Wow I thought M3’s Bailamos is a cover of Enrique’s Bailamos but no... Never heard it before but a great trance track!

Genie in a Bottle is the only great track in that top 10

 

That top10 is amazing.

 

I'd only skip Westlife and R Kelly. Genie deserved to stay at number 1 though.

 

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I loved Tina's comeback, easily one of my favs from her. A year before she had a massive european hit with Eros Ramazotti named "Cose Della Vita", shame that never had an impact in the UK.

"Don't Stop" & "Bug A Boo" are probably one of the best from ATB and Destiny's Child respectively. The UK mix of "Dont Stop" was remixed by Sequential One, an alias of ATB himself. I think it might be the best version.

"Blue" and "2 Times" are two eurodance classics, still remembered to this day.

 

Anyway, glad some of you discovered Bailamos. It's always been a great trance song for those who like the genre. Underappreciated. This is the Matt Darey remix, he was on fire at the time.

I miss the days when trance was popular.

 

Still shocked at how much "She's So High" flopped in the UK. Its a classic here.

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I Try probably the biggest song in that top 10!

 

:blink: When 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)' is in there?!

 

There are two other songs I'd probably argue are bigger too.

This week in 2009 - Cheryl gets massive debut #1 single

 

 

Going solo is always a pretty big deal for any popstar who has enjoyed huge success as part of a group, but expectations were especially high for Cheryl Cole, as she was then. Success isn’t guaranteed for ex-band members – some of the most popular singers from the biggest groups haven’t been able to cut it alone.

 

The Newcastle-born star was arguably the most famous member of Girls Aloud, thanks to a high-profile marriage to football ace Ashley Cole, lucrative ad campaigns and a seat on the most well-known judging panel in Britain. Cheryl could quite easily have stayed behind that famous X Factor desk and lived happily ever after, but she wasn’t done with pop yet.

 

After a feature on will.i.am’s 2008 hit Heartbreaker, Cheryl seemed to make solo stardom look effortless. Almost 18 months later, when she was good and ready her debut single Fight For This Love went straight in at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart, ten years ago this week. Cheryl recently celebrated the milestone herself:

 

Fight For This Love wasn’t just a Number 1; it was a phenomenon, selling over 430,000 copies in its first two weeks on sale - no doubt boosted by this stellar performance on X Factor. Cheryl knocked her former X Factor protégée Alexandra Burke off the top and stayed there two weeks until another bunch of X Factor stars sent her packing – JLS’s Everybody In Love was the song to do the deed.

 

Fight For This Love was the first of five Number 1s for Cheryl – she also hit the top with Promise This (2010), Call My Name (2012), Crazy Stupid Love and I Don't Care (both 2014). See where all of Cheryl's singles and albums have charted in UK.

 

Fight For This Love has a total of 1.17 million chart sales in the UK, 1.04 of which are pure sales - one of the few tracks in UK chart history to pass the one million sales figure. Since streaming records began in 2014, the song has been played 14.7 million times.

 

Elswhere in the Official Singles Chart that week, Whitney Houston returned to the Top 10 for the first time in nine years with the Alicia Keys-penned Million Dollar Bill (5), and Black Eyed Peas were climbing fast with their future Number 1 Meet Me Halfway up 15 to Number 11. Further down, Alphabeat were new at Number 20 with often-forgotten gem The Spell.

 

01 [NE] Cheryl - Fight For This Love

02 [01] Alexandra Burke - Bad Boys

03 [03] Chip - Oopsy Daisy

04 [02] Robbie Williams - Bodies

05 [14] Whitney Houston - Million Dollar Bill

06 [04] Taio Cruz - Break Your Heart

07 [06] Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling

08 [05] Jay-Z - Empire State of Mind

09 [09] Michael Bublé - Haven't Met You Yet

10 [NE] Young Soul Rebels - I Got Soul

 

11 [26] Black Eyed Peas - Meet Me Halfway

17 [NE] Cobra Starship - Good Girls Go Bad

20 [NE] Alphabeat - The Spell

22 [NE] Foo Fighters - Wheels

25 [86] Christina Aguilera - Hurt

27 [29] Big Pink - Dominos

30 [56] Calvin Harris - Flashback

33 [41] Paolo Nutini - Pencil Full Of Lead

 

Look back on the Buzzjack Sunday Chart thread here.

