October 1, 20222 yr Author 31 - Corona - Try Me Out CrChA17AWLc 58th best seller of 1995 Chart Run 14-8-6-6-7-10-16-19-38-57 Despite peaking one place lower than Baby Baby (the follow up to Rhythm of the Night) in the weekly charts, this comfortably outperforms it in the End of Year chart - by 26 places. It didn't outsell any number 1s from 1995. Edited October 16, 20222 yr by Colm
October 1, 20222 yr Author Before the Top 30, I'm gonna do a crossword style teaser of the songs between 11 and 20. They're very easy. Cluze In no particular order 1 Female Dog 2 Chocolate Powered Swahili Greeting 3 Don't Let Go 4 The only think I want to do is to have sexy time with you 5 The most recent thing occupying my thoughts 6 I'm going to hold on to you forever 7 Don't forget me 8 Demonstrate your affection for me 9 We all get injured 10 I'd like to be a person who rejects conventional values and be partial to recreational drugs Please use spoiler tags if you wish to discuss publicly. Edited October 1, 20222 yr by Colm
October 1, 20222 yr Author 30 - Quartz feat. Dina Carroll - It's Too Late UBOUfjV2cHU 57th best seller of 1991 Chart Run 73-57-44-42-40-21-9-8-8-8-16-17-38-55 A nice slow climber introducing us to the wonderful Dina Carroll, covering the Carol King classic. The second of 4 songs that spent 3 consecutive weeks at number 8. The previous one was UB40's Higher Ground. Outsold Innuendo and Bring Your Daughter...to the Slaughter. Edited October 1, 20222 yr by Colm
October 1, 20222 yr Author 29 - Snap! - Welcome to Tomorrow (Are You Ready?) sOTQsdwEdk8 57th best seller of 1994 Chart Run 27-25-22-20-12-9-8-6-9-16-24-42-51-75 A change in direction for Snap!, a new singer - and their first slow burner in chart terms. This came off their third album of the same name which failed to reach the top 10, like their first two albums did - a number 69 triumph! This didn't outsell any 1994 number 1s. 28 - The Notorious B.I.G. feat. Puff Daddy - Mo Money Mo Problems ss142Aix2Bo 57th best seller of 1997 Chart Run 6-7-7-9-15-22-30-38-42 It didn't hang around long, but in 1997 you didn't always have to. Outsold the following number 1s from 1997 Blur - Beetlebum LL Cool J - Ain't Nobody Gary Barlow - Love Won't Wait Michael Jackson - Blood On The Dance Floor Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats Edited October 2, 20222 yr by Colm
October 1, 20222 yr Mo Money Mo Problems is a bit of a classic, still hear that all the time now. Love Try Me Out, and had thankfully never heard that Man U song before today, wow! Interesting way to do a football song by trying to make it sound like a commercial dance hit, sounds very Reel 2 Real. It’s absolutely dire :lol:
October 1, 20222 yr Author Football songs are so awful because there's a musician or producer standing there in the studio telling the players to do things that they are not completely natural doing - like the breakdown in Move Move Move.
October 2, 20222 yr Author 27 - Cappella U Got 2 Know FI3NGQCeLCw 57th best seller of 1993 Chart Run 22-12-9-6-6-11-12-20-27-41-61 Lead single from their second album of the same name, this was their first top 10 hit and the beginning of their more successful era. I loved this a lot at the time but I never liked the male vocal part. It didn't outsell any number 1s from 1993.
October 2, 20222 yr Author 26 - Soul Asylum - Runaway Train NRtvqT_wMeY 56th best seller of 1993 Chart Run 60-48-50-38-37-40-54-68..........................11-7-7-10-19-33-32-30-35-56-74 I did not see this coming. I remember this getting played to death on MTV back in late 93. It actually had an 8 week chart run earlier in 1993 which may account for how high its eventual sales were. It also did really well on the continent where it went top 5 in 7 countries, hitting number 1 in Lithuania. It finished the year as the 20th best selling single across Europe. It sold 2 million copies in the USA finishing the year as the 21st best selling single. It didn't outsell any 1993 number 1s in the UK.
October 3, 20222 yr Runaway Train is brilliant, my favourite in this thread since Enjoy The Silence. Higher State Of Consciousness is a classic too while Reach Up and U Got 2 Know were favourites of mine around those times.
October 3, 20222 yr Author 25 - Paul Abdul - Rush Rush yqyIaNWP0T0 56th best seller of 1991 Chart Run 22-14-7-7-6-6-11-18-29-48-69 Lead single from Paula's second album - Spellbound. Wikipedia tells me that Spellbound had the lowest ever sales for a number 1 album at that point. Outsold Innuendo and Bring Your Daughter...to the Slaughter.
October 3, 20222 yr Okay, I wasn't expecting to see that in here at all. I mean it was kinda okay I guess but I don't recall it doing particularly well at all in the UK but maybe it just seemed that way when compared to Straight Up and Opposites Attract
October 6, 20222 yr Catching up again on this excellent thread - slightly surprised 'Try Me Out' outsold 'Baby Baby' although did prefer the former a lot. That Quartz track was interesting - it had this really out of tune xylophone effect which guess was deliberate but kind of annoying. Did make it stand out a bit. 'Runaway Train' like so many are saying in this thread is a brilliant song - very angsty and beautiful. As for Paula Abdul 'Rush Rush' was very successful in the USA, 5 weeks at no.1 - the follow up singles were similary bland apart from 'Vibeology' which was very quirky and did better in the UK then USA which had only once happened in the past ('Knocked Out'). To be honest, apart from 'Straight Up' and 'Vibeology' (and I suppose 'Opposites Attract' although I didn't like it as much as others), she got so many US no.1s with really average, forgettable songs ('Cold Hearted', 'Promise of A New Day', 'Forever Your Girl') Edited October 6, 20222 yr by Smint
October 6, 20222 yr Author Actually, Straight Up is about the only Paula song that I would choose to listen to.
October 7, 20222 yr Runaway Train is fab and Rush Rush wasn't near as good as Blowing Kisses off the album - I know I bought it in Florida to get hold of the US single that got no UK release, but I seem to have misplaced it somewhere, oops!
October 10, 20222 yr Author 24- Utah Saints - What Can You Do For Me? rFP5hqVOzN8 55th best seller of 1991 Chart Run 26-18-14-11-10-10-12-20-29-43-71 I've been waiting for this since the start of this thread. This is the highest place number 10 single of the whole decade. It didn't hang around for an excessively long time but it was at number 10 at a time when most singles in the top 10 were outselling their rank. This included Everything I Do, I'm Too Sexy, Insanity, and Sunshine on a Rainy Day which were the years highest placed numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 respectively. Indeed, the highest placed number 6 of 1991 was also in it - more on that later. Everything else in the top 10 made it into the top 40 selling singles apart from Sabrina Johnson's Peace, namely Charly, Love To Hate You, Let's Talk About Sex. It outsold Innuendo, Bring Your Daughter...to the Slaughter and only finished one place below U2's The Fly in the end of year chart. Edited October 10, 20222 yr by Colm
October 10, 20222 yr Author 23- Enya - Anywhere Is 3OvYaHtr1DI 55th best seller of 1995 Chart Run 12-7-7-11-14-15-17-22-29-43-58-70 Another song that's here because it was charting at a time of huge sellers - the final 2 months of 1995. It's also the highest placing in this thread of any single from 1995, which makes it the best selling single of 1995 that didn't make the top 5, managing that achievement with just 7 weeks of chart action. Didn't outsell any number 1 from that year.
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