April 5, 201213 yr Ah, now this is where age comes into it. I was 24 in 2000 and Pure Shores is by far one of the more memorable #1's of the 40-odd that year. Jester You're so OLD! :lol: I can confirm that "Pure Shores" was defo one of the most famous hits of that year. Pitted against the likes of Oxide & Neutrino, Chicane, Manics, or A1 I doubt many people who were old enough to recall the year clearly would remember them :(
April 5, 201213 yr Jester You're so OLD! :lol: I can confirm that "Pure Shores" was defo one of the most famous hits of that year. Pitted against the likes of Oxide & Neutrino, Chicane, Manics, or A1 I doubt many people who were old enough to recall the year clearly would remember them :( Same age as you, my dear Barry! :P Add Fool Again from Westlife to that list.
April 5, 201213 yr Same age as you, my dear Barry! :P Add Fool Again from Westlife to that list. How VERY DARE! :angry: :lol: The one good thing about 2000 is that if you hated a song it was soon gone in a flash (for the most part) and of course the anticipation of buying a single you had waited 6 weeks to buy! Those were the days- Monday in HMV :lol: I know that's a bit :offtopic:
April 5, 201213 yr How VERY DARE! :angry: :lol: The one good thing about 2000 is that if you hated a song it was soon gone in a flash (for the most part) and of course the anticipation of buying a single you had waited 6 weeks to buy! Those were the days- Monday in HMV :lol: I know that's a bit :offtopic: It was all about Mondays in Woolies for me as I wanted to see where they thought things would chart!
April 5, 201213 yr 'Pure Shores' is my fave All Saints song. It's got nothing to do with the film 'The Beach'. It's all about William Orbit's atmospheric production added with the fact, imo, the song itself is incredibly catchy. :wub:
April 5, 201213 yr It was all about Mondays in Woolies for me as I wanted to see where they thought things would chart! :lol: It was all about Saturday afternoons in Woolies in my case. Their singles charts used to make me laugh in an ironic way. :lol: For eg; the week they had Madonna 'Hung Up' new at #3, they put that all time "classic" Son Of Dork track - the title of the song escapes me, 'Loserville' was it ?!!! - was #1.
April 5, 201213 yr It was all about Mondays in Woolies for me as I wanted to see where they thought things would chart! Some of their No 1 predictions were just redic though! I LOVED the CD:UK rundown on Saturday even if it spoilt the chart show a bit on Sunday. I swear that that sped the decline of TOTP which seemed hopelessly out of date by the time it aired on Friday night. I suppose the point to made here is that by 2000 every No 1 kind of became "fan based" as the promo etc was all geared at first week sales, the "big hits" or the ones that would be remembered long term were the ones that would still be in the top 10 a month later but there was a lot 1-4-12 esque chart runs from 2000 onwards, the record compannies really created the problem that led to the massive slump in sales of 2003-07 when downloading (illegally) prevented them from their usual tricks in the 98-01 period.
April 5, 201213 yr :lol: It was all about Saturday afternoons in Woolies in my case. Their singles charts used to make me laugh in an ironic way. :lol: For eg; the week they had Madonna 'Hung Up' new at #3, they put that all time "classic" Son Of Dork track - the title of the song escapes me, 'Loserville' was it ?!!! - was #1. Yep, I loved Woolies cock ups! I remember them having Geri's Mi Chico Latino at #7 or something and Kylie's Spinning Around at #6. Some of their No 1 predictions were just redic though! I LOVED the CD:UK rundown on Saturday even if it spoilt the chart show a bit on Sunday. I swear that that sped the decline of TOTP which seemed hopelessly out of date by the time it aired on Friday night. I suppose the point to made here is that by 2000 every No 1 kind of became "fan based" as the promo etc was all geared at first week sales, the "big hits" or the ones that would be remembered long term were the ones that would still be in the top 10 a month later but there was a lot 1-4-12 esque chart runs from 2000 onwards, the record compannies really created the problem that led to the massive slump in sales of 2003-07 when downloading (illegally) prevented them from their usual tricks in the 98-01 period. I always loved CDUK as well - the charts must have been based on Midweeks so like the Chart Show before it they were quite accurate.
