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Not very often that my 18 and 15 both sit in the top 3... hope they last there!

I think the winner is likely to come from the first five or the last few... with Madonna being the real unknown for me, can't work out if she'll do really well or not

Well I'm surprised that Djrum has featured in the top 10 at any point so I'm definitely taking this early score, it does feel like a lot of the target countries have voted so I won't expect it to last but it's good to have placed highly for a few people. Glad to see Terra Avium winning at the moment

No real losses with any of those tbh. Tina Turner remains my favourite to have dropped out so far.

I'm Alive was such an odd choice of AA from the second Seal album, it's one of my least favourites on what is actually a pretty strong record.

Quite like the sound of this, they've been pretty decent since they came back with the previous album

No worries Lewwww, hope you start to feel a bit better

Tina Turner was reasonably close for me, it was pretty decent and better than I was expecting as I'm not usually a huge fan of her music

Deserved nil pointer there, hopefully the three I rated worse are still to come in the nil points group

The chorus is much stronger than the verses on that one. It’s kinda chaotic and feels very of its time now.

^^ Yep, exactly, that's a very fair point... similar point for the likes of Shania as people would have been listening to the album which undoubtedly would have boosted That Don't Impress Me Much

Eminem was very hyped though and I think that would have played in his favour initially, totally agree that Turn Around was more popular in the long run... I think it would have panned out roughly like this: Looking through the old charts, this would be my guess of how 1999 could have panned out (brackets are what was officially there, if different) - I've tried hard to leave things that sold particularly well in a week to try and remove any bias I've got 03/01 Steps - Tragedy 10/01 Steps - Tragedy (Fatboy Slim - Praise You) 17/01 Steps - Tragedy (911 - A Little Bit More) 24/01 Offspring - Pretty Fly For a White Guy 31/01 Offspring - Pretty Fly For a White Guy (Armand Van Helden - You Don't Know Me) 07/02 Blondie - Maria (feel like this wouldn't be a certainty but it sold pretty well and there's nothing obvious below it, possibly still Offspring) 14/02 Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away (as above) 21/02 Britney Spears - Baby One More Time 28/02 Britney Spears - Baby One More Time 07/03 Britney Spears - Baby One More Time (Boyzone - When the Going Gets Tough, this sold over 200K but Britney was also still selling huge numbers) 14/03 Britney Spears - Baby One More Time (Boyzone - When the Going Gets Tough) 21/03 Britney Spears - Baby One More Time (B*Witched - Blame it on the Weather Man) 28/03 Mr Oizo - Flat Beat 04/04 Eminem - My Name Is (Mr Oizo - Flat Beat, could argue this would have stayed there but I'm not convinced it was something many people were actually listening regularly to) 11/04 Martine McCutcheon - Perfect Moment - this sold over 200K so I'm sticking to it being here even if I'm not sure - you get the story either side anyway if she wasn't 18/04 One of Eminem - My Name Is or Phats & Small - Turn Around (Martine McCutcheon - Perfect Moment) - arguably any up to this 9th week could still have been Britney, but this is the main week where Phats & Small could have crept up as it overtook Eminem but hadn't quite fallen behind TLC 25/04 TLC - No Scrubs (Westlife - Swear it Again) 02/05 TLC - No Scrubs (Westlife - Swear it Again) 09/05 TLC - No Scrubs (Backstreet Boys - I Want it That Way) 16/05 TLC - No Scrubs (Boyzone - You Needed Me) 23/05 Shanks & Bigfoot - Sweet Like Chocolate 30/05 Shanks & Bigfoot - Sweet Like Chocolate 06/06 Shanks & Bigfoot - Sweet Like Chocolate (Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen) 13/06 S Club 7 - Bring it all Back 20/06 Shania Twain - That Don't Impress Me Much (Vengaboys - Boom Boom Boom Boom) 27/06 ATB - 9PM til I Come 04/07 ATB - 9PM til I Come 11/07 ATB - 9PM til I Come (Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca) 18/07 Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca 25/07 Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca 01/08 Ronan Keating - When You Say Nothing At All 08/08 Ronan Keating - When You Say Nothing At All 15/08 Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone (Westlife - If I Let You Go) 22/08 Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone (Geri Halliwell - Mi Chico Latino) 29/09 Lou Bega - Mambo no.5 05/10 Lou Bega - Mambo no.5 12/10 Lou Bega - Mambo no.5 (Vengaboys - We're Going to Ibiza) 19/10 Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) 26/10 Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) 03/10 Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) 10/10 Christina Aguilera - Genie in a Bottle (not sure but let's give her the benefit of the doubt, think it is feasible that Eiffel 65 could well have remained for these 3 weeks) 17/10 Christina Aguilera - Genie in a Bottle 24/10 Christina Aguilera - Genie in a Bottle (Westlife - Flying Without Wings) 31/10 * ***** - If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time :/ (Five - Keep on Movin') 07/11 * ***** - If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time :/ (Geri Halliwell - Lift Me Up) 14/11 * ***** - If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time :/ (Robbie Williams - She's the One) 21/11 Wamdue Project - King of my Castle - possibly would have still been * ***** or Macy Gray - I Try but I'm fed up of acknowledging the asterisks! 28/11 Wamdue Project - King of my Castle (Cliff Richard - Millennium Prayer) - as above 05/12 Artful Dodger & Craig David - Re-Rewind (Cliff Richard - Millennium Prayer) 12/12 Artful Dodger & Craig David - Re-Rewind (Cliff Richard - Millennium Prayer) 19/12 Westlife - I Have a Dream 26/12 Westlife - I Have a Dream (I'm ignoring the christmas stuff for December as who knows) Obviously this is all just a figment of imagination, but I had a spare half hour and didn't want to do the things I should be doing :lol:

