NO 55- WHIGFIELD (1,668,900)

5 UK TOP 40 HITS

BEST SELLER: SATURDAY NIGHT (1,092,000)

The top selling wholly Danish act of the 90s was Whigfield who is, of course, best known for the million selling “Saturday Night”. She sold enough to be the 4th biggest singles act of 1994, and whilst barely anyone remembers any of her other hits she accumulated 4 top 10 hits in under 12 months. Like all massive hits “Saturday Night” ended up becoming a hindrance rather than an asset to her career, and the UK always considered her a novelty act, it didn’t help that subsequent hits sounded uncannily like a rewrite of her biggest hit.....

NO 54- UB40 (1,676,800)

14 UK TOP 40 HITS

BIGGEST HIT: (I CAN’T HELP) FALLING IN LOVE WITH YOU (609,000)

Far bigger in the first half of the decade than the second half, UB40 had been getting top 10 hits as far back as 1980. They scored 12 top 10 in the 80s and added a further 5 in the 90s including the No 1 “(I Can’t Help) Falling In Love With You” in 93 but their brand of reggae lite seemed to lose its synch with the British public, and after 98 and they disintegrated in various factions with much animosity.

Genuinely never heard of the Outthere Brothers! 😂

I always think of Sexy Eyes being Whigfields big song.

Probably because it was in Australia.

1 hour ago, Paddington James said:

I always think of Sexy Eyes being Whigfields big song.

Probably because it was in Australia.

I recall it got reasonable traction on MTV in the UK but we were seemingly unimpressed

UB40 proper act with a good run of proper hits. I still like their output whether Mrk 1 or Mrk 2, but lean more towards Ali Campbell's. One might muse that Pato Banton's number one is really a UB40 duet and I feel they should be top 50 for both that and Ali's solo hit as side projects.