https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...a-thing__32116/

 

By 2001, Jennifer Lopez had solidified her status as a triple-threat global superstar. After rising to fame as a dancer in music videos in the 1990s, she had gone on to star in a handful of successful films, while her debut single, 1999s If You Had My Love, was a worldwide smash. Now she had to prove she was here to stay.

 

Love Don't Cost A Thing, released 20 years ago this week, was her statement that beyond the untold riches fame had brought her (at the time she was also dating incredibly wealthy rapper/record exec P. Diddy), she hadn't forgotten her roots as a girl from a poor family from The Bronx.

 

"Thought you'd understand, baby credit cards aren't romance," she sings to her materialistic lover, insisting: "Even if you were broke, my love don't cost a thing." And if you weren't convinced, she even re-branded herself as J.Lo - her nickname among fans - to prove she was still one of the people.

 

The lyrical formula of Love Don't Cost A Thing remains a crucial narrative in her career; later singles such as I'm Real, Jenny From The Block and I'm Gonna Be Alright had a similar message that J.Lo, no matter how famous and wealthy she'd become, would always keep it real.

 

Love Don't Cost A Thing debuted at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart, selling 68,000 copies. It was her first of three UK chart-toppers and ranks as her fifth biggest single overall, with 378,000 chart sales - including 14.7 million streams.

Elsewhere on the Official Singles Chart this week in 2001, there were four more new entries in the Top 10, including Feeder's indie-rock classic Buck Rogers, the British band's biggest hit, at Number 5. Meanwhile, Scottish band Texas continued their impressive run of form, landing their tenth Top 10 single with Inner Smile at Number 6.

 

This week also marks the debut for R&B-garage trio Mis-Teeq, entering at Number 8 with their first single Why, while Italian DJ Santos scored his only UK hit with Camels at Number 9.

 

Further down, DJ David Morales landed at Number 11 with Needin' U II, a new vocal version of his 1998 Top 10 hit featuring vocals from British singer Juliet Roberts. Fatboy Slim was new at Number 16 with Macy Gray collaboration Demons - his eighth Top 40 - and alt-pop trio Saint Etienne were new at Number 34 with Boy Is Crying.

The last total for 'Love Don't Cost a Thing' was 246,000 the w/e 25 July 2019. That works out as ~1.7k a week, higher than I thought it would be! Should be certified Gold in April.

 

Assuming 'Love Don't Cost a Thing' being her 5th best seller is up to date and not just copying the article from July 2019, 'Get Right' should be Gold soon too.

 

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...grenade__32163/

 

By the end of 2010, just 12 months after his debut, Bruno Mars had gone from unknown songwriter to a global one-to-watch.

 

After featuring on two huge hits - B.o.B's Nothin' On You and Travie McCoy's Billionaire, he'd landed his own chart-topper with Just The Way You Are (Amazing). His second headline single, Grenade, needed to secure his status as the latest pop superstar.

 

Released ten years ago this week, Grenade did just that, debuting at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart with 150,000 sales - the highest week 1 sales of any track released in January in 15 years. It also hit the top spot in America, making him the first male artist in 13 years to score Number 1s with their first two headline singles.

 

But the song that launched his debut album Doo-Wops & Hooligans - released the following week to chart-topping success - almost didn't make the album. Inspired by a track played to him by hit producer Benny Blanco, Bruno completely reworked the song with the help of Claude Kelly and his own production crew The Smeezingtons, finishing it just days before the album's release.

 

In the UK, Grenade spent two weeks at Number 1 and finished as 2011's seventh best-selling single. By April 2015, it hit one million UK sales, placing among the best-selling songs of all time. To date, Grenade has 1.53 million chart sales, including 64 million streams.

Elsewhere on the Official Singles Chart ten years ago this week, Jessie J landed her breakthrough hit with Do It Like A Dude, which reached its Number 2 peak, while David Guetta and Rihanna's collaboration Who's That Chick? topped out at Number 6.

 

Elsewhere in the Top 10, Adele's 2008 single Make You Feel My Love was back in the top flight at Number 7, boosted by the release of her new single Rolling In The Deep, and JLS scored their sixth consecutive Top 10 with Eyes Wide Shut at 10.

 

Further down, Jay-Z and Kanye West were new at Number 30 with H.A.M, the first single from their collaborative album Watch The Throne, and TV musical Glee looked set to continue its grip on the charts for a second year, with two new entries: Telephone (25) and Empire State Of Mind (35).

Last known total for 'Grenade' was 1.24m as of July 2018, which works out at ~2.2k a week.

