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Fairground would be in my top ten, I think it's great and like the quieter verses and the much bigger chorus (the sudden change up is like being at the top of a rollercoaster). The sample is well used. Boom Boom Boom is catchy but annoying, I really didn't like this group. Pass on MJ and his saccharine R Kelly song, luckily I never liked it in the first place and certainly wouldn't listen to it now.

Entered! Nice set of questions. Some I could really only think of a couple of possible answers for.

Oh my at the FSR Rontvia fanclub folder haha. The art direction here is, as expected, superb. I've confirmed...for now. A semi recycle.

I love the bassline, production and the Faith Evans part but Fatman Scoop adds absolutely nothing for me with his shouting. I guess it would be down in my bottom three or four overall. Interestingly, I bought a secondhand DJ compilation the other day from 2001 which had It Takes Two on it, so I was thinking his breakthrough must have been a long time coming.

Great debut for Korku! Even higher charting than Enfrente ❤️ Thank you for three months of maximum support. Nice run for The Subway, it tumbled down the official chart way too quickly. Wolf Alice's album was way more 70s style radio rock than I anticipated but I enjoyed it.

Yeah that's fair for Gareth, it's a decent charity cover, not one I seek out to listen to but not horrendous and I agree that the bits by the Kumars are well placed and funny - the 'big sitar solo' was great. Seems we missed a 2020 hit revival of Spirit in The Sky then, the 17 year streak has been broken! We did get a song of the same name charting by Keiino the year before though.

I can't argue with this order. I really didn't like Don't Stop at all. Love Can Build A Bridge is fine but, as is often the way with superstar collaborations, way less than the sum of its parts. What a naff song to be Neneh's only UK No.1.

Sarah McLachlan - Better Broken Ed Sheeran - Play Sabrina Carpenter - Man's Best Friend JADE - THAT'S SHOWBIZ BABY! Saint Etienne - International Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Perimenopop Laufey - A Matter Of Time Lola Young - I'm Only F**king Myself CMAT - EURO-COUNTRY Alexis Strum - Swim

Clearly a pointless vote but Coldplay. I truly love the other two (and still Like Viva La Vida but less so these days).

Going for The Script, the singles from their debut were fairly hit or miss for me.

Snow Patrol again.

The album, Better Broken, is out now and is great, it's very easily her best work since 2003's Afterglow, one of my all-time favourite albums. As well as the great lead single posted above, second single Gravity is beautiful - one of her very best ballads, and third single Reminds Me features Katie Gavin from MUNA. Also a documentary looking at her 90s female music festival Lilith Fair is on Disney+ today and is so worth a watch. It can't be understated how much Sarah and her team did for women in the music industry in the 90s and for helping to drive diversity, inclusivity and changing attitudes. So many great artists interviewed in this too - Jewel, Paula Cole, Sheryl Crow, Lisa Loeb, Tracy Chapman and so many more.

That's one song I'd have put below Busted; a crushing bore and clearly released as a response to the success of If You're Not The One (it was a new song on a deluxe edition iirc). For me this didn't deserve to be a No.1 at all, I agree that it completely pales in comparsion to all of the album's other singles. I too always found the chart peaks he achieved amusing during that era, Friday only making No.28 was a shock but I guess the album had sold very well by then.

I remember they had to change the name from Crash and Burn due to the space shuttle disaster a couple of months before the single release. Either way, it's kind of mid-tier Busted for me, they definitely had worse (Who's David...again), and better. I'd probably put it a couple of places higher but not a great deal. It was in the chart on the same month as my end of secondary school prom, but despite the way the lyrics potentially suited that situation, I do not recall hearing this song there. One other song still to come ended up being the big anthem of the evening, unfortunately.

Interesting that the audience seemed older to me than usual in that second episode? I guess due to the football overload they got a slightly more rowdy crowd in? Either way, Vindaloo is a good laugh but I genuinely love 3 Lions '98 (my preferred version as well, agree that it has more oomph and I like the commentary soundbites in it), and the great Carnaval De Paris. So inspired to get instruments on the track from every participating nation. England United though is such joylous crap. It did feel like the Spice Girls brand was just everywhere to the point of overkill by this point, and for no real reason in the case of this incredibly boring indie plod, apart from presumably to help it sell, but some songs are a lost cause from the off. No wonder Geri walked out of the band soon after 🥲 Life is so ridiculous lyrically but actually musically a great pop song, and it was nice to see Des'ree get a top ten hit. Got The Feelin' is a good one by Five, their star was rising rapidly and the J/Abs fronted rap worked so well. The second chart specifically reminds me of a very late (as in one month before it ended for good) primary school trip to the swimming pool at Butlins in Bognor Regis where we were singing all of these football songs plus C'est La Vie on the coach (along with the Olé Olé Olé chant). A very fun day out for an 11-year-old.

