6 minutes ago, Herbs said:

I have some faves I’d like to see do well in this run down (including the lesser popular half of a double a-side)

So many songs I bought on cassette / CD (I still own the cd’s)

Seasons In The Sun? 😉

I'll be ranking the double a-sides as one so my opinon on one will balance the other side but hopefully your faves won't be out too quickly!

After all these # 1s rates threads with (mostly) similar music preferences I wish to do the full ranking of UK#1s (at least from 1970 to 2009).

I loved Cliff as a kiddie, Summer Holiday the film was iconic, and his 80's stuff and into the 90's was pretty fabulous on the whole. Went to see him in concert just after Covid, and he didnt do this. Or the Xmas songs. Which was a huge relief. Just no. Assemblies having to recite the Lord's Prayer for a decade was punishment enough, I didn't need to have it set to music, and if it had to be set to music, then something less dirge-like than the New Year's Eve anthem would have been preferable, another annual tradition I can do without, bah humbug! 😇

No complaints about those two as the bottom 2. I don't hate 'Millenium Prayer' quite like others but it is a 'wtf was he thinking' sort of release. The musical element is so so bland too. A shame as like you was a fan of M&W and SD. Boyzone's just dull and tbh is one I forgot almost and with good reason lol.

Oh, forgot Boyzone. I loved Anne Murray (still do, she just came out of retirement to drop an album of cuts that never made previous albums, plus a couple of revamped ones, all very nice). Snowbird is a Canadian anthem, and You Needed Me was her long-deserved UK chart comeback and US chart-topper, classy ballad with her honey-sweet vocal. Ronan is not Anne Murray. Should have given it to Stephen Gateley to sing. Anne's toppped my 1979 personal chart, Boyzone's...didn't.

1 hour ago, Last Dreamer said:

After all these # 1s rates threads with (mostly) similar music preferences I wish to do the full ranking of UK#1s (at least from 1970 to 2009).

If it’s one big thread, that can wait please until we are all done with our threads that are planned.

Odd that most of us have one taste and you a other totally different, but I guess that makes us all unique.

Also, that Boyzone song is awful so no loss there!

Both of these are utterly vile.

I think it might've been Cliff's idea to try and get the first #1 of the millennium so he would have #1's in six decades.

22 hours ago, Last Dreamer said:

My bottom : Livin' La Vida Loca (worst single from 1999 year), King of My Castle, 9PM (Till I Come), You Don't Know Me, Praise You

These worse than the Millennium Prayer??

33. 911 - A Little Bit More

Rank: 4/10

Reason: Another boyband with another 70s country(-ish) cover, Lee, Spike and Jimmy first hit the charts in 1996 and unusually took three years to score their first (and only) No.1 single with A Little Bit More. They had hit the top five six times prior to this, and scored their previous biggest hit, More Than A Woman, a few months earlier but it lost out to Gym and Tonic by Spacedust. They capitalised on the weak January market with the release of A Little Bit More, a cover of the 1976 No.2 hit by Dr Hook, part of their covers album There It Is, and it did the trick, finally taking them to the top, but had a very poor chart run with only five weeks in the top 40.

I've got a lot of time for this group, they all seem like genuinely nice guys and I once interviewed Jimmy for my blog, and he gave a very likeable and entertaining interview. They had done a PA at my primary school back in early 1998 when they had already got a few top five hits under their belt, so they were still doing the schools circuit and grafting in front of 200 kids even when they didn't really need to, and their first two chart hits they achieved on an independent label, before Virgin picked them up, so they really worked hard for their success.

The trio did deserve to finally get a No.1 to their name but really this was one of their weakest singles and a fairly beige retread, so I guess familiarity and good timing took it there. Weirdly they commercially ran out of steam in this same year, achieving a No.3 hit with Private Number in May (which I loved actually, it was a far more inspired choice of cover than this), then missed the top 10 with the chirpy Wonderland in the autumn, and that was that. Shame, but pop had really moved on by this point, so it wasn't altogether surprising really.

They are still a big deal in Vietnam, and their 2023 collaboration with recent Intervision winner Đức Phúc, I Do (itself a reworking of a 2013 album track by the band) has 28m streams combined on Spotify and 80m YouTube views, so good for them.

Edited December 8, 2025Dec 8 by gooddelta

I was expecting 911 next

Good for them getting a number one but soooo forgettable

2 hours ago, Mack. said:

These worse than the Millennium Prayer??

The Millennium Prayer is possibly in top 10 for UK#1s in 1999.

Shame 911 had this song as their number 1, it’s so dull.

They did some great songs, but not this one!

Shame this was their #1 and not 'Bodyshakin'

Absolutely love 'Wonderland'!

Had a listen on "A Little Bit More" today and it is really awful.

9 hours ago, Last Dreamer said:

After all these # 1s rates threads with (mostly) similar music preferences I wish to do the full ranking of UK#1s (at least from 1970 to 2009).

7 hours ago, Jester said:

If it’s one big thread, that can wait please until we are all done with our threads that are planned.

Odd that most of us have one taste and you a other totally different, but I guess that makes us all unique.

Just to add to this, I'm not sure we need the same years covering again in quick succession just because you have a different view on things - many of us do have different choices as favourites of each year and there's room in the existing threads for you and everyone else to demonstrate their difference of opinion - indeed I'm sure it's welcomed to generate discussion.

That said, we do want to continue to with these and there is scope for you to cover some of the years that haven't already been assigned - although I think they are mostly in the 70s and potentially some of the 80s, but I think that may suit you as some of the years to cover? The only one I'd like to do myself from that period is 1979 as that's my year of birth and I'm keen to revisit those to see what I make of the music back then.

Maybe drop us a line with the years that you're most interested in doing and we'll see how that compares to the ones that people have already requested?

1 hour ago, Jessie Where said:

Shame this was their #1 and not 'Bodyshakin'

Absolutely love 'Wonderland'!

I actually like Wonderland too, although often forget about it as it disappeared so quickly and didn't make it onto any compilations etc. The tides of pop really changed in late 1999, with B*Witched's underperformance too, things were becoming more Americanised imo and you had to adapt, like Steps quickly did with the Buzz singles, or disappear.

I hadn't heard anything from 911 until just now. (Though I do recall seeing them in the TOTP magazines around this time). I must admit just going off this one song, they haven't really got me jumping to check out anything else from them.

47 minutes ago, Paddington James said:

I hadn't heard anything from 911 until just now. (Though I do recall seeing them in the TOTP magazines around this time). I must admit just going off this one song, they haven't really got me jumping to check out anything else from them.

Try Bodyshakin’ - that’s a good one!