Robson Jerome's appeal was much more specific than British Public: it was by and large female fans of a certain age who loved the TV show and them oops! :lol:

 

Wonderwall is a total classic. Was then, is now.

 

Truly, Madly, Deeply, was never a classic to me. It's slightly annoying that this did so well when the way better I Want You and To The Moon And Back didnt sell quite as well. Apparently it's been classified as an Australian cultural icon. I would rate it as slightly less important than Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. But more than Neighbours... :teresa:

I knew a woman, who loved both acts (Robson and Jerome, Oasis).

In her personal chart "Wonderwall" and "I Believe" spent the same number of weeks (3 or 4) on the top. :)

15 - Everything But The Girl - Missing - (Todd Terry Remix)

 

 

9th best seller of 1995

 

Chart Run

8-6-6-4-3-3-4-4-5-5-5-4-5-8-14-20-24-33-34-45-61-68-

 

A pretty good contender for greatest re-mix of all time - it doesn't lose the melancholy of the original, it functions as a chill-out track, a club track and Tracey's vocals retains the singer-songwriter anguish.

 

Another victim of Robson and Gerome but Missing also had Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise do contend with.

 

 

 

That chart run though, FOURTEEN weeks in the top 10 in 1995 remains quite an astonishing achievement.

 

Sublime single also, I didn't get it at first but after a few weeks it grew into one of my favourite remixes of all time :wub:

14 - Oceanic Insanity

 

 

9th best seller of 1991

 

Chart Run

21-11-8-5-4-3-3-3-5-7-8-14-21-41-58

 

Not a dance track that has aged very well in my opinion.

 

Bryan Adams strikes again but with the help of Salt N' Pepa's Let's Talk about Sex and then The Scorpions, Insanity only manages a bronze medal at best.

 

 

That chart run though, FOURTEEN weeks in the top 10 in 1995 remains quite an astonishing achievement.

 

 

It still kinda baffles me that it didn't sell 1 million considering the company that it kept (Wonderwall, Earthsong, Gangsta's Paradise and that Robson and Gerome rubbish) all did.

13 - Peter Andre featuring Bubbler Ranx - Mysterious Girl

 

 

9th best seller of 1996

 

Chart Run

3-3-3-2-3-3-4-5-4-3-7-11-17-22-30-51-52-66

 

This had the misfortune of being out at the same time as the 2 biggest sellers of the year - Killing Me Softly and Wannabe. Three Lions didn't help much either.

 

That had a far longer run in the top 5 than I remember it doing, can't really begrudge its eventual number 1 status

I often wonder what was so great about Insanity that led it to end of year top 10 status.

 

It sounds cheap and tacky to me compared to a lot of other chart dance from 1991 and I really never hear it around now. Can’t say I’ve noticed it pop up on any dance classics type compilations either, unless that’s because of licensing.

 

Better Off Alone is so great and I wish it could have edged past any of those three inferior songs that beat it to No.1. 4-3-2 was a pretty astonishing chart run in 1999, but it deserved 4-3-2-1.

That had a far longer run in the top 5 than I remember it doing

 

 

Second longest after Toni Braxton.

Edited February 14, 20223 yr by Colm

Well I guessed the last 5, but think I only got 6 of the final 12. Has 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' missed the cut for this countdown? I thought it was at least top 15 in the best sellers of 1994.

Missing is a stone cold classic, still brilliant. Mysterious Girl was cheese, but fun, pleasant cheese. Insanity was also cheese. Over-rated, budget-disco-rave :teresa:

Well I guessed the last 5, but think I only got 6 of the final 12. Has 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' missed the cut for this countdown? I thought it was at least top 15 in the best sellers of 1994.

 

 

I forgot about it and was hoping no one would notice. 😁

 

I realized too late. 🙁

Edited February 15, 20223 yr by Colm

Ah never mind, it did eventually reach #1 after all (although so did Mysterious Girl - of course both in later decades).

“Missing” is such a great song, I think Tracey Thorn's vocals are the big sell but it sounds great in both original & remix form, even though I don't think Todd Terry adds very much. Such a colossal hit!

 

Fact: It charted higher in the US than it did here where it made #2 and racked up 55 weeks on the Hot 100!

 

Though not unusual, “Insanity” had a huge level of club play and build-up before it was released commercially IIRC - the first plays were in a club in Warrington called 'Legends' in 1990 and it was apparently massive all across the NW (Wirral, Cheshire, Liverpool and N Wales) so much so that the week it first charted at joint number 21 (yep, joint positions were a thing back then) 60% of its sales were from Lancashire alone.

 

Enjoying the nostalgia of this thread Colm. : )

12 - Pras Michel featuring ODB & introducing Mýal - Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)

 

 

9th best seller of 1998

 

Chart Run

3-4-2-2-3-3-3-5-9-10-15-22-27-34-42-57-67

 

From the film Bulworth - Billie's Because We Want To and Another Level's Freak Me pipped it to the top while it sat at number 2.

11 - Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

 

 

9th best seller of 1997

 

Chart Run

2-2-2-3-5-3-5-7-6-8-10-12-17-20-31-36-38-45-47-56

 

Waiting 12 years for a hit, they crash-landed in style but as a chart-topper it wasn't to be and they stalled behind Will Smith's Men in Black for three weeks.

We take a diversion here, before we do the top 10 and I think many of you will prefer the diversion.

 

I'll be counting down the 10 biggest 90s non-number 1s that didn't feature in this top 50 because their sales were split over 2 or more years. I'll be doing them in the order of the slot they would have achieved in this top 50 had all their sales occurred in the year of release.

 

I think you guys will have more fun predicting these.

 

I'll be back tomorrow with the lowest placed of the 10.

 

 

For the 2 or more years top 10, I'd definitely expect

Angels and Together Again

to be quite high up, and

I'll Be There For You (1995/97) and When You're Gone

to feature. Not sure about the rest, maybe a few others like

It's Alright and You Got The Love

which had either a lengthy run either side of Christmas or a re-release.

Not that fussed about the retread of Islands In The Stream, I'll stick with Dolly and The Bee Gees. Chumbawumba is fab, though, total party record and a great attitude to life to adopt. Apart from the booze bit :lol:

 

Re Insanity being a huge Lancashire club hit, yes it was. I can only guess it reminded them of local heroes George Formby and Gracie Fields. I can see George singing it on his ukelele:

 

"Take me awayyyyy

Take me awayyyyy

yeah turned out nice again missus

 

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I'm dream tripping

when I'm cleaning windows"