February 6, 20232 yr Author My top 20 of 2000 1. Vanessa Amorosi - Absolutely Everybody (Peak: #1) 2. Kim Lukas - All I Really Want (Peak: #1) 3. Delerium feat Sarah McLachlan - Silence (Peak: #1) 4. Fragma feat Coco - Toca’s Miracle (Peak: #1) 5. Aurora feat Naimee Coleman - Ordinary World (Peak: #1) 6. Mariah Carey feat Joe & 98 Degrees - Thank God I Found You (Peak: #1) 7. Alice Deejay - The Lonely One (Peak: #1) 8. Spiller feat Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love) (Peak: #1) 9. Alice Deejay - Will I Ever (Peak: #1) 10. Thrillseekers feat Sheryl Deane - Synaesthesia (Peak: #1) 11. Rank 1 - Airwave (Peak: #3) 12. Madison Avenue - Don’t Call Me Baby (Peak: #2) 13. Kim Lukas - Let It Be The Night (Peak: #1) 14. Watergate - Heart Of Asia (Peak: #1) 15. Mariah Carey feat Westlife - Against All Odds (Peak: #1) 16. The Corrs - All The Love In The World (Peak: #1) 17. ATB - My Dream (Peak: #1) 18. The Corrs - No Frontiers (Peak: #1) 19. York - On The Beach (Peak: #1) 20. Robert Miles feat Maria Nayler - One & One (Peak: #1) 10 biggest faves that didn't make my top 2 Andreas Johnson - Glorious Black Box Recorder - The Facts Of Life Christina Aguilera - I Turn To You Eiffel 65 - Move Your Body Kylie Minogue - On A Night Like This Made In London - Dirty Water Ricky Martin feat Meja - Private Emotion Scooch - For Sure Sister2Sister - Sister Vanessa Amorosi - Shine
February 6, 20232 yr 2000 28/30: Alice Deejay - Celebrate Our Love (1 week at #1) zlJHFEQFA3M I will finish 2000 with three early 2001 hits that charted early for me. At the time I tended not to chart something until I had it available to listen to at home, so album tracks that were released as singles had an advantage if I already owned the album. For their fifth and final No.1, and final UK single ever (sobs), Alice Deejay's uplifting Celebrate Our Love snuck a week in at the top towards the end of 2000, a couple of months before its UK single release. Said single release came with a radio edit that spruced up the production and made it all a bit more euphoric/Dario G-esque, and the track peaked at No.17, only a place behind The Lonely One, meaning they went top 20 with everything they released - all pulled from the same gold top ten (*.*) album. Not feeling this one as much!
February 6, 20232 yr Some great dance tunes in there. Agree with Delerium and Fragma getting top placing and glad you also love Rank 1’s Airwave. Nice to see the out of era appreciation for One & One too. Not so hot on the Alice Deejay ones though Back In My Life was high in my affections around the turn of the millennium.
February 6, 20232 yr Author Not feeling this one as much! It's definitely the weak link, although I was obsessed, as you'll see by the multiple album track No.2 they had as well. Some great dance tunes in there. Agree with Delerium and Fragma getting top placing and glad you also love Rank 1’s Airwave. Nice to see the out of era appreciation for One & One too. Not so hot on the Alice Deejay ones though Back In My Life was high in my affections around the turn of the millennium. Yes Airwave was unlucky to run into the bigger hits by Fragma and Kim Lukas from what I can recall, but I absolutely adore it and was so glad it managed to sneak into the UK top 10.
February 6, 20232 yr My faves here from those that missed your top 2 Andreas Johnson - Glorious I do slightly recall this one but not one I have an major opinion over. Black Box Recorder - The Facts Of Life not heard this Christina Aguilera - I Turn To You a decent one again from her Eiffel 65 - Move Your Body My favourite of theirs. insanely catchy and I still remember getting the CD for it Kylie Minogue - On A Night Like This an underrated one from Kylie. Love it! Made In London - Dirty Water not heard Ricky Martin feat Meja - Private Emotion another I got on CD and played loads of. A good ballad from him. Remember coming back home from somewhere listening to this and it just so happened to be raining then too. Coincidence much? :lol: Scooch - For Sure Sister2Sister - Sister Vanessa Amorosi - Shine Not heard the last three either. I'll give some of these a listen at some stage.
