October 30, 201113 yr I Should Be So Lucky, Hand On Your Heart, Tears On My Pillow, Spinning Around, Can't Get You Outta My Head and Slow. So 5. And "Especially For You" with Jason Donovan
October 30, 201113 yr I Should Be So Lucky, Hand On Your Heart, Tears On My Pillow, Spinning Around, Can't Get You Outta My Head and Slow. So 5. COUNTING EPIC FAIL
October 30, 201113 yr Moves like Jagger has to be one of the unluckiest no2's. On a number of occasions, it was poised for no1 in the midweeks but by the weekend slipped back to no2.
October 30, 201113 yr Moves like Jagger has to be one of the unluckiest no2's. On a number of occasions, it was poised for no1 in the midweeks but by the weekend slipped back to no2. That only happened once (in its sixth week at #2) and only because Rihanna was a midweek release. Other than that the eventual #1 was always ahead. In fact I think there were a couple of times it started the week at 3 or 4 and climbed up to #2. Edited October 30, 201113 yr by Bré
October 30, 201113 yr 6AwXKJoKJz4&ob=av2n Milkshake stalled at #2 for 4 weeks in early '04. 3-{2}-2-2-2-4-5-11-15-23-25-30-42-55-69 (15) Poor Kelis. :(
April 18, 201312 yr Just Give Me A Reason is the obvious inclusion from the time period since this thread was last updated.
April 18, 201312 yr Dario G - Sunchyme George Michael - You Have Been Loved/The Strangest Thing '97 Oasis - Stand By Me Sash ft La Trec - Stay If it wasn't for one fateful night in Paris......
April 18, 201312 yr I fail to see how 'Get Sexy' could even be considered an "unlucky #2". On the topic of MLJ, I'd say that it probably is the single most unlucky #2 ever in UK chart history. A million seller and 7 weeks at #2 - with one only existing due to Rihanna's midweek release. Edited April 18, 201312 yr by SceneofSIXCrimes
April 18, 201312 yr I'd agree that Moves Like Jagger is one of the most unluckiest no.2s ever. 7 weeks at No.2 behind 6 different No.1s which in the end it outsold all of them (some of them by nearly 4 times as much!) Same thing happened the year before with Eminem.
April 18, 201312 yr Dario G - Sunchyme George Michael - You Have Been Loved/The Strangest Thing '97 Oasis - Stand By Me Sash ft La Trec - Stay If it wasn't for one fateful night in Paris......'You have Been Loved' was the midweek number 1 all week until it was outsold on the Saturday, the day 'Candle In The Wind '97' was released. In the end it was outsold by 580,000 copies.
April 18, 201312 yr Better In Time & Happy were so close to #1. #2 is still great though, so many amazing and successful songs have missed #1! Love The Way You Lie being the most obvious I can think of in recent years :o
April 18, 201312 yr 'You have Been Loved' was the midweek number 1 all week until it was outsold on the Saturday, the day 'Candle In The Wind '97' was released. In the end it was outsold by 580,000 copies. Can you imagine what the pop bars would have been like on that Saturday if iTunes existed then? :o :drama: I think the songs that were #2 during those 5 weeks in 1997 are the unluckiest number 2's because it was due to tragic unforseen and unnatural circumstances that they missed out.
April 19, 201312 yr Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen in 1977 was an unlucky number 2, being stuck behind Rod Stewart despite reportedly selling many more copies but having some of the sales data 'lost' by the compilers in order to save the country the embarassment of an anti-royal record going to number one in Jubilee week. I'm sure they would have come up with some way to discount some of the 'Ding Dong' sales if this week's controversy had happened back then also. John & Yoko - Happy Xmas (War Is Over) was unlucky to miss out at Christmas 1980 when it was probably the biggest seller in the one week of the year when sales data was compiled. Back then everything stopped over the Christmas/New Year week and the whole Top 75 was just republished for 2 weeks running. The song was rapidly rising at #4 when the charts shutdown before Christmas, and falling at #2 when the first chart of the new year was published. It's not just the death of Diana that had an effect of other record's chart runs. Back in 1977 Elvis dying meant the futuristic sounding instrumental Magic Fly by Space stuck at #2 for 3 weeks behind the Elvis track Way Down. And The KLF & Tammy Wynette - Justified And Ancient was denied 2 weeks at #1 back in January 1991 thanks to the reisssued Bohemian Rhapsody just after Freddie Mercury died. Instrumental tracks were often unlucky to stick at #2 in the 1970's. For example The Floral Dance by the Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band was #2 for 6 consecutive weeks in December 77 / January 78 behind what was at the time the biggest selling single ever, Mull Of Kintyre. Later in 1978 another song to spend 6 weeks at #2 was The Smurf Song by Father Abraham & The Smurfs. That record happened to come out at the same time as the massive seller You're The One That I Want by John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John. I always thought O Superman by Laurie Anderson was an unlucky #2 in October 1981. The song zoomed up from #18 to #2 in one week - which was a massive climb back in those days - only behind the big selling It's My Party by Dave Stewart & Barbera Gaskin (which had done us all a favour by going up from #8 to #1 the week before, keeping The Birdie Song at #2). Had that week's chart been compiled a day or two later maybe Laurie Anderson would have had enough sales to overtake It's My Party too. As it was, she dropped a place to #3 the week after as Altered Images had the first of their 3 weeks at #2 with Happy Birthday.
April 19, 201312 yr Spice Girls - Stop :( Saturdays - Just Can't Get Enough How on earth were these #2s unlucky?
April 19, 201312 yr How on earth were these #2s unlucky? Exactly! They are only "unlucky" in context - well in the Spice Girls case anyway. None of The Saturdays' #2s were unlucky. They just fizzled out. If anything, they were lucky #2s.
Create an account or sign in to comment