April 9, 201213 yr Bleeding Love was very overplayed at the time and I got really sick of it. 'Run' is so much better. Edited April 9, 201213 yr by Thermometer
April 9, 201213 yr Leona ahead of Bob Marley? Wow. Bob will probably overtake her in the near future though as I'm pretty sure he's the more consistent seller despite it being a far older album (although his is a GH so it makes sense), 'Bleeding Love' is great as is 'Better In Time'. 'Forgive Me' is also good, a bit underrated.
April 9, 201213 yr Spirit :wub: 10 Bleeding Love 09 Whatever It Takes 08.5 Homeless 09.5 Better In Time 09 Yesterday 09.5 Take A Bow 08 I WIll Be 07 Angel 07 Here I Am 08 I'm You 09 The Best You Never Had 08 The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 10 Footprints In The Sand 10 A Moment Like This ----- 09.5 Forgive Me 11 Run 10 Misses Glass
April 9, 201213 yr Spirit :wub: Unlike EVERYONE else, I still marginally prefer Spirit to Echo. Bleeding Love, Better In Time, Angel, I Will Be, The Best You Never Had, Footprints In The Sand, and from the re-release Run and Forgive Me are all absolutely excellent. For such a huge song at the time, and one that was expected to attain classic status quickly, I rarely hear Bleeding Love anywhere these days :( I agree with everything you've said there Rich. :D
April 9, 201213 yr 19. NO ANGEL- Dido http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/Angeldido.jpg RELEASED: 2000 PEAK POSITION: 1 WKS ON CHART: 132 Another album which hardly set the charts alive upon release, Dido of course got her big break on Eminem’s No 1 “Stan” which sampled her hit “Thank You”. In 2001 she became the soundtrack to every dinner party in land (they moved on James Blunt later) and earned herself massive sales, enough to rank this as the biggest seller of the decade until overtaken by, yes, James Blunt again. PSu5nAQ7uZw&ob=av2e
April 9, 201213 yr Thank You :wub: Great song, and I love Stan by Eminem too, which features the song! :D
April 9, 201213 yr No Angel is at a lower position than what I was expecting. :o I thought she'd be Top 15 at least. ;) Edited April 9, 201213 yr by Griff
April 9, 201213 yr I don't really know any of the 'No Angel' singles that well, I do know and quite like 'Thank You' (but mostly through its sampling in 'Stan').
April 9, 201213 yr Thank You :wub: Total classic! I prefer Stan personally but it's a brilliant track anyway! No Angel is lower than what I was expecting. :o I thought she'd be Top 15 at least. ;) Me too actually, I'm quite surprised tbh!
April 9, 201213 yr Another coma moment from Dido :manson: I do like her part on Stan taken from this song, but this song on its own is just boring for me.
April 9, 201213 yr 18. BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER- Simon & Garfunkel http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/62/Bridge_Over_Troubled_Water.jpg RELEASED: 1970 PEAK POSITION: 1 WKS ON CHART: 312 The fifth and final album by the duo, this spent 33 wks at No 1 becoming the best selling album of both 1970 & 1971 before going on to become the biggest seller of the 70s. Only two singles became hits, the title track and “The Boxer” though of course “Cecilia” was covered and made the top 10 for Suggs in 1996 but few albums have dominated the charts in such a way as this did as the 70s opened. R2DglHU04rQ
April 9, 201213 yr Can't stand Simon & Garfunkel. I'm hoping '21' can somehow eventually beat the weeks at #1 of Bridge Over Troubled Water but it's well over 4 million sales and still 13 weeks off so it's pretty doubtful :kink: Edited April 9, 201213 yr by M.I.É.
April 9, 201213 yr 17. URBAN HYMNS- The Verve http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/The_Verve_-_Urban_Hymns.jpg RELEASED: 1997 PEAK POSITION: 1 WKS ON CHART: 115 Nothing really prefixes the success of the band’s third album after those two albums were in and out of the charts without anyone much noticing. The band split in 95 with one of their best singles “History” marking the end but less than two years they reformed and released “Bittersweet Symphony” which earned them no money as they had to hand it all over for an uncleared sample of a Rolling Stones record. However it did raise the profile and after “Drugs Don’t Work” made No 1 the album was released to first week sales of 250k before selling a million in both 97 and 98 and becoming the 9th biggest album of the 90s. Naturally they then split again, this time for a great deal longer. 1lyu1KKwC74
April 9, 201213 yr Hopes and Fears and Scissor Sisters seem to constantly be switching places. So now Hopes and Fears is the best seller of the two - how long with that last?
April 9, 201213 yr Bitter Sweet Symphony is a great track, I've heard it used on so many adverts etc. though!
April 9, 201213 yr I present my 37,000th post on BuzzJack :D 'The Drugs Don't Work' is brilliant and far better than 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' IMO, so it was the deserved #1 of the pair. I think this is quite an unpopular opinion though.
April 9, 201213 yr Don't really like Simon & Garfunkel from what I've heard of them. On the other hand, The Verve!!!! Bittersweet Symphony is my favourite song from them by far, I also like The Drugs Don't Work. It's MOR at it's best - not painfully boring like some people in this chart.
April 9, 201213 yr Far prefer The Drugs Don't Work, Lucky Man and Sonnet to Bittersweet Symphony but admittedly (and perhaps criminally) I've never listened to Urban Hymns.
April 9, 201213 yr Don't really like Simon & Garfunkel from what I've heard of them. On the other hand, The Verve!!!! Bittersweet Symphony is my favourite song from them by far, I also like The Drugs Don't Work. It's MOR at it's best - not painfully boring like some people in this chart. I wouldn't call The Drugs Don't Work MOR, not everything slow is!
April 9, 201213 yr This is also quite an unpopular opinion I think but I really liked 'Love Is Noise' from them as well.
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