February 10, 20232 yr That was a long wait sitting on a potential for a Buzzjack contest there :lol: I still haven't heard unbelievably! Will check these I don't know though. 'It's Ok' is underrated though. One of AK's better tracks for me!
February 11, 20232 yr Another great list of #2 songs gooddelta, my picks from the list: 2001 No.2s: 6) Bardot - Poison (2 weeks at #2) 7) The Corrs - Rebel Heart (1 week at #2) 10) Hear’Say - The Way To Your Love (1 week at #2) 13) Bardot - Higher Than Heaven (1 week at #2) 14) Bardot - Girls Do, Boys Don’t (1 week at #2) 16) Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Take Me Home (A Girl Like Me) (2 weeks at #2) 18) Artful Dodger feat Melanie Blatt - Twenty Four Seven (1 week at #2) 19) Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Leave The Others Alone (2 weeks at #2) 20) Riva feat Dannii Minogue - Who Do You Love Now? (1 week at #2) 22) The Corrs - Make You Mine (1 week at #2) Great to see some Aussie representation in Bardot!
February 11, 20232 yr I think we are the few that appreciate The Way To Your Love - by far Hearsay’s best!
February 11, 20232 yr I think we are the few that appreciate The Way To Your Love - by far Hearsay’s best! I’d have to agree with this.
February 13, 20232 yr Author That was a long wait sitting on a potential for a Buzzjack contest there :lol: I still haven't heard unbelievably! Will check these I don't know though. 'It's Ok' is underrated though. One of AK's better tracks for me! It was! I often forget about it until I hear it again <3 I love It’s OK - my 2nd favourite Kitten song after Whole Again. :) It's definitely a great track, a little underrated these days. Another great list of #2 songs gooddelta, my picks from the list: 2001 No.2s: 6) Bardot - Poison (2 weeks at #2) 7) The Corrs - Rebel Heart (1 week at #2) 10) Hear’Say - The Way To Your Love (1 week at #2) 13) Bardot - Higher Than Heaven (1 week at #2) 14) Bardot - Girls Do, Boys Don’t (1 week at #2) 16) Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Take Me Home (A Girl Like Me) (2 weeks at #2) 18) Artful Dodger feat Melanie Blatt - Twenty Four Seven (1 week at #2) 19) Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Leave The Others Alone (2 weeks at #2) 20) Riva feat Dannii Minogue - Who Do You Love Now? (1 week at #2) 22) The Corrs - Make You Mine (1 week at #2) Great to see some Aussie representation in Bardot! Thanks! In fact, Bardot's debut was my favourite album of the year. They were unlucky to stall at No.2 three times without getting to No.1. ASAP hit No.4 during the year too. I think we are the few that appreciate The Way To Your Love - by far Hearsay’s best! Agreed, such a great pop track and doesn't deserve to be a forgotten No.1. I wish they'd get the radio edit onto streaming platforms.
February 13, 20232 yr Author 2002 4/16: Shakira - Underneath Your Clothes (3 non-consecutive weeks at No.1) uwBwKcQ1k84 I very vividly remember the first time I heard Underneath Your Clothes. It was in Borders in Bournemouth, where we stopped off for lunch on the way to an Easter holiday in Weymouth. Laundry Service was on the listening post and I had a spin of this track first and was completely blown away by it. Intriguing lyrics as ever from Colombian superstar Shakira - who had recently crossed over to sing in English for the first time - and I adored the ballad production and the slightly rocky middle eight. I very quickly bought - for some reason, maybe it's all the shop had - the Spanish version of the album, Servicio de lavandería, although the songs were the same as on Laundry Service, just in a different order. This is my second favourite Shakira song to date, and it proved to me after Whenever, Wherever that she was more than a one-hit wonder in my eyes. In the UK it got to No.3 in the summer. Edited February 13, 20232 yr by gooddelta
February 13, 20232 yr Author 2002 5/16: Shakira - Whenever, Wherever (1 week at No.1) weRHyjj34ZE And unconventionally, Whenever, Wherever topped my chart AFTER Underneath Your Clothes, before that came back to replace it in an almighty Shakira tussle at the top. I heard the track in early 2002, via The Box, like many other people, and was intrigued by the captivating dancing, the pan pipes, the bizarre lyrics 'lucky that my breasts are small and humble, so you don't confuse them with mountains' etc, and Shakira generally. It floated around my top five for quite a few weeks, thwarted by various different songs, but I eventually decided I could not saddle such an iconic song with a No.2 peak, and with the wind in its sails from getting the album, it belatedly climbed to No.1 in April 2002 for a week. It of course stalled at No.2 in the UK thanks to the small matter of being released on the same day as a song that sold over 1 million copies in its first week, Evergreen by Will Young - nice scheduling...
February 13, 20232 yr Author 2002 6/16: Milk Inc - In My Eyes (1 week at No.1) EfFWX2vJ_vQ All Around The World records were on a run of form into early 2002, and so was Belgian dance music. And next in line from the two camps was In My Eyes by Milk Inc. A big, euphoric pop trance crossover, by this point Linda Mertens was the singer in the band, who would go on to have further No.2 hits for me with Walk On Water and Land Of The Living, but In My Eyes was their only No.1, the track also peaking at No.9 in the UK, while Walk On Water came close by reaching No.10 later in the year.
February 13, 20232 yr Author 2002 7/16: Ian Van Dahl - Reason (1 week at No.1) nsF_Ft5xIZE Back for a third time, and more Belgian dance, Ian Van Dahl had settled into their sound by this point and Reason became their third top ten hit in the UK, peaking at No.8 in the UK when released in May 2002. A harder edged and more frantic sound than Will I?, it was another catchy slice of Eurodance that gave them a third and final No.1 in my chart. I also bought the album Ace around this time, which I wasn't super keen on overall - I think they picked the right singles from it. This is sadly also missing from streaming sites in the UK.
February 13, 20232 yr Author 2002 8/16: Kelly Llorenna - Tell It To My Heart (4 non-consecutive weeks at #1) LzSnYtKdQ6E Lots of acts chalking up multiple No.1s during 2002, and the next to do so was now confident and successful northern dance diva Kelly Llorenna. Kelly had had a small solo hit in 1996, Brighter Day which just missed the top 40 and later peaked at No.2 in my chart early in 2002, but All Around The World gave her solo career another chance off the back of Set You Free and True Love Never Dies, and this time it was a much bigger deal. A fantastic dance cover of Taylor Dayne's 80s hit Tell It To My Heart, Kelly put her stamp all over this powerhouse anthem and it went to No.9 in the UK for her, spending four weeks in the top 20. For me, the track managed four weeks at No.1, although its run was broken in the middle. Also, the Top of the Pops performance . Edited February 13, 20232 yr by gooddelta
February 13, 20232 yr That Shakira duo are my two favourite songs of 2002 - both sublime and I love her obviously not quite native English lyrics. It’s been pointed out that the verses in Underneath Your Clothes are rather similar to Eternal Flame but I still love them - and the chorus, the bridge and the instrumental part are so soulful. And WW is just a pop classic; so unlikely to do 6 figures in 2002 and not make #1. :heart: Some good dance pop memories with Ian Van Dahl and Milk Inc too.
February 13, 20232 yr Author 2002 9/16: Ira Losco - 7th Wonder (4 weeks at No.1) nmuQkmc-H1Q The small island of Malta was once a surprisingly big hitter in Eurovision. In 2002 they nearly - and should have - won with Ira Losco's 7th Wonder, which finished 2nd behind I Wanna by Marie N from Latvia, and way ahead of the UK's Jessica Garlick and Estonia's Sahlene in joint third. In all honesty, 2002 was a dip for me for Eurovision on the previous year, the hosting was bizarre and the whole presentation seemed dated and tacky, there were also only seven songs I particularly liked in the contest, and one of those (Denmark) finished last. I was not into I Wanna, and it's hardly remembered as a classic winner, although the strip tease did have people talking about it in school on the Monday morning. On the other hand, the cheery, bubbly pop of 7th Wonder from the charming Ira Losco, complete with blowing glitter from her hand before the key change, looked, sounded and felt like a winner. And we should have been in Valletta in 2003. Either way, Ira got four straight weeks at the top for me - a then record for Eurovision - while she remains one of Malta's biggest stars and represented them again in 2016 with Walk On Water.
February 13, 20232 yr Author Shakira Shakira! Both great songs of course! They really were <3 That Shakira duo are my two favourite songs of 2002 - both sublime and I love her obviously not quite native English lyrics. It’s been pointed out that the verses in Underneath Your Clothes are rather similar to Eternal Flame but I still love them - and the chorus, the bridge and the instrumental part are so soulful. And WW is just a pop classic; so unlikely to do 6 figures in 2002 and not make #1. :heart: Some good dance pop memories with Ian Van Dahl and Milk Inc too. They weren't far off being at the top of mine, such incredible tracks that I still love and listen to a lot now. I never noticed that about Eternal Flame, and now I can't understand how I never noticed it - the melody is so similar. Yes the other parts of it are all so great, and powerful, it feels a lot more than the other ballads that were in the chart at the time.
