Yep. That sums it up. It was written by Mutt Lange. I guess no one dared question a song written by such a giant of the music industry back then.

Edited October 16, 20222 yr by Colm

15 - Wilson Phillips - Hold On

 

45tht best seller of 1990

 

Chart Run

51-36-23-10-8-6-8-11-16-20-34-53

 

Three wholly overdressed women on a beach in the promo video, Wilson Philips were unfortunate to be in the company they kept while at number 6 - Sacrifice, Nessun Dorma, It Must Have Been Love, World in Motion and Oops Up; all above it and all of which made the top 40 best sellers of the year. Hold On was selling enough to be top 3 in earlier weeks of 1990.

 

It out sold Hangin' Tough by New Kids On the Block.

I like Hold On, it’s definitely one of the stronger power ballads from that era. I still listen to it sometimes

Hold On is a wonderful song, one of my favourites of 1990 easily. The verses are particularly lovely, the harmonies are fantastic. I remember describing it to my partner when we watched the video together as 'three bank workers form a girlband', at least they looked comfy and warm.

 

Not overkeen on the Heart track, even less so having heard what it's about. I heard it on Top Of The Pops reruns once I believe and didn't pay very much attention to it, they may have even only played part of the song.

14 - Blue Boy- Remember Me

 

44tht best seller of 1997

 

Chart Run

9-13-8-10-9-10-13-16-24-27-38-38-55

 

 

Built around 4 samples from Marlena Shaw's stunning song Woman of the Ghetto, Remember Me was the most played song on Radio 1 in February 1997. According to Whosampled.com, Woman of the Ghetto has been sampled in 51 other songs.

 

Remember Me is the highest placed number 8 singles in our chart and sold 310,000 which in normal times would be astonishing for a number 8 singles but 1997 was not normal times.

 

It outsold the following 1997 number 1s

 

Professional Widow - Tori Amos

Discotheque - U2

Beetlebum - Blur

Ain't Nobody - LL Cool J

Love Won't Wait - Gary Barlow

Blood On The Dance Floor - Michael Jackson

Block Rockin' Beats - Chemical Brothers

 

Remember Me is a classic 1996 dance song. Never realised it outsold so many number 1s!

A side note - I've removed the song titles because they're a distraction from the truly phenomenal sales.....

 

These are the sale tallies for the number 1 single from 28th June 1997 to the end of the year - that's 27 consecutive weeks with sales of 100,000 or more.

 

109,000

156,000

167,000

377,000

124,000

127,000

100,000

182,000

133,000

122,000

105,000

105,000

658,000

1,546,688

1,067,000

572,000

274,000

321,000

190,000

239,000

190,000

165,000

385,082

274,706

317,000

230,000

252,000

Edited October 18, 20222 yr by Colm

I’m such a geek, I just filled in all those sing title gaps from memory :lol:

:lol:

Remember Me! One of my absolute favourite 90s songs, the sample was brilliantly used

Ging ge ge ging ging ging ging ge ging. Remember Me is great and Hold On is a beautiful song. :heart:

Remember Me is brilliant. Looks like The Drugs Don't Work was released just at the right time to get a week at the top, and I hadn't realised I'll Be Missing You increased in sales for so many of its weeks at #1.

Remember Me is stunning! :wub: I did have an idea it was a bigger seller than its #8 chart peak suggested but didn't realise it outsold so many #1s from its year, including the U2 song that was at #1 when it peaked!

 

I did know of that amazing run of 100k+ (and often well beyond that) sales for #1 in 1997 though. I think I can do most of the song title gaps lol. :lol:

Hold on is a number one chart-topper for me in 1990, following hearing it on my first Florida holiday, and a bonafide Romcom classic these days.

