135. "7 Days" Craig David (1 week)

 

Reached #1: 29 September 2000

UK Chart Peak: #1

 

Craig David had his second #1 hit with "7 Days", which was nominated for both a Brit and Grammy.

 

The last time he troubled my chart's top 5 was in 2009 with "Insomnia" (#3).

 

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136. "Sky" Sonique (1 week)

 

Reached #1: 6 October 2000

UK Chart Peak: #2

 

Yet another artist following up their debut #1 hit with another charttopper. "Sky" was top 3 in the UK, Spain, Italy and Finland.

 

Sonique had two more top 10 hits in my chart with "I Put A Spell On You" and "Can't Make Up My Mind".

 

137. "Beautiful day" U2 (4 weeks)

 

Reached #1: 13 October 2000

UK Chart Peak: #1

 

U2's big comeback single was as awesome as everyone thought it would be and it flew to the top of my chart immediately, also hitting #1 in Australia, Canada, Netherlands, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Spain and the UK. The song won 3 Grammys.

 

Kylie Minogue's "On a night like this" spent 3 weeks at #2 in y chart behind "Beautiful day".

 

 

 

 

138. "Holler / Let Love Lead The Way" Spice Girls (2 weeks)

 

Reached #1: 6 November 2000

UK Chart Peak: #1

 

The Spice Girls scored their 9th #1 in my chart (as well as in the UK) with the double A-side "Holler / Let Love Lead The Way".

 

"Holler" was played for the first time on a Brazilian radio station.

 

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139. "Can't Fight The Moonlight" LeAnn Rimes (1 week)

 

Reached #1: 27 November 2000

UK Chart Peak: #1

 

Having loved the movie Coyote Ugly back in the day to the point of purchasing its soundtrack album, it was a no-brainer that "Can't fight the moolight" would be a #1 in my chart.

 

It topped the charts in the UK, Australia (where it was the best-selling single of 2001), Flemish Belgium, Finland, Netherlands, Romania, Sweden and Ireland, where is the 18th best-selling single of all time.

 

 

 

140. "Vive" Delfins (3 non-consecutive weeks)

 

Reached #1: 4 December 2000, 18 December 2000

 

The first season of Big Brother Portugal premiered on September 2000 and pretty soon, and like it was happening in other countries, Portugal was swept away by it like very few television shows did before. Delfins performed its theme, that was actually a Portuguese version from the theme of the Dutch Big Brother ("Leef" by Han van Eijk), which helped them make up for their flop 2000 album.

 

Delfins scored thus their third #1 in my chart but they would only trouble the chart once more with yet a Portuguese version from David Gray's "Babylon" hitting #19 in 2002.

 

141. "Stronger" Britney Spears (1 week)

 

Reached #1: 11 December 2000

UK Chart Peak: #7

 

But the year would not be over with another #1 in my chart for Britney Spears, as "Stronger" was her seventh charttopper. However, Delfins recaptured the topspot in the next week and "Vive" was the Christmas #1.

 

Britney became the second act to have four #1s in my chart in a callendar year (the Spice Girls were the first in 1997), but nobody has done that since.

 

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142. "Supreme" Robbie Williams (1 week)

 

Reached #1: 1 January 2001

UK Chart Peak: #4

 

"Supreme" may not be one of the songs on Robbie Williams's repertoir most likelt to immediately spring to one's mind, but it certainly is one of the best and it remains his only solo #1 hit to date in my chart.

 

Robbie recorded this song in French and it stayed on the French charts for 34 weeks although it peaked at #12.

 

 

 

143. "Only pain is real" Silence 4 (2 weeks)

 

Reached #1: 8 January 2001

 

The title-track of the band's second album was their sixth consecutive #1 in my chart. The chain was finally broken when the next single (which turned out to be their last) "Empty Happy Song" only made to #6.

 

The band made a brief reunion for a few concerts in 2014 after the female vocalist Sofia Lisboa successfully beated leukemia and their #1 hits "Borrow" and "Angel Song" re-entered the top 40 in my chart.

 

144. "Here with me" Dido (3 non-consecutive weeks)

 

Reached #1: 22 January 2001, 2 April 2001

UK Chart Peak: #4

 

This track was used as the theme of the "Roswell" TV series and was featured on the soundtracks of movies such as Bounce and Love Actually.

 

"Here With Me" turned out to be the #1 on my year-end 2001 chart. Such was its continued appeal that it returned to #1 nine weeks after its first run at the top.

 

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145. "Touch me" Rui da Silva feat. Cassandra (3 weeks)

 

Reached #1: 5 February 2001

UK Chart Peak: #1

 

Rui da Silva became the first Portuguese artist to have a UK #1 hit and therefore made headlines in my country. Originally sampling Spandau Ballet's "Chant #1" (which was removed for its release), the track also topped the charts in Ireland, Israel and of course in Portugal.

