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Make Your suggestions for Non Number Two's. The only one i can think of is Girls Aloud - Something New

 

(Maybe a mod like Gezza can give some assistance with this)

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Dappy feat. Brian May - Rockstar

Example - Say Nothing

50 Cent feat. Eminem & Adam Levine - My Life

Shut Up And Dance's Raving I'm Raving is the ultimate non-#2. It went into the chart at #2 and fell down to #15 the week afterwards! :o
Shut Up And Dance's Raving I'm Raving is the ultimate non-#2. It went into the chart at #2 and fell down to #15 the week afterwards! :o

that was more to do with being deleted almost immediately after it was released though, rather than not capturing the publics attention. Mind you it's hardly well remembered now.....

that was more to do with being deleted almost immediately after it was released though, rather than not capturing the publics attention. Mind you it's hardly well remembered now.....

 

It was deleted because a sample of Marc Cohn's Walking Of Memphis had not been given clearance. :o It seems pretty stupid to delete a song just because of that...

It was deleted because a sample of Marc Cohn's Walking Of Memphis had not been given clearance. :o It seems pretty stupid to delete a song just because of that...

 

 

Not really as they could have ended up with a heavy and costly law-suit against them

That Loick Essien one from a couple of years ago springs to mind (who even bought that?!)

 

Madonna's two #2s from 2003 ('American Life' and Hollywood', the former went 2-12 and the latter 2-15).

It was deleted because a sample of Marc Cohn's Walking Of Memphis had not been given clearance. :o It seems pretty stupid to delete a song just because of that...

They were ordered to by his lawyers otherwise a nice lawsuit would have ended up on their desk so not much choice really.

Ones that I struggle to recall now from this decade without a youtube visit

 

Riverside- Sidney Sampson

Frisky- Tinie Tempah Ft Labrinth

Heart Vacancy- The Wanted

Unorthodox- Wretch 32

Lightning- The Wanted

Rockstar- Daddy

Can't Say No- Conor Maynard

Chase The Sun- The Wanted

Say Nothing- Example

What about Michael Jackson's You Rock My World?
Definitely not, that did really well didn't it?

 

Only spent 7 weeks top 40, but for some reason spent lots of weeks inbetween 41-75. I guess for 2001 this would be a good chart run.

 

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The Saturdays' #2 hits didn't last very long in the charts, for example Forever Is Over;

 

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+ in 2005 all of Elvis' re-issues that went to #2 ;)

Only spent 7 weeks top 40, but for some reason spent lots of weeks inbetween 41-75. I guess for 2001 this would be a good chart run.

 

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Ah, perhaps not then. I think I just remembered it spent a while in the chart and it returned to the Top 40.

Manic Street Preachers - Empty Souls (sold only about 12,750 the week it entered at #2, then fell to #26 in week 2).

McFly - One For The Radio

Cliff Richard - 21st Century Christmas / Move It

Geraldine - The Winner's Song

Jedward - Ice Ice Baby

 

What's interesting is that some of these #2s were midweek #1, which makes you think what sort of chart run they may have had had they been #1 (most of them probably wouldn't have fallen down quite so fast).

 

In terms of 'how the hell did that get to #2', I would nominate the following:

 

Lisa Maffia - All Over

 

Only spent 7 weeks top 40, but for some reason spent lots of weeks inbetween 41-75. I guess for 2001 this would be a good chart run.

 

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The Saturdays' #2 hits didn't last very long in the charts, for example Forever Is Over;

 

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+ in 2005 all of Elvis' re-issues that went to #2 ;)

 

Just Can't Get Enough did already, it's gone on to become their 5th biggest seller if I remember correctly. But yeah, Forever Is Over plummeted out much faster (and deservedly so, it's one of their weakest singles).

Can't Say No- Conor Maynard

Chase The Sun- The Wanted

 

Are you kidding? Those two songs are still played regularly on radio stations.

Ones that I struggle to recall now from this decade without a youtube visit

 

Frisky- Tinie Tempah Ft Labrinth

 

If you remember 'Pass Out' then you remember this :P Much as I do love 'Frisky' it's more or less exactly the same song give or take a couple of lines about risking it for a chocolate biscuit.

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