Posted March 22, 201412 yr Have their been any points during your chart history when the top 2/3/5 whatever at the top end was notably stronger than it normally would be. I was thinking about some of my strong top 2/3's of the past and these ones sprung to mind immediately, where every song has later gone on to appear in my all time top 100. Whereas on an average week you probably wouldn't expect anything to go on to be held in that high a regard! October-November 1999: The only ever instance of a joint No.1 happens because I can't separate Eiffel 65's Blue (Da Ba Dee) and Ann Lee's 2 Times, they'd both go on to have weeks at No.1 by themselves though before both being shoved out the way by the 11 week chart topper Back In My Life by Alice Deejay! April 2000: Mariah's Thank God I Found You, Kim Lukas' All I Really Want and Fragma's Toca's Miracle hold the top three for months, all reaching my top 100 favourite songs ever! September 2000: Aurora's Ordinary World and Vanessa Amorosi's legendary Absolutely Everybody dominate the top two for weeks! April 2002: In a reverse to the situation in the UK, Underneath Your Clothes hits No.1 for Shakira first for me, while Whenever, Wherever belatedly goes to the top two months after its release! These two held down the top two for ages. July 2003: Delta vs Delta as A Year Ago Today is held at No.2 for three weeks by Innocent Eyes. The former later finishes at No.3 in the EOY chart, two places behind the latter... November 2004: Delta takes on herself again as Extraordinary Day outpaces Mistaken Identity, Out Of The Blue and Electric Storm for 9 weeks on top! All four go on to appear in my all time top 100! July 2005: The almighty summer smash quartet of Mariah's We Belong Together, Kelly Clarkson's Since U Been Gone, Daniel Powter's Bad Day and James Blunt's You're Beautiful all took stints at No.1 and featured in the top five together! July 2006: Shakira's Hips Don't Lie, Lily Allen's Smile and Rogue Traders' Voodoo Child dominated the summer and all feature in my all time top 100. Shakira and Lily were so strong with 15 weeks at No.1 between them that Rogue Traders could only peak at No.3, a feat that they repeated in the EOY chart! Mid-late 2007: Surely the best period for music in recent history? Delta's Believe Again spent a whopping 12 weeks on top despite stiff competition from Leona's Bleeding Love, Girls Aloud's Call The Shots and Take That's Rule The World amongst others, the latter never reaching the top of the weekly chart but in my all time top 15, albeit way behind Believe Again! And that was after a summer dominated by a sensational battle between Robyn's With Every Heartbeat and Groove Armada's Song 4 Mutya! May 2008: An almighty Eurovision tussle as Charlotte Perrelli's Hero and Maria Haukaas Storeng's Hold On Be Strong dominated the top two for weeks! March 2009: Alcazar kept everybody at bay for 8 weeks with the dominating Stay The Night but Agnes eventually overthrew them with the returning Release Me (which had been Xmas #1 in 2008!), in what must have surely been the most Scandipoptastic top two EVER! May 2010: Even Lena's almighty Satellite and its 9 weeks at No.1 were significantly kept at bay by the 5 weeks that Kylie achieved bang in the middle of her run with All The Lovers. Both songs appear in my all time top 25! December 2010: The top three was locked for about two months by Take That's The Flood, Rihanna and Drake's What's My Name and Tove Styrke's White Light Moment, which between them spent 13 weeks at No.1 and are all inside my top 50 of all time! May 2013: Avicii's We Write The Story and Cascada's Glorious battled it out for a few weeks!
March 22, 201412 yr End of 2012 was dominated by Girls Aloud, with songs like Ke$ha's Die Young and most importantly The Saturdays' What About Us missing #1 due to Something New hogging #1 for 8 non-consecutive weeks, a record for my chart. What About Us never managed to peak at #1 at a later date, yet spent over 30 weeks in my chart and was year-end 2013 #6.
March 22, 201412 yr August - December 1980 : Amazing battle between three my favourite songs and all-time ultimate classics from this year. Sue Wilkinson - You Gotta Be A Hustler If You Wanna Get On (10 weeks # 1) [My all-time # 2 favourite song] ABBA - The Winner Takes It All (5 weeks # 1) Barbra Streisand - Woman In Love (5 weeks # 1)
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