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I think it's just sales throughout those 3 months, don't think they're using the definition were summer starts on the 21st of June.
Not only was 'No Matter What' the biggest selling single during summer 1998 it was also the number 1 on the last ever edition of The Chart Show, which was broadcast on Saturday 22 August 1998. A sad day as it was the best music programme on TV by this point. The programme was replaced by CD:UK which launched the following Saturday.
What is defined as summer in this respect? June, July & August?

 

Seems to include the first week of September too, hence the low appearance of the Manics and Steps, both of which were released on 31st August 1998 (unless they sold enough to be top 40 for a three-month period in one day, but that seems unlikely).

 

1998 was so good <3 These are all 9/10+ songs to me:

 

1 NO MATTER WHAT BOYZONE 1

2 C'EST LA VIE B'WITCHED 1

3 GHETTO SUPASTAR (THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE) PRAS MICHEL FT ODB & MYA 2

4 3 LIONS '98 BADDIEL/SKINNER/LIGHTNING SEED 1

5 VIVA FOREVER SPICE GIRLS 1

7 THE BOY IS MINE BRANDY & MONICA 2

8 HORNY MOUSSE T VS HOT'N'JUICY 2

11 MUSIC SOUNDS BETTER WITH YOU STARDUST 2

12 SAVE TONIGHT EAGLE-EYE CHERRY 6

15 LIFE DES'REE 8

16 LIFE IS A FLOWER ACE OF BASE 5

17 CARNAVAL DE PARIS DARIO G 5

18 MYSTERIOUS TIMES SASH FT TINA COUSINS 2

19 LOOKING FOR LOVE KAREN RAMIREZ 8

22 HOW DO I LIVE LEANN RIMES 7

23 THE ROCKAFELLER SKANK FATBOY SLIM 6

25 TO THE MOON AND BACK SAVAGE GARDEN 3

27 IMMORTALITY CELINE DION & THE BEE GEES 5

28 STRANDED LUTRICIA MCNEAL 3

30 EVERYTHING'S GONNA BE ALRIGHT SWEETBOX 5

31 IF YOU TOLERATE THIS YOUR CHILDREN MANIC STREET PREACHERS 1

33 ONE FOR SORROW STEPS 2

34 MY ALL MARIAH CAREY 4

36 WHAT CAN I DO CORRS 3

39 I CAN'T HELP MYSELF LUCID 7

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Life by Des’Ree!!!!!!! Will she ever stop being so relevant?

We've all got a bit of Des'Ree in us. I too would rather have a piece of toast and watch the evening news.

Number 23 - Rockefeller Skank by Fatboy Slim <3

Number 27 - Immortality by Celine Dion helping out The Bee Gees <3

Number 31 - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next by Manic Street Preachers <3

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sales for some Football songs have been given here

 

1,600,000 Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds - Three Lions (#1, 1996/98)

525,000 Fat Les - Vindaloo (#2, 1998)

300,000 Shout For England - Shout (#1, 2010)

94,000 England United - (How Does It Feel To Be) On Top Of The World (#9, 1998)

82,000 4-4-2 - Come On England (#2, 2004)

This is kind of off-topic, but I feel this was the only thread appropriate to ask this. I am looking for radio 1 top 40 recordings specifically from the years 1998-2002 during the later Mark Goodier years. And I am wondering if anyone knows any place I can find these or if somebody can send me some of they have any or just where I can find them.
If you're looking for some Mark Goodier chart shows there are quite a few available here.
If you're looking for some Mark Goodier chart shows there are quite a few available here.

 

Thanks but I have already eaten my way through these.

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http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/f...in-2001__15859/

 

The battle for Number 1 is what the charts are all about, really. Sometimes it's a close-run thing, while occasionally it'll be a total routing, with one act destroying its competition. Winners can be worthy, or injustices, or total flukes, but one of the most exciting kinds of chart battle is the one whre you simply can't call it – who's going to take this one home?

 

2001 was a golden era for pop. The turn of the century had seen a resurgence in not only really big trainers, brightly coloured vests tops and streaky hair, but also radio-friendly manufactured pop, and one band who'd flourished under this trend were Atomic Kitten.

 

Surviving the shock departure of founding member Kerry Katona and going on to score a career-saving hit with Whole Again, the new-look Atomic Kitten had plenty to prove with their first proper single with the rejigged lineup, a cover of the Bangles' smash 1989 ballad Eternal Flame. Mixing things up and making the song a midtempo, Atomic Kitten were eyeing up a repeat run at the top spot, but they had some pretty big competition.

 

Another band who'd survived a lineup change and come out the other side stronger were Destiny's Child. As a slimmed-down trio, DC were in rude health, with two chart-topping singles in quick succession – Independent Women Part I and Survivor – and a Number 1 album to, ahem, boot. Their next attack on the charts was the Stevie Nicks-sampling Bootylicious, a rip-roaring, hip-swivelling challenge to any guy who dared question Beyoncé, Kelly and Michelle's hotness credentials.

 

Two trios, two sides of the Atlantic, two very different songs. So who won?

 

If you thought it was going to be a close thing, by the way, you were wrong. Eternal Flame absolutely ran away with it, selling 150,000 copies in its first week, compared to 56,000 for Bootylicious. You can, of course, factor in that by this point 440,000 people had already bought the song's parent album Survivor, whereas Eternal Flame in that form was unavailable elsewhere. Not that we're taking anything away from the Kittens' victory, of course.