Absolutely love it, as expected. Scratches the 00s itch of stuff like Ain't No Other Man and Crazy In Love plus Mark Ronson productions.

I didn't mind Saturday Night At The Movies. Partly because I have no great love for the original, and partly because their voices were less exposed on uptempos.

I would personally put that last. For me Westlife were reaching the point of their career here (after the unfortunate underperformance of the more inspired and interesting Hey Whatever) where they would release a bland cover every November, get a big hit, issue a marginally more interesting original poppy follow up that would peak at 3 or 4 and then rinse and repeat a year later. Thankfully they didn't issue a single from the 2004 Allow Us To Be Frank album (Smile was promoted but not released) so we were spared one cycle. But no arguments from me on the songs in the bottom three at least, just a slightly different order.

The sales! Compared to a few weeks prior. I'll comment properly after the episode but a note that in the era of held back singles and frontloading, Daz Sampson pulled the climbing into the top ten trick on three occasions (on each occasion going past 13 and 12 first weirdly): Kung Fu Fighting: 13-12-11-8 Out Of Touch: 12-16-13-15-13-7 Teenage Life: 13-12-8 Unfortunately Rhinestone Cowboy went 12-25 for him but at least he preserved his catalogue of 12s.

It's on a fairly insufferable TikTok trend I keep seeing everywhere of people showing 'glow-ups' of their partners. House Tour deserves this virality (and Nobody's Son).

Cowell needs to leave this song alone but Robson & Jerome was definitely the worst version. Reed thin vocals to start with and if those were being propped up by session singers too then it's not a good look. Sometimes people really would buy any old dross that had got a prominent TV push.

There are a couple of other songs I'd rank lower. By no means do I enjoy Changes but I don't really hate it either, I just find the terrible vocals quite hilarious in that the label and artists saw fit to release it. And that hundreds of thousands of people then bought it just shows how highly hyped everything to do with The Osbournes was at the time. One Word is only good because Kelly's voice is drowned in effects, she isn't exactly a vocal talent sadly. Funny because I was just looking at Busted in that video and thinking 'they look soooo young'. Maybe the failure of their signature hit to get to No.1 and past David Sneddon inspired an actual No.1 for them, Who's David.

My sister was obsessed with him and this song, so I know the song and his whole album very well. The track is awful - particularly lyrically as you say - and would be second last for me, but I liked follow-up Don't Let Go. The album version of Stop Living The Lie is slightly better - this sanitised single version isn't even up on Spotify.

A very transitional year for me. In the same year I left school, started college, and got my first ever job (plus I vividly remember stuff like the Iraq war, the space shuttle disaster, Jemini's nul points), so these songs are attached to all sorts of memories, good and bad. I thought music was in a bit of a state living through it, but looking back I appreciate this is because my first true love Eurodance/Europop basically died off commercially this year apart from a couple of songs and my affections moved over to Delta Goodrem - and this was the year my all-time favourite album was released so I can't give it too much stick. Retrospectively, it was actually the first year that felt like a new decade to me musically, and I was getting used to the changes. I still see 2000-2002 as extensions to the bubblegum pop and 90s sound in many ways, 2003 felt much more distinct and different, way more rap/hip-hop/indie and rock etc, genres were fusing, and pop was moving in more beat and production driven ways while different sub genres of dance were doing well (although mostly it wasn't a big year for dance). The year certainly produced its fair share of classic singles although many didn't get to No.1. I do have a very clear last place here though and there are a couple of others that get a hard time that I don't mind.

Oh my at last - that really went down like a lead balloon, I really like it 🤣 Thank you to Herbs and Jim for the high points though! Well done uhsting! Glad Jim came second; that was one of the only two songs I loved! Glad the other from WhoOdyssey finished top ten too! Thanks Addy for hosting, I think I can accept that I’m no good at Nuggets!!