20 years ago, what a tune!

 

 

Totally deserved that top10

This week in 1999 - Geri wins battle of the Solo Spices

 

There are chart battles – and then there are chart battles like this! In 1999, we were excitedly awaiting the new millennium and wondering whether the infamous Y2K bug would obliterate us all (we made it!) but in the midst of all that, there was a pop war happening. Kind of.

 

In 1998, Spice Girls' fans were left reeling when Geri aka Ginger Spice sensationally quit the band only days after pulling out of live performances due to illness. The remaining four carried on without her to fulfil commitments to their sellout world tour, and that Christmas released their first song without her, aptly named Goodbye. In 1999, Geri launched her solo career and scored her first Number 1 that summer with second single Mi Chico Latino.

 

With Spice Girls enjoying some downtime, it was only natural the might seek out solo opportunities. Mel B landed a number 1 with Missy Elliott and I Want You Back the previous year and now it was Emma Bunton's turn. For her first solo effort, she teamed up with dance duo Tin Tin Out for a fairly faithful cover of Edie Brickell and the new Bohemians' sole hit What I Am, which peaked at 31 over tan years earlier. So far, so good – except there was something interesting about the release date… it clashed with the launch of Geri's this solo single, Lift Me Up. Uh-oh. See all Geri's UK hits in her archive

 

Obviously, this being two Spice Girls who, at this point, weren't on particularly good terms, and releasing singles which both had a fairly laidback vibe, the press seized upon it and pitted the two women against one another. Both Geri and Emma did plenty of promo, each politely batted away any questions about their former bandmates, and both songs were backed with big-budget videos – you can totally imagine Geri coming up with the ideas in her video, can't you? ❤️

 

While it was pitched at as a race, in the end, it was a fairly conclusive victory for the artist formerly known as Ginger. In those crazy seven days, Geri sold 139,500 copies of Lift Me Up, against Tin Tin Out and Emma's (still very impressive) 106,300. It was a second Number 1 for Geri – two more awaited her – and Emma would have to wait only a little longer before her first solo chart-topper, in 2001. Look at Emma Bunton's full solo UK chart history

 

Thankfully, the two Spices are friends again and have been on two reunion tours, in 2007 and 2019 – do you think they ever talk about these two songs?

 

Elsewhere in the chart, Jennifer Lopez scored her second Top 10 with Waiting For Tonight at 5, with a decidedly different, dancey flavour from her first hit – and complete with a very zeitgeist millennium panic video to go with it. Another Level – led by Dane Bowers who would go on to duet with another former Spice, Victoria Beckham, on her first solo foray – landed their last ever hit with Bomb Diggy, at 6 (that title makes sense when you hear it, in a way, and Savage Garden enjoyed a third Top 10 with I Knew I Love You, in at 10.

 

Plenty of other new entries in the Top 40 this week in 1999, especially dance tracks, but perhaps the most notable is at Number 30. Unknown Australian act Madison Avenue enter here with Don't Call Me Baby, before falling out of the Top 40 altogether – it would be another six months before the song was rereleased and would become the Number 1 smash it was destined to be.

 

 

01 [NE] Geri Halliwell - Lift Me Up

02 [NE] Tin Tin Out feat Emma Butnon - What I Am

03 [01] Five - Keep On Movin'

04 [02] R Kelly - If I Could Turn Back The Hands Of Time

05 [NE] Jennifer Lopez - Waiting For Tonight

06 [NE] Another Level - Bomb Diggy

07 [07] Macy Gray - I Try

08 [04] Westlife - Flying Without Wings

09 [03] Christina Aguilera - Genie In A Bottle

10 [NE] Savage Garden - I Knew I Loved You

 

14 [NE] Alena - Turn It Around

15 [NE] Planet Perfecto - Bullet In The Gun

16 [NE] Mr. Vegas - Heads High

18 [NE] Embrace - Hooligan

28 [NE] Marc Anthony - I Need To Know

30 [NE] Madison Avenue - Don't Call Me Baby

36 [NE] Catatonia - Karaoke Queen

38 [NE] Divine Comedy - Gin Soaked Boy

 

The dance entries this week at 14, 15 and 30 are all great especially DCMB, it surprised me that it took a re-release for it to be a proper hit.

The J-Lo song is great too and out of the Spice tracks Emma should've won.

