21st: 149 points

Chocolate Salty Balls - P.S. I Love You - Chef (1998)

Voters: rio309 19, chrissmith276 18, Viper* 17, Dobbo 16, Electroboy 16, Jester 12, RabbitFurCoat 8, CoolHand501 7, Jade 6, Michael Bubré 6, gasman449 5, Mangø ho! ho! 5, CowTzy 4, …ready for it 4, gooddelta 2, JackJones 2, dancemberlexa 1, Jason 1

 

26/12/1998 Chef Chocolate Salty Balls (P.S. I Love You)

Peak: 1

Chart run: 2-{1}-3-4-9-13-18-20-27-26-33-46-48->13

 

 

This innuendo laden track did reach the top spot for the post Christmas week after initially being beaten by the Spice Girls with “Goodbye”. The following year another “South Park” inspired single, “Mr Hankey The Christmas Poo”, reached #4. Its exit just before the Top 20 leaves only Mariah representing the ‘90s.

The Top 20 - happy to see all decades still represented!

 

You Belong To Me - Jo Stafford (1952)

Answer Me - David Whitfield (1953)

Santo Natale - David Whitfield (1954)

Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley And His Comets (1955)

Singing The Blues - Guy Mitchell (1956)

Ma He’s Making Eyes At Me - Johnny Otis And His Orchestra With Marie Adams (1957)

Hoots Mon - Lord Rockingham’s XI (1958)

What Do You Want? - Adam Faith (1959)

 

It’s Now Or Never - Elvis Presley (1960)

Tower Of Strength - Frankie Vaughan (1961)

The Next Time / Bachelor Boy - Cliff Richard (1962)

She Loves You - The Beatles (1963)

Downtown - Petula Clark (1964)

Wind Me Up (Let Me Go) - Cliff Richard (1965)

Sunshine Superman - Donovan (1966)

Magical Mystery Tour EP - The Beatles (1967)

Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations (1968)

Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town - Kenny Rogers And The First Edition (1969)

 

When I’m Dead And Gone - McGuiness Flint (1970)

Jeepster - T. Rex (1971)

My Ding-A-Ling - Chuck Berry (1972)

I Love You Love Me Love - Gary Glitter (1973)

You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet - Bachman-Turner Overdrive (1974)

I Believe In Father Christmas - Greg Lake (1975)

Under The Moon Of Love - Showaddywaddy (1976)

Floral Dance - Brighouse And Rastrick Brass Band (1977)

Y.M.C.A. - The Village People (1978)

I Have A Dream - ABBA (1979)

 

(Just Like) Starting Over - John Lennon (1980)

Daddy’s Home - Cliff Richard (1981)

Blue Christmas EP - Shakin’ Stevens (1982)

My Oh My - Slade (1983)

Last Christmas / Everything She Wants - Wham! (1984 / 2022)

Saving All My Love For You - Whitney Houston (1985)

Caravan Of Love - The Housemartins (1986)

Fairytale Of New York - The Pogues Featuring Kirsty MacColl (1987)

Especially For You - Kylie Minogue Featuring Jason Donovan (1988)

Let’s Party - Jive Bunny And The Mastermixers (1989)

 

Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice (1990)

When You Tell Me That You Love Me - Diana Ross (1991)

Heal The World - Michael Jackson (1992)

Babe - Take That (1993)

All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey (1994 / 2020)

Wonderwall - Mike Flowers Pops (1995)

Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door - Dunblane (1996)

Teletubbies Say “Eh-Oh!” - Teletubbies (1997)

Chocolate Salty Balls - P.S. I Love You - Chef (1998)

The Millennium Prayer - Cliff Richard (1999)

 

What Makes A Man - Westlife (2000)

How Wonderful You Are - Gordon Haskell (2001)

Sacred Trust / After You’re Gone - One True Voice (2002)

Christmas Time (Don’t Let The Bells End) - The Darkness (2003)

Father And Son - Ronan Keating Featuring Yusuf Islam (2004)

JCB Song - Nizlopi (2005)

Patience - Take That (2006)

What A Wonderful World - Katie Melua And Eva Cassidy (2007)

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley (2008)

The Climb - Joe McElderry (2009)

 

