September - Cry For You (You'll Never See Me Again)

 

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Date: 13 April 2008

Weeks at #1: 3 weeks

Official Chart Run: 9-5-5-6-7-10-9-9-15-15-19-19-20-24-26-27-29-35-44-50-62-61-78 (22 weeks top 75 +1 top 100)

 

 

Sweden delivered commercial dance gold again in the form of "Cry For You" by September. It peaked at number 5 in the UK Singles Chart and ended 2008 as the 35th best seller, while grabbing the dance number 1 here for 3 weeks (inconsecutively).

 

September was the moniker at the time for Swedish singer Petra Marklund; she had previously hit the UK Singles Chart with "Satellites" - though at a lowly (and unjustified) #96. "Cry For You" was a #6 hit in Sweden before it was released in the UK through Hard2Beat records, together with a snappier UK radio edit clocking in at 2:47.

 

"Cry For You" initially appeared on two September albums - "In Orbit" and "Dancing Shoes" - before a compilation of all of Septembers hits to date was released in 2008, which is when "Cry For You" found sucess in the UK, the US, Australia and Canada. Another compilation aimed at the UK was released digitally in 2009 called "Cry For You - The Album". It failed to chart.

 

The song, also known by its extended title of "Cry For You (You'll Never See Me Again)", is a europop dance hit, and continues the Eurodance revival in the chart, following Basshunter's early year domination with the revamped "Boten Anna". Lyrically about being finished with a relationship, and being strong in moving on, reinforced by strong punchy synths.

 

The UK version of the music video features Marklund singing the song in a building in a futuristic city. There are clones who are marching and being watched over by a group of women.

 

September had a further top 40 hit in 2009 which will be revealed in one form or another later in the thread.

The instrumental of Cry For You definitely reminds me of Supermode's Tell Me Why, but its a good song in its own right. I still prefer Can't Get Over by September.

Edited June 6, 20187 yr by Queef Of Peas

I loved Cry For You! Still sounding fresh even today!

Cry For You is one of my absolute favorite songs of all time! Surprised it only managed 3 weeks on this, was expecting it to be a behemoth with something around 2 months on top or so lmao.

Basshunter ft DJ Mental Theo's Bazzheadz - Now You're Gone

 

Date: 19th January 2008

Weeks at #1: 6 weeks

Official Chart Run: 14-1-1-1-1-1-3-4-4-6-10-11-15-18-25-26-31-34-40-46-54-63-73-76-75-58-57-53-38-41-59-60-67-89 + 2 weeks (18/10/08) 92-98 + 4 weeks (03/01/09) 93-79-86-91 (20 weeks top 40 + 20 more weeks top 100)

 

2007's chart dance music was dominated by electro house, but the very end of 2007 and start of 2008 there was definitely a big change (although electro wasn't completely gone as we see later on in the year). We saw the bassline garage revival with the last dance number 1 "Heartbroken", and now another genre was being revived with 'Now You're Gone', eurodance. These two genres would largely dominate dance music at the start of 2008.

 

Now You're Gone was originally 'Boten Anna' a song in Basshunter's native Swedish about a female Internet Relay Chat bot, which was a big hit in Europe in 2006-2007. For Now You're Gone the English language version, the tempo was speeded up and the lyrics changed with a new vocalist, Sebastian Westwood, singing them. I had wrongly assumed before it was Basshunter himself (Jonas Altberg) who sung them on this track.

 

Production-wise it has a similar hard bouncy beat that a lot of 00s eurodance has, and it builds up to a dramatic drop which forms the climax of the song, announced by the words 'ready for take-off' . There is also a nice atmospheric part without a beat about half way through.

 

Now You're Gone stayed at #1 for 5 weeks in the UK, and made #8 in the 2008 year end chart. It started the eurodance revival we would see in 2008 in the charts. We will see more from Basshunter later in this chart.

 

I love Now You're Gone. From what I remember, The Bazzheadz had recorded the English version of the track which was then sped up on Audacity by 'DJ Alex' adding his name to the beginning. It then did the rounds on Limewire, also being sent through MSN Messenger amongst many 17 year olds such as myself at the time. Then I guess Basshunter's team became aware of the track and decided to give it an English release? I had the CD single and noticed a selling point on the front cover was "includes DJ Alex remix", which was essentially the extended version of the radio edit, nothing like the 'DJ Alex' version and not even credited to a 'DJ Alex'. Please correct me if I have got the story wrong.

