June 5, 20205 yr Was this the chart week before the one printed in this weeks charts thread? Yes, the week ending 4th June.
June 7, 20205 yr 'Ring Ding Ding', the Crazy Frog ringtone advert, used to drive me up the wall. I'm trying to remember what music channel I used to watch back then where it aired quite literally every advert break for what must have been the best part of a year. Certainly all the way from the start of 2005 up to that point. It might have been The Box or something like that. To make matters worse a couple of weeks later after 'Axel F' by Crazy Frog charted former Radio 1 chart presenter Wes "Boosted" Butters charted with a cover version of 'Ring Ding Ding' under the name Pondlife. What a nightmare! Edited June 7, 20205 yr by Robbie
June 11, 20205 yr oKOtzIo-uYw https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...-softly__29948/ Looking back at 1996, you'd perhaps expect the all-conquering Spice Girls to claim the year's best-selling single with their debut Wannabe - but there was one song that proved even more popular that year. The Fugees' Killing Me Softly was a runaway hit in 1996 and, after five weeks at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart, finished as the UK's top seller of the year with 1.17m sales (compared to 1.16m for Wannabe). The hip-hop trio formed in South Orange, New Jersey in 1992, consisting of Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean and Pras Michel. They originally named themselves Refugee Camp but had trimmed the name down by the time they released their 1994 debut album, Blunted On Reality. The record was well received and had moderate sales - enough to build considerable anticipation around their second record, The Score. The album's first single, Fu-Gee-La, reached Number 21 in April, but it was the follow-up, Killing Me Softly, that sent them stratospheric. In fact, the track was so popular with the British public that the group's label Sony Music had to fly in extra stock from The Netherlands to meet demand, after shifting 484,000 copies in its first three weeks. Killing Me Softly spent the first of five non-consecutive weeks at Number 1 on June 2, replacing Three Lions by Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds. The track topped the charts in most countries, except their US homeland, where it peaked at Number 2. In 1997 it won a Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. The Fugees' stripped-down adaptation of Killing Me Softly - led by Lauryn's golden, emotionally-raw voice - was based on Roberta Flack's version of the track, itself a huge hit in 1973. The track also added a sample from A Tribe Called Quest's 1990 album track Bonita Applebum - which in itself originated from 1967's Memory Band by Chicago psychedelic soul group Rotary Connection. Prior to The Fugees' version, Killing Me Softly had been covered by several big names, including The Jackson 5, Carole King and Luther Vandross. The original version was written and released by Lori Lieberman in 1972, though it failed to chart. However, it's The Fugees' cover that is the best-selling, with 1.38 million pure sales (1.71m when streaming equivalent sales are factored in), placing it as the UK's 46th best-selling single of all time. The group swiftly followed Killing Me Softly with another chart-topper - Ready Or Not hit the top spot three months later. Two more hits, No Woman No Cry and Rumble In The Jungle, followed shortly after, before the group disbanded to venture into solo projects. Top 10 01 (01) Fugees - Killing Me Softly 195,000 [reported at the time] 02 (02) Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds - Three Lions 03 (03) Peter Andre - Mysterious Girl 04 (NE) Ocean Colour Scene - The Day We Caught the Train 05 (NE) Livin' Joy - Don't Stop Movin' 06 (NE) Pianoman - Blurred 07 (NE) Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen - Theme From Mission: Impossible 08 (08) Celine Dion - Because You Loved Me 09 (06) Tony Rich Project - Nobody Knows 10 (05) Louise - Naked Top 40 New Entries 16 (NE) Rod Stewart & The Scottish Euro '96 Squad - Purple Heather 17 (NE) Primal Scream with Irvine Welsh & On-U Sound - The Big Man and the Scream Team Meet the Barmy Army Uptown 18 (NE) Happy Clappers - Can't Help It 21 (NE) D'angelo - Lady 27 (NE) Squeeze - Heaven Knows 29 (NE) Culture Beat - Crying in the Rain 30 (NE) Q-Tex - Let the Love 32 (NE) Mansun - Two 34 (NE) Louchie Lou & Michie One - Good Sweet Lovin' 35 (NE) Strangelove - Beautiful Alone 37 (NE) Dave Clark - No One's Driving 40 (NE) Eimear Quinn - The Voice
June 11, 20205 yr Killing Me Softly is still amazing. Dont Stop Movin is also a bop that gets overlooked byDreamer all the time.