 

Well I love that Heart song even if no-one else does :lol: - including Ann Wilson! The singer wanted a baby, hubby couldn't help, presumably they agreed on it as a course of action to save on then-expensive donor treatment, so they used someone else to get what they wanted. Not having children can be crippling to some couples. Let that be a lesson to anyone shagging strangers without protection, you might end up a father. I've no sympathy for the "injured" party, not as if he ever had to contribute anything. Put a condom on it and never make assumptions about birth control :teresa: Presumably she knew the motel well because the previous attemptees insisted on protection and she told 'em to get on yer bike. Or she was a married slag, which would make no sense of the song as one of the previous would have done the trick and the song wouldnt exist. I could swear they did it in concert in 1990 when I saw them in Bournemouth, but hey ho maybe they didn't and I moaned about it afterwards. Must check my diary!

 

Blue Boy is fab too.

 

REM's is one of my least fave singles from them, and I bought Bitch and then got fed up with up with it rather quickly and never gone back to it really.

 

 

 

 

 

 

13 - Steps - Last Thing On My Mind

 

44th best seller of 1998

 

Chart Run

6-7-9-7-6-9-13-17-25-34-47-49-60-68

 

Their first top 10 hit and the last one to miss the top 5 until they disbanded at the end of 2001'

 

I didn't know that Bananarama had released this as a single in 1992, which strangely only got to number 71 considering that 1992 was consumed by the ABBA revival.

 

If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next - Manic Street Preachers

Because We Want To - Billie

Girlfriend - Billie

Deeper Underground - Jamiroquai

Turn Back Time - Aqua

Bootie Call - All Saints

All Around The World - Oasis

All That I Need - Boyzone

 

12 - Tina Moore - Never Gonna Let You Go

 

42nd best seller of 1997

 

Chart Run

7-11-9-12-9-11-11-17-15-23-21-28-35-43-67

 

Another long runner from 1997, and our final entry from 1997. This had been released in 1995 as a much more conventional R'n'B track. The drastic remix wasn't entirely supported by the record company but its ground breaking 2-step sound became a huge hit.

 

 

The "worth more than a million in gold" lyric always niggled me. Surely the commodity is redundant and the person is worth a million, regardless.

 

 

It outsold the following 1997 number 1s

 

Professional Widow - Tori Amos

Discotheque - U2

Beetlebum - Blur

Ain't Nobody - LL Cool J

Love Won't Wait - Gary Barlow

Blood On The Dance Floor - Michael Jackson

Block Rockin' Beats - Chemical Brothers

 

11 - Technohead - I Wanna Be A Hippy

 

 

42nd best seller of 1996

 

Chart Run

12-8-10-10-6-9-9-12-13-27-23-32-54-71

 

I Wanna Be a Hippy featured two prominent samples from David Peel's I Like Marijuana - a 60s protest song about the herb. A remix by Jeff Porter and Jeroen Flamman (as Flamman & Abraxas) led it to be a hit on re-release in early 1996.

 

Looking at that chart run, I'm a little surprised it didn't make the top 40 of the year. That's our last entry from 1996.

 

It out sold the following 1996 number ones

 

A Different Beat - Boyzone

Setting Sun - Chemical Brothers

I Feel You - Peter André

Edited October 19, 20222 yr by Colm

What we have left, in no particular order

 

The chart runs.....

 

 

10-10-9-8-7-7-7-6-9-11-11-15-13-16-15-22-27-38-42-43-55-69

14-9-6-6-7-10-14-19-30-46-74

27-21-18-12-6-8-8-8-10-10-18-25-36-48-64

30-16-11-11-8-8-7-8-14-20-23-34-53

40-26-13-7-6-7-10-12-25-38-56

42-34-17-10-7-6-7-12-15-21-30-57

64-44-41-33-29-13-10-6-7-8-15-30-54

6-6-6-7-8-10-11-14-18-26-36-48-59

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

9-7-7-6-6-9-13-19-24-38-55

 

 

Edited October 19, 20222 yr by Colm

I was expecting those 3 to come up - none of them songs I go back to much, although I did enjoy I Wanna Be A Hippy at the time. I used to watch TOTP with subtitles, where the shortened lyric read: "mari, mari" - I hadn't realised it was spelt like that before :lol:

 

Had a quick look at the chart runs and the last 1994 song is what I thought too, must be one of the next out.

Not a fan of Steps generally but 'Last Thing On My Mind' brings back childhood nostalgia good or bad :kink: