8TH JULY

 

 

The Year reaches its half way point and we get a new No 1 to talk about! Confounding the critics Outhere Brothers “Boom Boom Boom” becomes the US duo’s second chart topper of the year. You might think that am album that now features two No 1 singles might be selling but the Outhere Brothers LP merely moves 60-56 which is in itself a new peak for the long player. Perhaps conversely its failure helps to account for the success of the single by not draining sales, in any event 62,000 copies changed hands last week, well down on the 86,000 that previous single “Don’t Stop” had to sell to grab a week at the top back in April. They are the first act since New Kids On The Block to hit No 1 with their first two releases!

 

 

So it’s goodbye to Robson & Jerome who call time after seven weeks at No 1 and sink a spot to No 2 (55,000), it will surprise no-one that they are the biggest seller of the year but let’s have an official recap whilst we’re here:

 

1- UNCHAINED MELODY/ WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER- Robson & Jerome 1,655,000

2- BACK FOR GOOD- Take That 959,000

3- THINK TWICE- Celine Dion 927,000

4- DON’T STOP (WIGGLE WIGGLE)- The Outhere Brothers 617,000

5- COTTON EYE JOE- Rednex 512,000

6- SET YOU FREE- N-Trance 502,000

7- GUAGLIONE- Perez “Prez” Prado & His Orchestra 423,000

8- TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME- Bobby Brown 412,000

9- HERE COMES THE HOTSTEPPER- Ini Kamoze 406,000

10- DON’T GIVE ME YOUR LIFE- Alex Party 394,000

 

R & J are now, roughly, about 130,000 behind Wet wet wet and should overtake them in a few weeks to become the biggest selling single of the 90s.

 

The chart continues to move at an increasingly frantic pace and the first time ever we have 5 new entries in the top 10!

 

 

Leading the charge are first time collaborators EMF and Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer with a cover of “I’m A Believer”, a No 1 in 1967 for The Monkees. It’s the first top 10 single for both acts since 1991 and a third overall f or both acts, and in a neat bit of symmetry, it debuts at No 3 (53,000) and was only marginally behind Outhere Brothers as the week started.

 

 

 

Touted as one of the blockbusters of the summer “Bad Boys” starring Will Smith is in cinema’s in a fortnight’s time and culled from the soundtrack is “Shy Guy” by Diana King which debuts at No 4 (46,000).

 

 

 

D:Ream return to the charts with a new album (due in the autumn) and a new single “Shoot Me With Your Love” which is new at No 7 (34,000) giving them a third top tenner, it is worth noting that the “band” is now more of less Peter Cunnah with session musicians proving help including Jools Holland on piano on this track.

 

 

 

The Bobby Brown revival continues as he resurrects another modest hit single with a K Klass remix, this time “Humpin’ Around” gets the treatment. The single originally made No 19 in 1992 but now crashes in at No 8 (29,000), his 5th top 10 single.

 

 

 

Sneaking in at No 10 (23,000) is Shaggy Featuring Rayvon and a cover of the Mungo Jerry Classic “In The Summertime” which was co-incidentally No 1 this very week 25 years ago. It had looked like Shaggy’s career was dead in the water after he followed up the chart topping “Oh Carolina” with “Soon Be Done” and peaked at No 46 then nothing for 2 years. His second album is due however and it seems as though he has defied the odds.

 

 

With all the new entries there’s no room for Clock who improve their sales to 42,000 but drop 4-5, U2 fall 3-6 (35,000) but Edwyn Collins continues to post sales increases week to week and finally gets his reward floating 10-9 (28,000).

 

 

1- BOOM BOOM BOOM- Outhere Brothers (62,000)

2- UNCHAINED MELODY/ WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER- Robson & Jerome (55,000)

3- I’M A BELIEVER- EMF with Reeves & Mortimer (53,000)

4- SHY GUY- Diana King (46,000)

5- WHOOMPH (THERE IT IS)- Clock (42,000)

6- HOLD ME, THRILL ME, KISS ME, KILL ME- U2 (35,000)

7- SHOOT ME WITH YOUR LOVE- D:Ream (34,000)

8- HUMPIN AROUND- Bobby Brown (29,000)

9- A GIRL LIKE YOU- Edwyn Collins (28,000)

10- IN THE SUMMERTIME- Shaggy Ft Reyvon (23,000)

 

Boom Boom Boom using that Reel 2 Reel style production!

 

That D:Ream song has a chorus melody that might have caught the ear of Robbie Williams!

 

At #16 at this time and hanging around for a while there was a crazy eurodance cover of The Cranberries' Zombie

 

And at #20 Haddaway's last top 20 hit to date Fly Away :( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6ffDoCQPkc

Edited December 2, 20231 yr by TheSnake

I agree about Shoot Me With Your Love sounding like a certain Robbie top 3 hit. Oddly never noticed it before!

 

Shy Guy was quite the sleeper hit. Not sure if I like it? Hmmm.

I'm still a fan of Shy Guy, loved it at the time and still think it is super catchy. It also felt quite different at the time, we hadn't had too many dancehall style hits (well not whilst I was following the charts anyway!)... EMF with R&M was kinda fun, it's difficult not to make I'm a Believer fun though.

 

Don't like any of the other new ones. I think I actually bought that Shaggy song and I have no idea why as I don't recall enjoying it at the time either.

Haven’t heard the Clocks song before - is quite ‘late 90s’ the says it’s performed and production wise.

 

Always thought ‘Monkey Wrench’ was the Foos opening but although was always aware they were around as early as 95 which I was always impressed by this considering R1 still support them!

I don't think the singles off Foo Fighters' album this year got Radio 1 support.

 

Wasn't Foo Fighters technically a solo act (i.e. just Dave Grohl) for their first album?

Haven’t heard the Clocks song before - is quite ‘late 90s’ the says it’s performed and production wise.

 

No in the late 90s Clock became more boring and less dancey and just did disco-pop covers of old songs.

yes the first Foo Fighters era was basically him solo, he wrote the songs alone, coproduced, played most instruments, only had some guys for touring, which he fired afterwards I think. Taylor only joined during album 2 or 3 I think.

 

The first single was a bit meh, but single #2 I'll Stick Around was great and single #4 Big Me was even better. Not bad for someone always overshadowed by Kurt Cobain.

15TH JULY

 

 

The Outhere Brothers continue at the top which means that they managed one week more at No 1 than they managed with debut hit “Don’t Stop”, they are the 16th act to make the top with their first two singles. The parent album refuses to start selling dropping 56-70 this week.

 

 

 

Highest new entry of the week comes from the ever improving Supergrass who continue to ride the Britpop wave to score their biggest hit with “Alright/ Time” at No 2 (56,000). “Alright” is the side that is getting all the airplay and promotion but both songs are available on the album “I Should Coco” which was released in May and made No 3 it improves this week 11-7 though and may yet peak anew. Its arrival means that Diana King can only inch 4-3 (54,000).

 

 

 

MN8 are onto single 3 and “Happy” is a cover of a surface 1987 No 56 hit which is now a top 10 hit as it grabs the No 8 spot (28,000). It will have to improve if the group are going to challenge the likes of Boyzone and East 17 as the chart peaks are becoming an example of diminishing returns.

 

 

Robson & Jerome fall 2-4 (44,000) whilst EMF & Reeves/ Mortimer tumble 3-5 (39,000).

 

The bottom half of the upper rung has mixed fortunes, shaggy Featuring Reyvon float 10-7 (31,000) and Edwyn Collins holds at No 9 (27,000) but Clock drift south 5-6 (35,000) and U2 collapse 6-10 (25,000).

 

 

1- BOOM BOOM BOOM- Outhere Brothers (74,000)

2- ALRIGHT/ TIME- Supergrass (56,000)

3- SHY GUY- Diana King (54,000)

4- UNCHAINED MELODY/ WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER- Robson & Jerome (44,000)

5- I’M A BELIEVER- EMF with Reeves & Mortimer (39.000)

6- WHOOMPH! (THERE IT IS)- Clock (35,000)

7- IN THE SUMMERTIME- Shaggy Ft Reyvon (31,000)

8- HAPPY- MN8 (28.000)

9- A GIRL LIKE YOU- Edwyn Collins (27,000)

10- HOLD ME, THRILL ME, KISS ME, KILL ME- U2 (25,000)

 

22ND JULY

 

 

A calm descends over the top 3 as everything remains static which means week 3 at the top for Outhere Brothers but their sales increase is just 5% to 77,000 and total sales are now 300,000 almost half the total of their first hit.

 

 

Consumers clearly are convinced enough by the Supergrass single to invest in the album which rockets 7-2 to reach a new peak, sadly though the single suffers slightly, sales up only 15% to 64,000, Diana King also improves in third place by 12% to 60,000.

 

The rest of the top 5 are climbers, Edwyn Collins’ album is new at No 8 but the single is unaffected powering 9-4 (40,000) after some good promo slots last week and is already No 1 on airplay. One place below Shaggy Featuring Reyvon move 7-5 (38,000).

 

 

Batman Forever” finally opened last weekend and the two current singles plucked from its soundtrack reap the rewards, U2 boomerang 10-6 (33,000) whilst Seal improves 14-8 (27,000). Seal’s track “Kiss From A Rose/ I’m Alive” was originally released (well “Kiss” at least) as a single last year when it only made No 20, and much like the Supergrass double AA side it’s really only one single that is getting the attention and that’s “Kiss From A Rose”, though “I’m Alive” does have an Adamski remix to it. It’s seal’s 3rd top 10 single but first in 4 years.

 

 

 

Paul Weller is another act who is going through a resurgence at present no doubt as one of the quoted “inspirations” for the current Britpop movement. His last single “The Changingman” was his first solo top 10 hit and was followed by the instant No 1 album “Stanley Road”, now second single “You Do Something To Me” arrives at No 9 (24,000).

 

 

 

Slipping in 19-10 (21,000) is Dana Dawson who has been a chart star in France since the late 80s but has signed a new deal and relocated to the UK to break the international market with almost immediate success with “3 Is Family”.

 

 

Robson & Jerome drop 4-7 (29,000) but have sold over 1.7 million before they leave and should be the best seller of the decade within weeks.

 

 

1- BOOM BOOM BOOM- Outhere Brothers (77,000)

2- ALRIGHT/ TIME- Supergrass (64,000)

3- SHY GUY- Diana King (60,000)

4- A GIRL LIKE YOU- Edwyn Collins (40,000)

5- IN THE SUMMERTIME- Shaggy Ft Reyvon (38,000)

6- HOLD ME, THRILL ME, KISS ME, KILL ME- U2 (33,000)

7- UNCHAINED MELODY/ WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER- Robson & Jerome (29,000)

8- KISS FROM A ROSE/ I’M ALIVE- Seal (27,000)

9- YOU DO SOMETHING TO ME- Paul Weller (24,000)

10- 3 IS FAMILY- Dana Dawson (21,000)

 

Still not out of the era of many singles climbing to their peak here. I guess it took some time to switch fully over to 'debut at peak then drop' mode, despite there being more songs entering at No.1/2 etc too at this point.

Kiss From A Rose is great with its baroque style instrumentation.

 

You Do Something To Me is very good too.

Alright is easily one of the best songs of the 90s. Such a Britpop moment!

 

Still love Kiss From A Rose :wub:

 

You Do Something To Me is by far my favourite Paul Weller song.

 

Also lovely to see Edwyn Collins peaking in the top 5.

'Alright' is very good. I remember it a lot from my childhood, more than other mid 90s Britpop songs!

Kiss From a Rose is glorious, absolutely beautiful song. The album it's from is pretty decent too, loved how Seal came back with a different sound from his debut album.

 

Agree with many of the above comments that You Do Something To Me is Paul Weller at his best, definitely up there with Wild Wood at his peak. I love Supergrass but neither of the songs on that AA really do it for me. Time is very average, Alright is fun but I've always found it quite throwaway and not up to the standard of the singles before it - as a band they got better over their next couple of albums for me. Not a fan at all of either Dana Dawson or MN8.

Selected tracks outside the Top 10 TOTP 15th July 1995

 

 

Cast - Fine Time

Chart entry this week: 17

Peak: 17

 

 

The debut hit for Liverpudlians Cast. I forgot they first released in 1995, they scream 1996 to me! The lead singer was in the band The La’s and he named Cast after the last word on the La’s album.

 

 

 

Jinny - Keep Warm

Chart entry this week: 11

Peak: 11

 

 

A nice little slice of 1995 dance here. The woman 'singer' on TOTP was not the actual Jinny!

How on Earth did it take a re release for people to realise the beauty of ‘Kiss From A Rose’?

Still not out of the era of many singles climbing to their peak here. I guess it took some time to switch fully over to 'debut at peak then drop' mode, despite there being more songs entering at No.1/2 etc too at this point.

 

Yeh from 1989-96 it was the fanbases that led to high entries rather than the overall strategy of being held back.

How on Earth did it take a re release for people to realise the beauty of ‘Kiss From A Rose’?

Increased exposure thanks to Batman.

Keep Warm is very good, another of the piano house gems of the 1995 chart.

 

Except it was originally from 1991 (only a #68 hit back then though so well worth being rereleased). Not sure why there were quite a few dance rereleases of 1991-2 tracks that were already top 20 hits back then (At around this time in the 1995 chart Sweet Harmony by Liquid was at #14 and Is There Anybody Out There by Bassheads at #24)