 

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...goodies__28408/

 

The genre of the moment in 2005? Crunk. A subgenre of hip-hop, the R&B-meets-heavy-synthesisers sound had been ushered into the mainstream by, err, Usher, in 2004 with his global smash Yeah!.

 

It was the perfect sound for Ciara, who, at that time, was ready to leap out of the gate having recently signed to L.A Reid's famed LaFace Records. The song that would become her debut single, Goodies, started out as a demo she was working on with producer Sean Garrett, conceived as a reply to featured artist Petey Pablo's single Freek-a-Leek. He wanted her, but her goodies were staying fimrly "in the jar".

 

The finished song, which bares more than a passing resemblence to its inspirations, quickly became a hit, spending seven weeks at Number 1 in America (the longest female Number 1 since 1977) and one week at the top of the Official UK Singles Chart.

 

Ciara had immediately established herself on the global stage; Goodies was also a hit in Australia and most of Europe, earning her the dubious title a 'Princess of Crunk&B'.

 

Goodies has 240,000 chart sales in the UK, including 11 million streams, making it her fourth biggest song. Ciara continued the crunk sound on her debut album of the same name; follow-up singles 1,2 Step ft. Missy Elliott (her biggest song in the UK) and Oh were also Top 5 hits. View Ciara's Official UK Chart history in full.

16 years on, the influence of Goodies can be felt, most notably on the debut single by Normani, Motiviation, on which the former Fifth Harmony singer pays homage to Goodies and several other quintessential '90s/'00s music videos in her visual.

 

Elsewhere on the Official Singles Chart this week in 2005, the Top 10 was awash with new entries, including Chemical Brothers' Galvanize at 3, the breakout hit Wires by London indie band Athlete at 4, and a second Top 10 for British newcomer Lucie Silvas with Breathe In at 6.

Released ten years ago this week, Grenade did just that, debuting at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart with 150,000 sales - the highest week 1 sales of any track released in January in 15 years. It also hit the top spot in America, making him the first male artist in 13 years to score Number 1s with their first two headline singles.

 

Who from 1997 scored two US #1s with their first singles? Trying to think. :thinking:

 

Also :blink: at 2005 now being 16 years ago.

I always used to think 'Goodies' was the bigger hit, but even in 2005 it was outsold by '1 2 Step': 83k vs. 106k. The gap has only increased further; 'Goodies' passed Silver in February 2019, at which point '1 2 Step' was almost at Gold (certified in July 2019). 'Goodies' has only been selling ~392 copies a week since February 2019 whilst '1 2 Step' has been selling ~1,320 copies since July 2019 (last total was 466k as of July 2020) which puts its total at 504k to date, 264k more than 'Goodies'.

 

'Love Sex Magic' was certified Gold six months prior to '1 2 Step' but, as per the article, it's since been replaced as Ciara's biggest song.

 

Who from 1997 scored two US #1s with their first singles? Trying to think. :thinking:

 

Also :blink: at 2005 now being 16 years ago.

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I just remember 'Goodies' been the sole "modern"#1 in a sea of Elvis re-releases that shot to the top of the charts because sales were shocking low in 2005!

I vaguely remember 'Goodies' from the time I think. Good track. My favourite track by Ciara however is the song she made with Enrique Iglesias, Taking Back My Love.

 

Take Me Away by Stonebridge and Therese also entered the top 10 at #9 that week, it is a good follow up to 'Put Em High', and Lover by Rachel McFarlane entering at #36 was a track I remember from the time.

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If you count the Elvis re-issue at #2, there were 6 new entries in the Top 6 that week, for only the second and last time. Tumble And Fall by Feeder at #5 was the other song not mentioned.

I can't believe Bruno's Grenade is 10 years old now. :mellow: 2011 was such a glorious year to be a chart and pop music fan. :heart:

 

Ciara deserves more recognition than she gets these days. My favourites from her are Like A Boy, Can't Leave 'Em Alone, Overdose and Takin' Back My Love.

I wish so much all those pointless Elvis re-issues didn't happen in early 2005, they really did ruin the charts.

I wish so much all those pointless Elvis re-issues didn't happen in early 2005, they really did ruin the charts.

 

Just skimming through the chart archives of 2005, I never knew Elvis reissues were entering the chart pretty much every week from early January to May. :o He had a song in the top 5 nearly every week! If the reissues never happened we would've got #1s from the Manic Street Preachers and Ashanti. 'Only U' was a bit of an anthem back then so I would've welcomed it at the top of the chart. :lol:

I wish so much all those pointless Elvis re-issues didn't happen in early 2005, they really did ruin the charts.

