February 20, 20223 yr Author Whatever is great but was not available on any of their albums till Time Flies in 2009. Might go some way to explaining why it made the EOY top 100 three years running (94-96),can't think of any other song to do that in the pre-digital era. I believe that it sold over 160,000 in each of those years.
February 21, 20223 yr I bought the new album and Heal The World was the obvious immediate stand-out track. Slushy, overly-sentimental, simplistic and well-intentioned. I loved it. :P
February 23, 20223 yr Author 09 - Haddaway - What Is Love ? HEXWRTEbj1I 8th best seller of 1993 Chart Run 18-6-3-3-2-2-3-5-6-9-16-20-32-47-64 A song that hardly needs an introduction - Eurodance anthem. Number 1 in 12 European countries but not in the UK thanks to Gabrielle's Dreams. Best selling song that didn't get to number 1 in 1993.
February 23, 20223 yr Author 08 - Let Loose - Crazy For You 0UNMpN86rY4 8th best seller of 1994 Chart Run 24-18-14-10-6-4-4-3-2-2-3-6-11-17-23-34-49-60-64-68-56 And we're back to 1994 again with another of its long running successes - which needed a re-release to do the trick. Wet Wet Wet made sure they'd rise no further than second place.
February 23, 20223 yr Author 07 - Natalie Imbruglia - Torn VV1XWJN3nJo 8th best seller of 1997 Chart Run 2-2-2-4-5-9-8-8-8-9-10-12-19-21-29-33-55 And here we have the biggest selling single of 1997 that didn't get to number 1. It managed to clear 100,000 sales for three weeks while at number 2. Aqua's Barbie Girl was selling much much more though. Edited February 23, 20223 yr by Colm
February 23, 20223 yr Author 06 - Robert Miles - Children DvyCbevQbtI 8th best seller of 1996 Chart Run 3-2-3-2-2-3-3-4-7-10-14-16-19-16-22-29-54-72 And now for the highest placed instrumental track. Number 1 in 11 European countries (and Scotland) it suffered at the hands of the unbeatable Don't Look Bang In Anger and then by Take That's final 1990s single How Deep is Your Love, out selling both by the end of the year. Edited February 23, 20223 yr by Colm
February 24, 20223 yr When Robert Miles died a few years ago I read about how Children was designed to calm clubbers down at the end of the night and was thought to have been responsible for preventing road deaths!
February 24, 20223 yr Children, Missing and Set You Free are almost certainly my 3 favourites from this countdown :wub:
February 25, 20223 yr Author 05 - Shania Twain - That Don't Impress Me Much mWjVQlSruY8 7th best seller of 1999 Chart Run 3-3-3-4-4-6-9-9-9-10-13-17-20-22-24-32-31-33-34-45-63 It eventually outsold every other single that placed higher than it in its first 7 weeks in the chart including Sweet like Chocolate which opened with 250,000 sales. Boyzone (You Needed Me), Geri Halliwell (Look at Me), Shanks and Bigfoot (Sweet like Chocolate) and Wiseguys (Ooh La La) all conspired to keep Shania in the bronze position.
February 26, 20223 yr Author 04 - Bon Jovi - Always 9BMwcO6_hyA 7th best seller of 1994 Chart Run 5-3-2-3-4-3-2-2-4-9-10-18-21-22-25-28-52-62 And we're back to 1994 again. 10 of the 20 biggest selling singles in 1994 didn't get to number 1. It was mostly a combination of Wet Wet Wet suppressing other not-quite-as-big-but-still-decent-selling hits and a series of slow-burning successes. Here we have Mr Bon Jovi having his biggest ever hit but not selling enough to outpace Whigfied's Saturday Night or Pato Banton's Baby Come Back a few weeks later.
February 26, 20223 yr Oh I absolutely hated Always at the time and had quite happily forgotten all about it until this little reminder :D
February 26, 20223 yr I'd forgotten about Always too :kink: Still it looks like I got the right songs in my top 3 prediction from page 5, with only the order tbc.
February 27, 20223 yr I rate nearly all of those, Torn and That Don't Impress were big number ones for me, Always I got a bit bored with the plodding in the end. Bon Jovi's great 90's anthem was Keep The Faith, 80's Living On a Prayer, 00's It's My Life :)
February 27, 20223 yr Never liked Bon Jovi's slow songs. The ones Popchartfreak has mentioned are good plus also Have A Nice Day and Hey God is good too. Edited February 27, 20223 yr by fiesta
February 27, 20223 yr Author 03 - LeAnn Rimes - How Do I Live? MUFasKZcH_c 6th best seller of 1998 Chart Run 7-9-12-17-12-9-9-7-11-12-12-11-9-10-11-15-17-20-27-24-29-30-22-28-32-27-35-32-32-36-41-51-66-72 Famously, one of very few (I only know of one other) songs that reached higher in the End of Year chart than in the weekly charts. I'm sure someone will be able to tell us if 30 weeks in the top 40 was a record for the 1990s. Edited February 27, 20223 yr by Colm
February 27, 20223 yr I can't think of anything else that would have spent longer in the top 40 than How Can I Live, it was a truly phenomenal chart run for the decade it came from.
February 27, 20223 yr Famously, one of very few (I only know of one other) songs that reached higher in the End of Year chart than in the weekly charts. I'm sure someone will be able to tell us if 30 weeks in the top 40 was a record for the 1990s. Is the one other you’re thinking of Love The Way You Lie? There’s also Let It Go. It’s certainly the longest I can think of; Love Is All Around did 26 weeks.
February 27, 20223 yr Author Is the one other you’re thinking of Love The Way You Lie? There’s also Let It Go. It’s certainly the longest I can think of; Love Is All Around did 26 weeks. Love the Way You Lie was the one I was thinking of.
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