Thought it time to bring this back!

 

19k for 'All the Things She Said' in 2022 works out at 3.8k a week which seems very high to me - is it being used on Tik Tok?

 

Edit: It passed Platinum 107 weeks ago which would mean it's sold ~1.5k per week since so 3.8k is definitely unusual.

How Sinead Quinn wasn't mentioned in 2003 Flashback ?

 

Tatu is "my Joe Dolce", I strongly dislike their hit, because only "I Can't Break Down" deserved to be # 1 on that week.

 

How Sinead Quinn wasn't mentioned in 2003 Flashback ?

 

Tatu is "my Joe Dolce", I strongly dislike their hit, because only "I Can't Break Down" deserved to be # 1 on that week.

The flashback chart is from the week before 'I Can't Break Down' entered the chart. A previous Flashback article, from February 2015, does cover the week Sinead Quinn entered the chart at number 2 https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/f...he-chart__8135/

 

How Sinead Quinn wasn't mentioned in 2003 Flashback ?

 

Tatu is "my Joe Dolce", I strongly dislike their hit, because only "I Can't Break Down" deserved to be # 1 on that week.

 

 

Ha funnily enough I Can't Break Down was the first song that came on Shuffle this morning when I was getting ready!

 

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...zed-hit__35234/

 

There are movie themes and then there are movie themes - songs that seem to not only perfectly define the film in which they were featured, but the time in society in which they were released.

 

It's the way for Whitney Houston's beloved I Will Always Love You cover from The Bodyguard, and it's the same for My Heart Will Go On, Celine Dion's blockbuster theme for Titanic, the highest-grossing film of all time for 12 years, from 1998-2010.

 

From the moment that My Heart Will Go On Starts, you can basically feel the overwrought emotion and dramatism dripping from Dion's voice. "Every night in my dreams, I see you, I feel you, that is how I know you go on..." we mean...come on. There is melodramatic and then there's that.

 

But My Heart Will Go On's un-dying passion was perfectly suited for Titanic, a sprawling three-hour epic that seemed transplanted from another age; a Golden Age spectacle that somehow came out in 1997, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. It's success was never, ever ensured; it was looked upon as James Cameron's biggest folly, a massive risk, until it suddenly became a global phenomenon.

 

It's also the defining song of Dion's career; an insurmountable ballad which couldn't have been sung by anyone else than her, with that voice. Funny, then, that she actually didn't even want to record the song at all - having to be forced into the recording booth by her husband and manager to cut the demo.

 

The story then goes that writer-director James Cameron was hesitant to include the song at the end of the film (fearing it would be "too commercial") until hearing the final product, co-produced by the film's composer James Horner and Walter Afanasieff (which explains why at points the track sounds very similar to an early-career Mariah Carey power ballad, no?).

 

Titanic-mania swept the globe upon release (helped in part by the extreme popularity of its leading man) and My Heart Will Go On became a sensation. This week 24 years ago, the track debuted at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart, with first week sales of 234,000. It became Dion's second UK Number 1 single, and was her last to hit the top spot.

 

Overall, My Heart Will Go On has chart sales in excess of 2.1 million, making it one of the biggest-selling singles by a female artist of all time in the UK.

And the songs popularity (much like the film that birthed is - Titanic remains the third highest-grossing movie of all time worldwide) endures to this day. February isn't even over yet and according to Official Charts Company data, My Heart Will Go On's streaming chart sales tot up to 240,000.

 

Elsewhere in the Official Singles Chart for this week in 1998, Dion knocked previous chart-toppers Aqua to Number 2 with their frantic hit Doctor Jones, while there were two further new entries in the Top 10; Camisra with Let Me Show You (6) and Bluetones' Solomon Bites The Worm (10).

