With PJ and Duncan headed for Number 1 this weekend, we look back at the Official Singles Chart when Let’s Get Ready To Rhumble first made its Top 10 debut 19 some years ago.

 

According to the latest Official Charts Company sales data, Ant and Dec’s Let’s Get Ready To Rhumble is STILL leading the race to Number 1.

 

Following their performance on ITV’s Saturday Night Take Away last weekend, the TV duo’s 1994 Top 10 hit has rocketing up the Official Singles Chart. It is currently outselling P!nk FT Nate Ruess’s Just Give Me A Reason (Number 2) by 10,000 copies, and if it can maintain its lead up to midnight on Saturday when the Official Singles Chart closes, the pair will bag their first ever Official Number 1!

 

But what did the Official Singles Chart look - and sound - like when Let’s Get Ready To Rhumble first entered the Top 10 on July 31, 1994?

 

Well, Let’s Get Ready To Rhumble debuted on the Official Singles Chart two weeks before that at Number 18, climbing to Number 11 the following week. When the track arrived in the Top 10, Wet Wet Wet were ten weeks into their 15 week stand at Number 1 with their cover of The Troggs’ Love Is All Around (the joint third longest run at Number 1 in chart history). Ant and Dec would later appear in the film Love Actually - as themselves – interviewing failed pop star Billy Mack (played by Bill Nighy) who was trying to resurrect his career with a cover entitled Christmas Is All Around. "That's right Ant or Dec!"

 

All-4-One’s I Swear (Number 2), The BC-52’s (Meet) The Flintstones (Number 3), and Let Loose’s Crazy For You (Number 4) remained static for a second week, while China Black’s Searching climbed two from Number 7 to Number 5. Warren G and Nate Dogg’s Regulate fell one place to Number 6, Aswad’s Shine was up one place from Number 7 to Number 8, and Maxx’s No More (I Can’t Stand It) completed that week’s Top 10.

 

Source - OCC

 

The Top 40, 6th August 1994

 

1- LOVE IS ALL AROUND- Wet, wet, wet (87,996)

2- I SWEAR- All-4-One (41,000)

3- (MEET) THE FLINTSTONES- The B-52’s (32,000)

4- CRAZY FOR YOU- Let Loose (31,000)

5- SEARCHING- China Black (24,000)

6- REGULATE- Warren G & Nate Dogg (24,000)

7- SHINE- Aswad (21,000)

8- SWAMP THING- The Grid (21,000)

9- LET’S GET READY TO RHUMBLE- PJ & Duncan (18,000)

10- NO MORE (I CAN’T STAND IT)- Maxx (17,000)

 

 

11 [10] CJ Lewis "Everything Is Alright (Uptight)"

12 [17] Red Dragon with Brian and Tony Gold "Compliments On Your Kiss"

13 [13] EYC "Black Book"

14 [14] Shampoo "Trouble"

15 [06] Erasure "Run To The Sun"

16 [12] Two Cowboys "Everybody Gonfi-Gon"

17 [19] Elton John "Can You Feel The Love Tonight"

18 [24] Youssou N'Dour feat. Neneh Cherry "7 Seconds"

19 [15] Big Mountain "Baby I Love Your Way"

20 [26] Seal "Kiss From A Rose"

 

21 [**] Hed Boys "Girls + Boys"

22 [**] Status Quo "I Didn't Mean It"

23 [16] Take That "Love Ain't Here Anymore"

24 [21] Jose Carreras feat. Placido Domingo & Luciano Pavarotti with Mehta "Libiamo/La Donna E Mobile"

25 [**] Whitensnake "Is This Love/Sweet Lady Luck"

26 [**] S*M*A*S*H "(I Want To) Kill Somebody"

27 [20] Bad Boys Inc "Take Me Away (I'll Follow You)"

28 [25] Ace Of Base "Don't Turn Around"

29 [18] Gun "Word Up"

30 [RE] DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince "Summertime"

 

31 [**] Level 42 "Love In A Peaceful World"

32 [23] Reel 2 Real feat. The Mad Stuntman "Go On Move"

33 [**] Ce Ce Peniston "Hit By Love"

34 [28] Dawn Penn "You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)"

35 [**] Rozalla "This Time I Found Love"

36 [**] Bitty McLean "What Goes Around"

37 [**] Kerbdog "Dummy Crusher"

38 [22] Jesus and Mary Chain "Sometimes Always"

39 [**] Lucas "Lucas With The Lid Off"

40 [**] Mr V "Give Me Life"

 

What were your favourites from 1994? Were you even born in 1994? (I wasn't :lol:)

Edited March 28, 201312 yr by Gezza

12 new entries in the Top 40? Those were the days!

What were your favourites from 1994? Were you even born in 1994? (I wasn't :lol:)

We were minus 2 years old. :lol:

 

Can't say there's any songs in that Top 40 which I particularly like (I've only heard of a few, too!)

God, I remember that chart so well, I was 17. The only single I bought out of the 40 was S*M*A*S*H's hit there at number 26. Most of the 40 is awful, but Dawn Penn's record at 34 is still quality.

