October 19, 20177 yr There's an old radio 1 playlist from oct 97 floating around which has aqua on the c-list so minimal support.
October 19, 20177 yr Barbie girl had the last laugh it later peaked at number 1 and has sold more than SUYL
October 19, 20177 yr I remember that chart so clearly. One of the first big battles after I’d begin listening.
October 19, 20177 yr ^ 'Barbie Girl' wasn't a big radio hit, peaking at number 15 on the Airplay chart on the week it climbed to the top of the sales chart (and it ended up at number 186 on the end of year Airplay chart). Radio 1 must have more or less ignored it as had the station playlisted it the track would have charted much higher. It did well on commercial radio though - it was the sort of thing breakfast DJs played as a talking point. Chris Tarrant at Capital hammered it.
October 19, 20177 yr As if 'Spice Up Your Life' is 20? Man alive I feel old. I remember it getting performed for the first time on the National Lottery Show and loving it. What a great time for pop. I always forget Aqua entered at #2 and then climbed to #1.
October 20, 20177 yr Didn't realise Chris Tarrant was on capital into the 1990s!He didn't leave the station until April 2004. When I lived in London his breakfast show was always the one I listened to. A great listen and he was far better than Radio 1's breakfast hosts at the time... Edited October 20, 20177 yr by Robbie
October 20, 20177 yr Their first week sales are so impressive! 321,000 is huge, but believe it or not that's only their 4th highest opening week. :o Hopefully Spice Up Your Life can become "a millionaire" within the next 2 years or so. Happy memories of this single - one of the first singles I bought (it was on cassette!), and 20 years on it's still one of my all-time favourites. I remember it getting performed for the first time on the National Lottery Show and loving it. What a great time for pop. Yes! :wub: It's one of my favourite performances of theirs. Not that it's anything particularly groundbreaking, but I love the energy of it... and it really takes you back to when they were an unstoppable force. :heart: This performance took place on 27th September '97, so a little over two weeks before its release. I think it received its radio premiere one or two weeks earlier, but I know this performance would have been the first time I heard it. 7r03_iLh_ng
October 20, 20177 yr Their first week sales are so impressive! 321,000 is huge, but believe it or not that's only their 4th highest opening week. I assume their top 3 opening weeks are their 3 Christmas number 1s?? If so then that makes this 321k particularly impressive - although of course it was the lead single...
October 20, 20177 yr ^ 2 out of 3 Christmas #1s achieved higher sales! These are the Spice Girls' first week sales: 1. 429,000 or 462,000 or 500,000 - 2 Become 1 (Annoyingly there's conflicting info, but 462k is the most recently revealed figure. Whichever one is correct, it's phenomenal!) 2. 380,000 - Goodbye 3. 349,000 - Say You'll Be There 4. 321,000 - Spice Up Your Life 5. 277,911 - Viva Forever 6. 252,000 - Too Much 7. 248,000 - Mama/Who Do You Think You Are 8. 115,000 - Stop 9. 106,000 - Holler/Let Love Lead The Way 10. 70,000 - Wannabe 11. 7,197 - Headlines (Friendship Never Ends) (digital only week) / 14,941 (physicals released - third week sales) Viva Forever certainly did very well as a fourth single, even outdoing Too Much's Christmas week sales. :o
October 20, 20177 yr It set a new chart record, with Spice Girls becoming the first act to reach Number 1 with their first five singles (and the first to debut at the top four times in a row). Take That had previously managed 2 runs of 4 consecutive singles entering at #1.