 

There were further new entries that week from; DJ Quicksilver with Planet Love (12), Air's Sexy Boy (13), a re-entry for Stereophonics and Local Boy In The Photograph (14), Lily's A Night In Manhattan (16), Sholo Ama's Much Love (17), Hurricane 1's Only The Strongest Will survive (19), DJ Supreme and The Horns of Jericho (29), Dive's Boogie (35) and finally, Uresei Yatsura with Hello Tiger (40)

Great figures for My Heart Will Go On. I wonder if Think Twice is close too.

 

Man I remember this coming out as a teenager. This was such a big deal at the time especially when the world was nowhere near evolved over gay rights compared to today. Yes t.A.T.u faux lesbian was just a PR tactic but it still brought gay relationships to the mainstream and that blew a lot of peoples minds at the time. "All the things she said" is still a great pop song, along with that genius music video. If only the Russian music industry had been more inspired by t.A.T.u. like Sweden was for ABBA.

 

Good to see it getting closer to a million chart sales, with a little help from TikTok no doubt.

Edited February 17, 20223 yr by JamBlade

 

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...-fragma__36104/

 

In April 2000, Brits were still buzzed by the arrival of The New Millennium and the Official Singles Chart this week 22 years ago is the only evidence you need that a trance revolution was on the way.

 

Toca's Miracle by German vocal group Fragma and featuring the uncredited vocals of British pop star Coco is one of the most influential dance tracks of the past two decades - its touch can be felt everywhere, from the emergence of hitmakers such as Cascada and September, and even in the discographies of pop groups like Girls Aloud (shoutout to Memory Of You - a trance-like cousin to Toca!).

 

This week 22 years ago, it debuted at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart. An instant classic it had chart sales totalling over 185,000 in its first week alone.

 

A bootleg mashup of two existing songs - Coco's 1994 Top 40 hit I Need A Miracle (written by Rob Davis who also wrote Kylie's Can't Get You Out Of My Head!) and Fragma's own Toca Me, Toca's Miracle would sit at the top of the Official Singles Chart for two weeks. To date, its total chart sales stand at over 711,000.

Although this number has been impacted by the fact that, as of 2022, the song is no longer available to stream or digitally download, a complicated situation arising from a number of samples present in the song.

 

Fragma's Number 1 debut bumped Craig David's Fill Me In down to Number 2 after one week at the top. The R&B star's iconic hit would never return to the summit as Fragma and Coco would stay there for another week.

 

What follows is quite simply an outrageous collection of songs: The Thong Song by Sisqo was the second-highest new entry of the week (3), followed by the classic Sweet Female Attitude's Flowers (4) and The Bad Touch by Bloodhound Gang (5). Taste!

 

American import Jessica Simpson made her Official Charts debut with her first single I Wanna Love You Forever, landing at Number 7. Meanwhile, Sash! achieved their eighth Top 10 with Just Around The Hill.

 

Melanie C and TLC member Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes spent a fourth week in the Top 10 with Never Be the Same Again (7), and Steps fell six places to 10 with Deeper Shade of Blue (10).

 

Elsewhere in the Top 40, legendary releases from Destiny's Child (12), Blink 182 (19), All Saints (26) and Geri Halliwell (28) held on strong.

'Toca's Miracle' just has been added to download & streaming platforms today so a little weird that they've posted an article heavily referencing the song and not acknowledged that.

 

(The article was posted yesterday tbf but surely they should have known the Fragma album re-release was coming!)

A new vocal version of the song, with a different singer.

 

However, the original hasn't been available to stream or purchase for many many years, so its numbers stalled during the digital and streaming era were null. I do remember the song being omitted from Radio 1's best selling singles of the 2000s when they did it in 2009 or 2010.

Edited April 22, 20223 yr by Sempachorra

Just as well I purchased the cd single in April 2000 then!

 

Incidentally the writer of ‘I Need A Miracle’ Rob Davis was also a member of 70s glam rock group Mud who had three number ones in their own right!

I disagree with their statement "a trance revolution was on the way". Trance was already massive in 1999 and if anything in 2000 it was being pushed to the side slightly for UK Garage to take centre stage.

