December 7, 201113 yr "The Final Countdown" would have been such a fitting #1. Only Prince's "1999" could be moreso :lol:
December 7, 201113 yr I think Imagine was re-released more to try to become the first #1 of the new millennium, wasn't it? I seem to recall there being some minor interest in it (though not as much as the Xmas #1, obviously, given it often is a carry-over of that anyway) and Imagine was considered to be a fitting contender with the message of the song, etc. I could be wrong but that seems to stick in my head from somewhere. Does anyone have sales for this week (Gezza? :D)... I imagine it must have been a high sales week all around because of the pretty fierce competition. As you asked so nicely- WESTLIFE- 213k CLIFF RICHARD- 170K JOHN LENNON- 148K CUBAN BOYS- 104K
December 7, 201113 yr Wow, Cliff was worryingly close to getting the xmas #1 there considering it would have been his 5th (?) week in the top two at the time... Oh, and for me Back In My Life is hands down the best song in this chart, still one of my top ten favourite ever songs! It 'leaked', well got its first radio play (:lol:) in September going by my personal chart records which is when it first entered so it probably was floating around for quite a while before release Superbossanova, at least a couple of months.
December 7, 201113 yr As you asked so nicely- WESTLIFE- 213k CLIFF RICHARD- 170K JOHN LENNON- 148K CUBAN BOYS- 104K Thanks! I knew you'd have something :D I was kind of hoping for more sales than that though to gauge the general sales level for the top 10/20 but I guess Music Week were stingy bast*rds back then. Nevermind. Have to say those top 4 sales are a bit lower than I was expecting but I guess the fact that the Christmas chart fell on the earliest date it possibly could have that year was a factor. I'm sure if the chart week was moved a couple of days then Cliff could have easily passed 200k as well and John Lennon would probably have pushed towards it, but I guess it's all relative as they probably didn't drop as much in sales the following week as a result? Wow, Cliff was worryingly close to getting the xmas #1 there considering it would have been his 5th (?) week in the top two at the time... Oh, and for me Back In My Life is hands down the best song in this chart, still one of my top ten favourite ever songs! It 'leaked', well got its first radio play (:lol:) in September going by my personal chart records which is when it first entered so it probably was floating around for quite a while before release Superbossanova, at least a couple of months. Yeah, that would make sense. I remember it entering ridiculously high on Boxtops (which to be fair, wasn't THAT uncommon for acts that had some momentum, or big acts like Steps) so that must have been in September and then it seemed to teeter around in the top 10 most requested for what felt like ages. Then it finally gets released and then hangs around the proper chart for ages as well, so needless to say I was fed up of it by early 2000 for a song I didn't like much in the first place. Funnily enough, I seemed to hear it FAR more than Better Off Alone which I don't even remember hearing that much in comparison outside of the chart show to justify its huge popularity, but then I didn't really listen to the radio much at all really in 1999, and even when I did it was only a local radio station usually... I kind of wish I had done a personal chart back then - would have been quite handy for seeing when songs roughly debuted and how I felt about records over time instead of relying on my rusty old memory for these kind of things :lol:
December 7, 201113 yr Yeah, that would make sense. I remember it entering ridiculously high on Boxtops (which to be fair, wasn't THAT uncommon for acts that had some momentum, or big acts like Steps) so that must have been in September and then it seemed to teeter around in the top 10 most requested for what felt like ages. Then it finally gets released and then hangs around the proper chart for ages as well, so needless to say I was fed up of it by early 2000 for a song I didn't like much in the first place. Funnily enough, I seemed to hear it FAR more than Better Off Alone which I don't even remember hearing that much in comparison outside of the chart show to justify its huge popularity, but then I didn't really listen to the radio much at all really in 1999, and even when I did it was only a local radio station usually... I kind of wish I had done a personal chart back then - would have been quite handy for seeing when songs roughly debuted and how I felt about records over time instead of relying on my rusty old memory for these kind of things :lol: It's sort of surprising how well Better Off Alone did isn't it, I don't remember hearing it around all that much either, and the radio edit didn't even appear on the CD single, only 3 long club mixes! The only way to get hold of it was on the cassette single or on Now 43! As a huge fan of Back In My Life though I was very happy to see it pop back into the top ten for a month in the new year :D I guess it was slightly more radio friendly, a trance ballad of sorts :lol: I started mine in June 1999, regrettably until 2004 I only ever made a record of the top five, I wish it had been more to see if I could track down some forgotten flops from the 1999-2002 era. Still, it's interesting to look back at those top fives - Back In My Life was #1 for 11 non consecutive weeks between September and December 1999, shows how much I loved it I guess! ATB's Don't Stop, The Corrs' Radio and Paul Van Dyk's Another Way were my other three favourite songs at that time according to my records...
December 8, 201113 yr Author As you asked so nicely- WESTLIFE- 213k CLIFF RICHARD- 170K JOHN LENNON- 148K CUBAN BOYS- 104K Wow amazing single sales - x-factor really have destroyed the christmas race nowadays!
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