February 14, 20232 yr Author 2002 10/16: ATC - Around The World (La La La La La) (6 weeks at No.1) Mo3EmC6Y5Zk I do remember Around The World from its original European release in 2000. The track and the band - based in Germany but hailing from the UK, Italy, Australia and New Zealand - were featured in the pop music magazines at the time, and the song went on to become a gigantic hit across Europe, and even made the US top 30. For whatever reason, the UK release was cancelled - despite it fitting in perfectly with the chart soundscape of 2000 - and it eventually re-emerged in slightly remixed form in 2002. Pop music had moved on a lot in two years but cheese was still just about enough in vogue for the song to get some good airplay and peak at No.15 in the UK. But it deserved much, much more and has in fact gone on to become one of the most influential Europop hits of its era, inspiring hits by the likes of Ava Max, R3hab and Pitbull. I remember at school in my music class watching the video on some YouTube predecessor while we were supposed to be deciding a song to record and perform in front of the class. The teacher of course burst into the room while this was on, demanded to know why we were messing around and was about to issue us with a week of detentions, until I quickly said we had decided on this song for our project. He walked out, happy but bemused, and cue me and my friend a few weeks later performing this on keyboards and vocals in front of the entire class while they all rocked out to Linkin Park and Nirvana covers. Mildly mortifying, but it helped the song stick around at No.1 in my chart as I was so familiar with it, so it was a six-week summer run for the wonderful ATC. And I still remember how to play it!
February 14, 20232 yr Author 2002 11/16: Mad’House - Like A Prayer (1 week at No.1) KWP0N4p0YlA What do you get if you cross Madonna's Like A Prayer with the bassline of Black Legend's You See The Trouble With Me, and rope in a Dutch-Turkish singer called Buse to front it? You get this. No.3 in the UK, and No.1 for a week for me, Like A Prayer didn't really require a remix at this point, so ubiquitous still was the original, but it worked surprisingly well as a dance track. Mad'House had a whole album of Madonna covers, Absolutely Mad, which featured covers of Holiday and La Isla Bonita, among others. The act was unrelated to Mad Donna who had a hit with The Wheels On The Bus to the tune of Ray Of Light earlier on in 2002 (not in my chart, but it was ridiculous genius).
February 14, 20232 yr Author 2002 12/16: N-Trance feat Kelly Llorenna - Forever (1 week at No.1) LeVIxyUitz8 A year on from the success (for the second time) of Set You Free, and with Kelly having two top ten hits of her own since, it made sense for both acts to reunite and capitalise on the buzz surrounding them. Forever was the only N-Trance top 10 hit other than Set You Free to be an original song - the others were cover versions. A great little piano trance track, it's obviously not in the same league as Set You Free but it's still a solid track in its own right, which peaked at No.6 in the UK and topped my chart for a week.
February 14, 20232 yr Author 2002 13/16: DJ Sammy & Yanou feat Do - Heaven (12 weeks at No.1) 2em-huMyeNk I first came across Heaven in summer 2002, I don't remember where but I snapped it up on a very expensive import single from HMV as it had already charted around Europe and even went top 10 in the US. Indeed, the beautiful Candlelight Mix had proven popular on the radio there in the wake of 9/11. In a completely different league to all the MANY other trance covers of 80s songs that were around in 2002, Spanish DJ Sammy's cover of Bryan Adams' Heaven, featuring German producer Yanou (later part of Cascada) and Dutch singer Do, was so warm and inviting, but anthemic and majestically produced. I remember telling anybody at school who would listen about this track, and my friend eventually performed the Candlelight Mix in an assembly, months before it was released in the UK. I was convinced it was going to be a No.1 hit here, but then it ran into the same release week as Madonna's Bond theme Die Another Day and Craig David's comeback single What's Your Flava. I was still confident though, I knew that the sheer might of this track would outpace the hype those two had, and I was thankfully right. The song smashed in at No.1 in the UK that autum, extending further its already epic run at the top of my chart to take it to a then record 12 weeks. The track is currently my 5th favourite song of all-time, and both hit versions of it continue to be played on the radio today. A classic. Edited February 14, 20232 yr by gooddelta
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