Where Is The Love by Black Eyed Peas, I’ve always absolutely detested that utter dirge

Tony Christie - Amarillo, I remember when the Peter Kay charity mix came out when I was 10 and I was the only member of my family and one of the only kids at school who hated it which made me detest it to new depths. Still hate it as much as back then lol

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There could be some songs released earlier than this but the one what always comes to mind straight away is That's Not My Name by the Ting Tings 😅

Music Sounds Better With You by Stardust when I was 6, and I still dislike it!

Probably Wonderwall. I’ve always hated it from the moment i first heard it

I would imagine it would be a Christmas song and the first one that springs to mind is Mud's Lonely This Christmas. I always found it very depressing as a child to hear that during the happy occasion of Christmas. Probably don't despise it now, but I don't rate it either.

Also some of the hits by Outhere Brothers, the 1996 singles by The Smurfs, and some of the old country and western stuff my dad used to play, like Rawhide by Frankie Laine, although I can see the appeal in the latter now.

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I actually love it now but I know that a 3/4 year old Rob used to run out of the room in tears whenever Caught Out There by Kelis came on TV. I’ll never hear it without thinking of the deep trauma little me attached to it x

The 2018 version of In My Mind which wasn't even the original.

I think Robson and Jerome - Unchained Melody. It kept Pulp’s Common People off number 1 and 19 year old me in 1995 was mad.

Still am frankly.

There was a run of awful songs keeping classics off number 1 in the 90s:

Outhere Brothers - Boom Boom Boom blocking Supergrass - Alright

R&J - I Believe/On The Roof blocking Oasis - Wonderwall

R Kelly - I Believe I Can Fly blocking Blur - Song 2

Puff Daddy etc - I’ll Be Missing You blocking The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony

So much chart rage!

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The earliest I can recall is Soulja Boy - Crank That. The fact that everyone at school was obsessed with it made it all the more frustrating.

I remembered an earlier one...'Headstrong' by the band Trapt, in 2003.

Killing me softly by the Fugees, I thought it was such drivel and my mum played it all the time. I’m still bewildered by its success tbh.

Run DMC for keeping Stop off #1 😂 I still think stop is the superior song but I don’t dislike its like that.

Groovejet If this ain’t love again for keeping Victoria Beckham off #1 😂 I think it is the superior song now though and worthy of winning the battle.

Have a nice day by Stereophonics, I hated this with a passion!

I think it would be 'Fairground' by Simply Red. Really couldn't stand that one when I was younger and still not massively keen on it now.

I'm more tolerant and respectful of them now, but at the time I hated Westlife and by extension most of their singles. I've mentioned this on some of Gezza's weekly sales threads he's been doing alongside the TOTP reruns as to why, but for me, it was just so frustrating how they effortlessly seemed to get number ones with every single song with what, to my 10 year old eyes and ears, were nothing special, and had been largely done before - and better - by Boyzone.

And as a massive S Club 7 fan, I found it so infuriating that they always seemed to be stuck releasing on weeks against massive records - Eiffel 65, Sonique, Modjo - and had to be content with a #2 or a #3 instead. Of course, knowing what we know now and how Louis Walsh always picked a quiet week for Westlife to release in, the smoke and mirrors effect was massive because they rarely spent longer than two weeks at the top (thank God).

As I said I've grown more respectful / fonder of them since they came back in 2019. But in their initial run, bar "When You're Looking Like That" and "World Of Our Own", I couldn't stand them.

Excellent shout on "Amarillo" too. That and the flipping Crazy Frog were the scourge of my music enjoyment in the mid-late 00s. Peter Kay hijacking the Comic Relief singles with his "I am Northern and large, hence all the humour arises" bit was so infuriating when it overshadowed entirely the actual proper and by and large superior Comic Relief singles from the week before (McFly, Sugababes vs. Girls Aloud, The Saturdays).