I can't tell the difference. :lol:

Taken me a while but this was the 1996 version:

 

 

…and this is the original…

 

The 1996 version was the one I used to dance to (I think?!).

ooh thats a motley batch - the only really decent one is Lisa Stansfield. Mariah & BoyzIIMen topped the US charts for 353 weeks. I think it was about that long......

Latricia McNeal was alright, didn’t mind that one and very surprised it sold as much as it did considering it charted for a while after the cut off year for this chart

I love Lutricia McNeal, I still regularly play her three top ten hits.

 

Curiously she had a much more enduring career in Sweden, with further top ten hits in 2002, 2005 and 2006.

 

This was the 2002 hit, Perfect Love, which…is Mary J’s Family Affair on a budget, but nonetheless catchy.

 

Latricia McNeal was alright, didn’t mind that one and very surprised it sold as much as it did considering it charted for a while after the cut off year for this chart

 

5 weeks was enough. Even songs outside the top 10 were selling well in late 1997.

 

5,6,7,8's 1997 chart run of 18-22-23-17-20-20 was enough to give it 90th best seller of the year, only 2 places below Block Rockin' Beats.

Edited September 25, 20222 yr by Colm

That Winx track is one of the classic euphoric dance hits of the 1990s. I remember the one with the rave/fairground video the most which I believe is the 1996 version as Dandy says that version sounds a bit more commercial. That said, surprised such a leftfield tune reached the top 10 even once let alone twice. Lutricia McNeil song is also great.

 

That Boyz II Men/Mariah Carey track although didn't exactly do badly here was ridiculously successful in the US - 16 weeks at no.1. Although it has a touching meaning to it (death about loved ones) imagine having to hear that dirge on the radio for months and months on end as it really doesn't have any replay factor for me.

Edited September 25, 20222 yr by Smint

35 - Tina Arena - Chains

 

59th best seller of 1995

 

Chart Run

13-7-7-6-7-9-11-18-30-46-70

 

First of a handful of hits in the late 90s for Tina - including a cover of Show Me Heaven. A few of her hits were covers.

Fairly unmemorable career.

 

Didn't outsell any 1995 number 1s.

34 - Mariah Carey - Hero

 

58th best seller of 1993

 

Chart Run

8-7-11-9-15-18-18-18-15-14-23-42-48-59-58

 

I actually bought this. It did a bit of yo-yoing for 10 weeks, before falling out of the top 20 in mid-January 1994. She followed it up by entering at number 1 with Without You, which was still a rarity at that point.

 

Didn't outsell any 1993 number 1s.

Edited September 26, 20222 yr by Colm

Tina Arena (pronounced Arruhnna) is a goodie. (They Call The Wind) Mariah's not so much, but it at least is a large step above Without You....

 

PS I hadnt heard that Lutricia track in 24 years and I checked after the support - yes, it's pretty good actually too. She seemed to be big on commercial radio at the time and got little BBC play, and has had zero plays since...

They certainly didn’t pronounce it Arruhnna on local radio when I was little! Really like that and the Lutricia McNeal track.

I do like that Lutricia song.

I bought Hero at the time, although it was never an absolute favourite and I’d never listen to it through choice these days. Chains was better but those kind of belters weren’t really my bag.

Me either. Jennifer Rush's Power of Love would be my favourite belter song.

That Lutricia McNeal song was great, vivid memories of seeing her frequently on TOTP when I was 5 :lol: 'Stranded' is my fave by her though.

 

'Hero' is one of Mariah's best too.

33 - Betty Boo - Doin' The Do

 

58th best seller of 1990

 

Chart Run

58-33-15-8-7-9-9-13-16-24-38-61

 

Having had a hit with The Beatmasters, this was Betty's debut solo single. I do prefer her big-beat masterpiece Where Are You Baby?

 

Didn't outsell any 1990 number 1s.

 

They certainly didn’t pronounce it Arruhnna on local radio when I was little! Really like that and the Lutricia McNeal track.

 

No they didn't pronounce it that way, but then they never pronounced Candi Staton as Staytun, Gloria Estefan as Ess-steffan or N'Sync as In-Sink, so never trust a DJ... :lol:

 

We all loved Tony Blackburn's Durren Durren instead of Jer-ran Jer-ran as everyone in the Uk says it, or Der-ran Der-ran in the States. Why do the British replace the D with a J anyway when its followed by a U... :lol:

 

Betty Boo is a fab single.

I adore Chains! Great to see it sold quite well.

32 - Move Move Move (The Red Tribe) - Manchester United F.C.

 

58th best seller of 1996

 

Chart Run

8-6-6-8-17-23-39-56-65-61-67-50R(3)-62-61-73

 

Not really sure I want to comment on this.

 

Oustold Setting Sun by the Chemical Brothers and I Feel You - Peter André.

 

Poor brave Chemical Brothers.