October 25, 20186 yr 1 Cher - Believe 167 000 2 George Michael - Outside 116 000 3 U2 - Sweetest Thing 111 000 4 Culture Club - I Just Wanna Be Loved 71 000 5 Alanis Morrissette - Thank U 59 000 8 Kele Le Roc - A Little Bit of Lovin 43 000 Oh my days, I'd forgotten about Kele Le Roc. Such a gorgeous song! British R&B was the one at this time - her, Another Level, Honeyz. Also the sadly late Lynden David Hall who was a new entry in the top 20 that same week. All providing some great singles!
October 25, 20186 yr Oh my days, I'd forgotten about Kele Le Roc. Such a gorgeous song! British R&B was the one at this time - her, Another Level, Honeyz. Also the sadly late Lynden David Hall who was a new entry in the top 20 that same week. All providing some great singles! Lynden David Halls Sexy Cinderella, ah! British RnB at its best. Dru Hill's how deep is your love is a great american track also and Meja with all about that money a brilliant contemporary pop song cant remember where she was from though.
October 25, 20186 yr Author Believe is such a pop classic and definitely deserved number one out of that lot of new entries.
October 25, 20186 yr I think this week may have been the first time the top 5 were all new entries (excluding the first ever chart of course). Curiously, there were only 4 other new entries in the top 40, and 3 of those were re-issues/re-mixes.
October 26, 20186 yr What an amazing week. It is one of my all-time favourite charts, and one of the best No.1 Singles ever. I remember Cher on the national lottery performing it, THAT song was just a monster! It was everywhere, 1998 was a classic year anyway. It's interesting that "... Baby one more time" and "Believe" were released in the UK four months apart and both became massive sellers. I'll never forget seeing Britney Spears on The Box music channel for the first time, it must be one of the most requested videos ever. There was so much hype leading up to it before it's release, which resulted in that mammoth first week sale.
November 23, 20186 yr #ChartFact: @LeAnnRimes' Can't Fight The Moonlight has sold 668,000 copies in the UK and was Number 1 18 years ago this week #tbt http://bit.ly/2BpvzgC 01 (NE) LeAnn Rimes - Can't Fight the Moonlight (113,500) 02 (NE) Daft Punk - One More Time (58,827) 03 (03) Baha Men - Who Let the Dogs Out? (54,964) 04 (NE) Artful Dodger feat. Lifford - Please Don't Turn Me On 05 (NE) Darude - Feel the Beat 06 (NE) Wu-Tang Gang - Gravel-Pit 07 (05) Tweenies - Number 1 08 (01) A1 - Same Old Brand New You 09 (02) Westlife - My Love 10 (04) Backstreet Boys - Shape of My Heart
November 23, 20186 yr I remember that week! I was so certain Daft Punk was a nailed-on #1, so that kind of surprised me. I love that Darude track so much, completely forgotten now though.
November 23, 20186 yr My favourites from the chart that week :wub: 01 (NE) LeAnn Rimes - Can't Fight the Moonlight (113,500) 02 (NE) Daft Punk - One More Time (58,827) 04 (NE) Artful Dodger feat. Lifford - Please Don't Turn Me On 06 (NE) Wu-Tang Gang - Gravel-Pit 08 (01) A1 - Same Old Brand New You 10 (04) Backstreet Boys - Shape of My Heart Looking down the rest of the chart that week there was also a new entry - the last to date as it turns out - for Enya with her classic 'Only Time' at #32, a whole year before it took off in the States thanks to its use in news coverage of 9/11: http://scans.chartarchive.org/UK/2000/UK%2...02000.11.25.pdf What's also interesting is that LeAnn Rimes had the biggest weekly sale for a number one since Modjo's 'Lady (Hear Me Tonight)' some two months before. 2000 was a strange year singles wise, only eight singles sold half a million in the year compared to 20 in 1998 and 1999, and there were more number ones but they sold in reduced quantities. Steps for example made number one with 'Stomp' on a comparatively lowly sale.
November 25, 20186 yr What's also interesting is that LeAnn Rimes had the biggest weekly sale for a number one since Modjo's 'Lady (Hear Me Tonight)' some two months before. 2000 was a strange year singles wise, only eight singles sold half a million in the year compared to 20 in 1998 and 1999, and there were more number ones but they sold in reduced quantities. Steps for example made number one with 'Stomp' on a comparatively lowly sale. 2000 holds the record for the largest amount of different number ones in one year, with 42. There were 38 in 2014 and 36 in both 1999 and 2012. Now that we're fully in the streaming era, that record will never be broken. Or will it...?
