Here's the 2002 megamix

 

Those iconic four weeks at #7 *.* Even in the streaming era that would be something of a feat.

 

I believe Broken Bones was remixed for the UK, as I have the album from 1998 and it sounds a lot more dated and doesn't have as much oomph. You're A Superstar was much the same though, apart from the great intro being cut out on the UK radio edit. Incredible track anyway, we always have a token dance song in the Xmas top ten :lol:

 

Well the dance songs at the end of the year are for the festive/New Year celebrations, I thought.

 

For many years, the music in You're A Superstar sounded a bit sad and emotive for my tastes, also it has been overplayed over the years in radio 'dance classics shows'. However now I really like and appreciate it.

 

I always thought of You're a Superstar as one of the three big emotive sounding dance ballads of the 00s, along with

Take Me To The Clouds Above and Listen To Your Heart

.

 

It would also be our first example of organ house on the thread, that genre that Philip George brought back into prominence last year. One of my favourite ever organ house tunes makes the thread for near the end of 2003.

 

In 2005 we will see a 90s tune that didn't chart at the time making our dance thread too.

Edited October 2, 20168 yr by TheSnake

My guess with (the AWESOME) You're A Superstar's delayed chart success is that it was probably a club fave for years before someone realised its hit potential if properly pushed - see also Let Me Be Your Fantasy & Set You Free in the 90s. But someone who was actually clubbing at the time (I'm still four/five years away!) can correct me if wrong.

 

2003 has some of my favourite tracks of the decade if not *all time*, one of my favourite years ever for music. From what I remember the next track is utterly amazing and the first half of the year follows suit, the second half not so much but still with some incredible anthems. Just hope they make it here!

My guess with (the AWESOME) You're A Superstar's delayed chart success is that it was probably a club fave for years before someone realised its hit potential if properly pushed - see also Let Me Be Your Fantasy & Set You Free in the 90s. But someone who was actually clubbing at the time (I'm still four/five years away!) can correct me if wrong.

 

2003 has some of my favourite tracks of the decade if not *all time*, one of my favourite years ever for music. From what I remember the next track is utterly amazing and the first half of the year follows suit, the second half not so much but still with some incredible anthems. Just hope they make it here!

 

For me all the time in this thread up to just before the end of 2006 and the arrival of electro is the golden age in the 00s for great dance music consistently.

Also missing out at #42 in October 2002:

 

 

I loved this, such a bop! Made some noise in the US too. I actually do miss a lot of the early 00s cheese, so much fun

 

Moving on to 2003, which was definitely the start of the decline for the genre in the charts. After August there were 0 dance top 10 hits til the end of the year.

Edited October 3, 20168 yr by Euphorique

Also missing out at #42 in October 2002:

 

 

I loved this, such a bop! Made some noise in the US too. I actually do miss a lot of the early 00s cheese, so much fun

 

After the cheesy trance inspired Eurodance ended, then came in the cheesy retro style Eurodance for the middle and end of the decade (Uniting Nations, Sunblock, and the Cahill and Star Pilots tracks). Star pilots' In The Heat Of The Night was sadly the last hurrah for cheesy Eurodance (and what a great tune that was).

 

Moving on to 2003, which was definitely the start of the decline for the genre in the charts. After August there were 0 dance top 10 hits til the end of the year.

 

In one of the November weeks in 2003 there are no dance hits in the top 40 at all and our dance number 1 that week is just outside the top 40 (the only time it ever happens on this thread, it doesn't happen on the 90s one).

 

I am looking for inspiration from the next track. Perhaps as a soundcloud producer myself, listening to the next track will show me the way to make a great dance track. :lol:

Oh, not the brave new track I was expecting...but still a divine JAM of a song!

put your hand in my hand as we dive into the divine 2003 :lol:.

Edited October 5, 20168 yr by lewistgreen

Divine Inspiration - The Way (Put Your Hand In My Hand)

 

 

Date 12th Jan 2003

1 Week

Official Chart Run 5-14-15-23-28-45-65-x (7 weeks)

 

 

We start 2003 with another trance hit, this time it comes from British dance act Divine Inspiration which consists of three producers and singer Sarah-Jane Scott. The song would only make the British charts and whilst it made #5 it only sold 56,000 copies in total. We'll have songs that sold even less this year though as 2003 was a low-point for sales in the charts and as we'll see later on in the year, a low-point for dance chart #1 peak positions. Two follow-ups would be released with neither of them doing very well, 'What Will Be, Will Be (Destiny)' (2003, UK #55) and 'Someday' (2005, DNC).

Ok, the opening piano couldn't be more Set You Free if it tried, but GOD I loved this back in the day - in the cold winter months this sounded unbelievably epic, like the 1990s colliding with the noughties in three minutes of awesome. Amazed it went top five but this is the era when any old dance hit charted brilliantly in the low January sales - it always used to be my fave chart month of the year for that reason!

 

The one I was originally thinking would start 2003 must be coming soon, it went top 3 on the main chart...

 

In one of the November weeks in 2003 there are no dance hits in the top 40 at all and our dance number 1 that week is just outside the top 40 (the only time it ever happens on this thread, it doesn't happen on the 90s one).

 

Still trying to work this one out! I'll probably know it when it arrives but for now I'm trying to rack my brain remembering what was (mildly) big around that time...

Edited October 6, 20168 yr by BillyH

Haven't listened The Way in quite some years. Althought it sounds more 1997 rather than 2003 (it's like the N-Trance and Tina Cousins collaboration that never happened), it's still a bop.