June 11, 20205 yr Some great songs in that top 10. My favourite is between 'Killing Me Softly' (classic :heart:) and 'Don't Stop Movin' - I actually prefer that to 'Dreamer'!
June 11, 20205 yr All the figures in the article have been revised. For anyone interested, original estimates put 'Killing Me Softly' on 1.269m by the end of 1996 and 'Wannabe' on 1.268m. 'Killing Me Softly' had sold 525k in its first three weeks, which is now revised to 484k. I think the pure sales total of 1.38m could be a typo and it's meant to be 1.48m, going by its placing on million seller list updates. It was on 1.458m as of September 2017, with a combined total of 1.573m. The combined total of 1.71m reported in the article seems right, suggesting 1.8k-1.9k weekly sales, but let me know if anyone disagrees.
June 18, 20205 yr Zx1_6F-nCaw https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...in-2002__29997/ In a battle of icon vs. icon, the Official Singles Chart this week in 2002 saw an unlikely tussle between Kylie Minogue and Elvis Presley for the Number 1 spot. In the red corner was Kylie with Love At First Sight. The star was enjoying a hugely successful run of success with her Fever album: lead single Can't Get You Out Of My Head was a global Number 1, while follow-up In Your Eyes was a Top 5 UK hit. Third single Love At First Sight - a slice of sparklingly stylish nu-disco pop - was everywhere, a hit on radio and TV music channels. A seventh Number 1 was within reach. In the blue corner was Elvis, who was experiencing a revival (of sorts) in the summer of 2002. To mark 25 years since his death, Elvis's estate went into promotional overdrive, releasing a new retrospective Elv1s: 30 No.1 Hits and releasing a remix of A Little Less Conversation, a well-known song that had only been a minor hit in the US upon its original 1968 release. The new version by Junkie XL (aka Tom Holkenborg) marked the first time an artist outside the Presley organisation had been allowed to remix an Elvis song. Boosting the track's popularity even further was its use in Nike's inescapable 2002 FIFA World Cup advertising campaign. In the end it wasn't exactly a photo finish for the top spot: A Little Less Conversation debuted at Number 1 selling a staggering 243,000 copies, while Kylie's Love A First Sight took second place on 82,000 copies. It gave Elvis his 17th UK Number 1 single, logging four weeks at the top, while for Kylie, it ranks as one of her 11 Number 2s. A Little Less Conversation went on to be 2002's fifth best-selling single, with 634,000 copies sold that year. Elsewhere in the Official Singles Chart that week, two more new entries landed in the Top 5: Sophie Ellis-Bextor's third release Get Over You/Move This Mountain was her third consecutive Top 3 hit at 3, and Nickelback's Chad Kroeger landed his first UK solo hit at 4 with Hero, recorded for the Spider-Man film soundtrack. Top 10 01 (NE) Elvis vs. JXL - A Little Less Conversation 243,000 02 (NE) Kylie Minogue - Love at First Sight 82,000 03 (NE) Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Get Over You / Move This Mountain 45,000 04 (NE) Chad Kroeger feat. Josey Scott - Hero 05 (02) Eminem - Without Me 06 (01) Will Young - Light My Fire 07 (NE) Scooter - The Logical Song 08 (03) Liberty X - Just a Little 09 (04) Ant & Dec - We're on the Ball 10 (05) Ronan Keating - If Tomorrow Never Comes New Entries 14 (NE) Papa Roach - She Loves Me Not 16 (NE) Paul Oakenfold - Southern Sun / Ready Steady Go 20 (NE) Ludacris - Rollout (My Business) 24 (NE) Starchaser - Love Will Set You Free 28 (NE) Badly Drawn Boy - Something to Talk About 30 (NE) Layo & Bushwacka - Love Story
June 18, 20205 yr actually amazing for Kylie, 82K on week 1 with a post-album single!! and the 3rd single from Fever!