February 6, 20232 yr For those that missed your top 2 I really like these: Christina Aguilera - I Turn To You Kylie Minogue - On A Night Like This Scooch - For Sure Vanessa Amorosi - Shine Also don't mind these: Sister2Sister - Sister Eiffel 65 - Move Your Body
February 6, 20232 yr love these picks: York - On The Beach Robert Miles feat Maria Nayler - One & One Spiller feat Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love) [probably my fave of the year] Gigi D’Agostino - Bla Bla Bla Aurora feat Naimee Coleman - Ordinary World Vanessa Amorosi - Absolutely Everybody Delerium feat Sarah McLachlan - Silence [prefer the Tiesto mix] Thrillseekers feat Sheryl Deane - Synaesthesia [prefer the instrumental mix] these ones are also good: Alice Deejay - Will I Ever Alice Deejay - The Lonely One Darude - Feel The Beat Fragma feat Maria Rubia - Everytime You Need Me
February 7, 20232 yr Author Great countdown gooddelta! And some of those #2 songs, just brilliant! Glad you're enjoying it, thanks! 1 year down, 9 to go! My faves here from those that missed your top 2 Andreas Johnson - Glorious I do slightly recall this one but not one I have an major opinion over. Black Box Recorder - The Facts Of Life not heard this Christina Aguilera - I Turn To You a decent one again from her Eiffel 65 - Move Your Body My favourite of theirs. insanely catchy and I still remember getting the CD for it Kylie Minogue - On A Night Like This an underrated one from Kylie. Love it! Made In London - Dirty Water not heard Ricky Martin feat Meja - Private Emotion another I got on CD and played loads of. A good ballad from him. Remember coming back home from somewhere listening to this and it just so happened to be raining then too. Coincidence much? :lol: Scooch - For Sure Sister2Sister - Sister Vanessa Amorosi - Shine Not heard the last three either. I'll give some of these a listen at some stage. Thanks Rob, for some reason I thought you'd like Glorious, seems like a bit of an indie classic these days anyway. Yeah oops, I probably should have charted the Kylie song in my top 2 at the time, I remember it peaked at No.9 in my chart, bit low. That's funny about Private Emotion, fab ballad that. For those that missed your top 2 I really like these: Christina Aguilera - I Turn To You Kylie Minogue - On A Night Like This Scooch - For Sure Vanessa Amorosi - Shine Also don't mind these: Sister2Sister - Sister Eiffel 65 - Move Your Body I guess Sister was a much bigger hit in Australia? Was only a top 20 here, but they were on the TV a lot promoting it. love these picks: York - On The Beach Robert Miles feat Maria Nayler - One & One Spiller feat Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love) [probably my fave of the year] Gigi D’Agostino - Bla Bla Bla Aurora feat Naimee Coleman - Ordinary World Vanessa Amorosi - Absolutely Everybody Delerium feat Sarah McLachlan - Silence [prefer the Tiesto mix] Thrillseekers feat Sheryl Deane - Synaesthesia [prefer the instrumental mix] these ones are also good: Alice Deejay - Will I Ever Alice Deejay - The Lonely One Darude - Feel The Beat Fragma feat Maria Rubia - Everytime You Need Me Thanks Dan, I need to check out the instrumental more of Synaesthesia, it really is such a fantastic melody. Oh I missed The Facts Of Life on the favourite misses list :wub: :wub: :wub: Yes, I love that, and them generally! The lyrics really stood out when it was played in the chart at the time.
February 7, 20232 yr Author 2001 1/20: Dario G - Dream To Me (2 weeks at No.1) m0wk71LItUc In 2001 I was 13/14 and in Year 9/10 of school. It's argued that these years are where many people 'find' their music taste, and the chart toppers were far fewer in number with a few longer runners but a tiny bit more diverse, so let's see what was on the agenda. My first new No.1 of the year, after Fragma, was Dario G's trance take on Dreams by The Cranberries. Following a similar formula of Aurora's Ordinary World, turning a slower early 90s song into a more energetic dance number, British producer Dario G - who had most famously smashed with the sublime Sunchyme in 1997 - scored his third and final UK top ten hit with the retooled Dream To Me, featuring vocals from Norwegian singer Ingrid Straumstoyl and a suitably wintery video. I always loved the operatic vocal touch, and how in the double tracked verses Ingrid sings the higher and lower register simultaneously. A fantastic, uplifting version of the song, it topped my chart for a fortnight.
February 7, 20232 yr Author 2001 2/20: Fun Factory - I Wanna B With U (1 week at #1) qiaOQ0RWmKw Another oldie, dating all the way back to 1995, I was still buying old 90s dance compilations as we moved into 2001 and one of those featured German Eurodance group Fun Factory's I Wanna Be With U, which achieved a No.45 peak in the US and made top 20 in a few European nations in 1995. Complete with a reggae/rap vibe, it brought 90s summer sounds into the 2001 winter for me and I really loved how cheery and uplifting it was. It could maybe be best compared to Mr President, of acts that charted in the UK.
February 7, 20232 yr Author 2001 3/20: Caroldene - Time Is A Healer (8 non-consecutive weeks at No.1) aXa9RFBAurs Some Christian gospel now, naturally, from London singer Carol Black, aka Caroldene. In the early 2000s there was a website called Peoplesound.com that sent out free sampler CDs of songs by unsigned artists in the post. These songs would occasionally turn up elsewhere - as they were unlicensed it saved money for businesses or media wanting to use music. Of all places, Time Is A Healer features prominently in the background playing on the radio in a scene of Lee Evans and Kathy Burke film The Martins. Tameka Empson, who plays Kim in Eastenders, was memorably in this scene. Anyway, upon playing the sampler CD, Time Is A Healer was the instant standout for me. My father was religious and as a child me and my sister went with him to church every Sunday, I was also at a CofE primary school, and I therefore had a bit of fondness for gospel style music. I love the way the verses of Time Is A Healer are pretty chilled and mellow, with some lovely chord changes and piano, before the uplifting chorus picks it all up and builds for the final couple of minutes. I hammered this one to my friends at the time, but its only existence on the internet is a video I uploaded myself to YouTube many years ago. A very special one for me and it spent a whopping eight weeks at the top of my chart, breaking the five week record previously held by Alice Deejay's Better Off Alone.
