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Thanks for upload. I'm guessing as they are interviewing Billie about being no 1 then it must be July and not June 98?

Hoping for the first elimination on Friday!

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Yes they've uploaded the alternative late version on TOTP on iPlayer for some reason! The Gately performance is in my post if you want to see it!

Ued to love that Angelic track!

17TH JUNE She’s done the unthinkable! Yes Sonique holds onto the No 1 spot for a third week! Not normally something to remark upon but no single has managed such an extended stay at the top in 2000 even though she took another 22% sales hit week on week (actually following a 44% cut the week before) to 85,000 which brings its total sales to 389,000 after three weeks. Also, just as last week, the highest new entry couldn’t keep the midweek No 2 position and falls back behind S Club 7 who spend a third week in the runner up position keeping Sonique company. “Reach” sold 53,000 copies to do it and has sold 263,000 so far. Even though it faded “Mama Who Da Man” must be classed as a success for Richard Blackwood, a man whose fame so far has rested on being a stand up comedian and TV presenter who recently moved into the world of chat show host with the “Richard Blackwood Show”. He proves his diversity by being a popstar now with a track which lifts the chorus from Junior’s #7 hit “Mama Used To Say” from 1982, Blackwood does much better spinning in at No 3 (43,000) but the two are related with Junior being Blackwood’s uncle. Some had predicted that the new Travis single would be a sure fire No 1 hit, well that proved an optimistic prediction as it smashes in at No 5 (36,000). It is the first release from their forthcoming third album due at Christmas and is a guaranteed big seller given that the group’s “The Man Who” album is the bestselling album of 2000 so far despite having no singles plucked from it in this year having sold over 2 million copies so far. “Coming Around” does however become their third top 10 hit in a row and their biggest yet. Interestingly the last British solo female to spend at least three weeks at No 1 prior to Sonique this week was Gabrielle in 1993 and the lady herself returns at No 6 (34,000) with a third release from the “Rise” album “When A Woman”. It is of course the follow up to the chart topping “Rise” which is the 4th biggest seller of the year so far so there were high hopes for this and it does the job in becoming her 5th straight top 10 single and pushes the album back up 14-9. Birmingham trio B-15 project are riding the way of 2 step garage which has taken the charts by storm in the past year, “Girls Like This” features the vocals of Chrissy D & Lady G and comes in at No 7 (31,000). The B-15 relates to the postcode where the boys are from FYI. George Michael’s previous duets with Queen, Aretha Franklin and Elton John have all been No 1 singles but his new partner Whitney Houston sees him arrive at No 9 (28,000). “If I Told You That” was originally a solo track for Houston on her last album “My Love Is Your Love” but now gets re-recorded and remixed for this single release, it’s Houston’s 15th and Michael’s 20th top 10 single. Euro 2000 started on Saturday and that must mean an anthem for the competition for the English team! Step forward Fat Les who gave us the unofficial anthem “Vindaloo” back in 1998 which was only prevented from being a chart topper by “Three Lions 98”, this time they get the gig officially and “Jerusalem” gets the Fat Les treatment. Started out as a poem by William Blake it was made into a hymn by Hubert Parry in 1916, it was made into a hit single first by the Fall in 1988 (#59) but now into a much bigger hit with Fat Les new at No 10 (27,000). York hold fast at No 4 (37,000) and Mary Mary free themselves 5-8 (28,000). 1- IT FEELS SO GOOD- Sonique (85,000) 2- REACH- S Club 7 (53,000) 3- MAMA WHO DA MAN- Richard Blackwood (43,000) 4- ON THE BEACH- York (37,000) 5- COMING AROUND- Travis (36,000) 6- WHEN A WOMAN- Gabrielle (34,000) 7- GIRLS LIKE US- B15 Project (31,000) 8- SHACKLES (PRAISE YOU)- Mary Mary (28,000) 9- IF I TOLD YOU THAT- George Michael & Whitney Houston (28,000) 10- JERUSALEM- Fat Les 2000 (27,000)

Hopefully we'll get better quality clips after tonight's shows and i can replace some of the links...