November 23, 20177 yr Author Official Charts Flashback 2002: Christina Aguilera reinvents herself with Dirrty at Number 1 'Dirrty' - 493k (incl. 9m streams) 'Stripped' (album) - 2m 15 years since 'Dirrty' :o Top 75 (text sourced from UKMIX) 1 - NEW - 01 - Christina Aguilera featuring Redman - DIRRTY 05 - 03 - 02 - Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland - DILEMMA 03 - 02 - 03 - DJ Sammy And Yanou Featuring Do - HEAVEN 02 - 01 - 04 - Westlife - UNBREAKABLE 06 - 05 - 05 - Las Ketchup - THE KETCHUP SONG (ASEREJE) 1 - NEW - 06 - Blazin' Squad - LOVE ON THE LINE 1 - NEW - 07 - Sugababes - STRONGER / ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES 1 - NEW - 08 - Kylie Minogue - COME INTO MY WORLD 02 - 04 - 09 - Shania Twain - I'M GONNA GETCHA GOOD! 1 - NEW - 10 - Coldplay - THE SCIENTIST 04 - 08 - 11 - Justin Timberlake - LIKE I LOVE YOU 05 - 09 - 12 - Big Brovaz - NU FLOW 1 - NEW - 13 - Ashanti - HAPPY 02 - 06 - 14 - Missy Elliott - WORK IT 04 - 11 - 15 - Blue - ONE LOVE 1 - NEW - 16 - Santana featuring Michelle Branch - THE GAME OF LOVE 1 - NEW - 17 - Shakira - OBJECTION (TANGO) 03 - 12 - 18 - Madonna - DIE ANOTHER DAY 1 - NEW - 19 - Shy Fx / T Power / DI and Skibadee - DON'T WANNA KNOW 02 - 07 - 20 - Dannii Minogue - PUT THE NEEDLE ON IT 02 - 13 - 21 - Britney Spears - I LOVE ROCK AND ROLL 02 - 10 - 22 - H and Claire - ALL OUT OF LOVE / BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 03 - 16 - 23 - Romeo featuring Christina Millian - IT'S ALL GRAVY 03 - 18 - 24 - Craig David - WHAT'S YOUR FLAVA 03 - 19 - 25 - Shaggy - HEY SEXY LADY 02 - 14 - 26 - Sophie Ellis Bextor - MUSIC GETS THE BEST OF ME 02 - 15 - 27 - Queens Of The Stone Age - NO ONE KNOWS 03 - 21 - 28 - Jan Wayne - BECAUSE THE NIGHT 02 - 20 - 29 - Darren Hayes - I MISS YOU 09 - 22 - 30 - Pink - JUST LIKE A PILL 08 - 17 - 31 - Avril Lavigne - COMPLICATED 12 - 24 - 32 - Atomic Kitten - THE TIDE IS HIGH (GET THE FEELING) 06 - 25 - 33 - S Club Juniors - NEW DIRECTION 1 - NEW - 34 - Tenacious D - WONDER BOY 1 - NEW - 35 - Rammstein - FEUER FREI 04 - 23 - 36 - U2 - ELECTRICAL STORM 08 - 26 - 37 - Will Young and Gareth Gates - THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD / SUSPICIOUS MINDS 1 - NEW - 38 - De Nuit - ALL THAT MATTERED (LOVE YOU DOWN) 09 - 38 - 39 - Eminem - CLEANING OUT MY CLOSET 04 - 34 - 40 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - THE ZEPHYR SONG 03 - 27 - 41 - Soda Club featuring Hannah Alethea - TAKE MY BREATH AWAY 05 - 29 - 42 - LL Cool J - LUV U BETTER 09 - 31 - 43 - Busted - WHAT I GO TO SCHOOL FOR 05 - 30 - 44 - Samantha Mumba - I'M RIGHT HERE 1 - NEW - 45 - Alice Martineau - IF I FALL 09 - 62 - 46 - Ronan Keating - I LOVE IT WHEN WE DO 06 - 58 - 47 - Bon Jovi - EVERYDAY 13 - 51 - 48 - Blazin' Squad - CROSSROADS 04 - 33 - 49 - Who Da Funk Featuring Jessica Eve - SHINY DISCO BALLS 03 - 32 - 50 - Whitney Houston - WHATCHULOOKINAT 07 - 40 - 51 - Jakatta featuring Seal - MY VISION 1 - NEW - 52 - Louie Vega and Jay 'Sinister' Sealee Presents Diamond Life - DIAMOND LIFE 1 - NEW - 53 - Ian Pooley and Magik J - PIHA 02 - 28 - 54 - Phil Collins - CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU 07 - 44 - 55 - Holly Valance - DOWN BOY 10 - 49 - 56 - Liberty X - GOT TO HAVE YOUR LOVE 16 - 46 - 57 - Darius - COLOURBLIND 06 - 48 - 58 - Foo Fighters - ALL MY LIFE 08 - 45 - 59 - DJ Markey / XRS featuring Stamina MC - LK (CAROLINA CAROL BELA) 02 - 35 - 60 - Moby - IN THIS WORLD 02 - 39 - 61 - Xzibit - MULTIPLY 1 - NEW - 62 - Kirsty Hawkshaw - FINE DAY 07 - 56 - 63 - LeAnn Rimes - LIFE GOES ON 06 - RE - 64 - Oxide and Neutrino featuring Kowdean - DEM GIRLZ (I DON'T KNOW WHY) 08 - 47 - 65 - Oasis - LITTLE BY LITTLE / SHE IS LOVE 07 - 50 - 66 - Irv Gotti Presents the Inc Featuring Ja Rule, Ashanti, Charli Baltimore and Vita - DOWN 4 U 02 - 37 - 67 - Yeah Yeah Yeah's - MACHINE 09 - RE - 68 - Kelly Osbourne - PAPA DON'T PREACH 04 - 42 - 69 - Rosie Ribbons - BLINK 02 - 36 - 70 - BBMak - OUT OF MY HEART 08 - 52 - 71 - Eve featuring Alicia Keys - GANGSTA LOVIN' 1 - NEW - 72 - Interpol - OBSTACLE 1 05 - RE - 73 - Richard Ashcroft - CHECK THE MEANING 03 - 43 - 74 - Madhouse - HOLIDAY 07 - RE - 75 - Beenie Man featuring Janet - FEEL IT BOY (and yes I've missed a few, you can view all the OCC flashbacks here though)
