Bran Van 3000- Drinkin In LA (96.7%)

 

 

W/E 21/8/1999

 

1- IF I LET YOU GO- Westlife (90,491)

2- BETTER OFF ALONE- DJ Jurgen Presents Alice Deejay (90,021)

3- DRINKING IN LA- Bran Van 3000 (87,600)

 

With all eyes on the top 2 scrapping it out to a difference of a few hundred, everyone forgets that Bran Van 3000 weren’t far off the pace either! Indeed it was reported that with another day’s sales Westlife would have ended up No 3- not bad for a song that made No 34 the previous summer but was put on an advert for Rolling Rock Beer which transformed its performance.

 

Black Eyed Peas- Pump It (98.1%)

 

 

W/E 25/3/2006

 

1- NO TOMORROW- Orson (17.694)

2- IT’S CHICO TIME- Chico (17,365)

3- PUMP IT- Black Eyed Peas (17,360)

 

Creating records for all the wrong reasons back in 2006 Orson scored the worst weekly sale for a No 1 single EVER (a record low which remains to this day), but BEP were a mere 395 copies away from the top which %wise is the closest the No 3 hit ever was to the chart topper.

 

That's the song I'd expected to top this. Not sure I'd say BEP were unlucky with that sale - if anything it was lucky not to hold Orson's record for lowest selling #1 - but it was a close call for sure.

 

Looking forward to the main countdown, I think at least one song from last year has made it, maybe two if Last Christmas counts as a 2020 #1.

Both 'Better Off Alone' and 'Drinking In LA' in that top 3 robbed -_- :wub:

So...Tomorrow we start the main rundown- a reminder of the inclusion rules

 

a) The track must have peaked no higher than No 3

b) The weekly sale for the track must have been high enough to enable the song to be No 1 for at least 11 weeks in the year the track made that weekly sale.

c) Some weeks are excluded from the survey- these are normally the Christmas week (or the week in which the main bulk of pre Christmas sales were), the week after Christmas in 2011 and 2012 (known to some as the "Gift card" effect) and the week in 1982 when the charts reverted back to a Monday- Saturday cycle causing two Saturdays sales to go into one sales week. This is because sales were artificially high in those weeks. However if a song sold enough in a week outside of those excluded weeks to be No 1 in any of those weeks then it is included in their overall "weeks it would have been No 1" tally.

 

 

Better Off Alone definitely deserved that #1 spot

 

Loved "Sweets For My Sweet" too but "Real Thing" deserved it

Better Off Alone deserved #1 that week 100%, huge injustice that it was robbed by that Westlife shoite at the last hurdle.

 

The Orson/BEP week was what I was thinking might top this section of the countdown. Out of interest does anyone know what the rest of the Top 10 sold that week?

The Orson/BEP week was what I was thinking might top this section of the countdown. Out of interest does anyone know what the rest of the Top 10 sold that week?

Here:

17694 Orson

17365 Chico

17360 Black Eyes Peas

15350 Pussycat Dolls

13210 Corinne Bailey Rae

11720 Girls Aloud (6)

10943 Sugababes (7)

10381 Kanye West (8)

9634 Madonna (9)

9269 Meck (10)

didn't know Better Off Alone/Drinkin'in LA had been so close, love both tracks, both are 10/10 songs

while the Westlife thing is a total 0/10 :o now I hate Westlife even more :D

Westlife incredibly lucky ! Their number 1 run could have ended very early.

 

Fool again was incredibly lucky to also make it.

I do think If I Let You Go is one of the best Westlife songs though :kink: but yes Better Off Alone is a tune and definitely considered more of a classic and same can be said (to a lesser extent) for Drinking In LA.

Let's start off then................

 

 

107. BEING NOBODY- Richard X Vs Liberty X (43,000) #3

 

 

No 1 in 11 weeks in 2003

 

Richard X was an underground DJ who started to produce and sell mash-ups one of which eventually turned into “Freak Like Me” and helped to relaunch The Sugababes. Convinced there was an album to be made from them he roped in other acts to provide vocals and hey presto we got this version of the Chaka Khan & Rufus song “Ain’t Nobody” mixed with the Human League’s “Being Boiled” and none too shabby sales.

 

106. LOVE SONG FOR A VAMPIRE/ LITTLE BIRD- Annie Lennox (54,000) #3

 

 

No 1 in 11 weeks in 1993

 

Annie’s theme for the 1992 version of “Dracula” shows up next, she teamed with a track from her “Diva” album which came with some much lauded dance mixes to add incentive. Unluckily it came up against the techno powerhouse of 2 Unlimited and a Take That single, which in 1993 spelled trouble.

 

Love that Annie Lennox single (both songs)

105. BLOW ME (ONE MORE KISS)- Pink (70,207) #3

 

 

No 1 in 11 weeks in 2012

 

Yes if she’d only have put the release back a week then Pink would have debuted at No 1 with this sale in 2012 but the combined power of Ne-Yo and the Script stripped Pink of a fourth chart topper.

 

I was disappointed when Blow Me stalled behind those two songs (which imo are nowhere near as good) after leading on iTunes initially. I feel it’s one of her most underrated singles.

oh I love Lovesong for a Vampire, beautiful song, totally deserved #1 over TT and 2U :)

 

not a fan of that Pink song, one of her worst

Loved the 'Little Bird' video where a number of Lennox look alikes re-enacted characters in her previous videos and ended up fighting! Great double A side and should have been a no.1

Love Little Bird

Love pretty much anything Richard X touches and that includes 'Being Nobody' :wub: