April 16, 20169 yr CD 1 06 Boyzone - When The Going Gets Tough 09 Steps - Better Best Forgotten 10 Cher - Believe 02 Steps, Tina Cousins, Cleopatra, B*Witched & Billie Piper - Thank ABBA For The Music 08 Spice Girls - Goodbye 08 Honeyz - End Of The Line 08 Billie Piper - Honey To The Bee 08 The Corrs - What Can I Do? 07 Emilia - Big Big World 07 Tina Cousins - Killin' Time '99 09 Vengaboys - We Like To Party 04 Cartoons - Witch Doctor 10 Ace Of Base - Always Have Always Will 10 Blockster - You Should Be... 04 A+ - Enjoy Yourself xx Deetah - El Paraiso Rico Emmie - More Than This 07 DJ Sakin & Friends - Project Your Mind (For The Love Of A Princess) 05 Fool Boona - Popped 06 Sash! - Colour The World xx Justin - Over You CD 2 08 Robbie Williams - Strong 09 Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away 08 Fatboy Slim - Praise You 11 Armand Van Helden feat. Duane Harden - You Don't Know Me 08 Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat 08 The Cardigans - Erase/Rewind 08 Stereophonics - Just Looking 05 The All Seeing I feat. Tony Christie - Walk Like A Panther 07 The Divine Comedy - National Express 07 Terrorvision - Tequila (Mint Royale Shot) 08 The Beautiful South - How Long's A Tear Take To Dry? 09 Roxette - Wish I Could Fly 06 911 - A Little Bit More xx Dru Hill - These Are The Times 07 Kele Le Roc - My Love 05 All Saints - War Of Nerves xx Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Inkanyezi Nezazi (The Star And The Wiseman) 08 Blur - Tender 07 Dusty Springfield - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
April 22, 20169 yr CD 1 03 Boyzone - When The Going Gets Tough 05 Steps - Better Best Forgotten 08 Cher - Believe 00 Steps, Tina Cousins, Cleopatra, B*Witched & Billie Piper - Thank ABBA For The Music 03 Spice Girls - Goodbye 06 Honeyz - End Of The Line 02 Billie Piper - Honey To The Bee 05 The Corrs - What Can I Do? 01 Emilia - Big Big World 03 Tina Cousins - Killin' Time '99 05 Vengaboys - We Like To Party 01 Cartoons - Witch Doctor 10 Ace Of Base - Always Have Always Will 04 Blockster - You Should Be... 03 A+ - Enjoy Yourself 02 Deetah - El Paraiso Rico 07 Emmie - More Than This 05 DJ Sakin & Friends - Project Your Mind (For The Love Of A Princess) ?? Fool Boona - Popped 02 Sash! - Colour The World 00 Justin - Over You CD 2 04 Robbie Williams - Strong 08 Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away 08 Fatboy Slim - Praise You 10 Armand Van Helden feat. Duane Harden - You Don't Know Me 08 Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat 07 The Cardigans - Erase/Rewind 00 Stereophonics - Just Looking 10 The All Seeing I feat. Tony Christie - Walk Like A Panther 10 The Divine Comedy - National Express 00 Terrorvision - Tequila (Mint Royale Shot) 07 The Beautiful South - How Long's A Tear Take To Dry? 05 Roxette - Wish I Could Fly 00 911 - A Little Bit More 03 Dru Hill - These Are The Times 05 Kele Le Roc - My Love 07 All Saints - War Of Nerves 02 Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Inkanyezi Nezazi (The Star And The Wiseman) 11 Blur - Tender 10 Dusty Springfield - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
April 24, 20169 yr Author Results I hear? vRP3YlZFO3w 36. Terrorvision - Tequila (Mint Royale Shot) Average Score: 4.37 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 8 (gavindeejay) Lowest Rating: -1 (MACMOORE22) 37. Dru Hill - These Are The Times Average Score: 4.09 Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 8.5 (Jimmy Jam) Lowest Rating: -1 (Dobbo) 38. Fool Boona - Popped Average Score: 3.29 Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 10 (Jason) Lowest Rating: 0 (gavindeejay, Jester, Jimmy Jam, MACMOORE22, SamJudd & vibe) 39. Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Inkanyezi Nezazi (The Star And The Wiseman) Average Score: 2.53 Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 8 (Dobbo & ThePensmith) Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm, gavindeejay, Jason, Qween & vibe) 40. Justin - Over You Average Score: 1.78 Total Votes: 18 Highest Rating: 6 (Dobbo, Jimmy Jam & N-S) Lowest Rating: -1 (gooddelta & ThePensmith)
