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Here are mine: +10 The Weeknd – Blinding Lights +09 SAINt JHN – Roses +08 Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande – Rain On Me +07 Joel Corry featuring MNEK – Head & Heart +06 Lewis Capaldi – Before You Go +05 Mariah Carey – All I Want For Christmas Is You +04 Wham! – Last Christmas +03 Billie Eilish - No Time To Die +02 Ariana Grande – positions +01 24kGoldn featuring iann dior – Mood

Oh dear, just 80/159 and 82/153 respectively for me! And that was mainly thanks to the . Though I am kicking myself at a few I forgot -

A few more examples: Johnny Logan in 1980 (What's Another Year) Holly Valance in 2002 (Kiss Kiss) Nelly in 2002 (alongside Kelly Rowland on Dilemma) Tony Christie in 2005 (alongside Peter Kay on Amarillo)

I have one more example - "Lemon Tree" by Fools Garden, a song which I love! It didn't exactly flop but its UK position of 26 was so much lower compared to other countries. It was no1 in Germany, Austria, here in Ireland (where it was all over the TV and radio), Norway and Sweden according to Wikipedia and it went top ten in 13 countries.

Oh, I didn't know that. That was a shame! Never heard "About Last Night" before - just YouTubed it and it sounds good.

Oh, definitely. I think it would have too. It was a real missed opportunity! I wonder why it (and the Gigi d'Agostino songs) was pushed in Ireland but not in the UK. Yeah, that sample has been used a lot, but it just sounds so poignant and fits in so well on Friends Forever. I agree, definitely top 10, possibly top 5 if it had been released around graduation season. I think it was pushed in Ireland as I *think* I read somewhere that Vitamin C herself has Irish links (not sure how true that is - but her surname is Fitzpatrick so this could well be true!) That's really interesting about it inspiring Whole Again - I never knew that! The timeline definitely fits.

Oh, I've just thought of two more examples: "Break My Stride" by Unique II from 1997. It was a dance-pop cover of Matthew Wilder's 80s song, and got a lot of TV and radio airplay in Ireland. It made no1 in Austria and New Zealand and no2 in Australia according to Wikipedia, and made the top 10 in Ireland (no9, thanks irishcharts.ie!) It never made the UK charts though. It's a nice boppy catchy version - I didn't realise at the time that it was a cover but it still sounds good and brings back memories to me! Another one - "Friends Forever" by Vitamin C. According to Wikipedia, it got to no2 in Australia and no4 over here in Ireland, top 30 in five countries and made it to 38 in the US. It was really big over here in Ireland in the year 2000 - it seemed to be all over the TV and radio and my sister's year used it as their high school graduation song and sung it at their school-leaving ceremony, along with almost pretty much every graduating class in Ireland in the year 2000! It's a really nice song and you've just got to love the classical music sample in it too. It never made the UK charts though I think it was never actually released in the UK.

Yeah, exactly - back in those days (c 2002) the Irish and UK charts were closely aligned and if a European/American hit made the Irish charts, you could always count on it turning up on the UK charts too (especially in the physical sales era), so it was really quite unusual when this did not happen. I agree, Gigi d'Agostino would have had big hits with those three songs - it was strange how they were never pushed in the UK! Definitely strange too how that Kim Lukas record was never pushed in the UK (or Ireland) either despite Kim being from the UK. It's a good song and definitely one of those that would have done well in the charts as it fit in very well with the sounds of the time.

"La Passion " by Gigi d'Agostino topped the charts in Austria and Belgium, and got to no2 in Germany, Romania and over here in Ireland in the early 2000s. It was a huge hit over here in Ireland, getting lots of TV and radio airplay and I remember being surprised that it never charted in the UK especially given its Irish chart position of no2! "L'Amour toujours" was an even bigger hit, making top 10 in ten countries, narrowly missing out making no11 in Canada and making no18 over here in Ireland. Again, no sign of it in the UK charts! Which is a huge shame as it's a total classic. At least Dynoro did redress the balance somewhat by interpolating it into "In My Mind" which was a big UK hit last year.

Enjoyed completing this quiz a lot! I got 154/287. Can't believe that I totally forgot .

Great topic! Absolutely love the mid 90s to very early noughties. I started really getting into music around spring 1995 just as Britpop was in full swing when there were some fantastic songs that even when I hear them now take me right back to that time. And while I loved the period from 1995 to about mid-2001, if I had to pick my absolute favourite year for music I'd have to go with 1997. Such an amazing year with so many classics, can't believe it will be 20 years next year. And we had some great pop songs in '98/'99 and some stunning trance records in '99/2000. I felt like we had a fantastic run of music from about summer 2006 until about late 2009 with 2008 being a particularly good year in my opinion. 2012/2013 had another great run of music, in my view, with some real classics being released.

29 for me () I did have a couple of lucky guesses though.

I got 15, and that was even with a couple of lucky guesses!

"All I Wanna Do" is one of Dannii's best, a top tune. The immediate follow-up "Everything I Wanted" was excellent as well. Those two and "Who Do You Love Now" from a few years later, I consider to be Dannii's three best.

For me, back in the late 90s, Mel C's "Goin' Down" to "Northern Star." I'm not saying that "Goin' Down" was *bad* as such, it was just so different compared to her usual style (in the Spice Girls and "When You're Gone"). It was a bit of a shock to the system and it certainly knocked me for six when I first heard it! I never much cared for it. But "Northern Star" was and remains such a beautiful and amazing song, still sounds so good today, very mainstream and a world away from the angry rock sound she portrayed on "Goin' Down." I loved it then and I still love it now!