 

Yep, I think every one of them made the Top 5 and then exited the chart altogether within a fortnight due to their limited numbers.

 

It was so successful, Michael Jackson attempted the same trick a year late with considerably less success.

 

 

The Manics would then have had the lowest #1 sale ever with 12,753. It really wasn't a great song either, they turned things around with Your Love Alone... a couple of years later.

The last total for 'Love Don't Cost a Thing' was 246,000 the w/e 25 July 2019. That works out as ~1.7k a week, higher than I thought it would be! Should be certified Gold in April.

 

Assuming 'Love Don't Cost a Thing' being her 5th best seller is up to date and not just copying the article from July 2019, 'Get Right' should be Gold soon too.

Do we think a lot of LDCAT trickle sales were after her Superbowl performance went viral last year? I'm gonna assume so anyway aha. Averaging at 1.7k p/w is impressive thogh!

 

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Those Elvis reissues were a PAIN! Did he get the 1,000th number 1 due to those, too? Woulda been nice for an actual modern hit to have got that :(

 

'One Night'/'I Got Stung' ended up being the 1,000th UK Number 1, the week in which Manic Street Preachers were at #2 with 'Empty Souls', however if the Elvis re-issues didn't exist at all after starting the week earlier, Steve Brookstein would have had another week (the week 'Jailhouse Rock' got #1), meaning Manic's would have been #999 and meaning that Ciara would have been the UK's 1,000th #1!

By 2005 I had long given up on Top Of The Pops but I did manage to catch the episode which featured 'Wires' by Athlete. It must have been the first time I'd seen the programme for quite a while and I don't think I watched it much more after that either. Looking at the line-up there were only 4 charting records featured on the show (list taken from Popscene website)

 

28-1-2005: Presenters: Fearne Cotton & Reggie Yates (Live)

 

(5) STONEBRIDGE feat. THERESE – Take Me Away

(NEW) DOVES – Black And White Town

(3) THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS – Galvanize (video) (and charts)

(NEW) GIRLS ALOUD – Wake Me Up

(4) ATHLETE – Wires

(NEW) JENNIFER LOPEZ – Get Right (from New York)

(1) CIARA feat PETEY PABLO – Goodies

The Manics would then have had the lowest #1 sale ever with 12,753. It really wasn't a great song either, they turned things around with Your Love Alone... a couple of years later.

 

Yeah 'Empty Souls' wasn't exactly there best work, 'Your Love Alone Is Not Enough' was fantastic though, it's a shame that missed out on #1!

This week saw what were at the time the biggest drops from #1 and #2: Elvis fell 1-20 (equalled by McFly in 2007 and beaten several times since in the streaming era), and Manic Street Preachers fell 2-26 (beating their own 2-22 record from 3 months earlier).

 

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...bartman__21912/

 

When the first episode of The Simpsons aired in December 1989, it was an instant hit with viewers across the world. As such, merchandise spin-offs were almost immediate; and one of the first was an album called The Simpsons Sing The Blues.

 

The collection was a mix of old blues songs by the likes of Billie Holiday and a sprinkling of original songs with humours lyrics for the voice actors to perform over. However, its creators had an ace up their sleeve in one of the show's biggest and most famous fans, Michael Jackson. The star, who was between his Bad and Dangerous albums at the time, offered to contribute a song for Bart Simpson, the show's central character at the time.

 

Teaming up with his songwriting pal Bryan Loren, the resulting Do The Bartman - an infectious slice of new jack swing that falls on the right side of cheesy - was a huge hit, climbing to Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart this week in 1991.

 

As well as featuring the cast (including Nancy Cartwright as the voice of Bart), Jackson provides back-up vocals on the track, though he doesn't appear on the single's original credits, which Groening later revealed was because Jackson was under contract by another label and so was forced to make his contribution a secret.

 

Do The Bartman spent three weeks at Number 1 in the UK and went on to become the fifth best-selling single of 1991. Its total sales to date stand at 451,000. Since streams were introduced in 2014, the song has notched up 702,000 plays.

Another Top 10 hit, Deep Deep Trouble, followed three months later, but it's fair to say The Simpsons' music career was never going to be as enduring as the show.

 

Elsewhere in the Official Singles Chart this week in 1991, Kylie Minogue was enjoying her 12th Top 10 hit with What Do I Have To Do at Number 6 (her first single not to reach the Top 5), and Kim Appleby of Mel & Kim fame landed her second Top 10 single with G.L.A.D at 10.

 

Further down, a remix of The Source and Candi Staton's You Got The Love was in the middle of its chart ascent at Number 12, and there were new entries from electronic group 808 State, My Bloody Valentine and more.