A few potentials here, not certain on any of them:

 

December 10th 2001 - BTH - Last Christmas

 

Found its way onto a couple of compilations, Discogs has a cassette listed for the UK and that's it. Was this intended for a fuller release and pulled I wonder?

 

September (?) 2000 - Gigi D'Agostino - Bla Bla Bla

 

Did eventually come out and flop here in 2002. It was on a Hits compilation in 2000 but I can't find a listing for an official UK CD in that year, just a promo or two. Presume it was cancelled.

 

November/December 2005 - Take That feat. Lulu - Relight My Fire (Element Remix)

 

Not confident this was ever planned for a full release or if it was just sent to TV/radio to promote The Ultimate Collection. Either way, it had a promo and found its way onto a Hits album too.

 

Early 2001 - Daft Punk - Aerodynamic

 

This had a lot of airplay/music channels exposure - eventually I had to get it on import as it never surfaced. But with the huge 8 month gap between One More Time and Digital Love, I wonder if this had been intended to slot nicely in the middle in Feb/March 2001 - certainly that's the time I charted it myself.

BTH charted at #93. I don't reckon they had any intention on putting out the Relight My Fire single commercially. Gigi and Daft Punk I'll add, cheers.

I think Uninvited is the biggest miss here - coming off the back of Jagged Little Pill (and it being a great song), it could have easily been challenging for #1 imo and at the very least would likely have become her biggest seller

Didn’t Girls Aloud also plan to release a cover of ‘Wicked Game’ during the WWTNS/Chemistry era?

BTH charted at #93. I don't reckon they had any intention on putting out the Relight My Fire single commercially. Gigi and Daft Punk I'll add, cheers.

 

Cool, thanks for the info on BTH. I must go through all those 76-100 charts at some point.

 

Gigi was really gone dirty here, three potentially big hits ballsed up.

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Didn’t Girls Aloud also plan to release a cover of ‘Wicked Game’ during the WWTNS/Chemistry era?

 

It was due to be the first single from Chemistry, but they changed it to Long Hot Summer. Not sure if it was ever given a release date.

Also, I’m sure Models by Girls Aloud had a release date of 15th May 2006 at one point?

It was due to be the first single from Chemistry, but they changed it to Long Hot Summer. Not sure if it was ever given a release date.

 

Thank God they saw sense!!

I’d forgotten all about the Alexis Strum track - I’m going to have to give that a listen now. Rachel Stevens’ version was okay but definitely prefer the original

Tori Amos had a few single cancelled last minute in the UK, think it was Jackie's Strength and Raspberry Swirl

physical CDs pressed but last minute cancel makes no sense

 

Early 2001 - Daft Punk - Aerodynamic

 

This had a lot of airplay/music channels exposure - eventually I had to get it on import as it never surfaced. But with the huge 8 month gap between One More Time and Digital Love, I wonder if this had been intended to slot nicely in the middle in Feb/March 2001 - certainly that's the time I charted it myself.

 

in fact this made #97

 

Tori Amos had a few single cancelled last minute in the UK, think it was Jackie's Strength and Raspberry Swirl

physical CDs pressed but last minute cancel makes no sense

 

Added Jackie's Strength but seems Raspberry Swirl was released - it charted at #135 on the compressed top 200

in fact this made #97

 

I could be wrong but I think this was an import charting, I remember paying a lot for it at the time, and the catalogue number looks European, it doesn't match the format of their UK singles catalogue numbers, which all started VSCD.

 

Having said that, I'm not certain it was actually cancelled, it may just never have been planned for a UK release.

 

Edit: this is the one I have, it's not actually clear where it was from: https://www.discogs.com/release/380981-Daft...2U6MjA0ODk2MQ==

 

Might just have been distributed across Europe on a small scale, including in the UK. I guess a full release may never have been on the cards.

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What about Marina and the Diamonds - Seventeen ?

 

Official videoclip was released.

 

So Mr President’s Coco Jamboo was due a 1996 release but was eventually pushed into Spring 1997 where it reached number 8 on the UK chart.

 

Makes sense as it was massive on the Box in summer/autumn 1996 and was in the daily box tops chart for ages.

 

I used to love watching Box Tops every week, shame there's probably no record of its #1s although I remember some of the big ones.

Some from later in the 00s:

 

Alexandra Burke - Goodnight Goodmorning (technically that was the beginning of 2010 though :P)

Leona Lewis - Don’t Let Me Down (this was rumoured to be the lead until it leaked early, back in 2009) - also unsure if Take a Bow was originally meant to be released as a single from Spirit until Rihanna released a song of the same name…

Rihanna - Break It Off - again, unsure on this one but probably expected to be fourth uk single from A Girl Like Me after going top 10 in the US but maybe was cancelled to make way for Umbrella?

Fergie - Fergalicious (supposed to be released in uk at the end of 2006, instead we had a 6 month gap between London Bridge and follow-up Glamorous).

Pussycat Dolls - I feel like Wait A Minute was scheduled to be the sixth and final UK single from PCD but was later cancelled.

 

I used to love watching Box Tops every week, shame there's probably no record of its #1s although I remember some of the big ones.

I can mainly remember the first 3 Spice Girls singles being number 1 after each other for basically the second half of 1996! Wannabe was massive on the box for about 2 months before release.

I could be wrong but I think this was an import charting, I remember paying a lot for it at the time, and the catalogue number looks European, it doesn't match the format of their UK singles catalogue numbers, which all started VSCD.

 

Having said that, I'm not certain it was actually cancelled, it may just never have been planned for a UK release.

 

Edit: this is the one I have, it's not actually clear where it was from: https://www.discogs.com/release/380981-Daft...2U6MjA0ODk2MQ==

 

Might just have been distributed across Europe on a small scale, including in the UK. I guess a full release may never have been on the cards.

I definitely only ever saw the import in UK shops at the time. Plus on Discogs there is only promo discs with a UK release location

So Mr President’s Coco Jamboo was due a 1996 release but was eventually pushed into Spring 1997 where it reached number 8 on the UK chart.

 

Makes sense as it was massive on the Box in summer/autumn 1996 and was in the daily box tops chart for ages.

While it went top 10, at the time I was expecting a far higher position as back then I worked in nightclubs as a teenager and the djs had the song on import long before its release and I felt it would a massive hit rather than a minor uk hit.

It felt a much bigger hit here in Ireland where it went top 3 with a 13 week run in the top 30 which was great at the time.