Butlins Bognor *.* anyway this sounds nice, didn't realise Sarah Cracknell was the lead singer of Saint Etienne :ph34r:

I was a fan of Candy in 2000, but for me now the three singles following it were much better. I Wanna Be With You, In My Pocket & Crush.

Edited February 4, 20232 yr by One_For_Sorrow

Toca's Miracle is great of course! As for Heart of Asia, the song works decently as a dance track but I actually prefer the original Sakamoto version. Tell Me Why is rather lovely too

Butlins Bognor *.* anyway this sounds nice, didn't realise Sarah Cracknell was the lead singer of Saint Etienne :ph34r:

 

A great place, mainly that ride in the swimming pool that hangs from the ceiling *.* She is!

 

I was a fan of Candy in 2000, but for me now the three singles following it were much better. I Wanna Be With You, In My Pocket & Crush.

 

I love those tracks too, shame she didn't have a sustained pop career in the charts really.

 

Toca's Miracle is great of course! As for Heart of Asia, the song works decently as a dance track but I actually prefer the original Sakamoto version. Tell Me Why is rather lovely too

 

I love the original by Sakamoto too, a beautiful piece.

2000

 

12/30: Alice Deejay - Will I Ever (four non-consecutive weeks at #1)

 

 

After five weeks at the top for me for Better Off Alone and then 11 for Back In My Life in 1999, it probably wasn't too much of a surprise that Alice Deejay's third single, Will I Ever, returned them to the top for another month in summer 2000. A cheesier affair than the previous singles, Will I Ever was basically a pop song with Eurodance production from Judith Pronk and her dancers. It gave the Dutch act their third and final top 10 hit in the UK, where it peaked at No.6, and has actually racked up almost the same amount of Spotify plays as its predecessor (17 million vs 18 million for Back In My Life), so is clearly still well regarded. I remember buying the album, Who Needs Guitars Anyway, on import for quite a hefty price in May 2000 prior to the release of this single, which is where I fell in love with it. The UK radio mix was very slightly spruced up but otherwise largely unchanged.

2000

 

13/30: York - On The Beach (1 week at No.1)

 

 

Moving on through the summer trance hits of 2000, German act York followed up their late 1999 No.2 for me, The Awakening (No.11 in the UK) by going one step better with a sample of the guitar riff from Chris Rea's 1986 single of the same name. Produced by CRW, who had achieved a hit with I Feel Love earlier in 2000, On The Beach went to No.4 in the UK and is a perfect sun drenched track that, funnily enough, most reminds me of a long walk I had on a very rainy day that summer - I guess I was trying to feel the heat through the music.

2000

 

14/30: Kim Lukas - Let It Be The Night (1 week at No.1)

 

 

Following the monster hit All I Really Want, which ended up as my No.2 song of 2000, Kim Lukas returned to the top for a week in the summer with follow-up Let It Be The Night. I'm not sure this one was remixed by Eiffel 65 but it might as well have been as it followed the same template. This extremely catchy Eurodance song was a very minor hit in a few European countries and would be the last appearance for Kim in my chart, exiting here as an iconic two-hit wonder.

2000

 

15/30: Robert Miles feat Maria Nayler - One & One (2 weeks at No.1)

 

 

I only properly got into music in late 1998, thanks to Cher's Believe making me aware of pop music and the charts in general. Those next few months, and 1999, were about enjoying modern music and indulging in the charts but by 2000 I started to turn my attention backwards and bought a few 90s dance compilation album. Therefore, my chart in the second half of 2000 is littered with songs from the 1990s that I was listening to so much that I decided to chart them to properly represent that. I quite possibly did hear a lot these when they came out, but this was before I really grew to love them. So the likes of Alex Party, Berri, Strike and more had big hits in 2000, but the only one to actually make it all the way to No.1 was One & One, the beautiful 1996 UK No.3 hit from late Italian legend Robert Miles and British singer Maria Nayler.

 

I have always preferred this beautifully melodic piece to Children. Robert's piano is glorious, Maria's vocals are so haunting, the middle eight followed by the piano breakdown is one of the best moments in any song ever for me. Perfection.

2000

 

16/30: The Corrs - All The Love In The World (1 week at No.1)

 

 

Surprisingly enough, Corrs' only UK No.1 hit, Breathless, only reached No.2 for me, stopped by the summer dance anthems, but when parent album In Blue came out a few weeks later they returned to the top with standout ballad All The Love In The World. Like Breathless and follow-up Irresistible, it was co-written and produced by Robert "Mutt" Lange, Shania Twain's ex-husband and who also co-wrote many of her biggest hits. A big, glossy sound, then, the track was issued with a video and released as a promotional single as it appeared on the soundtrack to America's Sweethearts. The video version was slightly different to the album version, with a new intro, and this mix eventually appeared on the group's Best Of, released in 2001.