Ok, the opening piano couldn't be more Set You Free if it tried, but GOD I loved this back in the day - in the cold winter months this sounded unbelievably epic, like the 1990s colliding with the noughties in three minutes of awesome. Amazed it went top five but this is the era when any old dance hit charted brilliantly in the low January sales - it always used to be my fave chart month of the year for that reason!

 

The one I was originally thinking would start 2003 must be coming soon, it went top 3 on the main chart...

Still trying to work this one out! I'll probably know it when it arrives but for now I'm trying to rack my brain remembering what was (mildly) big around that time...

 

Yes looking back at the archive charts, it seems odd how many dance tunes make it to top 10 in January for each year. Even in 2005 (where less dance tunes made top 10 than the previous years) there were lots of dance tunes making top 10 at the start of the year.

 

The Way Is fantastic, I remember that one well, and I think I liked it a bit it at the time (unlike most trance back then) as it was not too hard trance. Now of course, I really do like it, great chorus especially.

 

About the one that was dance number 1 outside the top 40....the clue is that the style of production would have meant it would have done quite well if it was only released at the start of last year.

 

And also speaking of what would do well now, the next one on this thread definitely sounds very relevant now and is way ahead of its time in terms of style and production.

The one I was originally thinking would start 2003 must be coming soon, it went top 3 on the main chart...

We have one more entry before that song appears!

 

Ethan will be doing the next four whenever he is ready. Indeed the next song on this thread is very different to what we've been seeing a lot of recently.

We have one more entry before that song appears!

 

Ethan will be doing the next four whenever he is ready. Indeed the next song on this thread is very different to what we've been seeing a lot of recently

 

No vries with the next entry, true chips and a brand of whisky this time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some tracks that made top 30 in Love Inc and Divine Inspiration's weeks at the top of the dance chart during the first two weeks of 2003

 

 

Land Of The Living - Milk Inc #18 5/1/03

 

 

Original (I think) eurotrance song, good but doesn't have the power of other trance or eurotrance songs at the time. I prefer Walk On Water tbh as there is more emotion to it.

 

Dreamer - CK and Dream Team - #23 5/1/03

 

 

90s rave style start to this one and then switches to big room/ hard house remix of the Supertramp song. Fun but also a bit headache inducing with the hard beats. Obviously, with the Supertramp song, very Scooter Logical Song inspired,

 

Flip and Fill- I Wanna Dance With Somebody - #13 12/1/03

 

 

Eurotrance cover of the Whitney Houston track. Really livens up when they start 'flipping and filling' the original version in a great way - the bit where the music changes after the chorus. I particularly like the bit where Jo James sings 'I wanna dance, dance, da-ance'

 

We Don't Care - Audio Bullys #15 12/1/03

 

 

I knew this well much later because of it being featured in the Lucozade advert, and I started liking the song when the advert started to get played. When Bonkers came out in 2009, it always reminded me of this for some reason, I think it's the spoken vocal and the rugged synths. Nice breakbeat (I think) song, the vocal is good and it is very catchy. Some funky house in there too with the breakdown.

Edited October 8, 20168 yr by TheSnake

Flip and Fill- I Wanna Dance With Somebody - #13 12/1/03

 

 

Eurotrance cover of the Whitney Houston track. Really livens up when they start 'flipping and filling' the original version in a great way - the bit where the music changes after the chorus. I particularly like the bit where Jo James sings 'I wanna dance, dance, da-ance'

 

I prefer this version (although neither doesn't even come close to the original:

 

 

I also like this tune from the 2002/2003 cusp, but it never charted in the UK

 

Edited October 8, 20168 yr by N-S

Never heard the Roxanne version of I Wanna Dance With Somebody before.

 

I still prefer the Flip and Fill version - there is better vocals and more power to it and also it is more different to the original.

 

Of course the original is the best of all, it is of course an 80s dance classic at a time when dance music was developing rapidly (early house music would soon become a chart force) and the Whitney track shows some house features in the breakdown even if it is not quite house.

Number 26 on 26/1/03, this one is a mix of rap and disco influenced dance music. Yes, quite reminiscent of the likes of 24K Magic today, so you could say this is very ahead of its time. Although it has more of a beat to it so is more dancey I would say.

 

Edited October 15, 20168 yr by TheSnake

Jaimeson feat. Angel Blu ‎- True

 

http://i.imgur.com/6UaPI0q.jpg

 

Date 19th Jan 2003

1 Week

Official Chart Run 4-9-14-19-25-34-42-53-58-69-x (10 weeks)

 

 

Next up we have a garage banger from producer/mc Jamie Williams aka Jaimeson. ‘True’ was originally released on 12” vinyl in 2001, as Soulo & Steve Feelgood 'True'. Two years ‘True’, featuring vocals from Angel Blu and a rap from Jaimeson, was finally picked up by a major, V2, and went straight in at #4 in January 2003. He repeated the trick again 7 months later when ‘Complete’, featuring an uncredited vocal from Xara, also entered at #4 (w/e 23/08/2003).

 

Jaimeson’s first taste of chart action actually came in September 2002 when ‘Selecta (Urban Heroes)’, featuring MC Viper, hitting #51. His final chart appearance came with ‘Take Control’ (feat. Angel Blue & CK) reaching #16 in February 2004, while the album ‘Think On Your Feet’ peaked at #42 a fortnight later~

 

 

love these old skool vibez :dance: :music: :dance: