-Jay-

So ready for this :cheeseblock:

1.0 - I remember liking Overload and being intrigued by them, but I didn’t throw myself into becoming a fan at that point. My mum loved their second single New Year, and bought their debut album One Touch because of that! So that was during Christmas 2000. I probably wouldn’t have heard the album that early on if she hadn’t bought it for herself. I gave it a listen and loved it! It’s such a strong album, remarkable when you consider the girls were only around 15/16. I remember being dismayed when Soul Sound only reached #30 because I assumed that might be the last we’d hear from the Sugababes. Thankfully I was wrong! 2.0 - Obviously the commercial success became huge in comparison to 1.0, and some of their best singles come from this line up! Angels with Dirty Faces and Taller in More Ways are good albums but for me less so than One Touch. However, Three - I think that album is excellent. Sugababes at the height of their powers! 3.0 - They still delivered! Clearly About You Now became *the* signature hit, but there was more to them than that one song. Catfights and Spotlights is a great album. There’s some real gems on it that I’m convinced would be celebrated had they been recorded by 2.0, so I find it a shame that this album was overlooked and is often disregarded. It’s very misrepresented by its single choices. Clearly the Sweet 7 era was a pivot in sound & image after Catfights wasn’t too successful. We only got Get Sexy released with Keisha before she was ousted. I think this album was an early example of the way popular music was heading then, a sound that was hugely successful by 2011/2012. I fully believe the Sweet 7 era would have been successful had Keisha stayed… 4.0 - There’s not much to say, as this was the tail end of the group’s initial run, and they never really got the moment to prove themselves as this line up. Their one album was meant to be a 3.0 release. It’ll always be a bit mad that we ended up with a group with 3 completely different girls to who it started with! 1.0, reunited - It’s a shame that things didn’t work out for them in 2013 (particularly as the music, eventually released in 2022, is great). Despite that false start and some years in the wilderness, I’m happy to see them currently touring & doing the festival circuit a decade later! They’re strengthening their legacy and reminding people how many amazing hits they have. Bring on a new album! Oops at the impromptu essay, but overall they’re definitely one of my favourite British groups and it’s wonderful to see them in the Top 5. :wub:

Someone said on Popjustice, that the admin of SayHey has said these mock ups are real... :thinking: It seems that the "II" not only reads as 2, but is also a continuation of the Gemini theme. That also goes for what Kylie is posing in.