All The Love In The World is one of my favourite The Corrs songs of all time, just brilliant.

2000

 

17/30: Spiller feat Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love) (4 non-consecutive weeks at No.1)

 

 

It didn't take many weeks for the (amazing) Positiva label to wrestle back control of my chart. But this time the song was even higher profile than before. Italian DJ Spiller's instrumental house track Groovejet required a vocal topline to become a hit, so in stepped Sophie Ellis-Bextor, former lead singer with indie band theaudience, to provide just that, with a little help from Rob Davis. The track worked beautifully and the hype rightly started to build, but then the song ran into Victoria Beckham, who was finally launching her solo career with a garage collaboration, Out Of Your Mind with Truesteppers and Dane Bowers. A famous 'Posh vs. Posher' media frenzy ensued, with VB even dragging David down to Woolworths for signings, but weekend sales of Groovejet saw the track succeed (in my opinion the correct winner of the battle) and to this day it remains an all-time dance classic.

 

Like many people, I first got hold of Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) on CD via Now 46, where it was curiously available prior to the release of the single, so you do wonder if without that it would have finished even further ahead. However, keen to show my support in the chart battle, I still bought the single on release week and it spent four weeks in total at the top of my chart that summer. Spiller never troubled my chart again (follow-up Cry Baby was an abomination), but Sophie would return to the top in the future...

Edited February 4, 20232 yr by gooddelta

All The Love In The World is one of my favourite The Corrs songs of all time, just brilliant.

 

Agreed, they definitely felt like superstars at this point and this song was fantastic. It's a shame it was overlooked for a full single release, as we didn't get any ballad singles from In Blue.

Love Groovejet. This is proving to be a great countdown so far gooddelta!

'Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love)' is gorgeous :wub: I'm a fan of 'On The Beach' too, Now! That's What I Call Music 46 was pretty stacked for dance.

 

I was a bit late to 'One & One' as well but it's lovely - I could hear shades of the production in my recent BJSC entry 'Vamos a Bailar (Esta Vida Nueva)'.

Love Groovejet. This is proving to be a great countdown so far gooddelta!

 

Thanks for following and commenting!

 

'Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love)' is gorgeous :wub: I'm a fan of 'On The Beach' too, Now! That's What I Call Music 46 was pretty stacked for dance.

 

I was a bit late to 'One & One' as well but it's lovely - I could hear shades of the production in my recent BJSC entry 'Vamos a Bailar (Esta Vida Nueva)'.

 

Yes Now 46 was fantastic, they got most of the good dance stuff for Disc 2 of that <3

 

I completely see that, I think that's probably partly why I liked that entry so much!

But did you chart Out of your Mind?

2000

 

15/30: Robert Miles feat Maria Nayler - One & One (2 weeks at No.1)

 

 

I only properly got into music in late 1998, thanks to Cher's Believe making me aware of pop music and the charts in general. Those next few months, and 1999, were about enjoying modern music and indulging in the charts but by 2000 I started to turn my attention backwards and bought a few 90s dance compilation album. Therefore, my chart in the second half of 2000 is littered with songs from the 1990s that I was listening to so much that I decided to chart them to properly represent that. I quite possibly did hear a lot these when they came out, but this was before I really grew to love them. So the likes of Alex Party, Berri, Strike and more had big hits in 2000, but the only one to actually make it all the way to No.1 was One & One, the beautiful 1996 UK No.3 hit from late Italian legend Robert Miles and British singer Maria Nayler.

 

I have always preferred this beautifully melodic piece to Children. Robert's piano is glorious, Maria's vocals are so haunting, the middle eight followed by the piano breakdown is one of the best moments in any song ever for me. Perfection.

 

Oh wow, I haven’t heard this in years! What a great track!

Will catch up with this later on but some nice picks and more recognisable ones at that!

2 classics (Hi, Rob Davis of Mud, that 1976 forgotten Mud disco wonder Shake It Down really was the template!) from Fragma & Spiller, and also One & One. Tell Me Why is a goodie, and Heart Of Asia is a fab tune. Spiller topped my charts so we have one in common :) :cheer:

Loads of great songs there - Groovejet and One & One were both singles I bought (the former being announced at #1 officially remains an iconic chart moment), and Will I Ever was a big fave of mine at the time which I think I preferred to Back In My Life.