Posted April 19, 20223 yr @1515999331454701569 Also Moves Like Jagger is not an acceptable answer. :kink:
April 19, 20223 yr To use an obvious example: 'Vienna' by Ultravox was the first one to pop into my head, in terms of disparity between song quality. Of course subjective but one has definitely held up in a more favourable way than the other! On top of the Joe Dolce song it was also blocked by a John Lennon song after he died too. The quotes on that tweet are making me giggle, like Same Difference - 'Karma Karma', how random :lol:
April 19, 20223 yr Feel Good Inc, easy. I had forgotten what blocked this from the top, turns out it was Akon - 'Lonely' :drama: so an excellent shout, on top of being an all-time favourite regardless of competition
April 19, 20223 yr Better Off Alone. Definitely, so heartbreakingly close on the week Westlife was No.1 too. But my favourite song ever was a No.2 peaker as well - Set You Free by N-Trance, so I'll go with that.
April 19, 20223 yr I ran a Buzzjack poll on this early last year - it got over 125 votes (46 people commented in the thread too) and 7 of the options I gave got 10 or more votes. Although that was before Peru came out :lol: if We Don't Talk About had gone to ACR a week earlier...
April 19, 20223 yr Author I ran a Buzzjack poll on this early last year - it got over 125 votes (46 people commented in the thread too) and 7 of the options I gave got 10 or more votes. Although that was before Peru came out :lol: if We Don't Talk About had gone to ACR a week earlier... Oops sorry Jim! I should have known better! :lol:
April 19, 20223 yr To be fair the twitter discussion has moved in the direction of song quality subjective takes rather than all-time unluckiness based on statistics. So it could be differentiated from the other thread in that way - the phrase "that was robbed!" is quite emotionally loaded, so my mind turned to 'Vienna' as a song I was particularly rooting for against the other. Well, retrospectively anyway, as someone born in the 90s :lol: Oops sorry Jim! I should have known better! :lol: Also there is a #1 single by Jim Diamond called 'I Should Have Known Better' so that unintentional reference is cracking me up :lol:
April 19, 20223 yr Also there is a #1 single by Jim Diamond called 'I Should Have Known Better' so that unintentional reference is cracking me up :lol:"I, aye, aye, aye.." etc. :lol: Yeah like Jade says it's from a different angle to my poll (and there's no problem in discussing it again anyway).
April 19, 20223 yr Kate Nash - Foundations!!!! Didn't she miss by like 16 sales or something cannot recall who she lost to, Timbaland?, but they probably had fake cassettes :D
April 19, 20223 yr Kate Nash - Foundations!!!! Didn't she miss by like 16 sales or something cannot recall who she lost to, Timbaland?, but they probably had fake cassettes :D Yes and was blocked by Umbrella by fewer than 100 copies in another week. That goes in the unlucky statistically pile rather than the mind boggling quality difference between #1 and #2 pile though. As Jim mentioned in the pre 00s forum, Push It by Salt n Pepa being blocked by Glenn Medeiros in 1988 and meaning there wasn’t a female lead rap #1 for another 32 years deserves a mention. Another one that springs to mind is the brilliant Tom’s Diner in 1990 being blocked firstly by Turtle Power and then by Bombalurina. :drama:
April 19, 20223 yr Unpopular opinion but 'Peru' this year because it was at #2 for SOOOOOOO long I felt it should've had at least one week at #1! ANd it would be an achievement, the first afrobeats #1!
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