April 24, 20169 yr Author UNAr5tzZxdk 31. Roxette - Wish I Could Fly Average Score: 5.00 Total Votes: 18 Highest Rating: 9 (Jimmy Jam, mr_pmt & SamJudd) Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm & darkstar79) 32. The All Seeing I feat. Tony Christie - Walk Like A Panther Average Score: 4.89 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 10 (dandy* & darkstar79) Lowest Rating: 0 (Jason & vibe) 33. Cartoons - Witch Doctor Average Score: 4.76 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 10 (Dobbo) Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm & vibe) 34. Deetah - El Paraiso Rico Average Score: 4.65 Total Votes: 17 Highest Rating: 9 (darkstar79) Lowest Rating: 0 (gavindeejay & Jason) 35. 911 - A Little Bit More Average Score: 4.56 Total Votes: 18 Highest Rating: 8 (gooddelta, Jimmy Jam & SamJudd) Lowest Rating: -1 (T Boy)
April 24, 20169 yr Author -1SvZjsAOHM 26. Tina Cousins - Killin' Time '99 Average Score: 5.86 Total Votes: 18 Highest Rating: 11 (MACMOORE22) Lowest Rating: 0 (darkstar79 & Jason) 27. Emmie - More Than This Average Score: 5.47 Total Votes: 18 Highest Rating: 8.5 (Jimmy Jam) Lowest Rating: 0 (gavindeejay & Jester) 28. Sash! - Colour The World Average Score: 5.45 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 10 (gavindeejay) Lowest Rating: 0 (darkstar79) 29. DJ Sakin & Friends - Project Your Mind (For The Love Of A Princess) Average Score: 5.42 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 9 (Jason) Lowest Rating: 0 (darkstar79 & gavindeejay) 30. A+ - Enjoy Yourself Average Score: 5.18 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 10 (darkstar79) Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm, gavindeejay, Jester & vibe)
April 24, 20169 yr Author zjudr5YlzuE 21. Boyzone - When The Going Gets Tough Average Score: 6.18 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 10 (Dobbo & Jason) Lowest Rating: 0 (darkstar79 & Jester) 22. The Beautiful South - How Long's A Tear Take To Dry? Average Score: 6.08 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 10 (darkstar79) Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm) 23. The Divine Comedy - National Express Average Score: 6.05 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 10 (dandy* & darkstar79) Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm & vibe) 24. Blockster - You Should Be... Average Score: 6.00 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 10 (mr_pmt) Lowest Rating: 2 (vibe) 25. Steps, Tina Cousins, Cleopatra, B*Witched & Billie Piper - Thank ABBA For The Music Average Score: 5.89 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 10 (Fgiboy2511 & Jason) Lowest Rating: -1 (gavindeejay)
April 24, 20169 yr Author qmsbP13xu6k 16. Blur - Tender Average Score: 6.74 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 11 (dandy*, darkstar79 & Jester) Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm & Jimmy Jam) 17. Stereophonics - Just Looking Average Score: 6.58 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 11 (gavindeejay) Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm & dandy*) 18. Billie Piper - Honey To The Bee Average Score: 6.45 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 10 (bluesunstorm, MACMOORE22 & ThePensmith) Lowest Rating: 2 (dandy* & Fgiboy2511) 19. Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat Average Score: 6.32 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 11 (Jason) Lowest Rating: -1 (Jimmy Jam) 20. Kele Le Roc - My Love Average Score: 6.19 Total Votes: 18 Highest Rating: 9 (darkstar79 & vibe) Lowest Rating: 0 (gavindeejay & Jason)
April 24, 20169 yr Author FZJwoEVCMY8 11. Ace Of Base - Always Have Always Will Average Score: 7.58 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 10 (dandy*, gooddelta, Jimmy Jam, mr_pmt, SamJudd & ThePensmith) Lowest Rating: 2 (vibe) 12. Steps - Better Best Forgotten Average Score: 7.26 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 11 (Qween) Lowest Rating: -1 (Fgiboy2511) 13. Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away Average Score: 7.05 [more 10's] Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 10 (bluesunstorm & MACMOORE22) Lowest Rating: 0 (darkstar79) 14. Emilia - Big Big World Average Score: 7.05 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 10 (bluesunstorm) Lowest Rating: 1 (dandy*) 15. All Saints - War Of Nerves Average Score: 6.87 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 10 (MACMOORE22 & ThePensmith) Lowest Rating: 0 (Dobbo) Top 10: Armand Van Helden feat. Duane Harden - You Don't Know Me Cher - Believe Dusty Springfield - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me Fatboy Slim - Praise You Honeyz - End Of The Line Robbie Williams - Strong Spice Girls - Goodbye The Cardigans - Erase/Rewind The Corrs - What Can I Do? Vengaboys - We Like To Party Who do you want to/think will win?