November 23, 20177 yr 15 years? :o That song was my childhood :cry: Edited November 23, 20177 yr by No Sleeep
November 23, 20177 yr This is when I got back into music again, after the whole Will/Gareth domination had bored the hell out of me through most of the year, so remember lots of these well from music TV, TOTP and CD:UK! Notable ones: 1 - NEW - 01 - Christina Aguilera featuring Redman - DIRRTY I actually hated this...I think because I was such a big fan of Christina in the Genie In A Bottle days, when she seemed like she'd be a fun mate to have around...this radical "raunchy" revamp was a bit horrifying to 14-year-old me in comparison. She won me over again with the next few singles though. 05 - 03 - 02 - Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland - DILEMMA Hugely popular among friends but it always bored me. Appreciate it a little better now I'm not a moody teenager. 03 - 02 - 03 - DJ Sammy And Yanou Featuring Do - HEAVEN While this ROCKED. Big classic of the era and still a big guilty pleasure today!! 1 - NEW - 10 - Coldplay - THE SCIENTIST Loved this mostly thanks to the video, which got loads of airplay on music channels. Great song too though, the golden era of Coldplay before all the middling stuff of the last decade. 05 - 09 - 12 - Big Brovaz - NU FLOW Haha, I'm a little ashamed to admit I loved this too :P Remember the TOTP performance vividly, seems astonishingly forgotten now given how big it was at the time. 04 - 11 - 15 - Blue - ONE LOVE Another era-defining classic which I keep forgetting wasn't #1, definitely felt like one. Probably my fave Blue track just edging All Rise. 02 - 13 - 21 - Britney Spears - I LOVE ROCK AND ROLL I thought this was an original song from Britney and didn't understand why everyone hated it - thought it was the best thing she'd written in years :P So naive... 02 - 10 - 22 - H and Claire - ALL OUT OF LOVE / BEAUTY AND THE BEAST All Out of Love is basically a Steps track in name only...I enjoy it but christ this sounded dated by late 2002, especially coming after something like DJ. And Beauty and the Beast was covered because the film had just come out on DVD I think, the video was included on the disc. 03 - 21 - 28 - Jan Wayne - BECAUSE THE NIGHT "Jan Wayne's gonna MOOOVVEE YAAAA!" Fun dance remake but god knows why Cascada pointlessly covered it a few years later. 09 - 22 - 30 - Pink - JUST LIKE A PILL Utter brilliance. #1 on my 14th birthday and one of the best tracks of the year. Still my fave Pink song. 08 - 17 - 31 - Avril Lavigne - COMPLICATED My first teenage crush I think :lol: Another brilliant song that always takes me back! 12 - 24 - 32 - Atomic Kitten - THE TIDE IS HIGH (GET THE FEELING) Another one music channels played all the time, while channels like VH1 kept playing the Blondie version - it's nostalgic, especially as I've barely heard it in fifteen years, but a shame how Atomic Kitten fizzled out into a novelty covers group after something as good as Whole Again. 04 - 34 - 40 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - THE ZEPHYR SONG 'By The Way' is the only song I know that both my parents ever liked (both in their mid-30s at the time) - I really liked this follow-up too. As good as some of their songs are they do get overplayed sometimes, I'm totally sick of hearing Californiacation now in every retail job I've ever worked at <_< 04 - 33 - 49 - Who Da Funk Featuring Jessica Eve - SHINY DISCO BALLS I was surprised in the noughties dance thread (what happened to that BTW?) when pretty much no one liked this...I've always thought it was a great house track!! In the extended version especially it's gloriously hypnotic. 03 - 43 - 74 - Madhouse - HOLIDAY Distinctly remember this on the music channels and thinking "Eh, I swear I've heard this song before..." With the same group's 'Like A Prayer' and that bizarre Wheels On The Bus cover by someone called Mad Donna, it was a good time for random Madonna covers...