 

Basshunter's follow up should have been 'Pretty Rave Girl' instead of 'All I Ever Wanted'. 'All I Ever Wanted' was basically "quick, come up with some lyrics so we can release DotA in English", when I feel Pretty Rave Girl lyrics would have worked much better.

 

 

 

Wiley - Wearing My Rolex

 

 

Date: 27 April 2008

Weeks at #1: 5 weeks

Official Chart Run: 4-3-2-5-6-10-13-14-17-18-19-21-23-26-27-32-42-47-54-65-77-88-x (22 weeks top 100)

 

 

'Wearing My Rolex' became the breakthrough hit single for Wiley (real name Richard Cowie), a rapper from East London, as a solo artist. He previously featured on hits as part of the groups Pay As U Go and Roll Deep, the latter which he founded. He also had a minor top 40 hit in 2004 called 'Wot Do U Call It'. The track is described as 'grime meets electro' or 'hip-house', and was one of a few crossovers that grime had with mainstream dance music. The decision has been made to count this as a dance song for this list although Wiley is not usually considered a dance act, as the production is rather dancey, and brilliant I may add.

 

The track is produced by Bless Beats (who also produced for a number of other rappers, including Tinie Tempah on his #1 single 'Not Letting Go') and it heavily samples the DSK song 'What Would We Do', including its lyric 'usually bubble', which I'm told is London slang for 'laugh'. Lyrically the song is about meeting a girl, most likely at a party whilst being drunk, and wanting to have her. There isn't much more to it especially as the same verse is repeated all throughout the song. The music video is particularly short at just over 2 minutes, but the radio edit (

) is slightly longer if you want to hear that version instead. The song peaked at #2 unable to topple Madonna's '4 Minutes'. Like many British rap songs though it failed to chart outside of the UK.

 

The follow-up 'Summertime' only managed to peak at #45 but he soon returned to the top 20 with 'Cash In My Pocket' (#18) and eventually had a #1 single with 'Heatwave' in 2012. 'Rolex' came from his fifth album 'See Clear Now', also his first commercial album. He has since disowned the album, citing lack of creative control for the project, and following 2013's 'The Ascent' (his second commercial album) he has abandoned chart-friendly music in favour of returning to grime. His most recent album 'Godfather II' (12th in total, and a reference to his title 'the godfather of grime') was released just over a month ago but he has hinted at retiring. Also, earlier this year he was awarded with an MBE for services to music.

Another entry so soon! You really want to get this thread finally finished don't you dan ;)

 

Anyway Wearing My Rolex is great, definitely one of the better electro-house songs of the late 00s imo, both the rap and the electro synths are fab. I don't think I was much a fan of it at the time sadly, as I didn't really like electro house back then!

 

Funny electro house came back into charts with this after it had kind of gone away at the start of 2008 in favour of eurodance and bassline garage.

Other dance hits during September and Wiley's runs...

 

Fragma - Toca's Miracle 2008 (#16)

 

Another one of the dance re-releases, this one turned a trance classic into an... okay progressive house track. Decent but a bit pointless when the original exists.

 

Pendulum - Propane Nightmares (#9)

 

The signature hit for this drum n' bass band and their first entry to the top ten. I know this one has quite a few fans here, and it is very unique for 2008, well before the DJ Fresh era.

 

Cahill - Trippin' On You (feat. Nikki Belle) (#25)

 

Perhaps most known for remixing pretty much everything in the late 00s/early 10s, they also managed to have a hit single of their own.

 

Wideboys - Daddy-O (feat. Shaznay Lewis) (#32)

 

Another bassline garage song while the genre was still somewhat popular, I've never actually heard this before. It's okay I guess, like Cahill though the Wideboys are more known for remixing a lot of chart hits around this time, and even now.

 

Gusto - Disco's Revenge 2008 (#34)

 

Remixed by Freemasons for 2008. Quite decent but nothing too special.

