December 6, 20186 yr Yep most of the songs above it are incredibly forgettable, especially the new entries (bar Limp Bizkit, missed that one - easily their best!)
December 6, 20186 yr I'm surprised that only made it as high as 20 too, especially with all the other forgotten new entries above it. It did get re-released a few months later and peaked at #17 though.
December 6, 20186 yr I'm surprised that only made it as high as 20 too, especially with all the other forgotten new entries above it. Was there not a reason for its low entry? I seem to remember it being a rerelease/poor airplay or something like that. That list of NEs looks so ridiculous these days!! Best entry there is Dizzee Rascal Jus a Rascal! Edit: Just seen Tawdys post above. Edited December 6, 20186 yr by Christmasteve201
December 31, 20186 yr From the OCC's Albums Turning 20 article: 1.21m Britney Spears - Baby One More Time 892k Melanie C - Northern Star 372k Slipknot - Slipknot
December 31, 20186 yr ... Baby one more time was released in the UK on 15th February 1999. The video was played ENDLESSLY on 'The Box' music channel. It seemed to come on every half an hour. I still can't get over those mammoth first week sales. Edited December 31, 20186 yr by Danny89
January 1, 20196 yr Believe is such a pop classic and definitely deserved number one out of that lot of new entries. Easily Cher's best song and quite a surprise when it went to No.1.
January 17, 20196 yr 2Abk1jAONjw https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...st-dance__4697/ New Year can be a trial for many of us. As the hangovers fade, the celebratory balloons deflate and the last of the Christmas tree pine needles is finally vacuumed out of the carpet, the realisation hits you: it’s January. Boring. Detoxing. Breaking resolutions. Rain. Nothing good ever happens in January. Until… One popstar who was certainly having none of this “let’s give up everything exciting for January” business was Lady Gaga. While she had been bubbling under the pop scene for months, much loved by bloggers and music journos monitoring her success over in the States, January 2009 - ten years ago this week - was when it all started to happen for Lady Gaga – and it all began with her debut single Just Dance. View Lady Gaga's complete Official Chart history here. Debuting at Number 3 before climbing to the top spot in its second week, Just Dance was declaring the joys – and dramas – of getting blitzed at a party long before Miley Cyrus even thought of strapping a giant teddy to her back and eating a skull made of French fries. It was the perfect introduction to a popstar who was going to keep us all gripped right until the end of the year – and beyond. It would have taken a sensational twist of bad luck for Just Dance not to be a hit – radio loved it, and Gaga also enlisted the help of Akon to lend a well-known name to the mix. She even invited her mate Colby O’Donis along too. The video for Just Dance may not have the avant-garde stylings of some of her future work, but the signs that Lady Gaga was not quite like everybody else were already there. Just Dance was the first of 11 Top 10 singles for Mother Monster, and is her third best selling single, with 1.14m combined sales to date, made up of 946,000 traditional sales and 17.6m audio streams. Gaga would, of course, go on to have another three Number 1 singles: Poker Face, Bad Romance and, with Beyoncé, Telephone – all pretty much within a year of each other. Whether we realised it or not, things were never going to be the same again. 2009 was Gaga’s year and we were just lucky enough to live in it. The Top 5 that week wasn’t all about Gaga. Climbing three places to Number 2, but destined never to go any further, was James Morrison and Nelly Furtado with Broken Strings. Former Number 1 Hallelujah, the X Factor winner’s single – and million-seller – from Alexandra Burke slid to Number 3, and another X Factor graduate Leona Lewis sat in fourth place with her cover of Snow Patrol’s Run. Rounding off the Top 5 was another future million-seller: Kings Of Leon with Use Somebody. Elsewhere in the Top 40, there were big climbers for The Saturdays' Issues (becoming their third Top 10), Circus by Britney Spears and P!nk's Sober. 10 years, wow! *.* I remember this being released, don't think I was aware at all about what was to come but, boy, 2009-11 was such a journey with Gaga mania. Top 10 01 (03) Lady Gaga - Just Dance 02 (05) James Morrison feat. Nelly Furtado - Broken Strings 03 (01) Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah 04 (02) Leona Lewis - Run 05 (06) Kings of Leon - Use Somebody 06 (27) The Saturdays - Issues 07 (04) Beyonce - If I Were a Boy 08 (14) Beyonce - Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It) 09 (07) Katy Perry - Hot N Cold 10 (40) Kevin Rudolf feat. Lil Wayne - Let It Rock New Peaks in the Top 40 14 (38) Kanye West - Heartless 16 (37) MGMT - Kids 22 (36) Ne-Yo - Mad 24 (43) Britney Spears - Circus 29 (39) Girls Aloud - The Loving Kind 34 (61) Jason Mraz - I'm Yours 37 (65) P!nk - Sober 39 (92) Alesha Dixon - Breathe Slow So many songs that I've not heard in ages that make me feel nostalgic! 'Issues', 'Circus', 'Sober' and 'Breathe Slow'... I preferred each artists' surrounding singles at the time but nostalgia has definitely helped them really blossom in my affections. :wub:
January 17, 20196 yr Author I remember Just Dance being huge in Australia when I was there, in 2008 though as the UK got the song rather late. Not long after she felt like the biggest pop star on the planet even if only for a few years.