February 7, 20232 yr Author 2001 4/20: Dream - He Loves U Not (2 weeks at No.1) IDjI3SD4Cr4 Interrupting Caroldene's epic run in the middle was US girlband Dream's He Loves U Not. This thought piece about the quartet published yesterday in a masterstroke of good timing goes into much more detail than I ever even knew about it, but essentially the pop/R&B track was signed to Puff Daddy's Bad Boy Records and became a very big deal in the US, reaching No.2. It was everywhere pre-release in the UK too before its release but somehow stiffed at No.17 here. Completely undeserved, the biting attitude and production techniques served by this song were ahead of its time and is a very strong example of US teen pop. Dream were a one-hit wonder for me but I finally checked out their only album today and it has quite a few other strong pop songs on it.
February 7, 20232 yr Author 2001 5/20: Maria Rubia - Say It (1 week at No.1) mdyze5bPTX0 The follow-up for Maria to Everytime You Need Me, Say It was a nice, catchy little pop-dance song with a random French middle eight that helped it to stand out. Clearly not enough though as the song only got to No.40 in the UK, but I liked it and it bagged a second No.1 for Maria in my chart. Edited February 7, 20232 yr by gooddelta
February 7, 20232 yr Author 2001 6/20: Fragma - You Are Alive (1 week at No.1) weNoszMslOs And neatly seeing off Maria from the top was her former collaborator Fragma, who were on top for the third and last time with You Are Alive. Once again opting for a different blonde vocalist, German singer Damae did at least feature on quite a few of their other album tracks too, although she was uncredited on this single. You Are Alive has an absolutely blistering chorus, one of the most euphoric of the era, and I love the verses too. This wasn't just a halo No.1 hit for Fragma, I dearly love each one of their big hits, and this again went down well in the UK for them, peaking at No.4 and spending a fortnight in the top five. Edited February 7, 20232 yr by gooddelta
February 7, 20232 yr 'You Are Alive' is lush. Not one you'd hear anywhere now, again one radio should peddle along with the other non TM hits!
February 7, 20232 yr Author 2001. 7/20: Tanel Padar, Dave Benton & 2XL - Everybody (2 weeks at No.1) tbsOi2pGcjM Finally, a Eurovision song. The first time I properly watched Eurovision was in 1999 when I had bought Precious' Say It Again during the week - not knowing anything about the contest, just because I liked the song - and my Mum put it on so we could watch their performance. I enjoyed it but wasn't completely hooked on the show as a whole and didn't properly love the contest until 2001. I tuned in after reading quite a lot of previews about the 2001 contest in the media, and enjoyed quite a few of the songs, including the entries from Sweden, Denmark, the UK, France, Netherlands, Greece and several others. But it was the winning entry from Estonia that caught my ear. This is curious because to many Eurovision fans it's one of the worst winners ever. Not for me, I hunted down the compilation CD, not an easy thing to find back then, and had it on repeat all summer, constantly singing the uplifiting funk/disco track with a fantastic bridge before the chorus. I also loved the unusual chemistry between tall, young Estonian singer Tanel and Dave from Aruba - it was the second consecutive year that a male duo won, and like the Olsen Brothers, Dave was middle aged - and also the first black singer to win the contest. Everybody swept the competition aside and bagged loads of 12 points along the way, but criminally wasn't released as a single in the UK - I eventually picked up the CD single in Sweden, where it had peaked at No.12. There would be many more Eurovision chart toppers to come...
February 7, 20232 yr 2001 1/20: Dario G - Dream To Me (2 weeks at No.1) m0wk71LItUc In 2001 I was 13/14 and in Year 9/10 of school. It's argued that these years are where many people 'find' their music taste, and the chart toppers were far fewer in number with a few longer runners but a tiny bit more diverse, so let's see what was on the agenda. My first new No.1 of the year, after Fragma, was Dario G's trance take on Dreams by The Cranberries. Following a similar formula of Aurora's Ordinary World, turning a slower early 90s song into a more energetic dance number, British producer Dario G - who had most famously smashed with the sublime Sunchyme in 1997 - scored his third and final UK top ten hit with the retooled Dream To Me, featuring vocals from Norwegian singer Ingrid Straumstoyl and a suitably wintery video. I always loved the operatic vocal touch, and how in the double tracked verses Ingrid sings the higher and lower register simultaneously. A fantastic, uplifting version of the song, it topped my chart for a fortnight. I didn’t read this before I played it, so none more shocked than me who recognised the Cranberries instantly!
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