June 18, 20205 yr I bought that single for the b-side the New Order mashup Can’t Get Blue Monday Out Of My Head. I expect many others did the same as that’s the first time it was available on CD iirc. Love At First Sight is a classic nevertheless though but I expect it’s sales would have been nearer to 50-55k if not for that, there was a big fuss made over it at the time.
June 18, 20205 yr A shame we didn't get any total sales. :( 'A Little Less Conversation' is more or less a million seller now, would have been nice to get confirmation. 'Love at First Sight' had sold 264k as of July 2019. P.S. vote 'Love at First Sight' in AF Idol to determine 6th or 7th place! :magic: http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=235473
June 18, 20205 yr Yeh remember this chart well and brought the Kylie cd for the New Order remix myself @Good Delta. Best song on the chart at 30 for Love Story, dance classic!
June 18, 20205 yr #1 would reach the top 3 again less than 3 years later as the last in a sequence of collectors' item re-issues. #7 was a rare hit from the era not to peak in week 1 - it went 7-5-2-4-2-2-. #28 was the lowest-charting of Badly Drawn Boy's 3 hits from 2002 (the others being Silent Sigh and the criminally-forgotten You Were Right) but seems to be the best-remembered now. #30 was re-issued the following year as a mash-up with Kings Of Tomorrow's Finally (which reached #24 in 2001) under the title Love Story (Vs Finally), reaching #8.
June 18, 20205 yr Ooh Layo & Bushwacka - 'Love Story' what a TUNE :wub: I much prefer this version to the 'vs Finally' one that charted a lot higher. That entire top 3 is fantastic also. 'Love At First Sight' is one of Kylie's best songs. <3
June 18, 20205 yr #1 would reach the top 3 again less than 3 years later as the last in a sequence of collectors' item re-issues. #7 was a rare hit from the era not to peak in week 1 - it went 7-5-2-4-2-2-. #28 was the lowest-charting of Badly Drawn Boy's 3 hits from 2002 (the others being Silent Sigh and the criminally-forgotten You Were Right) but seems to be the best-remembered now. #30 was re-issued the following year as a mash-up with Kings Of Tomorrow's Finally (which reached #24 in 2001) under the title Love Story (Vs Finally), reaching #8. YES I thought 'The Logical Song' charted higher but wasn't sure at first glance, tune!
June 23, 20205 yr https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/t...A9w7r2jVWx2mGho 2010: the year the iPad was born, England turned out another consistent World Cup performance, and Matt Cardle went from unknown handyman to Rihanna collaborator and Christmas Number 1 holder. The summer of 2010 may have been a wash-out for the most part, but that didn't stop a flurry of summery bangers taking over the Official Singles Chart. That said, the mood of the nation may have been reflected in the song's top selling single of the season: Love The Way You Lie by Eminem and Rihanna. There was little that could stand in the way of the fiery hip-hop ballad becoming a huge hit: a collaboration between the leaders in rap and pop was always going to have trouble not finding some level chart success. Eminem was making what was heralded as a return to form on his Recovery album, while Rihanna had recently wrapped up her hugely successful Good Girl Gone Bad era and was on the cusp of kicking off her Loud album campaign (the red hair making its debut here). Co-written by Eminem with US singer-songwriter Skylar Grey (who would go on to be a regular collaborator) and Alex Da Kid, Eminem asked Rihanna to join him on the song as both had experienced high profile difficult past relationships. While its success was somewhat expected, few could have predicted it would become Eminem's second biggest song - and one of the best-sellers of all time. Despite being the biggest song of the summer, it didn't actually hit Number 1, spending four non-consecutive weeks in second place; but it did go on to be the