'All The Things She Said' & 'Toca's Miracle' <3 Surreal how a member of Mud wrote the Fragma one :o

 

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...rdrive-__36723/

 

Everyone has to start somewhere, and a UK Number 1 single isn't a bad place to kick off a solo career.

 

Such was the case for Becky Hill, who (quite literally) exploded on to the scene as the lead vocalist on Oliver Helden's frantic dance cut Gecko (Overdrive) which debuted at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart 8 years ago (!) this week.

 

Gecko (Overdrive) originally started life as a solo track for Dutch DJ Heldens, released in early 2014, before it was re-produced, trimmed down and had vocals added by Becky, who co-wrote the song's hook with MNEK.

 

It was an important release for Becky - her first as a co-lead artist, and the first since her tenure as a contestant on the first series of The Voice UK (where she reached the semi-finals). The Voice was an odd prospect for a seemingly star-making programme, and had yet to prove that its contestants could compete with the crop of talent The X Factor had by then been churning out for little less than a decade.

 

But it's all about the first impression - and what a first impression Becky makes here. Her voice - so recogniseable now, of course as a radio staple - is deep, rough and un-tamed as she scales the highs of Helden's at times almost animalistic beat.

 

Gecko (Overdrive) proved to be a hit upon release and then some. It debuted at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart with 79,000 chart units and would stay on top for one week. It also holds the distinction of being the last Number 1 single in UK chart history to be calculated on sales alone. The next week, streaming data would be included for the first time, and see Ariana Grande debut at Number 1 with Problem. Becky also remains the first and only contestant of The Voice to reach Number 1 in the UK.

 

Overall, Gecko has logged over 1.5 million chart units in the UK, including a combined 125 million streams across both audio and video formats. Overall, it's still Becky's best-selling song in the UK to date.

The Number 1 debut should have proved to be a massive launchpad for Becky on to the UK music scene, but her journey had several peaks and troughs, including an abandoned 2015 debut album (justice for Losing!) but she found her feet eventually, proving herself to be a reliable collaborator on dance-pop bops.

 

Becky has since accomplished four UK Top 10 singles and 15 in the wider Top 40. She might just add a fifth Top 10 single to the pile soon - her new collaboration with David Guetta and Ella Henderson, Crazy What Love Can Do, is currently at a new peak of Number 12. Her debut album, Only Honest On The Weekend, peaked at Number 7 last year.

 

Elsewhere on the Official Singles Chart 10 years ago, there were new entries from Example's One More Day (Stay With Me) (4), Usher with Good Kisser (10), Ed Sheeran with Don't (17) and future Number 1 Thinking Out Loud (26).

8 years! I vividly remember listening to the chart show when that was the #1 :drama:

It also holds the distinction of being the last Number 1 single in UK chart history to be calculated on sales alone.

'Gecko (Overdrive)' is quite lucky streaming wasn't included in the chart a week prior as it would have missed out on #1 (Ella Henderson's 'Ghost' was only 3.6k behind and was #2 on streaming compared to #61 for 'Gecko').

'Gecko (Overdrive)' is quite lucky streaming wasn't included in the chart a week prior as it would have missed out on #1 (Ella Henderson's 'Ghost' was only 3.6k behind and was #2 on streaming compared to #61 for 'Gecko').

 

Crazy how we now have a collaboration between that top 2 floating around in the top 20, I never would have banked on hearing from either of them 8 years down the line.

Who knew Becky would still be around 8 years later! (Thanks to dance featuring but still)

8 years wow time flies! The week after that was the beginning of the slow descent towards the current state of the charts now though we didn't really know it at the time. The charts were never going to be the same again in terms of fun.

8 years wow time flies! The week after that was the beginning of the slow descent towards the current state of the charts now though we didn't really know it at the time. The charts were never going to be the same again in terms of fun.

 

Yep! :(

 

Gecko is a huge bop anyway.