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Cast your mind back 19 years to the sound of summer, that hit that was never off the radio. Having trouble remembering? Shall we refresh your Mmmemory?

 

Back in 1997, three wholesome looking brothers caused a global sensation with their debut single MmmBop, which smashed straight to the top of the Official Singles Chart this week in 1997.

 

Thanks to a particularly good start to the summer – don't let anybody tell you Brits' music purchases aren't influenced by the weather – the super-catchy, sunny vibe of the song helped it stay at Number 1 for three sizzling weeks.

 

MmmBop is the one everyone remembers, but Hanson did go on to have more hits – eight Top 40s in all, including a couple of quick comebacks in 2000 and 2005. Their debut album Middle Of Nowhere also topped the chart for a week. We last saw them in 2007, when they just missed the Top 40 with Go.

 

MORE: See all Hanson's UK chart hit singles and albums

 

MmmBop has a chart sales tally of 758,000, and was the 11th biggest selling single of 1997. There's still a bit of love out there for MmmBop – over 600 of you have downloaded it so far this year.

 

Here's that week's frankly fantastic Top 10. Click on the image to see the full Top 100.

 

Elsewhere in the Top 10, it was �� for Eternal, deposed from the top spot after just a week with their one and only Number 1 I Wanna Be The Only One (feat. Bebe Winans). Radiohead's Paranoid Android scored the Oxford band a new personal best at Number 3 – it's their highest-charting single to date.

 

Further down the chart, Gina G returned with Ti Amo and Marilyn Manson was new at 18 with Beautiful People, which would one day become the theme tune to WWE SmackDown.

 

Let's relive the mmmagic of MmmBop, and prommmise never to do that lammme joke with mmm ever again.

 

01 [NEW] Hanson - MmmBop

02 [01] Eternal - I Wanna Be The Only One [feat. Bebe Winans]

03 [NEW] Radiohead - Paranoid Android

04 [02] Sarah Brightman & Andrea Bocelli - Time To Say Goodbye (Con Te Partiro)

05 [04] Rosie Gaines - Closer Than Close

06 [03] Olive - You're Not Alone

07 [05] Rembrandts - I'll Be There For You

08 [06] The Cardigans - Lovefool

09 [NEW] Sneaker Pimps - Six Underground

10 [NEW] Toby Bourke & George Michael - Waltz Away Dreaming

 

11 [NEW] Gina G - Ti Amo

16 [NEW] New Edition - Something About You

18 [NEW] Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People

22 [NEW] Bush - Greedy Fly

25 [NEW] Korn - Good God

27 [NEW] Daniel O'Donnell - The Love Songs EP

31 [NEW] World Party - Beautiful Dream

35 [NEW] Sounds Of Blackness & Craig Mack - Spirit

36 [NEW] Nothern Uproar - Any Way You Look

38 [NEW] Tindersticks - Bathtime

39 [NEW] Ben Folds Five - Kate

40 [56] Spice Girls - Mama / Who Do You Think You Are

 

Personal faves from that top 10 have to be Olive and Rembrandts :heart: big 90s tuunes!

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16 NEW ENTRIES *.*.*.* I miss when we had like 8-12 in the charts, love 'mmmbop' what a classic, eternal :wub: & marilyn manson. I have that on my wrestling game (very first one I owned) great song!
^^^ seconded! I really long for a chart full of new tracks, maybe that's why I'm so obsessed with new entries.
Hanson rule. However it seems impossible that this was 19 years ago. I feel old.
*.* 'you're not alone' :wub:, 'closer than close' :dance: & 'six underground' :music: are my faves~ :cheer:

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Aw I love Eternal. If I remember correctly, Eternal spend 3 weeks at No.2 behind Hanson.

So if it wasn't for Hanson, Eternal would have been No.1 for 4 weeks!!

 

Anyway, it's a brilliant top 10. I love 90's music!

'Mmmbop' came close to being #1 when I was born. :lol: I ended up with the song that replaced it at number 1 'I'll Be Missing You' instead. :wub:

 

So much goodness in that top 10! 'Closer Than Close', 'You're Not Alone' and 'Lovefool' are all sublime.

If only Eternal weren't there, just because I'd love to see Paranoid Android segued into MMMBop at the top of the charts :lol:

Edited by Dircadirca

If only Eternal weren't there, just because I'd love to see Paranoid Android segued into MMMBop at the top of the charts :lol:

What a bizarre thought :lol:

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