Fun fact: 'If You're Not The One' is one of Simon Cowell's favourite ever songs. (Why I remember this, I don't know! :lol: ).

 

It's a really good song, simplistic but emotive and beautiful. I also really like the aforementioned Metro Mix.

amazing how huge Daniel Beddingfield was (he even got a #1 with the 5th single off the album) and how quickly he became chart history...

 

really love the JCB track, cute and nice

 

Ellie´s cover of Your Song is terrible, the childish voice so high and nasal is unlistenable

96. REET PETITE (THE SWEETEST GIRL IN TOWN)- Jackie Wilson (1986) 249,000

 

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Creating chart history for Wilson when it hit the top for Christmas 1986 Wilson had officially waiting the longest from chart debut to hitting the top, a whole 29 years (a record which would be broken since). It was re-issued off the back of an “Arena” programme on the making of the clay animation video, the originally only made No 6 back in 1957.

 

95. CROCODILE SHOES- Jimmy Nail (1994) 250,000

 

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You can imagine the pitch for the TV Show “I’ve got an idea, a factory worker in the north becomes a country and western singer- genius”. Well Nail wrote and starred in it, and got a second series out of the concept, not only that but he got a few hits including the theme, this track, which hung around for much of late 94.

 

I am a fan of Jimmy Nail by default as my dad is as well. Particularly 'Big River' which I think was about a year after this. Always brings a tear to my eye when I hear it.

Edited November 22, 20159 yr by ThePensmith

Reet Petite :heart: :heart:

Reet Petite! What a classic, such a singalong joy.

 

Crocodile Shoes is pretty meh...

Be interesting to see where like a virgin rests in this thread . Number 3 in 84 behind last Christmas and do they know it's Christmas ?

If You're Not The One is great for a male pop ballad, shame its one of only 2 good songs he did.

 

Reet Petite is okay for a song of its time and I haven't heard the others.

Poor sales for Reel Petite - probably one of the least remembered Xmas no1s IMO.

Least remembered AS a Christmas number one maybe, but I remember it very fondly from the time. I'm also wondering if Paul McCartney's Frog Chorus or The Toy Dolls' Nellie the Elephant will be in the top 100 as they were also behind Band Aid and Wham!

1997 to dominate this.

Big fan of Daniel B's first album. A range if styles, great singles.

Very interested to see where some of my faves end up in this list (namely, the Spice Girls :kink: ).

 

 

1997 to dominate this.

 

94. TOO MUCH- The Spice Girls (1997) 252,000

 

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All three Spice Girls Christmas chart toppers are here, so this is the lowest selling one. Maybe Spice Girls fatigue was setting in with the UK public just as it was within the group who had recently sacked their manager and were running the show themselves. With an album out, two singles and a film the last few months of 1997 were a whirlwind, but this is an illustration of the days when a Spice Girls single could sell a quarter of a million in a week for a song already available on an album.

 

93. ANGELS- Robbie Williams (1997) 253,000

 

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The song which is popularly claimed to be the song that saved Williams’ career, it certainly was his first major radio hit and revived the underperforming album “Life Thru A Lens”. It took 12 years to sell a million copies but a quarter of those came in three weeks in December 1997 as the song started a 12 week residence in the top 10 during which it never even made the top 3.

 

92. YOUNG GUNS (GO FOR IT)- Wham! (1982) 253,000

 

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Selling almost 100k in the week it made No 3 George Michael’s first trip into the top 75 was an immediate success with Andrew Ridgely. Widely thought to be a band discussing social issues (unemployment, London elitism, lack of aspirations) they soon abandoned all that for out and out pop to large success, however here we go back to the time when George did a spot of rapping. It was helped into the charts when they got a TOTP slot despite being outside the top 40 when Marvin Gaye pulled out at the last minute.

 

At the time I did used to think 'Too Much' was the most sorely underrated of their Christmas chart toppers. With hindsight, it was all a bit Spice-Girls-on-Autopilot. Not to do a disservice to the song itself (Mel C in particular nails her performance on it) but it's not all warm and fuzzy like '2 Become 1' was, or even 'Goodbye'.

Too Much is pretty dull for me, prefer their other 2 Xmas #1s.

 

Angels, what a song :heart: Young Guns? Never heard it, don't plan on :lol:

Too Much is really good!

Absolutely adore Angels though, one of 3 fantastic Robbie Williams songs :heart:

I can see 5 more coming from Dec 1997.

 

I wonder will 1997 have the most number of entries.

 

 

Edited November 23, 20159 yr by Cauldron