March 23, 20232 yr Ooh 2 of my favourite tracks of 2005 there - Since U Been Gone and Bad Day. Both have the most endorphin inducing choruses.
March 23, 20232 yr 'We Belong Together' and 'Since U Been Gone' are 2005 highlights for me too! The former was a slow burner but clicked a couple of years ago, it's really powerful.
March 23, 20232 yr Author 2005 16/23: KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See (1 week at No.1) OslEwO9klsQ The third single from the Eye To The Telescope album was my instant highlight from the record, Suddenly I See, which had been pretty big already in my chart as an album track but eventually climbed to No.1 with its single push. An anthemic, melodic indie-pop song, it peaked a place higher than Other Side Of The World in the UK and was a much bigger hit overall, with five weeks in the top 20, and also peaking at No.21 in the US impressively. The biggest hit of her career for sure.
March 23, 20232 yr Author 2005 17/23: Jo O’Meara - What Hurts The Most (4 non-consecutive weeks at No.1) glph4XpljvY S Club 7's lead singer Jo finally went solo two and a half years after the end of the band and her debut single was this very good ballad, What Hurts The Most, a version of which was also released by US country act Rascal Flatts and, more famously in this country, covered two years later by Cascada who took it into the top 10. Jo's version peaked at No.13 here, a week before Rachel Stevens went to No.12 with her single I Said Never Again (But Here We Are). Jo would controversially go on Celebrity Big Brother in 2007 and her actions on that did unsurprisingly halt her solo career although she released a second album in 2021.
March 23, 20232 yr Author 2005 18/23: Rachel Stevens - I Said Never Again (But Here We Are) (1 week at No.1) i6h3bHlYil4 And replacing Jo at the top indeed was her then former (now current again) bandmate Rachel. It was inevitable that Rachel would eventually top my chart, her solo material had been absolutely top notch since 2003, topped off with the fantastic Come And Get It Album in 2005. Despite being a great pop album, it criminally flopped at No.28 in the UK but has become a bit of a cult classic, and this was my personal highlight from it, although So Good had got to No.2 for me in the summer. Despite the video set in a jail, Rachel oozed popstar quality, and this song was a 10/10 moment, but it missed the UK top 10 and was the last single she ever released. It's a shame that her dreams of [uK solo] number one continued to last forever.
March 23, 20232 yr Author 'Since You Been Gone' :wub: not my fave of hers but still a kick ass pop song nonetheless. 'Bad Day' is good as well but wasn't a huge lover of it either really. 'Next Plane Home' made my top 10 in 2008 though :lol: Absolutely is <3 Next Plane Home was good too, I think a top 10 for me in 2008 too, No.8 rings a bell! Ooh 2 of my favourite tracks of 2005 there - Since U Been Gone and Bad Day. Both have the most endorphin inducing choruses. I agree with that, can completely see why both were so huge that summer. It felt like there was a bit of a pop revival in 2005 after 2003/4 hadn't had much big pop and were dominated by a lot of R&B stuff and flash in the pan crap. 'We Belong Together' and 'Since U Been Gone' are 2005 highlights for me too! The former was a slow burner but clicked a couple of years ago, it's really powerful. It is such a great song, I completely see why it put Mariah back on the map and towards the top of the charts. 'Behind These Hazel Eyes' is even better. Video is fantastic for it too. Yass, it is, fab video. Cascada's version of that is superior for me. Must admit I loved both at the time, although don't listen to either a lot these days.
March 24, 20232 yr Some great songs in there. Since U Been Gone & Behind These Hazel Eyes are classics. I remember being obsessed with the latter at the time. Bad Day my sister loved, it was also all over the music channels on tv over here. What Hurts The Most & I Said Never Again (But Here We Are), back to back S Club 7 members. It took a while for me to get on board with the Jo track, but always loved the Rachel one.
March 25, 20232 yr Clearly lived under a rock as I know of none of those Rachel songs in 2005 haha. To be fair, as much as I love them they weren’t exactly massive chart hits. So it’s understandable.
March 29, 20232 yr Author Some great songs in there. Since U Been Gone & Behind These Hazel Eyes are classics. I remember being obsessed with the latter at the time. Bad Day my sister loved, it was also all over the music channels on tv over here. What Hurts The Most & I Said Never Again (But Here We Are), back to back S Club 7 members. It took a while for me to get on board with the Jo track, but always loved the Rachel one. The whole Breakaway album was so fantastic, one of my favourites ever. Yes, weird one there with back to back S Club 7 solo songs! Clearly lived under a rock as I know of none of those Rachel songs in 2005 haha. To be fair, as much as I love them they weren’t exactly massive chart hits. So it’s understandable. True, they deserved better!