UK's Official best-selling song of the year. The UK's second biggest song of summer 2010 was Katy Perry's Calirfornia Gurls. The sun-soaked ode to the West Coast featuring Snoop Dogg - apparently a response to Jay-Z's love letter to New York, Empire State Of Mind - spent two weeks at Number 1 in July, shifting 217,000 copies in that time, and 584,000 during the summer period (between the first week of June and the last of August). In third, another rap-pop ballad dominated the charts and airwaves that summer: Airplanes by B.o.B and Paramore's Hayley Williams scaled the Top 40 throughout June and hit Number 1 at the end of July. That summer also saw an unexpected hit from Australian band Yolanda Be Cool and producer DCUP. We No Speak Americano reached Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart in July and spent the entire summer in the Top 10, finishing as the season's fourth biggest song. Rouding out the Top 5 is Somali-Canadian rapper and singer K'naan with Wavin' Flag; the uplifting reggae fusion singalong was Coca-Cola's 2010 FIFA World Cup anthem and spent two weeks at Number 2. Other notable hits in the summer of 2010 include Flo Rida and David Guetta's chart-topping Club Can't Handle Me; the breakout hit for Eliza Doolittle with folk-pop-jazz number Pack Up; Lady Gaga's Alejandro reached the Top 10; and Kylie Minogue scored a Top 5 hit with All The Lovers. The Official Top 40 Songs of the Summer 2010 TITLE ARTIST PEAK 1 LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE EMINEM FT RIHANNA 2 2 CALIFORNIA GURLS KATY PERRY FT SNOOP DOGG 1 3 AIRPLANES BOB FT HAYLEY WILLIAMS 1 4 WE NO SPEAK AMERICANO YOLANDA BE COOL & D CUP 1 5 WAVIN' FLAG K'NAAN 2 6 CLUB CAN'T HANDLE ME FLO RIDA FT DAVID GUETTA 1 7 NOT AFRAID EMINEM 5 8 KICKSTARTS EXAMPLE 3 9 PACK UP ELIZA DOOLITTLE 5 10 FRISKY TINIE TEMPAH FT LABRINTH 2 11 ALEJANDRO LADY GAGA 7 12 SHOUT 2012 SHOUT FT DIZZEE & JAMES CORDEN 1 13 GETTIN' OVER YOU DAVID GUETTA FT CHRIS WILLIS 1 14 ALL THE LOVERS KYLIE MINOGUE 3 15 I LIKE IT ENRIQUE IGLESIAS FT PITBULL 4 16 BILLIONAIRE TRAVIE MCCOY FT BRUNO MARS 3 17 RIDIN' SOLO JASON DERULO 2 18 ALL TIME LOW WANTED 1 19 COMMANDER KELLY ROWLAND FT DAVID GUETTA 9 20 THE CLUB IS ALIVE JLS 1 21 BEAUTIFUL MONSTER NE-YO 1 22 OMG USHER FT WILL I AM 1 23 NOTHIN' ON YOU BOB FT BRUNO MARS 1 24 TRY SLEEPING WITH A BROKEN HEART ALICIA KEYS 7 25 DYNAMITE TAIO CRUZ 1 26 ONE (YOUR NAME) SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA/PHARRELL 7 27 STEREO LOVE EDWARD MAYA FT VIKA JIGULINA 4 28 BANG BANG BANG MARK RONSON & THE BUSINESS INT 6 29 JUST BE GOOD TO GREEN PROFESSOR GREEN FT LILY ALLEN 5 30 EENIE MEENIE SEAN KINGSTON & JUSTIN BIEBER 9 31 MY FIRST KISS 3OH3 FT KESHA 7 32 TE AMO RIHANNA 14 33 GREEN LIGHT ROLL DEEP 1 34 SHE SAID PLAN B 3 35 MISSING YOU SATURDAYS 3 36 YOUR LOVE IS MY DRUG KESHA 13 37 HEY SOUL SISTER TRAIN 18 38 CANDY AGGRO SANTOS FT KIMBERLY WYATT 5 39 WHAT IF JASON DERULO 12 40 ALL NIGHT LONG ALEXANDRA BURKE FT PITBULL 4 ©2020 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved. What a golden time for pop! :heart:
August 13, 20204 yr smKf_cQCdeo https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...artbeat__30730/ Robyn's unlikely ascent to Number 1 with With Every Heartbeat is the stuff pop legend; an example of brilliant song going all the way against the odds because - gasp - the public genuinely loved it. Climbing to Number 1 this week in 2007, the track's success completed a four-year journey for Robyn which began in 2004, when she parted ways with record label Jive, who disliked the electropop direction her music had taken. She then set up her own outfit Konichiwa Records, released her self-titled album and peddled the music for three years, picking up numerous accoldaes in her native Sweden (including three Swedish Grammys), leading the rest of the world to take notice. Even looking back through every UK Number 1 single in 2007 now, the track stands out as an anomaly, sat