superbossanova

+30 Pretenders - Brass In Pocket +25 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean +22 Paul Hardcastle - 19 +20 The Beatles - Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby +18 Hear'Say - The Way To Your Love +16 Chicory Tip - Son Of My Father +14 Spice Girls - Wannabe +13 The Rolling Stones - It's All Over Now +12 Eminem featuring Dido - Stan +11 Alexandra Burke featuring Flo Rida - Bad Boys +10 Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale +9 The Beatles - Ticket To Ride +8 Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water +7 Wretch 32 featuring Josh Kumra - Don't Go +6 Shirley Bassey with Wally Scott & His Orchestra - As I Love You +5 B.o.B featuring Bruno Mars - Nothin' On You +4 Wet Wet Wet - Goodnight Girl +3 Westlife - Swear It Again +2 Bee Gees - Night Fever +1 Lisa Stansfield - All Around The World -2 Sam & Mark - With A Little Help From My Friends Poor selection.

I had pretty much stopped following the charts by 2006, so I can't say I had much opinion on the way they worked this year. I still checked to see what was #1 but no more than that - mind you, eventually I stopped even doing that. A combination of a rather awful personal life (particularly in the last half of the year) and simply not liking the music that was in them contributed to that. As I recall I only got sucked in again in May 2007 when I wanted to see where/if Umbrella had charted, lol. Shame to see When The Sun Goes Down gone though. :( One of my favourites of that year, but expected with the awful mess parading as a The Notorious B.I.G. song hopping over it after its first week. Much prefer it to I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor.

Oh christ, does this mean the Daniel Powter promotion is going to be a reality then? :puke2: And there was me being grateful for McFly for once. I don't see what else could happen as there's surely no way James Blunt could have lasted all the way until Pussycat Dolls when he was low top 10 by that point. If only I had kept my mouth shut you might not have even noticed. :D

Wow at McFly holding on to their chart topper with I'll Be OK despite being easily the biggest "non-#1" outside of the Elvis re-issues that year. Talk about luck. :coffee: Somehow I thought Daniel Powter had the chance of promotion in that little August stretch - despite being behind James Blunt during its weeks at #2 it held up much better directly afterwards and surely must have been contention. Although I'm glad it didn't as I despise the vile little song. I suspect the last three one weekers left in 2005 will all take the chop to round out the year. Gezza ain't going to be popular after two of them though. :o

So what is #1 now in the first few weeks of 2005? Steve Brookstein getting extra weeks basically by default? :rofl: A mess. People complained about the Elvis re-issues at the time but they were practically the saviour of the singles chart in that ridiculous period compared to the alternatives. On another note, not happy to see Get Right actually gain a week - a truly heinous piece of music with those obnoxious horns. :arrr:

On a selfish level I would be quite happy if Destiny's Child didn't get promoted. I used to be a big fan of theirs in 1999/2000 but Lose My Breath was a MASSIVE irritant. Too cluttered for me. Realistically though it was probably the only genuine hit around in November 2004.

I don't think we've finished 2004 yet. Gezza hasn't posted the full "adapted" list. Maybe the last part of 2004 is Girls Aloud getting demoted with Destiny's Child taking their place... it would probably make sense as Girls Aloud only sold 57k in its first week (and Destiny's Child would have had a week extra on it that week) and then Band Aid would have eaten into its second week. Anyway, impossible for anyone to disagree with those three demotions there. Two career lows from Robbie and U2 (though I did buy Vertigo at the time, baffingly, and then listened to it like twice - I guess that makes me as bad as the rest of the public!! :o) that found no appeal outside of their own fanbases.

That's true. 2004 was really the year when the mid-decade "indie boom" kicked off - THAT will be the musical legacy of the year when it's discussed in any kind of future media, not the awful urban crap that the few teenagers who were still buying singles by that point were mostly snapping up. I have no doubt it was an important year though, particularly for people who were teenagers at the time like me and knew little about guitar music beforehand, but were suddenly buying albums like that as pop music in its purest form was pretty much dead and every other commercial genre was largely awful. It was either that or, as the road you went down was, stop listening to chart music altogether. Anyway, back to the thread, hooray for The Streets hanging on! I was actually looking at the sales for #1 in 2004 last night and was convinced there was no way it could stay at #1, but I didn't have the sales for #2, #3, etc, to hand so clearly I underestimated. :o

I kind of expected Toxic to be here - it's Spice Up Your Life and Stan all over again (on a lesser sales scale, obviously). To be honest, I don't really care much about 2004 here. Really a nadir year for chart toppers, particularly once we reach August where I say with complete seriousness that Ja Rule is actually my favourite #1 from then to the rest of 2004, and it's not even THAT good, and then we have the likes of Call On Me which is one of the worst #1s of all-time in my opinion. That being said, my one wish is for Dry Your Eyes to keep its status. That's not asking for much, is it, Gezza? :D

Mandy gone?! :o How can the 'Record of the Year' be demoted? Madness I tell thee!!! :kink: On a more serious note, not liking the hitting that early (and of course best) Sugababes are taking in this thread. :no: Hole In The Head is EVERYTHING with its icy delivery and spiky, skittery backing, possibly the best girlband song of the decade. And of course their later chart toppers from when they lost their edge will have no chance of being demoted as they were #1 for weeks. Depressing stuff. :( As for Kevin Lyttle, well I think I made my thoughts clear on that up-thread...

I recall that Kevin Lyttle was in Gezza's Closest Races to Number One thread the week it entered at #2 behind Sugababes, so it was less than ~5k behind that week I think. But Sugababes dropped like a brick after so they're not a threat, unlike the outgoing #1 from Black Eyed Peas and the next #1 from Fatman Scoop. I think it may reach #1 on Fatman Scoop's first official week (01/11/2003) as it was ahead of BEPs for all three of the weeks that would count on this system and Fatman Scoop would have only had two weeks counted towards his total, compared to Kevin Lyttle who would have three. The sales for #1 were very low around that time, only about 50-60k on average, and Kevin Lyttle must have been selling in the region of 40k per week for a decent period of time. I can't deny it was a genuinely popular song anyway, but it always got on my nerves... it's his voice, mainly, the falsetto was unbearable. If only Wayne Wonder could have been in that situation instead. :cry: Anyway, that's my prediction... *waits to be spectacularly wrong* :D

Guys, we've already gone past March/April 2003 in terms of this thread, so the answer is definitely not. Elton John was #1 in August 2003. :P The only promotion that I can forsee in 2003 might be... Kevin Lyttle :o *shudders at the thought* But there's not much room for promotions elsewhere when lots of songs were hogging the #1 spot for three or four weeks as was much noted at the time.

Are You Ready For Love is brilliant... not sure if I'd say it's the best #1 of the entire year though, 2003 had a lot of great #1s (controversial to say that on BuzzJack as I know it's far from being the most popular year but :D). Don't give a shit about the other two. Even at the time they both seemed irrelevant to anything so deserving they get demoted in a year where the #1s were, on the whole, worthy and representive of the year. I recall I had never even heard of the Tomcraft song until the week it was released but that probably just shows how little attention I paid to dance music. And LOL at that Daniel Bedingfield single cover... so professional for an artist who had 2 #1s to his credit already.

It will be the second quickest span of 100 #1s I think - the shortest time was between the 800th (September 1998) and the 900th (June 2001). Just goes to show how the turnover of #1s has gotten a little ridiculous again after looking like it was levelling out to a nice middle ground of not too fast and not too slow when downloads first came in before record companies learnt to control the releases better again. In comparison the gap between the 1000th and the 1100th was four and a half years...

Well he didn't help himself by releasing in December a lot, the time when the public lose their brains and start buying any old novelty shite, and such "serious" songs generally don't fit the traditional Christmas cheer... still happens today, in fact last year was probably the worst ever with its joke of a Christmas battle. At least The Real Slim Shady held on which is my personal favourite Eminem #1 even if it did keep the Mumba off the top. And Gezza, I believe Gareth does get 6 weeks as I said, not 5... 23/3, 30/3, 6/4, 13/4, 20/4, 27/4, then Oasis becoming #1 on 4/5 according to your list. Unless your dating is wrong, but something is definitely off regardless. :D

Good to see Blazin' Squad demoted. That #1 was a fluke provided by a dead week, they were never really THAT popular sales-wise as shown by the fact that they only ever contended again in similar low climates - and their second highest charting single was #2 with Flip Reverse which was also on one of the quietest weeks of 2003 (the song that was #1 that week incidentally has a strong chance of ending up in this thread and has one of the lowest-selling cumulative totals for a #1 ever - in fact, for a brief period at the time it WAS, but Elvis re-issues and McFly have now knocked it down that list). Las Ketchup though?! :cry: Nooo. As I said before that song really brightened up 2002 with its infectious energy. Everyone loved it.

