #01 if they didn't release is stupid, I mean, that's like saying Nicola Roberts could've been #01 this week if it wasn't for the 26 singles in front of her.

 

but there are instances where a song would've almost certainly got a week had it not clashed with another big song, for instance What's My name would've almost certainly been Christmas number 1 but it clashed with the winner's release, that sort of thing, Frisky and Shout also comes to mind

Edited June 13, 201114 yr by Chart Wizard

I went to Spain for a week in May/June last year, and Stereo Love was played all the time! That and All the Lovers, that is!

 

This has all gone completly off topic! :lol:

 

I went the the US last year, and Teenage Dream, Airplanes, Bulletproof, California Gurls, Not Afraid, Cooler Than Me, Dynamite, Somebody To Love, Love the Way You Lie, Gettin' Over You, Need You Now, DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love, No Love, Break Your Heart, Hey, Soul Sister and I Like It were played all the time! :D It was awesome. :wub:

 

I went to France aswell. Music wasn't as big there, but I heard songs like Missing You by the Black Eyed Peas, Pyromania by Cascada, Need You Now by Agnes, Gettin' Over You by David Guetta and Alors on danse by Stromae quite a lot! :D

I went the the US last year, and Teenage Dream, Airplanes, Bulletproof, California Gurls, Not Afraid, Cooler Than Me, Dynamite, Somebody To Love, Love the Way You Lie, Gettin' Over You, Need You Now, DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love, No Love, Break Your Heart, Hey, Soul Sister and I Like It were played all the time! :D It was awesome. :wub:

 

I went to France aswell. Music wasn't as big there, but I heard songs like Missing You by the Black Eyed Peas, Pyromania by Cascada, Need You Now by Agnes, Gettin' Over You by David Guetta and Alors on danse by Stromae quite a lot! :D

 

Wow! Lots in the US! And somehow, music always seems so much better in other countries, sometimes because you don't realise how popular some artists/songs are around the world

:lol: at some of the ones mentioned... I knew this would bring out the loons. Saying that, my first thought on seeing this topic was "I wonder who would have had to not release to give My Chemical Romance some more time at #1"... looking back, 2006 was bizarre in an awesome kind of way. Seeing Razorlight replaced by MCR at #1 is the kind of thing that would NEVER happen in 2011.

 

Back on topic, songs like "Bad Romance" which had their run cut short/interrupted by charity or talent show singles are pretty valid. I remember seeing once that Oasis could have scored a second week at #1 with "Some Might Say" in 1995 if it weren't for some strange chart occurence, that would have been good just so that one of their singles could spend more than a week at the top.

Wow! Lots in the US! And somehow, music always seems so much better in other countries, sometimes because you don't realise how popular some artists/songs are around the world

 

Well, in the US there's music everywhere. You can't avoid it. It's amazing!! :D

 

Whilst in the UK, you could probably go out for a day and not hear any music, and if you do hear music, it's probably a pop song from 20 years ago. But in the US, it was like constantly being in a club all day, even though you were outside. It was so awesome! :D Just other things aswell. Like if you go in a shop in the UK, the music is really quiet. You probably wouldn't be able to hear it if you weren't trying to. Whilst in the US, in most of the shops the music was so loud you had to shout when talking to people!!

 

Even watching TV aswell. Like on the reality shows, they were performing to songs like Boom Boom Pow and Right Round, whilst here in the UK they perform to songs like Total Eclipse of the Heart, Hallelujah, Make You Feel My Love, etc, which is just not quite as interesting imo...

You can do this with any song, look:

 

'Party Rock Anthem' (yes I did have to mention that song :kink:) could have spent 6 weeks at number one if it weren't for OTF and TLS

 

'I Gotta Feeling' could have spent 7 weeks at number 1 if 'Beat Again', 'Evacuate The Dancefloor', 'Supernova', 'Never Leave You', 'Sexy Chick', 'Holiday' all didn't exist.

 

:P

 

 

my thoughts exactly

If it wasn't for the 51 songs that outsold it Tori Amos - China would have been number 1 for longer than it actually was.

but there are instances where a song would've almost certainly got a week had it not clashed with another big song, for instance What's My name would've almost certainly been Christmas number 1 but it clashed with the winner's release, that sort of thing, Frisky and Shout also comes to mind

The thing is though, they were released... the only thing that can really determine a "shoulda, woulda, coulda" situation is close chart battles and one fabulous member did a WHOLE countdown of all of them back to the 80's.

If it wasn't for the 51 songs that outsold it Tori Amos - China would have been number 1 for longer than it actually was.

 

Exactly. Such a pointless thread.

I remember Just the Way You Are got released a few weeks early due to high demand. If it had got released on its original release date, then Dynamite would've returned to #1. But ironically, Just the Way You Are also returned to #1, so either way we'd've had a return to #1.