January 17, 20196 yr That time was such a good period for pop with Gaga and Rihanna both having phenomenal success and the only time I can think of that a female artist rivaled Madonna's impact. Females seem to be ruling pop music again but I don't know when we'll hit those 2009-12 heights again.
January 17, 20196 yr That time was such a good period for pop with Gaga and Rihanna both having phenomenal success and the only time I can think of that a female artist rivaled Madonna's impact. Females seem to be ruling pop music again but I don't know when we'll hit those 2009-12 heights again. I'd argue Britney in the late '90s/early '00s was bigger and had more cultural impact than Gaga ever did.
January 31, 20196 yr R8rtWvWD9co https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...is-time__25450/ Believe it or not, there was a time when the TV talent show format was fresh and exciting. Back in 2003, when The X Factor was a mere glint in Simon Cowell's eye, the UK had been gripped by two series of Pop Idol. The show's judges - Cowell, Pete Waterman, Nicki Chapman and Neil Fox - were caught off guard when the public voted for Will Young as the series one champion over Gareth Gates, but they were in for an even bigger shock when the winner of its second run was announced. Michelle McManus, a 23-year-old travel agent from Glasgow, may not have been who Simon and co. had their eye on as the next global superstar (Pete Waterman thought the prospect of her becoming a popstar was "a joke" and stormed off set when she was announced the winner, rude), but the public had spoken. Whether Pete liked it or not, the public had fallen for Michelle's unfussy charm and powerhouse vocals. For her winner's single, Michelle was given the rare gift of an original song, called All This Time. The track had some impressive talent behind it: Steve Mac, Wayne Hector and Ali Tennant are credited, each of who at this point had a string of pop hits for Westlife, Atomic Kitten and Blue under their belt (and plenty more to come). The song had all the ingredients for a champion's debut - a dramatic intro ("This time yesterday, I thought I was gonna die"), lyrics about achieving your goals against the odds and a signature 00s pop key change. All This Time debuted at Number 1 with 118,000 sales and spent three weeks at the top, the last of which was 15 years ago this week. It finished as the sixth best-seller that year, and its total combined sales stand at 305,000. It was to be Michelle's only major hit, with follow-up single The Meaning Of Love stalling at 16. The album of the same name reached Number 3, and - such is the cruel world of pop - she was dropped shortly after. Elsewhere in the Top 40 that week in 2004, Kelis was in the middle of a frustrating four-week stint at Number 2 with Milkshake, Outkast's Hey Ya was in the Top 5, and New York band Scissor Sisters landed their first Top 10 hit with Comfortably Numb at 10. Further down, a little-known band called Maroon 5 made their UK chart debut with Harder To Breathe at 13, while indie rockers The Zutons also landed their first Top 40 with Pressure Point at 19. Top 10 01 (01) Michelle McManus - All This Time 02 (02) Kelis - Milkshake 03 (05) Boogie Pimps - Somebody to Love 04 (09) OutKast - Hey Ya! 05 (04) Michael Andrews feat. Gary Jules - Mad World 06 (08) 2Play feat. Raghav & Jucxi - So Confused 07 (03) Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out 08 (06) Ozzy & Kelly Osbourne - Changes 09 (07) Sean Paul feat. Sasha - I'm Still In Love With You 10 (NE) Scissor Sisters - Comfortably Numb
January 31, 20196 yr I thought the OCC would have made more of Outkast's climb to number 4. For the era it had one of the strangest chart runs, entering the charts at number 6 almost three months earlier before falling as low as number 22 before climbing back up the charts with an eventual peak of number 3 two weeks after this chart. If I recall sales of the single didn't fall that far away when it fell 6-8-10-13-22 and didn't increase that much when the single rallied and moved from number 22 to 16-13-14-9-9-4. Sales of the top 10 singles and albums for this week in 2004 were: SINGLES 35,040 MICHELLE 26.983 KELIS 16,052 BOOGIE PIMPS 15,968 OUTKAST 14,149 GARY JULES 13,454 2PLAY 12,249 FRANZ FERDINAND 12,233 OZZY & KELLY OSBOURNE 11,770 SEAN PAUL FT SASHA 10,065 SCISSOR SISTERS ALBUMS 35,680 KATIE MELUA 26,256 DIDO 21,934 BLACK EYED PEAS 20,502 WILL YOUNG 19,083 EVANESCENCE 17,782 TEARS FOR FEARS 17,064 NO DOUBT 15,356 OUTKAST 14,486 MICHAEL JACKSON 13,650 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
January 31, 20196 yr I can actually remember listening to the new top 40 the Sunday (25 January) this chart was announced and hearing 'Comfortably Numb' being a new entry at number 10. It was the first time I'd heard the Scissor Sisters version and I remember thing "WTF is this!". At the time I thought it was awful and thought was some sort of pisstake... a few months later I bought their album! As well as Maroon 5's album, I bought both albums on the same day. I still like both albums though I'll admit it's a while since I listened to either album. Edited January 31, 20196 yr by Robbie
January 31, 20196 yr Michelle and Maroon 5 making their chart debuts on the same day, the true duality of good and evil. If only their careers had been swapped over. x
January 31, 20196 yr Michelle and Maroon 5 making their chart debuts on the same day, the true duality of good and evil. If only their careers had been swapped over. xMichelle beat Maroon 5 by two weeks! This was her third week at the top...
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