'When You're Gone' is my favourite of the solo Spice singles. Brilliant song.

I think the only way a #3 can be 'unlucky' is that if it's sales were big enough to be #1 if they'd waited a couple of weeks, but it happened to get caught by not one to but two huge new releases. I guess one that comes to mind is McFly's The Heart Never Lies which I think had a higher first week than their number 1 that year (Baby's Coming Back) but lost to the Bleeding Love-Rule the World stranglehold. Could've definitely been in closer contention the week before with Sugababes' fourth week.

 

(If we're just talking about best #3s, Green Day's American Idiot is one of my favourite, got beat by an all new top 3 Eric Prydz and Girls Aloud D:)

I'm not sure how my post in the other thread got turned into a whole new thread :mellow:

 

Didn't Carly Rae's I Really Like You have a huge opening week at #3 that would have been #1 in most of the preceding week's that year?

found this on I Really Like You:

 

Despite falling short of the top two, Carly Rae Jepsen's new single I Really Like You - the first single from upcoming album E-MO-TION - opens with an excellent first week tally of 85,840 sales, enough to debut at number three. That is the highest sale for a number three since June 2013 - when Daft Punk’s Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams) held the position on sales of 88,136 - and makes it the Canadian singer's highest charting single since introductory smash Call Me Maybe opened at number one (on sales of 106,657 copies) a shade over three years ago. Call Me Maybe has since gone on to sell 1,372,444 copies. 29 year old Jepsen co-wrote both songs.

 

but was not that close:

1 Omi 112,626

2 Wiz Khalifa feat. Charlie Puth 111,542

3 Carly Rae Jepsen 85,840

 

Edited February 18, 20214 yr by Bjork

It might not be "unlucky" but as we're kinda on the topic of best songs to peak at #3, Britney Spears - Gimme More is the winner and you can argue with your walls about that. :drink:

 

Lol. No.

(If we're just talking about best #3s, Green Day's American Idiot is one of my favourite, got beat by an all new top 3 Eric Prydz and Girls Aloud D:)

Speaking of Girls Aloud... a couple of their #3 hits, Something Kinda Ooooh and Call the Shots, were #2 throughout the midweek updates, but were overtaken in time for the official chart! Fedde Le Grand - Put Your Hands Up for Detroit and Bodyrox - Yeah Yeah both pushed Something Kinda Ooooh down, while T2 - Heartbroken got in the way of Call the Shots. This still hurts me tbh :kink: x

 

I've researched the midweeks and sales information for the two Girls Aloud singles and those three dance songs, but I've decided to post all that info in the Girls Aloud forum rather than here. If anyone is interested, the post is here! - http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?s...t&p=6801702

Ordinary Boys - Boys Will Be Boys spent 3 weeks in a row at #3, coming very close to #2 in the first two of those weeks.

 

Plan B - She Said was unlucky not to get to at least #2 (it spent 4 weeks in total at #3, and the first week was very close sales-wise).

Gaga's Born This Way ofc.

One of the unluckiest number three songs ever has to be Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto de Aranjuez by Manuel And The Music Of The Mountains in 1976. Because it was half-term week, I was able to hear the new chart being unveiled on the Tuesday lunchtime and Rodrigo was announced as the number one. Soon afterwards, Radio 1 said that the chart was riddled with errors and that a new one would be revealed later that afternoon. The updated chart had Rodrigo at number three which is as high as it got.

One of the unluckiest number three songs ever has to be Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto de Aranjuez by Manuel And The Music Of The Mountains in 1976. Because it was half-term week, I was able to hear the new chart being unveiled on the Tuesday lunchtime and Rodrigo was announced as the number one. Soon afterwards, Radio 1 said that the chart was riddled with errors and that a new one would be revealed later that afternoon. The updated chart had Rodrigo at number three which is as high as it got.

45 years ago this very week! The first of two occasions where a chart compilation error by then chart compilers BMRB led to the wrong record being placed at number 1 (the second was in November 1979) . Manuel (a.k.a musician Geoff Love) actually got to number 3 the following week. On the revised chart of 17 February 1976 he ended up relegated to number 4. The erroneous top 50 from that week has seldom been seen, I think the top 20 may have been published in one of the early editions of the Guinness Book Of British Hit Singles. Here is that incorrect top 50 with the revised chart positions in square brackets:

 

1 (8) Manuel & His Music Of The Mountains [4]

2 (23) Tina Charles [3]

3 (3) Four Seasons [1]

4 (1) Slik [2]

5 (21) Yvonne Fair [14]

6 (7) Walker Bros [11]

7 (25) Slade [18]

8 (41) CW McCall [7]

9 (6) R&J Stone [9]

10 (29) Pluto [10]

11 (17) Glenn Miller [13]

12 (2) Abba [5]

13 (19) The Who [15]

14 (10) David Ruffin [16]

15 (36) Status Quo [17]

16 (4) Miracles [8]

17 (11) Wing & A Prayer [19]

18 (30) O'Jays [20]

19 (27) Smokie [21]

20 (44) Stylistics [22]

21 (15) War [12]

22 (31) Manhatten Transfer [24]

23 (9) Barbara Dickson [25]

24 (32) Evelyn Thomas [26]

25 (33) LJ Johnson [27]

26 (11) ELO [28]

27 (28) Donny And Marie [29]

28 (20) Billy Howard [30]

29 (45) Cliff Richard [31]

30 (16) Queen [32]

31 (34) The Captain & Tennille [33]

32 (-) Billy Ocean [34]

33 (24) Mike Oldfield [36]

34 (22) Sailor [37]

35 (14) Small Faces [38]

36 (-) Fatback Band [39]

37 (50) St Andrew's Chorale [40]

38 (48) Amen Corner [41]

39 (37) George McCrae [-]

40 (42) Juggy Jones [42]

41 (18) Osibisa [43]

42 (5) Donna Summer [6]

43 (40) Faith Hope And Charity [44]

44 (-) Guys And Dolls [45]

45 (-) Be Bop Deluxe [46]

46 (47) Bob Dylan [47]

47 (-) Marmalade [48]

48 (46) Sound 9418 [49]

49 (43) Ethna Campbell [50]

50 (-) Randy Edleman [-]

 

For anyone who wants to know the titles of the singles, here is the correct chart https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singl.../19760215/7501/

 

The second occasion an incorrect record was placed at number 1 was in November 1979 when 'When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman' by Dr Hook was announced as the new number 1 on 06/11/79 (chart dated 10/11/79) with 'One Day At A Time' by Lena Martell down to number 2. Lena's record label, Pye Records, somehow noticed a discrepancy in the figures and registered a complaint. BMRB realised some of her sales had been added to Dr Hook's sales and the top 2 sales were recalculated with Lena being placed back at number 1 the following day. On this occasion Dr Hook did get to number 1 the following Tuesday.