It possibly could have snatched a week - but I think that it crossed with My Name Is and No Scrubs and I feel they would probably have the stronger claim

Better Off Alone is one of the few songs that would likely have actually been #1 but didn't manage it already, that genuinely was more popular than a lot of the songs that beat it

BEST: Carly Simon - You're So Vain Carole King - It's Too Late Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face Stevie Wonder - Superstition The Temptations - Papa Was A Rollin' Stone WORST: Chuck Berry - My Ding-A-Ling Donny Osmond - Go Away Little Girl Michael Jackson - Ben

Mr D* is pretty good with me about it... although I know it is space consuming so I do think it is fair to begin to get a bit irked by it. I am starting to clear through mine at the moment but it's as much for my benefit as his, it's gotten to the point where it feels like there is too much and it's clutter rather than something that's managed and enjoyable

...things like this - Tubthumping would still have been up against Men in Black and I think the latter would still have been huge so I'm not convinced streaming would have made any difference to its peak. If anything Men in Black would probably have been even bigger with the potential for people copying the dance on social media etc, the film definitely would have had a Deadpool style impact.

I think it definitely would have changed when genuinely popular long running hits were beaten by novelty or short lived hits. I think Wonderwall would have beaten out Robson & Jerome for instance - partly because people didn't buy the R&J songs for the music, they were attached to the personalities, and genuinely everyone was listening to the Morning Glory album so it would have dominated. The Spice Girls would probably have been #1 for most of the second half of 1996 too. I'm not convinced things like Mr Brightside would have made #1 - it wasn't like it was ever remotely close, and is more a case of becoming more and more popular over time. Maybe Somebody Told Me could have done it as that was released at a time when they began to get much more popular. I suspect dance and alternative would have suffered just as much as some of the pop acts, sadly, like the #1s from Chemical Brothers or Manic Street Preachers etc that peaked because of concentrated fan base purchases. But I don't think it would have given us many new number ones, more a case of other #1s lasting much longer and a slower turn over of songs at the top. Oh and I suspect Robbie Williams would actually have been even more successful than he already was.

I can see the Beirut comparison actually, I think that's what it reminds me of now you've mentioned it

01 - 00 Judeline - Bodhiria 02 - 00 The Cure - Songs of a Lost World 03 - 01 Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate 04 - 00 Tyler, The Creator - CHROMAKOPIA 05 - 00 Laura Marling - Patterns in Repeat 06 - 04 Jamie xx - In Waves 07 - 02 Utah Saints - Utah Saints (Remastered and Expanded) 08 - 03 Charli xcx - Brat (and it's completely different but also still brat) 09 - 05 Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor 10 - 06 Floating Points - Cascade 11 - 07 TR/ST - Performance 12 - 08 Fontaines D.C. - Romance 13 - 11 Kiasmos - II 14 - 09 Caribou - Honey 15 - 12 Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk 16 - 10 Rahim C Redcar - HOPECORE 17 - 14 Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT 18 - 17 Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us 19 - 15 Fat Dog - WOOF. 20 - 13 Katy J Pearson - Someday, Now

Bill Withers - Use Me The Ides Of March - Vehicle Marvin Gaye - What's Going On Elton John - Daniel

Just listening to The Walk on the live set and it does sound a little bit like it I guess - would never have noticed without it being pointed out though

I usually do terribly in Pointless too when I enter. Unless you find a loophole it always feels a bit too much like blind luck.

Definitely DWYW

Not offended in the slightest Steve, don’t worry… I can see why you asked, it’s probably commonly believed that it was born in the late 90s. Top 10 singles wise, it’s possibly Children that was the earliest one - but that’s very much off the top of my head and I could well be wrong. Café Del Mar is another good example, although it didn’t chart until later years it was originally from 1993