Borrowing this thread idea from 21st Century Throwback.

Starting tomorrow!

Looking forward to this but Is that an AI pic? Not that it matters, I just noted it has slightly dodgy counting skills!

Robson and Jerome for the top 4?

@dandy* yes it’s AI. Sometimes, it just refuses to fix a mistake and it refused to identify 16 after 15 so I thought I’d run with it anyway

@Gezza hmmmmmmmm :(

2 hours ago, Jester said:

@dandy* yes it’s AI. Sometimes, it just refuses to fix a mistake and it refused to identify 16 after 15 so I thought I’d run with it anyway

@Gezza hmmmmmmmm :(

Well that makes me optimistic that AI wont destroy humankind then! If it can't count up to 16 it will have no idea how many are left 😄

Right, Starting this now :)

I have ranked 18 UK number 1 singles from 1995. I have missed off East 17's Stay Another Day as I have decided it is a 1994 number 1 so will be rated in due course. One of the Robson & Jerome songs was a double A side so I ranked both sides.

Lets start with the worst number 1 of the year....

18. Robson Green & Jerome Flynn – Unchained Melody

7 weeks at number 1, May/June/July

Let’s start with the worst number 1 of all time, although the biggest seller of the year. YAY. They were convinced to record this monstrosity by Simon Cowell after they ‘performed’ it on Soldier, Soldier.

There is so much wrong with this, where do I start?!

Lets begin with the fact that they didn’t truly sing their own songs. Uncredited vocalist were brought in for the pair of them to cover the higher parts (and worryingly some of the lower parts). No wonder Milli Vanilli were annoyed when this was revealed. I must say it was suspected at the time as they never sang live once on TOTP. Frauds.

Secondly, the uninspired heap of shite kept the era defining Common People by Pulp off the top of the charts in its 7 (!!) week run at number 1. No wonder this set up Simon Cowell to inflict similar horrors on us in years to come.

Awful, awful, awful.

Both are great actors by the way, a case stay in the right lane please.

How do I embed a youtube video?!

Just drag the url link into the post and it shall appear like magic!

Although please feel free not to inflict it on us for that song

Livin' Joy "Dreamer" is the worst. Easy 0/10 track.

Cowell needs to leave this song alone but Robson & Jerome was definitely the worst version. Reed thin vocals to start with and if those were being propped up by session singers too then it's not a good look.

Sometimes people really would buy any old dross that had got a prominent TV push.

Maybe it wasn't so bad that I didn't exist yet when that was the EOY #1

A laughably weak version especially when compared to the vocal masterclass that Bobby Hatfield of The Righteous Brothers gave.

'Common People' robbed in the weekly chart indeed

Completely unnecessary version coming off Ghost and monster sales of the classic. I'm assuming it's all the mums and grannies who didnt pay attention to the charts, getting their hearts fluttering at the TV show - which I never watched. I know some of the ladies at work were talking about it at the time, quite enthusiastic. I'd blocked this out of my mind so well that I didnt realise it was Jerome Flynn in Game Of Thrones until about 3 seasons in 😄Now that was an epic show, as classic on a rating scale as this cash-in cheesy record was classically bad.

The way that the run of UK #1s would have gone without it:

Livin' Joy - Dreamer (1 extra week)

Perez Prez Prado - Guaglione (1 week)

Pulp - Common People (2 weeks)

U2 - Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me (2 weeks)

Outhere Brothers - Boom Boom Boom (1 extra week)

I'd have liked all 3 of those #2 peakers to make it

Possibly I'm only one forum member, who not dislike Robson and Jerome songs.

I didn't mind Saturday Night At The Movies. Partly because I have no great love for the original, and partly because their voices were less exposed on uptempos.

Nothing redeemable about this whatsoever (or indeed any of their others)

Kind of set the blueprint for what was to come in the second half of Westlife's tenure.

One positive thing to come from Robson & Jerome - some classic songs that should have been number ones finally get that kudos, so the older classic versions get some mentions as part of the association.

17. Robson Green & Jerome Flynn – Up On The Roof

4 weeks at number 1, November/December

Insipid cover that they didn’t even sing. Terrible. This double A side (second side to come) kept Oasis’s Wonderwall off number one. Let that sink in. This kept one of the most famous songs of the 90s off the top spot. Wow.