December 18, 201311 yr Oh yes 'Illuminated' was great too, 'Stay' is their worst song that I've heard though.
December 19, 201311 yr Author Oasis - Champagne Supernova Don't think they'll include any that weren't actually released as UK singles. Don't think that was!
December 19, 201311 yr Oh yes 'Illuminated' was great too, 'Stay' is their worst song that I've heard though. :o what?! 'Stay' is epic!! To be honest, I don't know why they wouldn't include album tracks, as long as they're well known enough. It doesn't matter that 'Champagne Supernova' or 'The Masterplan' weren't released as singles, people know them well enough to be included in this list, I would have thought. But songs like 'Summer of 69' and 'Brown Eyed Girl' will definitely be up there. If they're doing it as a chart, I'd say 'Summer of 69' would probably take the Number 1! Edited December 19, 201311 yr by Mango Ho Ho
December 19, 201311 yr :o what?! 'Stay' is epic!! To be honest, I don't know why they wouldn't include album tracks, as long as they're well known enough. It doesn't matter that 'Champagne Supernova' or 'The Masterplan' weren't released as singles, people know them well enough to be included in this list, I would have thought. But songs like 'Summer of 69' and 'Brown Eyed Girl' will definitely be up there. If they're doing it as a chart, I'd say 'Summer of 69' would probably take the Number 1! I have to agree. Stay is fantastic. I can't see him including any Hurts music though - they're just not well known enough, if you know what I mean? Love their songs myself though.
December 19, 201311 yr Diamonds are Forever? I think that only reached #38 or #39 And so it did :o I thought that was massive! Plus 'Goldfinger' and 'Big Spender' only peaked at #21 (however they both had lengthy chart runs so they'll possibly be classed as 'hits')
December 19, 201311 yr 'White Rabbit' by Jefferson Airplane - an excellent track that was first released as a single in 1967 and then re-issued a few times over the years but which was never a hit. It almost did chart, making number 5 on the Record Retailer Breakers Chart on 18 October 1967 but sadly Guinness ignored the Breakers Chart when compiling the British Hit Singles.
December 19, 201311 yr Author I have to agree. Stay is fantastic. I can't see him including any Hurts music though - they're just not well known enough, if you know what I mean? Love their songs myself though. I can't see them including any recent music to be honest.
December 19, 201311 yr 'White Rabbit' by Jefferson Airplane - an excellent track that was first released as a single in 1967 and then re-issued a few times over the years but which was never a hit. It almost did chart, making number 5 on the Record Retailer Breakers Chart on 18 October 1967 but sadly Guinness ignored the Breakers Chart when compiling the British Hit Singles. Another classic song which should have been massive. I can't remember if R1 played it much or whether they banned it because of its not very subtle drug references - even though it was, of course, entirely based on a classic of children's literature.
December 19, 201311 yr Kirsty MacColl's debut single, 'They Don't Know' was pressed up but the stock was stuck in the pressing plant due to the strike and by the time the record did make it into the shops the record has peaked on radio and the single sadly flopped. Suprisingly 'They Don't Know' reached #2 on the Music Week airplay chart in that time. So Kirsty was perhaps the biggest victim of that strike.
December 19, 201311 yr ABBA - Thank You For The Music I was shocked to learn it reached only 33 in December 1983.
December 19, 201311 yr ABBA - Thank You For The Music I was shocked to learn it reached only 33 in December 1983.The song was originally on Abba's 'The Album' album which had been released back in December 1976 with the album selling over a million copies. Its 1983 release as a single was to promote a compilation album of the same name ('Thank You For The Music'), a collection of tracks which had been omitted from the 1982 best of album 'The Singles: The First Ten Years'. Also by late 1983 the group had ceased to exist in all but name so a number 33 placing was a good achievement. The compilation album of the same name only reached number 17.
December 20, 201311 yr Personally I'd choose Dobie Grey Drift Away, Michael Bolton had a hit with it but the original which never charted is far better.
December 20, 201311 yr Set Fire to the Rain, For the chart, was just 11 but it's certified Platinum :blink: It's the only song that sold 600k but didn't make the top 10 that I know Edited December 20, 201311 yr by Cristhian
December 20, 201311 yr Set Fire to the Rain, For the chart, was just 11 but it's certified Platinum :blink: It's the only song that sold 600k but didn't make the top 10 that I know Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours" is up there too, I believe.
December 20, 201311 yr Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours" is up there too, I believe. it's 11 too according to wikipedia, the 29 of uk :teresa:
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