Posted March 11, 200619 yr 1997 RECORDS OF THE YEAR THE RESULTS :lol: Thanks to the 27 of you who voted (on CC RIP). Coming up first is Positions 50 to 21...... 50th Teletubbies - Teletubbies Say Eh-Oh 0 Points 49th Boyzone - Baby Can I Hold You 7 48th Rosie Gaines - Closer Than Close 12 47th Fugees - Rumble In The Jungle 23 46th Wyclef Jean - Gone Till November 31 45th Coolio - C U When U Get There 35 44th No Mercy - Where Do You Go 36 43rd Katrina & The Waves - Love Shine A Light 39 42th Backstreet Boys - As Long As You Love Me 43 41st Sash! - Encore Une Fois 47 40th U2 - Staring At The Sun 48 39th Elton John - Candle In The Wind 97 49 38th Spice Girls - Who Do You Think You Are 50 37th Eternal - Angel Of Mine 59 36th Will Smith - Men In Black 61 35th Ultra Nate - Free 66 34th Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats 73 33rd Oasis - D'you Know What I Mean? 74 32nd DJ Quicksilver - Bellissima 76 31st Eternal ft Bebe Winans - I Wanna Be The Only One 82 30th Various - Perfect Day 82 29th Shola Ama - You Might Need Somebody 83 28th Supergrass - Richard III 85 27th Gala - Freed From Desire 86 26th Republica - Ready To Go 86 25th Hanson - MMMBop 87 24th Rembrandts - I'll Be There For You 87 23rd Olive - You're Not Alone 91 22nd R Kelly - I Believe I Can Fly 95 21st Placebo - Nancy Boy 97 The Top 20 songs remaining are: All Saints - Never Ever Aqua - Barbie Girl Blur - Song 2 Cardigans - Lovefool Chumbawamba - Tubthumping Dario G - Sunchyme Janet Jackson - Together Again Meredith Brooks - Bitch Natalie Imbruglia - Torn No Doubt - Don't Speak Puff Daddy - I'll Be Missing You Radiohead - Paranoid Android Robbie Williams - Old Before I Die Sheryl Crow - Everyday Is A Winding Road Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life Texas - Say What You Want Tori Amos - Professional Widow Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony Verve - The Drugs Don't Work White Town - Your Woman But who has finished in the Top3 to Automatically Qualify for the Record Of The Decade Final & who has finished 4th-8th to qualify for the Play-offs? Up Next Positions 20 to 13...... 20th Dario G - Sunchyme 102 19th Tori Amos - Professional Widow 104 18th Aqua - Barbie Girl 108 17th Robbie Williams - Old Before I Die 110 16th Puff Daddy - I'll Be Missing You 111 15th Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life 117 14th White Town - Your Woman 124 13th Janet Jackson - Together Again 126
March 11, 200619 yr Author Just missing out on the Play-offs Positions 12 - 09 are: 12th Chumbawamba - Tubthumping 139 11th Radiohead - Paranoid Android 139 10th Sheryl Crow - Everyday Is A Winding Road 140 9th Meredith Brooks - Bitch 164 The final 8 Records are: All Saints - Never Ever Blur - Song 2 Cardigans - Lovefool Natalie Imbruglia - Torn No Doubt - Don't Speak Texas - Say What You Want Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony Verve - The Drugs Don't Work But which 3 Records made the Top3?
March 11, 200619 yr Author Making the play offs are: 8th Verve - The Drugs Don't Work 166 Pts (12 votes including 1 1st, 2 2nd & 4 3rd places) 7th Cardigans - Lovefool 174 Pts (19 votes including 2 2nd places) 6th Texas - Say What You Want 183 Pts (19 votes including 1 1st place) 5th All Saints - Never Ever 206 Pts (16 votes including 1 2nd place) 4th Blur - Song 2 206 Pts (16 votes including 1 1st, 2 2nd & 2 3rd places) But from early on in the scoring on the Top three Records of 1997 was never much in doubt! :lol:
March 11, 200619 yr Author In 3rd place finishing a massive 77 Points ahead of the 4th placed song is: 3rd Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony 283 Points (21 votes - 3 1st, 2 2nd & 2 3rd places) This song only made #2 behind Puff Daddy's I'll Be Missing You and was based on an 1960s orchestral string sample of a version of the Rolling Stones 1965 #1 The Last Time. Sadly for Richard Ashcroft he lost the songwriting royalties to Mick Jagger & Keith Richards. So which Record has won: Torn or Don't Speak?
March 11, 200619 yr Author I should add if there is a Tie in points I decide the position by the most number of 1st places, the most number of 2nd places etc. (The same rules as the Eurovision Song Contest!) Because: 2nd Natalie Imbruglia - Torn 339 Points (25 votes including 4 1st, 3 2nd & 3 3rd places). This debut single from the ex-Neighbours star went to #2 in the UK charts behind Aqua's Barbie Girl! It's also one of four tracks in 1996/1998 to Top the Billboard Airplay charts (along with the Goo Goo Dolls' Iris & No Doubt's Dont Speak & the 1996 Record Of The Year Fugees' Killing Me Softly) but not count to the US Billboard Top100 as it was not released on a physical format - until the rules changed in 1998. 1st No Doubt - Don't Speak 339 Points (25 votes - 4 1st, 4 2nd & 4 3rd places). This UK #1 was there UK breakthrough track which introduced Europe to their lead singer & future Mrs Gavin Rossdale, Gwen Stefani. Taken from their US chart-topping album Tragic Kingdom.
March 11, 200619 yr I'm glad this contest was not lost when CC went offline. Can't really argue with the winner - a great song. And I'm happy that some unusual songs like 'Your Woman' and 'Paranoid Android' did so well. PS looking forward to ranking the 1998 hits. This contest is a great idea - the shortlists you're doing are very representative of the years.
March 14, 200619 yr I love these competitions! Love the top 2 - very close but I expected No Doubt to come out on top
March 14, 200619 yr I thought Wyclef was released in 1998 in the UK? 16/05/1998 Wyclef Jean Gone Till November 3 {3}-4-5-13-19-28-36-50-70->9
March 14, 200619 yr so glad dont speak won, a deserved winner even if i am biased...great to see bittersweet symphony so high too
March 14, 200619 yr i totally agree with the result... on the list it was my fav track of the year, i only like embrace 'all you good good people' better..
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