Professional wrestling is effectively a soap opera so I think it does actually make sense to consider wrestling personas to be fictional characters.

4 hours ago, ManicKangaroo said:

I'd agree with your original assessment and not include the wrestlers. They're not fhctional

The Undertaker, Hulk Hogan etc aren’t fictional characters? I’ve got some tartan paint to sell you…

Saja Boys now added!

Oop can now add Soda Pop to this- Saja Boys become the first fictional act since Geraldine to have multiple top 10 hits! And two fictional acts both have had top 10 hits with a song called "Soda Pop", the other of course being Bo Selecta's Craig David, proper Bo!

Edited Sunday at 18:001 day by gasman449

Now I feel like i have to go listen to , The winners song again 😅

Odd that The winners song isn't on spotify but Once upon a christmas song is 👀

Edited Sunday at 18:031 day by 777666jason

5 hours ago, gasman449 said:

Oop can now add Soda Pop to this- Saja Boys become the first fictional act since Geraldine to have multiple top 10 hits! And two fictional acts both have had top 10 hits with a song called "Soda Pop", the other of course being Bo Selecta's Craig David, proper Bo!

The Bo Selecta track named "Soda Pop" being on the other side of the Christmas 2004 hit "I Got You Babe" as "performed" by Avid Merrion, Patsy Kensit and Davina McCall.

Do The Kids from Fame count? They had a bunch of big hits...

36 minutes ago, The Weasel said:

Do The Kids from Fame count? They had a bunch of big hits...

Were they credited as the characters they played? If they performed using the actors' names I probably wouldn't count them...

As I recall they were always just credited as a collective, i.e. The Kids From 'Fame'. Saying that I think that on 'Hi-Fidelity' the lead singer Valerie Landsburg was formally credited, and was so using her own name rather than that of her character (which I forget now and can't be bothered looking up!). On that measure, no fictional individual character names were utilised for artist/chart credit purposes, and so I'd say they probably shouldn't count. They did appear 'in character' I suppose in associated music videos, but as - I think - the actors' own actual voices were used on the recordings of the hits, again I would struggle to align them with other more obvious fictional acts such as those which were only ever presented as characters in costume (e.g. The Wombles) or as cartoon characters (e.g. The Archies) and where the actual singers/musicians who played on the records were not the same as those appearing on TV or video to 'perform' them.

Chef got to no.2, not no.1

9 minutes ago, Big Fat Sue said:

Chef got to no.2, not no.1

No it got to number 1 , but ironically it was the christmas number 2🤭

25 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

No it got to number 1 , but ironically it was the christmas number 2🤭

Did it?! I always thought Spice Girls shanked him, they had their three weeks at no.1, ans then some random artist got a January no.1

7 minutes ago, Big Fat Sue said:

Did it?! I always thought Spice Girls shanked him, they had their three weeks at no.1, ans then some random artist got a January no.1

2 Become 1 was a 3 weeks at #1 single for them, but Goodbye was only one week before Chef overtook the following week.

13 minutes ago, Big Fat Sue said:

Did it?! I always thought Spice Girls shanked him, they had their three weeks at no.1, ans then some random artist got a January no.1

Yeah you must be thing the wrong spice Girls track unless your referring to Steps as a random artist (they got number 1 after chef)

From my 1990 thread MC Parker on "Thunderbirds Are Go"

Not to mention all the Jive Bunny hits

MC Mario on "Supermarioland- sorry these keep popping into my head!

Edit: sorry you've got that one already!

2 minutes ago, Gezza said:

MC Mario on "Supermarioland- sorry these keep popping into my head!

Already got that one! What is it with early 90s songs making fictional characters emcees? Mario's voice isn't on the song! Thanks for the contributions Gezza, how did I not think of Jive Bunny...😁

8 minutes ago, gasman449 said:

Already got that one! What is it with early 90s songs making fictional characters emcees? Mario's voice isn't on the song! Thanks for the contributions Gezza, how did I not think of Jive Bunny...😁

Because the 90s was peak cheese and peak novelty acts etc , whetr they would cash in everyday they could 😅

Novelty records were hardly a new thing though in truth; they'd been just as frequent (and often as popular) in the decades leading up to the 1990s, albeit in a different form musically.

I think it was really more a case of the early '90s seeing an explosion in setting almost anything - however corny or naff - to a dance or rave beat and arrangement, an ironic idea which soon became very tired and tiresome in equal measure. Numerous old kids' TV progs, characters and more recently-popularised computer game themes and icons were increasingly plundered to produce often quite substantial chart hits, as the notion of a mass appeal 'pop' sound or widescale movement among the record-buying public ebbed away after the '80s ended, and conventional pop music became less dance-centric while a lot of dance became more pop-centric. And that wasn't always good news. It's somewhat staggering to recall now that a fairly hard-edged and more serious electronic punk outfit like The Prodigy had their maiden chart hit with a song that sampled a British government ad campaign aimed at alerting kids to safety issues - 'Charly'! They moved away from that kind of stuff pretty soon after, sensing that so-called 'sub-genres' of the ever-fragmenting dance scene, such as 'toytown techno' (read The Smart E's, Urban Hype et al) was hardly likely to last beyond a couple of years as an amusing distraction from the more controversial aspects of it, and to prove they had rather more about them than most typical faceless studio-based computer-led acts with whom they first rubbed shoulders in the charts.

I guess all that was a fairly classic British reaction to something which was threatening to become a little too serious and divisive for the yoof - at least through the lens of most conservative press at the time - so in response, show the 'funny' side by messing about with daft kiddy samples and ringtone-like melodies and thereby take the sting out of rave for the average young listener. Sadly all it did was cheapen it yet-further, and wear it out quicker, yielding to various, still-sample-led, but rather more earnest and cool kinds of dancefloor fodder which tended to populate the fast-churning charts later in the decade. And those of us who remember it all first hand should be thankful - we only really were bothered by the tip of the iceberg; a look at the extended Top 200 Gallup-compiled charts of the era reveal just how many more truly dire records DIDN'T make the higher echelons, and from which most of us were largely spared! For every MC Parker hit, there were probably three or four non-hits of the same ilk.