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Interesting that there's only one pre1990s track in the top 20...

Thanks guys for clearing that up! :-)

Great thread! Just wondering about sales for Sunshine After The Rain, though. On the year-end 1995 chart it finished one place lower than Baby D's Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime on 275k, and I don't think either release fell across two years, so how did Berri get those extra sales to take her up to 338k? Just wondering, in case I missed something! :-)

Luvvit! :-)

Are kylie and madonna mates?

Hear'say: the way to your love. So cheesy! Liked it at the time, though!

No worries. I just appreciate the list - thanks again for posting!

Thanks for posting, OutstandingMike. Interesting sales for some of those tracks. Vanessa Carlton jumps out at me the most! Hasn't she pretty much sold again on download what she sold when the track was a hit? And I don't even recall seeing it make many appearances in the top 75 - must be a real steady seller!

This looks great! Nice work fchd!

If the X factor winner is Sam Bailey, I'll be happy with an X factor winner-related Christmas number one :-)

Rather grim, but the premature death of Kate and/or George, possibly? Not likely to happen, mind...

Diana Vickers - Cinderella!

I was a teen in the 90s, grew up with the charts every week and remember the chart careers of pretty much every one of those 90s tracks mentioned. Most of them, while being big-hitters, haven't really felt a great chart benefit from the download age, so I'd be glad to see any of them back in the T40! But, I do have a particular soft spot for Scarlett's independent love song - such an underrated gem. I'd also love to see a revival of Joshua kadison's Jessie or Robert miles's one & one, or even tori Amos's professional widow!

The one that springs to mind for me is atomic kitten's whole again. It was the fifth release from their debut album, following peaks of 10, 6, 10 and 20 I think. None of the other tracks passed 200k but, as we all know, whole again has to date sold over a million! It was also the track which gave them a future as, iirc, they were about to be dropped by their record company who weren't happy with their lacklustre performance in the charts to that point. Another biggie iis Robbie Williams' angels. The fourth release from his debut album, again this was the track which effectively launched his career. It followed peaks of 2, 8 and 14 I think, making number 4 in early 1998, but has sold well over a million now.

Thank you so much for this! You're a star! Cant believe they're all so low, though :-( you'll get extra points if you can make some of those totals a bit higher, haha! Thanks again, much appreciated :-)