10TH JUNE The top of the charts has an oddly stoic air to it this week with the top 2 remaining the same as last week which means that “It Feels So Good” becomes the fourth single this year to make it more than 7 days atop of the survey. Sonique sold another 109,000 copies to keep her crown and S Club 7 were once again her nearest rivals “Reach” coming in on a sale of 87,000. So the debut solo single from Ex-Boyzone member Stephen Gately couldn’t keep its early runner up position and enters at No 3 (72,000), his single is a double A-Side “New Beginning/ Bright Eyes”. The former track was co-written by Simon Climie whilst his cover of Art Garfunkel’s 1979 #1 is taken from the current ITV cartoon series remake of the film, he’s the second former member of the boyband (who are on a hiatus rather than a split technically) after Ronan Keating. His “battle” with former bandmate Mikey Graham ended up being a rather limp affair with Graham only managing No 13. The other four new entries line up neatly behind Gately and the best selling of them comes from German duo (and brothers) York whose second single “On The Beach” comes with a rift lifted straight from Chris Rea’s single of the same title (#12, 1988). Their debut “The Awakening” narrowly missed out on the top tier making No 11 in October but this does much better entering at No 4 (56,000), better even than Chris Rea ever managed on his own. So the brothers York are at four and one place below are the sisters Atkins- Campbell who record as Mary Mary despite neither being called Mary. “Shackles (Praise You)” is their debut hit and features a sample from Dennis Edwards and Siedah Garrett’s “Don’t Look Any Further” which was in the top 10 just 7 years ago as a cover by M People. 47,000 people found it worthy to buy and nips into the top 5. Pink (real name Alicia Moore) is the newest name in US pop and saw her debut single “There You Go” make No 7 in America last month, it goes one place higher over here by entering at No 6 (43,000). She was formerly a member of girl group Choice who only had minimal success before she went solo helped by L.A Reid and babyface, incidentally she takes her name from the character Mr Pink in “Reservoir Dogs” and not because she has pink hair we’re reliably informed. Last year Dr Dre helped out on Eminem’s No 5 hit “Guilty Conscience” and now Eminem is returning the favour on Dre’s single “Forgot About Dre” new at No 7 (40,000). It keeps Dre’s album “2001” in the top 10 and announces the return of Eminem who has a solo single out next month. Below these Bon Jovi dive 3-8 (38,000) and score a fifth No 1 album with “Crush”- all in all a success for the band, Britney falls 6-9 (31,000) and is now ahead of the track that knocked her off No 1 Madison Avenue who fly past her 5-10 (28,000). 1- IT FEELS SO GOOD- Sonique (109,000) 2- REACH- S Club 7 (87,000) 3- NEW BEGINNING/ BRIGHT EYES- Stephen Gately (72,000) 4- ON THE BEACH- York (56,000) 5- SHACKLES (PRAISE YOU)- Mary Mary (47,000) 6- THERE YOU GO- Pink (43,000) 7- FORGOT ABOUT DRE- Dr Dre Ft Eminem (40,000) 8- IT’S MY LIFE- Bon Jovi (38,000) 9- OOPS....I DID IT AGAIN- Britney Spears (31,000) 10- DON’T CALL ME BABY- Madison Avenue (28,000)

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You get an extra point for punnage!

But have you decided on your 11 yet??

Yes 2000 could do with more number ones 😀

I was patchy after 2004 but there's only bout 10 songs on the list after that point- sure we can't tempt you?