Here's a list of every "girl group" Platinum and Multi-Platinum single! I've ordered these by which singles certified earliest. There's 80 singles listed below! ~ :plat: :plat: 4xPlatinum Spice Girls - Wannabe #1 (07.07.2023) TLC - No Scrubs #3 (08.09.2023) Little Mix - Shout Out to My Ex #1 (30.08.2024) :plat: 3xPlatinum Little Mix - Black Magic #1 (09.04.2021) Fifth Harmony - Work from Home #2 (01.04.2022) Little Mix - Touch #4 (08.12.2023) Little Mix - Power #6 (07.06.2024) All Saints - Never Ever #1 (06.09.2024) :plat: 2xPlatinum Spice Girls - 2 Become 1 #1 (02.03.2018) Atomic Kitten - Whole Again #1 (20.03.2020) Little Mix - Secret Love Song #6 (30.10.2020) B*Witched - C'est La Vie #1 (18.12.2020) All Saints - Pure Shores #1 (28.05.2021) Little Mix - Reggaetón Lento (Remix) #5 (26.08.2021) Destiny's Child - Say My Name #3 (12.11.2021) The Pussycat Dolls - Don't Cha #1 (25.11.2022) Icona Pop - I Love It #1 (23.12.2022) Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life #1 (30.12.2022) Sugababes - About You Now #1 (21.04.2023) Spice Girls - Say You'll Be There #1 (30.06.2023) Sweet Female Attitude - Flowers #2 (14.07.2023) Little Mix - Woman Like Me #2 (29.09.2023) The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride #20 (29.12.2023) [Album Track] Little Mix - Heartbreak Anthem #3 (26.07.2024) G.R.L. - Ugly Heart #11 (16.08.2024) Platinum Spice Girls - Mama / Who Do You Think You Are #1 (03.1997) Spice Girls - Too Much #1 (09.01.1998) Spice Girls - Viva Forever #1 (13.08.1998) Spice Girls - Goodbye #1 (18.12.1998) Las Ketchup - The Ketchup Song (Aserejé) #1 (24.01.2003) Girls Aloud - Sound of the Underground #1 (14.03.2003) Eternal - I Wanna Be the Only One #1 (22.07.2013) Military Wives - Wherever You Are #1 (22.07.2013) The Pussycat Dolls - Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny) #3 (19.06.2015) En Vogue - Don't Let Go (Love) #5 (24.06.2016) Destiny's Child - The Girl Is Mine #5 (02.09.2016) Little Mix - Wings #1 (31.03.2017) Little Mix - Hair #11 (08.09.2017) Destiny's Child - Independent Women Part I #1 (10.11.2017) Little Mix - No More Sad Songs #15 (09.03.2018) Little Mix - Love Me Like You #11 (01.06.2018) Girls Aloud - The Promise #1 (27.07.2018) Destiny's Child - Survivor #1 (02.11.2018) M.O - Bad Vibe #18 (23.11.2018) Little Mix - Move #3 (21.12.2018) Sugababes - Push the Button #1 (15.03.2019) Stooshe - Black Heart #3 (19.04.2019) TLC - Waterfalls #4 (03.05.2019) Fifth Harmony - Worth It #3 (17.05.2019) t.A.T.u - All the Things She Said #1 (17.01.2020) Atomic Kitten - The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling) #1 (19.06.2020) The Saturdays - What About Us #1 (07.08.2020) Spice Girls - Stop #2 (14.08.2020) Little Mix - Only You #13 (16.10.2020) Little Mix - Sweet Melody #1 (23.04.2021) Little Mix - Salute #6 (18.06.2021) The Saturdays - Higher #10 (27.08.2021) Destiny's Child - Bootylicious #2 (01.10.2021) The Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love #3 (12.11.2021) M.O - Who Do You Think Of? #18 (19.11.2021) Mary Mary - Shackles (Praise You) #5 (03.12.2021) Little Mix - Break Up Song #9 (21.01.2022) Wilson Phillips - Hold On #6 (15.04.2022) Destiny's Child - Lose My Breath #2 (27.05.2022) The Ronettes - Be My Baby #4 (01.07.2022) Cherish - Do It To It #9 (27.01.2023) The Pussycat Dolls - When I Grow Up #3 (03.02.2023) Destiny's Child - Jumpin', Jumpin' #5 (03.03.2023) Little Mix - Kiss My (Uh Oh) #10 (28.04.2023) The Pussycat Dolls - Buttons #3 (09.06.2023) The Emotions - Boogie Wonderland #4 (23.06.2023) Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Dancing in the Street #4 (21.07.2023) The Pointer Sisters - I'm So Excited #11 (28.07.2023) Girls Aloud - Love Machine #2 (15.09.2023) The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men #2 (15.09.2023) Destiny's Child - Bills, Bills, Bills #6 (27.10.2023) The Saturdays - Ego #9 (27.10.2023) Fifth Harmony - That's My Girl #26 (10.11.2023) Sister Sledge - We Are Family #5 (01.03.2024) The Pussycat Dolls - Stickwitu #1 (16.08.2024) ~ 8 singles are 3xPlatinum or 4xPlatinum. 7 of those were in OCC's Top 10 list that they shared in June 2019. Little Mix - Power is new to the Top 10. I'm curious which two singles will certify 3xPlatinum next, at which point we'll know what the Top 10 best selling girl group singles are. I could imagine Little Mix - Secret Love Song, Little Mix - Reggaetón Lento (Remix) and Destiny's Child - Say My Name all being in contention and moving ahead of Spice Girls - 2 Become 1, Atomic Kitten - Whole Again and B*Witched - C'est La Vie, which were all Top 10 in 2019. ~ The peak positions of the singles in the list: #1 - 31 (There's 31 Platinum or Multi-Platinum songs which peaked at #1 in the UK) #2 - 8 #3 - 10 #4 - 5 #5 - 6 #6 - 5 #9 - 3 #10 - 2 #11 - 4 #13 - 1 #15 - 1 #18 - 2 #20 - 1 #26 - 1 Fifth Harmony have the lowest peaking single to certify Platinum - #26 for That's My Girl, which as you can see is the only Platinum single to not make the Top 20. Curiously, #7 peaking girl group singles have never managed to certify higher than Silver! These being: Sugababes - Stronger / Angels with Dirty Faces, The Pussycat Dolls - I Don't Need a Man, All Saints - War of Nerves, The Supremes - Stop! In The Name Of Love, Eternal - I Am Blessed and Salt-N-Pepa/En Vogue - Whatta Man. I'll make a guess at The Supremes becoming the first one of these to make it to Gold. There are a couple of #8 singles which went Gold: The Veronicas - Untouched and Fifty Fifty - Cupid. ~ Girl groups alphabetically, with number of Platinum/multi-Platinum singles: All Saints - 2 Atomic Kitten - 2 B*Witched - 1 Cherish - 1 Destiny's Child - 8 The Emotions - 1 En Vogue - 1 Eternal - 1 Fifth Harmony - 3 G.R.L. - 1 Girls Aloud - 3 Icona Pop - 1 Las Ketchup - 1 Little Mix - 18 M.O - 2 Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - 1 Mary Mary - 1 Military Wives - 1 The Pointer Sisters - 1 The Pussycat Dolls - 5 The Ronettes - 2 The Saturdays - 3 Sister Sledge - 1 Spice Girls - 9 Stooshe - 1 Sugababes - 2 The Supremes - 1 Sweet Female Attitude - 1 t.A.T.u - 1 TLC - 2 The Weather Girls - 1 Wilson Phillips - 1 + In order of the most to least: Little Mix - 18 Spice Girls - 9 Destiny's Child - 8 The Pussycat Dolls - 5 Fifth Harmony - 3 Girls Aloud - 3 The Saturdays - 3 All Saints - 2 Atomic Kitten - 2 M.O - 2 The Ronettes - 2 Sugababes - 2 TLC - 2 B*Witched - 1 Cherish - 1 The Emotions - 1 En Vogue - 1 Eternal - 1 G.R.L. - 1 Icona Pop - 1 Las Ketchup - 1 Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - 1 Mary Mary - 1 Military Wives - 1 The Pointer Sisters - 1 Sister Sledge - 1 Stooshe - 1 The Supremes - 1 Sweet Female Attitude - 1 t.A.T.u - 1 The Weather Girls - 1 Wilson Phillips - 1