April 5, 201213 yr Author The last non-UK winner of Eurovision to reach #1 on the singles chart....and known in fan circles and here - Nicole "A Little Peace" from 1982. It was sung in German in the contest, and was Germany's only win up until Lena in 2010! o67vWrkWUAQ
April 5, 201213 yr Black Coffee is great, it's far and away my favourite All Saints single and I still regularly listen to it now. I would have to agree that it is probably largely forgotten by most of the folks in the UK though.
April 5, 201213 yr It looks like 2000 was the most fun year for the charts If you mean most #1s then if you find that fun then yes. Personally I hated the high turnover at the top :(
April 5, 201213 yr How can ANY one forget the JCB Song? IM LUKE IM FIVE AND MY DADS BRUCE LEE, DRIVES ME ROUND IN HIS JCB. Year 9 nostalgia right there.
April 5, 201213 yr Author How can ANY one forget the JCB Song? IM LUKE IM FIVE AND MY DADS BRUCE LEE, DRIVES ME ROUND IN HIS JCB. Year 9 nostalgia right there. I was glad that was knocked off #1 by Shayne Ward. It was sooooooooooooo boring and depressing. Yes I know he had problems at school with bullying, so did I and many others! I saw a live performance of it on CD:UK....if you think Jemini's vocal was bad in Eurovision 2003, this was worse!
April 5, 201213 yr How can ANY one forget the JCB Song? IM LUKE IM FIVE AND MY DADS BRUCE LEE, DRIVES ME ROUND IN HIS JCB. Year 9 nostalgia right there. After the Arctic Monkeys, it was probably the second big viral internet driven hit (3rd possibly Sandi Thom?). I always liked it as a one off as the rest of their music was too folk-y for me.
April 5, 201213 yr Yes, in a year like 2000 Sonique's Feel So Good is one of the few really memorable #1s. There are some BIZARRE suggestions in this thread. I did think some of you would disagree with what I put down as unmemorable #1s, those songs were huge but what I mean is you don't often hear them being played on the radio now or being played on the music channels countdowns etc, you have your classic songs the radio still play them regularly but I don't hear them songs which were massive at the time and they are great songs being played often, maybe it's just the radio stations I listen to or the clubs I go too, what don't bother to play them, that's why I put them down as unmemorable.
April 5, 201213 yr Author After the Arctic Monkeys, it was probably the second big viral internet driven hit (3rd possibly Sandi Thom?). I always liked it as a one off as the rest of their music was too folk-y for me. I think Nizpoli were from Nuneaton or Leamington....I was living in Coventry at the time and they were mentioned a lot during their #1 reign in the local press for the region. Thankfully the house I lived in did not buy it :D Sandi Thom indeed was a viral hit on Myspace (remember that?) ditto Lily Allen the fourth.
April 5, 201213 yr Everybody hurts- Helping Haiti Scouting for Girls- This Aint a love song Kesha- We R Who We R Las Ketchup- The Ketchup Song Daniel Bedingfield- Never going to leave your side Natasha Bedingfield- These words
April 5, 201213 yr I did think some of you would disagree with what I put down as unmemorable #1s, those songs were huge but what I mean is you don't often hear them being played on the radio now or being played on the music channels countdowns etc, you have your classic songs the radio still play them regularly but I don't hear them songs which were massive at the time and they are great songs being played often, maybe it's just the radio stations I listen to or the clubs I go too, what don't bother to play them, that's why I put them down as unmemorable. I think unmemorable, for me, means songs that the majority of music liking people would not have heard for a long time or totally forgot about being #1 years later. In that respect, imo, your list is quite off, but I agree with some. This is all very subjective of course.
April 5, 201213 yr I think Nizpoli were from Nuneaton or Leamington....I was living in Coventry at the time and they were mentioned a lot during their #1 reign in the local press for the region. Thankfully the house I lived in did not buy it :D Sandi Thom indeed was a viral hit on Myspace (remember that?) ditto Lily Allen the fourth. I forgot Lily Allen was a viral hit - there are so many these days!
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