I will start on the top 10 tomorrow and these are the songs that have made it:

All Saints - Never Ever

Aqua - Turn Back Time

B*Witched - C'est La Vie

B*Witched - To You I Belong

Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On

Cher - Believe

Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha

Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

Madonna - Frozen

Spice Girls - Viva Forever

Sorry I haven’t managed to properly keep up with all these threads. For me that’s a strong Top 10 aside from B*witched (though “C’est La Vie” is cute) and Celine!

36 minutes ago, gooddelta said:

Indeed there is one still to come. My taste around some pop band singles has been known to be peculiar.

Peculiar is a good word for it in this case ;)

Decent top 10 though - would swap out a couple for Feel It and No Matter What though.

Oh “No Matter What” is the best thing Boyzone ever did by a mile - think that would be in my Top 10.

I can definitely see the appeal in 'No Matter What', but not this one I'm afraid

So, our top 10's have 7 songs in common ;)

Here are my places 15 to 10:

15. Another Level - Freak Me

I really like their adaption of the Silk classic.

14. Baddiel, Skinner and The Lightning Seeds - Three Lions '98

Fantastic song, but that is just the second take of it.

13. Aqua - Turn Back Time

Really strong euro-ballad - one of Aqua's best.

12. Steps - Heartbeat/Tragedy

Actually #1 in 1999 but released in November 1998, so I counted that in. Not to keen on Tragedy, but Heartbeat is really good.

11. Robbie Williams - Millennium

One of my favourite Robbie songs - I really love the strings in it.

It's Like That is a tune, I can see how it somewhat muddies the social commentary of the original, but in terms of melding hip hop and dance into one big banger, it really succeeds x

Pleasantly surprised to see my favourite still in!

Heartbeat was my SOTY in 1998.

All That I Need Is pleasant. I don’t remember hearing it, but it does sounds familiar so I’m guessing I have. I prefer No Matter What myself though, that’s a great song.

That’s a great top 10. I’m familiar with and like 9 of them. The only one I don’t really know much is If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next.

2 hours ago, Last Dreamer said:

Heartbeat was my SOTY in 1998.

I will review Heartbeat in 1999. Spoiler - I like it more than Tragedy.

No Matter What is "pretty good for a Boyzone track" which means it is still very average in comparison to most other songs. I'm not sure I like any of their other songs tbh.

I find Goodbye really boring, I'd have preferred the christmas #1 to be Chef. In terms of Spice Girls ballads, it's nowhere near as good as 2 Become 1, not as good as Too Much or Viva Forever but still better than Mama.

I have a clear top 5 out of your top 10 - and I suspect it's easy to guess which five they would be... but I'm very much not expecting that to match your results!

1 minute ago, dandy* said:

No Matter What is "pretty good for a Boyzone track" which means it is still very average in comparison to most other songs. I'm not sure I like any of their other songs tbh.

I find Goodbye really boring, I'd have preferred the christmas #1 to be Chef. In terms of Spice Girls ballads, it's nowhere near as good as 2 Become 1, not as good as Too Much or Viva Forever but still better than Mama.

I have a clear top 5 out of your top 10 - and I suspect it's easy to guess which five they would be... but I'm very much not expecting that to match your results!

All Saints, Cher, Cornershop, Manics and Madonna?

With a possible replacement of Cher for Spice Girls!

Spot on! And Spice Girls would be 6th so excellent all round

I already think im the only one that doesn’t like Believe 🤣

28 minutes ago, Jester said:

I already think im the only one that doesn’t like Believe 🤣

You're not alone, I don't like it either.

I like 4 of those records in the Top 10 but I count 10 number ones of the year that I actually like so naturally those 4 records would be in my Top 10.

One of those records I'd put in my Top 3 but I'll say no more until the Top 3 is revealed. The other 2 records I'd put in my Top 3 are "Gym & Tonic" and "It's Like That".