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2 minutes ago, tasospe said:

Michael Jackson died on 25 June 2009. In the UK Albums Chart "The Essential Michael Jackson" and "Number Ones" both reached the top in July 2009 and in the singles chart "Man in the Mirror" also reached No. 1 in July 2009 following his death.

Man In The Mirror only reached number 2

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8 hours ago, Dobbo said:

Woah that's CRAZY if Dolly goes to #1 :o when you think that when previous musical legends passed it was incredibly rare for a classic of theirs to go to #1. MJ didn't do it, Whitney didn't do it, George Michael, Prince, the list goes on so would be a quite spectacular moment if it happened for Dolly. Joining the 2 Beatles!

I think the ubiquity and proliferation of streaming hadn't reached full impact when those legends passed and even in MJ and Whitney's case, streaming as yet didn't factor into chart position calculations. Kind of similar as to why Christmas songs had yet to dominate the charts back then during December. Streaming the same song 100 times benefits its chart potential. Downloading or purchasing a song once to listen a million times doesn't...

2 hours ago, gasman449 said:

Man In The Mirror only reached number 2

You are right :)

Last Christmas at least became a posthumous No.1 for George many times over, but granted not immediately after he died. I suppose the last to happen quite soon after an artist's death in relative terms (still about six months) was Aaliyah's More Than A Woman.

5 minutes ago, gooddelta said:

Last Christmas at least became a posthumous No.1 for George many times over, but granted not immediately after he died. I suppose the last to happen quite soon after an artist's death in relative terms (still about six months) was Aaliyah's More Than A Woman.

My Sweet Lord was number one the week after Aaliyah and that was just under 2 months after George's death.

9 minutes ago, gasman449 said:

My Sweet Lord was number one the week after Aaliyah and that was just under 2 months after George's death.

Oh yes of course. Very unusual that these two happened in succession and one hasn't really happened since (not very soon after their death anyway, I know Elvis had a few in 2002 and 2005, Notorious B.I.G. had a No.1 in 2006 and obviously Last Christmas).

50 minutes ago, tasospe said:

You are right :)

Cascada of all people blocking Man in the mirror is genuinely of the best chart facts 😅.

Florence’s Lungs would’ve had an extra month atop the album charts too! Although lucky for Florence it did manage a #1 peak months later!

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3 hours ago, tasospe said:

Michael Jackson died on 25 June 2009. In the UK Albums Chart "The Essential Michael Jackson" and "Number Ones" both reached the top in July 2009 and in the singles chart "Man in the Mirror" also reached No. 1 in July 2009 following his death.

You say this with such confidence as a fact.

But Man In The Mirror peaked at number 2.

36 minutes ago, Jester said:

You say this with such confidence as a fact.

But Man In The Mirror peaked at number 2.

Yes my fault

Sorry 😘

5 minutes ago, tasospe said:

Yes my fault

Sorry 😘

I wish it had got to number 1!

Lady Natalie Horler of Cascada did not go into that recording studio, record an 11.0 motherquake in the form of Evacuate The Dancefloor, just for this absolute rewrite of history cheeseblock

10 minutes ago, Lee_J11 said:

Lady Natalie Horler of Cascada did not go into that recording studio, record an 11.0 motherquake in the form of Evacuate The Dancefloor, just for this absolute rewrite of history cheeseblock

Cascadas the name of the band and she didnt write it , band member Yanou was the lead writer 😮

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3 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

Cascades the name of the band and she didnt write it , band member Yanou was the lead writer 😮

I said she recorded it not wrote it kink

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4 minutes ago, Lee_J11 said:

I said she recorded it not wrote it kink

Ill allow it even if its one of cascadas worst recordings 🤭

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13 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

Cascades the name of the band...

4 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

Ill allow it even if its one of cascades worst recordings 🤭

Who is this "Cascade" you speak of? 😁

Cascada, Jason... Cascada.

(Now go blame auto-correct!)

1 minute ago, ChrisJK said:

Who is this "Cascade" you speak of? 😁

Cascada, Jason... Cascada.

(Now go blame auto-correct!)

They had a mixed cascade of dance hits in the early 21st century did cascadA

I personally love the Hugel song and it feels genuinely feels like the biggest summer hit right now. It’s not Ai as per previous posts and it is surely the biggest hit of the week so the chart should reflect this (pls note i think as per Australia we should disqualify any fully AI song from the chart). I’m a chart fan and we definitely need rules. But we NEED it to reflect the tastes of the public and we can’t only have a chart steeped in nostalgia and history

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19 minutes ago, ChrisJK said:

Who is this "Cascade" you speak of? 😁

Cascada, Jason... Cascada.

(Now go blame auto-correct!)

There was another DJ called Kaskade in the late 2000s but he did way more sensible dance music a bit like deadmau5.

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1 hour ago, 777666jason said:

Cascadas the name of the band and she didnt write it , band member Yanou was the lead writer 😮

Of DJ Sammy Heaven fame?

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