All I Want For Christmas Is You, Starships and Super Bass! :wub:

You thought Starships and Super Bass got to number one? Do you have short term memory loss? :lol:

 

I guess Locomotion by Kylie and Ray of Light are two massive hits I would have thought reached number one before finding their chart runs.

You thought Starships and Super Bass got to number one? Do you have short term memory loss? :lol:

 

I guess Locomotion by Kylie and Ray of Light are two massive hits I would have thought reached number one before finding their chart runs.

 

As in, I felt like they should have got to #1 because of how massive they were!

As in, I felt like they should have got to #1 because of how massive they were!

Ah I see, yeah for a #8 peaking single, Super Bass was incredibly successful (hasn't it sold over half a million?). As for Starships, it's already much more remembered than the likes of Part of Me, She Doesn't Mind and Turn Up the Music which it has been behind whilst in the Top 3.

A few of mine from years ago before I took interest in the charts back in 2000:

 

The Original - I Luv U Baby (Reached number 31 on first release in Jan 1995, then re-entered and reached number 2 in Aug 1995)

Sash! - Encore Un Fois (Peaked Number 2)

Phats & Small - Turn Around (Peaked Number 2)

Sweetbox - Everything's Gonna Be Alright (Reached Number 5 in 1998)

Jamiroquai - Space Cowboy (Reached Number 17)

Stardust - The Music Sounds Better With You (Reached Number 2)

Vengaboys - We Like To Party (vengabus) (Reached Number 3)

 

Many I assumed got to Number 1 due to them all being well liked among family & friends or always being played on the radio in the late 90's.

A strange one here but...

 

Rachel Stevens - Sweet Dreams My LA Ex

 

I know it wasn't a massive song but for some reason I always thought it was #1, but it peaked at #2.

 

I'd say that song was pretty big tbh. I heard it everywhere, moreso than many songs that get to #1 today. Some Girls as well for that matter. And More More More I heard a lot too, but that was because it used to be in adverts on TV. :lol:

 

It wasn't #1? :o I always think Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl and What You Waiting For? went to #1 too!

 

Hollaback Girl especially. That song was huge, especially on the Internet, I can't understand how it didn't chart higher here.

 

Others are:

 

Chamillionaire - Ridin'

50 Cent - In Da Club

Snoop Dogg - Signs

H Two O - What's It Gonna Be

Ciara - 1, 2 Step

Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous

Wiley - Wearing My Rolex

Gwen Stefani - The Sweet Escape

T.I. - Live My Life

Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend

Linkin Park - Numb/Encore

Christina Aguilera - Ain't No Other Man

T2 - Heartbroken

Justin Timberlake - My Love

Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry

Akon - I Wanna Love You

 

Those are songs from before I started following the charts that I would've thought got to #1 if someone had asked me. I'm constantly finding songs that chart much lower than I expect. Like today I found out Sexy Can I by Ray J missed the top 40 in the UK!

Edited February 23, 201312 yr by Eric_Blob

Cher - "If I Could Turn Back Time"

Adele - "Chasing Payments"

Nicole Scherzinger - "Poison"

That song that is called "Heartbroken"....was about 2007/8 and played on mobiles in every bus/train/metro/underground route in the land at the time.

 

Handbags and Gladrags by Stereophonics was that a no.1. I keep thinking it was a number 1,but probs isn't.

Edited February 23, 201312 yr by Rob Summers

Alanis Morissette - Ironic - though IRC this missed the Top 10 entirely, peaking at #11?!!

 

Shocker!

PJ & Duncan - Let's Get Ready to Rhumble :unsure: It seemed to be everywhere in the summer of 1994, although I guess just because they were that ubiguitous on kids telly. It only got to #9!

 

Lots of Christmas number 1s I'm guilty of misremembering too. Couldn't believe that Fairytale of New York, I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day, Last Christmas and especially All I Want For Christmas Is You didn't reach the top.