 

Eternal Flame has racked up a total of 415,000 combined chart sales, while Bootylicious has a tally of 410,000. I'm sure Destiny's Child bear no grudge, particularly as their song has held up better in the streaming era - 14 million plays to AK's 1.2 million.

 

Elsewhere, O-Town scored their second and final UK Top 10 with All Or Nothing. Formed on the MTV reality show Making The Band, the US group are perhaps best known for their fun, knockabout and scarily sexist and objectifying hit Liquid Dreams.

 

Ian van Dahl's Castles In The Sky and Cosmic Gate's Fire Wire were upping the trancey techno banger quota in the Top 10, and farther down the chart, new entries included the Tweenies (!), REM and Catatonia.

 

415,000 - Eternal Flame (403,000 pure sales / 12,000 streaming)

410,000 - Bootylicious (270,000 pure sales / 140,000 streaming)

 

In the 2001 end of year chart, Eternal Flame placed 15th and had sold 379,000 copies. Bootylicious was 67th with 169,280. I feel sceptical about Bootylicious managing to do a further 100k in pure sales? :unsure: In 2013 it was estimated that it had sold 215,000 in total.

'Bootylicious' is such a hugely well-known song that's referred to in popular culture so often, I imagine it must be a strong trickle-seller?

My thinking too. In fact it's surprising that it 'only' has 410k to its name given how popular a song it is, from a year we had million sellers, and sales hadn't quite dipped yet.

'Bootylicious' is such a hugely well-known song that's referred to in popular culture so often, I imagine it must be a strong trickle-seller?

Only 45k sold from 2002 to 2013 though (to take it up to its early 2013 total of 215,000), so that includes the years when downloads were at their strongest. It seems unlikely to me that it would have managed an additional 55k downloads from 2013 to now, given how the market has collapsed.

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Number 1 today in 2004: Natasha Bedingfield – These Words

It’s fourteen years since Natasha showed big brother Daniel what she was made of and scored a Number 1 of her very own with one of the most meta songs ever.

 

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The charts are no stranger to keeping things in the family. Kylie and Dannii, Beyonce and Solange, Ashlee and Jessica, Hilary and Haylie – there’s always room for a little bit of friendly sibling rivalry.

 

Daniel Bedingfield had already scored three chart-toppers of his own before his little sister Natasha came along to carry on the family tradition of chart domination. Her first single, called, erm, Single, had reached the Top 3 but it was follow-up These Words that gave Natasha something to brag about over Christmas dinner, going straight in at Number 1 and spending a second week at the top today in 2004.

 

These Words is a rare breed of pop song that is actually about writing a pop song. While it doesn’t get quite as meta as Carly Simon classic You’re So Vain, Natasha’s tribute to trying to come up with the perfect love song successfully conveys the plight of the everyday songwriter. And you thought coming up with a Number 1 hit would be easy!

 

 

These Words was Natasha’s only chart-topper, and five more Top 40 hits followed, racking up a total of five Top 10 singles in the UK, including Unwritten and the extremely un-subtle I Wanna Have Your Babies. Look at Natasha Bedingfield's complete Official Chart history.

 

These Words has sold over 282,000 copies in the UK to be Natasha’s top selling single. It spent two weeks at Number 1 before being knocked off by rapper Nelly with My Place/Flap Your Wings. It's held up surprisingly well in the streaming era with, 12 million plays logged since 2014. The song's parent album, Unwritten, was also Number 1 the same week and has sold one million copies in the UK.

 

Watch Natasha and bro Daniel perform Chaka Khan’s classic Ain’t Nobody at the 2005 BRIT Awards - because why the heck not, right? - below:

 

 

Elsewhere on the Official Singles Chart Top 40 this week in 2004, genuine one-hit wonders 3 Of A Kind had a late summer Number 1 hit with Babycakes, a 2-Step garage track with a highly suggestive video, dropping to Number 2.

 

New in at Number 3, a second Top 10 hit and an all-time personal best for girl group The 411. The follow-up to their debut hit On My Knees, the super-catchy Dumb had a starring role in a Sarah Jessica Parker commercial. Sadly, there’d only be one more hit for the quartet, Teardrops, which sampled trip-hoppers Portishead, and The 411 disbanded in 2005. Dumb shifted 116,000, including streams.

 

Meanwhile, Maroon 5 were enjoying their second Top 10 with the sickly sweet She Will Be Loved (4), and Sugababes landed their eighth Top tier hit with ballad Caught In A Moment (8) and 'Horny' DJ Mousse T. followed up his Top 3 hit Sex Bomb with Is It Cos I'm Cool (9).

 

The Official Top 100 from this week in 2004 can be viewed here.

 

Wow, I remember this very well. And also how Natasha used to 'punch' the camera before the last chorus everytime she performed it on TOTP or CD:UK.

 

I'd also forgotten how borderline incestuous that BRITs performance with Daniel was. 'These Words' and indeed much of her back catalogue still brilliant mind.

 

I loved The 411, Mousse T and Sugababes in this week's chart as well!

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So is that around 400k for These Words to date (incl. streams) or do you think the 280k figure is including streams?
So is that around 400k for These Words to date (incl. streams) or do you think the 280k figure is including streams?

 

I'd say looking at that it must be the latter (280k including streams). Don't forget as well that single came out in a year before digital downloads were commonplace so sales had gone through the floorboards, so a number one single was selling less than it did a few years before!

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400k. It got certified Gold just last week actually.

 

It sold 199k in 2004, so that's 83k in singles sales since and the rest made up by streaming.

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