That's what I was thinking when I was listening to it. Lene Marlin always reminded me of Lisa too.

Stay is a lovely song - I see the Natalie Imbruglia comparisons.

Still 2 dance songs to go and a legacy artist which many will have not have considered for this chart.

Edited October 23, 20222 yr by Colm

all 3 of those were big faves of mine. Re Julian Lennon, Too Late For Goodbyes is a goodie, and he had a surprising number of good singles that didnt quite get to be hits. Thing with songs about people ruining the planet is....they remain relevant. Sadly.

Stay :wub: :wub: :wub: - that was one of my favourite Heardle moments!

Stay is quite endearing. Makes sense that it only overtook Sweets For My Sweet in the final days of 1994 after the R1 chart had been compiled, though I now feel deprived that they made me wait another 4 years for a non-Top 5 hit in their EOYs.

Still 2 dance songs to go and a legacy artist which many will have not have considered for this chart.

Had a think about what's not come up yet, I'll go with:

 

Felix - Don't You Want Me

 

 

Rozalla - Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)

 

 

Lionel Richie - My Destiny

 

6 - Rozalla - Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)

 

 

40th best seller of 1991

 

Chart Run

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

 

I have hugged Rozalla. :wub:

 

She played Pride Waterford 2012 I was the only lunatic dancing to all her songs. When she finished I told her that I was a fan and she hugged me.

 

This is obviously a great song. I love the rave stab middle 8. Classic.

 

It out sold Innuendo, The Fly and Bring Your Daughter....and was the highest selling non-stop 5 hit of 1991.

Edited October 25, 20222 yr by Colm

5 - Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight

 

 

39th best seller of 1998

 

Chart Run

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

 

Save Tonight was the 4th most played tune of 1998 on UK radio but the second most played of songs that were actually released in the UK in 1998 - Angels and Torn were 1 and 3 respectively with Here's Where the Story Ends coming in second.

 

It out sold two of the songs that were number 1 while it was lodged at number 6 - Because We Want To and Deeper Underground.

 

 

The full list of sub-Cherry chart toppers.

 

You Make Me Wanna - Usher

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

All That I Need - Boyzone

I Want You Back - Melanie B featuring Missy 'Misdemeanour' Elliot

 

Ha I remember the 4 Chords from Children In Need one year :lol:

 

'Save Tonight' is a tune still.

both of those would have been worthy chart-toppers, great tracks. :wub:

Not come across 4 Chords before - that’s brilliant!

Axis Of Awesome's 4 Chords song, I forgot about that one. :lol:

 

(It's a slightly different live performance I remember though)

Two songs I loved featuring recently - 'Stay (I Missed You)' wasvreally different to anything that had charted, bit of a precursor to Alanis Morisette - especially the wordy self reflective syle of her 'Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie' album and yes Natalia Imbruglia too. Shocked it got to no.1 in the USA as everything that charted there seemed to be so polished. I was a bit sad this fell from climbing the charts to 6 but glad it made the EOY top 40 just. Whatever happened to Lisa Loeb though (I know she had a few more minor US hits but still)

 

But back to the exhilirating year which was 1991 I can't tell you how much I LOVED Rozalla's 'Everybody's Free (to Feel Good)'. It was such a breath of fresh air, from the orchestral dramatic opening, the peace and love lyrics (which definitely needed to hear at the same time), her soaring vocals and of course THAT breakdown. And she performed it with so much energy on Top of the Pops. Remember as well it was so exotic it came from Zimbabwe - things weren't so international then. I really tried to like her follow up hits but they just weren't as good as this one. Listen to it still all the time now - and of course it inspired Baz Luhrmann's very random no.1 hit too in 1999. Memories!

4 - Felix - Don't You Want Me

 

 

33rd best seller of 1992

 

Chart Run

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

 

1992 was a phenomenal year for dance music sales. There were only 5 weeks in the whole year that didn't have a dance song in the top 5; down from 15 in 1991 and 19 in 1990. Fifteen weeks had a dance song at the top of the chart; up from 2 in 1991 and 10 in 1990.

 

And for 2 weeks in September the top 4 were all dance hits for the first time ever, thanks to Rhythm is a Dancer, Baker Street, Ebeneezer Goode and It's My Life.

 

While Rhythm is a Dancer was number 1, Felix's Don't You Want Me reached number 6 for a fortnight with sales that would have given it a week at number 1 on April 11th :o (outselling Shakespears Sister Sister's Stay on its 8th week at the top)

 

But in August 1992 it faced very stiff competition where all of the top 5 made the End of Year chart

 

Rhythm Is A Dancer - Snap!

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

Achy Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus

Baker Street - Undercover

Just Another Day - Jon Secada

 

It was still a long way from outselling even the lowest selling number 1 of the year - Tasmin Archer's Sleeping Satellite.

Edited October 29, 20222 yr by Colm

Save Tonight was definitely so much bigger than its chart peak. I still seem to hear it everywhere to this day. Pretty mad how much airplay Here’s Where The Story Ends got for its quite modest chart performance.

 

Stay :wub: such a lovely song, there were so many good US female singer/songwriters around in the 90s that had just one or a few hits each, and Lisa Loeb was one of them.

 

I have worked out what’s left now. Two were obvious and I got the other from the legacy artist clue.

Edited October 29, 20222 yr by gooddelta

Don't You Want Me is an awesome tune, another one I discovered from The Best Dance Album In The World Ever 2. Its re-releases reached #10 in 1995 and #17 in 1996 as well, those must have added a fair amount of sales too.

So much good stuff in this chart - I LOVE Felix and didn't think it would be so high but glad it is. Of course it made the top 10 again just a few years later in 1995 and 17 yet again in 1996 thanks to various remixes. Never get tired of it and love the fact that despite it's prominent female vocal sample it has a larger than usual amount of instrumental only sections to the track. With dance records and vocals I often find less is more!

Edited October 29, 20222 yr by Smint

I loved the remix version from the blackcurrant tango advert but was so dismayed to discover they actually kept the voice from the advert on it :/

I've just discovered that the Simply12 vinyl series release of 2002 is on ebay for over £30 and on some other site called mushimushi records for £55.

 

I paid €1 Ina charity shop 😄

 

https://www.mushimushirecords.co.uk/product...imply-vinyl-s12

Edited October 29, 20222 yr by Colm

Hands up who doesn't know what's at number 3?

Edited October 29, 20222 yr by Colm