Well here we are, think this could be the final Retro Chart of Christmas. There isn't much Christmas cheer in 2001 but at least Robbie and Nicole was a christmassy single and different to his normal pop smashes. Other Christmas songs in the chart were The Tweenies and the wonderful ballad by Kate Winslet which has a brilliant video.

 

My favorite song on the chart was Basement Jaxx - Wheres your head at? Cracking

 

Feel free to share youre thoughts and memories and sale would be great!

 

 

UK Top 40 Singles - Christmas 2001

 

 

01.Robbie Williams And Nicole Kidman - Somethin' Stupid :D

 

02.Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This

03.Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor

04.Stereophonics - Handbags And Gladrags

05.Ian Van Dahl - Will I

06.Samantha Mumba - Lately

07.S Club 7 - Have You Ever :D

08.PPK - ResuRection

09.Tweenies - I Believe In Christmas :D

10.Hermes House Band - Country Roads

11Kate Winslet - What If :D

12.Feeder - Just A Day EP

13.Janet Jackson - Son Of A Gun (Betcha Think This Song Is About You) ft Carly Simon

14.Steps - Words Are Not Enough/I Know Him So Well

15.Kosheen - Catch

16.Sum 41 - In Too Deep

17.Riva - Who Do You Love Now (Stringer) ft Dannii Minogue

18.Cliff Richard - Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World

19.Hear'Say - Everybody

20.Emma Bunton - We're Not Gonna Sleep Tonight

21.Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head

22.Westlife - Queen Of My Heart

23.Blue - If You Come Back

24.DJ Otzi - Hey Baby

25.Michael Jackson - Cry

26.Afroman - Because I Got High

27.DJ Otzi - Do Wah Diddy

28.Alcazar - Crying At The Discoteque

29.Alicia Keys - Fallin'

30.Geri Halliwell - Calling

31.Jennifer Lopez - I'm Real

32.Destiny's Child - Emotion

33.Liberty - Doin' It

34.Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At

35.Oxide And Neutrino - Rap Dis/Only Wanna Know U Cos Ure Famous

36.Starsailor - Lullaby

37.iio - Rapture

38.Anastacia - Paid My Dues

39Dreem Team Vs Artful Dodger - It Ain't Enough

40.Delirious? - I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever

BUMP!

Isn't this a week out? Number 2 at Christmas 2001 was "How Wonderful You Are" by Gordon Haskell, Daniel Bedingfield was down to #3 with SEB down to #4 and the Stereophonics at #5.

 

Dreadful number 1 and the lowest selling Christmas week number 1 since 1990, it sold 110,000 copies with Gordon Haskell on 86,000 at number 2.

Goodness me your right, heres the proper one. There isn't much different other than Haskell at no2. Remember this clearly - glad Robbie got the no1, he was the biggest act in Britain at the time!

 

 

Anyway heres the official Christmas chart from 2001 -

 

01.Robbie Williams And Nicole Kidman - Somethin' Stupid :D

 

02.Gordon Haskell - How Wonderful You Are :D

03.Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This

04.Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor

05.Stereophonics - Handbags And Gladrags

06.S Club 7 - Have You Ever :D

07.Ian Van Dahl - Will I

08.Samantha Mumba - Lately

09.Tweenies - I Believe In Christmas :D

10.Hermes House Band - Country Roads

11.Kate Winslet - What If :D

12.PPK - ResuRection

13.DJ Otzi - Hey Baby

14.Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head

15.Steps - Words Are Not Enough/I Know Him So Well

16.Feeder - Just A Day EP

17.Sum 41 - In Too Deep

18.Afroman - Because I Got High

19.Janet Jackson - Son Of A Gun (Betcha Think This Song Is About You) ft Carly Simon

20.Riva - Who Do You Love Now (Stringer) ft Dannii Minogue

21.Blue - If You Come Back

22.Kosheen - Catch

23.Hear'Say - Everybody

24.Cliff Richard - Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World

25.Westlife - Queen Of My Heart

26.David Gray - Say Hello Wave Goodbye

27.Alcazar - Crying At The Discoteque

28.DJ Otzi - Do Wah Diddy

29.Faithless - Tarantula

30.Destiny's Child - Emotion

31.Jennifer Lopez - I'm Real

32.Mariah Carey - Never Too Far/Don't Stop (Funkin' 4 Jamaica) ft Mystikal

33.Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At

34.Emma Bunton - We're Not Gonna Sleep Tonight

35.Geri Halliwell - Calling

36.iio - Rapture

37.Oxide And Neutrino - Rap Dis/Only Wanna Know U Cos Ure Famous

38.Anastacia - Paid My Dues

39.Liberty - Doin' It

40.Warp Brothers - Blast The Speakers

Edited December 24, 201113 yr by steve201

Isn't this a week out? Number 2 at Christmas 2001 was "How Wonderful You Are" by Gordon Haskell, Daniel Bedingfield was down to #3 with SEB down to #4 and the Stereophonics at #5.

 

Dreadful number 1 and the lowest selling Christmas week number 1 since 1990, it sold 110,000 copies with Gordon Haskell on 86,000 at number 2.

 

 

How much did Saviours Day sell in 1990?

The sales for the top 2 in this chart were:

 

Robbie and Nicole 98,506

Daniel Bedingfield 67,000

 

Not bad sales but not brilliant either...

How much did Saviours Day sell in 1990?

108,000 copies in Christmas week, which was the lowest selling #1 for Christmas week since the early 1960s.

 

Suppose even now on christmas week we have MWC at half a million and even in 2005 Shayne Ward sold 700k so 100k for an artist like Robbie was poor enough.

 

I was checking the month afters chart and it seemed a bit slow then - we didnt have a new no1 until mid Jan with Ailiyah, Puretones, Jay-Z,Dr Dre, Dj Alligator and the wonderful Lange with Drifting Away. It wasnt until 2003/04 that sales became ridiculously bad as well, wasnt it? Then things recovered in 2007 with downloads being added!

01.Robbie Williams And Nicole Kidman - Somethin' Stupid - Not to keen on this.

02.Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This - Tuuuuuuuuuuuune, would have been worthier imo! :cheer:

03.Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor - Again another classic :cheer:

04.Stereophonics - Handbags And Gladrags - Meh.

05.Ian Van Dahl - Will I - Decent dance tune.

06.Samantha Mumba - Lately - Gorgeous song :heart:

07.S Club 7 - Have You Ever - Another good ballad :heart:

08.PPK - ResuRection - Don't remember.

09.Tweenies - I Believe In Christmas :cry:

10.Hermes House Band - Country Roads :cry:

11Kate Winslet - What If :heart: - If anyone deserved it, should have been Kate.

12.Feeder - Just A Day EP - Don't know it.

13.Janet Jackson - Son Of A Gun (Betcha Think This Song Is About You) ft Carly Simon - Awful sample and song.

14.Steps - Words Are Not Enough/I Know Him So Well - I liked this.

15.Kosheen - Catch - What happened to them?

16.Sum 41 - In Too Deep - This was rather good.

17.Riva - Who Do You Love Now (Stringer) ft Dannii Minogue - As was this :)

18.Cliff Richard - Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World - Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. I remember the video to this was very cheap,

19.Hear'Say - Everybody - A rip-off of a 5ive song.

20.Emma Bunton - We're Not Gonna Sleep Tonight - This was decent.

21.Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head - Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove.

22.Westlife - Queen Of My Heart - This was one of their better songs.

23.Blue - If You Come Back - Their best single.

24.DJ Otzi - Hey Baby - NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :puke2:

25.Michael Jackson - Cry - :puke2: :puke2: :puke2: :puke2: :puke2: :puke2: Worst song ever.

26.Afroman - Because I Got High - I hate this.

27.DJ Otzi - Do Wah Diddy - NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

28.Alcazar - Crying At The Discoteque - Good sample.

29.Alicia Keys - Fallin' - Classic, if overplayed.

30.Geri Halliwell - Calling - Deserved better, beautiful song.

31.Jennifer Lopez - I'm Real - The original, very good pop song......remix awful.

32.Destiny's Child - Emotion - Nah.

33.Liberty - Doin' It - Don't know.

34.Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At - Don't like.

35.Oxide And Neutrino - Rap Dis/Only Wanna Know U Cos Ure Famous - Don't wanna know.

36.Starsailor - Lullaby - Can't remember,

37.iio - Rapture - Another big dance tune. Wasn't she Osama bin Laden's niece?

38.Anastacia - Paid My Dues - Not one of Anastasia's best.

39Dreem Team Vs Artful Dodger - It Ain't Enough - Meh,

40.Delirious? - I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever - Don't know.

Just watching TOTPs Xmas Special on bbc2 - love it!!!!!

15.Kosheen - Catch - What happened to them?

 

Their vocalist had a #1 hit this year :P

Really great ones:

12.PPK - ResuRection

14.Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head - the best of the chart by far

20.Riva - Who Do You Love Now (Stringer) ft Dannii Minogue - Dannii's finest, excellent

22.Kosheen - Catch

 

Great ones:

04.Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor

27.Alcazar - Crying At The Discoteque

36.iio - Rapture

 

Good:

07.Ian Van Dahl - Will I

11.Kate Winslet - What If

 

And quite a few other more or less decent songs.

Edited December 25, 201113 yr by JackJones

Their vocalist had a #1 hit this year :P

 

Who was that again?

Who was that again?

 

Sian Evans.

Christ, i didnt realise that.....its made me quite happy actually *changes personal chart artist history*

 

 

Christ, i didnt realise that.....its made me quite happy actually *changes personal chart artist history*

I didn't know that either. I love "Louder", now I love it even more!

 

I can't see how "Somethin' Stupid" is very Christmassy at all.

108,000 copies in Christmas week, which was the lowest selling #1 for Christmas week since the early 1960s.

Are you sure that this figure is right Robbie? I can't find any mention in MW of the time but I know that back in July 1988 when Glenn Medeiros sold over 100K MW notes that no record had sold over 100k in any week since Rick Astley back in Aug 87 so that the Xmas No 1 for 87 (PSB's with "Always On My Mind" must have sold less than Cliff in 1990?

 

I have a figure of 155k for that week (though don;t ask me where I've got that from over the years!) :)

I can't see how "Somethin' Stupid" is very Christmassy at all.

 

Suppose it isnt but i only ever hear it in December, the video is quite xmassy for me and the song at the time was different to something Robbie would have done - slow ballad bit like the Westlife xmas no1 in 1999!

Suppose it isnt but i only ever hear it in December, the video is quite xmassy for me and the song at the time was different to something Robbie would have done - slow ballad bit like the Westlife xmas no1 in 1999!

 

I haven't seen the video, but the song does go well with the rest of the "Swing While You're Winning" CD (which I played in the car on Thursday)