November 23, 20177 yr Well that was a damn good reinvention for Christina as 'Dirrty' is my favourite song she's ever released *.* it always shocks me that it didn't smash in the U.S. :o The 'Stronger' / 'Angels With Dirty Faces' double A-side transports me back to being a 6-year-old so much! Particularly the latter song due to its Powerpuff Girls themed music video, because that was my favourite tv show as a little girl! Ooft 'The Scientist' always packs such an emotional punch. Certainly a Coldplay highlight.
November 23, 20177 yr This chart was the last one whose chart show was presented by Mark Goodier (there were guest presenters for the next few weeks, then Scott Mills for a few weeks, before Wes took over).
January 19, 20187 yr Author Thanks to Snakey for pointing this one out, though this time 10 years ago it was actually Basshunter's second week at #1. http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...re-gone__21500/ Musical flash in the pans are an odd thing. Like a 'forgotten' historical document, they often reveal much more about the times than most would care to admit. But revisiting them can be a fascinating, if occasionally unpleasant, experience. Ten years ago this week, the Official Chart saw the takeover of Basshunter, a slightly bonkers (and sex mad) Swedish producer/DJ who hit Number 1 with Now You’re Gone. The track had been a massive hit across Europe two years earlier (under the title Boten Anna with slightly different lyrics in Swedish), so UK success was in some ways inevitable. Not only did it notch up five weeks at Number 1 - the joint-longest run at the top that year alongside Duffy’s Mercy and Katy Perry’s I Kissed A Girl - but for its first week at the top, it held off fierce competition from Britney Spears. The second single from her Blackout album, Piece Of Me, was released when the media storm around the singer was at its most intense, but even that wasn't enough to defeat the mighty Basshunter. As well as Britney, Now You’re Gone fended off Adele’s much-hyped debut Chasing Pavements and Nickleback’s country singalong Rockstar during its run at the top - both songs peaked at Number 2. It was eventually dethroned by an even stronger musical force that year, Duffy's debut single Mercy. Now You’re Gone finished as 2008's eighth best-selling single. It's total combined sales stand at 667,000, comprising of 101,000 physical, 509,000 downloads and 5.6 million streams. Last week, it was streamed 62,240 times in the UK. Elsewhere in the Official Singles Chart ten years ago this week, Rihanna fever was in full swing as Don’t Stop The Music, the fourth single from her breakthrough Good Girl Gone Bad album, entered the Top 10 at 6. US rapper Lupe Fiasco landed his biggest UK hit with Superstar, and British pop-rockers Scouting For Girls were enjoying their second hit with Elvis Ain’t Dead at 10. Further down, Robyn’s Be Mine entered the Top 40 at 23 before reaching its eventual Number 10 peak, and Kylie Minogue had two entries with Wow at 29 and 2 Hearts at 35. 