April 24, 20169 yr Colour The World was like a poor attempt to recreate Dario G's Sunchyme. Expected DJ Sakin to do a little better, but maybe it's quite forgotten. Witch Doctor still never feels like as big a hit as it actually was! The days when the UK actually used to buy music like that...! Not a bad result for Boyzone and Kele Le Roc, thought Blur would do a lot better! Pleasingly high for Ace of Base, that song is so joyous (the first single I ever bought <3), it should be regarded as one of their classics but I expect most of the general public have forgotten it exists, if they even heard it in the first place. Edited April 24, 20169 yr by gooddelta
April 24, 20169 yr Always Have, Always Will is a jam, so happy to see it do so well! Honeyz or Cher to win please
April 24, 20169 yr Tina, Billie and Steps should've done much better! Boo! Cher's got this in the bag, easily.
April 24, 20169 yr Oh no I forgot to vote again! Would've given big points to 'Flat Beat', 'Fly Away' and 'Tender' out of those that've already left us. :heart:
April 24, 20169 yr Author 8. Vengaboys - We Like To Party 6Zbi0XmGtMw Average Score: 7.74 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 11 (Dobbo) Lowest Rating: 2 (darkstar79) 9. The Corrs - What Can I Do? GP4Cq3VTagU Average Score: 7.68 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 11 (SamJudd & T Boy) Lowest Rating: -1 (darkstar79) 10. Honeyz - End Of The Line MoIe3R5XXYM Average Score: 7.63 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 11 (ThePensmith & vibe) Lowest Rating: -1 (Jason) Kicking off the top 10 is R&B group Honeyz with their second single 'End Of The Line'. It peaked at #5 in a run of five straight top 10 hits for the group. In ninth are Irish band The Corrs with 'What Can I Do?' a track that surprisingly missed the top 40 altogether upon original release however following a remix re-entered some 5 months later to an eventual #3 peak. Just in front are Dutch group & eternal party-bringers The Vengaboys with the aptly titled 'We Like To Party'. The track, also known as 'The Vengabus' became the band's second UK top 5 hit following 'Up & Down' and set the tone for what would be an incredibly successful year with 2 UK #1s thereafter. This particular track was the group's best performer in the US and I thank you all for rating it into the top 10 :D
April 24, 20169 yr Author 5. Dusty Springfield - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me QR4vE9xL3yk Average Score: 8.11 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 10 (dandy*, darkstar79, Jimmy Jam, Qween, SamJudd & ThePensmith) Lowest Rating: 0 (bluesunstorm) 6. The Cardigans - Erase/Rewind 6WOYnv59Bi8 Average Score: 7.97 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 11 (Chapman) Lowest Rating: 0 (Jason) 7. Robbie Williams - Strong 5-X91IstwqA Average Score: 7.79 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 10 (gavindeejay, SamJudd & ThePensmith) Lowest Rating: 2 (Jason) Robbie Williams who, despite featuring on the most Now albums of any artist (including those with Take That), has yet to register a Now Rate victory and can't manage it here either as 'Strong' bows out in 7th. Taken from his hugely successful 'I've Been Expecting You' album the track peaked at #4 in March 1999 in a run of an incredible 21 consecutive top 10 singles. The Cardigans, winners of 2 Now Rates, have to settle for 6th this time row with 'Erase/Rewind'. The song was taken as the 2nd single from album 'Gran Turismo' and managed to outpeak the lead track 'My Favourite Game' by breaking into the UK top 10 at #7. However it can't replicate MFG's Now Rate winner's medal which of course stands for so much more. Finishing in fifth as a tribute track it's Dusty Springfield. 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me' was a UK #1 single in 1966, her only ever domestic chart-topper and following her passing in March 1999 was added to the Now 42 tracklist. The top 5 all managed an average score of above 8.
