Saviour's Day is wonderfully charming :heart:

 

Heal The World - one of Jacko's worst of his biggest hits really.

 

Uptown Girl is the bomb :dance:

85. TO YOU I BELONG- B*Witched (1998) 258,000

 

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Becoming the first act to debut at No 1 with their first three releases b*Witched probably knew the knew the Christmas chart topper was slightly beyond them in the age of the Spice Girls so cleverly went a week earlier ensuring they at least made it though they fell to No 5 the following week.

 

84. WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE- Diana Ross (1981) 258,000

 

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Originally a No 1 single in 1956 for Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers, this version was released by Ross as her first move after leaving Motown and ended up being a top 5 single, not surer if the dancing around in Las Vegas helped in the video but everyone likes a spot of disco at Christmas.

 

<3 To You I Belong is one of my favourite ever ballads, such a gorgeous song. I could listen to the charts of late 1998 day in/day out without getting bored, so much fantastic pop.

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Oh, I forgot about

Cher's Believe

83. MIAMI- Will Smith (1998) 259,000

 

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Speaking of Disco, here’s Will Smith sampling an old 1980 track The Whispers “And The Beat Goes On” to great effect, OK it had 1998 sales to help it as it whipped into the No 3 spot but it has a kind of charm,

 

 

The quality has took a sharp descent with the last batch...

I'd love if Gezza did this for other months too :D

maybe one day!

82. WIND BENEATH MY WINGS- Steven Houghton (1997) 259,000

 

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For some reason I thought this song dated back further than the 80s but it was written in 1982 and recorded by quite a fair amount of artists before it finally made the top 40 here in a version by Bette Midler in 1989. It was back in the top 10 thanks to this cover by Steven Houghton who was, at the time, an actor in “London’s Burning” and a hit with the ladies.

 

81. BACK IN MY LIFE- Alice Deejay (1999) 260,000

 

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With essentially the same back beat Alice Deejay recreated a bit of the magic of “Better Off Alone” with this follow up. Reached No 1 in Norway apparently though it failed to dent the top 3 here.

 

82. WIND BENEATH MY WINGS- Steven Houghton (1997) 259,000

 

 

I think there will be 8 or 9 songs from Dec 1997 in this chart if this has appeared.

80. DON’T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME- George Michael & Elton John (1991) 260,000

 

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The pair first sung this song together at Live Aid in 1985 and some 6 years later recorded it again for charity (the only thing Michael did between 1991 and 1995 was for charity thanks to being in a huff with Sony) and huzzah- straight into No 1

 

Back In My Life :wub: One of my top ten favourite songs ever! Interesting to see it sell more than quarter of a million copies during December 1999, it never felt THAT huge, but I guess it was a very high selling chart period, and had quite a good top ten run in the end.

 

The stan that I am, I remember it went 5-4-5-11-10-6-6-6 in its first eight weeks - and that's without consulting Polyhex to double check! I was elated at that top ten return.

Elton and George - epic - I feel Michael will be back in this rundown again....

79. EVERYDAY I LOVE YOU- Boyzone (1999) 264,000

 

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Rather depressingly no act appears on this list more than this lot. At least this wasn’t a cover, it was penned by country royalty Baker & Myers (who also wrote All-4-one’s “I Swear”) and gave them their final hit single before an extended hiatus for 9 years.

 

78. FREE AS A BIRD- The Beatles (1994) 265,000

 

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Touted very much as the 18th Beatles No 1 when it was issued it lost out to Michael Jackson’s “Earthsong” despite leading midweek. It’s a 1977 Lennon original that was dusted down and added to by the other former Beatles and sold over 120,000 in its first week.

 

A couple more later on!

I wonder if Janet Jackson's 'Together Again' will make it on here. It sold 800k in the UK but I'm unsure how much it sold in that December month.

Back In My Life is a stunner! Although still not a patch on Better Off Alone which is in my top 10 songs of all time :heart:

 

Not all that keen on any of the others posted, Don't Let The Sun Go Down is alright but a bit overly dramatic. Free As A Bird doesn't rank among my Beatles faves.