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Oh yeah actually I don't mind seeing OMG this low, certainly isn't one I ever check out of choice. A bit one note for me and nowhere near the majesty of Yeah. When We Collide I actually bought on single at the time, the first winning single I'd bought since Leona Lewis in 2006. I really enjoyed his performances on the show and bought if for the b-sides on the CD. I don't have anything against the single itself, it's an ok cover, but not one I'd ever play now over the original.

Buzzjack are lucky I didn't rank this year as that was the highest ranked UK No.1 in my end of year chart...

Not a bad track. I would probably rank it around the same area, fun pop reggae cover with infectious production but not one I ever listen to out of choice.

I liked them both too, although they also were quite cheeky, sounding like The Best and Boys Of Summer respectively. Delta even sometimes mashes Back To Your Heart up with The Best when she performs it so the comparison isn't lost on her at least! Oh yeah, the album with Love on it I suppose, and maybe the early original version of A Year Ago Today. I definitely can't see that ever emerging although apparently a few copies exist physically out there somewhere.

I think the album came out in late May, this playlist seems to be mid May, so maybe they got it as an exclusive preview track prior to the album release and they justified it as Boyzone were so huge at the time. Agree it looks a bit odd though. I don't think I've ever heard the track - I didn't buy that Boyzone album and it isn't on the three disc Essential collection of theirs I have. Just checking it now and it appears to be a Cheiron production so maybe it was earmarked as a potential future single (and then No Matter What came along I guess and changed the plans for the era). I think I Love The Way You Love Me was from the re-release too (then later remixed again for the single version), so they didn't end up releasing any post-album singles from the original album's tracks.

Maybe although traditionally I think she tends to leave her 'experimental' one-offs off the albums (thinking of Heart Hypnotic and Think About You). I'm sure she must have so much canned music out there in the styles of those two songs and Back To Your Heart/Hearts On The Run that we'll never hear.

But then All That I Need was there on the a-list at the same time. Maybe it was like an album of the week situation and that was playlisted as a highlight.

I am. It's been a long wait... Very excited, intrigued to know what direction she has gone, I'm assuming the two 80s sounding singles and that general vibe from 2023/4 have been discarded and won't be on here. Good news is it looks like her independent ATLED label has a distribution partnership with Universal for this album (unexpected after she spent most of her career with Sony). This should hopefully mean the album gets a proper UK release and we don't have to import it.

(Re)confirmed, I had something in as a placeholder but had a proper think about it today and gone with something more me.

A few songs on that 1998 playlist that took a re-release (and ad campaign usage in two cases) to smash in the following two years - Bran Van 3000, Wiseguys and Sonique. B*Witched on the A-list, must be one of the poppiest, cheesiest songs Radio 1 ever A-listed! I wonder why they had a Boyzone album track on the C-list too. The current day playlist is so small in comparison.

Not my cup of tea. I never got excited about Britney's covers at all, her original material was so far superior.

Going to be Embrace for me, The Saturdays not far behind. Both are decent but I don't love either.

Lady Sov. Will's song is majestic and the video was filmed almost outside my old house (the beach in it was about a minute's walk away).

I simply don't understand how hype alone didn't carry The Flood easily to No.1, let alone the fact it's a brilliant pop song. Baffling, especially when the album sold so much out the gate shortly after. Either way, the JLS song is very dull and sounds like album filler from Blue's heyday. I'm realising a few of these (plus much of the 2011 countdown) are going to bring back nostalgia from when I lived in Wales for a year. As hearing the JLS song suddenly brought back memories that I didn't realise I had associated with this song at the time.

Not a Mariah favourite for me either but it's nice enough. She has so many great originals that it was a quirk for a long time that her only UK No.1s were two covers. Glad that was corrected a few years ago.

I would check the parent album, it's very Delta. In fact, What You're Made Of, the single that came before this one (and another top ten hit) is very similar to Not Me, Not I, so maybe see if you like that first. The Game Is Won is a great song too. Breathe In is a nice enough song, was never one I absolutely loved but nice that Lucie got another top ten hit with it, and it was quite jolly and breezy.