3RD JUNE This week turned into a chart surprise week perhaps not seen in quite some time! Anyone who watched a lot of TV through the week or switched on the radio would have thought that S Club 7’s new single “Reach” was on track for the top spot as the group hired out helicopters to transport them all over the country on a media blitz that would put even a superstar to shame. In the end it was beaten by a record which sold itself, this time around! Former S Express member Sonique first released “Feels So Good” back in 1998 peaking at No 24 and selling just over 30,000 in its initial run, it then started to take off in the US in late 1999 and has peaked now at No 8 last month (the first US top 10 single by a British act since Five in 1998). That gave it the impetus for another UK release with new mixes which generated a lot of club interest sufficient to see 195,306 copies be sold last week- the second highest 7 day tally of 2000 so far. It has taken most commentators by surprise with most anticipating S Club 7’s second chart topper today but now and again the British public surprises us. So what about that S Club 7 single then? “Reach” is the first release from S Club’s second album “7” out in a few weeks and becomes a fourth top 2 single in a year, and much like “Bring It All Back” it acts as a theme tune to the group’s TV show, this time the second series of “LA 7” which is coming to an end. It’s co-written by former Republica keyboardist Andy Todd and popstar Cathy Dennis and was a firm favourite on their recent tour, it pulled in 123,500 buyers last week, a figure only beaten in its initial week by “Bring It All Back”. With the aforementioned promo blitz you can’t accuse them of not doing all they could to be No 1! It’s been over 4 years since Bon Jovi have had a top 10 single though of course in part that’s because Jon Bon Jovi has been busy acting and scoring hits in his own right. They return with the Max Martin co-written “It’s My Life” and a new album to excite fans, the single did brisk business easily entering at No 3 (82,500)- that’s the most that any Bon Jovi single has ever sold in a single week! Their 12th top 10 single you can buy the parent album this week which will probably curtail any improvements for this single. Also by way of interest it’s the first time in 3 ½ years that one record label can claim all top 3 singles (Universal) and the first time ever that all three are new entries and all belong to the same umbrella group. Australian singer Sia has been a backing singer for Jamiroquai in the past but is now a star in her own right with “Taken For Granted” which is new at No 10 (20,000). It is based around a sample of Prokofiev’s “Montague’s & Capulets” which no doubt those of a classical persuasion have already worked out. Thanks to those three big new entries at the top everything else in the top 10 descends in neat order by three spots, Billie Piper 1-4 (67,000), Madison Avenue 2-5 (42,000) Britney Spears 3-6 (33,000), Tom Jones & Mousse T 4-7 (33,000), DJ Luck & MC Neat 5-8 (26,000) and the now 300,000 selling “Bad Touch” 6-9 (22,000) for Bloodhound Gang. Next week will see the battle of the ex-Boyzoners as Mikey Graham goes head to head with Stephen Gately! 1- IT FEELS SO GOOD- Sonique (195,306) 2- REACH- S Club 7 (123,500) 3- IT’S MY LIFE- Bon Jovi (82,500) 4- DAY AND NIGHT- Billie (67,000) 5- DON’T CALL ME BABY- Madison Avenue (42,000) 6- OOPS!...I DID IT AGAIN- Britney Spears (33,000) 7- SEX BOMB- Tom Jones & Mousse T (33,000) 8- MASTERBLASTER 2000- DJ Luck & MC Neat (26,000) 9- THE BAD TOUCH- Bloodhound Gang (22,000) 10- TAKEN FOR GRANTED- S.i.a (20,000)

27TH MAY Sandie Shaw was 20 years and 2 months old when she scored a third UK number One single and remained the youngest woman ever to get the hat-trick a record she held for 23 years until Britney a few weeks ago. She was 18 years and 5 months old but now Britney has been replaced by our very own Billie Piper at a mere 17 years and 8 months old, you’ll also note that in a move to promote a more mature image she’s now using her surname! “Day & Night” opens with 104,208 buyers a tally second only to “Girlfriend” in her cannon on opening weeks evidencing that we clearly missed her, it will come from her second album which we’re assured she’s hard at work at. DJ Luck & Mc Neat are back with the long awaited follow up to “A Little Bit Of Luck” which ended up selling over 200,000 copies. “Masterblaster 2000” is (as you might suspect) a garage makeover of the Stevie Wonder 1980 classic, their version first surfaced on a white label promo by the pair late last year called “On Da Street” but has been remixed to include a sample of Blackstreet’s “No Diggity” (All Star Remix). It debuts at No 5 (34,000). More Dutch dance up next in the form of Southside Spinners, “Luvstruck” was released last year when it petered out at No 81 but makes a much bigger splash now thanks to the inclusion of it on the soundtrack to “Kevin & Perry Go Large” which is already a hit at the box office and pushes the track to No 9 (20,000). Last week’s No 1 from Madison Avenue retreats 1-2 (61,000) ahead of Britney Spears 2-3 (50,000) whose album of the same name is defeated by Whitney on the album front this week. Also over on the album charts Tom Jones is knocked 1-3 and his single “Sexbomb” also fades 3-4 (45,000), but it’s back up for Bloodhound Gang 8-6 (25,500) though it continues to lose sales week on week. Three fallers to round us off, Watergate lose 6-7 (23,000), Oxide & Neutrino bound 5-8 (21,000) and Armand Van Helden slips 4-10 (19,000)- that’s a low sale for the top 10 since January and reflects the fact that the market fell to just 870,000 in total, again the lowest since January. 1- DAY AND NIGHT- Billie (104,208) 2- DON’T CALL ME BABY- Madison Avenue (61,000) 3- OOPS!...I DID IT AGAIN- Britney Spears (50,000) 4- SEX BOMB- Tom Jones & Mouse T (45,000) 5- MASTERBLASTER 2000- DJ Luck & Mc Neat (34,000) 6- THE BAD TOUCH- Bloodhound Gang (25,500) 7- HEART OF ASIA- Watergate (23,000) 8- BOUND 4 DA RELOAD (CASUALTY)- Oxide & Neutrino (21,000) 9- LUVSTRUCK- Southside Spinners (20,000) 10- KOOCHY- Armand Van Helden (19,000)

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