November 25, 20186 yr The beginning of the end of the cd single most likely!And the cassette single too which went from having consistent sales from 1994 to 1999 (shipping about 18-20 million a year) to being an almost dormant format by 2003 (sales under a million). It was very strange how overall sales suddenly went into sharp decline in 2000 after holding up well in 1998 and 1999. I doubt it was to do with illegal downloading as in 2000 most people on the internet were on dial-up. 2000 was also the first year since 1993 that the year end best seller didn't sell over a million copies during the calendar year. Edited November 25, 20186 yr by Robbie
November 26, 20186 yr Was the price of a cd single not up to around 3.99 then? Record companies had started ripping people off and albums became bigger!
November 26, 20186 yr Was the price of a cd single not up to around 3.99 then? Record companies had started ripping people off and albums became bigger!Yeah, I think £3.99 was the norm then after week 1. Plus the price of albums started to fall. It's probably no coincidence that singles sales fell by about 22% while album sales rose by about the same amount.
November 26, 20186 yr Napster says hiI did think of Napster but in 2000 wasn't that more of an issue in the US where faster internet access was more common? By the time faster internet access became more common in the UK Napster had already been closed by court order.
November 26, 20186 yr This was around the time when a cd single would be cheaper in its first week only. I think that is why there was a huge turnover of no.1s.
November 26, 20186 yr I did think of Napster but in 2000 wasn't that more of an issue in the US where faster internet access was more common? By the time faster internet access became more common in the UK Napster had already been closed by court order. I was about to say, in our house we didn't get the internet until the very end of 2000. And that was AOL dial-up, I had no clue what MP3 or downloading was. It only became something I was more aware of until about six months or so later, when someone I was at school with bought in a blank Maxell CD-R (God that sounds so dated even now) which had the unclean versions of Shaggy "It Wasn't Me" and Wheatus "Teenage Dirtbag" on them.
December 6, 20186 yr Author Will Young 'Leave Right Now' was #1 15 years ago. Total sales stand at 728k (638k pure sales). 1 - NEW - 01 - Will Young - LEAVE RIGHT NOW 1 - NEW - 02 - Shane Richie - I'M YOUR MAN 03 - 01 - 03 - Westlife - MANDY 02 - 02 - 04 - Girls Aloud - JUMP (FOR MY LOVE) 1 - NEW - 05 - Michael Jackson - ONE MORE CHANCE 02 - 03 - 06 - Alex Parks - MAYBE THAT'S WHAT IT TAKES 07 - 07 - 07 - Kevin Lyttle - TURN ME ON 03 - 04 - 08 - Busted - CRASHED THE WEDDING 1 - NEW - 09 - Ja Rule - CLAP BACK / REIGNS 03 - 08 - 10 - Outkast - HEY YA! 03 - 06 - 11 - Britney Spears featuring Madonna - ME AGAINST THE MUSIC 02 - 05 - 12 - Lemar - 50 : 50 / LULLABY 1 - NEW - 13 - Iron Maiden - RAINMAKER 06 - 09 - 14 - Fatman Scoop Featuring The Crooklyn Clan - BE FAITHFUL 1 - NEW - 15 - Blink 182 - FEELING THIS 02 - 11 - 16 - Enrique Iglesias - ADDICTED 04 - 12 - 17 - Kylie Minogue - SLOW 1 - NEW - 18 - Limp Bizkit - BEHIND BLUE EYES 04 - 14 - 19 - Blazin' Squad - FLIP REVERSE 1 - NEW - 20 - No Doubt - IT'S MY LIFE 1 - NEW - 21 - Meat Loaf - MAN OF STEEL 11 - 19 - 22 - Jamelia - SUPERSTAR 1 - NEW - 23 - Coral - BILL MCCAI 03 - 16 - 24 - Missy Elliott - PASS THAT DUTCH 05 - 18 - 25 - Pink - TROUBLE 02 - 13 - 26 - Mis-Teeq - STYLE 10 - 27 - 27 - Darkness - I BELIEVE IN A THING CALLED LOVE 02 - 10 - 28 - Pet Shop Boys - MIRACLES 13 - 17 - 29 - Black Eyed Peas - WHERE IS THE LOVE? 1 - NEW - 30 - Dizzee Rascal - JUS' A RASCAL 05 - 22 - 31 - Atomic Kitten - IF YOU COME TO ME 03 - 20 - 32 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - FORTUNE FADED 03 - 24 - 33 - Ludacris - STAND UP 13 - 29 - 34 - Dido - WHITE FLAG 06 - 26 - 35 - Blue - GUILTY 05 - 37 - 36 - UB40 / United Colours Of Sound - SWING LOW 05 - 28 - 37 - Angel City featuring Lara McAllen - LOVE ME RIGHT (OH SHEILA) 1 - NEW - 38 - Room 5 featuring Oliver Cheatham - MUSIC AND YOU 07 - 25 - 39 - Sugababes - HOLE IN THE HEAD 1 - NEW - 40 - Mary J. Blige featuring Eve - NOT TODAY 03 - 33 - 41 - Javine - SURRENDER (YOUR LOVE) 07 - 30 - 42 - Emma Bunton - MAYBE 04 - 36 - 43 - Robbie Williams - SEXED UP 02 - 15 - 44 - Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5 1 - NEW - 45 - Thrills - DON'T STEAL OUR SUN 02 - 21 - 46 - Shania Twain - WHEN YOU KISS ME / UP! 08 - 42 - 47 - Beyonce featuring Sean Paul - BABY BOY 02 - 35 - 48 - Kelly Clarkson - LOW / THE TROUBLE WITH LOVE 03 - 34 - 49 - Stereophonics - SINCE I TOLD YOU IT'S OVER 06 - 38 - 50 - Stacie Orrico - (THERE'S GOTTA BE) MORE TO LIFE 05 - 39 - 51 - Holly Valance - STATE OF MIND 1 - NEW - 52 - Studio B / Romeo and Harry Brooks - I SEE GIRLS (CRAZY) 1 - NEW - 53 - Dirt Devils - MUSIC IS LIFE 03 - 31 - 54 - Ronan Keating - LOST FOR WORDS 02 - 23 - 55 - White Stripes - HARDEST BUTTON TO BUTTON 06 - 48 - 56 - Hilary Duff - SO YESTERDAY 06 - 43 - 57 - Liberty X - JUMPIN' 07 - 47 - 58 - 50 Cent - P.I.M.P. 06 - 41 - 59 - Obie Trice - GOT SOME TEETH 02 - 32 - 60 - Belle And Sebastian - STEP INTO MY OFFICA BABY 1 - NEW - 61 - Lost Tribe - GAMEMASTER 03 - 46 - 62 - Basement Jaxx featuring Dizzee Rascal - LUCKY STAR 03 - 50 - 63 - Elephant Man - PON DE RIVER PON DE BANK 04 - 49 - 64 - R Kelly - STEP IN THE NAME OF LOVE / THOIA THOING 09 - 67 - 65 - S Club 8 - SUNDOWN 1 - NEW - 66 - Dandy Warhols - PLAN A 02 - 40 - 67 - Starsailor - BORN AGAIN 07 - 59 - 68 - REM - BAD DAY 18 - 68 - 69 - Blu Cantrell featuring Sean Paul - BREATHE 02 - 44 - 70 - Primal Scream - SOME VELVET MORNING 06 - 60 - 71 - Fabolous featuring Tamia - INTO YOU 05 - 54 - 72 - Wayne Wonder - BOUNCE ALONG 03 - 51 - 73 - Linus Loves featuring Sam Obernik - STAND BACK 06 - 63 - 74 - Mark Ronson - OOH WEE 02 - 57 - 75 - Solitaire - I LIKE LOVE (I LOVE LOVE) Top 75 text from UKMIX
December 6, 20186 yr 1 - NEW - 20 - No Doubt - IT'S MY LIFE By far the best new entry 15 years ago! Still so good and definitely their second best song (after Don't Speak obv). Improves on the original too, not that the original one isn't great as well. Edited December 6, 20186 yr by cantthinkofaname
December 6, 20186 yr Author I'm surprised that only made it as high as 20 too, especially with all the other forgotten new entries above it.
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