Agreed, though I did generally like 2006 for music overall, I didn't much care for some of the stuff in the first half of the year, especially during this time of the year looking back at this chart. Gnarls Barkley, Orson, Corinne Bailey Rae, Kelly Clarkson, Jack Johnson were the only songs out of that chart I still enjoy now (weirdly, despite liking a lot of the Feeling's later songs, I am unfamiliar with Sewn. Must give it a listen on YouTube. And of course Michael Jackson's The Way You Make Me Feel is a classic, but that's from the eighties). I completely agree - for me, I also feel that chart music got much better from the summer of '06 onwards, around June time and the music stayed consistently good until about towards late '09 or thereabouts? Definitely the summer of '06 heralded about 3 years of really good chart music for me. It was my golden age of the noughties, if you will (along with 2000 and early 2001). And finally just to mention, wow, 2006 and Gnarls Barkley were 10 years ago??!! Only feels like yesterday in some ways, but then a really long time ago in other ways.

7 for me, and it would have been less if I didn't have a few lucky guesses! I don't follow the albums chart as much as the singles chart.

19 for me! The ones I got wrong:

I agree. For most of the 90s (from about late 1991 when the number of new entries to the chart seemed to suddenly skyrocket, definitely 1992) until about mid 2000s, you'd get a huge amount of new entries into the chart, and often those between 21-40 would only spend a single week in the chart (two if it were lucky), so it was important for the full top 40 to be played so that you'd hear these songs in the bottom half of the chart that were almost certain to be gone the following week. The chart was just so fast-moving in those days that the full 40 had to be played. But nowadays, with the amount of long runners in the chart, I think they should just stick to the top 20, and then climbers/new entries and songs reaching a new peak in the 21-40 category. I like the idea also of including songs outside the 40 as AcerBen said, such as Leona at 51 for example.

Personally the dance chart is my favourite of the specialist charts on the ITV Chart Show. Looking at the list (thanks for posting btw), while there are definitely some songs that don't belong in the dance chart as Ne Plus Ultra said (like the Eternal and Spice Girls tracks for instance to name just two acts, and songs like Seal's "Kiss From A Rose"), I'm still a big fan of the more obscure unknown dance tracks that were often played on the dance chart (often the ones with no videos that in most cases missed the Top 40). I love the indie charts too, you'd get some real gems in there, some fantastic stuff that never made the main charts.

That 1993 chart had completely slipped my mind until last week - I thought I was imagining it! Thanks for that link Robbie. James Masterton's chart analysis from the 90s on Google Groups are really interesting to read, especially the early to mid 90s period because they are from the actual time, a time when songs would still climb the chart (in the pre-download era anyway) and James would offer his opinions on what tracks that entered low down might have a good chance of making it all the way to the top. One of my biggest regrets is that I did not know of the Dotmusic forum until after it had closed and merged with Launch/Yahoo! I enjoy his About.com column. Thanks for the link to his website - I really like the parts where he retrospectively looks back on some chart from this week in the 80s/90s and reminisces about the songs! I never knew about the Lena Martell/Dr Hook mix-up at no1! But that February 1976 incident sounds pretty crazy - as it turns out Manuel never made no1! His moment of glory at thinking he was no1 - snatched away within a few hours, and to add insult to injury, he never made no1 in the end! I suppose these computer errors did creep up every now and then, but they were pretty rare on the whole. I don't think there was any "wrong chart" incident in the 80s, though I may be wrong!

Aw, Tina Cousins was great. She was fantastic on "Just Around The Hill". Whatever happened to her? I agree, I would have thought Blur and Semisonic would have been top 10, especially since they were kind of defining songs of that era that you still hear the odd time these days, and since the managers of both acts felt their acts should have been top 10 and were loud in their demands to have the chart rerun.

I had a bit of time today so I did a bit of digging and found there was a "wrong" chart for the w/e 6th March 1993 for the chart read out the previous Sunday (28/2/93) on BBC Radio. I don't know if I'm allowed to post the link as the link is coming out really long for some reason, but if you search in Google Groups Archive and search "CHART: UK Charts for Week Ending 6th March 1993" there is a post containing info about this incorrect chart. There only seems to have been minor switches (apart from the 4 Of Us, an Irish band - yay! - :cheer: who were as high as 30 on the wrong chart but only 35 officially, and Martha Wash being slightly higher in the wrong chart at 32, falling a few places in the correct chart to 37). I forgot all about the joint positions in the charts in the early 90s. There seemed to have been a tonne of them at one point especially in '92/'93! Maybe it's because single sales were pretty low (especially in '92), and with the whole Groove Is In The Heart/The Joker scenario being a recent memory, so a combination of both these factors resulted in this large amount of joint chart positions. I think it may well have been a case of Bruno being told not the mention the problematic chart in Dec 1994, they were probably hoping that people would forget about it asap if it wasn't mentioned, and that it would all just blow over! And I completely forgot about that chart at the end of 2010 that had to be rerun. I'd completely forgotten about it in the intervening years, but I remember it now that you mentioned it!

Maybe he was hoping no-one would notice! That's very interesting Robbie about the circumstances re the 1994/95 chart, and why those charts were able to be made public but not the '99 chart, and your theories as to why the 94/95 charts were made public but not the 99 chart sounds spot on. It seems the incorrect '99 chart was due to a much larger volume of missing data. Am I right in thinking there was a similar "wrong chart" some time in early 1993, around February/March time? Maybe I'm imagining it.

Oh now I see why the '99 chart wasn't made public (whereas the 94/95 incorrect charts were). I suppose the incorrect charts for 94/95 hadn't been tracked down to a specific chain hence the charts could be recompiled and made public, but the '99 chart couldn't have been made public as Virgin/Our Price had been identified as the "culprit". And I don't think the 94/95 wrong charts were publicised as much as the '99 chart due to the furore over "Coffee and TV". Thanks for the info Hit Parade. :)