1 (14) Now You're Gone (By Basshunter Featuring DJ Mental Theo) 4w 2 (19) Piece Of Me (By Britney Spears) 8w 3 (2) Crank That (Soulja Boy) (By Soulja Boy) 11w 4 (8) Rockstar (By Nickelback) 13w 5 (1) When You Believe (By Leon Jackson) 4w 6 (12) Don't Stop The Music (By Rihanna) 24w 7 (NEW) Superstar (By Lupe Fiasco Featuring Matthew Santos) 1w 8 (4) Apologize (By Timbaland Featuring OneRepublic) 17w 9 (5) Rule The World (By Take That) 13w 10 (17) Elvis Ain't Dead (By Scouting For Girls) 8w 11 (7) Call The Shots (By Girls Aloud) 8w 12 (3) Bleeding Love (By Leona Lewis) 12w 13 (6) Valerie (By Mark Ronson Featuring Amy Winehouse) 27w 14 (41) Homecoming (By Kanye West) 6w 15 (9) Heartbroken (By T2 Featuring Jodie Aysha) 9w 16 (10) No One (By Alicia Keys) 11w 17 (15) What Hurts The Most (By Cascada) 6w 18 (20) Relax, Take It Easy (Re-Issue) (By Mika) 6w 19 (21) Some Kinda Rush (By Booty Luv) 8w 20 (11) Goodbye Mr. A (By Hoosiers) 14w 21 (13) About You Now (By Sugababes) 17w 22 (16) Change (By Sugababes) 8w 23 (55) Be Mine! (By Robyn) 5w 24 (33) She's So Lovely (By Scouting For Girls) 20w 25 (NEW) I Fought The Lloyds (By Oystar) 1w 26 (23) Pumpkin Soup (By Kate Nash) 8w 27 (18) Umbrella (By Rihanna Featuring Jay-Z) 35w 28 (40) This Is The Life (By Amy Macdonald) 8w 29 (43) Wow (By Kylie Minogue) 5w 30 (29) Hate That I Love You (By Rihanna Featuring Ne-Yo) 16w 31 (NEW) Waving Flags (By British Sea Power) 1w 32 (28) Flux (By Bloc Party) 9w 33 (24) The Way I Are (By Timbaland Featuring Keri Hilson And D.O.E.) 30w 34 (45) Gimme More (By Britney Spears) 13w 35 (22) 2 Hearts (By Kylie Minogue) 10w 36 (32) Hey There Delilah (By Plain White T's) 26w 37 (91) Moving To New York (By Wombats) 5w 38 (31) Stronger (By Kanye West) 23w 39 (39) Happy Ending (By Mika) 17w 40 (26) Breathless (By Shayne Ward) 8w 41 (37) Back To Black (By Amy Winehouse) 42w 42 (38) Home (By Westlife) 11w 43 (103) Love Has Gone (By Dave Armstrong And Redroche) 2w 44 (25) Worried About Ray (By Hoosiers) 30w 45 (42) Ayo Technology (By 50 Cent Featuring Justin Timberlake) 22w 46 (49) Dream Catch Me (By Newton Faulkner) 25w 47 (47) Uninvited (By Freemasons Featuring Bailey Tzuke) 15w 48 (56) Let Me Think About It (By Ida Corr vs Fedde Le Grand) 17w 49 (46) With Every Heartbeat (By Robyn With Kleerup) 24w 50 (27) Ruby (By Kaiser Chiefs) 49w 51 (34) Foundations (By Kate Nash) 30w 52 (54) Anthem (By Filo And Peri Featuring Eric Lumiere) 5w 53 (36) Shine (By Take That) 54w 54 (136) What Planet You On (By Bodyrox And Luciana) 2w 55 (35) Grace Kelly (By Mika) 53w 56 (123) Work (By Kelly Rowland) 3w 57 (44) The Pretender (By Foo Fighters) 22w 58 (60) Teddy Picker (By Arctic Monkeys) 9w 59 (57) Long Road To Ruin (By Foo Fighters) 9w 60 (52) Lost (By Michael Buble) 11w 61 (69) Won't Go Home Without You (By Maroon 5) 11w 62 (48) Rehab (By Amy Winehouse) 65w 63 (84) Hate (I Really Don't Like You) (By Plain White T's) 7w 64 (30) Conquest (By White Stripes) 2w 65 (71) I Found Out (By Pigeon Detectives) 15w 66 (50) Patience (By Take That) 61w 67 (74) Teardrop (By Newton Faulkner) 16w 68 (58) Chasing Cars (By Snow Patrol) 71w 69 (59) How To Save A Life (By Fray) 53w 70 (RE) Toothpaste Kisses (By Maccabees) 2w 71 (65) Valerie (Radio 1 Live Lounge Recording. B Side to 'Back To Black') (By Amy Winehouse) 17w 72 (61) Hot Stuff (Let's Dance) (By Craig David) 11w 73 (62) 1234 (By Feist) 20w 74 (89) Rockferry (By Duffy) 7w 75 (73) B-Boy Baby (By Mutya Buena And Amy Winehouse) 6w Text source: UKMIX
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