Alone Again :heart: she was such an obvious one hit wonder but I'm glad it became the hit for her, although I'll never forgive the label for pushing the version with the awful Jump Smokers rap replacing her verses

Ooh you're the first person I've seen to agree with me about her own verses being better than the rap verses :lol: Justice for Alone Again Pt. 2 :heart:

86. DELTA GOODREM (329,000) 5 HITS

 

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From “Neighbours” to the charts was a well worn career path by 2003 but that didn’t deter Delta Goodrem who gave up playing Nina Tucker to conquer the pop charts. Her debut album “Innocent Eyes” produced five No 1 singles in her native Australia and three top 10 singles over here where the album shifted over 900,000 copies. A fight with cancer and a relationship with Brian McFadden followed but her debut album remains one of the top 10 best selling of all time in Australia.

 

Didn't even consider that Delta would appear here, that sales tally looks dreadful for her first 5 hits, 4 of which were top 10 hits :( And of course she only had one further UK charting song. Such a shame they gave up pushing her in the UK, one of my favourite artists of all-time.

85. DANNII MINOGUE (329,000) 4 HITS

 

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Well if you can’t get into the charts via “Neighbours” then how about “Home & Away”? Dannii was of course a star long before Kylie in Australia thanks to her starring in “Young Talent Time” but by the time Kylie was becoming a popstar Dannii starred in “Home & Away” and started a fashion range and by 1991 the lure of the charts was too much with four top 20 hits.

 

84. VANESSA PARADIS (332,000) 2 HITS

 

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After debut hit “Joe La Taxi” spent 11 weeks at No 1 in 1987 (in France at least) it took the, then, unusual step of crossing the channel and becoming a hit in the UK despite having no English lyrics and making the 14 yr old an international star. It proved to be her only hit here for 4 years until 1992’s “Be My Baby” suddenly restored her to the top 10, she hadn’t been slacking in between becoming the face of Chanel and dating Lenny Kravitz who co-wrote the latter hit for her, and all before she hit 20!

 

Ooh you're the first person I've seen to agree with me about her own verses being better than the rap verses :lol: Justice for Alone Again Pt. 2 :heart:

I agree too - I always thought the Jump Smokers version made it sound like Alyssa was the featured act rather than the lead.

I agree too - I always thought the Jump Smokers version made it sound like Alyssa was the featured act rather than the lead.

 

Yeah exactly, I like the Jump Smokers raps but it takes away from it being Alyssa's interpretation of Heart's classic track.

83. THE SATURDAYS (333,000) 3 HITS

 

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More teenager than not until January 2009, The Saturdays first three hits make up this total. Introduced to the UK audience as a support act for Girls Aloud back in 2008 and were initially offered songs rejected by GA. The hits began to roll anyway, the Yazoo sampling “If This Love” the first of 13 top tenners to date en route to becoming one of the biggest girlbands of the decade.

 

82. AARON CARTER (347,000) 8 HITS

 

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Sometimes it’s who you know in pop that gets you a break, and of course when your big brother is in the Backstreet Boys then it can’t hurt and indeed Aaron Carter’s first appearance on stage was supporting the boys in 1997 which led to his version of the Jets 1987 hit “Crush On You” becoming a top 10 hit when Aaron was just 9. By 12 his chart career was over before most had began and Carter is the youngest star to make this thread.

 

81. NICOLE (352,000) 2 HITS

 

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Winner of the 27th Eurovision song contest Nicole was also the first German to win the competition and must have fancied her chances as her original performance was in German (which you'’d have expected) but her reprise after the winning the competition was done in 4 languages (Dutch, German, French, and English). It was obviously to sell the song to as many markets as possible and sure enough the song debuted at No 8 before climbing to No 1 for a fortnight and becoming the 500th No 1 single in the UK.

 

Eurgh Aaron Carter was the devil.

81. NICOLE (352,000) 2 HITS

 

 

Winner of the 27th Eurovision song contest Nicole was also the first German to win the competition and must have fancied her chances as her original performance was in German (which you'’d have expected) but her reprise after the winning the competition was done in 4 languages (Dutch, German, French, and British). It was obviously to sell the song to as many markets as possible and sure enough the song debuted at No 8 before climbing to No 1 for a fortnight and becoming the 500th No 1 single in the UK.

British? When did that become a language? :blink:

Delta Goodrem = I remember her on Neighbours and then releasing "Born To Try", which was great and infact her first album was awesome, my fave being "Lost Without You", and also loved "Innocent Eyes", "Not Me Not I" and "Predictable". Her second album I was never that keen on, but did have a soft soot for "Almost Here". It was such a shame that In This Life or her 3rd and 4th album weren't released over here.

 

Vanessa Paradsis = I loved "Be My Baby" at the time, and remember It took me years to find that song and who sung it, but watching that TOTP performance she does look awkward and quite stiff, but who cares I still like that song, and also found another of hers on youtube, called "Sunday Mondays" which is also nice and catchy.

 

Aaron Carter = He was awful, although when I was a kid I did like "Crazy Little Party Girl", which I am shamed by it now.

80. 2 UNLIMITED (353,000) 1 HIT

 

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Jean Paul de Coster and Phil Wilde are the names of the “real” 2 Unlimited, they had a hit in 1990 as Bizz Nizz with “Don’t Miss The Partyline” and embarked on a long working relationship with each other. For their next project they needed some vocals, enter Ray Slijngaard who wrote the raps, and also enter Pete Waterman who agreed to release the records in the UK but was so appalled by the raps he removed them for the UK release of “Get Ready For This” which still made No 2 before both of the group members made 20.

 

79. ASH (356,000) 5 HITS

 

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A spot of britpop now and probably the biggest thing to come from Northern Ireland in the 90s, Ash named their first album after the year most of them were born, “1977” and it delivered up 5 hits which account for the sales above. The band were one of the few to outlast those heady days of Britpop and still be clocking up top 20 hits well into the Noughties.

 

78. JAKE BUGG (361,000) 5 HITS

 

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Bugg must have a considerable amount of gratitude for the BBC who plucked him from the wilderness and gave him a Glastonbury slot in 2011 which got him a record contract and a subsequent appearance on “Later....With Jools Holland” before any songs had been committed to the album. Such was the hype around him that his debut album beat Leona Lewis to the No 1 spot in 2012 though singles wise he’s yet to dent the top 20.

 

I think it would be cool if u listed the hits!

Was China In Your Hand not the 500th number 1? Or was that 600?

China In Your Hand was number 600.