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Going with Creed, it probably deserved to be a bigger hit here and I'm not a fan of The Road To Mandalay at all, although I think the double a-side Eternity largely drove sales of the single here.

I bought this 🫣 Thought it was really unique and interesting at the time with just the vocal and drum (although there was another version with a synth line underneath it which wasn’t as good) but I can see why the lyrics and sound would grate. And I could understand Australians getting annoyed with it at the top for so long, it was just the one week here. Sandi’s first two albums were great though and nothing like this song really - more like a cross between KT Tunstall and Amy Macdonald. What If I’m Right and The Devil’s Beat both deserved better. I loved the gall of her label releasing a Best Of album in 2009 though. Featuring all of the hit.

Yeah that’s a double confirmation sadly.

Sounds like Celine doing her best Backstreet Boys impression 😂

At least she took it back in the end! My favourite Celine single is from 1999 (That's The Way It Is) but that made it nowhere near No.1 ☹️

I couldn't find any record later than BJSC 82 in February 2016.

For the first time in very nearly 10 years, can we give a huge welcome back to Dalisska and @Sabrewulf ! What a pleasure to have back one of BJSC's earliest nations for our 180th celebration and 18-year anniversary contest! ❤️

Well spotted, oops, and edited!

Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On Rank: 9/10 Reason: The biggest selling ballad in a very ballad-heavy year, My Heart Will Go On was famously the love theme to blockbuster film Titanic, which bar none must be the film I've seen the most times in my life, particularly between 1998 and 2000. James Cameron's epic instrumental motif of the melody runs throughout the film in various guises so if you saw it - which nearly everybody did - then there was no way you wouldn't remember the melody. Canadian singer Celine, from French speaking Quebec, came to fame a decade earlier than this, when she won the Eurovision Song Contest for Switzerland, with the non-charting Ne partez pas sans moi. Her first UK hit came four years later, with Beauty and the Beast, while her only other No.1 single, Think Twice, was covered by Jester in the 1995 thread. Despite not hitting the top since then, Celine was a recognisable superstar of the 90s, with No.1 hits in the US and classic singles like Because You Loved Me and It's All Coming Back To Me Now. But it was with the powerful Titanic theme that she belted her way back to No.1, the song spending its first nine weeks in the chart in the top three, and even hitting No.1 for a second run after two weeks away. It was a gigantic hit, reached No.1 in almost every territory it was released in, won an Oscar for Best Original Song, and looked set to be the biggest seller of the year until a song still to come overtook in the closing moments of the year. It also made Celine the first woman to have two million-selling singles in the UK. I'm going to post the version that I particularly recall having a lot of airplay at the time in the UK, with dialogue from the film played during the song. Titanic was a fantastic, landmark movie, and this was a fitting song to soundtrack it.

We have an auto-veto unfortunately, with the usual caveat that there could well be more vetoes to come as research is ongoing etc... Chloe Qisha - So Sad So Hot 30 - Song is currently on the playlist of BBC Radio 1 (B-list). 25 - Also appears on the Capital Buzz playlist. - has been entered twice before, in CLXXV (failing to qualify) and CLXXIV (27th). 5 - featured on The Line Of Best Fit, Record Of The Day, DIY Magazine, Clash Music, Rolling Stone, Notion etc. - charted by 5 people (Juranamo, DaTilt, Sergej, Violet Stallion, DJCheekyMagpie) - only one of these being a BJSC participant - appeared in Pop Track of the Week 2025: Week 42, receiving 2 votes, finishing joint 5th.

I probably can't answer that without incurring the wrath of Buzzjack's mods/Google having a go at us. But it's all metaphors for you know what.

For me, eventually cottoning on to what it was about was like realising what 2 Become 1 was actually about, or rewatching Friends as an adult and finally understanding half the jokes.

Oh? A Celtic ballad is generally one of my favourite things. It finished 20 places higher than C'est La Vie in my 1998 End of Year chart at the time.

