January 16, 20241 yr Author There were over 200 top 10 hits in 1999. It was difficult to get it down to 4 discs. Plus there were several essential tracks that missed the top 10 that year too. The discussion was lengthy, passionate and we all lost faves in the process. Ultimately, we've got a collection that should easily exceed what the Now team will release.
January 16, 20241 yr My guesses for the 4 songs that may open the discs... Britters - Baby One More Time (surely has to be disc 1, track 1) TLC - No Scrubs (assuming there may be a R&B opening section) Eiffel 65 - Blue (ALTHOUGH this is a Rich penned compilation so it wouldn't surprise me to see ATB there!) ...and I'm going to go out on a limb with the Offspring - Pretty Fly... just because I'm assuming there will be an indie/alt focused one So many of the big hits that year were pop/dance that I'd totally be on board with having more than two openers from those genres
January 16, 20241 yr Disc 1: 15. B*Witched - Blame It on the Weatherman Disc 2: 5. Eminem - My Name Is Disc 3: 9. Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly Disc 4: 13. Cassius - Cassius 1999
January 16, 20241 yr Author My guesses for the 4 songs that may open the discs... Britters - Baby One More Time (surely has to be disc 1, track 1) TLC - No Scrubs (assuming there may be a R&B opening section) Eiffel 65 - Blue (ALTHOUGH this is a Rich penned compilation so it wouldn't surprise me to see ATB there!) ...and I'm going to go out on a limb with the Offspring - Pretty Fly... just because I'm assuming there will be an indie/alt focused one So many of the big hits that year were pop/dance that I'd totally be on board with having more than two openers from those genres Would you like a job?
January 16, 20241 yr Cassius was by no means a dead cert to include, but it helped with flow and sequencing, and also, what a song *.* Plus it was a top ten in a show of good taste in early 1999.
January 16, 20241 yr Cassius That made #1 for me so delighted to see it feature. I'm not as confident that many of my others will make it: 236 10/01/99 Fatboy Slim "Praise You" 237 17/01/99 Cassius “Cassius 1999” 238 24/01/99 Duran Duran "Electric Barbarella" 239 31/01/99 Armand Van Helden "You Don't Know Me" 240 07/02/99 Blondie "Maria" 241 14/02/99 Barenaked Ladies “One Week” 242 21/02/99 Lauryn Hill "Ex-Factor" 243 28/02/99 Blur "Tender" 244 14/03/99 REM “At My Most Beautiful” 245 21/03/99 Whitney Houston “It’s Not Right But It’s Okay” 246 28/03/99 System F "Out Of The Blue" 247 11/04/99 Beverley Knight "Made It Back 99" 248 18/04/99 TLC "No Scrubs" 249 25/04/99 Basement Jaxx "Red Alert" 250 09/05/99 Veracocha "Carte Blanche" 251 30/05/99 Chicane "Saltwater" 252 06/06/99 The Chemical Brothers "Hey Boy Hey Girl" 253 04/07/99 Gouryella "Gouryella" 254 11/07/99 Blur “Coffee + TV” 255 18/07/99 Sasha “Xpander EP” 256 08/08/99 Basement Jaxx "Rendez-Vu" 257 15/08/99 Bran Van 3000 "Drinking In LA" 258 22/08/99 Underworld "King Of Snake" 259 29/08/99 Ayla “Ayla” 260 12/09/99 Leftfield “Afrika Shox / Phat Planet” 261 19/09/99 Eiffel 65 “Blue (Da Ba Dee)” 262 03/10/99 Push “Universal Nation” 263 10/10/99 Macy Gray "I Try" 264 17/10/99 The Chemical Brothers "Out Of Control" 265 07/11/99 Bedrock "Heaven Scent" 266 12/12/99 William Orbit "Barber's Adagio For Strings" I'd probably guess the bold ones will feature but the others seem very unlikely.
January 16, 20241 yr What a great list of No.1s! One of the unbolded songs has made it! And at least five were discussed but ultimately didn't.
January 16, 20241 yr Ooooo interesting. On that basis I'm going to guess that System F may have made it after some heavy campaigning by Colm! :lol:
January 16, 20241 yr Author You might think that but I couldn't possibly comment. :lol: Edited January 16, 20241 yr by Colm
January 16, 20241 yr It was the most mainstream year in the history of my retrospective chart. My # 1s : 03.01 : Denise Van Outen and Johnny Vaughan - Especially For You (3 weeks) 24.01 : Ace Of Base - Always Have, Always Will (1 week) 31.01 : Graaf - Never Never (2 weeks) 14.02 : Blondie - Maria (3 weeks) 07.03 : Britney Spears - Baby One More Time (1 week) 14.03 : Lee Ann Womack - I'll Think Of A Reason Later (1 week) 21.03 : Steps - Better Best Forgotten (1 week) 28.03 : Me & My - Let The Love Go On (3 weeks) 18.04 : Ellie Campbell - Sweet Lies (2 weeks) 02.05 : Graaf - Heartbreaker (3 weeks) 23.05 : Geri Halliwell - Look At Me (4 weeks) 20.06 : Shania Twain - That Don't Impress Me Much (3 weeks) 11.07 : Britney Spears - Sometimes (2 weeks) 25.07 : Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me (3 weeks) 15.08 : Steps - Love's Got A Hold On My Heart (1 week) 22.08 : Ellie Campbell - So Many Ways (2 weeks) 05.09 : Geri Halliwell - Mi Chico Latino (3 weeks) 26.09 : Sixpence None The Richer - There She Goes (1 week) 03.10 : Shania Twain - Man! I Feel Like A Woman (4 weeks) 31.10 : B*Witched - Jesse Hold On (1 week) 07.11 : Barbarella - Colour My Love (1 week) 14.11 : Geri Halliwell - Lift Me Up (5 weeks) 18.12 : Rollergirl - Love You More (1 week) 25.12 : Steps - Say You'll Be Mine (7 weeks) I prefer to select "Lift Me Up" for Geri and "Sometimes" for Britney. "Baby One More Time" is good, but overrated and despite # 1 in "GD" it's not all-time classic. Edited January 16, 20241 yr by Last Dreamer
January 16, 20241 yr Author My own 1999 number 1s. This does obscure the fact that Out of the Blue and No Scrubs were my second and third favorite tracks of the year but they were released in the same week as Windowlicker so never made it to number 1. 16 Jan 99 Robbie Williams - No Regrets - 2 wks 30 Jan 99 Three Drives On A Vinyl - Greece 2000 - 1 wk 06 Feb 99 Placebo - Every You, Every Me - 2 wks 20 Feb 99 UNKLE feat. Ian Brown - Be There - 3 wks 13 Mar 99 Skunk Anansie - Charlie Big Potato - 3 wks 03 Apr 99 Aphex Twin - Windowlicker - 7 wks 22 May 99 Veracocha - Carte Blanche - 3 wks 12 Jun 99 Travis - Driftwood - 1 wk 19 Jun 99 The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl - 3 wks 10 Jul 99 Gouryella - Gouryella - 2 wks 24 Jul 99 Manic Street Preachers - Tsunami - 2 wks 08 Aug 99 Orbital - Nothing Left - 1 wk 14 Aug 99 Destiny's Child - Bills, Bills, Bills - 3 wks 04 Sep 99 Badly Drawn Boy - Once Around The Block - 3 wks 25 Sep 99 Suede - Everything Will Flow - 4 wks 23 Oct 99 The Chemical Brothers - Out of Control - 4 wks 20 Nov 99 Travis - Turn - 1 wk 27 Nov 99 Blur - No Distance Left to Run - 3 wks 18 Dec 99 The Charlatans - My Beautiful Friend - 3 wks
January 17, 20241 yr My chart officially started in June 1999, so I have nothing from before that but do remember I wrote it on sadly long discarded notes in the first half of the year, and know for sure that Runaway and Forgiven Not Forgotten by The Corrs (better late than never), Erase/Rewind by The Cardigans, In Our Lifetime by Texas, and Say It Again by Precious all got to No.1 before I started saving the charts. I would imagine TQ's Westside, Honeyz' Love Of A Lifetime, and Inner City's Good Life (Buena Vida) were all either one weekers or got very close to No.1, but I can't quite remember. Here's late June onwards: 1) Jewel - Down So Long (1 week at #1) 2) ATB - 9PM (Till I Come) (3 weeks at #1) 3) The Cardigans - Hanging Around (1 week at #1) 4) DJ Jurgen Presents Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone (5 weeks at #1) 5) Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) (3 weeks at #1) 6) DJ Jean - The Launch (1 week at #1) 7) Thunderbugs - Friends Forever (1 week at #1) 8) Ann Lee - 2 Times (3 weeks at #1) 9) Alice Deejay - Back In My Life (11 weeks at #1) 10) ATB - Don’t Stop (1 week at #1) 11) Paul Van Dyk - Another Way (2 weeks at #1) Sadly, only a few of these made it onto our compilation and I didn't even include a couple in the longlist as knew they had no chance at all (Hanging Around/Another Way/ATB and Alice Deejay had biger hits...). Edited January 17, 20241 yr by gooddelta
January 18, 20241 yr It's my pleasure to present to you our compilation for 1999, a year that was musically packed to the brim with future classics and new artists who would go on to define the next few years (Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Eminem, S Club 7, Enrique Igelsias, Jennifer Lopez, Craig David). It was also a very diverse year, with pop and dance being the dominant genres, but a lot of songs that really sounded like nothing else, and a good year for indie and rock (especially from the US). There were big comebacks from Whitney Houston, Blondie, and TLC, the latter with their biggest hit ever, the quickly rising star of Destiny's Child, and band members going solo (Ronan Keating and three of the Spice Girls - Geri Halliwell most notably at this point). Dance music, especially trance, was breaking through in a bigger way than ever before and almost the whole of Disc 4 is now the soundtrack to Friday and Saturday night on any given commercial radio station, 25 years on... So, we have curated an 85-song, four-disc special, featuring no duplicates - various artists' ABBA tribute aside (acts with more than one classic from that year - that's you Vengaboys, Fatboy Slim, S Club 7, Shania Twain, Whitney Houston, Offspring and Ferry Corsten's numerous trance projects, among several others), may well find their other classics popping up on our other albums before long - indeed, Whitney Houston's My Love Is Your Love was already on Lost Legends). We hope you enjoy... BuzzJack Presents... 1999 Remember to subscribe to our channel for future releases! Edited January 18, 20241 yr by gooddelta
January 18, 20241 yr Author Amazing work, gd. A year that you're clearly passionate about. From Cassius to Chicane is as good a 7-song run as any I have ever seen on any compilation. All-time greatness. Fans of 90s dance should look forward to our next compilation which should be with us next week. Nice one! Sorted!
January 18, 20241 yr Amazing work, gd. A year that you're clearly passionate about. From Cassius to Chicane is as good a 7-song run as any I have ever seen on any compilation. All-time greatness. Fans of 90s dance should look forward to our next compilation which should be with us next week. Nice one! Sorted! Yes, one of my favourite years and we all had to lose quite a few songs we love. Luckily Spotify wasn't missing anything major from 1999 though. Well done to Dandy in correctly predicting the 4 disc openers. Quite. Very impressive to get Offspring! As that third disc opener could have easily gone several other ways.
January 18, 20241 yr Really enjoyed contributing in a small way to this project, great work! I would be happy to own a copy of this in my music library! :heart: Shame my fave from Mr Adams couldn’t quite squeeze in, but the standard is very high for this year.
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