 

Snap - Rhythm Is A Dancer 2008 (#23)

 

Seriously, what was up with 2008 and everything getting a remix? :lol: Not heard it before but skimming it... wow this version is really pointless.

Another entry so soon! You really want to get this thread finally finished don't you dan ;)

 

Anyway Wearing My Rolex is great, definitely one of the better electro-house songs of the late 00s imo, both the rap and the electro synths are fab. I don't think I was much a fan of it at the time sadly, as I didn't really like electro house back then!

 

Funny electro house came back into charts with this after it had kind of gone away at the start of 2008 in favour of eurodance and bassline garage.

Yep, me and Midge are now doing a schedule of two per week. We'd still appreciate your comments in this thread but you were taking too long when it was your turn and I'd quite like the thread finished not too long after the 2-year(!) anniversary of the thread opening, so we're going to pick up the pace.

Mint Royale - Singin' In The Rain

 

 

Date:8th June 2008

Weeks at #1: 4 weeks

Official Chart Run: (03/09/2005) 20-32-37-58-89 (08/06/2008) 28-1-1-8-17-34-40-49-35-40-56-79 (17 weeks top 100)

 

 

This reentry into the charts is all down to the power of reality TV. 'Singin In The Rain' by Mint Royale was a #20 hit in 2005, spending 3 weeks top 40. This charting back then was helped by being on a car advert. Then about 3 years later, dancer George Sampson performed his winning routine to the song and Mint Royale went to #1 in the UK chart for 2 weeks.

 

Mint Royale is a duo from Manchester, England consisting of Neil Claxton (who was previously part of the Urban Cookie Collective) and Chris Baker. Mint Royale started off being remixers and became more well known after their remix of the very quirky 'Tequila' by Terrorvision made #2 in the charts in 1999. They had two more low top 40 hits in the early 00s 'The Sexiest Man in Jamaica' and 'Blue Man'. Their style of dance is usually the big beat style and 'Singin In The Rain' holds true to this style, although I used to wrongly think it was funky house.

 

The video is a good one, featuring a dancing robot made up of blocks in a tunnel.

 

I loved 'Singin in the Rain' when I first heard it in 2008, it sounded futuristic and different to anything that was around at the time. I really liked how it builds up around the middle of the song. Nowadays the style does remind me a bit of Galantis with its quirky vocal and happy sound. The 2008 re-entry was Mint Royale's last top 40 hit, although they continued to produce music until March 2016 when they split up.

I love the 'Disco's Revenge' remix as you might expect. I did like the different take on Toca's Miracle at the time, but now I must say the 2000 version is definitely better with more energy to it. Yes in 2008 there seems to have been quite a few remixed old dance tracks making the chart.

 

Propane Nightmares is amazing, don't remember it much from the time sadly. 'Trippin On You' is a very nice tune, that kind of dance was coming to an end sadly though in the charts.

The next one I will leave the entry for danG to do. It is a good enough tune imo but I have a feeling danG is a bigger fan of it as it has one of his fave producers at the helm.

Midge will take it. You are right that one of my faves is behind it, and it is a rather massive hit too. My favourite of the year is still to come after that though.

The instrumental of Cry For You definitely reminds me of Supermode's Tell Me Why, but its a good song in its own right. I still prefer Can't Get Over by September.

 

They "sound like each other" because they both sample Bronski Beat! I honestly thought everybody knew this lol.

They "sound like each other" because they both sample Bronski Beat! I honestly thought everybody knew this lol.

 

Really! I didn't know Cry For You sampled 'Smalltown Boy' as well :o

 

 

Did you really not notice? :lol:

Did you really not notice? :lol:

 

Well I thought it might of been inspired by Supermode's Tell Me Why, but was slightly different in melody. I didn't know it directly sampled the same song!

Edited June 10, 20187 yr by Queef of Screech

Rhythm Is A Dancer reentered thanks to the Brains Drench Water advert, I believe.

Wasn't it the original 1992 mix of Snap that re-entered? Certainly was the one used on the ad.

It could well have been the original that did most of the selling for all I know. I wasn't following the charts back then anyway so just presumed it was the new 2008 version.