B*Witched - C'est La Vie Rank: 9/10 Reason: The first time I ever heard of Irish girlband B*Witched was in about May 1998 - iroinically a few days after we had done a maypole dance with school around the village green (don't ask) to all sorts of folk jigs. 'Have you ever heard of B*Witched?', a classmate said. 'The 1960s US sitcom about witchcraft? Yes, why's that?' I replied, to much laughter (I was still pretty out of touch with pop music at this point, yet a big fan of Samantha, Agnes and co from the 60s). I was swiftly informed all about the new pop group and their debut single C'est La Vie, which would hit No.1 later in the month and become a huge hit, spending its first seven weeks in the top four. Female pop had been riding the crest of a wave since Spice Girls and Gina G brought it crashing back to No.1 in 1996, and of course the girlband market was starting to become saturated in the wake of the former. But while the likes of Vanilla, Solid Harmonie, N-Tyce and countless others failed, B*Witched had something different about them - a recognisable fashion style in double denim, a marketing angle in identical twin sisters Edele and Keavy (and the extra helping hand that they were also sisters to Boyzone's Shane Lynch) alongside Sinead and Lindsay, a penchant for an Irish jig in the middle eight of each song, and the fact that their first two singles were unashamed pop amped to the max - not trying to appeal mainly to teens like the other bands mentioned, but hoping to get younger kids on board too with their videos full of colour that popped off the screen. C'est La Vie was arguably the cheesiest track to reach No.1 that wasn't a novelty single or otherwise related to a TV show since the Stock Aitken Waterman era. But the song was packed with hooks, charming, infectious, and relateable to kids because the production, especially the outro and that guitar effect at the end, were similar to the kinds of sounds that were used as soundbeds to kids TV shows or for continuity on things like CBBC. It was very instant. Plus the Irish were having a great 1998 already anyway thanks to Boyzone and The Corrs most notably, plus Ireland had just come off the back of winning Eurovision four times in the 90s, Riverdance was still huge after it had become popular during the interval of Eurovision 1994, and Irish music was generally very in vogue. Add to the mix lyrics aimed at kids but with plenty of obvious double entendres aimed at adults (read those verse lyrics again...), and C'est La Vie could hardly miss.

A charity single for Palestine has entered the race, features Celeste, Neneh Cherry, Dan from Bastille, Leigh-Anne, Brian Eno, Mabel and various others. The Line of Best FitCeleste, Neneh Cherry, Brian Eno and more feature on Toge...The team behind Together For Palestine have brought together several UK and Palestinian Musicians for the Christmas Charity Single, "Lullaby".

Have You Ever, I've always thought this is underrated. Jo sounds great on it and there are some lovely Carpenters style backing vocals (moment's gone). Strawberry Kisses was fun though, it was released here and played on the music channels but only made No.64.

This week we celebrate BJSC's 18th birthday! The contest was established on 23rd November 2007, making Sunday just gone the big day! Happy birthday BJSC and thank you for all the amazing memories, great musical discoveries, and the friendships it has helped to form. Come and join in the festivities if you haven't already confirmed!

I rushed out to buy A Moment Like This. Leona Lewis is the only artist I voted for every week on X Factor from start to finish and I was so happy that she won. Obviously it was a by numbers winners single though and she had far better to come so I can't argue with its placing. I do wish her cover of Could It Be Magic had been used as a b-side, that was my highlight performance from her. As an aside, thinking back to American Idol in 2002, I just remembered that in 2003 there was a World Idol competition, which neither Kelly Clarkson or Will Young won. They lost to Norway's Kurt Nilsen who had a top 40 hit here. Kelly was at least second, Will came 5th after performing his No.1 single Light My Fire, which must have hurt. Presumably he had no choice in whether he was allowed to participate or not.

Opening post updated, with a warm welcome to Zephyra Continuum!

All Saints, Cher, Cornershop, Manics and Madonna? With a possible replacement of Cher for Spice Girls!

Ditto, I had the faintest memory of using Toss The Feathers on another forum’s contest and that was as far as my memory went (forgetting even the fact I won there with another song). No doubt you sent Tone Damli if I sent Delta!

I will review Heartbeat in 1999. Spoiler - I like it more than Tragedy.

I think this was around the time BJSC looked to be faltering and we had that long break in 2010? We must have missed our contest fix so much that several of us went to another forum's contest temporarily. Did you see btw that one of your 2013 entries, Unlike Me by Kate Havnevik, has recently been going viral on TikTok (particularly the cyber$tar mix), so a new EP of mixes has been released on Spotify this week! Blast from the past.

Oh yes, Vanity Edge! The name was on the tip of my tongue but I couldn't remember it. I did also send Vaporous here (where it came 7th, had forgotten that it won there - does that mean I hosted the 11th contest there?), Eisblumem I sent to something or other I'm sure here too, and Toss The Feathers to a spin-off I think. I have never reused Flawed anywhere or Cool Vibes, although that is a Eurovision entry so wouldn't really qualify for entry in anything here.

I will start on the top 10 tomorrow and these are the songs that have made it: All Saints - Never Ever Aqua - Turn Back Time B*Witched - C'est La Vie B*Witched - To You I Belong Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On Cher - Believe Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next Madonna - Frozen Spice Girls - Viva Forever