Posted April 13, 20205 yr There were far too many occasions in the chart history of S Club 7, S Club Juniors and Rachel Stevens when a song which would otherwise have been top of the charts was denied by a superior single at the time. Which were deserved and which should have made way for the runner up? S Club 7 Eiffel 65 – Blue (Da Ba Dee) Held off S Club Party in 1999. zA52uNzx7Y4 Westlife – I Have A Dream / Seasons In The Sun Held off Two In A Million / You’re My Number One in 2000. _HkL8GuU9_0 Sonique – It Feels So Good Held off Reach in 2000 zns8Y8phigk Enrique Iglesias – Hero Held off You in 2002 koJlIGDImiU R. Kelly – Ignition (Remix) Held off Say Goodbye / Love Ain’t Gonna Wait For You y6y_4_b6RS8 S Club Juniors Sugababes – Freak Like Me Held off One Step Closer for one week in 2002 dSAGsiVSoeE Holly Valance – Kiss Kiss Held off One Step Closer for one week in 2002 o3wS2tdlZtE Gareth Gates – Anyone Of Us (Stupid Mistake) Held off Automatic High in 2002 iFa6I9KN63Q Las Ketchup – Aserje (The Ketchup Song) Held off New Direction in 2002 5llcBScGuAE Rachel Stevens Black Eyed Peas – Where Is The Love? Held off Sweet Dreams My L.A. Ex in 2003 WpYeekQkAdc Shapeshifters – Lola’s Theme Held off Some Girls in 2004 kIC0aQ56ASE
April 13, 20205 yr Author Here’s how I’ve rated the songs; +10 Holly Valance – Kiss Kiss +9 Shapeshifters – Lola’s Theme +8 Black Eyed Peas – Where Is The Love? +7 Sonique – It Feels So Good +6 R. Kelly – Ignition (Remix) +5 Eiffel 65 – Blue (Da Ba Dee) +4 Sugababes – Freak Like Me +3 Las Ketchup – Aserje (The Ketchup Song) +2 Enrique Iglesias – Hero +1 Gareth Gates – Anyone Of Us (Stupid Mistake) –1 Westlife – I Have A Dream / Seasons In The Sun
April 13, 20205 yr I honestly prefer most of those number ones! the only ones I’d swap out are Westlife and Gareth Gates (I suppose R Kelly as well for other reasons but I prefer Ignition as a song over those two S Club songs) for all the impact it had Reach deserved at least one week at number one too but I wouldn’t want it to have prevented Sonique peaking there.
April 13, 20205 yr Holly Valance, Shapeshifters, Sonique, Eiffel 65, Sugababes and Las Ketchup :wub: honestly can't be mad about most songs that blocked them!
April 13, 20205 yr Apart from Effel 65 & Gareth Gates, I prefer them all to the S Club songs! Don’t recall the Two in a Million though There’s some BIG songs there!
April 13, 20205 yr Black Eyed Peas and Shapeshifters 100% deserved the #1 tbh but Reach definitely deserved it more than Sonique!
April 13, 20205 yr Freak Like Me and Kiss Kiss are my favourites from these for sure :wub: Lola's Theme also great! Less keen on Blue and Where Is the Love though.
April 13, 20205 yr How could I miss Sonique though. Incredible song and deserved 15 weeks at #1. :wub: Sorry SC7
April 13, 20205 yr Sonique was one of those rare times when both the number 1 and the number 2 deserved number 1 :(
April 13, 20205 yr Blue (Da Ba Dee) vs S Club Party I much prefer S Club Party, certainly nowadays but also at the time as well - even though I did enjoy Blue in 1999. I completely understand why Blue was a massive hit, but I don't particularly like it any more. No idea when I would have last heard Blue, but I can actually remember its verses as well as the chorus, so I must have heard it a fair few times back in the day! So my preference for #1 would be S Club 7, but I don't begrudge Eiffel 65 for making it instead. I Have A Dream / Seasons In The Sun vs Two in a Million / You're My Number One Absolutely S Club 7 with this one. Honestly I have never understood why that single was so huge for Westlife... for me it's by far their worst single out of their first 4 releases, but unfathomably it was their best seller at that point in their career. :huh: I suppose it was fortunate that S Club 7 even reached #2 with this though, considering it went 5-6 in its first 2 weeks on sale. It Feels So Good vs Reach It Feels So Good is a dance classic and I love it, but Reach feels like even more of a classic to me - and it's actually outsold Sonique's song now! Hero vs You I never particularly cared for Hero, it's so schmaltzy. You is pure cheese of course, but I prefer it! Ignition Remix vs Say Goodbye / Love Ain't Gonna Wait for You I've always considered Ignition to be overrated trash, long before R. Kelly was firmly cancelled. It would have been lovely for S Club's swan song to reach #1. Freak Like Me vs One Step Closer Had to go with Sugababes here. Funnily enough One Step Closer actually outsold Freak Like Me in 2002, so arguably it deserved #1 over it... Kiss Kiss vs One Step Closer ...particularly considering it managed a second week at #2, going ahead of Sugababes. Kiss Kiss is fabulous though, one of my favourite singles from 2002 - Holly absolutely deserved the #1. Anyone of Us (Stupid Mistake) vs Automatic High Gareth's best song, but Automatic High is a lot more fun and would have been a very cute summer #1. Aserje (The Ketchup Song) vs New Direction Obviously Asereje is bit of a classic, but I don't particularly like it... whereas I love New Direction and consider it to be S Club Juniors' best single. Would have loved it to be #1. Where Is The Love? vs Sweet Dreams My L.A. Ex A nice song from Black Eyed Peas and worthy of its success, but... Rachel had one of the best pop songs of the decade and it deserved #1, damn it! Lola's Theme vs Some Girls Lola's Theme is cute if a bit overrated. Some Girls is a corker, it should have been #1.
April 13, 20205 yr The fact that S Club nearly had 9 #1s is incredible I'd knock off Westlife & one of Sonique's weeks for them tbh
April 13, 20205 yr Almost all of those deserved number one over the S Club tracks to be fair, even Westlife! :D I think Anyone of Us beating Automatic High is the only one worth swapping.
April 13, 20205 yr Kiss Kiss and One Step Closer is probably the campest top 2 :lol: S Club and Rachel did face some absolute classics tbf - Westlife should have rolled over for them!
