By the way... I had a quick look on the BBC page today. I suspect we're about to have a few more episodes skipped over as after the reshowing of 31st March episode on Friday 28th August, it then jumps forward to 28th April:

Looking at the list of Top 40 broadcasts on Radio 1 from this year, I suspect this is because S**** M**** was filling in for Mark Goodier on those weeks, and thus doing the top 20 rundown on the episodes from those weeks in between. I dare say they'll probably turn up on YouTube as the other 1999 ones did but something to bear in mind.

Edited Friday at 17:511 day by ThePensmith

Say what you will about Geri’s talent or her music, but it cannot be denied that she really was a massive pop star in her first era! First female to feature on 10 U.K #1 singles, I didn’t actually realise that, plus first to have 3 (4 shortly after) consecutive solo #1s, the album eventually going double platinum. She doesn’t get nearly enough credit for how well she did initially, the media used any opportunity to call her a flop just because she wasn’t seeking 800k a single / over a million an album like spice girls did.

Can we avoid spoilers of future peaks for tracks please.

15 minutes ago, Gezza said:

Can we avoid spoilers of future peaks for tracks please.

Apologies. 🥺

For those wandering why Lulu suddenly got a hit in 2000 it's because the CD single contained "Better Get Ready" which was the theme to "Red Alert With The National Lottery" which Lulu also hosted on a Saturday night plus the below club mix of "Hurt So Bad" which was popular in clubs in late 99/ early 2000. Both of these had flopped on first release but had since had a revival.

I think was another stab of "post-Cher" dance overall for 60/70s/80s singers that had worked well for Diana Ross and Tina Turner around this time.

'Mama Told Me Not To Come' and 'Bag It Up' are awful :( They just have that 'forced fun' quality to them. Being overplayed on the radio/music channels didn't help.

Edited Friday at 20:151 day by TheSnake

10 minutes ago, TheSnake said:

'Mama Told Me Not To Come' and 'Bag It Up' are awful :( They just have that 'forced fun' quality to them. Being overplayed on the radio/music channels didn't help.

I really like mama told me not to come. I don’t really rate bag it up but when it comes on I find myself singing along at the top of my voice… “JUST A BAD CASE OF OPPOSITE SEX, CAUSE MEN ARE FROM VENUS AND GIRLS ARE FROM MARS!” 😂

51 minutes ago, Spiceboy said:

Apologies. 🥺

Naughty boy

But in the case of Geri, it was my favourite single of hers at the time (probably still is!)

I forgot that it was Bag It Up that prevented Blink from getting the #1! Iconic behaviour tbh xo

Edited Friday at 20:441 day by Lee_J11

Blink-182 were popular in my school at the time but I didn't like them. But now I do.

Edited Friday at 20:541 day by TheSnake

27 minutes ago, Lee_J11 said:

Naughty boy

But in the case of Geri, it was my favourite single of hers at the time (probably still is!)

I forgot that it was Bag It Up that prevented Blink from getting the #1! Iconic behaviour tbh xo

Now that's what I call justice! 😂

'All The Small Things' is a rock tune. Like 'Still D.R.E' as well.

'Mama Told Me Not To Come' is... alright but not particularly cared for that. Like the 5ive song and bought Geri's (I know it's naff cheese but 7 year old self didn't care then haha). Actually bought all of Geri's singles from that one up to 'Calling'. Wouldn't say she was my top Spice Girl but that would suggest otherwise lol.

Bag It Up was my 8th birthday No.1! Absolute camp cheese! 😁

I've always liked blink-182, and still do to this day. I do think "All The Small Things" helped, but around that time my older sister was a mosher so she helped me get into them.

Still D.R.E is an absolute behemoth. Even when I was in the middle of nowhere in Thailand with my travel buddies on the back of a large TukTuk the driver had this song blasting out as we were heading to our accommodation. Absolute mega hit.

Much as I loathe Geri, I do have some love for 'Bag It Up'. Blink-182 is also a tune!

'Don't Give Up' is a classic for me, crazy how that was such a close-run thing at the top that week.

I really like ATB's version of 'Killer', although I will admit maybe not entirely necessary.

I don't think 'Don't Wanna Let You Go' is that bad! A little bit on the generic side maybe, but so were a lot of boyband hits back then. I didn't really notice it at the time, but that must have seemed like a bit of a surprising flop for all involved.

43 minutes ago, Tylky said:

Still D.R.E is an absolute behemoth.

Yeah its bigger now as a hip hop classic than it was at the time. Good song.

A reminder that there will be no 2000 shows next Friday 21st.

There will be one show on Friday 28th at 8.45pm.

The provisional schedule for the 4th September has 2 shows from 2000 at 8pm.

Can’t they just dub over Scott Mills on the chart rundown? It seems ridiculous to lose this many episodes because of it.

I missed that first episode at the time as we were still away in Tenerife and hadn't set a VHS to record, so it was cool to finally see it now. Clearly I had no internet access over there (not unusual in early 2000 but we had it back at home), because I remember checking the charts on my return to the UK a day or two after, and being gobsmacked that Don't Give Up had got to No.1, and that Five ended up at No.9, I had almost expected the reverse to happen. I didn't see Chicane/Bryan coming at all.

Don't Wanna Let You Go is definitely not great and felt like a slightly weird March single to me anyway, it had a kind of autumnal Halloween vibe to me for some reason. Either way, their star was at the highest it had been at that point so No.9 made little sense to me at the time, and still doesn't.

Not a fan of Bag It Up or Killer (usually love ATB but this was more or less identical to Adamski apart from the added pitch bending sound) but I like All The Small Things and love Still D.R.E. Also nice to see Lene Marlin unexpectedly climb into the top five, and I didn't mind Mama Told Me Not To Come, impressive really that Tom Jones chalked up so many big hits from one album!

Annoyed at the missing episodes considering some of the great hits from those weeks.