June 8, 20241 yr Author NEO1EdWcWFg 31 8.06 Dance Dance Dance 32 7.94 I'll Be There 33 7.89 Love Train 34 7.89 I Really Miss You 35 7.83 These Are the Days 36 7.81 Summertime Feeling 37 7.79 Gangsta Love 38 7.72 Everybody Wants Ya 39 7.64 Our Time Has Come 40 7.64 Down At Club S A couple more b-sides depart at the bottom of the top 40 with the same rounded scores. Our Time Has Come ends up on top, despite being the only song from the entire debut era not to get a TV show performance at any moment! It did at least get a moment on the S Club Party Live tour, which can't be said for Two in a Million and You're My Number One's b-side Down At Club S. On the other end of the spectrum, we lose our first single in this section! These Are the Days arrived 20 years after S Club's previous single, and was released in honour of Paul. Despite a solid average, it only finishes 35th based on our scores. Album tracks populate the rest of the section, with Everybody Wants Ya - the first song ever performed on the TV show - appearing first at #38. In fact, every album track in this section had a TV show moment! Gangsta Love was performed at Club S Club in the final series, I Really Miss You was led by Rachel at the Florida Paradise Hotel in Miami 7, and Summertime Feeling had a music video shot in Hollywood 7 (before being performed again as the band explored Barcelona in Viva S Club). Other songs had more unique performances - Dance Dance Dance was performed as the group ran a marathon, I'll Be There's moment occurred as the band were stranded in allegedly-haunted woods, and Love Train accompanied the band showing the "Clever Camp" kids how to have fun...!
June 9, 20241 yr Author jN0ZK8m6vYk 21 8.44 Alive 22 8.43 Dance 23 8.33 Viva La Fiesta 24 8.28 Stand By You 25 8.22 Friday Night 26 8.19 Good Times 27 8.14 Hey Kitty Kitty 28 8.13 Sunshine 29 8.07 Do It Till We Drop 30 8.07 Whole Lotta Nothin' 31 songs over an average of 8 really shows how highly we think of S Club's discography! This section is wall to wall classics as far as I'm concerned. We lose another single at the top of the section, and so far, our opinions on the singles match up with their chart positions! From their original run, Alive was their lowest charting single, but it still managed to get as high as #5 which proves just how big S Club were. It leads a section where Seeing Double accounts for 50%, and finishes just one spot ahead of a song rumoured to be Alive's double A-side companion. Ultimately, Dance featured as the b-side to Alive, but it did get a moment in the movie, where clone Jo couldn't quite master the dance moves and is asked to sit out, accommodating for real life Jo's back problems! Whole Lotta Nothin' is at the other end of the section alongside Rachel and Bradley's bop Do It Till We Drop, while Hannah finds herself in the middle with chaotic anthem Hey Kitty Kitty Fan favourite album tracks are starting to show up across this section. Hannah makes another appearance with her and Tina's bop Stand By You, and the title track of the Sunshine album (newly an LGBTQ+ anthem, of course), led by Jon in one of his finest moments, drops out here too. Sunshine is also represented by Good Times, Paul's lead track, which of course took on new meaning last year after Paul's very sad passing. Regular tour favourites Viva La Fiesta and Friday Night, both from the debut era, also feature here!
June 9, 20241 yr Some really good songs out in the last two batches. Some of what have become some absolute favourites. Still the classic singles left as well as some great album tracks and b-sides.
June 10, 20241 yr I was going to say Viva La Fiesta was robbed but then realised I only gave it a 7.5. The averages are so high already. :o
June 10, 20241 yr Author bwrloqcNEvk 11 9.14 Who Do You Think You Are? 12 9.11 Two in a Million 13 9.06 You're My Number One 14 9.06 Bring the House Down 15 9.00 Love Ain't Gonna Wait for You 16 8.89 Natural 17 8.72 Say Goodbye 18 8.71 Rain 19 8.57 Discotek 20 8.50 Perfect Christmas The scores really become exponentially high in the top 20, with the entire top 15 over an average of 9! Firstly, we lose the final two b-sides, with Discotek just pipping Perfect Christmas to the post. Discotek, led by Queen Tina, has the honour of being the final song performed in the TV series, as Tina tries to evade the father of her ex and his mafia friends (!) with the help of the group. Perfect Christmas recently got a (proper) streaming release with its own artwork, and was performed in the Christmas Special of the TV series. Another song tied notably to the TV show was Rain, which wasn't performed but featured quite heavily throughout Viva S Club nonetheless, despite ultimately not making the Seeing Double tracklist! It took almost 13 years for us to finally get the song on a re-issue of Best. It's just one spot below the highest of the three new Best songs, as Say Goodbye becomes the next single to fall, just two spots before its double A-side companion Love Ain't Gonna Wait for You. On the topic of double A-sides, Two in a Million and You're My Number One fall out side-by-side, with the former just about winning the battle! They're the first singles from the debut era to fall, and with Natural becoming the first of the '7' singles to go, it means only Sunshine has its full single run remaining in the competition! Widely seen as the single that never was, Bring the House Down actually finishes above Natural, and Who Do You Think You Are? also beats the Seeing Double singles, but there's still one more album track to come from that album! I'll slow the pace down slightly for the top 10, which, in alphabetical order, contains.... Bring It All Back Don't Stop Movin' Have You Ever Let Me Sleep Never Had a Dream Come True Reach S Club Party Show Me Your Colours Stronger You Any predictions? :o
June 10, 20241 yr I'm so glad Who Do You Think You Are got so high! Reach is probably number 1 or 2! I think Let Me Sleep will be 10!
June 10, 20241 yr Prediction: 1. Don't Stop Movin' 2. Reach 3. Never Had a Dream Come True 4. S Club Party 5. Have You Ever 6. Bring It All Back 7. You 8. Show Me Your Colours 9. Stronger 10. Let Me Sleep
June 11, 20241 yr I predict; 1. Reach 2. Don't Stop Movin' 3. Never Had a Dream Come True 4. Bring It All Back 5. S Club Party 6. Have You Ever 7. Let Me Sleep 8. You 9. Stronger 10. Show Me Your Colours
June 11, 20241 yr Author vo-AvPnLdqs 10 9.19 Stronger Kicking off the top 10 is the highest placed song to be led by our icon Tina Barrett! With remixes commissioned, it's likely Stronger was considered for a single release back in 2001/2002, but it never happened in the end. Thankfully, Stronger's become a tour staple since, with Tina getting her moment on both reunion tours through this song, and it had a Hollywood 7 moment too, albeit brief, as the band recorded it in the studio only to be interrupted by their nitpicky, wishy-washy new manager (who could never replace R Dean the Machine x).
June 12, 20241 yr Author XmHajFwRRjg 9 9.50 Let Me Sleep The highest placed track from Seeing Double is an album track, and it ends up just half a mark off a perfect 10 average! It's the first studio album to lose all of its songs, but the placing of Let Me Sleep is a pretty remarkable achievement in itself. The final regular track on the album, Let Me Sleep is led by Jo with some assistance from Bradley, and the touching track features a little Easter egg at the end. Despite being released after his departure, Let Me Sleep includes an adlib from Paul near the end, and the lyric - "in my dreams I'm with you" - feels even more poignant now. I'm personally really glad that one of their most underrated songs has been so well recognised here!
June 12, 20241 yr So happy to see Let Me Sleep get a top 10 placing. I wasn’t expecting that heading into this.
June 15, 20241 yr Author GLQ0biK-ZgA 8 9.56 Bring It All Back Where everything got started! Imagine tuning into CBBC at 5:10pm on 8th April 1999 and the vibrant title sequence to the brand new show Miami 7 begins. Of course, though two S Club album tracks get an outing in that very first episode, the first song the audience heard was this absolute classic. Bring It All Back was the Miami 7 title sequence, and got a performance in the tenth episode of the series (in a courtroom...!). Naturally, the song was also the group's first single, and debuted at #1 exactly 25 years ago, kickstarting the legacy of one of Britain's most iconic pop groups. Interestingly, it's the highest placed song not to receive a single 11! It did receive four 10s though, which is more than any song below it except Stronger.
June 18, 20241 yr Author JWYOtrvWv6I 7 9.56 You From one theme song to another! You was first heard as the theme tune to Hollywood 7, making it the only series not to have the corresponding era's lead single as its theme. You is a duet between Rachel and Jo in the album version, but even as early as its Hollywood 7 performance, as the group ran away from a group of intrusive photographers, a second version with Jon and Bradley's vocals in the mix existed, and this later became the single version when it was selected as the third and final single from Sunshine, peaking at #2.
June 20, 20241 yr Didn't vote but a little surprised to see 'Bring It All Back' at 8th tbh. Thought it'd be top 5.