 

Rui da Silva's other solo hit in my chart was "Feel The Love" that hit #8 in 2004 (he also had two top 40 hits in 1995 as part of Underground Sound of Lisbon). He also famously remixed Jennifer Lopez's "Play", Lighthouse Family's "Happy" and Yoko Ono's "Walking on thin ice".

 

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146. "Nobody wants to be lonely" Ricky Martin feat. Christina Aguilera (1 week)

 

Reached #1: 26 February 2001

UK Chart Peak: #4

 

Originally a slower track in Ricky Martin's "Sound Loaded" album, "Nobody Wants To Be Lonely" was revamped as a midtempo duet with Christina Aguilera. It duly became Martin's first and Aguilera's second #1 hit in my chart.

 

The song also hit #1 in New Zealand and Romania. It was never released as physical single in the US, but it still made it to #13.

 

147. "Tudo pode acontecer" João Portugal (2 weeks)

 

Reached #1: 5 March 2001

 

Such was the massive success of the first edition of Big Brother Portugal that just four weeks after the finale, a second edition was launched.

 

The theme of Big Brother 2 was written and performed by João Portugal, who was in Portugal's most successful boyband of the 90's Excesso. He also was the singer and author of the themes for Big Brother 4 and the first edition of Celebrity Big Brother.

 

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148. "Don't let me be the last to know" Britney Spears (2 weeks)

 

Reached #1: 19 March 2001

UK Chart peak: #12

 

Written by Shania Twain and Mutt Lange, "Don't let me be the last to know" was Britney's eighth consecutive direct #1 in my chart. It was a particularly huge hit in Romania where it topped the charts and was the third biggest selling single of 2001.

 

The chain of Britney number ones would finally be broken later that year, when "I'm a Slave 4 U" entered at #4 and peaked at #2 (although now I regret not having put it on #1 as well). It would take Britney a full three years for her next chart-topper.

 

So much Portuguese entries. You are more patriotic, than me.

Only 3 songs from Russian artists were on the top of my charts (include all retrospectives) :

 

1. Nataliya Vetlitzkaya - Raba Lyubvi (Slave Of Love) (1995) In my all-time 20 favourite songs.

 

 

2. Julia Kova - Don't Go For Anything But Love (2008)

 

 

3. Tatyana Malysheva - Mi budem vmeste (2013) (OST 80s) Taken from the third season of best Russian TV series "80s".

 

Yeah, back in the turn of the millenium Britney was the supreme queen of my chart.

Geri does have a solo hit in my chart. ;)

 

It's very good, of course if it's not "Raining Men".

 

From the first 3 albums I have some another Britney's #1s : "From The Bottom Of My Broken Heart", "Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know" and "I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman". "Stronger" was in top 5.

 

 

 

149. "Whole again" Atomic Kitten (1 week)

 

Reached #1: 9 April 2001

UK Chart peak: #1

 

Their fifth single and final chance to salvage their record deal, "Whole Again" turned out to be the turning point for the Liverpool trio that would go on to enjoy four more years of success. It was #1 in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Netherlands and New Zealand.

 

Despite shooting a new video for the American market, the single was never released in the USA in the wake of 9/11.

 

 

 

 

 

150. "Survivor" Destiny's Child (2 weeks)

 

Reached #1: 16 April 2001

UK Chart peak: #1

 

Apparently the song was written as a fightback to the neagtivety surrounding the group due to its several lineup changes in recent times, to the point that someone wrote that being in Destiny's Child was like being on "Survivor".

 

The song was #1 in the UK, Ireland and Norway and the video won the MTV VMA for best R&B video.

 

151. "Imitation of life" R.E.M. (3 weeks)

 

Reached #1: 30 April 2001

UK Chart peak: #1

 

I've been a fan of R.E.M. since the early 90's and I was happy to finally have them at #1 in my chart.

 

"Imitation of Life" was also #1 in Spain and Japan and was #3 in my year-end chart of 2001.

 

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152. "It's raining men" Geri Halliwell (3 weeks)

 

Reached #1: 21 May 2001

UK Chart peak: #1

 

Featured on the Bridget Jones's Diary soundtrack, Geri Halliwell's cover introduced the 1984 Weather Girls classic to a new generation, topping the charts in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Flemish Belgium and France, where it was the only Spice Girls-related song besides "Wannabe" to hit #1.

 

The US release of Geri's version was scrapped due to 9/11 because radios didn't want to play it, stating that the song's title could remind the people that jumped to their deaths from the towers.