March 29, 20232 yr Author 2005 19/23: Bob Sinclar feat Gary ‘Nesta’ Pine - Love Generation (1 week at No.1) v0NSeysrDYw A feelgood dance anthem from French producer Bob Sinclar, who had a UK top 10 in 2000 with I Feel For You. It took him five years to come back with another commercial hit on the same scale, but after the joyous Love Generation he rattled off a string of even bigger hits here. Love Generation, though, was my favourite, with its infectious whistle refrain and late summer vibes. The track peaked at No.12 in the UK, but had good staying power in the top 20, and topped my chart for a week as a rare dance chart topper in this very pop heavy year for me. In Germany the track was a somewhat bigger deal, peaking at No.1 both in the weekly charts, and in the 2006 end of year chart, largely due to heavy use in the World Cup coverage! Edited March 29, 20232 yr by gooddelta
March 29, 20232 yr Author 2005 20/23: Dannii Minogue - Perfection (1 week at No.1) POmNUFYb5fk Six years into the history of my chart, and finally a Minogue managed a No.1 single! Beating Kylie by five years (she finally got there in 2010 with both All The Lovers and Get Outta My Way), Dannii was still trying to score as big a hit as she had managed in the mighty Neon Nights era of 2002/3. You Won't Forget About Me was a top 10 hit in the UK in 2004, and peaked at No.2 for four weeks for me, but she went one better for me with Perfection, another house track using a sample in the same style as its predecessor. Sadly, it was a case of so close but so far in the official chart where it peaked at No.11, no less than my FIFTH chart topper in a row to peak between No.11 and No.13 officially. Grrrr.
March 29, 20232 yr Author 2005 21/23: Madonna - Hung Up (6 non-consecutive weeks at No.1) EDwb9jOVRtU From one legend topping the chart for the first time to another, Madonna finally got her moment to shine in the Hit Parade with the almighty Hung Up. Famously, and very efffectively, sampling ABBA's classic Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight), the song managed to take an incredibly recognisable, world-famous melody and still somehow make a completely new track with it that doesn't have you yearning to hear the original source. An absolute powerhouse, Hung Up was the lead single to the incredible Confessions On A Dancefloor album, Madonna's biggest success since her other famous foray into dance, Ray Of Light in 1998. The creativity, the styling, the video, the production, the vocal - everything about Hung Up reminded us once again why we should never overlook Madonna's potential to come back with a classic at any given moment, and I dearly hope that one day it will happen again. The track, of course, reached No.1 in the UK and in many countries worldwide, while grabbing six weeks at the top for me.
March 29, 20232 yr Author 2005 22/23: Girls Aloud - See The Day (1 week at No.1) 7qKSC8w4qC4 Girls Aloud weren't done with topping my chart, but curiously it's See The Day that returned them to No.1 in late 2005. Clearly hoping to emulate the success of I'll Stand By You a year earlier, See The Day was a cover of a 1985 top three hit by Dee C Lee. A big ballad cover, it wasn't going to win any awards for originality, and perhaps it's odd looking back that it was so big for me when it was their smallest official hit when it peaked at No.9, but I've always loved a ballad around Christmas time and while the group's bigger singles were usually uptempos, they were very good at ballads too and the brilliant Chemistry featured a few good ones. It felt a little like the band were running on fumes at this point, however, but they came back big the following year with a huge Best Of album.
March 29, 20232 yr 2005 Girls Aloud - See The Day (1 week at No.1) OMG. :w00t: :cheer: "See The Day" is my second favourite Girls Aloud song, but the majority (even group fans here) dislike it very much, so I was very suprised to see this single so high in any other chart, which is not "Gražios Dainos".
March 29, 20232 yr 'Love Generation' is the superior Bob track. Of course RTP had to be his biggest despite it being his weakest effort. Although I don't know his 2000 one I don't think. 'Hung Up' is great too of course. 'See The Day' is fine enough as well.
March 29, 20232 yr I’ve never been a fan of Love Generation. Hung Up took a long time for me to warm to, but I like it now. See The Day is the only other I’ve heard and it’s quite pleasant.
March 30, 20232 yr Shivers is a goodie, Helena & Mariah decent, and I agree about Back To Bedlam, great album and James Blunt unfairly derided over the years, he's funny, self-deprecating and his stuff has remained consistently good. See The Day, love the Dee C original, Hung Up was a big chart-topper for me, a pop classic, Perfection and Love Generation good dance tracks, and most of the rest I don't recall :o
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