Cool, I've been checking the pop forum every now and then for this thread. Most of my votes didn't make it in as expected (bar the obvious ones that would have got through regardless) - my taste in girlbands is too 90s-biased for the general userbase here. No Creep though?! WTF. Yet we have TLC's worst ever single Unpretty instead. *grumble* And I just listened to the four songs I didn't know out of fairness, as much of a waste of time it was (on the whole, they're basically appalling and two of them I couldn't even make it to the end of). So, my votes: 01 Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life 02 En Vogue - Don't Let Go (Love) 03 Sugababes - Hole In The Head 04 All Saints - Never Ever 05 Honeyz - Finally Found 06 TLC - No Scrubs 07 Spice Girls - 2 Become 1 08 Sugababes - Run For Cover 09 All Saints - Bootie Call 10 All Saints - Black Coffee 11 Girls Aloud - The Show 12 Sugababes - Overload 13 B*Witched - C'est La Vie 14 Spice Girls - Wannabe 15 TLC - Waterfalls 16 Spice Girls - Viva Forever 17 Girls Aloud - Love Machine 18 Shakespear's Sister - Stay 19 Bangles - Manic Monday 20 Girls Aloud - Biology 21 Precious - Say It Again 22 Shirelles - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? 23 Sugababes - Freak Like Me 24 Spice Girls - Too Much 25 t.A.T.u. - All The Things She Said 26 Veronicas - Untouched 27 Eternal - Angel Of Mine 28 Girls Aloud - The Promise 29 All Saints - Rock Steady 30 Destiny's Child - Bills, Bills, Bills I absolutely HATE ranking songs in general so this means nothing. All of these are pretty much 9/10 and above for me and the order is extremely loose and could be completely different if I was doing it tomorrow or the next day. Spice Up Your Life goes to the top just because it's by far my most played song by a girl group though. :D

Only the first of those was actually a question to you! The last bit was more like me questioning myself. And I fail to see the question I asked to get the second answer. :D And I've just realised, it's probably SIX weeks for Gareth as he'd eat into Will's last official week with his ~800k opening sale. Deary me. :drama:

Get The Party Started didn't make it then! I can't see any promotion happening in 2002 now. How close were the sales between it and George Harrison, out of interest? Shame to see two of the few decent #1s in 2002 both gone, but Aaliyah was extremely obvious and Sugababes always had the risk. I think Round Round should be okay though - in the usual summer slump it was far from the weakest chart topper in that period. It's Blazin' Squad who should be getting ready to feel the axe there. :D So I guess it now goes four weeks for Will, five weeks for Gareth, Oasis getting to #1 a week later (in place of Sugababes) and then Holly Valance going to #1 as normal?

I'm not sure if 2002 will have any promotions either. Shakira was the biggest song not to reach #1 that year but she was behind Will Young obviously so has no chance of reaching #1 under this system. And Scooter was behind two big #1s so I think we're safe from that as well mercifully. Maybe Get The Party Started could move up? Depends how close it was at #2 behind George Harrison as it overtook the week after.

Band Of Gold by Freda Payne is by far the best #1 of 1970 and possibly also the best #1 of that entire decade - yes, even over Heart of Glass, I Feel Love, Bohemian Rhapsody, etc. Sometimes simplicity and pure feeling can beat fancy production. I agree with most of tonyttt31's choices overall, actually. Especially in the 1980s and 1990s where the only ones I feel strongly against are Ace Of Base and The Verve. My favourite #1 of last year was Wretch 32's Don't Go, lol. Shows how selective I am these days, there's loads I don't even know/remember but he is cool and I bought his album. And I don't even know what has reached #1 in 2012 but Titanium is good I guess so I'll go with the majority there.

I presume you're planning a break-in of the OCC offices then? What a dull year in 2001 - even I don't have much to say for a change. The Way To Your Love is brilliant though but an obvious demotion. And poor Westlife, apart from gaining a week with Against All Odds this thread has really been terrible to them (:kink:)... but March 2001 was a crazily competitive time so something had to give.

And Westlife moved Fool Again forward a week IIRC to avoid Craig David and the other stream of songs that made up the all-new top 6 that week. A couple of Geri's #1s also had their release dates changed a bit before their release. There's certainly no doubt around this time especially that record companies whose acts "relied" on hitting the top as part of their brand were keenly watching the release schedule to have the best chance possible of it.

So even your system can only reduce the list of #1s in 2000 to 30? :D That was an interesting year. As I said it seems like it could have almost been picked at random - bizarre to have low-selling #1s like Manic Street Preachers, All Saints, Black Legend, etc, hold on while the likes of Eminem, Destiny's Child and Melanie C are knocked off. Not surprised at Stan - that was what I was talking about yesterday in regards to the "controversial" demotion obviously - as I knew it only barely beat Bob the Builder to get its week at #1 in a three-week system it had no chance when Bob the Builder streaked ahead the rest of the way. Bit surprised at Destiny's Child but on reflection I can see how that happened even if I wouldn't necessarily have been confident to predict it. Methinks 2001 should see a return to a bit of normality after such insanity! :o

Awful list. It starts off fine with respectable (if highly predictable) choices for the first 40 or so years of the chart but descends into a joke by the time the 1990s begin. The charts became a very different beast, more controlled and less representive of trends by that point and such landmark #1s are harder to pinpoint admittedly but some of the choices just smack of being controversial and "different" for the sake of it.