Nothing much to add that hasn't been said on any of these. All of them are boring, cliched, overblown, music made only for the sake of making money. However good the cause is, these records and their slapped together quickly production are inexcusable, no time or thought was put into the actual craft of the music. With that said I'd have probably put The Club Is Alive above these most recent trio, however it's a total 1/10 record (saved only by the catchy line @Jessie Where mentioned earlier), so 2010 clearly had a big run of rubbish at the top.

Yeah this would probably be bottom two for me too. One of their weakest, total b-side territory at best and it definitely wasn't Gary playing to his stregnths.

I got back into this song last year because it was always in my head anyway. In my mind it had peaked at like No.12 but I got it mixed up with Do It Again. Was so shocked when I looked it up last year and it had missed the top 40, so the new peak is definitely deserved.

Yeah B*Witched in my memory were expected to get to No.1 too, with Christina set for No.2 and Ann Lee for No.3/4 (I'm sure the Woolies chart of the time suggested the same). I bought the latter two that week and still love both now. Ann Lee did really very well there with over 150k at No.2, and she must be minted having also been behind Saturday Night and Rhythm Of The Night! The song is such an earworm. Genie In A Bottle is a pop classic though, a deserved chart topper of course for somebody who would become one of my favourite artists (if not favourite overall even from 2000-2003 until Delta emerged). I didn't really get the point of Jesse Hold On, quite a limp effort, but then was there really anything better they could have gone with? Jump Down has the same issue and some odd lyrics while I Shall Be There would have been a massive risk of a lead single that I don't think would have paid off. Basically nobody wrote them any hits for the second album, or maybe they were a 1998 thing and everyone had already moved on by this point, I'm never quite sure, probably a combination of things. I love Gabrielle's Sunshine <3 The start of a great era for her. I remember watching that first episode at the time for several reasons - my mum loving Gabrielle (and declaring that she would buy the album) and also not loving Macy Gray's song (which would become very overplayed in the weeks to come), and me being annoyed that they didn't play York's The Awakening at No.11 - which I loved and also bought that week! At least York and Fragma (who also ended up at No.11 in recent weeks) would both go onto bigger things in 2000. Some nice performances as mentioned from James (good song indeed, classic sound to it), Macy Gray and Eurythmics. I do like the Adam Rickitt song that wasn't played too (also recorded by Mandy Moore on her 2000 album weirdly). I can't say I'm a fan of Goin Down, but it was a very brave lead which I respect Mel for doing, and she clearly knew she had the material to keep the era going. I will always love the fact she basically released songs from four completely different genres as the era's first four singles, and all were big hits.

I always liked What A Girl Wants personally and bought the single at the time. I really loved Christna's debut album and all of its singles, even (and tbh especially) I Turn To You. It sounds way more dated and innocent than Stripped but is still very charming.

Completely fair! I hadn't even worked out what the song in question was (and haven't heard it yet now it's been mentioned!) so that wasn't a personal remark towards anyone in particular or about this song/artist! I will check it tomorrow, I'm sure it's good, their last entry was brilliant.

I actually like Burning Bridges as far as Quo songs go! So don't have an issue with the source material, but not overkeen on this version particularly. However, it was very impressive that one club had enough fan power to get to No.1. Such was the might of Man U in the 90s!

Both of those are a bit mid for me, Christina's track is ok but Rachel's was my least favourite single of hers, but clearly a good ploy to consolidate a big No.2 smash with a cover this time and not end up going the same way as Funky Dory did in 2003. That set her up quite well for 2005 and the majestic Come And Get It album so I respect the label for playing the long game. This version of the track is just a little bland and polished for me, and doesn't have the edge of Some Girls or her later singles.

Better yet, introduce a new rule to veto all top three artists for the first year after their top three hit. We get it, they're popular on Buzzjack, they're likely to be popular again in such a short timeframe and with a song probably from the same era, post the song in the Pop forum and find something inspired! [/brokenrecord]