Vengaboys at mighty hoopla, WLTP got the best response from the crowd.

This thread continues to surprise - Depeche Mode :o

71.MISSING- Everything But The Girl (85,000) #3

 

 

No 1 in 14 weeks in 1995

 

With only one top 10 hit previously in their 11 year old career EBTG were always chart also rans until Todd Terry got his hands on their single “Missing” and remixed it for the US release of the song and quietly it started to take off. Imports created demand and the song became the band’s biggest UK single relaunching them as a dance act from their previous folk/ indie roots.

 

70. T’AINT WHAT YOU DO (IT’S THE WAY THAT YOU DO IT)- Bananarama & Fun Boy Three (95,000) #4

 

 

No 1 in 14 weeks in 1982

 

A 1939 Jazz record turned into an 80s Ska revival single what could go wrong? It introduced the charts to Bananarama (no bad thing) and proved to Terry Hall that he didn’t need the Specials to score top 10 singles. The Nana’s were invited to do the backing vocals after Hall bought their first single and saw them in “The Face” magazine which caused him to love their look.

 

69. DON’T GO- Yazoo (96,000) # 3

 

 

No 1 in 14 weeks in 1982

 

1982 continues to provide the classics with this Vince Clarke penned single for the famously antagonistic duo. Moyet sounds predictably incredible and the whole thing has long since become a synth pop classic, shame that it had to battle “Fame” and “Come On Eileen” in the weekly charts, a fight it was never going to win.

 

Those are three great songs which all deserved to be number 1s.

Missing my second favourite song ever and It Ain’t What you do is the first song I can recall hearing on the radio

Missing is a great track!!

Missing :wub:

Don't Go is brilliant too, for me it's even better than Yazoo's Only You, although I prefer Nobody's Diary to both.

 

T'Aint What You Do actually peaked at #4 in the same week that See You reached #6. That week's #3 must be still to come.

Three great songs there, can't fault any of them, all would have been worthy #1s. Missing is my favourite, what a gem.

 

The one thing with the Bananarama/Fun Boy Three song is it does tend to remind me of B&Q adverts. :lol: I can't believe Bananarama never got a #1.

Yazoo rate

 

Only You>Don’t Go>Nobody’s Diary

 

Vince Clarke and Alison are such talented people.

 

Love the TOTP studio back in the early 80s, it was hard to tell who was performing and who was in the audience, classic times!

Missing is one of the best songs in the world ever.

 

Didn't make No.1, but spent forever in the charts.

'Don't Go' is my absolute favourite song of the 80s :wub:

Missing :wub: one of the greatest songs ever created!

68. AMAZING- George Michael (41,508) #4

 

 

No 1 for 15 weeks in 2004

 

After his first real commercial misstep in the 1999-2002 period this was hailed as the famed “comeback” single. Written about and dedicated to Kenny Goss, it ended a 5 year gap in top five singles but sadly he would never be back there.

 

67. MY PREROGATIVE- Britney Spears (41,582) #3

 

 

No 1 in 15 weeks in 2004

 

Written By Bobby Brown in 1988 as a response to press reaction to his departure of the group New Edition, it was perhaps a track which immediately appealed to Spears and her ongoing “awkward” relationship with the media. Helping to launch her first GH album it did the trick shifting impressive numbers for 2004.

 

66. WHEN YOU LOOK AT ME- Christina Milian (72,000) #3

 

 

No 1 in 15 Weeks in 2002

 

Apparently a song inspired by Milian being labelled at school as someone who thought she was “all that”. Of course she’s very humble etc and to prove it she wrote this track and released it as a second solo single, she was protégé of Rodney “Darkchild” Jenkins which led to her guesting on the Ja Rule track “Between Me & You” which was her first chart appearance in 2001.

 

I thought George Michael must be on the list when Red Blooded Woman appeared. Amazing is the last decent thing he ever released tbh. I also really like Britney's version of My Perogative. Never even heard that Christina Millian song tbh.

I thought George Michael must be on the list when Red Blooded Woman appeared. Amazing is the last decent thing he ever released tbh. I also really like Britney's version of My Perogative. Never even heard that Christina Millian song tbh.

 

‘December Song’ says hello! :D

Btw AM to PM by Christina Milian should have been called PM to AM unless she’s describing a brunchtime party