1996 Spice Girls 2 Become 1 429,000

1997 Spice Girls Too Much 252,000

1998 Spice Girls Goodbye 380,000

1999 Westlife I have a dream / Seasons in the sun 213,000

 

Three of the best number ones of al time, let alone the best three Christmas number ones AND consecutive too :DD, followed by the absolute worst :| . Can we replace it with Stop, please??

 

On the bright side, at least the crap Westlife covers stopped The Millennium Prayer. Although with Mr Hankey The Xmas Poo in the top five too it was truly woeful all round. If only Back In My Life by Alice Deejay had been a few places higher :(

Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo is amazing thank you very much!

I love Spice Girls but have never been a fan of Too Much but at least it was much better than Teletubbies.

 

Mase's Feel So Good seems very random in that top ten! (nice track though)

Edited December 24, 201311 yr by SKOB

On the bright side, at least the crap Westlife covers stopped The Millennium Prayer. Although with Mr Hankey The Xmas Poo in the top five too it was truly woeful all round. If only Back In My Life by Alice Deejay had been a few places higher :(

 

It might make you feel a little better then that Mr Hankey was only number 8 in the christmas chart, although it did climb to 4 on the new year's chart a week later. Maybe you were thinking of the classic Cuban Boys hit, Cognoscenti Vs Intelligentsia (aka The Hamster Song), which was in the top 5 on christmas week?

Did it not rise because of how early the Xmas chart fell that year?

Did it not rise because of how early the Xmas chart fell that year?

 

Quite probably. The official Christmas chart was week ending 25th December 1999, so it was sales up to 18th December, a whole week before the day. The new year chart would have been announced on boxing day, yet in 1988 when the chart was being announced on boxing day it was still considered to be the Christmas chart.

Quite probably. The official Christmas chart was week ending 25th December 1999, so it was sales up to 18th December, a whole week before the day. The new year chart would have been announced on boxing day, yet in 1988 when the chart was being announced on boxing day it was still considered to be the Christmas chart.

The two instances are not the same though. The 1988 chart should have been unveiled on Christmas day but was delayed until boxing day as presumably the DR'S didn't work that day though the period coveted by the survey was still Dec 19th to 25th so it was the Christmas chart bit just a day late in being announced if that makes sense.

I thought that because it's unusual for a Xmas style song to rise the week after Xmas but suppose this chart happens once every 5/10 yrs. Although the £1 fish did rise last yr in the last chart of the year lol