08-Jul-00 - Ol' Dirty bast*rd featuring Kelis - Got Your Money

24-Feb-01 - Nelly - El

15-Sep-01 - Redman featuring Adam F - Smash Sumthin'

17-Nov-01 - D12 - Fight Music

16-Mar-02 - Busta Rhymes - Break Ya Neck

29-Mar-03 - B2K featuring P Diddy - Bump Bump Bump

18-Sep-04 - Houston Chingy Nate Dogg & I-20 - I Like That

30-Jul-05 - Roll Deep - The Avenue

03-Sep-05 - Freemasons featuring Amanda Wilson - Love On My Mind

17-Dec-05 - Herd & Fitz featuring Abigail Bailey - I Just Can't Get Enough

01-Apr-06 - Sean Paul - Temperature

I forgot about these songs, almost all of these should have been higher.

Very surprised ODB and Kelis didn't go top 10 - that was everywhere.

Very surprised ODB and Kelis didn't go top 10 - that was everywhere.

 

That's one I still hear around regularly even today.

10-Jul-99 - Blur - Coffee + TV

 

Number 11 in a chart that was dogged by controversy after a large number of sales were omitted from counting towards the chart due to computer problems at Virgin and Our Price - Blur's manager said up to 40% of sales of 'Coffee + TV' were lost.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/393073.stm

 

The chart was eventually re-run two weeks later but only on condition that all parties kept the outcome confidential. As a result we'll never know if Blur (and 'Secret Smile' by Semisonic, which is also mentioned in the article) made the top 10.

What was the top10 that week?

1 1 ATB,9PM (Till I Come)

2 NE Will Smith featuring Dru Hill,Wild Wild West

3 3 Vengaboys,Boom Boom Boom Boom!!

4 2 Whitney Houston,My Love Is Your Love

5 5 S Club 7,Bring It All Back

6 NE Lolly,Viva La Radio

7 7 Britney Spears,Sometimes

8 9 Shania Twain,That Don't Impress Me Much

9 4 Jennifer Lopez,If You Had My Love

10 8 Madonna,Beautiful Stranger

 

Interesting, never knew that - both Coffee & TV and Secret Smile always seemed far too huge to peak at the position they did!

 

As the article suggests, neither song would have perhaps beaten ATB (selling 270,000 first week and 108,000 second week!) but I think Blur would have easily cracked top 5 and Semisonic top 10. Wonder how high 'Viva La Radio' would have got too :P

I'm not convinced either of them would really have done that much better TBH - obviously everyone lost their Our Price/Virgin sales, not just them, so realistically Blur would have had to sell disproportionately well in those shops compared with the rest of the trade to go T5. Singles that weren't available in Woolworths would obviously have been more affected. Personally, I didn't bother to buy the Blur single because I already had the album and couldn't be bothered to shell out for remixes of a song I didn't much like in the first place.