Thank you for keeping this updated :D :heart: and now I've updated the main post!

Everybody clap your hands Get on up and dance We're gonna stomp all night now 💃🏻

The next release that'll have a permanent residency at the top end of the chart, soon! 1. The A Team 2. Lego House 3. You Need Me, I Don't Need You 4. Give Me Love 5. Sing 6. Don't 7. Thinking Out Loud 8. Bloodstream 9. Photograph 10. Tenerife Sea 11. I See Fire 12. Lay It All On Me (with Rudimental) 13. Castle On The Hill 14. Shape Of You 15. Galway Girl 16. Perfect 17. Happier 18. Dive 19. I Don't Care with Justin Bieber 20. Beautiful People feat. Khalid 21. Afterglow 22. Bad Habits 23. Shivers 24. Eyes Closed

I went with 'The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived'! 'Florida!!!' has grown more on me, so it avoids my vote... for now :whistle:

:clap: Very well said! These results are very representative of BuzzJack’s member base, like it or not! Also agree with you, 5,6,7,8 is one of my least favourites. I appreciate what it did for them, but I’m glad it wasn’t an accurate reflection of the group they’d become! :teresa: His themes are definitely less open to interpretation! :lol:

No worries at all! That’s interesting context you’ve shared about Don’t Stop Me Now though - my interpretation of the song was very surface level to be fair. I guess it is for a lot of people too, because… forgive me for being stereotypical, but it strikes me as a song that is very embraced by heterosexual men, as an anthem they like to bellow out. So it being about Freddie throwing himself into hedonism in the gay world, that’s quite a contrast! :lol: perfect description! :kink:

To clarify, I wrote “I don’t even know what it is about it” (as in, I can’t pinpoint why I dislike it as much as I do), not “I don’t even know what it’s about” :lol:

Oh, Steps finally revealed! Could 21 people be wrong? :cheeseblock: They’re a big childhood favourite for me (their heyday years cover me being aged 9 to 13). The colourful, cheesy & poppy sound and image really grabbed me. I think what gave them a slight edge amongst their late 90s/early 00s pop peers is that lyrically their songs were often rather forlorn, yet they were disguised by their feel-good presentation! When they split at the end of 2001, I kind of put them back on the shelf, so to speak, and I hardly listened to them for the rest of my childhood. Their reunion in 2011/2012 happened when I was 23/24, so enough time had passed for me to feel nostalgic and enjoy seeing them on tour for the first time. As far as I was concerned I was satisfied if they left it at that point. I didn’t anticipate their comeback in 2017, marking the beginning of a few years releasing new albums and singles. I think they really nailed it with their sound for the comeback, understanding what makes them “Steps” and embracing that, but modernising it. Their new music really solidified them as one of my all-time favourite pop groups! I know we have different measures of what makes a group “authentic” and without getting into that too deeply, I’d just say that Steps have their niche and they’re excellent at what they do!

:lol: I look forward to it! Don’t Stop Me Now is the main offender. I don’t even know what it is about it but… *shudders* :kink: I dislike McFly’s version even more! I can’t say I’m keen on We Will Rock You or We Are the Champions either 🤫

^ They really are just never going to resolve this issue, are they? :( It irritates me any time I look at a chart run of the numerous albums that are affected (for instance I just looked at The Weeknd’s Highlights chart run, split into two runs. :’) ) I wonder whether if enough people continually messaged them about it, if they’d correct it? Maybe no one’s contacted them for a while. :thinking: It just strikes me as an indication that the people in charge of the site (and at the OCC in general) don’t care deeply enough about the charts, to think that an error like that isn’t a problem. There’s still aspects of this site I don’t like. I find it sluggish to look at it on my phone (often the pages crash & reload).

I find myself humming/singing parts of it to myself, quite regularly! It's so catchy. It has this unusual quality of feeling like a song that I've known for years, as if it's been a part of the fabric of music for that long - a classic. And yet it's not even a month old yet. It's a special song. :wub: So it's fantastic to see it be a hit straight out of the gate, and at the very least I want to see it go Top 5 in the UK!

7. Queen: My knowledge of their music really begins and ends with Greatest Hits and Greatest Hits II. Some of those hits are so ubiquitous that I've heard them over the years without really seeking them out all that often! *Whispers* Greatest Hits houses some of my least favourite songs ever... maybe I shouldn't specify which ones, in case I cause some anguish! :kink: I will highlight liking Killer Queen and Somebody to Love though. Greatest Hits II is way more up my street, so it seems 80s Queen is more my bag than 70s. Clearly when it comes to the public, the opposite is the case! I haven't seen many of Queen's videos or performances, but two things particularly stand out to me - the 'I Want to Break Free' video (very iconic), and excerpts I've seen of their Live Aid performances. I can see just from that how Freddie had electrifying star quality! 8. The Beatles: Maybe this is controversial to say, but I don't have particularly strong feelings about them. I've heard a fair amount of the hits (again, not really from seeking them out - they're just around~!). There's nothing I actively dislike, but equally nothing I can say I really love either. Although to be fair, I've really only scratched the surface with The Beatles' music. Of what I've heard, maybe 'Here Comes the Sun' is my favourite. Of course I recognise and respect their impact and legacy! 9. Pet Shop Boys They're a bit of a blind spot for me in my music taste/knowledge. I definitely know West End Girls, It's a Sin, Always On My Mind & Go West. I'm not sure if it's a case of there being a few more that I'd know if I heard them, but don't recognise them by title. I'm not particularly into Neil Tennant's voice which might be a bit of a non-starter for me, even though on paper I feel I should like them. 10. The Killers It surprises people if I ever mention that I've seen The Killers twice in concert! :lol: I saw them at an arena in Nottingham in 2012, followed by Wembley Stadium in 2013 (which as far as I can tell is the one time they've played Wembley Stadium?). The friend I went with on both occasions is a massive fan. Funnily enough he's never returned the favour to see any of my pop faves with me. :kink: To be fair, I've liked a lot of The Killers' hits over the years, so it wasn't a case of me being dragged there, and I enjoyed myself! I don't know the studio albums though.

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It doesn't matter for a thread which is locked, which isn't having actions done to it which slows down the forum, i.e. moving posts out to another thread, or deleting posts. That's was causes the problems with 50+ pages. So this thread is fine remaining as it is!

Dancing Queen isn’t a single! Interesting list so far… I wouldn’t have anticipated 3 Disco singles being so low. Personally I can’t imagine considering them to be less good than Celebration, New York City or I Was Gonna Cancel (or honestly quite a lot of singles still left to be revealed, but hey, it’s your taste not mine :cool: )

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07.5 End of an Era 11.0 Houdini 10.0 Training Season 09.5 These Walls 08.0 Whatcha Doing 06.5 French Exit 08.0 Illusion 07.0 Falling Forever 04.0 Anything for Love 07.5 Maria 07.0 Happy for You

Robbie Williams - Something Beautiful (for a reason I can't pinpoint I've just never been keen on this one, and I like a lot of his stuff)

If we're going by critics, 'reputation' has had a reappraisal in recent years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reputation_(a...al_reevaluation As for fans of Taylor, from what I read on forums/social media it's become one of her most revered albums! It has a couple of particularly popular/fan favourite album tracks: Don't Blame Me and Getaway Car (the former has actually become the most streamed track on the album). So it doesn't surprise me that the album streams consistently well and has made its way to 3xPlatinum.

The cassettes makes me think of the fan on Spice Circle who bought a huge number of them, all so that he could have five copies with the spine text/images perfectly alligned. :kink: