In the first of a series over the coming month, let's relive some classic Christmas charts starting from 2000. Not every single one, but some of the most memorable, including the entire top 20 and other new entries and festive songs in the Christmas chart. From 2006, when BuzzJack launched, we can link to the Christmas chart show threads from the time to relive what we thought of the songs back then, and if - for those of us who have been on the site for a very long time :drama: - our opinions have changed. Please share your memories and thoughts on each chart.

 

Let's start with 2000, the first festive countdown of the Millennium:

 

1. Bob The Builder - Can We Fix It (1)

2. Westlife - What Makes A Man (NEW)

3. Eminem - Stan (2)

4. S Club 7 - Never Had A Dream Come True (3)

5. Baha Men - Who Let The Dogs Out (5)

6. Oxide & Neutrino feat Megaman - No Good 4 Me (NEW)

7. LeAnn Rimes - Can't Fight The Moonlight (6)

8. Tweenies - No.1 (9)

9. Destiny's Child - Independent Women (7)

10. Robbie Williams - Supreme (4)

11. Public Domain - Operation Blade (Bass In The Place) (8)

12. Sugababes - New Year (NEW)

13. Wyclef feat. Mary J Blige - 911 (12)

14. Britney Spears - Stronger (11)

15. Craig David - Walking Away (15)

16. Madonna - Don't Tell Me (13)

17. Da Muttz - Wassuup (16)

18. Kylie Minogue - Please Stay (10)

19. Wu-Tang Clan - Gravel Pit (19)

20. Toploader - Dancing In The Moonlight (22)

 

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21. Craig - At This Time Of Year (13)

22. Wombles with Roy Wood - I Wish It Could Be A Wombling Christmas (NEW)

26. Whitney Houston feat Kelly Price and Faith Evans - Heartbreak Hotel (NEW)

51. Sir Killalot vs. Robo Babe - Robot Wars (Android Love) (NEW)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 21, 2024Nov 21 by gooddelta

I thought this was a very slow chart by 2000’s standards, but it was quite normal even at this stage for most contenders to get their records out in the weeks before Christmas, and only a few songs braved it on Christmas week.

 

This was very famous for Bob The Builder staying at the top and beating what was assumed would be another Westlife chart topper - they had quite a huge sale for a No.2 nonetheless as I recall.

 

I actually bought No Good 4 Me at the time, thought that was a good garage version of the song and it did pretty well to get into the Christmas top ten.

 

Otherwise it was mostly just a reshuffle, Tweenies benefitting a bit from people buying it at the same time as Bob perhaps, Toploader were slowly making their way up, ready to smash in the New Year. And Sugababes were on their second single, with a song that would become a bit of a forgotten Christmas gem.

 

In other festive news, Big Brother winner Craig was on his way down with a song that was widely tipped to be a contender for Christmas No.1, quite a sweet song although clearly he's not a singer. The less said about the dreadful, very clunky Roy Wood/Wombles mash-up the better - the chorus was a bit of a mouthful and it just didn't work.

 

Whitney was still milking her 1999 album, after releasing a couple of songs from her new Greatest Hits earlier in the year (weirdly, the song had reached No.2 in the US almost two years earlier), and the only other new entry was a song from Robot Wars a lot lower down!

Edited November 22, 2024Nov 22 by gooddelta

Sir Killalot is king.

1. Bob The Builder - Can We Fix It (1) an atrocious first Christmas #1 of the new millennium

2. Westlife - What Makes A Man (NEW) an atrocious first Christmas #2 of the new millennium

3. Eminem - Stan (2) a classique! Not very festive but the highest good song in the chart

4. S Club 7 - Never Had A Dream Come True (3) this would've made a great Xmas #1 :wub:

5. Baha Men - Who Let The Dogs Out (5) primary school disco realness. My adult self doesn't dig it as much

6. Oxide & Neutrino feat Megaman - No Good 4 Me (NEW) I don't know her

7. LeAnn Rimes - Can't Fight The Moonlight (6) never a big fan at the time, but grown to mildly appreciate it lol

8. Tweenies - No.1 (9) nooooooooo

9. Destiny's Child - Independent Women (7) again, never a fave back in the day and still not a fave

10. Robbie Williams - Supreme (4) how does this go?

11. Public Domain - Operation Blade (Bass In The Place) (8) ???

12. Sugababes - New Year (NEW) cute

13. Wyclef feat. Mary J Blige - 911 (12) ???

14. Britney Spears - Stronger (11) a Britney song I always skip :ph34r:

15. Craig David - Walking Away (15) mediocre imo

16. Madonna - Don't Tell Me (13) a Madonna footnote for me

17. Da Muttz - Wassuup (16) never heard this... something tells me I don't want to

18. Kylie Minogue - Please Stay (10) not sure how this goes...

19. Wu-Tang Clan - Gravel Pit (19) come again?

20. Toploader - Dancing In The Moonlight (22) a certified bop :music:

 

 

Oops not the best chart for me. :lol: Never really rated 2000 chart music that high tbh. :kink: I'm sure there's much better to come. :lol:

 

Looking forward to the next ones!

Too different in comparison with my chart. :blush: On Christmas week Dutch singer Sarah Geels became very unpredictable winner.

 

24.12.2000 (Week # 52)

01. ( 02 ) Sarah - Liever (7 weeks) (1 week at # 1)

02. ( 03 ) Bla Ojne - Hos Dig (Er Jeg Alt) (2 weeks)

03. ( 01 ) No Doubt - Simple Kind Of Life (12 weeks)

04. ( 05 ) Britney Spears - Stronger (2 weeks)

05. ( 06 ) Verena - Ein Traum (5 weeks)

06. ( 04 ) Loose Chippin's - I'll Be There For You (8 weeks)

07. ( NE ) Mirah - Happy New Year (1 week)

08. ( 07 ) Rollergirl - Superstar (13 weeks)

09. ( 09 ) Charlotte Church and Billy Gilman - Dream A Dream (2 weeks)

10. ( 08 ) Britney Spears - Lucky (18 weeks)

11. ( 10 ) Mindy McCready - Scream (7 weeks)

12. ( 14 ) Jenny Elvers - Ich Verzeih Dir (2 weeks)

13. ( 11 ) Simone Stelzer - Das War Gut (5 weeks)

14. ( 17 ) Vitamin C - The Itch (3 weeks)

15. ( 13 ) Darling - Letkiss (11 weeks)

16. ( 12 ) Mirah - Will To Survive (9 weeks)

17. ( 20 ) Rednex - Hold Me For A While (2 weeks)

18. ( 19 ) Merril Bainbridge - Sydney From A 747 (15 weeks)

19. ( NE ) Faith Hill - Where Are You Christmas? (1 week)

20. ( 18 ) Loose Chippin's - Girls Getting Naughty (20 weeks)

 

22. ( NE ) Patty Loveless - The Last Thing On My Mind (1 week)

24. ( NE ) Kim Lukas - To Be You (1 week)

26. ( NE ) Jamie O'Neal - There Is No Arizona (1 week)

30. ( NE ) Kylie Minogue - Please Stay (1 week)

 

 

 

I need to dig around at home for my chart books, but I do remember my 2000 Christmas chart included Fragma’s Everytime You Need Me, Thrillseekers’ Synaesthesia and Texas’ Inner Smile - all three would become hits in early 2001 - I used to chart stuff as soon as I had a chance to tape it off the radio, essentially :lol: Although I got Inner Smile on their Greatest Hits album that Christmas.

 

At the time, No Good 4 Me and Please Stay were my favourites of the chart above and the only ones I bought at the time. Today I’d add Stan, Never Had A Dream Come True, Can’t Fight The Moonlight and Stronger to that list. I like New Year but prefer Overload and Run For Cover.

Must've forgot 'Supreme' was released close to Christmas not to mention being inside the Christmas top 10 at that! Robbie along with Eminem, S Club and LeAnn my faves from it anyhow.

 

Bob and Tweenies repping the novelty tv show hits there. I did like both at the time being a kid :P the latter show I watched a lot.

 

The Craig song was nice enough for me but that's moreso for the song and melody rather than Craig's singing himself which was poor and we've touched on that Roy Wood/Wombles mess enough last year lol.

Must've forgot 'Supreme' was released close to Christmas not to mention being inside the Christmas top 10 at that! Robbie along with Eminem, S Club and LeAnn my faves from it anyhow.

 

Bob and Tweenies repping the novelty tv show hits there. I did like both at the time being a kid :P the latter show I watched a lot.

 

The Craig song was nice enough for me but that's moreso for the song and melody rather than Craig's singing himself which was poor and we've touched on that Roy Wood/Wombles mess enough last year lol.

 

Yes, I suppose it was already from a mega selling album so was never going to challenge for No.1, but interesting he released so close to Christmas. The music is very Bond inspired on that.

 

The full version of Can We Fix It is still not on Spotify! Just the one minute TV version.

I'm sure the 3-year-old version of me liked 'Can We Fix It?' the most at the time but my highlights now would be: 'Stan', 'Can't Fight The Moonlight', 'Stronger', 'Don't Tell Me', 'Gravel Pit' and 'Dancing In The Moonlight'. The Bob song is decent novelty tbh so I'm glad it did triumph over Westlife.

Supreme is one of Robbie's most underrated tracks, the lesser known sample aside from I Will Survive is from some uber-obscure French crime movie from 1970!

 

Plus, an F1-related music video, we do stan.

17. Da Muttz - Wassuup (16) never heard this... something tells me I don't want to

 

You don't, this was based on the catchphrase of the Budweiser commercial and sampled 'Super Freak'.

 

 

Let's start with 2000, the first festive countdown of the Millennium:

 

1. Bob The Builder - Can We Fix It (1)

2. Westlife - What Makes A Man (NEW)

3. Eminem - Stan (2)

4. S Club 7 - Never Had A Dream Come True (3)

5. Baha Men - Who Let The Dogs Out (5)

6. Oxide & Neutrino feat Megaman - No Good 4 Me (NEW)

7. LeAnn Rimes - Can't Fight The Moonlight (6)

8. Tweenies - No.1 (9)

9. Destiny's Child - Independent Women (7)

10. Robbie Williams - Supreme (4)

11. Public Domain - Operation Blade (Bass In The Place) (8)

12. Sugababes - New Year (NEW)

13. Wyclef feat. Mary J Blige - 911 (12)

14. Britney Spears - Stronger (11)

15. Craig David - Walking Away (15)

16. Madonna - Don't Tell Me (13)

17. Da Muttz - Wassuup (16)

18. Kylie Minogue - Please Stay (10)

19. Wu-Tang Clan - Gravel Pit (19)

20. Toploader - Dancing In The Moonlight (22)

 

A very mixed bag here. I recall a few of these being on compilations I owned from the time, here's two of them;

 

 

 

Of course, Baha Men couldn't be licensed for Now That's What I Call Music! 47 so instead we got a cheap knock off version by B Boyz. :rolleyes:

 

It is nice to look back on a Christmas chart with such variety and such little festive music, something that is a distant memory in the streaming era.

You don't, this was based on the catchphrase of the Budweiser commercial and sampled 'Super Freak'.

 

Also, there was another Whazzup around at the same time by an act called True Party, which peaked at No.13. That one was British I think.

 

Both were absolutely awful. That catchphrase was everywhere at the time.

 

A very mixed bag here. I recall a few of these being on compilations I owned from the time, here's two of them;

 

Of course, Baha Men couldn't be licensed for Now That's What I Call Music! 47 so instead we got a cheap knock off version by B Boyz. :rolleyes:

 

It is nice to look back on a Christmas chart with such variety and such little festive music, something that is a distant memory in the streaming era.

 

Oh yes, Hits 2001 was bang up to date there, with a lot of songs from that Christmas chart. I think the high positioning of the Craig Phillips song on the album shows how it was expected to be a much bigger deal than it ended up being.

Edited November 22, 2024Nov 22 by gooddelta

Remember this chart well, love Public Domain at the time, R1 played in constantly. Owned a cop of that Def Hits collection 🤣.

 

Christmas classics in the chart:

 

S Club 7

Sugababes

Yeah, that is absolutely one of Robbie's best! He has a clutch of seriously good #4 hits to his name.

 

2000 was the first year I started following the charts and music, I'm not quite sure I realised just how dry it was at this point!

I remember our newspaper here in Australia would print the Australian top 20 singles every week on a Thursday, as well as the UK and US top 20 as well.

 

It was a bit of a surprise from someone on the outside seeing Westlife miss #1 for the first time.

 

Was it a surprise back in the UK?

My favourite from that top 20 is Don't Tell Me, a wonderful single from Madge. Stan is obviously a classic but I didn't like it initially and it only really grew on me over the coming weeks. Destiny's Child is the only one in the top 10 that I actually bought, feels like a low amount by my standards :o

 

I remember our newspaper here in Australia would print the Australian top 20 singles every week on a Thursday, as well as the UK and US top 20 as well.

 

It was a bit of a surprise from someone on the outside seeing Westlife miss #1 for the first time.

 

Was it a surprise back in the UK?

 

It was a surprise. I think in the weeks leading up to it it was assumed Westlife would walk it, as they had achieved seven No.1 singles in a row from debut and seemed unstoppable.

 

Plus Can We Fix It? had already been out for a few weeks and hadn't even debuted at No.1, which was rare in 2000 (but thank goodness Stan did get there).

 

According to this article from the time, the bookies had Westlife as the favourite going into Christmas week, which tallies with my memory.

 

And from the week before, Robbie and Craig Phillips (!) were joint fourth favourite, hence the big shock at his final position.

Edited November 22, 2024Nov 22 by gooddelta

It was a surprise. I think in the weeks leading up to it it was assumed Westlife would walk it, as they had achieved seven No.1 singles in a row from debut and seemed unstoppable.

 

Plus Can We Fix It? had already been out for a few weeks and hadn't even debuted at No.1, which was rare in 2000 (but thank goodness Stan did get there).

 

According to this article from the time, the bookies had Westlife as the favourite going into Christmas week, which tallies with my memory.

 

And from the week before, Robbie and Craig Phillips (!) were joint fourth favourite, hence the big shock at his final position.

 

Thanks gooddelta, that was an interesting read.

 

It was always a dream of younger me to visit England and experience the pop music scene there. HMV, Top of the Pops and all that.

I think the story would be different if Westlife made the No1 with what makes a man, the same way it would be different if Fool Again missed the no1 too. If WMAM went to #1 they would have like debut/consecutive 11 #1 singles, which would have been extremely crazy…