Posted November 19, 2025Nov 19 So here we are at the conclusion of the 2000 Year End battle between the UK and Australian Singles Chart. Finishing things off with the the #1 song for both the UK and Australia.Representing the UK year end charts: Bob the Builder: Can We Fix ItRepresenting the Australian year end charts: Anastacia: I'm Outta Love
November 19, 2025Nov 19 Author Previous Polls for 2000:#25 - Independent Woman Pt 1 vs Let's Get Loud#24 - Music vs It's My Life#23 - Freestyler vs Thong Song#22 - Life Is A Rollercoaster vs Who Let The Dogs Out#21 - Out Of Your Mind vs Rock DJ#20 - The Bad Touch vs Don't You Worry#19 - American Pie vs She Bangs#18 - Never Be The Same Again vs I Try#17 - 7 Days vs Jumpin Jumpin#16 - Lady (Hear Me Tonight) vs Shine#15 - Oops!... I Did It Again vs Most Girls#14 - The Real Slim Shady vs Never Be The Same Again#13 - Rise vs Graduation (Friends Forever)#12 - Can't Fight The Moonlight vs Bloke#11 - Reach vs Candy#10 - Fill Me In vs Shackles (Praise You)#9 - Never Had A Dream Come True vs Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)#8 - Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) vs Who The Hell Are You#7 - Toca's Miracle vs Bye Bye Bye#6 - Stan vs Poison#5 - Rock DJ vs Say My Name#4 - Who Let The Dogs Out vs Music#3 - It Feels So Good vs Freestyler#2 - Pure Shores vs Teenage Dirtbag
November 19, 2025Nov 19 Going for Anastacia as it is a very good song, though Bob isn’t half bad for novelty.Am I being blind or is #5 missing?
November 19, 2025Nov 19 Author 6 minutes ago, Julian_ said:Going for Anastacia as it is a very good song, though Bob isn’t half bad for novelty.Am I being blind or is #5 missing?#5 is there. Rock DJ vs Say My Name.It had an extended thread title as I included a poll for whether or not to continue on with these polls for 2001. :)All previous polls, are on the second post of this one. :) Edited November 19, 2025Nov 19 by Paddington James
November 19, 2025Nov 19 Author Anastacia gets my vote. I was never a fan of the Bob the Builder song, though I wasn't it's target audience I guess.I do recall it stopping Westlife from getting the Christmas #1 though.
November 19, 2025Nov 19 Anastacia from these two by a clear margin but Bob's is fun for novelty sakes as a child.
November 19, 2025Nov 19 Two songs with something in common - neither of them were playlisted by Radio 1!Guess I should go with Anastacia, although the song's just OK for me and Bob's isn't a bad novelty.
November 19, 2025Nov 19 Here's how it looked after picking between UK and AUS:01 UK02 AUS03 UK04 AUS05 UK06 UK07 AUS08 UK09 UK10 UK11 UK12 AUS13 UK14 UK15 UK16 UK17 AUS18 UK19 AUS20 UK21 UK22 AUS23 UK24 AUS25 AUSUK-16, AUS-9Some of them could have been the other song, so more for UK or more for AUS.
November 19, 2025Nov 19 Author 8 minutes ago, jimwatts said:Two songs with something in common - neither of them were playlisted by Radio 1!Guess I should go with Anastacia, although the song's just OK for me and Bob's isn't a bad novelty.Wow, I didn't know Radio 1 never playlisted I'm Outta Love.
November 19, 2025Nov 19 Author I am aiming to start a results thread tomorrow which is where I'll keep everything updated as we work our way through the years. :)
November 19, 2025Nov 19 Author 1 minute ago, AllStarBySmashMouth said:Here's how it looked after picking between UK and AUS:01 UK02 AUS03 UK04 AUS05 UK06 UK07 AUS08 UK09 UK10 UK11 UK12 AUS13 UK14 UK15 UK16 UK17 AUS18 UK19 AUS20 UK21 UK22 AUS23 UK24 AUS25 AUSUK-16, AUS-9Some of them could have been the other song, so more for UK or more for AUS.Thanks for compiling this @AllStarBySmashMouth
November 19, 2025Nov 19 16 minutes ago, Paddington James said:Wow, I didn't know Radio 1 never playlisted I'm Outta Love.Perhaps related to this, both songs climbed in their second week in the UK Top 40. In fact only 6 songs did this in the whole of 2000, all of them climbing a single place from their debut positions.
November 19, 2025Nov 19 Author Just now, jimwatts said:Perhaps related to this, both songs climbed in their second week in the UK Top 40. In fact only 6 songs did this in the whole of 2000, all of them climbing a single place from their debut positions.Wow. That was pretty uncommon then wasn't it?
November 19, 2025Nov 19 I didn't realise 'I'm Outta Love' was the number one single of the year in Australia!Giving it to her of course.7 minutes ago, jimwatts said:Two songs with something in common - neither of them were playlisted by Radio 1!I remember nothing from her big 2004 era got playlisted, but didn't realise this wasn't either. Did Anastasia never make the Radio 1 playlist at all then?
November 19, 2025Nov 19 32 minutes ago, jimwatts said:Two songs with something in common - neither of them were playlisted by Radio 1!Guess I should go with Anastacia, although the song's just OK for me and Bob's isn't a bad novelty.Commercial radio certainly made up for it with Anastacia, I still hear it multiple times a week now.Going with I'm Outta Love, but her 2004 singles were my favourite of her career by far.
November 19, 2025Nov 19 4 minutes ago, Jessie Where said:I remember nothing from her big 2004 era got playlisted, but didn't realise this wasn't either. Did Anastasia never make the Radio 1 playlist at all then?None of her 2001/02 singles were playlisted either, so I assume nothing of hers was.
November 19, 2025Nov 19 Author 5 minutes ago, gooddelta said:Commercial radio certainly made up for it with Anastacia, I still hear it multiple times a week now.Going with I'm Outta Love, but her 2004 singles were my favourite of her career by far.Left Outside Alone is an absolute gem. My favourite from Anastacia and close to my favourite song of 2004.
November 19, 2025Nov 19 'Left Outside Alone' is also my favourite Anastacia single. Part of the reason I went for 'Can We Fix It?'.
November 19, 2025Nov 19 43 minutes ago, jimwatts said:None of her 2001/02 singles were playlisted either, so I assume nothing of hers was.I wonder what their grudge against her was!I know her music isn't exactly "contemporary" sounding but that's hardly stopped them in the past.
November 20, 2025Nov 20 Author 1 hour ago, Jessie Where said:I wonder what their grudge against her was!I know her music isn't exactly "contemporary" sounding but that's hardly stopped them in the past.Was it an age thing? I seem to recall either her age not being commented on or not even mentioned at the time it was one of the two. Just not too sure.
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