What’s My Name - Rihanna Featuring Drake (2010)

Cannonball - Little Mix (2011)

Impossible - James Arthur (2012)

Happy - Pharrell Williams (2013)

Uptown Funk - Mark Robson Featuring Bruno Mars (2014)

Love Yourself - Justin Bieber (2015)

Human - Rag’n’Bone Man (2016)

River - Eminem Featuring Ed Sheeran (2017)

Sweet But Psycho - Ava Max (2018)

Own It - Stormzy Featuring Ed Sheeran And Burna Boy (2019)

 

Merry Christmas - Ed Sheeran And Elton John (2021)

You’re Christmas To Me - Sam Ryder (2023)

That’s So True - Gracie Abrams (2024)

Chef 😍 absolutely love it. I've played it recently to younger mates who'd never heard it before - they thought it was hilarious and couldn't believe it was a UK number 1.

 

I can't believe that Radio 1 used to play it with no censorship - I was 12 and knew all the words! Can't imagine they'd play it in full nowadays.

Edited January 2Jan 2 by rio309

I really hate that Greg Lake song and don't like that noisy The Foundations song. Apart from those 2, I think it's a good top 20. :P

I'm very surprised Human is still here as I remember that being massively hated on here at the time (basically the Lose Control of back then).

 

And also JCB Song, I love it myself so very happy that's still to be announced.

I really hate that Greg Lake song and don't like that noisy The Foundations song. Apart from those 2, I think it's a good top 20. :P

I don't think I've ever heard The Foundations described as 'noisy' before!

Oops just realised I somehow completely overlooked / accidentally deleted 'Build Me Up Buttercup' from my own list, would definitely have been on there! Ah well ~

 

Chef :cheeseblock: have recently been rewatching South Park so heard it in its original context, iconic x

I really hate that Greg Lake song and don't like that noisy The Foundations song. Apart from those 2, I think it's a good top 20. :P

"that noisy The Foundations song" :lol:

20th: 150 points

JCB Song - Nizlopi (2005)

Voters: JackJones 20, Dobbo 17, DarrenJames 15, gasman449 14, jimwatts 12, dandy* 11, Viper* 11, Michael Bubré 11, Jester 10, awardinary 9, Severin 7, chrissmith276 4, My…Stockings 4, BoyMetWorld91 2, King Rollo 2, WhoOdyssey 1

 

24/12/2005 Nizlopi JCB Song

Peak: 1

Chart run: {1}-2-2-2-2-6-7-10-12-14-18-25-33-55-57->15

 

 

This really was a one off wasn’t it - a one hit wonder by a folk duo about a 5 year old boy having fun with his dad. It managed to grab a week at the top before Shayne Ward’s million selling X Factor winner’s track arrived.

19th: 151 points

Human - Rag’n’Bone Man (2016)

Voters: CowTzy 18, …ready for it 16, Detonate 15, RabbitFurCoat 14, My…Stockings 12, gasman449 10, BoyMetWorld91 9, JosephCarey 9, CoolHand501 8, dandy* 8, awardinary 8, Roba. 7, Jade 5, JackJones 5, chrissmith276 2, Electroboy 2, Severin 2, DarrenJames 1

 

10/12/2016 Rag'n'Bone Man

Title: Human

Peak: 2

Chart run: 11-8-5-{2}-3-2-3-3-5-7-5-2-3-4-16-14-20-16-20-19-22-31-29-33-36-41-42-43-46-47-43-57-62-63-66-75-57R(22)->37

 

 

This was the year “Rockabye” defied all expectations by staying at #1 until Christmas having been there since November and not being a charity, talent show related or novelty song. Meanwhile the debut hit for Rory Charles Graham AKA Rag’n’Bone man, which went on to win a Brit award, stalled at #2.

18th: 166 points

Especially For You - Kylie Minogue Featuring Jason Donovan (1988)

Voters: Jason 20, Mangø ho! ho! 19, Jester 17, JackJones 17, gooddelta 13, Leonardo 11, awardinary 11, Tuttavilla 11, Sausage Rollo 9, Viper* 9, jimwatts 8, popchartfreak 8, JosephCarey 7, rio309 5, …ready for it 1

 

10/12/1988 Kylie Minogue And Jason Donovan

Title: Especially For You

Peak: 1

Chart run: 2-2-2-2-{1}-1-1-3-7-16-23-29-46-59->14

 

 

This was already the 5th Top 2 for Kylie but the 1st for Jason. Their wedding in “Neighbours” remains one of the most iconic soap moments in history. This was stuck behind Cliff’s “Mistletoe And Wine” at Christmas but then climbed to the top in the New Year.