 

Eh...Ant and Dec are going to number one? Whatever for?

Eh...Ant and Dec are going to number one? Whatever for?

 

Performance on Saturday Night Takeaway.

 

Gezza, do you have the sales for this week? :D

Gezza, do you have the sales for this week? :D

 

According to his thread Love Is All Around sold ~88k that week :D

 

06-Aug Love Is All Around Wet Wet Wet 87,996

Let Loose - Crazy For You :wub:

Performance on Saturday Night Takeaway.

 

Gezza, do you have the sales for this week? :D

Of course :D (I have them for the entire 90s and I'm working on the 80s- well my estimates at any rate added to what I know)

 

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Of course :D (I have them for the entire 90s and I'm working on the 80s- well my estimates at any rate added to what I know)

 

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Thanks! :D

 

Although those sales are really disappointing. :(

Edited March 28, 201312 yr by G R I E F

Thanks! :D

 

Although those sales are really disappointing. :(

I think single sales dropped throughout the 90s until they hit 1996/7 and then they increased again (and increase they did!!!).

I love the sales from the late 90s. :wub: Sales were so strong back then!

that 1994 chart is miles better than anything the current one spews up nowadays

 

Regulate and Shine, two chart classics B-) bought the Let Loose single as well although I was only young :lol:

What a terrible chart :lol: The standout track is the number 18 by a very long way.

My faves were:

 

1- LOVE IS ALL AROUND- Wet, wet, wet (87,996)

2- I SWEAR- All-4-One (41,000) :wub:

3- (MEET) THE FLINTSTONES- The B-52’s (32,000)

4- CRAZY FOR YOU- Let Loose (31,000) :wub:

5- SEARCHING- China Black (24,000) :wub:

6- REGULATE- Warren G & Nate Dogg (24,000) :wub:

7- SHINE- Aswad (21,000)

8- SWAMP THING- The Grid (21,000)

10- NO MORE (I CAN’T STAND IT)- Maxx (17,000)

11 [10] CJ Lewis "Everything Is Alright (Uptight)"

13 [13] EYC "Black Book"

14 [14] Shampoo "Trouble"

16 [12] Two Cowboys "Everybody Gonfi-Gon"

17 [19] Elton John "Can You Feel The Love Tonight"

18 [24] Youssou N'Dour feat. Neneh Cherry "7 Seconds" :wub:

19 [15] Big Mountain "Baby I Love Your Way"

20 [26] Seal "Kiss From A Rose" :wub:

 

23 [16] Take That "Love Ain't Here Anymore"

28 [25] Ace Of Base "Don't Turn Around"

29 [18] Gun "Word Up"

30 [RE] DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince "Summertime" :wub:

 

32 [23] Reel 2 Real feat. The Mad Stuntman "Go On Move"

33 [**] Ce Ce Peniston "Hit By Love"

34 [28] Dawn Penn "You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)"

39 [**] Lucas "Lucas With The Lid Off"

 

I think single sales dropped throughout the 90s until they hit 1996/7 and then they increased again (and increase they did!!!).

Broadly speaking singles sales decreased 1985-1992 pretty much without relent then started to bounce back 93-99 and then back down again from 2000-2004 then up again. :D

I was 18 in 1994 - there were some great albums out that year, but the singles weren't as strong.

4- CRAZY FOR YOU- Let Loose (31,000)

6- REGULATE- Warren G & Nate Dogg (24,000)

8- SWAMP THING- The Grid (21,000)

9- LET’S GET READY TO RHUMBLE- PJ & Duncan (18,000)

14 [14] Shampoo "Trouble"

15 [06] Erasure "Run To The Sun"

17 [19] Elton John "Can You Feel The Love Tonight"

18 [24] Youssou N'Dour feat. Neneh Cherry "7 Seconds"

20 [26] Seal "Kiss From A Rose"

 

TERRIBLE chart! That's all I could listen to out of the whole lot, Regulate is by far the best thing on it for me.

Source - OCC

 

The Top 40, 6th August 1994

 

6- REGULATE- Warren G & Nate Dogg (24,000)

8- SWAMP THING- The Grid (21,000)

18 [24] Youssou N'Dour feat. Neneh Cherry "7 Seconds"

20 [26] Seal "Kiss From A Rose"

 

Considering it was the best year ever for music, the singles chart was regularly shite.

 

4 tracks worth talking about. :(

Edited March 28, 201312 yr by AnthonyT

I was 18 in 1994 - there were some great albums out that year, but the singles weren't as strong.

 

 

A staggering year

 

The Holy Bible

Dog Man Star

Parklife

Grace

Dummy

Under the Pink

Definitly Maybe

Superunknown

The Downward Spiral

MTV Unplugged

Music for the Jilted Generation

Snivilization

Selected Ambient Works II

Vauxhall and I

No Need to Argue

Troublegum

Natural Born Killers

His N Hers

Dookie

Promenade

 

Is that the actual Flinstones theme tune at #3? :rofl: