Posted January 17, 20241 yr Hey, baby! No Doubt are officially back, and the news has us feeling hella good. Set to play 2024's Coachella festival alongside headliners Lana Del Rey, Tyler, The Creator and Doja Cat across two weekends in California this April, Gwen Stefani, Adrian Young, Tony Kanal and Tom Dumont will reunite for the first time in nine years. Last reforming for 2012 album Push and Shove, Tom announced the band's hiatus in 2013; though their last performance as a four-piece was at 2015's KAABOO festival. Now, with news of No Doubt's return, we thought it about time we revealed the ska-pop outfit's Official Top 20 biggest songs in the UK to date. Let's take a closer look at the Top 3, shall we? 3. It's My Life Released: 2003 UK chart units: 230,000 UK streams: 14.4 million Official Singles Chart Peak: 20 In 2003, No Doubt released It's My Life as the lead single from their The Singles 1992-2003 compilation. A cover of English new wave band Talk Talk's 1984 track, No Doubt actually managed to out-peak the original with their version. While Talk Talk managed Number 46 in '84, Gwen and co. took the track to Number 20. (Side note: Talk Talk's original actually hit #13 on re-release in 1990 and No Doubt's version hit #17 on re-release as a Double A Side with Bathwater) 2. Just A Girl Released: 1996 UK chart units: 369,000 UK streams: 32.3 million Official Singles Chart Peak: 38 No Doubt's fourth single Just A Girl became their first-ever UK Official Singles Chart appearance, peaking at Number 38 in 1996. Lifted from the group's third studio album Tragic Kingdom, Just A Girl is No Doubt's second-biggest single in the UK to date. (Side note: it actually peaked at #3 on re-release in 1997!) 1. Don't Speak Released: 1997 UK chart units: 1.6 million UK streams: 73.3 million Official Singles Chart Peak: 1 Far and away No Doubt's biggest song in the UK, heart-wrenching ballad Don't Speak has shifted an impressive 1.6 million UK chart units and counting; including 73.3 million combined UK audio and video streams. The band's only Number 1 single so far, Don't Speak also places on the list of the UK's best-selling songs of all time. No Doubt's Official Top 20 biggest songs in the UK: 01 DON'T SPEAK 02 JUST A GIRL 03 IT'S MY LIFE 04 HEY BABY 05 HELLA GOOD 06 UNDERNEATH IT ALL 07 SPIDERWEBS 08 SUNDAY MORNING 09 EX-GIRLFRIEND 10 NEW 11 BATHWATER 12 SETTLE DOWN 13 EXCUSE ME MR 14 SIMPLE KIND OF LIFE 15 RUNNING 16 DIFFERENT PEOPLE 17 LOOKING HOT 18 HAPPY NOW 19 TRAPPED IN A BOX 20 HEY YOU https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/n...ongs-coachella/ Other than some of the inaccuracies in their article, I'm hoping Hey Baby & Hella Good can at least hit 200K at some point. Edited January 17, 20241 yr by Ne Plus Ultra
January 17, 20241 yr No Push and Shove? :( guess it wasn't a single but I remember listening to it a lot in 2012 ahead of the albums release
January 17, 20241 yr I love their version of It's My Life! Really glad it is 3rd. I think it has a bit of a William Orbit vibe to it. The original is fantastic too. Edited January 17, 20241 yr by Eric_Blob
January 17, 20241 yr That sales gap between #1 and #2! That's a great top 7, don't care too much about the rest - though I do quite enjoy 'Looking Hot' (was that the single they performed on X Factor but then it woefully under-performed, reportedly charting at #400 odd the following week?) EDIT: yes, it was: No Doubt‘s latest single ‘Looking Hot’ sold just 680 copies in its first week of release. The track, the second single to be taken from the band’s comeback album ‘Push And Shove’, reached No 397 on the chart, almost 1,500 sales short of hitting the Top 200. I remember being gobsmacked at the time because a performance on the X Factor almost always guaranteed you a hit back in those days. Edited January 17, 20241 yr by Mangø
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