 

And the Macarena!! It was as big as Gangnam Style yet 'only' got to #2!

Unbreak My Heart by the recently retired Toni Braxton.

 

The Best Things In Life Are Free - Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson.

 

And going back in time, everyone always (wrongly) assumes Denis by Blondie was a big number one.

Edited February 24, 201312 yr by The Cheese

I had thought David Bowie's recent track Where Are We Now had still one enough to reach No.1 despite the problems with the Uk Chart Company.

Two Girls Aloud hits: Love Machine and Call the Shots. The former could be considered their signature hit and the latter I remember hearing all the time when it was released.

Cher - "If I Could Turn Back Time"

Adele - "Chasing Payments"

Nicole Scherzinger - "Poison"

That song that is called "Heartbroken"....was about 2007/8 and played on mobiles in every bus/train/metro/underground route in the land at the time.

T2 ft Jodie Aysha - "Heartbroken" ?

TBH it's not hard to assume 'Sweet Dreams My LA Ex' was a number 1. Indeed it was leading in the midweeks initially on its first week but it was #2 by Sunday because of Black Eyed Peas overtaking again. But it was her first solo single and still the one most people remember Rachel's solo career by (Some Girls not too far behind and unfortunately More More More not too far behind it either thanks to SCS sofas now using it in their adverts. Couldn't have used So Good, could they? Typical).

 

And it was everywhere, it was a great radio track and she did loads of TV performances for it, plus if I'm not mistaken around that time was when she and the Holby City dude she was engaged to were having their 'problems' which was obviously a lot of publicity. She performed it on CD:UK about ten million times in the run up to its release. In many ways she did what Cheryl Cole did six years later with 'Fight for This Love', albeit in a pre-download and social networking world. I'm sure if Rachel had had the kind of mega exposure Cheryl did on her first solo album she would have absolutely stormed it sales wise.

Before I followed the charts...

 

Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On the Dancefloor

Mis-Teeq - Scandalous

Kelis - Milkshake

Justin Timberlake - Cry Me A River

Spice Girls - Stop

Steps - 5,6,7,8

S Club 7 - Reach

Pink - Get the Party Started

Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (this didn't actually get to #1 right?)

Soft Cell - Tainted Love

Jennifer Lopez - Jenny From the Block

 

Soft Cell - Tainted Love

 

This actually did get to #1 :P

Before I followed the charts...

 

Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On the Dancefloor

Mis-Teeq - Scandalous

Kelis - Milkshake

Justin Timberlake - Cry Me A River

Spice Girls - Stop

Steps - 5,6,7,8

S Club 7 - Reach

Pink - Get the Party Started

Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (this didn't actually get to #1 right?)

Soft Cell - Tainted Love

Jennifer Lopez - Jenny From the Block

 

Good call on all the ones in bold. Especially 'Reach'...I still think that holds the record for longest run at #2 doesn't it?

Good call on all the ones in bold. Especially 'Reach'...I still think that holds the record for longest run at #2 doesn't it?

 

Nowhere near, there was one single in the 90s that had 7 weeks at #2 (it was behind either Bryan Adams or Drip Drip Drip).

 

Handbags and Gladrags by Stereophonics was that a no.1. I keep thinking it was a number 1,but probs isn't.

 

Thankfully not, that reached #4.

Good call on all the ones in bold.

 

So basically all of the songs on his list apart from Jenny From The Block, which you could have said instead. (I actually thought that was a #1! :o)

Nowhere near, there was one single in the 90s that had 7 weeks at #2 (it was behind either Bryan Adams or Drip Drip Drip).

 

Thankfully not, that reached #4.

 

There were two songs that had 7 weeks at #2. They were All 4 One's I Swear (which was held behind Wet Wet Wet) and Maroon 5's Moves Like Jagger (which was held behind a variety of songs).

 

And please don't blaspheme about one of the best songs of all time. :( :P

Edited February 24, 201312 yr by Good Grief