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Wardy ranks the UK #1s of 2001

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Atomic Kitten – Eternal Flame

Date Charted: 04/08/2001

Weeks at #1: 2

UK Chart Run: {1}-1-2-6-9-12-21-29-40-45-47-45-34-47-71R(9)->15

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Another pop group with two UK #1 singles in 2001 was Atomic Kitten. Their version of The Bangles 80's ballad was good enough to hit #1 for two weeks in the Summer, and was a familiar enough cover song to beat the likes of Destiny's Child, O-Town, Geri Halliwell and Train to name a few of the new releases over the two weeks it was at the top. Given the success of its predecessor, 'Whole Again', it wasn't too unexpected to see the Kittens have another big hit some months later. The follow-up single 'You Are' failed to make any sort of impact in the UK later that year.

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    'If You Come Back' would be a fair bit higher for me. A nice ballad that was and probably my favourite ballad they did.

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    #29 Geri Halliwell – It's Raining Men Date Charted: 12/05/2001 Weeks at #1: 2 UK Chart Run: {1}-1-2-7-7-17-21-20-30-39-40-44-53-56-73->15 Chart Commentary Ginger Spice Geri Halliwell achieved a

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    #26 Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman – Somethin' Stupid Date Charted: 22/12/2001 Weeks at #1: 3 UK Chart Run: {1}-1-1-3-12-21-33-31-31-35-44-57->12 Chart Commentary Onto the Christmas #1 of

I was looking up my birthday #1s yesterday and 'Eternal Flame' is apparently what I got for my 4th birthday!

The MOR route was clearly working for them, so I'm not surprised this did so well, but a pretty bland cover

Aww I love Eternal Flame, I think they did a nice version with the production on that compared to the timeless but by then very 80s sounding production on the original. Natasha sounds great on it.

You Are was cancelled as a single in the end sadly at the last minute, which is why it didn’t chart.

“Eternal Flame” does nothing for me and might be my 2nd bottom ahead of “Queen Of My Heart”: they’d also be near the top though…

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Blue – Too Close

Date Charted: 08/09/2001

Weeks at #1: 1

UK Chart Run: {1}-3-7-12-17-23-26-37-42-57-64-53-68->13

Chart Commentary

Back to Blue once again, with their other #1 from 2001, 'Too Close' which was itself a cover of a relatively unknown song by Next from a few years previously. Blue's version of the song was a clear intention of their direction as a boy band after breaking through with 'All Rise' earlier in the year. It marketed the boys as not just a pop outfit but with an R&B side lacking in other UK boy bands at the time with the likes of Damage and Another Level disbanding. 'Too Close' denied hits by Uncle Kracker, Louise and Emma Bunton from all peaking higher.

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