JCB Song :wub:

 

I grew tired of it at the time but I like it more again now in retrospect, it's actually a really sweet track that deserved its success. The video was lovely too.

I'm not sure if I'd be into 'JCB Song' if it came out today but I have only positive nostalgia for it.

17th: 187 points

Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley And His Comets (1955)

Voters: awardinary 19, BoyMetWorld91 18, Chez Wombat 15, Michael Bubré 13, Sausage Rollo 13, Leonardo 12, chartjack2 11, Severin 11, JulianT 11, DarrenJames 9, RabbitFurCoat 9, Dancemberlexa 7, rio309 6, Viper* 6, Roba, 6, gooddelta 4, gasman449 3, JackJones 3, Jade 2, dandy* 2, jimwatts 2, Tuttavilla 2, Jason 2, chrissmith276 1

 

08/01/1955 Bill Haley And His Comets Rock Around The Clock

Peak: 1

Chart run: 17-18-13R(39)-8-7-4-2-3-{1}-1-1-2-2-2-1-1-6-8-14-17R(33)-13-12-8-9-8-5-8-14-13-15-24R(2)-25-25R(2)-26-27R(2)-22->36

 

 

I doubt there are any other ‘50s songs that could have done quite so well here. Amazingly this initially only reached #17 and dropped out before being revived following the success of “Shake, Rattle And Roll”. At Christmas it was the runner up behind the rather less enduring “Christmas Alphabet” by Dockie Valentine.

A Clean Bandit and Rag'N'Bone Man Christmas top 2 so recently seems absolutely bonkers now.

 

JCB was quite funny at the time but when I listened to it more recently... no thanks.

Edited January 4Jan 4 by RabbitFurCoat

Love these threads because I casually click on ‘Sunshine Superman’ and knew it as a classic instantly yet didn’t know who it was by, great song!

Bill Haley really was a cultural change in music overall hence it taking time to take off! A move from warbling singers to proper bands and rock and roll!

Bill Haley really was a cultural change in music overall hence it taking time to take off! A move from warbling singers to proper bands and rock and roll!

 

Totally.

16th: 188 points

Y.M.C.A. - The Village People (1978)

Voters: CowTzy 17, Sausage Rollo 16, Michael Bubré 15, rio309 14, DarrenJames 14, detonate 14, JackJones 14, Leonardo 13, dancemberlexa 12, Jason 12, chrissmith276 10, Chez Wombat 9, Severin 9, jimwatts 7, CoolHand501 5, Electroboy 4, …ready for it 2, Jade 1

 

25/11/1978 Village People Y.M.C.A.

Peak: 1

Chart run: 42-25-12-2-2-2-{1}-1-1-2-4-6-23-34-53-71->16

 

 

In the US this was kept to #2 by Chic’s “Le Freak” and Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?” Here it did reach the top after Christmas, though at Christmas was held off by the huge selling “Mary’s Boy Child / Oh My Lord” by Boney M.

15th: 194 points

Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations (1968)

Voters: Viper* 19, Roba. 17, Sausage Rollo 17, awardinary 16, Dobbo 15, DarrenJames 13, Severin 13, Tutavilla 12, Chez Wombat 11, RabbitFurCoat 11, popchartfreak 10, My…Stockings 10, gooddelta 8, Leonardo 7, dancemberlexa 6, CoolHand501 4, Electroboy 3 chartjack2 2

 

23/11/1968 The Foundations Build Me Up Buttercup

Peak: 2

Chart run: 49-22-14-5-3-{2}-3-2-3-6-10-36-28-43-43->15

 

 

The Foundations had been the first mixed ace group to reach #1 with “Baby Now That I’ve Found You” the year before. This has about 30 times more Spotify streams than that, but didn’t make it to the top at all and was stuck behind The Scaffold with “Lily The Pink”.