single sales so high!!

6 hours ago, vibe said:

single sales so high!!

It's the golden age of the CD single, not to mention the held back single!

Since I last posted... 'Better Off Alone' was and is one of my favourites of the year, a huge dance anthem with an undercurrent of melancholy. Hadn't realised its sales for the first week at #2 were so huge and would have been enough to get past Westlife the week after, so close in the end.

Lou Bega and Eiffel 65 both going Top 40 on import and then going to #1 with >200k sales *.* I was in Mallorca in the build up to those debuts and both songs were already everywhere. 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)' is another huge favourite of mine which I bought on full release, the lyrical concept and the piano riff are so strong.

'The Launch' and 'Get Get Down' are both evocative 1999 dance hits too - I hadn't considered the latter setting a record for its repetition of "down"!

I do remember 10 year old me being salty that "S Club Party" wasn't a second consecutive number one for S Club 7 despite the fact "Blue" was miles ahead of it. It did feel eternally like my favourite acts at the time seemed to rarely have a clear run for the top spot with their new singles when others *cough*WESTLIFE*cough* did. It's still one of their best singles for me though, and I loved the "Back to the Fifties" special that accompanied it.

I actually rather liked Tom Jones in his "Reload" era, especially The Cardigans and also Stereophonics on later singles. Now that is one album that must surely be overdue a vinyl reissue of some kind!

I quite liked Everything But The Girl on the first episode tonight as well, nice continuation of their "Missing" / "Walking Wounded" era. I LOVED Kelle Bryan as well, she was my favourite in Eternal, wish we'd got her solo album in full.

Glorious charts, this is the era that the iconic Now 44 sourced a lot of its material from.

I was so obsessed with Blue (Da Ba Dee) that I was one of the import buyers, I think it was about £6 but I had to have it, and it had lots of remixes and the instrumental. I do remember thinking that was a competitive week with S Club 7, Shania and Britney all releasing, yet it easily held them all at bay.

I really liked Burning Down The House and the Reload era too, The Cardigans worked really well with Tom Jones and that was a cool choice of lead single for the project.

I bought The Launch too, which also topped my fledgling personal chart at the time. I still love that, what an era for the Eurohit!

Mambo No.5 is of course a classic too, while We're Going to Ibiza was a memorable No.1 also, although its CGI video looks absolutely primitive now.

Such an amazing era, we really were gearing up for to party for the millennium in style weren't we.

Aside from those, it was good to see Kelle Bryan doing Higher Than Heaven, such uplifting pop gospel that was covered by Australian Popstars winners Bardot on their debut album. Kelle deserved a bigger solo career than that.

Nice song from Bowie too in Thursday's Child and I didn't mind that Sting song Brand New Day. Shame there was no play for Fragma's Toca Me, although we know what legacy that ended up having.

I forgot to comment the other week but must pay my respect to Thunderbugs. I've always been absolutely obsessed with that song and it ended up in my top ten of the year, such gorgeously wistful and melancholy pop verses paired with a Belinda Carlisle style power chorus. It must be the first song that ever made me feel nostalgic, due to the lyrics, which as I was only 12 was quite a feat. They must have had a lot of hype behind them to open with that strong sale, I guess I must have heard it on The Box a lot as remember the video vividly. Also, Jane the lead singer was such a charismatic frontwoman who used to remind me of Courteney Cox. This band were absolutely robbed of a longer career. I ended up getting their album on MiniDisc, which is the only physical format it was released in!

Also, Moving by Supergrass is a song I've come to appreciate so much more over the years, the intro and verses are gorgeous, Nerina Pallot did a lovely cover of it last year.

53 minutes ago, gooddelta said:

Glorious charts, this is the era that the iconic Now 44 sourced a lot of its material from.

I was so obsessed with Blue (Da Ba Dee) that I was one of the import buyers, I think it was about £6 but I had to have it, and it had lots of remixes and the instrumental. I do remember thinking that was a competitive week with S Club 7, Shania and Britney all releasing, yet it easily held them all at bay.

I really liked Burning Down The House and the Reload era too, The Cardigans worked really well with Tom Jones and that was a cool choice of lead single for the project.

I bought The Launch too, which also topped my fledgling personal chart at the time. I still love that, what an era for the Eurohit!

Mambo No.5 is of course a classic too, while We're Going to Ibiza was a memorable No.1 also, although its CGI video looks absolutely primitive now.

Such an amazing era, we really were gearing up for to party for the millennium in style weren't we.

Aside from those, it was good to see Kelle Bryan doing Higher Than Heaven, such uplifting pop gospel that was covered by Australian Popstars winners Bardot on their debut album. Kelle deserved a bigger solo career than that.

Nice song from Bowie too in Thursday's Child and I didn't mind that Sting song Brand New Day. Shame there was no play for Fragma's Toca Me, although we know what legacy that ended up having.

I forgot to comment the other week but must pay my respect to Thunderbugs. I've always been absolutely obsessed with that song and it ended up in my top ten of the year, such gorgeously wistful and melancholy pop verses paired with a Belinda Carlisle style power chorus. It must be the first song that ever made me feel nostalgic, due to the lyrics, which as I was only 12 was quite a feat. They must have had a lot of hype behind them to open with that strong sale, I guess I must have heard it on The Box a lot as remember the video vividly. Also, Jane the lead singer was such a charismatic frontwoman who used to remind me of Courteney Cox. This band were absolutely robbed of a longer career. I ended up getting their album on MiniDisc, which is the only physical format it was released in!

Also, Moving by Supergrass is a song I've come to appreciate so much more over the years, the intro and verses are gorgeous, Nerina Pallot did a lovely cover of it last year.

You can get Thunderbugs' album on CD as well! I got a copy imported from Germany via Discogs a few years back for not very much.

And YES to Nerina Pallot's cover of "Moving"! Beautiful version she did, sort of a soft Donna Summer disco vibe.

Oh yes, I meant that the Thunderbugs album was only released on MiniDisc format in the UK (as I bought it when it was released so didn't know about the import CD then). Glad it finally surfaced on streaming a few years ago too.