Same with 'Bullet In The Gun' which got a re-release and a re-edit in 2000 and went Top 10.

Classic Bullet in the Gun!

J-Lo's very best song. :wub:

Waiting For Tonight and that Alena song are so amazing. Many memories

 

Interesting that we had 2 dance songs charting this week that would be re-released in 2000 and do much better. Not surprised, since I believe 2000 was the best year for chart dance music.

 

I'm glad Lift Me Up beat What I Am. Which is interesting cause I thought the opposite in 1999

No article but OCC are highlighting this week the chart battle in 2003 between Busted and Britney Spears/Madonna, which was won by 'Crashed The Wedding' giving Busted their 2nd of 4 #1s.

The real winner of course was 'Hey Ya' which eventually spent 12 weeks in the top 10 with a #3 peak.

 

01 [NE] Busted - Crashed The Wedding

02 [NE] Britney Spears ft. Madonna - Me Against The Music

03 [04] Kevin Lyttle - Turn Me On

04 [01] Kylie Minogue - Slow

05 [03] Fatman Scoop ft. Crooklyn Clan - Be Faithful

06 [NE] Outkast - Hey Ya

07 [02] Blazin Squad - Flip Reverse

08 [05] The Black Eyed Peas - Where Is The Love

09 [NE] Ronan Keating - Lost For Words

10 [NE] Missy Elliott - Pass That Dutch

 

11 [NE] Red Hot Chill Peppers - Fortune Faded

14 [NE] Ludacris - Stand Up

15 [NE] Javine - Surrender (Your Love)

23 [NE] Basement Jaxx ft. Dizzee Rascal - Lucky Star

27 [NE] Melanie C - Melt/Yeh Yeh Yeh

29 [NE] Elephant Man - Pon De River Pon De Bank

31 [NE] Linus Loves ft. Sam Obernik - Stand Back

37 [NE] Cooper Temple Clause - Blind Pilots

 

42 [NE] Razorlight - Rip It Up [would reach #20 on 2004 re-release]

Razorlight bubbling under there in anticipation of a big 2004.

 

Some greatvwee tracks there from Basement Jazz/Dizzee, Ludacris and Fortune Faded got HUGE amounts of spins from radio 1. From memory it was a example of instant add to the B list which never happened back then for artists (well rarely)!

Johnny Cash was at No51 that week with “Hurt” (re-entry the previous week at 39). I know because that was the number 1 on my personal chart that week - the second of 5 weeks!

terrible top 2, one of the worst ever :D crazy how 2 of the best and biggest pop stars make a collaboration, something that was pretty rare for Madonna, and it turned out to be the shittiest song ever, Im amazed any of the 2 green-lighted it cos it's beyond bad

I love the song itself but Madonna's presence is pretty pointless. Wouldn't be surprised if she was a last minute addition to the song as a way to capitalise on their VMA performance.

Johnny Cash was at No51 that week with “Hurt” (re-entry the previous week at 39). I know because that was the number 1 on my personal chart that week - the second of 5 weeks!

 

I take it that was an old song of his?

I take it that was an old song of his?

 

No - it was a cover of Nine Inch Nails. Leona Lewis murdered it about 5 years later and got into the Top 10. : (

 

It was released in early 2003 but re-released later after he passed away.

Oh I remember it now, great track - and yes Leona did murder it but she was popular then so obv it means it went top 10!

There was one other new entry that week - Since I Told You It's Over by Stereophonics at #16.

 

#2 was Madonna's first chart collaboration with another artist, although she has had a couple since (most notably 4 Minutes). It was her 3rd #2 of the year, after American Life and Hollywood.

 

And Hey Ya! really did have a crazy chart run for the era: 6-8-10-13-22-16-13-14-9-9-4-4-3-6-6-6-9-19-32-45-65.

Sales

 

SINGLES

 

55,000 Busted

48,751 Britney / Madonna

 

22,000 Kylie (4)

20,500 Outkast (6)

13,000 Ronan (9)

4,700 Mel C (27)

4,500 Linus Loves (31)

1,200 Boysterous (53)

1,200 Plastic Boy Ft Rozalla (55)

832 The Hazzards (67)

799 Seal (68)

 

ALBUMS

 

83,604 Dido

70,000 REM

 

Yes, that's as much sales information as would normally be given back then. The above is a copy and paste of what was posted in the weekly sales thread in the Dotmusic Chart forum.