April 24, 20169 yr Author 3. Spice Girls - Goodbye eegDtyrSUZw Average Score: 8.42 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 11 (Fgiboy2511) Lowest Rating: 3 (dandy*) 4. Fatboy Slim - Praise You Ex1qzIggZnA Average Score: 8.16 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 10 (Chapman, darkstar79, Dobbo, gavindeejay, Jason, Jester & ThePensmith) Lowest Rating: -1 (vibe) Two previous winners take up positions third & fourth. Fatboy Slim, winner of the Now 43 Rate with 'Right Here, Right Now' falls a few places short with that's track predecessor. 'Praise You' remains however his only UK #1 single to date and features one of my all time favourite videos (I'm sure you all know it but if not definitely give it a watch!) Spice Girls have won 2 Now Rates in total & now can add another top 3 finish to their mantlepiece. 'Goodbye', titled in reference to Geri Halliwell who had left the group prior, became their 8th UK #1 single out of 9 at the end of 1998, whilst also becoming their third straight Christmas #1, a feat only ever previously accomplished by The Beatles. So we are left with Believe Vs. You Don't Know Me. Will it be a surprise win or go with the general consensus?
April 24, 20169 yr Author 1. Cher - Believe 4p0chD8U8fA Average Score: 9.26 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 11 (bluesunstorm, gooddelta & Jimmy Jam) Lowest Rating: 4 (darkstar79) 2. Armand Van Helden feat. Duane Harden - You Don't Know Me CvZ6tBA28-c Average Score: 8.66 Total Votes: 19 Highest Rating: 11 (mr_pmt) Lowest Rating: 3.5 (Jimmy Jam) To the surprise of absolutely no-one, Cher prevails in the Now 42 Rate :P Finishing a very distant second but still with a superb average is Armand Van Helden. Sampling both Carrie Lucas' 'Dance With You' & Jaydee's 'Plastic Dreams', 'You Don't Know Me' entered straight at #1 in early 1999 and provided the American DJ with his first UK chart-topper. It wouldn't be until 10 years later when he added to that tally featuring on Dizzee Rascal's 'Bonkers'. A grand slam win for Cher with the global smash 'Believe' becomes her first Now Rate victory. 'Believe', widely regarded as one of the greatest comeback singles ever spent a total of 7 weeks at #1 in the UK and became her first chart-topper in 7 years. The song also earned her a Guinness World Record as the oldest female soloist to top the Billboard 100 chart. A track considered somewhat ahead of its time, it drew criticism from the clear auto-tune usage throughout but nonetheless became a club staple and is in fact one of the best selling songs of all time worldwide. In this rate, it picked up only two scores below an 8 along with three 11's & nine 10's from nineteen voters so there really was only ever 1 winner here. Well done Cher! Thanks to the 18 other participants in this rate, look out for the next one going up in due course.
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