amongst US heavweights and major label big-hitters. Robyn's new Euro-centric, electropop sound was given a dreamy, trance-inspired edge on With Every Heartbeat thanks to its producer and named collaborator Kleerup. In a recent interview the producer revealed the song was inspired by Giorgio Moroder and, surprisingly, the song Legs by US rock band ZZ Top. After debuting at Number 5 on the Official Singles Chart, With Every Heartbeat climbed to Number 1 the following week, ousting Timbaland and Keri Hilson's The Way I Are from the summit. It remains Robyn's only UK Number 1 - her highest-charting hit since then is Dancing On My Own, peaking at 8 in 2010. View Robyn's Official UK Chart history in full here. The song's UK chart sales to date stand at 491,000, making it Gold certified, and since streams were introduced in 2014, it's notched up 13.2 million UK plays. With Every Heartbeat finished as the UK's 24th best-selling single that year - view the Top 100 here. Elsewhere on the Official Singles Chart that week in 2007, Robyn beat a big new entry from Kanye West; the Daft Punk-sampling Stronger was new at Number 3. US indie band Plain White T's were on the climb with their breakout single Hey There Delilah at Number 6, and a disco-infused remix of Beyonce's Greenlight by Brighton duo Freemasons took the star's track to its peak at Number 12. Further down, former Savage Garden singer-songwriter Darren Hayes landed his seventh (and most recent) Top 40 with On The Verge of Something Wonderful at 20, while Swedish House Mafia's Axwell landed at 27 what would become his biggest solo hit I Found You, eventually peaking at 6.
October 1, 20204 yr XvoAvPjADsE https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...you-now__20658/ Jokes about Sugababes' revolving door line-up aside, the trio in whatever incarnation they were in always delivered a killer album lead single, didn't they? Overload (2000), Freak Like Me (2002), Hole In The Head (2003) and Push The Button (2005) were all notable pop moments of the early Noughties, with three out of four topping the Official Singles Chart. When it came to their fifth album header, it seemed the only option was to go big, teaming up with hit songwriter Cathy Dennis (Britney Spears, Kylie Minogue) on About You Now; a slick piece of electro-rock-pop that presented the group in a new light. Fitting, given that they were in the early stages of their third lineup change after the recent appointment of Amelle Berrabah to replace Mutya Buena. The track was a huge hit, charging to Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart on its second week when it was made available to download, selling 34,000 copies. It had debuted at 35 the previous week on physical sales alone, common practice at the time for single releases during the handover in formats. About You Now spent four weeks at the summit, something no other girl group has managed to achieve since, though Little Mix have come close on two occasions: Black Magic and Shout Out To My Ex have both managed three weeks at the top spot. To date, About You Now has notched up 908,000 combined sales, split between 476,000 downloads, 78,000 physical sales and 38.6 million streams. About You Now was to be the last Number 1 for Sugababes - the closest they would come again was in 2009 with (the distinctly less timeless) Get Sexy, the group's final single with the only founding member left Keisha Buchanan, who was ousted in time for their next single, About A Girl. Elsewhere in the Top 40 this week in 2007, Shayne Ward landed the week's highest new entry with double (bop) A-side No U Hang Up/If That's OK With You, Ida Corr and Fedde Le Grand's electro-house banger Let Me Think About It zoomed to Number 5, and Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse's cover of Valerie was in the middle of its chart ascent, up from 41 to 12 (it would eventually peak at 2).
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