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Hazard is dark and brilliant, Roxette is fab, Salt n Pepa a goodie, and Hammer fun.

 

While I usually like Bryan Adams, Please Forgive me was turgid. Pent-up demand for a headline new single after selling a million, I expect. One of his worst records.

^I don't think it's true, Please Forgive Me is a good ballad, typical Bryan Adams, he was never gonna learn new tricks,
Glad to see Hazard featuring, I really was obsessed with that back in 92 for a while. Still think it’s a very unique pop song with the story that it tells
^I don't think it's true, Please Forgive Me is a good ballad, typical Bryan Adams, he was never gonna learn new tricks,

 

 

Also it wasn't the follow-up to the biggie. Can't Stop This Thing We Started reached No.12 whilst his big one was still at No.1!

Also it wasn't the follow-up to the biggie. Can't Stop This Thing We Started reached No.12 whilst his big one was still at No.1!

 

Yes, but that was during the run at number one, and that and the album was overshadowed by the monster hit. Quick in and out the charts while The Monster stayed at 1. I meant a suitable gap later after one million people (like me) had bought The Monster and it came out as lead to a hits album. Looked like it was intended to be another huge ballad, whereas CSTTWS was a a straight-forward rocker, and not necessarily going to be bought by the same people buying Everything I Do....

^I don't think it's true, Please Forgive Me is a good ballad, typical Bryan Adams, he was never gonna learn new tricks,

 

I really liked Heaven, but that was only a minor UK hit (till it was danced up) - his (middling and minor) hit singles were generally not ballads till Robin Hood - and then this one.

between Everything I do and Please forgive me, he also had Thought I'd die and gone to Heaven which was pretty big

and Do I have to say the words as final single from WUTN

 

he basically had 2 kind of songs, the ballads like Everything I do, Please forgive me... and the rockier tracks like Can't stop this thing we started

his flops before Everything I Do were also a mix of ballads and uptempo rock songs

 

 

Love Roxette but think 'It Must Have Been Love'is one of their dullets - miles prefer 'Listen to Your Heart' for their ballads.

'Hazard' was gorgeous and a real grower.

Preferred the previous hit 'Do You Want Me' (the Ben Liebrand mix) to 'Let's Talk About Sex'

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27 - Chaka Demus & Pliers - Tease Me

 

 

13th best seller of 1993

 

Chart Run

13-6-6-4-3-4-4-4-4-7-10-16-19-32-58

The great reggae revival of 1993 has already given us Snow's Informer but this was even more persistent. Really liked the number 4 slot.

 

Gabrielle's Dreams and a song further up this chart stood in the way of supremacy.

Would be interesting to see how many songs potentially miss out on being included here due to having sales split across years - can’t imagine it will be many

 

 

Oh and I always hated Tease Me!

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26 - Corona - The Rhythm Of The Night

 

 

13th best seller of 1994

 

Chart Run

9-5-2-2-3-6-11-14-21-25-39-55-67-69-71

 

Humongous Eurodance anthem by person barely able to speak enough English to sing the song.

 

Absolute cracker.

 

Stuck behind the much inferior Saturday Night (boooo!)

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Would be interesting to see how many songs potentially miss out on being included here due to having sales split across years - can’t imagine it will be many

Oh and I always hated Tease Me!

 

 

There will be a section on that later. When I get around to doing the maths :D

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We're now at the half way point. Time for a re-cap.

 

50 - Brandy and Monica - The Boy Is Mine

49 - East 17 featuring Gabrielle - If You Ever

48 - No Mercy - Where Do You Go?

47 - Alannah Myles - Black Velvet

46 - Dr. Alban - It's My Life

45 - Aerosmith - I Don't Want to Miss a Thing

44 - The Grid - Swamp Thing

43 - R.Kelly - If I Could Turn Back The Hands Of Time

42 - Gala - Freed From Desire

41 - N-Trance - Set You Free

40 - Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson - The Best Things In Life Are Free

39 - Diana Ross - When You Tell Me That You Love Me

38 - Technotronic - Get Up (Before The Night Is Over)

37 - Snow - Informer

36 - TLC - No Scrubs

35 - Youssou N'Dour featuring Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds

34 - Extreme - More Than Words

33 - Reel 2 Real featuring The Mad Stuntman - I Like To Move It

32 - MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This

31 - Bryan Adams - Please Forgive Me

30 - Roxette - It Must Have Been Love

29 - Richard Marx - Hazard

28 - Salt-N-Pepa - Let's Talk About Sex

27 - Chaka Demus & Pliers - Tease Me

26 - Corona - The Rhythm Of The Night

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The surprise for me was that Bryan Adams song doing so well.

 

I also kinda expected It Must To Have Been Love to be a lot higher.

Corona definitely >>>>> Whigfield. The Rhythm of the Night will always remind me of going on the Waltzer and the Speedway at those travelling fairgrounds, one used to come a few times a year near my school and they always used to play eurodance like Corona
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25 - Toni Braxton - Un-Break My Heart

 

 

13th best seller of 1996

 

Chart Run

4-5-5-4-5-4-3-2-4-2-4-8-13-15-23-33-33-55-72

 

Packing in 11 weeks in the top 5 (the most of any song in this chart) is this languid and sumptuous ballad from Toni which would have been 10 places higher in this rundown if it had sold all its units (770,000) in 1996 instead of them being split into 1997 too.

 

It had to settle for second place behind Knocking on Heaven's Door by Dunblane and then behind Spice Girls' 2 Become 1.

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24 - Boyzone - Father and Son

 

 

13th best seller of 1995

 

8-4-5-3-2-3-2-2-3-6-16-23-28-37-39-56

 

This cover, from the mega-selling era of late 1995 when there were multiple future-million-sellers in the top 5 for in most weeks.

Michael Jackson's Earthsong stopped this from reaching the top.

Corona was fab, Tease Me fun, Toni Braxton better in the dance version than the sludgey version, and Boyzone are no Cat Stevens. And it's not one of my fave Cat Stevens records either :lol:
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23 - Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone

 

 

12th best seller of 1999

 

4-3-2-2-2-5-8-12-15-17-23-29-37-42-58-72

 

Famously stuck at number 2 behind 3 different number ones but outselling them all by the end of 1999.

 

Ronan Keating - When You Say Nothing At All

West Life - If I Let You Go

Geri Halliwell - Mi Chico Latino

 

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